Three Things I Know: a policy podcast from King’s College London https://alixmortimer.podbean.com In which we ask political scientists and economists from the School of Politics and Economics at King’s College London: what are the three things about your field that you wish policy makers knew? Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:55:30 -0400 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. News:Politics 1440 episodic alixmortimer alixmortimer No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17496275/MicrosoftTeams-image_jxyswn.png Three Things I Know: a policy podcast from King’s College London https://alixmortimer.podbean.com 144 144 Three things I know: a historians' guide to diplomacy and governance Three things I know: a historians' guide to diplomacy and governance https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-a-historians-guide-to-diplomacy-and-governance/ https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-a-historians-guide-to-diplomacy-and-governance/#comments Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:55:30 -0400 alixmortimer.podbean.com/a994fb70-cb08-3ba1-ae50-9166fe26ae1e Professor Sue Onslow and Dr Michael Kandiah in conversation on their several decades' researching and recording political and diplomatic history.

Michael Kandiah researches postwar British politics and the Cold War and is Director of the Witness Seminar Programme, which captures testimony about political events of the recent past. Sue Onslow is a leading oral historian and researches the Commonwealth, decolonisation, British foreign policy, and the politics of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

]]> Professor Sue Onslow and Dr Michael Kandiah in conversation on their several decades' researching and recording political and diplomatic history.

Michael Kandiah researches postwar British politics and the Cold War and is Director of the Witness Seminar Programme, which captures testimony about political events of the recent past. Sue Onslow is a leading oral historian and researches the Commonwealth, decolonisation, British foreign policy, and the politics of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

]]> alixmortimer false No 1687 4 full Three things I know: politics of the everyday, national identity and my NATO mug Three things I know: politics of the everyday, national identity and my NATO mug https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-politics-of-the-everyday-national-identity-and-my-nato-mug/ https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-politics-of-the-everyday-national-identity-and-my-nato-mug/#comments Wed, 22 May 2024 07:04:22 -0300 alixmortimer.podbean.com/ea44c89f-7b3d-3b72-a433-19a973b210c2 Dr Russell Foster was a historian before he was a political scientist, and we talk about the little histories that make up national (and other) identities. The "politics of the everyday" is about what is heard and seen around you, and so we get onto material culture. Symbols like flags can suddenly become highly salient, from the EU stars seen everywhere around and after the Referendum, to today's universal recognition of Ukraine's flag. And that brings us to Russell's NATO mug.

]]> Dr Russell Foster was a historian before he was a political scientist, and we talk about the little histories that make up national (and other) identities. The "politics of the everyday" is about what is heard and seen around you, and so we get onto material culture. Symbols like flags can suddenly become highly salient, from the EU stars seen everywhere around and after the Referendum, to today's universal recognition of Ukraine's flag. And that brings us to Russell's NATO mug.

]]> alixmortimer false No 1738 2 full Three things I know: PR and the gender gap in voting Three things I know: PR and the gender gap in voting https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-pr-and-the-gender-gap-in-voting/ https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-pr-and-the-gender-gap-in-voting/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:53:34 -0300 alixmortimer.podbean.com/b2178ec5-f312-3777-918b-244c539864c8 Not Three Things this time, but one big thing: proportional representation! Does it increase turnout as widely assumed, and are there any downsides? Answer: it depends. Mona Morgan-Collins talks about effects on turnout in high and low competition contests, and about effects on the gender voting gap - which is still very much an issue outside a narrow range of countries in high salience elections. Plus we get excited about the value of the historical data that can reveal these long-range patterns.

]]> Not Three Things this time, but one big thing: proportional representation! Does it increase turnout as widely assumed, and are there any downsides? Answer: it depends. Mona Morgan-Collins talks about effects on turnout in high and low competition contests, and about effects on the gender voting gap - which is still very much an issue outside a narrow range of countries in high salience elections. Plus we get excited about the value of the historical data that can reveal these long-range patterns.

]]> alixmortimer false No 1641 3 full Three things I know: bread, data and EU lobbying Three things I know: bread, data and EU lobbying https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-bread-data-and-eu-lobbying/ https://alixmortimer.podbean.com/e/three-things-i-know-bread-data-and-eu-lobbying/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:22:31 -0400 alixmortimer.podbean.com/f8be2ee8-2cec-399e-a5b7-5c0ace048ec0 Most academic careers probably don't start in a panetteria in northern Italy but that was how Dr Matia Vannoni got interested in EU regulation (fresh versus frozen bread in this case). We talk about regulation and complexity, the granular data techniques available to policymakers (taught on Matia's online MA in Public Policy) and trust and lobbying in the EU.

]]> Most academic careers probably don't start in a panetteria in northern Italy but that was how Dr Matia Vannoni got interested in EU regulation (fresh versus frozen bread in this case). We talk about regulation and complexity, the granular data techniques available to policymakers (taught on Matia's online MA in Public Policy) and trust and lobbying in the EU.

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