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

Energy and Environment

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

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).