Online: Alon Kraitzman & Jessica Genauer - Reducing Uncertainty in Government Evaluation: The Interplay of Security Concerns and Economic Perceptions in the Arab World
Seminar
The literature on government popularity focuses on security and prosperity as the two most important factors shaping government evaluation. However, we still know little about how these two factors can together inform citizens' decision to reward or punish the government. Studies in diversionary…
Online: Alon Kraitzman & Jessica Genauer - Reducing Uncertainty in Government Evaluation: The Interplay of Security Concerns and Economic Perceptions in the Arab World
Seminar
The literature on government popularity focuses on security and prosperity as the two most important factors shaping government evaluation. However, we still know little about how these two factors can together inform citizens' decision to reward or punish the government. Studies in diversionary…
APSA 2020 SSW Event | Understanding Australia’s Crisis Coordination
Webinar/Online
Australia’s 2019-20 bushfires killed at least 33 people, more than a billion animals and resulted in the destruction of thousands of properties and millions of hectares of forest and bushland ecosystem. Federal government action during and after these events drew heavy criticism across the…
Online: Charles Butcher - Friday on my mind: Re-assessing the Impact of Protest Size on Government Concessions
Seminar
Do more protesters on the streets make regimes more likely to concede to protester demands? Several studies have linked protest size and the likelihood of government concessions. Yet existing research has three limitations: many studies fail to distinguish between distinct causal mechanisms, are…
Online: Alex Opera - Defending Education: A Democratic Role for Courts in Education Policy
Seminar
On January 11th, 2007, the McCleary family from Jefferson County and the Venema family from Snohomish Country filed a lawsuit on behalf of their children against the State of Washington. The petitioners demanded that the court force the state government to produce the “ample provision for the…
Online: Lee Ann Banaszak - Party Activism and Protest outside the Convention: A Look at the 2016 RNC and DNC Protests
Seminar
The recording of this seminar is available to watch online now via facebook. Protest participation may be motivated by a number of different strategic considerations; protestors -- who are generally seen as outsiders from the political system -- might try to achieve new policy outcomes or alter…
Online: Renard Sexton - Deadly Populism: How Local Political Outsiders Drive Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines
Seminar
Zoom link: https://anu.zoom.us/j/95674924059 Around the world, populists have won elections on the strength of crowd-pleasing, but norm-defying, policy proposals. Although effective at mobilizing support at election time, these policies are often difficult to implement in practice because…