Compulsory Voting Rules, Reluctant Voters and Ideological Proximity Voting
Lecture
Political theorists have argued that democracies should strive for high turnout, leading to an argument for the introduction of compulsory voting, one of the surest ways to increase turnout. Others have warned that this obligation comes at a cost of lower quality votes. We investigate these claims…
Populism and Press Freedom
Lecture
What is the relationship between populist rule and the freedom of the press? Populists are personalistic leaders who seek to gain and retain power by establishing unmediated links with mass constituencies, who are otherwise relatively free of existing party and institutional ties. Populists rely…
Gender, Anxiety, and Attitudes to Terrorism
Lecture
Social dominance orientation (SDO) measures individuals’ preference for inter-group hierarchies; that is, the idea that some groups in society should rightly dominate other groups. This study examines the role of SDO in explaining anxiety about experiencing a terrorist attack, and support for…
Pork is Policy: Dissipative Inclusion at Local Level
Lecture
This paper investigates, in subnational comparative perspective, the impact of local public policies on several indicators of the quality of life, poverty, and inequality. This is a first attempt to investigate the role of the legislative branch in fighting poverty and inequality through targeted…
30 Years of Argentine Democratization: Consolidation or Recurrent Crisis?
Lecture
Public lecture presented by the Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF), the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) and the Embassy of the Argentine Republic. Wednesday 26 April, 6:30pm Speakers ACF and ANCLAS Visiting Fellow Dr Lucas González (UNSAM) Location The…
Oil Rents and Patronage: The fiscal effects of oil booms in the Argentine provinces
Lecture
When do oil dependent governments decide to spend oil rents in expanding their political machines through patronage, clientelism, and in enlarging their repressive apparatus (to become authoritarian) as some rentier theories claim, or in providing better public services to their citizens to expand…
Oil Rents and Patronage: The Fiscal Effects of Oil Booms in the Argentine Provinces
Seminar
When do oil dependent governments decide to spend oil rents in expanding their political machines through patronage, clientelism, and in enlarging their repressive apparatus (to become authoritarian) as some rentier theories claim, or in providing better public services to their citizens to expand…