Online: Kyle Peyton - The Generalizability of Survey Experiments Conducted During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Seminar
The significant disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led many social scientists to turn toward online survey experimentation for empirical research. Generalizing from the experiments conducted during this period of persistent crisis may be challenging, both because of changes to the…
Online: Jennifer Piscopo - Elect Women, not Leftists: Mapping Latin America Elites’ Attitudes towards Gender Equality
Seminar
Which legislators support progress on gender equality and why? This paper measures legislators’ attitudes about women’s roles and support for gender equality policies, using recent survey data from 972 legislators in 13 Latin American countries. Importantly, the results show that not all gender…
The Courage to Hear? Animal Advocacy, Foucault and Parrhēsia
Seminar
Abstract: A common tactic utilised by animal advocates involves the display of graphic footage or imagery (such as video footage from a slaughterhouse or factory farm) which depicts to its audience the “truth” of human violence towards animals. However the utility of these political tactics…
Online: Sunshine Hillygus - Mobilizing the Youth Vote in the United States: Barriers and Opportunities
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Young Americans seem poised for unprecedented levels of civic and political participation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 election? Historically, youth voter turnout has…
Self-Calibration in a Digital Society
Seminar
In this paper I will be focusing on how people in their everyday practice make sense of themselves and the society that they live in using an array of resources that include, but are not confined to, digital media. The advent of digital media has changed the forms of interaction available to us and…
“You are so negative!” How gender and intersectional justice are stymied by the code of civility
Seminar
This paper examines the challenges of gender mainstreaming within development institutions and research institutes, and how a code of appropriate emotions and behaviours are used to silence and stifle inside activists. Using case studies from inside activists’ efforts to mainstream gender into…
Online: Annika Werner - Decisive or Dictatorial? Strongman-Style Leadership and Democratic Attitudes
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An increasingly high percentage of citizens in advanced democracies express a preference for ‘strong leaders’ who ‘bend the rules’ or ‘ignore parliament and elections’ in survey research. Why do citizens in established democracies prefer ‘strongman’ leaders, and is this preference really an…