Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations 2017 : 'Universities in an Age of Populism'

The 7th Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations is entitled ‘Universities in an Age of Populism' and will be given by Professor Louise Richardson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Please join us for this event, which will take place in the Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College at 5pm-6.30pm on 16th June 2017.

Book launch: Centripetal Democracy: Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland and the European Union

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres.

For Whose Benefit? Non-state welfare and distributive politics in Myanmar's political transition

Why are there so few advocates for state-mediated economic redistribution and social welfare in contemporary Myanmar (Burma)? Moving beyond a focus on the regime-led political transition since 2011, this seminar explores how informal institutions generated during following the collapse of socialism in 1988 shape contemporary distributive politics.
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