Media in Greece: Free or dependent?
This panel discusses the hybrid nature and quality of the media in Greece by looking at public perceptions and levels of trust in traditional media, the relationship and interdependencies between journalism and the political class, the flowed regulatory system, as well as the limits of investigative journalism.
The struggle for redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina
How do we explain the differences in which victim groups are recognized and redressed in a post-war state? Opening with a puzzle about the diverse patterns of recognition and redress across victim groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995, this chapter introduces the topic of the book, its key concepts and arguments. Bosnian survivors of sexual violence and torture, families of the missing and killed persons, paraplegics and sufferers from other injuries have been granted varied types of redress across Bosnia.
Women's International Thought: A New History
Bringing together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations working today, Women's International Thought: A New History recovers and analyses the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Finding friends for Global Britain
Agora Oxford is excited to introduce our major event of Hilary 2021, the Global Britain Roundtables. Experts on the UK's relationships with the US and China will lead virtual roundtables in search of solutions to the complex trade-offs involved in the UK's post-Brexit 'Global Britain' strategy. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please register using the Eventbrite.
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The Not-So-Strange Death of Right Populism
'For now, the most striking thing about Trump’s takeover will be how little it affects the basic dynamics of the right in opposition.'
Extract from The Not-So-Strange Death of Right Populism by Daniel Luban, Dissentmagazine.org, 1 February 2021
Social Media Virality: Predicting Social Media Cascades over Arbitrary Time Horizons
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In this work, we consider the problem of "information cascades" - i.e., the virality of social network content on social media - and the specific problem of predicting future cascade size over arbitrary time horizons, given information about the content's initial popularity growth. These predictions are useful for a number of applications, including early detection of potentially harmful viral content in online social networks. With application to a large collection of content on Facebook over a two-month period, we predict cascades size using an approach based on Hawkes point process models.
Youth Voting in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and Beyond
Early analyses suggest historic levels of youth turnout in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, yet young people still turned out at almost half the rate of older voters. This age gap in turnout is much worse in the United States than other democracies around the world. What explains dismal levels of youth turnout? And what policy reforms might solve it?
Oxford Minds Panel Discussion - Power: what does it mean for states, markets, and society?
The series
This term’s series explores social science’s big concepts. It examines the contested meaning and diverse application of some of the theoretical ideas that unify and challenge social scientists. It brings together the bright minds of Oxford, and high profile external speakers, to consider the range of ways in which we can think about ‘power’, ‘space’, ‘identity’, and ‘belonging’.
Power: what does it mean for states, markets, and society?
This term’s series explores social science’s big concepts. It examines the contested meaning and diverse application of some of the theoretical ideas that unify and challenge social scientists. It brings together the bright minds of Oxford, and high profile external speakers, to consider the range of ways in which we can think about ‘power’, ‘space’, ‘identity’, and ‘belonging’.
Power: what does it mean for states, markets, and society?
Thanks for your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the U.S. Military
Why is the confidence of the American public in its military so high? What does it matter for policymaking and politics? Most of what we already know about this topic comes either from standard surveys designed with other purposes in mind or from older studies conducted in the pre-9/11 era. Along with my co-author, Jim Golby (UT-Austin) I have collected new data from two large surveys of the American public using instruments designed to probe the determinants and consequents of public confidence in the military.