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First Person Political: Legislative Life and the Meaning of Public Service
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The Courts and Public Opinion
A new Syracuse University institute, co-sponsored by Maxwell, will study how media, politics, and the judiciary sometimes collide and sometimes collude.
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J. Paul Goode | Rallying or Normalizing? War and Sanctions in Putin's Russia
Eggers Hall, 341
Drawing from analysis of Russian broadcast transcripts (2022-2025), J. Paul Goode (Carleton University) argues that the Kremlin seeks to normalize war and sanctions rather than rallying support.
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Seva Gunitsky | Autocratic Resilience in the Age of AI
Eggers Hall, 341
Seva Gunitsky (Univ. of Toronto) will discuss three AI governance strategies—panopticism, discourse management and agency alignment—and link them to old institutional tradeoffs in closed regimes.
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Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato
Virtual
Ezequiel González-Ocantos (Oxford Univ.) will discuss how the transnational bribery investigation spread throughout Latin America, paralyzed economies, upended elections and collapsed governments.