China’s Belt and Road Initiative (hereinafter BRI) – Yi dai yi lu – is Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy which brings together the country’s geopolitical and geo-economic aims under the banner of the ‘community of shared destiny of mankind’.  Xi’s ambitions to make China a ‘strong and wealthy nation’ under the ‘Two Centennial Goals’, has made the BRI a priority even with the pressures of Covid-19.

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This event is part of the Inaugural 2022 David N. Lyon Speaker Series on "The Politics of Sex and Gender Equality in Diverse Societies".

The speaker at this event will be Professor Anne Phillips.

Anne Phillips is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government. She joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently moved to a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and Government Department, and later to a sole appointment in Government.

Former Journalist Fellow Christine Franciska is managing editor at Glance, where she programmes the latest stories to appear on the lock screens of 150 million Android users in India and Indonesia. She explored this topic during her time in Oxford as a Journalist Fellow.

This series is an opportunity for DPIR DPhils to present their work in progress and gather feedback.

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The increasing use of misinformation and growing social and political polarization form a vicious circle: political entrepreneurs are incentivized to spread misinformation about the outgroup and citizens are increasingly motivated to engage with misinformation. In this study, we focus on one direction in this causal relationship: the preference among consumers to assimilate biased media. We do so in Côte d’Ivoire, a highly polarized context where misinformation is rampant and has even had violent consequences.

The talk presents theoretical and empirical research on the challenges to the core features of representative democracy as an attempt to combine the broad inclusion of citizens in the democratic process with efficiency of policy making and problem solving. It addresses the critique mounted by technocratic claims and highlights the tension between the holistic technocratic, and populist, conceptions of representation and pluralist representative democracy.

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