Unequal Democracies Seminar 2017-2018

Papers will be posted here at least two weeks before each seminar.

Fall  2017 

December 12: 12.15-14.00, M3220
David Rueda (Oxford), “Income, identity and voting: Redistribution preferences and immigration in Western Europe.”

Spring 2018 

February 22: 14.15-16.00, Room M4050
"Pattern of direct taxation in affluent democracies"
Elvire Guillaud (Sorbonne) and Michaël Zemmour (Lille 1 and LIEPP-Sciences Po)

March 8: 14.15-16.00, Room M4050 
"Government of the people, by the elite, for the rich? Unequal responsiveness in Germany."
Armin Schäfer (Osnabrück)

March 22: 14.15-16.00, Room M4050
“Descriptive misrepresentation by social class: Do voter preferences matter?”
Reto Wüest and Jonas Pontusson (UniGe)

April 26:  14.15-16.00, Room M4050
“Technological change, inequality and political behavior: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey”
Aina Gallego (Pompeu Fabra)

May 17: 14.15-16.00, Room M4050 Canceled
"Information and financialization: Credit markets as a new source of inequality."
Torben Iversen (Harvard)

May 31: 14.15-16.00, Room 3220
"Between Welfare-State Retrenchment and Welfare Chauvinism: Social Policy Outcomes of Government Participation by Radical Right Parties."
Juliana Chueri (University of Geneva)

June 12: 14.15-16.00, Room 4393
"Affluence and Congruence"
Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt University)