The SPIR seminar series brings together the School’s research community and domestic as well as international leaders in the field of politics and international affairs. Across each semester, the series showcases a diverse and exciting range of topics.
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- Richard Frank
Past Events
Do Exchange Rates Influence Voting? Evidence from Elections and Survey Experiments in Democracies
Dennis P. Quinn, Thomas Sattler, Stephen Weymouth
Intense debate surrounds the effects of trade on voting, yet less attention has been paid to how real exchange rate fluctuations may influence…
Transitioning from Parliament: The Victorian Experience and Beyond
Peter Ferguson, Amy Nethery, Zim Nwokora
A career in parliament is inherently transitory, and parliamentary turnover is critical for a healthy democracy. Yet many MPs fail to prepare for the…
The Logic and Impacts of Rebel Public Services Provision: Evidence from Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
Renard Sexton
Rebel organizations regularly provide public services, even as they primarily focus on fighting. Existing scholarship documents many predictors of…