🤔 Do policy-makers understand what the public think?
🤔 Or are key foreign policy decisions shaped by misperceptions of public preferences?

We welcome Dr Jonathan Monten to the UCL Uncovering Politics podcast.

Listen: https://uncoveringpolitics.com/

What is at stake in the upcoming midterms? What could the outcomes mean for the future of American democracy?

Katie Pruszynski (Independent Political Analyst), Laurel Rapp (Chatham House), Andy Rudalevige (Bowdoin College), and chair Thomas Gift (UCL) will discuss.

Register https://bit.ly/4hZWG6G

Among the victims of crime it was found that higher rates of state killing were associated with increased popularity of the president, where less harsh forms of punishment make the president less popular.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/239363bz #LatinAmerica #governance #democracy

What would it take to bring peace to the Middle East?

We will welcome to the Policy & Practice Seminar Maryam Alemzadeh (Oxford), Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore), Alison Killing (Financial Times) and chair Anne Irfan (UCL) to discuss this question.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4y0c5bS

🥛 Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social (University of Oxford’s History of Science Museum), are in the new BBC Ideas film: ‘Five surprising things you probably didn’t know about milk’.

Check it out 👇

#Milk #BBCIdeas #Archaeology

"Of the UCL students that we've taken on board, they are very passionate and they have an excellent work ethic, which we love and is a really, really positive impact on our company."

Find out more about the scheme and how to get involved: tinyurl.com/pk7tyjf6

#Internships #politics #Dods #data

We are happy to announce the first evening in our Policy & Practice seminar series this autumn.

We look forward to welcoming Anand Menon (KCL), Alexandra Hall Hall (former British diplomat), Jill Rutter (IfG), Uta Staiger (UCL) and chair Michal Ovádek (UCL). Register here: https://bit.ly/4wJmp6Z

To what extend can news media impact electoral behaviour?
In her dissertation, Abigail Lindon (BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics) argues that such impact is conditional within the context of a more diverse media landscape.

Read her article on the Student Experts Blog: https://bit.ly/4zE0cKb

Many congratulations to @llschenoni.bsky.social! Luis' book ‘Bringing War Back In. Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America’, has received the J. David Greenstone Award from the American Political Science Association. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/y42frvvu #apsa

Should advocates abandon universal rights language in favour of arguments rooted in local traditions and anti-colonial sentiment?

Tune in to this week's episode of UCL Uncovering Politics, where we hear from Phillip Ayoub and Adam Harris, both professors in our department: tinyurl.com/2hbv6zm7