The Politics of Egalitarian Policy

Friday, 3 July 2015

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:
The Redistributive Preferences of the Well-Off
Elvire Guillaud, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (CES); Michael Zemmour, Sciences Po (LIEPP)

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
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:

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
Gridlock: Income Inequality and Party Infighting
David Barrett, Trinity College Dublin; Liam Kneafsey, Trinity College Dublin

Saturday, 4 July 2015

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