Seminars in Politics and Society
Seminars in Politics and Society
Seminars in Politics and Society Karen A. Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)
"Family Policy Shifts and the Creation of a Market for Domestic and Care Work in Germany" abstract The introduction of tax credits for purchases of personal, household, and most recently elderly care services is aimed both at supporting dual-earner households and creating jobs in household services. In this talk, recent shifts in German family policy…
Seminars in Politics and Society Isabela Mares (Columbia University)
"Vote-buying and coercion in elections: experimental evidence from Eastern Europe"
Seminars in Politics and Society Robert Hancke (LSE)
"The missing link: Labour unions, central banks and monetary integration in Europe" Abstract This paper examines the problems of the single currency in light of the organization of labour relations in the member-states and their interaction with monetary policies. Continental (western) Europe consists of two very different systems of employment and labour relations, roughly coinciding…
Seminars in Politics and Society Angela Garcia Calvo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Institutions and upgrading strategies in the global economy: a comparative analysis of Spain and Korea" abstract This talk presents the preliminary argument of a book that examines the roles of states and large firms in fostering economic upgrading in the context of late industrialising, advanced, but not world-leading economies. The empirical analysis is based on…
Seminars in Politics and Society Carol Mershon
"Formal Modeling for Substantive Social Research: The Place of Narratives in Linking Theory to Models" abstract This talk grows out of Mershon's book manuscript, _Formal Modeling for Substantive Research_, co-authored with Olga Shvetsova. The talk and the book focus on the methodology of using formal models as a systematic component in research design in political…
Seminars in Politics and Society Tina Miller (Oxford Brookes University)
"Falling back into Gender? Men's Narratives and Practices around First-time Fatherhood"
Seminars in Politics and Society Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)
"Explaining variation of EU effectiveness in international development negotiations" abstract This article analyses the role played by the European Union in the changing development architecture, focusing on the negotiation and conclusion of four high-level forums on aid effectiveness, held in Rome (2003), Paris (2005), Accra (2008) and Busan (2011). Drawing on published and unpublished material and…
Seminars in Politics and Society Vasillis Monastiriotis
"The Greek euro-crisis: between government failure and failed government" abstract The presentation seeks to provide an analytical account of the Greek crisis that goes beyond simple and partial explanations of the crisis, which typically focus selectively either on domestic problems and weaknesses (fiscal laxity, corruption, weak administrative capacities, reform resistance) or on external and systemic…
Seminars in Politics and Society Lucinda Fonseca (Lisbon University)
"Feedback in international migration: Brazilian and Ukrainian migration to Portugal" abstract After the remarkable migration inflows that occurred during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Brazilians and Ukrainians became the two largest foreign nationalities present in Portugal. Since then, there has been a stabilisation and a recent decline of the flow. While the economic crisis…
Seminars in Politics and Society Denish Walsh and Carol Mershon
"Strategies for Diversifying Academe: Redressing Bias against Women and Minority Scholars in the Social Science Professions"
Seminars in Politics and Society Rinke Bax (European Central Bank)
"The European Central Bank’s role in the Single Supervisory Mechanism as part of the Banking Union" Abstract On 4 November 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) took up its supervisory tasks as part of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The presentation will focus on the ECB’s role in the SSM and the exercise of its supervisory…
Seminars in Politics and Society Rinus Penninx (University of Amsterdam)
"European Cities and their Migrant Integration Policies"
Seminars in Politics and Society Karel Williams (University of Manchester)
"The end of the experiment? From competition to the foundational economy"
Seminars in Politics and Society Etienne Ollion (University de Strasbourg – CNRS)
"The Superiority of Economists" AbstractIn this essay, we investigate the dominant position of economics within the network of the social sciences in the United States. We begin by documenting the relative insularity of economics, using bibliometric data. Next we analyze the tight management of the field from the top down, which gives economics its characteristic hierarchical structure. Economists also…
Seminars in Politics and Society Josef Hien (EUI)
"Tax Evasion in Italy: A God-given right?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Giulia Dotti Sani (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Increasingly unequal. The economic crisis, trust in institutions and social inequalities in six peripheral European countries" abstract The 2008-09 economic crisis has been identified as an important element contributing to declining trust in institutions in Europe and other countries. However, it is unclear whether the decline in trust is distributed homogenously among citizens, or whether…
Seminars in Politics and Society Marcy Carlson (University of Wisconsin)
"Fathers Unequal: U.S. Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change" Abstract While major changes in U.S. family demography—and their growing divergence by socioeconomic status—have received notable attention, less well understood is the extent to which the nature and implications of family change may differ between men and women, mothers and…
Seminars in Politics and Society Sebastien Lechevalier (CRJ-EHESS, Paris)
"Revisiting cross-national variations in preference for redistribution. Attitudes to inequalities, social beliefs, and welfare systems" abstract There are significant differences across countries in terms of redistribution by the government and they may correspond to underlying dissimilarities in preference for redistribution across the population of these countries. In particular, previous literature has compared the US and…
Seminars in Politics and Society David Coen (UCL)
"Lobbying the EU"
Seminars in Politics and Society Nicole Scicluna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Journey to the centre of the EU: Does Europe have a core, and does it matter?" abstract What kind of ‘core’, if any, does Europe have? This question has gained new urgency in light of the EU’s ongoing crises, which are reshaping the integration project and leading to a renewal of political discourses around the…