Conference: “Explaining Consolidation and Deconsolidation of Democracy in East Asia”
Conference
After decades of consolidation across the world, democratic systems face apparent threats in the form of authoritarian leaders and dissatisfied citizens. Spanning countries with vastly differing levels of democratic development, Asia is particularly susceptible to the risks of democratic…
Exploring Sources for the Consolidation or Deconsolidation of Democracy in East Asia
Conference
After decades of consolidation across the world, democratic systems face apparent threats in the form of authoritarian leaders and dissatisfied citizens. Spanning countries with vastly differing levels of democratic development, Asia is particularly susceptible to the risks of democratic…
Conference: The interpretation of global politics
Conference
On 2-3 November 2017 the School of Poltics and International Relations was proud to host the international conference The Interpretation of Global Politics: methods and epistemologies after the event. Below are some videos taken at the conference. For more information visit the…
Building Election Management Body Capacity
Seminar
Election management bodies (EMBs) are the agencies and government departments tasked with the technical administration of elections, from registering voters to counting ballots. This talk will present a new approach to comparing election management bodies (EMBs) in cross-national perspective by…
Prominent in Parliament? An Empirical Assessment of Interest Group Prominence in the Legislative Arena
Seminar
In densely populated organised interest systems groups, being acknowledged by policy makers as a prominent player is important. If being viewed as relevant by policy makers is a critical ingredient of political advocacy, this raises the question for interest group scholars: Why are some groups…
Consideration Set Models for Electoral Choice: An Introduction
Seminar
(From the ‘Introduction’ in a forthcoming Electoral Studies symposium, co-edited with Martin Rosema.) In electoral research decisions by voters are usually analysed as if they choose at once from the whole set of competing parties or candidates. Consideration Set Models (CSM) posit that voters…
Measuring the latent ideological dimensions of American voters over time
Seminar
There have been significant shifts in the electoral coalitions assembled by the Democratic and Republican parties in recent decades, with implications for how these parties govern when in office. To better understand these changes, we estimate the latent ideological preferences of American voters…