Women in Politics and International Relations Breakfast
Meeting
The ANU International Relations Students' Society invite everyone to the ANU Women in Politics and International Relations Breakfast! The society has arranged a fabulous line up of guest speakers, including: UN Women Australia - Delegate Claire Momsen The Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence…
Which Frames Change Minds and Actions? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Australia.
Seminar
Australia is currently the only country in the world that requires offshore processing and mandatory detention of asylum seekers who arrive without a visa. The UN and various human rights NGOs have criticised Operation Sovereign Borders and related policies furiously, and a recent investigation…
Nationalism and Americans’ Attitudes towards International Cooperation: Lessons of History and Policy Leadership
Seminar
While nationalism and support for international cooperation are often portrayed as antithetical, this association in citizens’ attitudes has rarely been tested empirically. In addition, scholars have identified a number of types of national identity and patriotism, not all of which treat the…
Voting Advice Applications: combining outreach and political science research
Seminar
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are online tools designed to provide voters with information about parties and candidates at the time of elections. A VAA user typically answers a battery of 30-50 questions which parties and candidates themselves responded to earlier, or which were coded by…
International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament
Seminar
The 2014 European Parliament elections were hailed as a “populist earthquake”, with parties like UKIP, the French Front National and the Danish People’s Party topping the polls. But what happened afterwards? Which parliamentary groups did they form and why? Based on interviews conducted over three…
The possibility of pragmatic critique
Lecture
Presented by Interpretation, Method and Critique (IMC) Network and Research Cluster The word today is that critique is in crisis. Somehow critique has become an obstacle to the types of progressive political and social change with which it once had an affinity. Erstwhile critical scholars now urge…
Opportunistic election timing, a complement or substitute for economic manipulation?
Seminar
Parliamentary governments often use their powers opportunistically to enhance their re-election chances. Yet, how they combine the two most commonly available strategies -- economic manipulation prior to elections and opportunistic election timing -- remains poorly understood. Do incumbents employ…