Transitioning from Parliament: The Victorian Experience and Beyond
Seminar
A career in parliament is inherently transitory, and parliamentary turnover is critical for a healthy democracy. Yet many MPs fail to prepare for the time when they must leave parliament. This lack of preparedness exacerbates the challenges of post-parliamentary life. First, this presentation…
Genealogy as Method: Historicising Political Subjectivities and the Political Unconscious (Adele Webb)
Seminar
Within the political science scholarship on democracy, there is a modest but growing concern about the need to make more complex our understandings of citizens' political engagement, and the meaning and purposes that steer a particular political community. This talk explores the opportunities and…
The Logic and Impacts of Rebel Public Services Provision: Evidence from Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
Seminar
Rebel organizations regularly provide public services, even as they primarily focus on fighting. Existing scholarship documents many predictors of insurgent services, but the theoretical mechanisms for, and downstream effects of, these activities remain unclear. This study examines Taliban courts…
Linguistic Justice for Non-Resident Citizens: Protecting Language Interests Away from Home
Seminar
Over the past twenty years, a number of political theorists have been focusing on the just political treatment of linguistic diversity in liberal democratic societies. This body of work, known as ‘linguistic justice’, has mainly examined two specific categories of linguistic groups: autochthonous…
What is interpretivist interviewing? (Frederic Schaffer)
Seminar
This talk explores the promise of interpretivist interviewing for political science. That promise is to elucidate, up-close and self-reflectively, how people experience and understand phenomena that range from migration to democracy to genocide. It does so by exploring with interviewees how they…
The Coevolution of Networks of Interstate Support, Interstate Threat and Civil War
Seminar
Interstate networks of support and threat coevolve. The interstate relationships meanwhile shape and respond to intrastate conflict, as states have an interest in propping up allies and undermining rivals---a common dynamic manifested in proxy wars. A lens of international politics as the…
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralization in Argentina
Seminar
Why do subnational territories consent to a de facto centralization of policy authority that curtails their local economic sovereignty? This talk contribues to this normative and theoretical debate by proposing the concept of delegative federalism, defined as a model of federal governance suitable…