Prominent in Parliament? An Empirical Assessment of Interest Group Prominence in the Legislative Arena
Seminar
In densely populated organised interest systems groups, being acknowledged by policy makers as a prominent player is important. If being viewed as relevant by policy makers is a critical ingredient of political advocacy, this raises the question for interest group scholars: Why are some groups…
Consideration Set Models for Electoral Choice: An Introduction
Seminar
(From the ‘Introduction’ in a forthcoming Electoral Studies symposium, co-edited with Martin Rosema.) In electoral research decisions by voters are usually analysed as if they choose at once from the whole set of competing parties or candidates. Consideration Set Models (CSM) posit that voters…
Measuring the latent ideological dimensions of American voters over time
Seminar
There have been significant shifts in the electoral coalitions assembled by the Democratic and Republican parties in recent decades, with implications for how these parties govern when in office. To better understand these changes, we estimate the latent ideological preferences of American voters…
“The Toronto 18” Case Study: The Challenges and Pitfalls of Terrorism Research
Seminar
Conducting research in the field of terrorism studies faces several methodological challenges. This paper highlights some of these challenges through a re-examination of the disrupted 2006 “Toronto 18” terrorist plot in Canada. An in-depth case study of this plot was created in 2010 and re-…
The Australian Regime for Fiscal Federalism: Can it be Exported?
Seminar
The Australian regime for horizontal fiscal equalisation (HFE) is administered by the Commonwealth Grants Commission. OECD rates it as one of the most egalitarian in the world. I define HFE, introduce the Australian regime, discuss some current challenges to it, and assess how suitable it would be…
Brexit and the (Possible) Break-up of the UK: A Study in Failed Federalism
Seminar
The Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF) and the ANU Centre for European Studies (CES) present: Brexit and the (Possible) Break-up of the UK: A Study in Failed Federalism The vote in the UK’s 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union was regionally diverse. London, Scotland, and Northern…
Whither Global Health in the Trump Era?
Seminar
Over the course of a generation, global health has moved from being regarded as peripheral to international politics to assuming a prominent place on the global political agenda. Since the election of Donald Trump in the United States and his demonstrated antipathy toward multilateralism and…