Online: Worry, anger and hopefulness: Do emotions stimulate or depress political participation? Prof Eric Plutzer
Seminar
Thursday 7 May 2020, 10 00 am - 11 30 am AEDT Zoom link: https://anu.zoom.us/j/95674924059 Politicians, activists and academics have long debated whether emotions mobilize citizen participation. Using novel measures of emotions based on pairs of open-ended…
CANCELLED - Beyond Turnout: How Compulsory Voting Shapes Citizens and Political Parties
Seminar
Please note all seminars have been cancelled to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading among our community via public and social events. About the presenter: Read more about Dr Shane Singh here.
CANCELLED - Partisan Activists and Protest outside the 2016 Republican and Democratic Party Conventions
Seminar
Please note all seminars have been cancelled to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading among our community via public and social events. About the presenter: Professor Lee Ann Banasak is the Department Head in Political Science and Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender…
CANCELLED - Defending Education: A Democratic Role for Courts in Education Policy
Seminar
Please note all seminars have been cancelled to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading among our community via public and social events. On January 11th, 2007, the McCleary family from Jefferson County and the Venema family from Snohomish Country filed a lawsuit on behalf of their…
Institutional Design and Attitudinal Expectations: Linking Models of Judicial Appointments to Voting Expectations on National Apex Courts
Seminar
The Impact of Ideology on Judicial Behaviour on the High Court of Australia It is widely accepted outside of Australia that the voting behaviour of justices on apex courts is affected by the justice’s political preferences (or ideology). In numerous countries—including the United States, Canada,…
Global Terrorism Index 2019 ANU launch
Symposium
IEP's 2019 Global Terrorism Index presentation at the Australian National University, Canberra About this Event The Institute for Economics and Peace invites you to attend the presentation of the 2019 Global Terrorism Index at the Australian National University in Canberra. Speakers…
Inaccurate politicians. Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Five Countries
Seminar
One of the ways in which democratic representation potentially comes about is politicians following up on their perceptions of what the people want. A precondition is, naturally, that their public opinion perceptions are accurate. But are they? We tackle this question in a comparative study…