The rise of right-wing ‘populist’ parties has generated considerable anxiety over the future of liberal democracy in countries ranging from India and Turkey to Israel, Hungary, Brazil, and the United States, among others. This talk will attend to the political-theological dimensions of what has variously been called post-liberalism, illiberal democracy, or populism (a usage the speaker will contest) by considering the ways in which champions of the post-liberal project understand the relationship between three fundamental political concepts: the law, the state, and the people.

Concealed within the walls of settlements along the Green Line, the border between Israel and the occupied West-Bank, is a complex history of territoriality, privatisation, and multifaceted class dynamics. Since the late 1970s, the state aimed to expand the heavily populated coastal area eastwards into the occupied Palestinian territories, granting favoured groups of individuals, developers, and entrepreneurs the ability to influence the formation of built space as a means to continuously develop and settle national frontiers.

Michael is former politics fellow of Merton College and Pembroke College, Oxford and Brunel University, advisor to the policy planning staff of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, honorary academic advisor to Claims for Jewish Slave Labour Compensation and survivor of four camps and ghettoes in Nazi-occupied Hungary.

The Islamic Movement in Israel was established in the early 1980s by and for Palestinian citizens of Israel. It has a non-violent approach focusing on providing its community with grassroots Islamization, as well as catering to this community’s socio-economic needs. Its trifecta of goals is to protect Palestinian land, religious sites, and people. In response to the shifting realities of the Israeli social and political context, the leaders and activists of this movement continuously adjust (and sometimes disagrees on) its methodology and interaction with the state.

This roundtable featuring a panel of experienced journal editors will cover how to approach the publishing process, with advice on what to do as well as pitfalls to avoid. This will be an online event via Zoom, taking place on Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:15. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and will be chaired and moderated by DPIR’s Director for Professional Development, Ezequiel González Ocantos.

About our speakers:

Petra Schleiter is Professor of Comparative Politics and an Executive Editor of the British Journal of Political Science.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe crisis many Western societies have faced since the 2nd World War. In the very early days of the pandemic, I became director of a large-scale social science project to understand how the pandemic influenced Western democracies, which simultaneously gained a prominent role in the Danish government and media response.

The next session in DPIR’s Alumni Career Conversation series will focus on careers in the civil service, with guest speaker and DPIR and St Catz alumnus Rupert McNeil (1985, PPE), formerly the UK’s Government Chief People Officer (2016-2022). This will be a hybrid event, hosted jointly by DPIR and St Catz, and will take place in the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre at St Catz and online via Zoom on Wednesday 26 October, 13:00-14:00.

Theories of democratic governance assume that citizens reward or punish politicians for their performance in providing public services. This study expands the existing debate by shifting the focus to subnational heterogeneities in electoral returns to government performance. I introduce a theory suggesting that electoral returns to local public goods will increase with their excludability, i.e., the degree to which they are used only by the local population, because due to their excludability, the local population will see them as `club goods' and as a signal of favoritism.

Research so far has predominantly focused on identifying the types of refugees that citizens across the EU and the US are more likely to welcome. While this work has helped us to uncover patterns of discrimination towards outgroup members, it has failed to inform us what kind of refugee policy is most likely to gain support. Our project addresses this shortcoming by focusing on what refugee policy Europeans want. We study attitudes in respect to the EU-level allocational regime for the refugees, level of border control, right to work, freedom of movement and the cost of the policy.