Understanding Volunteerism and the "Bad Investment" Narrative: Typologies for Investments in Youth-led Peacebuilding
Seminar
International peacebuilding efforts are increasingly focused on the pursuit of inclusive practices to enable good governance for sustainable peace. Central to these efforts are attempts by youth advocates and their allies to encourage more meaningful investments in youth-focused partnerships.…
Lessons from Robodebt; Relations between the APS and Ministers
Seminar
The presentation will summarise the findings of the Royal Commission, highlight the issues and recommendations relating to relations between the APS and ministers, and comment on them. It will also comment on the Government's Public Service Act Amendment Bill now before the Parliament.Andrew Podger…
Power by Proxy: Explaining Innovation and Imitation in RCEP
Seminar
Fifteen countries recently signed the RCEP and formed the world’s largest trade bloc between some of the globe’s largest and fastest growing economies. Employing a text-as-data analysis, Nicholas Frank systematically compares the text of RCEP to the previous agreements of RCEP’s members to…
What is a Good Example? On the Use of Examples in Political Science and Political Theory
Seminar
While there is a large literature on the use of cases, there is very little on the use of examples in social science and political theory (there is some discussion in the literature on Hobbes, who cautioned against using examples; quite a lot in moral philosophy). Cases and examples are different:…
Institutional Dynamics and the Evolution of Corporate Political Networks: Evidence from South Korea
Seminar
Why do firms choose nonmarket strategies the way they do? Although the literature demonstrates the impact of firms’ nonmarket strategies, such as informal networks, on firm values, the question of what explains the evolution of such networks over time has curiously escaped sustained analytic…
Beyond the Lines: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Studying Violence and Collective Meaning in Social Networks (Sarah Parkinson, John Hopkins University)
Seminar
Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of…
The Toolkit of Electoral Engineering: Constructing Electoral Authoritarianism in Contemporary Russia
Seminar
Drawing on research of more than a quarter-century of Russian elections, the paper It traces how the hyper-pluralist political system of the 1990s gave way to the electoral authoritarianism of the late Putin period, though concerted electoral engineering. A particular focus is on the ‘toolkit…