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How does the quality of US elections compare globally?

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022 by Pierre Bocquillon
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Here’s a mini-Vlog lecture briefing by UEA Prof Toby James ahead of the 2022 November mid-terms. Key points: There is a long history of problems with US elections dating back to the foundation of the Republic.The US is middle ranking when compared internationally – and 16th amongst the Americas.Electoral Integrity…
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Trump’s white nationalist coalition and the mid-term elections

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 by Editor
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Professor Lee Marsden writes on Trump’s white nationalist coalition and the mid-term elections. The midterm elections in America will determine who controls the House and Senate for the next two years. Republicans and Democrats alike are declaring these elections as the most important in of this generation with the stakes high.…
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Fire and Fury: UEA staff and students react

February 6, 2018February 15, 2018 by Editor
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Michael Wolff's book 'Fire and Fury', which provides an inside story of Donald Trump's Whitehouse, set headlines around the world when it was published.  A range of bombshell claims were made about how policy was made, Trump's approach to the Presidency and Donald Trump himself. A fierce debate followed.  The…
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The Trump Guide to Digging Yourself Out of a Hole

October 27, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin
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A satirical take on the way Trump handles PR crises in the style of Machiavelli's The Prince. We all do it from time to time, or maybe more often than that. We dig ourselves into a hole. Well folks, here’s how to handle it. First, don’t even think about stopping…
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Do Brexit and Trump show that we’re living in a computer simulation?

March 14, 2017February 15, 2018 by Editor
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Michael Frazer, from the University of East Anglia considers whether the world is just an illusion after all. Recent political events have turned the world upside down. The UK voting for Brexit and the US electing Donald Trump as president were unthinkable 18 months ago. In fact, they’re so extraordinary…
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Does Protest Make a Difference?

February 10, 2017 by Editor
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Prof Alan Finlayson from the UEA, Dr Rupert Read from the Green Party and David Moreland from UKIP discussed the anti-Trump protests on This Week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKurJmOWOE
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President Trump’s Travel Ban: Lessons from the United Kingdom?

February 7, 2017June 14, 2017 by Editor
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Lee Jarvis explores President Trump's travel ban in the context of the British counter-terrorism experience On Friday 27 January, President Trump signed his Executive Order introducing a series of 'extreme vetting' measures whose provisions include prohibiting travel to the United States from seven, predominantly Muslim, states- Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen,…
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