The Cost of Doing Politics? Analysing Violence and Harassment against Female Politicians
Seminar
Women are entering politics in record numbers around the world, pointing to significant progress in the recognition of women as full and equal actors in the political realm. Yet recent years have also witnessed a troubling rise in reports of assault, intimidation, and abuse directed at female…
Restoring Rights, Restoring Trust: Evidence that Reversing Felon Disenfranchisement Penalties Increases Both Trust and Cooperation with Government
Seminar
Felon disenfranchisement laws restrict the voting rights of more than 6 million US Citizens. Beyond the effects on voter turnout and electoral outcomes, how do these laws affect individual-level attitudes and behaviors? This paper presents the results from two field experiments embedded within…
Global Comparative Research: Constructing and Using Large-N Datasets in Political Science
Workshop
HDR workshop The analysis of quantitative datasets forms the empirical core of many doctoral dissertations in contemporary political science. However, constructing a dataset for analysis is a challenging and sometimes daunting task, particularly when done for the first time. This seminar is…
Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests
Seminar
This talk is based on a book, Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests, that is forthcoming later this year with Cambridge University Press. It develops and tests a unified theory of people’s participation in collective action in politics: why they turn out to vote and why…
The Genesis of Conditional Grant Programs in Health Care Policy in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Do Constituent Units have a Say?
Seminar
Do conditional grants really centralize power in the hands of the federal government as most federalism scholars claim? In federations such as Australia, Canada, and the United States, federal grants earmarked for specific purposes have been identified to be the main instruments used by federal…
Exploring the Political Logic of Urban Bias: Consumer Food Taxes and Contentious Mobilization in the Global South, 1960-2010
Seminar
A pervasive and pernicious feature of public policy in developing countries is its tendency to display urban bias: to favor cities over the countryside in redistribution and the provision of public goods. This has been found to be particularly true for agricultural pricing policy, where governments…
Area studies and the new agenda for interpretive social science
Workshop
Workshop proposed for the Asian Studies Association of Australia 2018 conference.Area studies are innately interpretive. In their concern for language and its uses, for the historical construction of categories, the production of insider meanings, and the constitution of ideas through human…