27 March 2024
Episode 12 of the People, Power, Politics podcast features a discussion of Allan Sikk and Philipp Köker’s recent OUP book Party People
27 March 2024
Argentine democracy is again at a crossroads. But this time feels different as Argentina’s new maverick President Javier Milei seeks to assert his authority.
18 March 2024
The latest People, Power, Politics episode features a conversation between Prof Marlies Glasius and CEDAR’s Licia Cianetti about authoritarian practices
14 March 2024
Visiting experts and University of Birmingham scholars discuss what may be the most important election in recent American history.
07 March 2024
Dr Huw Macartney, Associate Professor in Political Economy, explores the politics of the Spring Budget.
14 February 2024
In this latest People, Power, Politics podcast, Prof Rory Cormac talks about the fascinating world of secret statecraft and its implications for democracy.
31 January 2024
The new People, Power, Politics podcast episode features CEDAR’s Nic Cheeseman in conversation with Prof Aili Mari Tripp.
25 January 2024
Dr Adam Quinn is an Associate Professor in American and International Politics reflect on the New Hampshire Republican primary result.
17 January 2024
Stefan Wolff talks to Petra Alderman about the global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, the state of the Russia-Ukraine war.
17 January 2024
Professor David Dunn explores the Iowa caucus results, and what this could mean for Trump's presidential bid.
11 January 2024
Dr Rita Floyd explores the impact of the ongoing criminal gang attacks in Ecuador.
14 December 2023
Listen to the sixth episode of the People, Power, Politics podcast featuring Mwita Chacha (POLSIS), Obert Hodzi (Liverpool) and Nic Cheeseman (CEDAR).
21 November 2023
The UK Parliament has re-selected the University as a chosen partner to teach the highly regarded Parliamentary Studies module from the academic year 2024/25.
17 November 2023
What is political polarisation? How different is it from ‘normal’ democratic conflict? And why have we been getting it wrong?
25 October 2023
On 17 October, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the Belarussian opposition, gave the inaugural State of Democracy Lecture in the Houses of Parliament.
18 September 2023
Dr Peter Kerr awarded prize for co-authored paper ‘Guided by the science’: (De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.
16 August 2023
New CEDAR podcast episode has been published featuring Dan Slater, Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
02 August 2023
With the world in the throws of a Barbie resurgence, Dr Sameera Khalfey examines the reception of the film, and what our Barbies represented to us as children.
28 July 2023
The recently established Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation has launched a new podcast series called People, Power, Politics.
28 July 2023
A return to street politics and another mass movement campaign may once again be on the cards for Thailand’s government.
07 July 2023
Staff and doctoral researchers presented and discussed their pioneering research at a departmental conference.
06 July 2023
On Thursday 22 June 2023, over one hundred of the University’s staff, students and community members joined Professor Nicola Gale for her inaugural lecture.
13 June 2023
With democracy in trouble, understanding the reason why could hardly be more important.
22 May 2023
Professor Stefan Wolff and his writing partner, Professor Tetyana Malyarenko, have won the 2022 Sir Paul Curran Award.
20 October 2022
Lloyd Bickham, a current Political Science student, released a podcast featuring a host of interviews recorded at the governing party’s conference in Birmingham
08 April 2022
The POLSIS seminar series invites prominent external scholars to discuss big themes including Englishness and the ideology of political reactionaries.
21 March 2022
A new book written by a University of Birmingham researcher sheds light on the ideas and beliefs that many political reactionaries share.
26 January 2022
At the digital margins? Researching and communicating marginalisation in online political engagement