J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Friday, June 24, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


J-01
New Perspectives: New Framing, New Nuance.
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Charlie Eaton, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology

Participants:
Fresh Cracks in the Divided Welfare State: Student Loans and the Emergence of New Higher Education Policy Coalitions in the U.S.
Charlie Eaton, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology
Reconceptualizing the Welfare State. an Empirical Investigation of the Growing Symbiosis and Contradiction with Capitalism in Rich European Democracies.
Bea Cantillon, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp
Social Return on Investment (SROI) Methodology to Account for Value for Money of Health Interventions: The Case of the Psoriasis in Spain
Alvaro Hidalgo-Vega, Castilla-La Mancha University; Luz Maria Pena-Longobardo, Castilla-La Mancha University

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


J-02
Recently Developing Welfare States
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Alexander Hicks, Emory University

Participants:
Conditionality, Austerity and Welfare: Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Welfare in Italy and Korea
Stefano Sacchi, University of Milan; Jungho Roh, Yonsei University
Brazilian Welfare: Achievements and Risks
Kleber Chagas Cerqueira, University of Brasilia

Saturday, June 25, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


J-03
Public Insurance
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Rebecca Elliott, UC Berkeley

Participants:
Flood Fight: Classification Claims, Flood Insurance, and the American Welfare State
Rebecca Elliott, UC Berkeley
Taking Stock of Welfare State Convergence – Post-Industrial Changes in Risk Compensation and Social Investment in 21 OECD Countries
Janis Vossiek, University of Konstanz
Changing Retirement Patterns in Turkey: Case of Municipal and Metal Sector Workers
Asya Saydam, Bogazici University

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


J-04
Business Cycle, Crisis and Welfare State
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Edward Crowley, New York University

Participants:
Public Support for the American Welfare State before, during, and after the Great Recession
Joshua R. Bruce, Duke University
Rethinking Activation. State-Subsidized Employment for Long-Term Unemployed Persons in Germany
Philipp Ramos Lobato, Institute for Employment Research (IAB); Andreas Hirseland, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Rhetoric of Retrenchment: The Discursive Construction of American Fiscal Crisis
Edward Crowley, New York University

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


J-05
Redistribution and Inequality
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Takayuki Sakamoto, University of Kitakyushu

Participants:
Productivity, Human Capital Investment Policy, and Redistribution: Do Government Policies Promote Productivity?
Takayuki Sakamoto, University of Kitakyushu
Decentralisation, Economic Inequality and Insurgency
Bharti Nandwani, PhD student
Social Europe Vs. Liberal America? Inequality and (non-)Coordinated Policy Making in Europe
Michael Baggesen Klitgaard, University of Southern Denmark; Melike Wulfgramm, University of Southern Denmark

4:15 PM-5:45 PM


J-06
Welfare States and Labor Markets
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Frank Bauer, IAB

Participants:
The Effect of Sanctions on Stigma Consciousness
Stefanie Unger, Institute for Employment Research; Thomas Gurr, Leibniz University Hannover
Publicly Subsidized Employment and Assistance By Social Workers. Last Resort for Long-Term Unemployed without Realistic Chances of Labor Market Integration?
Frank Bauer, IAB
Does the Organization of Capital No Longer Matter? Employers and Active Labor Market Policy in the 21st Century
Axel Cronert, Department of Government, Uppsala University
The Political Economy of Low Skills in Coordinated Market Economies
Niccolo Durazzi, Department of Social Policy, LSE; Leonard Geyer, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bamberg

Sunday, June 26, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


J-07
Taxation
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Michal Koreh, University of Haifa

Participants:
The Micro-Foundation and Macro-Manifestation of the Eco-Welfare State: The Case of Public Healthcare and Environmental Taxation in 22 OECD Countries (1985-2010)
Ke Meng, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University; Chuanshen Qin, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Let Them Eat Cake? Inequality and Public Attitudes Towards Progressive Taxation
Sarah Berens, University of Cologne; Margarita Gelepithis, University of East London
Spending and Taxing: Towards a Fiscal Centred Perspective in Social Policy Research
Michal Koreh, University of Haifa; Daniel Beland, University of Saskatchewan

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


J-08
Institutional and Neoliberal Constraints
J: Rethinking the Welfare State

Moderator: Asa Maron, Stanford University

Participants:
Governing Risky Childhoods: How Neoliberal Governance Prescriptions Rule out Social Rights
Asa Maron, Stanford University
Fiscal Policy Investment Rule: Constitutional Analysis
Erkki Antero Siivonen, University of Tampere
The Politics of Organising Private Social Protection – Individualising or Socialising Welfare Responsibility?
Pieter Tuytens, London School of Economics