Comparing Courts Cross-regionally: Lessons and Challenges
Seminar
This presentation summarizes the main results of the project “Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies Courts, Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa” (SAW, 2011-2015). A starting point in our analysis was the unbalance of power between strong executives / elected…
Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina
Book launch
Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina Book launch co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF) and the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) We are pleased to announce that the book will be launched by Dr…
Kenya’s 2007 elections – what went wrong, and why?
Seminar
International organisations play many different roles during election processes in new and emerging democracies (and in countries hoping to be seen as democracies). These roles—and their impact—become particularly interesting during situations that develop into ‘an electoral crisis’. An electoral…
Party Switching In Israel and Canada: Assessing the Impact of Electoral and Legislative Institutions
Seminar
This paper seeks to resolve the puzzle of an unexpected difference in the rates of party switching between Canada and Israel. Although it is well known that party-centered electoral systems, such as the closed-list proportional representation that Israel has used since the creation of the State,…
Semester One: SPIR Seminar Series
Seminar
Week Speaker Talk title 18 February Mark Franklin "Does electoral integrity yield more responsive government?" 25 February Csaba Nikolenyi "Party Switching In Israel and Canada: Assessing the Impact…
Does electoral integrity yield more responsive government?
Seminar
Abstract This paper investigates European party congruence with voters in left-right terms over the period of a quarter century since the late 1980s. By aggregating individual-level data collected for many countries over a long time-period to the birth-year-cohort level, and in conjunction…
Beyond elitism: The possibilities of labour-centred development in Latin America
Seminar
The ‘pink tide’ in Latin America is drawing increasing criticisms from the political left for its inability to confront existing socio-structural inequalities. In this talk Benjamin Selwyn contributes to discussions on the future for human development in Latin America by advocating a new paradigm…