Name: Professor Desmond King
University of Oxford
https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/desmond-king.html

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 6 November 2018

Beyond the Border: The Implications of Brexit for Ireland
Date: 6 November 2018, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr Martin Mansergh (former Irish government minister and special advisor), Mark Durkan (former deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland), Denis Staunton (Irish Times London Editor), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Professor Kalypso Nicolaїdis (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Barry Colfer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Professor Michael Keating: The Fractured Union. State and Nation in the United Kingdom
Date: 4 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Archie Brown (University of Oxford), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Professor Stephen Whitefield (University of Oxford), Professor Michael Keating (Aberdeen)
Venue Details: Delivered via Zoom
Organiser: Professor Stephen Whitefield (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 February 2025

The US election: what happened there and what happens now?
Date: 10 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Peter Hyman ((Senior Advisor to Keir Starmer 2022 – 2024, Strategist to PM Tony Blair, Co-founder of School 21)), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Jon Sopel ((former North America editor of BBC News, co-host of The News Agents))
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 30 May 2017

‘Propaganda and Nation Building: Evidence from Rwanda’
Date: 30 May 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Sharun Mukand (Warwick University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 October 2017

'Victorian Voting: Party Orientation and Class Alignment Revisited'
Date: 17 October 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Janne Tukiainen (VATT Institute for Economic Research)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Professor Geoffrey Evans (University of Oxford), Dr Elias Dinas (Brasenose College), Dr Sergi Pardos-Prado​​​​​ (Merton College)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 November 2017

Let Them Eat Credit: Urban-Rural Biases and the Politics of Sovereign Default
Date: 2 November 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Cameron Ballard-Rosa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler room
Organisers: Professor Jane Gingrich (DPIR), Professor David Rueda (Imperial College London), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 November 2017

Democratic Drain: Emigration and Democratization in the Middle East
Date: 9 November 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Justin Gest (George Mason University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay room
Organisers: Professor David Rueda (DPIR, Oxford), Professor Jane Gingrich (DPIR), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Everybody loves a winner: A field experiment providing information on polls in South Africa
Date: 14 November 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kate Orkin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 November 2017

Rewarding Merit or Luck? The Competency Signal in Comparative Perspective
Date: 23 November 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Daniela Campello (Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE), Cesar Zucco Jr (Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler room
Organisers: Professor David Rueda (DPIR, Oxford), Professor Jane Gingrich (DPIR), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 November 2017

Prior Beliefs and Arguments: The Micro-Mechanisms of Attitude Certainty and Attitude Change in Deliberative Settings
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Attitudes towards Killing in War
Date: 13 February 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Mobile Phone Ownership and Civic Engagement: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Date: 27 February 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 March 2018

Rewarding Merit or Luck? Electoral Accountability in Comparative Perspective
Date: 6 March 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker s: Professor Daniela Campello (FGV/ EBAPE), Professor Cesar Zucco (FGV/ EBAPE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution
Date: 24 April 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Howard Lavine (University of Minnesota)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution
Date: 24 April 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Howard Lavine (University of Mimmesota)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 May 2018

When does identity matter for policy change? A theory of descriptive and substantive representation
Date: 1 May 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 May 2018

“Everyday War” : Cyclical Insecurity and the Fragmentation of Violence in Low Intensity Armed Conflict
Date: 8 May 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Milli Lake (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 May 2018

Electoral Consequences of Colonial Invention: Chieftaincy and Distribution in Northern Ghana
Date: 17 May 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Noah Nathan (University of Michigan)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Partisanship, Organizations, and the Cultural Politics of Protest During Trump’s Presidency
Date: 22 May 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Kenneth Andrews (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 May 2018

Recruitment, Rhetoric and Reform: New Labour's Politicians and the Transformation of British Welfare Provision
Date: 29 May 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom O'Grady (UCL)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Identity as an Institution and the Origins of Ethnic Orders
Date: 5 June 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Pepinsky (Cornell University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Identity as an Institution and the Origins of Ethnic Orders
Date: 5 June 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Thomas Pepinsky (Cornell University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 June 2018

The Mass Politics of International Disintegration
Date: 12 June 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 October 2018

Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap
Date: 18 October 2018, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Soledad Prillaman (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: Professor David Rueda (University of Oxford), Professor Jane Gingrich (University of Oxford), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 January 2019

Clarity of Responsibility and Electoral Accountability: Evidence From Local Tax Policy in Denmark
Date: 15 January 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Professor Martin Vinæs Larsen (Aarhus University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 January 2019

Who Cares? Measuring Attitude Strength in a Polarized Environment
Date: 22 January 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Charlotte Cavaillé (Georgetown University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 January 2019

Lord, Peasant … and Tractor? Agricultural Mechanization and Moore’s Thesis
Date: 29 January 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David J Samuels (University of Minnesota)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 February 2019

Kickbacks and Limits on Campaign Donations
Date: 5 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Nelson A. Ruiz (Oxford University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 February 2019

How to measure legislative district compactness if you only know it when you see it
Date: 14 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Gary King (Harvard University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Large Lecture Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 February 2019

Does Gender Stereotyping Affect Women at the Ballot Box? Evidence from Local Elections in California, 1995-2016
Date: 19 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Ethnic Riots and Pro-Social Behavior: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Date: 26 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Anselm Hager (University of Konstanz)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 March 2019

Towards a New Moral Political Economy
Date: 5 March 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Margaret Levi (Stanford University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Large Lecture Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 May 2019

Partisan Politics and Fiscal Policy: (Why) are the left perceived as debt-profligate
Date: 14 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lucy Barnes (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 May 2019

When Does Transparency Improve Performance? Evidence from 23,000 Public Projects in 148 Countries
Date: 21 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ranjit Lall (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2019

Income, Insurance and Support for Redistribution
Date: 4 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Rueda (Nuffield College)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Nuclear Revolutions: How States use Nuclear Weapons in International Politics
Date: 11 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Bell (Univ. of Minnesota)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2019

Government Choices Across Borrowing Instruments
Date: 13 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Layna Mosley (UNC)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Clay Room
Organisers: Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA