European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG)
Conference
ECPG is the world-leading conference on politics and gender. ECPG offers a platform for exchange and dialogue about how understanding gender is central to understand politics and where diversity and plurality in analytical perspectives and methodologies is enhanced. At ECPG, the field of…
Russell Smyth - What Determines the Institutional Legitimacy of the High Court of Australia
Seminar
Judicial legitimacy is fundamental to ensuring public acceptance of courts’ decisions when judges have no electoral mandate. Yet, in Australia, we know very little about the legitimacy of the courts in the eyes of the general public or the factors associated with judicial legitimacy. Drawing on a…
Min Reuchamps - Towards permanent deliberative democracy in Belgium
Seminar
from the G1000 to the Ostbelgien Model Democratic innovations are on the rise in most Western democracies. Belgium, like Australia, has always been a land of democratic innovations. Back in the 19th century, both countries were pioneers with compulsory voting, electoral formulae or the -…
Dr Wesley Widmaier - Constructing Friendships, Constructing Crises
Seminar
Australian Foreign Policy Pragmatism across Imperial, Hegemonic and Reformist Orders Over the past century, Australian foreign policy has been marked by the search for “great and powerful friends,” to provide security and economic guarantees. Yet, even where such friendships have provided initial…
Dr. Charles Miller - Does Warfare Spur Economic Development?
Seminar
The past few decades have seen a rapid growth in research examining the long run determinants of modern day wealth disparities among nations. This strand of research has established that initially favourable biogeographic endowments such as moderate temperatures, land suitable for agriculture and…
Nationhood Reframed: Second Thoughts
Seminar
Wresting the concept of nationhood from the clutches of nation-state groupies was always fraught with complications. Yet states are today defined less by the nation(s) in them and more, I argue, by nationhood - a term that subsumes diverse multiplex societies characteristic of an age of global…
Behavioural Patterns of Costly Signalling
Seminar
How to credibly communicate information when there is a conflict of interest is a question of practical importance in many domains. Although social science scholarship suggests costly signaling can improve credibility in theory, there is limited empirical evidence on how people actually behave…