Regulating Disinformation: Poll Embargo and Electoral Coordination
Conference
Seminar 4Date: 18 March, 2014Time: 4 - 5.15pmVenue: Building 24, Copland, Room 1171, LJ Hume CentreSpeaker: Ignacio Lago is…
Acquiring Political Information: Effects of Threat and Emotion on Learning
Seminar
Information about politics has been shown to be important for a number of aspects of civic competence and participation. It is therefore critical to understand how people acquire political information. People are sometimes exposed to new information in highly charged environments: War, terrorism,…
Seminar 7: Education and support for representative, direct and stealth democracy
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Venue: Building 24, Copland, Room 1171, LJ Hume CentreSpeaker: Hilde Coffé is a Senior Lecturer at the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on public opinion, political behaviour, political representation and…
Democratic Risk, the Great Depression, and the Euro Crisis
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Seminar 14Date: 22 July, 2014Time: 4 - 5.15pmVenue: Building 24, Copland, Room 1171, LJ Hume CentreSpeaker: Iain…
IPSA World Congress Montréal
Conference
There were two highly successful GenParlNet panels at the IPSA World Congress Montréal, 19-24 July 2014. (1) A new sphere for feminist institution-building? Gender-focused parliamentary bodies Position Person Convenor Marian Sawer (Australian National University) Chair Lenita…
Modernity and its Knowledges
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Seminar 10Date: 6th May, 2014Time: 4 - 5.15pmVenue: Building 24, Copland, Room 1171, LJ Hume CentreSpeaker: Sanjay…
Unraveling Substate Policy Collaboration: Canadian Schooling Reforms in the 1990s.
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Seminar 12Date: 27th May, 2014Time: 4 - 5.15pmVenue: Building 24, Copland, Room 1171, LJ Hume CentreSpeaker: Jenn Wallner is an assistant professor of public policy in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. A political scientist studying education and fiscal federalism…