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
‘Intra-party divisions in time of party transformation: a framework for analysis’
Intra-party cohesion is a crucial feature of parliamentary democracies. Indeed, government’s stability and survival as well as legislative activity…
Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
A surprising feature of democratisation in many countries is that large numbers of people, after gaining the right to choose their leaders through…
Aborigines: A ‘Genuinely Benevolent’ Genocide?
Is genocide confined to totalitarian despots? Or can good colonists and decent democrats commit the crime? Historian Sir Keith Hancock once wrote…