Inside the DMZ: Rethinking Security through Visual Autoethnography
Seminar
This project draws on Professor Roland Bleiker’s personal experience of working in the Korean DMZ to rethink security issues on the peninsula. Using his own photographs and engaging the politics of visuality, he identifies two obstacles to a resolution of the conflict: 1) a form of militarized…
US Post-Midterm Election Roundtable
Seminar
This roundtable will take stock of the November 6 US midterm elections. With all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats, and 36 Gubernatorial seats in play, the outcome of the election will set the stage for the next two years of Donald Trump’s Presidency. This roundtable brings together experts on…
Happy Anniversary? Reflecting on Marriage Equality
Symposium
Happy Anniversary? Reflecting on Marriage Equality Australian National University 12th – 13th November 2018, Canberra, Australia CONFERENCE PROGRAM Confirmed speakers include: Rosemary Auchmuty – University of Reading, England Tiernan Brady – Marriage Equality Campaigner (…
ANU welcomes participants for International Federalism Conference
Conference
Dr Andrew Banfield, Head of the ANU School of Politics and International Relations, and Dr Tracy B Fenwick, Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism, have welcomed guests from around Australia and the world to the 2018 International Association of Centers for Federal Studies…
The Durability of National Environmental Policy
Seminar
We investigate why some laws and regulations are never amended, others last for years before their first change, while still more are amended or repealed almost immediately, and repeatedly, after entering into force. Using a previously untapped dataset of 75,000 environmental laws and regulations…
The Effect of Events on Discussion in the Australian Federal Parliament (1901–2017)
Seminar
We systematically analyse how parliamentary discussion changes in response to different types of events in Australian history. We first create a dataset of what was said in the Australian Federal Parliament from 1901 through to 2017 based on available public records. To reduce the dimensionality…
Innovation, Incrementalism or Deadlock? Policy Change in Joint Decision Systems
Seminar
In federations and in international politics, policies often require agreements between governments. The concept of joint decision-making describes a particular pattern of intergovernmental policy-making. In view of its practical relevance, it has attracted increasing attention in comparative…