Boundary or Pandemic Control? Exploring the Use of Subnational Border Restrictions and Closures During COVID19 in Federal Systems
Webinar/Online
This webinar will explore the use (or, non-use) of subnational border restrictions and closures to control the spread of COVID19 in federal systems. Expert panelists from Australia, Canada, the USA, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil will discuss the legal considerations and potential political motives…
Boundary or Pandemic Control? Exploring the Use of Subnational Border Restrictions and Closures During COVID19 in Federal Systems
Webinar/Online
This webinar will explore the use (or, non-use) of subnational border restrictions and closures to control the spread of COVID19 in federal systems. Expert panelists from Australia, Canada, the USA, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil will discuss the legal considerations and potential political motives…
Online: James Morrow - The Domestic Foundations of International Law: Non-Intervention versus Territorial Integrity
Seminar
The UN Charter and the Covenant of the League of Nations sought to legalize norms of territorial integrity and non-intervention. The growth of the size of domestic winning coalitions over time resulting from the decline of traditional systems, the spread of democracy, and the expansion of…
Online: Kyle Peyton - The Generalizability of Survey Experiments Conducted During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Seminar
The significant disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led many social scientists to turn toward online survey experimentation for empirical research. Generalizing from the experiments conducted during this period of persistent crisis may be challenging, both because of changes to the…
Online: Jennifer Piscopo - Elect Women, not Leftists: Mapping Latin America Elites’ Attitudes towards Gender Equality
Seminar
Which legislators support progress on gender equality and why? This paper measures legislators’ attitudes about women’s roles and support for gender equality policies, using recent survey data from 972 legislators in 13 Latin American countries. Importantly, the results show that not all gender…
Online: Sunshine Hillygus - Mobilizing the Youth Vote in the United States: Barriers and Opportunities
Seminar
Young Americans seem poised for unprecedented levels of civic and political participation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 election? Historically, youth voter turnout has…
Online: Annika Werner - Decisive or Dictatorial? Strongman-Style Leadership and Democratic Attitudes
Seminar
An increasingly high percentage of citizens in advanced democracies express a preference for ‘strong leaders’ who ‘bend the rules’ or ‘ignore parliament and elections’ in survey research. Why do citizens in established democracies prefer ‘strongman’ leaders, and is this preference really an…