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The Centre on US Politics, in collaboration with Policy and Practice, brings you an event examining domestic policy under President Joe Biden.

Vernon Bogdanor's latest book, Britain and Europe in a Troubled World, considers the motivations which lay behind Brexit, and asks how widespread they are in the rest of Europe. Has the elitism in the original European project become a handicap to progress? How can 'ever closer union' be achieved by popular consent amongst 27 highly diverse member states? Is it possible for the member states to consider the interests of Europe as a whole? To discuss these questions he is joined by Dr Julie Smith, Reader in European Politics at Cambridge and member of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, and Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, Brussels.

Rich Hartvigsen spoke at the Public Affairs Career Lecture Series and is Vice President of Global Government and Industry Affairs for Nu Skin Enterprises. He spoke about his career at Nu Skin Enterprises in the legal area of direct selling and marketing a broad range of personal care and nutritional supplement products through a network […]

Experiments offer a useful methodological tool to examine issues of importance to political scientists. The historical and cultural differences between experiments in behavioral economics and social psychology are discussed. Issues of central concern to experimentalists are covered, including impact versus control, mundane versus experimental realism, internal versus external validity, deception, and laboratory versus field experiments. Advantages and disadvantages of experimentation are summarized.

The existence of Kuhnian paradigm shifts in the US political science tradition is contemplated. It is contended that the proliferation of political scientific theories (eg, rational choice theory & institutionalism) does not constitute paradigm shifts; nevertheless, it is asserted that one paradigm shift has taken place within US political science. The transition between theories of the state & the emergence of the theory of democratic pluralism that arose during the 1920s & 1930s is interpreted as the only paradigm shift within US political scientific thought since the mid-19th century. After asserting that theories of the state had become stagnant in US political science by the early 1900s, scholarship that contributed to the rise of theories of democratic pluralism during the 1920s is identified. Even though theories of democratic pluralism were reworked prior to & immediately following WWII, it is argued that the behavioral revolution in political science during the 1950s does not represent a Kuhnian paradigm shift. Indeed, it is concluded that present-day political science scholarship continues to use the conceptions of political reality & democratic pluralism that were established during the interwar period. 20 References. J. W. Parker

Michael Barber, from BYU Political Science, and John Holbein, from the University of Virginia, authored an article in the AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, on the current topic of mail-in voting and its impact on elections. In the United States, the coronavirus crisis has thrust a typically wonky debate—the effectiveness of mail-in […]

What are the unique challenges that LGBTIQ+ migrants and asylum seekers face, in their home countries, in the course of migration, and in receiving countries? Listen to our panel discussion to find out.