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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Past Events
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…
Precolonial states and postcolonial democratisation
Charles Butcher (NTNU)
Existing studies suggest that historical states have been an impediment to democratisation because they resisted the colonial transmission of nascent…