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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Upcoming Events
Reimagining Public Institutions: From the National to the Global
Sir Geoff Mulgan (University College London)
Public institutions worldwide face a crisis of legitimacy and effectiveness, yet they remain critical for addressing 21st-century challenges from…
Past Events
The Toolkit of Electoral Engineering: Constructing Electoral Authoritarianism in Contemporary Russia
Derek Hutcheson
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…
What’s Wrong with U.S. Election Polling?
Sunshine Hillygus
Election polls in the 2020 U.S. presidential election had the worst performance in decades, overestimating support for Democrat Joe Biden and…
The Mechanical Effects of Lowering the Voting Age to 16: Empirical Evidence from Around the World
Constanza Sanhueza
In Australia and a growing number of countries around the world, debates about democratic inclusion once more revolve around the minimum voting age.…