Thursday Seminars by Mark Bray
This Seminar is part of our regular Thursday seminar series, which normally take place at Lunchtime on Thursdays. This seminar will, however, exceptionally take place on Thursday afternoon at 15:00 […]
This Seminar is part of our regular Thursday seminar series, which normally take place at Lunchtime on Thursdays. This seminar will, however, exceptionally take place on Thursday afternoon at 15:00 […]
Register here Enhancing Quality Electoral Governance for Democratic Consolidation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic Abstract Ghana has made significant progress with democratic governance since returning to multiparty politics in 1992. Since […]
Unpacking the Framing of Democracy in EU Institutional Discourses on Disinformation Mitigation Abstract How do European institutions frame democracy in their discourses and policies about disinformation mitigation? Disinformation is often presented by […]
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Register here Political Identity as a Feature of Democracy: Belonging, Rejection, and Absence Political identities are often taken for granted as attachments to parties or ideological camps. Yet citizens differ […]
Are parliaments at risk of becoming irrelevant? Abstract Parliaments have been conceptualised as a core institution of our representative democracies – they are meant to embody the link between public […]
Register here When We Are Not in the Room: Designing Feminist Institutional Change for Resilience and Reactivation Feminist institutionalism has long shown that feminist institutional change is rarely one-shot, given the “genderedness” of organisations/institutions (Benschop & Verloo, 2006), the “nested newness” of reform […]
The unintended consequences of depolarization treatments (in the US) Abstract Many interventions exist for reducing toxic polarization. However, a possibility is that these interventions that aim to help political opponents get along have unintended side effects. […]
Register here The international norm of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: Navigating Inequality and Inclusion in Democracies under Pressure Bio Petra Ahrens is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Her […]
How to study platform influences on digital democracies Abstract Digital platforms do not merely host democratic debate — they structure visibility, shape information flows, and influence how political opinions are […]
Register here Informational Autocracies and State-Sponsored Disinformation - On the Possibilities and Limits of Institutionalized Brainwashing Abstract In today’s information landscape, the rise of “spin dictatorships” or informational autocracies shows […]
Register here Book launch of The Oxford Handbook of Belgian Politics, a new volume co-edited by Prof. Min Reuchamps (UCLouvain), Prof. Marleen Brans (KULeuven), Prof. Petra Meier, (Uantwerpen) and Prof. Emilie […]