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Colin Bennett's research featured in special issue of Internet Policy Review There is a pervasive assumption that elections can be won and lost on the basis of which candidate or party has the better data on preferences and behaviour of the electorate. But there are myths and realities about data-driven elections. It is time to assess the actual implications of data-driven elections in the light of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, and to reconsider the broader terms of the international debate. Collectively, the articles in this collection signal the necessary questions for academics and regulators in the years ahead.

Oliver Schmidtke presents a year-end interview on CTV highlighting the top international stories of 2019.

Oliver Schmidtke joins CTV News to discuss the impact of the US President and impeachment proceedings on world politics.

Reeta Tremblay joins CTV News to talk about the political tension in India regarding new citizenship laws.

Department of Political Science 2019-20 Speakers Series Schedule FALL TERM SEMINAR: Cricket Keating (U of Washington) "Educating for Coalition: Popular Education and Political Praxis" Friday, September 20, 2:30-4:00pm, DSB, C118 Co-sponsored by Gender Studies https://gwss.washington.edu/people/cricket-keating) BOOK LAUNCH: Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani & Satwinder Bains (eds.), Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories Thursday, October 10, 3-4:30pm, SEDG C168 Co-sponsored by Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives https://www.ubcpress.ca/unmooring-the-komagata-maru BOOK LAUNCH: Michelle Bonner Tough on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America Tuesday, October 15, 1-2pm, SEDG C168 Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945826/ Lansdowne Lecture: Whitney Lackenbauer (Trent University) Public Lecture “Canada’s North: Learning from the Past, Understanding the Present, Navigating the Future” Tuesday, October 22, 4:30-6:30 pm, ELL 061 Department Seminar “Challenges and Opportunities in Canada’s Fast Changing North” Wednesday, October 23, 2:30-4:30 pm, DSB C118 Public Lecture “The Canadian Rangers and Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty in the 20th and 21st Centuries” (with LCol. Russell Meads, Commanding Officer, 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group) Thursday, October 24, 4:30-6:50 pm, ECS124 Workshop Keynote Roundtable, “Beyond the Boundaries of International Relations: Power, Indigeneity, and the Settler State” Friday, October 25, 12:30-2:00 pm, DTB A318 https://uwaterloo.ca/history/people-profiles/whitney-lackenbauer SEMINAR: Dian Million (U of Washington) Tuesday, November 19, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Location TBA Co-sponsored by CIRCLE SPRING TERM Kathryn Harrison (UBC) Tuesday, February 25, 2:30-4:00pm https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/kathryn-harrison/ Kevin Bruyneel (Babson College) Tuesday, March 17, 2:30-4:00pm Co-sponsored by CIRCLE https://www.babson.edu/academics/faculty/faculty-profiles/kevin-bruyneel.php Lance Bennett (U of Washington) March TBD https://www.com.washington.edu/bennett/