Brazil Update 2024: A conversation with experts on Brazilian Politics and Democracy
Panel discussion
Please join the Australian Centre for Federalism for the 2024 Brazil Update, an engaging 60-minute live conversation with experts on Brazilian politics, governance, and democracy.Dr José Antonio Cheibub (University of Pittsburgh), Dr Thiago Nascimento da Silva (ANU) and Dr Tracy B. Fenwick (ANU)…
Mixed Signalling in China’s Foreign and Security Policy
Seminar
China’s emergence as a global power has led to confusion about its intentions as the country sends mixed signals. Beijing has been promoting its soft power for years and trying to maintain a positive international image, particularly with its neighbouring countries. However, China’s foreign policy…
Preventing a War of All Against All: Geographic Sorting in Open-List Proportional Representation Electoral Systems
Seminar
In open-list proportional representation (OLPR) systems, candidates must obtain personal votes to succeed. A general expectation about these systems is that these rules induce intraparty competition and, ultimately, lead to weak political parties. Recent work has challenged this view,…
How to Do Interpretive Research: Insights for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences (Colette Einfeld & Helen Sullivan, ANU)
Seminar
Interpretive research unfolds differently to conventional dissertations and research projects that many ‘how to books’ are aimed at. This presentation draws on the contents of a forthcoming edited book about the experiences of those doing interpretive and critical research in different stages of…
Making al-Qa’ida legible: Interpretive methods, secrets, and mess (Sarah Phillips, Sydney)
Seminar
This seminar will explore two broad, but ultimately unreconcilable, understandings of what al-Qa’ida in Yemen ‘really is’: one legible, organisationally rational and thus governable; and one not entirely so. I’ll argue that the divergence between these two ontologies matters—and is even part of the…
In Two Minds: The role of Ambivalence in Political Preferences and the ‘Democratic Dilemma’
Seminar
Escalating concerns about citizen distrust and loss of support for representative democracy have driven an expansion in empirical research on political attitudes and process preferences. Citizen support is deemed the necessary scaffolding for stable democracy. Yet drawing inferences about how…
Gender responsive budgeting and the financing of maternity care in the Australian federation: addressing gender equality including in emergencies and disasters
Webinar/Online
Registration and Zoom details are available here. This webinar is the next in the “Human Rights, Gender Budgeting and Progressing Breastfeeding in 2020 and Beyond, Series”, and will be held on Monday, 29 April 2024, 6:00 PM -8:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). The webinar is…