Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA
For more information, contact Lisa Eschebach at lmeschen@fas.harvard.edu or call the Center for European Studies: 617-495-4303.
The program is also downloadable as a *.pdf
Program
Friday October 7, 2005
1:45 to 3:45pm Federalism and Distributive Politics
Yuriko Takahashi (Cornell) "Dynamic Theory of Electoral Competition and Redistribution: Evidence from Mexico"
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Kristine Mitchell (Princeton) " Trade Unions and EU Politics: Explaining Variation in European Strategies "
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Mike Kellerman (Harvard) "Power Resources Theory and Inequality in the Canadian Provinces"
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Discussant: Jonathan Rodden
3:45-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00-6:00pm The Political Representation of Economic Interests
Torben Iversen and David Soskice, "Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century "
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Jonathan Rodden, "Red States, Blue States, and the Welfare State: Political Geography, Representation, and Government Policy Around the World"
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Vineeta Yadav (Yale) "Comparative Lobbying In Developing Countries: An Empirical Investigation of Lobbying in Brazil and India"
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Discussants: Jonas Pontusson and Frances Rosenbluth
6:30pm Drinks and Dinner
Saturday October 8, 2005
8:45am Coffee and Pastries
9:00-11:00am Inequality and Political Polarization
Jonas Pontusson (Princeton) "Inequality and Partisan Polarization in OECD Countries"
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Ben Ansell (Harvard) "From the Ballot to the Blackboard. Partisan and Institutional Effects on Education Policy in the OECD"
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Nolan McCarty (Princeton) "Income and Polarization of the American Electorate " (based on chapter 3 from new book with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal).
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Discussant: Jim Alt
11:00-11:15am Coffee Break
11:15-1:15pm Explaining Individual Preferences and Beliefs
Ben Goodrich (Harvard) "A Method for Analyzing Survey Data with Political Economy Applications"
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Philipp Rehm (Duke) "Support for the Welfare State: How Income and Risk Shape Redistributional Preferences".
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Sam Abrams (Harvard), "Explaining Preferences for Participation in Elections"
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Discussant: Ken Scheve
1:15-2:30pm Lunch
2:30-4:30pm Democracy, Redistribution and the Global Economy
Jennifer Tobin (Yale) "Interest Groups, Political Investments, and Property Rights in Developing Countries"
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Kevin Morrison (Duke) "Oil, Non-Tax Revenue, and Regime Stability: The Political Resource Curse Reexamined"
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Jessica Xu (Yale) "Globalization and Democratization: Does International Trade Till the Soil for Democracy?"
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Discussants: Torben Iversen and David Soskice