OxTalks is Changing
OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Organization, Literacy, and the Rise of Secular Parties (with Kit Rickard)
What are the conditions under which parties with a secularizing platform achieve electoral success? We argue that secularizing parties become electorally competitive when they can rely on civic associations that allow for urban as well as rural access or if they can disseminate their message in the absence of a thick associational network. These paths become available depending on the type of urban settlement in place and on the ability to directly disseminate printed material to potential supporters. To evaluate our argument, we use an analysis of départements within France at the beginning of the Third Republic when republican parties that explicitly intended to secularize education and family law began to participate in competitive elections.
Discussant: Leonardo Carella (Oxford)
This is a hybrid event. If you wish to join the Join Zoom Meeting, please use the following details: us06web.zoom.us/j/81400620216?pwd=ZXdSWGxkWmZ3dmZvM1BVVnJoMnVldz09 Meeting ID: 814 0062 0216 Passcode: 535586
Date:
29 April 2022, 16:00
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre, and online
Speaker:
Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL)
Organising department:
Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organiser contact email address:
andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Politics Research Colloquium
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Holly Omand
