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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.
11 October 2023
Join Patricia Correa (Aston University) and Manoel Gehrke (CEDAR) in this new episode of the People, Power, Politics podcast on the 2023 Spanish election
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.
15 September 2023
The Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR) has published its third People, Power, Politics podcast episode
13 September 2023
The prospect of Robert Fico returning to power after this month’s election could mean that Slovakia could change direction again.
08 August 2023
Prof Nic Cheeseman, has written for the BBC on the recent spate of coups in West Africa, asking what role France has played in the recent political instability.
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.
16 June 2023
Dr Petra Alderman reviews a new book by Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman