Join us just eight days after the United States Presidential Election for this lecture by Professor Ann Southworth which is based on her new book "Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending in America" and discusses how the First Amendment became an obstacle to campaign finance regulation in the United States. In this...
In recent years we have seen greater acknowledgement of the fact that race and racism are relatively neglected across the disciplines of politics and international studies. What can, and might, be done about this? This research seminar brings together two scholars who have sought to engage seriously in their own work with these issues: Sadiya...
Gemma Walker, a PhD student at the University of Leeds, will discuss her PhD research project entitled "Simple populists? Exploring the influence of populism on the integrative complexity of political communication". This research is set within the context of the growing popularity of populist movements and the increasing concerns about the way political communication is...
In this seminar, titled ‘Narratives about democracy: the use of parliamentary storytelling in Brazil and in the UK’, Cláudia Lemos, a Visiting Scholar from the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, will examine the type of language used by in-house communication teams of the Brazilian Congress and of the UK Parliament. Her presentation will draw from...