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
Preventing a War of All Against All: Geographic Sorting in Open-List Proportional Representation Electoral Systems
Professor Jose Antonio Cheibub (University of Chicago)
In open-list proportional representation (OLPR) systems, candidates must obtain personal votes to succeed. A general expectation about these…
In Two Minds: The role of Ambivalence in Political Preferences and the ‘Democratic Dilemma’
Adele Webb (University of Canberra)
Escalating concerns about citizen distrust and loss of support for representative democracy have driven an expansion in empirical research on…
Authoritarianism, Elections, and Partisan Sorting
Stanley Feldman (Stony Brook University)
There has been a great deal of recent attention to democratic backsliding and growing authoritarian around the world. What’s missing, however, is an…