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When Ordinary Citizens Become Activists: Feminist Responses to Gender Violence during the Egyptian Revolution

On 13th June, the University of Leeds will host Yasmin El-Rifae, the author of Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution. In...

Guest lecture summary | 1973: A Critical Year in Latin America

On 20th April 2023, we invited Professor Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta to talk about the democracy in Southern Cone Latin America. In the context of the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean military coup d’etat of 1973, Rodrigo’s lecture focused on the region’s experience of state terror under military-authoritarian regimes and the way their institutional legacies have shaped the nature of democracies today.

Guest lecture | 1973: A Critical Year in Latin America

The Centre for Democratic Politics is delighted to be hosting a guest lecture from Professor Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta on...

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The fight for the souls of Labour and the Conservatives

    Blair’s jettisoning of the Labour Party’s Clause IV in 1995 marked his commitment to constructing an updated, left of centre, political consensus. His...

Social Media and the Subscription Subject

Paul Geyer   There is a burgeoning element of social media: subscription services. One might assume that Elon Musk’s announcement of “Twitter Blue” was the...

Immigration control and Denmark's liberal democracy  

  Dr Mette Wiggen   It came as a surprise to many Scandinavians that the right wing extremist Rasmus Paludan was refused entry to Britain...

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MA student Emma Brewis awarded an internship with the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Postgraduate student Emma Brewis was recently selected for an internship to build the new global Public Engagement Hub, a partnership with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and...

New research explores "the cultural grammar of popular left politics"

New research by Associate Professor of Politics, Dr Jonathan Dean, exploring what he calls “the cultural grammar of popular left politics”, has been published in the European...

Prof Leston-Bandeira to lead project on addressing barriers to political engagement

The Centre for Democratic Politics is pleased to announce that its member Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira has secured a grant from Research England to explore perceptions...

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