Jeremy Siow
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Science. My research focuses on education politics and policy, as well as the drivers of intergroup discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status. Methodologically, I utilise a range of causal inference techniques to evaluate how major policy reforms influence various individual-level political outcomes, including political participation and democratic attitudes. A majority of my empirical work centres on Malaysia and Singapore.
Quo Vadis ODID? Climate change, growth, and the future of development
Do the current measures of ‘green growth’ suffice to abate the problems of environmental degradation and climate change, or do we need more radical ideas of ‘degrowth’ and fundamentally different economic systems?
Join ODID staff, researchers, students and alumni as we debate how our department should position itself.
Programme for Global Leadership
Oxford Character Project joins DPIR
Regine Schwab
Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies
This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.
Rogue state: Why it is time to stop mocking – and underestimating – North Korea
Emma Madden
Research
I specialise in computational methods in social science with a particular interest in modelling complex social systems through the lens of political violence and opinion dynamics. Some of my research topics include:
Replication of social experiments with synthetic data from LLMs
Organisational structure and group decision making in insurgency
Complex systems and modelling collective behaviour
The Future of Democracy in India: a conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi
During the 1975-77 Emergency in India, Himmat, the weekly founded and edited by Rajmohan Gandhi, was among a handful of Indian journals that opposed the suspension of democratic rights.
In 1990, he led India’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.