Brexit Britain and the World: Prof. Anne Deighton (Oxford)

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Prof. Anne Deighton (Oxford) situates the Brexit vote in the context of the UK's relationship with change and post-imperialism.

Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.


'You Looking at Me, Looking at You: Brexit Britain and the World' was presented by the Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM) Programme and the talks in this podcast series offer a diverse selection of those given at the conference.

Brexit Britain and the World: Prof. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford)

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Prof. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford) evaluates the possible trajectories for exit negotiations in light of the unprecedented nature of the UK's actions.

Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.


'You Looking at Me, Looking at You: Brexit Britain and the World' was presented by the Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM) Programme and the talks in this podcast series offer a diverse selection of those given at the conference.

Brexit Britain and the World: Dr. Swati Dhingra (LSE)

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Dr. Swati Dhingra (LSE) discusses the economic relationship between the UK and the EU as well as the difference in explanatory power between short and long-term forecasts.

Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.

Podcast: Conference on the ‘Historical Rawls’

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2017 marks fifteen years since the death of John Bordley Rawls (1921-2002), author of a Theory of JusticePolitical Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples. As a professor of Philosophy at Harvard, Rawls fundamentally transformed the discipline of political theory, and yet the nature—and the effects—of that transformation remain hotly contested.

Presidents, assembly dissolution and the electoral performance of prime ministers

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Many European presidents have extensive constitutional powers to affect the timing of early parliamentary elections, which enables them to influence when incumbent governments must face the electorate. This paper examines whether presidents use their assembly dissolution powers for partisan benefit. To date, presidential activism in the electoral arena of parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies remains poorly understood. We hypothesize that presidents use their powers to influence election calling for the advantage of their political allies in government.

Ecological inference with distribution regression: Voting behaviour in US elections

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Seth Flaxman, from the Oxford's Department of Statistics, explains how he has used data to enable predictive analysis of US elections.

By using ecological inference and census data, Seth has estimated not only “exit poll” style results (such as Trump’s level of support among white women), but entirely novel categories. The data analysis has also allowed researchers to explore which characteristics listed in the census predict voting behaviour, and non-voting.

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