Political Science Research Seminar Our Political Science Research Seminar serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in Political Science. All members of the SEPS and the Political Science community are invited and encouraged to attend. Research Seminar Political Science SPRING Semester 2022 dates time Presenter Title Tuesday, 22 Feb 10:00hrs - 11:00hrs Sarah Bütikofer University of Zurich ONLINE "DeFacto: The knowledge transfer platform of the Swiss political sciences" Tuesday, 1 March 10:00hrs - 11:00hrs Oliver Westerwinter , SEPS-HSG ONLINE "Hierarchy, Differentiation, and Inter-Institutional Collaboration in the Regime Complex for Global Private Security Governance" Tuesday, 8 March 10:00hrs - 11:00hrs Lucia Quaglia University of Bologna ONLINE "The Perils of International Regime Complexity in Shadow Banking: The Case of Securitization" Tuesday, 15 March 10:00hrs - 11:00hrs Nora Keller SEPS-HSG Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120) or ONLINE "From Guns to Roses: Conceptualizing Nonviolent Action as a Rebel Strategy" Tuesday, 22 March 10:00hrs - 11:00hrs CANCELLED Tuesday, 29 March 10:00hrs-11:00hrs CANCELLED Tuesday, 5 April 10:00hrs-11:00hrs semester break Tuesday, 12 April 10:00hrs-11:00hrs semester break Tuesday, 19 April 10:00hrs- 11:00hrs Ciaran O'Flynn SEPS-HSG HSG Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120) "Power Politics in the Taxation of Transnational Corporations" Tuesday, 26 April 10:00hrs-11:00hrs Nargiz Hajiyeva SEPS-HSG Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120) "The Politicization of Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Karabakh" Tuesday, 3 May 10:00hrs-11:00hrs Marcel Hanegraaff University of Amsterdam Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120) "Does climate advocacy matter? The importance of competing interest groups for national climate policies" Tuesday, 10 May 10:00hrs-11:00hrs Ken Opalo Guest Professor SEPS Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120) "The Contingent Electoral Impacts of Programmatic Policies: Evidence From Education Reforms in Tanzania" Tuesday, 17 May 10:00hrs-11:00hrs Lisa Lechner University of Innsbruck Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120) "Scaling multilingual political and legal corpora when mastering only one language: A how-to for cross-language dictionary creation" Tuesday, 24 May 10:00hrs-11:00hrs Amy Pond Technical University of Munich Müller-Friedberg-Strasse on the 5th Floor (Room 52-5120)