The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Friday, 3 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


TH13-01
No More Meltzer-Richard
The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Discussant: Steven Sprick Schuster, Colgate University
Session Organizer: Lucy Barnes, N/A
Moderator: Lucy Margaret Goodhart, Brandeis University

Participants:
Insurance or Redistribution Motives? Behaviors and Beliefs in the Welfare State
Henning Finseraas, Institute for social research
The Redistributive Preferences of the Well-Off
Elvire Guillaud, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (CES); Michael Zemmour, Sciences Po (LIEPP)
Life-Course Income Curves in the Era of Middle Class Retrenchment, 1970-2011: Has Aggregate Income Stagnation Coincided with Individual Income Stagnation?
Edo Navot, Columbia University

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


TH13-02
No More Material Interests
The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Discussant: Ignacio Jurado, University of York
Session Organizer: Lucy Barnes, N/A
Moderator: Deborah Mabbett, Birkbeck

Participants:
Disentangling Preferences for Multi-Dimensional Policies: A Conjoint Experiment
Paul Marx, University of Southern Denmark; Jose Fernandez-Alberto, Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos; Aina Gallego, Institut de Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
Opportunity Matters: Inequity-Aversion and Attitudes Towards Redistribution in Europe and the United States
Bastian Becker, Central European University
Whose News? How Economic News Responds to the Distribution of Gains and Losses
Timothy Hicks, N/A; Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia; Scott Matthews, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Eric Merkley, University of British Columbia

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


TH13-03
Predistributive Institutions and Policies
The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Discussant: Aidan Regan, School of Politics, University College Dublin
Session Organizer: Lucy Barnes, N/A
Moderator: Timothy Hicks, N/A

Participants:
Equal Opportunities for All? the Politics of School Choice and the Divided Middle Class
Charlotte Haberstroh, European University Institute
Partisanship, Teacher Unionism, and the Politics of Education Reform in Advanced Democracies: Comparing Institutional Change in Finland, Denmark, and Sweden, 1980-95.
David Neil Lopez, University of Washington
Post-Corporatist Equality Policy: The Role of Minimum Wages
Deborah Mabbett, Birkbeck
Individual-Level Preferences for Social Investments Vs. Social Transfers: New and Old Trade-Offs in European Welfare States
Marius Busemeyer, University of Konstanz

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


TH13-04
The Electoral and Partisan Politics of Inequality
The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Discussant: Elvire Guillaud, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (CES)
Session Organizer: Lucy Barnes, N/A
Moderator: Marius Busemeyer, University of Konstanz

Participants:
Common Shocks, Divergent Consequences: The Political Economy of Housing Bubbles
Aidan Regan, School of Politics, University College Dublin
Do Majoritarian Electoral Systems Lead to Lower Social Spending? the Effect of Recipients' Geographic Concentration
Ignacio Jurado, University of York; Sandra Leon, University of York
Beyond the Cartel: The Fall and Rise of Pro-Equality Political Parties?
Jonathan Hopkin, London School of Economics
Gridlock: Income Inequality and Party Infighting
David Barrett, Trinity College Dublin; Liam Kneafsey, Trinity College Dublin

Saturday, 4 July 2015

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10:15 AM-11:45 AM


TH13-05
Inequality in the USA
The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Discussant: Henning Finseraas, Institute for social research
Session Organizer: Lucy Barnes, N/A
Moderator: Jonathan Hopkin, London School of Economics

Participants:
Where Is the Political Response to Inequality in the US?
Lucy Margaret Goodhart, Brandeis University
What We Talk about When We Talk about Campaign Spending
Steven Sprick Schuster, Colgate University
Media Ownership and the Tone of News Coverage of Labour Unions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Liam Kneafsey, Trinity College Dublin