Dr Quynh Nguyen - Urbanites’ Attitudes towards Environmental Migration: Evidence from Kenya and Vietnam
Seminar
Urbanites’ Attitudes towards Environmental Migration: Evidence from Kenya and Vietnam The displacement of large numbers of people due to the increasing intensity of extreme weather events, sea-level rise and the deterioration of environmental conditions is one of the most salient consequences of…
Declining Trust in Politics : what can be done about it?
Lecture
This Social Sciences Week event is presented by the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. There has been a dramatic decline in the Australian public’s trust in politics and politicians for more than a…
Gustavo Flores-Macias
Seminar
Explaining Public Support for Militarizing Law Enforcement: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Mexico Law enforcement has become increasingly militarized across the world. Although a growing body of research suggests that militarization is ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst,…
Anthony Ridge-Newman
Seminar
This seminar will question how the British Conservative Party's campaign strategies have responded to changes in wider socio-political and technocultural trends, like Brexit and digital democracy, from 2006-19, under the leadership of David Cameron (2006-16) and Theresa May (2016-19). Using…
The Changing Landscape of Terror: From 9/11 to Right-Wing Extremism
Seminar
Five leaders in policy, counter-terrorism operations, journalism and academia come together for a discussion on the evolution of terror. In the post-9/11 era, counter-terror efforts have focused on the threat of Islamist terrorism. Yet the same technologies that allowed violent jihadists to…
National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western Europe
Seminar
The electoral performance of right-wing populism depends on the type of reelaboration of countries’ national past and their collective memories. Complementing socio-economic and political-institutional factors, the article analyses cultural opportunity structures. Given the link between fascist and…