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UCL Uncovering Politics — 163 episodes

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1

Reframing Rights in Zimbabwe: Do Local Narratives Improve LGBTQ Rights Campaigning?

2

Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals: Towards Social Justice in Dementia Care

3

What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?

4

Restructuring The Constitution: A Hobbesian Thought Experiment

5

The Nature of Constitutions and the Role of the Courts

6

The European Court of Human Rights: How Does It Work?

7

The Machine Stops: Should We All Quit Social Media?

8

What Role Do Citizens’ Policy Opinions Play In Their Political Choices?

9

Is It Ever OK To Discriminate Against White Men?

10

Young People, Social Media and Harmful Content

11

Does Owning A Home Make You More Right Wing?

12

A just post-colonial world

13

Who Pays and Who Speaks? Reforming Democracy in the UK

14

Rethinking Global Governance in an Age of Crisis

15

Power, Negotiation, The COPs - And Loss And Damage

16

Playing The Politics Of Morality To Set The Agenda

17

How War The Ukraine War Has Affected Attitudes To Democracy

18

Gaza: The Dream And The Nightmare

19

Should The State Fund Fertility Treatments?

20

Immigration, Public Housing, and Far-Right Politics

21

Hope In International Human Rights

22

The 2024 UK General Election

23

Should We Have  A Human Right Against Discrimination?

24

Can The Law Fix Structural Injustice?

25

Should Politicians Always Be Truthful?

26

Do Religious Schools Hinder Children's Autonomy?

27

How Can Populists Be Defeated?

28

Decision Making In The European Union

29

Rewilding the University - Prof Cathy Elliott's inaugural lecture

30

Constitutional Reform in the UK

31

Echo Chambers, Confucian Harmony and Civility

32

Is Morality the Cause of Ideological Disagreement

33

Disability Representation in Politics

34

AI and Public Services

35

When Does Religion Beget Violence?

36

The Politics of Parliamentary Reform

37

Improving Election Debates: Evidence from Liberia

38

Prisons and Proportional Punishment

39

Are There Limits On Autocratic Power?

40

The Power of the American Presidency

41

Politicising Memory: Evidence from Ukraine

42

Lies, politicians, and social media: Should we fact check politicians?

43

Dissecting the 2024 US Election

44

Policing The Permacrisis

45

Unpaid Reparations And Expropriation

46

Mission-Driven Bureaucrats

47

French Social Democracy In Turmoil

48

Outdoor Learning And The Politics Of Hope

49

The Age Divide in Contemporary Politics

50

How War Makes States

51

The Political Feasibility Of A Just Climate Transition

52

Opinion Polls

53

What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism?

54

The Role of Information in State-Building

55

Public Attitudes To The Economy

56

Should Russian Assets Be Seized?

57

Should Experts Set The Fiscal Rules?

58

The UK Healthcare Crisis

59

Responding to Civilian Harm in Millitary Conflicts

60

Do Protests Affect What Politicians Say?

61

Settling Disputes Between Governments and Investors

62

Death Threats and Online Content Moderation

63

Managing Diversity Amongst the EU Member States

64

The Battle for LGBT+ Rights

65

How Parliaments Question Prime Ministers

66

The Future of Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland

67

Improving Public Services

68

Russian Discourses of Sovereignty

69

Historical Research in Political Science

70

Climate Change Loss and Damage

71

'Acts of speech' and how people recieve them

72

The Domestic Politics of IMF Lending

73

The Politics of Migration

74

Fiscal Transparency And The Public Purse

75

Backyard Housing And The Dynamics Of Collective Action

76

Taking Offence

77

The State of US Politics

78

Resisting Colonialism

79

Honouring the Career of Professor Albert Weale

80

The Impact of Banning Protests

81

How Can We Fix Our Democracy?

82

Political Constitutionalism and Referendums: The Case of Brexit

83

Democracies and LGBTQ Rights

84

Military Technology and Intelligent Warfare

85

What Can Democracies Learn From Dictatorships?

86

The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit

87

Brexit and Northern Ireland

88

Do Higher Benefits Encourage Immigration?

89

The Politics of Ordinary Hope

90

The Politics of the European Court of Human Rights

91

The Politics of the European Court of Justice

92

The Role of Praise

93

Twitter, the Online Safety Bill, and Free Speech

94

Democracy in the UK – with Gina Miller

95

The Precautionary State

96

War and Infant Mortality

97

A Primer on House of Lords Reform

98

LGBT+ Politics

99

Hypocrisy and Human Rights Around the World

100

How Should Politicians’ Behaviour be Regulated?

101

Global Tech Companies and the War in Ukraine

102

Climate Change: The Road to COP27

103

Parliament’s Role in Brexit

104

Robots and Immigrants

105

How to Run Public Administration

106

The State of the World

107

The Role of Blame

108

Disabilities in the Workplace

109

The Limits of Technocracy

110

Public Opinion in Russia

111

How to Transform Our Politics

112

Population Displacement

113

Political Philosophy and Climate Change

114

Politics in Northern Ireland

115

Voting Systems and the Representation of Women

116

The Politics of Climate Change

117

The Origins of the Secular State

118

Courage in Politics

119

The Transformation of British Welfare Policy

120

The Origins of Social Trust

121

Why did Argentina invade the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982?

122

The Pedagogy of Politics

123

Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed

124

Taking Offence

125

Intermarriage and Voting in Africa

126

Governments and Private Sector Suppliers

127

Public Preferences on Taxes and Spending

128

Online Public Shaming: Social Media, Ethics and Punishment

129

Legacies of Armed Conflict in Northern Ireland

130

COP26 in Review: Reflections on Glasgow

131

Regulating the Internet

132

Analysing Politicians’ Words

133

The Global Politics of Climate Change

134

Prison Protests in Palestine

135

How Has Covid Affected Voter Preferences

136

Alexei Navalny and the Future of Russian Politics

137

Should the Civil Service Be Neutral?

138

The Principles of Education Policy

139

Deciding Northern Ireland’s Future

140

Does the UK Still Have a Political Constitution?

141

The Ethics of Violent Protest

142

Fostering Norms for Dispute Resolution

143

Biden’s First 100 Days

144

Ideas of Democracy

145

Global Climate Justice

146

The Prerogative Powers of Governments

147

Business Lobbying in the EU

148

Global Climate Governance

149

The Politics of Asylum

150

Care and Punishment

151

The Limits of Free Speech on Social Media

152

Trump's Legacy and the Biden Presidency

153

Contentious Politics under Covid-19

154

The State of the European Union

155

The Principles of Collective Decision-Making

156

Decolonising the University

157

Survivors of Violence

158

Voter Information

159

The US Elections: What's Next?

160

Views of the Economy

161

Monarchy in Modern Democracy

162

Is Risk Good for Us?

163

Checks and Balances in Democracy