Political Studies in the News - January 4, 2023
Cross-appointed professor Dr. Christian Leuprecht speaks to concerns about the Canadian military’s ability to respond to international threats and the impact it has on global influence.
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Cross-appointed professor Dr. Christian Leuprecht says discussions about revamping the RCMP are similar to past efforts and rarely result in long-term change.
Cross-appointed professor Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam says women and children living in Syrian camps are prime targets for radicalization.
In this Political Science Quarterly article, co-authors Jennie L. Schulze and Ognen Vangelov, with Professor David Haglund trace the remarkable trajectory of post-Communist Hungary over the past three decades, when the onetime “poster country” for successful liberalization in the erstwhile Soviet bloc managed to turn into the leading champion of illiberalism in the entire European Union (EU). They argue that a combination of internal and exogenous factors vitiated the earlier promise of EU “conditionality” to bring about Hungary’s transition to a stable liberal democracy.
Date
Thursday January 26, 2023Location
Dunning Hall Room 11The Department of Political Studies' Winter 2023 Speaker Series Presents:
Michael Murphy, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow - Queen's University
"Quo Vadis Active Learning? Innovative Teaching in the Political Science Classroom"
Light refreshments will be served!
Michael Murphy is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University.
Abstract: The scholarship of teaching and learning in politics and international relations (SoTL-P&IR) has grown rapidly in the last quarter-century, with new conferences, journals, and book series opening space for pedagogical conversations that are immediately relevant to the fields. Reviews of this body of research indicates that “active learning” is one of the foremost topics under consideration, including simulations and games, debates and discussions, in-person and online collaboration, and small-group activities. “Quo Vadis Active Learning?” presents an analysis of how active learning has grown in political science from League of Nations simulations in Harvard in the 1920s to online collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic, including results from a systematic review of all SoTL-P&IR articles published from 2000-2019 (forthcoming in International Politics), and shares preliminary findings from a Banting-funded survey on assessment and evaluation in political science education. The presentation further explores emerging topics of interest that will structure disciplinary debates in SoTL-P&IR over the coming years, including experiential learning, equitable and inclusive course design, hybrid or mixed-modality learning, learning spaces, and assessment and evaluation in a post-ChatGPT world.
Date
Friday January 20, 2023Location
Mackintosh-Corry Hall D214The Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) and the Department of Political Studies' Winter 2023 Speaker Series Present:
Allison Harell, Professor of Political Science at UQAM
"Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Immigrants’ Membership
in Europe and North America"
Friday, January 20, 2023 | 12:00-1:30 PM
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D214 | 68 University Avenue, Kingston
Light lunch provided
Abstract: Previous studies of public opinion have shown that immigrants and racialized minorities are often seen as less deserving of welfare benefits than native-born citizens. However, there is no consensus on its causes, or on how to build greater public support for more inclusive redistribution. While prejudice and discourses of deservingness have played a central role in this literature, I will argue that support for redistribution to immigrants and racialized minorities is powerfully tied to perceptions of their “membership commitment”: that is, whether they are seen as committed to the larger society and willing to make sacrifices for it (Harell et al. 2021). The presentation will focus on results from an original seven-country survey conducted in 2021-2022 in Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, and the US. The study provides the first systematic and cross-national test of the extent to which immigrants suffer a “membership penalty” within host societies, and how these membership penalties vary across Western countries with different citizenship and welfare regimes. In turn, these penalties are powerfully linked to both general redistribution attitudes, but especially inclusive redistribution, understood as the inclusion of immigrants in major social programs on the same terms and conditions as native-born. I conclude with a broader discussion of the barriers that immigrants and other marginalized groups face in being perceived as equally committed as native-born citizens and how these barriers might be addressed.
Cross-appointed professor Dr. Christian Leuprecht discusses how federal, provincial, and municipal governments did not do an adequate job responding to the freedom convoy in Ottawa.
Cross-appointed professor Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky talks about culture change in the military following the Minister of Defence's report to Parliament (December 14 episode, cue 14:43).
Cross-appointed professor Dr. Christian Leuprecht compares the recent attempt to overthrow the German government with the January 6 insurrection in the United States.
Cross-appointed professor Dr. Christian Leuprecht speaks about how the Russian military continues to target Ukrainian infrastructure.