Ibiza is the world’s greatest party island. And with all the clubbing comes drugs…lots of drugs. As the season crescendos with its closing parties, VICE’s Tir Dhondy will be getting a rare insight into Ibiza’s criminal underbelly that keeps the island gurning.
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,1,Join us for a book discussion on Migrants and Machine Politics with author Tariq Thachil on November 23, 2023.
Commentators:
Lisa Bjorkman, University of Lousiville, Patrick Heller, Brown University, Siddharth Swaminathan, Brown University
Tariq Tachi is the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Elite Parties, Poor Voters.
As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. In Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness, SIS Professor Adam Auerbach and Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania) draw on years of fieldwork in urban north India to argue against conventional portrayals of migrant settlements as politically subdued, bought-off, or polarized by local dons and political ‘machines.’
Auerbach and Thachil show how migrants actively construct and populate the political networks that connect them to city governments. To do so, they generate and wield intense political competition to sow unexpected, important, and imperfect seeds of accountability within urban politics.
Praised by reviewers as “pioneering,” “pathbreaking,” “a tour de force,” and “a model of social-science research,” Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South.
Migrants and Machine Politics was published in 2023 by Princeton University Press. For more information, click here.
,1,California Series in Public Anthropology and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs present the third New Books in Public Anthropology Virtual Café, with readings and comments by:
Nicole Fabricant, Professor of Anthropology at Towson University, co–executive editor of NACLA Report on the Americas, and author of Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore.
Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, and author of Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone.
Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York, and author of Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice.
The event will be moderated by Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology and editor of the California Series in Public Anthropology.
,1,Join us for a conversation between Parth Jindal ’12 and Ashutosh Varhsney that will explore Indian economic growth, business and entrepreneurial opportunities, building an athletic franchise and pipeline for competition at the highest level of sport. Parth will also be promoting a range of internship opportunities for Brown students at JSW Group.
This event is Co-sponsored by the Brown Center for Career Exploration .
,1,Join us for a panel discussion of Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State with author Colleen Grogan, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, James Morone, John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University, Miranda Yaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College, and Eric Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, Chair, Department of Political Science at Brown University.
In her newly published book, Grow and Hide, Professor Grogan provides a sweeping history of the American healthcare state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US government has always invested federal, state, and local dollars in public health protection and prevention. Despite this public funding, however, Americans typically believe the current system is predominantly comprised of private actors with little government interference. In what Grogan terms “the grow-and-hide regime,” the US has created a publicly financed system while framing it as the opposite. Today, the state’s role is larger than ever, yet it remains largely hidden because stakeholders–namely, private actors and their allies in government–have repeatedly, and successfully, presented the illusion of minimal.
,1,Ibiza is the world’s greatest party island. And with all the clubbing comes drugs…lots of drugs. As the season crescendos with its closing parties, VICE’s Tir Dhondy will be getting a rare insight into Ibiza’s criminal underbelly that keeps the island gurning.
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,1,Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news.
On this episode:
The state of the Israel-Hamas War, and its geopolitical and economic implications
Discouraging polls for Biden, promising victories of Democrats in November’s special elections – what does it mean for 2024?
The new Speaker of the US House does the same thing his predecessor got kicked out for doing
Mark and Carrie push their Bible knowledge to the limit
Xi warms up to the United States…a little
Don’t worry about the UK – David Cameron is back!
David Beckham – more interesting than his looks would suggest?
Mark doesn't think much about the Roman Empire
,1,The Political Science Department presents A Distinguished Lecture Series on Emerging Trends in 21st Century Domestic and Global Politics
Generously sponsored by Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureships Fund and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
October 4, 2023 at 4:30pm
Stephen Robert Hall/280 Brook Street with reception to follow
Protecting the ballot: How first wave democracies ended electoral corruption
Isabela Mares, Yale University
Between 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Such reforms came in a variety of forms. Some reforms imposed harsher punishments for bribing or the politicization of state resources during campaigns. Other changes improved electoral secrecy, providing better protection of voters’ autonomy. By mandating the presence of candidate representatives supervising electoral operations, reforms also reduced the incidence of electoral fraud. Drawing on an analysis of parliamentary deliberations and roll call votes in France, Germany, Belgium and the United States, this study explores how these electoral changes came about. It documents how elite splits facilitated the formation of parliamentary majorities in support of electoral reforms. The political composition of these majorities varied across countries and across reform dimension, depending on the distribution of political resources and the economic and electoral costs incurred by politicians with opportunities to engage in malfeasance. Unpacking the electoral determinants of the demand for reforms, the study provides an alternative to theories of democratization that emphasize economic considerations alone.
Isabela Mares is the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and the Director of the European Union Center at Yale. She specializes in the comparative politics of Europe. Professor Mares has written extensively on labor market and social policy reforms, the political economy of taxation, electoral clientelism, reforms limiting electoral corruption. Her current research examines the political responses to antiparliamentarism in both contemporary and historical settings.
Professor Mares is the author of five books. These include The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development (New York: Cambridge University Press 2003), Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment (New York: Cambridge University Press 2006), From Open Secrets to Secret Voting (New York: Cambridge University Press 2015), Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe (co-authored with Lauren Young, Oxford University Press 2018) and Protecting the Ballot: How First Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2022).
The Politics of Social Risk was awarded the Gregory Luebbert best book in comparative politics award by the American Political Science Association and the best book in European Politics by the Council for European Studies. Conditionality and Coercion was awarded the William Riker award for Best Book in Political Economy by the American Political Science Association, the Best book in European Politics and was a runner up for the Gregory Luebbert Award. Her articles have been awarded best prizes by the APSA sections on Comparative Politics, Representation and Electoral Systems and History and Politics, among others. Professor Mares is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Simon Guggenheim Foundation.