How do Political Decision-Making Processes Affect the Acceptability of Decisions? Results from an Experimental Scenario Survey
Seminar
This study examines what types of political decision-making processes affect the public’s acceptability of decisions by using the framework of procedural fairness theory. Procedural fairness theory has been studied in social psychology for more than 40 years. These studies show that people tend to…
Rethinking the security/politics relations via changing parliamentary practices on security’
Seminar
Based on his forthcoming book Security as Politics, Neal will argue that ‘security’ was once an anti-political ‘exception’ in liberal democracies - a ‘black box’ of secret intelligence and military decision making at the dark heart of the state - but has now become a normal part of professional…
Seminar on Gender-Sensitive Parliaments, European Parliament
Seminar
Johanna Kantola, together with MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen, has organised a seminar on gender-sensitive parliaments for the European Parliament in Brussels on 30 January 2019. It will bring leading academic experts, including GenParlNet's Sarah Childs and Josefina Erikson, into dialogue with the…
POSTPONED -- Dr Annika Werner: Promise keeping: What do Voters Expect from a Government Party?
Seminar
Please note this event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Abstract: That parties fulfil their pre-election promises once they are in government is a fundamental idea of many democracy models. In this talk we address the question of whether the opposition status…
Vertigo: Fake news/real theory
Seminar
This seminar is presented by the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. – Gramsci Does critical theory matter? To what extent do the…
7th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science
Conference
Australian Society for Quantitative Political science (ASQPS) provides a network for Australian political scientists who advance, use, and are generally interested in quantitative research methods, with special emphasis on supporting networking and training opportunities for PhD students and early…
Quantitative methods workshops for students
Workshop
The Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science (ASQPS) and the ANU School of Politics and International Relations are proud to offer quantitative methods training opportunities for PhD students and early career researchers. Workshop #1: Using R for Research and Data Visualisation | Dr…