Party Quotas and Gender Differences in Pathways to Run for Office in Australia: 1987-2016
Seminar
The under-representation of women in Australian politics has led both major political parties to adopt different strategies to increase the number of women candidates. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) adopted successive internal party quotas aiming at increasing the percentage of women candidates.…
Patrick Mullins: Reflections on Tiberius with a Telephone
Workshop
Monash University academic James Walter once wrote that it is common for biographers to dive into their work, encounter the typical, everyday issues of biography, and afterward to engage in a sort of ‘anguished methodological essay’ that only manages to repeat, with minor variation, what Lytton…
Higher Education and Youth Migration in the Context of Human Development in Indonesia
Seminar
Presented as part of the School of Demography seminar series As a country that currently focus on accelerating its human capital development, Indonesia faces challenges in regards to imbalanced distribution of its highly-educated population across regions. Since the highly-educated population are…
Dr Quynh Nguyen - Urbanites’ Attitudes towards Environmental Migration: Evidence from Kenya and Vietnam
Seminar
Urbanites’ Attitudes towards Environmental Migration: Evidence from Kenya and Vietnam The displacement of large numbers of people due to the increasing intensity of extreme weather events, sea-level rise and the deterioration of environmental conditions is one of the most salient consequences of…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth Experiences of Native Title
Seminar
Abstract The long-term success of native title hinges on the ability of younger generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to carry forward the rights and interests hard-won by their elders. Yet little is known about the experiences, ambitions and views of young native title…
Tracking progress in mean longevity: The Lagged Cohort Life Expectancy (LCLE) approach
Seminar
Cohort life expectancy is an important but rarely used indicator of mean longevity. In this paper, we show that there are specific advantages in lagging this indicator in time by its own value, an approach termed Lagged Cohort Life Expectancy (LCLE). We discuss the usefulness of LCLE as an…
Declining Trust in Politics : what can be done about it?
Lecture
This Social Sciences Week event is presented by the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. There has been a dramatic decline in the Australian public’s trust in politics and politicians for more than a…