Promissory Representation: Making, Breaking and Keeping Campaign Promises
Seminar
This presentation will examine the making, breaking and keeping of promises made by candidates during election campaigns. Promissory representation refers to the idea, which is found in a range of mainstream democratic theories, that candidates make promises that are either kept or broken by…
The Seductions of Quantification: Challenges of the Global Indicator Culture for University Education
Seminar
The NTEU is proud to host Professor Sally Engle Merry, the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University, for the March installment of the NTEU Seminar Series. Professor Merry is an eminent legal anthropologist and also a scholar who has a strong history of engagement in questions of…
Queering Representation: LGBTQ Politicians' Narratives on Being Out
Seminar
Over the last few years, a new trend has arisen in legislative representation in the Western Hemisphere: the election to parliaments of out-of-the-closet lesbian, gay, bisexual, Trans*, and queer (LGBTQ) candidates. My objective in this talk is to explore the intersections between representing and…
Glass Cliffs? Gender and Party Leader Exits
Seminar
The number of women chosen to lead political parties at the provincial and federal level in Canada has increased in recent years. The improving trend in their selection does not, however, appear to be matched by the nature of their exits. In 2014 alone, three of five sitting premiers - Kathy…
Federal-Provincial Variation in Canadian Leadership Selection: Processes and Participation
Seminar
The selection of party leaders has received considerable attention in recent years. However, much of this literature suffers from what has been called the 'national bias', as political parties competing at other levels (i.e., provincially) are excluded from the analysis. This issue is addressed by…
Prediction in Political Science
Seminar
Empirical political scientists agree that good science should generate testable predictions. However, in practice there is some confusion over what the term ‘prediction’ means. One school, which we term ‘pragmatic prediction’, argues that prediction should refer to unconditional probabilistic…
The Language of Leadership
Seminar
The seminar convenors are Professor John Uhr and Dr Adam Masters, authors of Leadership Performance and Rhetoric (Palgrave 2017), with chapters on four Prime Ministers: Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull; as well as chapters on Bob Carr and Noel Pearson. Four panellists have been invited to respond to…