The Effect of U.S. Troop Deployments on Human Rights
Seminar
U.S. non-invasion troops deployed abroad often try to promote greater respect for human rights in the host country. The host country, having an incentive to retain the troop presence, may choose to comply with these requests. We argue that this effect will not be at play in states with high…
Why Elections Fail
Seminar
The spread of elections to all parts of the globe has been one of the most dramatic developments transforming our world during the twentieth century. Yet, as numerous reports have highlighted, the quality of contemporary contests commonly fails. Contentious elections undermine the legitimacy of…
What is a Free and Fair Election? Evidence from Russia
Seminar
Russian elections since 1991 have represented one of the most difficult cases for the comparative analysis of election processes. The most recent 2011-12 parliamentary and presidential elections were strongly condemned by many observers, including the OSCE monitoring team, and on that basis by…
Improving Cross-National Measurement of Legislative Power: Preliminary Results from an Expert Survey
Seminar
Speaker: Svitlana Chernykh is a Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. She received her PhD in 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to coming to ANU, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the…
Bipartisanship and Public Policy in the United States
Seminar
Speaker: Charles R. Shipan is a Visiting Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is also the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan…
Curse of Friendship: IMF program, Friendship with the United States and Foreign Direct Investment
Seminar
Speaker: Chungshik Moon received his PhD in political science from Florida State University (2014). His current research interests include the causes and effects of economic globalisation and development and institutional performance in autocracies. His publications appear in International…
Destructivity: Principal-Agent Theory at War
Seminar
Seminar 19 Date: 11 November, 2014 Time: 4 - 5.15pm Venue: Building 24, Copland, Room 1171, LJ Hume Centre Speaker: Charles Miller received his PhD in political science from Duke University in 2013. He is currently revising his dissertation ‘Destructivity: A Political Economy of…