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UCL Uncovering Politics — 170 episodes

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Six Prime Ministers and a Brexit: Meg Russell Reflects on British Democracy

2

The Impact of Parades in Northern Ireland

3

Teaching The Use Of Evidence In Policymaking

4

Remove Or Reduce? Social Media Content Moderation Through The Lens Of Human Rights

5

How Do Judges' Personal Views Affect Asylum Rulings?

6

Transparency As A Tool Of Authoritarian Governance In China

7

Which Companies Oppose Climate Action?

8

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

9

Relating To People Living With Dementia As Equals: Towards Social Justice In Dementia Care

10

What Will It Take For A Woman To Become President Of The United States?

11

Restructuring The Constitution: A Hobbesian Thought Experiment

12

The Nature Of Constitutions And The Role Of The Courts

13

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

14

The Machine Stops: Should We All Quit Social Media?

15

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

16

Is It Ever OK To Discriminate Against White Men?

17

Young People, Social Media and Harmful Content

18

Does Owning A Home Make You More Right Wing?

19

A just post-colonial world

20

Who Pays and Who Speaks? Reforming Democracy in the UK

21

Rethinking Global Governance in an Age of Crisis

22

Power, Negotiation, The COPs - And Loss And Damage

23

Playing The Politics Of Morality To Set The Agenda

24

How War The Ukraine War Has Affected Attitudes To Democracy

25

Gaza: The Dream And The Nightmare

26

Should The State Fund Fertility Treatments?

27

Immigration, Public Housing, and Far-Right Politics

28

Hope In International Human Rights

29

The 2024 UK General Election

30

Should We Have  A Human Right Against Discrimination?

31

Can The Law Fix Structural Injustice?

32

Should Politicians Always Be Truthful?

33

Do Religious Schools Hinder Children's Autonomy?

34

How Can Populists Be Defeated?

35

Decision Making In The European Union

36

Rewilding the University - Prof Cathy Elliott's inaugural lecture

37

Constitutional Reform in the UK

38

Echo Chambers, Confucian Harmony and Civility

39

Is Morality the Cause of Ideological Disagreement

40

Disability Representation in Politics

41

AI and Public Services

42

When Does Religion Beget Violence?

43

The Politics of Parliamentary Reform

44

Improving Election Debates: Evidence from Liberia

45

Prisons and Proportional Punishment

46

Are There Limits On Autocratic Power?

47

The Power of the American Presidency

48

Politicising Memory: Evidence from Ukraine

49

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

50

Dissecting the 2024 US Election

51

Policing The Permacrisis

52

Unpaid Reparations And Expropriation

53

Mission-Driven Bureaucrats

54

French Social Democracy In Turmoil

55

Outdoor Learning And The Politics Of Hope

56

The Age Divide in Contemporary Politics

57

How War Makes States

58

The Political Feasibility Of A Just Climate Transition

59

Opinion Polls

60

What’s Wrong with Neocolonialism?

61

The Role of Information in State-Building

62

Public Attitudes To The Economy

63

Should Russian Assets Be Seized?

64

Should Experts Set The Fiscal Rules?

65

The UK Healthcare Crisis

66

Responding to Civilian Harm in Millitary Conflicts

67

Do Protests Affect What Politicians Say?

68

Settling Disputes Between Governments and Investors

69

Death Threats and Online Content Moderation

70

Managing Diversity Amongst the EU Member States

71

The Battle for LGBT+ Rights

72

How Parliaments Question Prime Ministers

73

The Future of Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland

74

Improving Public Services

75

Russian Discourses of Sovereignty

76

Historical Research in Political Science

77

Climate Change Loss and Damage

78

'Acts of speech' and how people recieve them

79

The Domestic Politics of IMF Lending

80

The Politics of Migration

81

Fiscal Transparency And The Public Purse

82

Backyard Housing And The Dynamics Of Collective Action

83

Taking Offence

84

The State of US Politics

85

Resisting Colonialism

86

Honouring the Career of Professor Albert Weale

87

The Impact of Banning Protests

88

How Can We Fix Our Democracy?

89

Political Constitutionalism and Referendums: The Case of Brexit

90

Democracies and LGBTQ Rights

91

Military Technology and Intelligent Warfare

92

What Can Democracies Learn From Dictatorships?

93

The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit

94

Brexit and Northern Ireland

95

Do Higher Benefits Encourage Immigration?

96

The Politics of Ordinary Hope

97

The Politics of the European Court of Human Rights

98

The Politics of the European Court of Justice

99

The Role of Praise

100

Twitter, the Online Safety Bill, and Free Speech

101

Democracy in the UK – with Gina Miller

102

The Precautionary State

103

War and Infant Mortality

104

A Primer on House of Lords Reform

105

LGBT+ Politics

106

Hypocrisy and Human Rights Around the World

107

How Should Politicians’ Behaviour be Regulated?

108

Global Tech Companies and the War in Ukraine

109

Climate Change: The Road to COP27

110

Parliament’s Role in Brexit

111

Robots and Immigrants

112

How to Run Public Administration

113

The State of the World

114

The Role of Blame

115

Disabilities in the Workplace

116

The Limits of Technocracy

117

Public Opinion in Russia

118

How to Transform Our Politics

119

Population Displacement

120

Political Philosophy and Climate Change

121

Politics in Northern Ireland

122

Voting Systems and the Representation of Women

123

The Politics of Climate Change

124

The Origins of the Secular State

125

Courage in Politics

126

The Transformation of British Welfare Policy

127

The Origins of Social Trust

128

Why did Argentina invade the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982?

129

The Pedagogy of Politics

130

Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed

131

Taking Offence

132

Intermarriage and Voting in Africa

133

Governments and Private Sector Suppliers

134

Public Preferences on Taxes and Spending

135

Online Public Shaming: Social Media, Ethics and Punishment

136

Legacies of Armed Conflict in Northern Ireland

137

COP26 in Review: Reflections on Glasgow

138

Regulating the Internet

139

Analysing Politicians’ Words

140

The Global Politics of Climate Change

141

Prison Protests in Palestine

142

How Has Covid Affected Voter Preferences

143

Alexei Navalny and the Future of Russian Politics

144

Should the Civil Service Be Neutral?

145

The Principles of Education Policy

146

Deciding Northern Ireland’s Future

147

Does the UK Still Have a Political Constitution?

148

The Ethics of Violent Protest

149

Fostering Norms for Dispute Resolution

150

Biden’s First 100 Days

151

Ideas of Democracy

152

Global Climate Justice

153

The Prerogative Powers of Governments

154

Business Lobbying in the EU

155

Global Climate Governance

156

The Politics of Asylum

157

Care and Punishment

158

The Limits of Free Speech on Social Media

159

Trump's Legacy and the Biden Presidency

160

Contentious Politics under Covid-19

161

The State of the European Union

162

The Principles of Collective Decision-Making

163

Decolonising the University

164

Survivors of Violence

165

Voter Information

166

The US Elections: What's Next?

167

Views of the Economy

168

Monarchy in Modern Democracy

169

Is Risk Good for Us?

170

Checks and Balances in Democracy