Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region
Symposium
The Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University is organising a symposium, Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region, to be held at The Deck at Regatta Point on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th June 2018. The aim is…
Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region
Symposium
The Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University is organising a symposium, Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region, to be held at The Deck at Regatta Point on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th June 2018. The aim is…
Designing Experiments for Political Research, Some Practical Guidelines
Seminar
Why has it become popular among political scientists to design and administer randomized experiments? What are the advantages of experiments? What are the new experimental tools used in political science? What are the problems and limitations in randomized experiments? This seminar will address…
Power Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?)
Seminar
India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster system and simple plurality, albeit also with a federal system. It was eventually coded as consociational by Arend Lijphart (1996) but this coding was questioned by authors such as Wilkinson (2000)…
Understanding Politics and Policy Making in the United States Congress Through Codified Law
Seminar
The United States Code, the official collection of general and permanent federal laws arranged by subject, provides a unique opportunity to gauge a number of different aspects of congressional lawmaking activity through its annual updates of individual provisions of laws. In this paper, we discuss…
NIMBYism and Public Bads
Seminar
Political philosophy typically assumes the sovereign state with jurisdiction over a large, usually national, territory, a focus that has recently been challenged by salutary calls to attend to the macro politics of the international order, or the micro politics of the family. However, still…
Women and Combat in World War II: the Anti-Female Combat Norm and Norm Change
Seminar
This paper considers a puzzle: why was there such considerable variation in ways in which the USSR, Great Britain, and Germany mobilized women during World War II? I argue that a very strong norm against the use of women in combat is essential in explaining this variation. In turn, understanding…