The SPIR seminar series brings together the School’s research community and domestic as well as international leaders in the field of politics and international affairs. Across each semester, the series showcases a diverse and exciting range of topics.
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Upcoming Events
Sortition within Political Parties
Distinguished Professor Keith Dowding (ANU), Dr William Bosworth (ANU)
It is proposed that political parties should select their parliamentary candidates by way of sortition. Alternatives such as party primaries, caucus…
Past Events
The Coevolution of Networks of Interstate Support, Interstate Threat and Civil War
Kyle Beardsley
Interstate networks of support and threat coevolve. The interstate relationships meanwhile shape and respond to intrastate conflict, as states have…
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralization in Argentina
Jorge Pablo Gordin
Why do subnational territories consent to a de facto centralization of policy authority that curtails their local economic sovereignty? This talk…
The Distribution of Treatment Effects: New Evidence from a Welfare Reform Experiment
Mathias Sinning
Heterogeneous effects of welfare reforms on earnings, transfers and income have been established theoretically and empirically. Welfare reform…