Government Participation and Voters' Attitudes Towards Democratic Representation
Seminar
Through free and fair elections, democracies enable citizens to decide who represents their interests in parliament. However, the outcome of an election creates `winners' and `losers' depending on which parties become part of the government. As a large corpus of literature demonstrates, belonging…
Imagining a United Nations Fit for Purpose
Seminar
The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. The United Nations as Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations. It is a confident, competent, and independent organisation that incorporates the world…
Explaining Election Violence: A Meta-analysis
Seminar
The literature on election violence lacks a consistent set of core predictors for why certain elections are violent and others are not. Between 2010 and 2022 ninety-seven scholars published sixty-five peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic using quantitative research designs involving over…
Decolonising minority citizenship: promises of an ethnographic sensibility (Sagnik Dutta, OP Jindal Global University)
Seminar
Who is a minority? The answer to this seemingly innocuous question is not obvious. Colonial constructions of the minority were shaped by racialised assumptions about the cultural other. The minority as the cultural other has seeped into nationalist imaginaries of postcolonial nation-states.…
Censorship without Borders: Everyday Internet Control and Censorship at the Local Governments in China
Seminar
China has constructed a rigorous state apparatus to control its online social content. To date, research has largely focused on the central government's cyber control, but the less studied local cyberspace administrative forces are also important. The fieldwork and interviews at a county-level…
Toxic parliaments and what can be done about them
Book launch
In recent years, Australia has been rocked by serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment within parliaments. Widespread reports of misconduct, nationwide protests and the #MeToo movement led to a reckoning that could not be ignored. In their new open-access book,…
End of an era? The UK General Election of 2024
Panel discussion
On 4 July, the UK is due to go to the polls. Barring a polling miss of historic proportions, this election is likely to put an end to fourteen years of Conservative Government, fourteen years in which the UK and its relations with the outside world have been altered in profound ways.Join this…