Prof. Kathryn Harrison comments on the changes to the Conservative party’s climate change solutions
“[The Conservatives] are adopting policies that speak on behalf of their core voters, about a third of Canadians who oppose carbon pricing,” said Dr Kathryn Harrison. According to her, conservatives’ aversion is really about the carbon price: “It’s about protecting the status quo and the fossil fuel industry.”
Watch: Dr. Abbey Steele: Rebel Governance and Post-conflict Political Participation
The UBC Department of Political Science’s Distinguished Speaker Series hosted Professor Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam), for her talk titled, “Rebel Governance and Post-conflict Political Participation” on Monday, January 31, 2022.
Silencing backbenchers was O’Toole’s downfall, Professor Emeritus Richard Johnston says
“[Erin O’Toole] was bleeding support,” said Johnston. “This is the most brutal ousting and the most sudden, ever.”
Prof. Paul Quirk says California’s decision to vote down universal healthcare about state issue rather than national trends
“Establishing universal health care at the state level was a bridge too far, even for many California liberals,” Prof. Paul Quirk said. “The state already has some of the most severe fiscal challenges in the country, dealing with homelessness, opioids, fires, floods, COVID-19, job losses, crime.”
Prof. Yves Tiberghien: Japan slams the borders shut on Omicron
“As COVID-19’s Omicron variant surges around the world, advanced democracies are generally responding vigorously but with lower levels of restrictions on social life and travel than in 2020 and 2021. Japan has chosen a different course.” Prof Yves Tiberghien and Saya Soma (University of Waterloo) write in East Asia Forum
Congratulations to Alumni Builder Award winners Greg Eidsness and Henry Han
Greg and Henry’s dedication to support students started with the Tri-Mentoring program. Their desire to showcase political science graduates inspired a policy careers boot camp for students. This later led to a course bringing alumni into the classroom each week and is now a model others in Arts are considering.
Honours graduates co-publish new paper on the missing global governance capacity around AI acceleration with Prof. Yves Tiberghien
A new working paper presented by Professor Yves Tiberghien and Honours graduates Danielle Luo and Panthea Pourmalek evaluates pathways to acknowledge the governance gap surrounding digital and AI acceleration.
Prof. Kathryn Harrison: The climate crisis demands courage not optimism
“Climate change is here, and it’s going to get worse. But how much worse is up to us. It’s time to move past seeking reassurance from others, to instead ask ourselves what we, as citizens, are going to do about it,” Prof. Kathryn Harrison writes in The Conversation.
Prof. Katharina Coleman’s Global Observatory article listed on 2021 Editor Choice’s list
Katharina P. Coleman’s article on where UN peacekeeping is headed looked at “downsizing survivor syndrome” amid the prolonged contraction in UN peace operations.
Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Congratulations to UBC Political Science Professor Yang-Yang Zhou, who was awarded $50,000 through the SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her book project, “Rejecting Coethnicity: The Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens.”