Gadfly

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Vol. 1 (2021)
Published December 1, 2021

Gadfly is the SFU Undergraduate journal for Political Science.

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Gadfly Volume 1

Politics and Governance

Barbora Dalia Hatalova
Pride is Dead, Long Live Pride: A Study of the Commodification of Identity Politics Through an Analysis of Matthew Warchus’ Pride (2014)
Hatalova PDF
Hannah Christensen
Abandoning All Pretense: A Game-Theoretic Model of the Senate Confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett
Christensen PDF
Jonathan Ferguson
On Trust and Good Government: Swedish Trust in Policymakers and Fellow Citizens
Ferguson PDF
Breanna Hamilton
Canada’s Senate: The Need for Reform
Hamilton PDF
Laken Kim
A Political Analysis of the South Korean 1980’s Democracy Movement and Gwangju Uprising
Kim PDF

Feminist Political Thought, Climate Justice, and Public Mental-Health Policy

Tyler Lynch
Necessary but Insufficient: The Rights of Humans and Nature in an Age of Climate Harms
Lynch PDF

Legal Analysis

Colin Schuler Ram
How the Supreme Court of Canada would Rule on TransLink’s Mandatory Mask Policy
Ram PDF
Kirat Gill
Bedford 2.0: Challenging the Constitutionality of Canada’s “New” Sex Work Laws
Gill PDF
Tanya Kuriyedath
Charter Rights in Prison: A Legal Analysis and Prediction of BC and Ontario’s Segregation Cases
Kuriyedath PDF

Political Thought, Ideology, and Modern Chinese Politics

Vincent Paquet
L’idéologie: Mieux comprendre son influence sur l’élection québécoise
Paquet PDF (Français (Canada))
Bianca Verjee
Why Should I Care? Reasons Internalism and Moral Realism: A Reply to Shafer-Landau
Verjee PDF
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          Gadfly is an open-access academic journal, fostering research opportunities for undergraduate students in Political Science and its sub-fields. Undergraduate students are the inheritors of a long scholarly tradition that requires them to participate in the academic discourse through publication. Gadfly, as a medium for scholarly discourse, demands the utmost diligence from contributing students.

          Gadfly works in collaboration with both the SFU Department of Political Science & the SFU Political Science Student Union (PSSU).