January 17, 2017
Speaker: Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
January 31, 2017
Speaker: Nicolas Lupo, LUISS, “Mechanisms and Challenges of Parliamentary Democracy in Europe”
February 21, 2017
Speaker: Alan Finlayson, UEA, “Performance Rites: Rhetoric, Public Speech and Contemporary Democracy”
February 28, 2017
Speaker: Daniel Stockemer, Université d’Ottawa “The Eurovision Song Contest and (Strategic) Voting”
March 14, 2017
Speaker: Sergi Pardos-Prado, Merton College, University of Oxford, “The ‘left-behind’ are not alone: class alliances and extreme right success”
March 28, 2017
Speaker: Christian Schuster, UCL, “Weberian state structures and bureaucratic behaviour: evidence from survey experiments with public servants”
April 11, 2017
Speaker: Federica Bicchi, LSE, “Practicing Recognition and De-Recognition: European Positions in the Arab-Israeli Conflict”
May 2, 2017
Speaker: Rens Vliegenthart, University of Amsterdam, “Do issue reputations drive party preference, or is it the other way around? Disentangling the direction of causality between issue ownership and party preference”