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21mar201914:30Nation, Class, and Parties: The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities in Imperial AustriaKristina Zuber (University of Konstanz)14:30 Activity:IPERG seminar
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Joint seminar with Political Sciences Department Room 1037, 690 Building Abstract: Under what circumstances does nationalist mobilization dominate over class-based mobilization in legislative elections? This paper draws on the nationalism and inequality, [...]
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Joint seminar with Political Sciences Department
Room 1037, 690 Building
Abstract: Under what circumstances does nationalist mobilization dominate over class-based mobilization in legislative elections? This paper draws on the nationalism and inequality, ethnic politics, and party politics literatures to argue that nationalist parties are not mere reflections of pre-existing societal structures, but actively create support by linking political issues to group identities in their electoral campaigns. We test this expectation on a case of mass mobilization in a multinational, industrializing society: the first elections to the Imperial Austrian parliament following the full implementation of universal manhood suffrage (1907 and 1911). This analysis combines district-level electoral and demographic data on the ethno-linguistic and socio-economic composition of the electorate with an original data-set that assesses German and Czech parties’ issue claims and appeals to group identities, based on the systematic content analysis of historical programmatic and electoral documents. On this basis, the project contributes to our understanding of the causal relationship between social heterogeneity and party strategies in fostering nationalist versus class mobilization.
Speaker
Kristina Zuber (University of Konstanz)
Time
(Thursday) 14:30
Location
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona
Avda. Diagonal 690, Barcelona
28may201914:30TBA-Joan LlullJoan Llull (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)14:30 Activity:IEB seminar
31may201912:30TBA-Rafael LaliveRafael Lalive (University of Lausanne)12:30 Activity:AQR-IREA seminar
Activity:
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All
Actuarial and Financial Modelling seminar
AQR-IREA seminar
Career Services activities
Càtedra Pasqual Maragall seminar
Chair of Energy Sustainability-IEB seminar
Conference
Economic History seminar
Economic Theory Internal Seminar
Economic Theory seminar
Ernest Lluch seminar
Game Theory and Economic Dynamics seminar
GiM seminar
IEB recruitment seminar
IEB seminar
IEBE seminar
IPERG seminar
IREA seminar
Jean Monnet debates
MSc activity
OAP seminar
OAP-UB Symposium
Other activities
Pensions and Insurance seminar
PhD activity
PhD seminar
Recruitment seminar
Riskcenter seminar
Riskcenter-IREA seminar
Special seminar
Summer School
Symposium
Thesis defence
UBZurich Chair seminar
Workshops
17jan201914:30Labor Unions and Unequal RepresentationMichael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)14:30 Activity:IPERG seminar
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Room 1037, 690 Building Abstract: Recent research has documented that lawmakers are more responsive to the views of the affluent than to the less well-off. This raises the important question of whether [...]
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Room 1037, 690 Building
Abstract: Recent research has documented that lawmakers are more responsive to the views of the affluent than to the less well-off. This raises the important question of whether there are institutions that can limit unequal representation. We argue that labor unions play this role and we provide evidence from the contemporary U.S. House of Representatives. Our extensive dataset combines a novel measure of district-level union strength, drawn from 350,000 administrative records, with income-specific measures of constituency preferences based on 223,000 survey respondents matched to 27 roll-call votes. Exploiting within-district variation in preference polarization, within-state variation in union strength and rich data on confounds, our analysis rules out a host of alternative explanations. In contrast to the view that unions have become too weak or fragmented to matter, they significantly dampen unequal responsiveness: a standard deviation increase in union membership increases legislative responsiveness towards the poor by approximately 9 percentage points.
Speaker
Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)
Time
(Thursday) 14:30
Location
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona
Avda. Diagonal 690, Barcelona
27nov201812:00Turbulències i tribulacions. Els anys de les retalladesAlbert Carreras de Odriozola (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)12:00 Activity:Other activities
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Event Details
Sala de Graus Ernest Lluch, 690 Building
Presentation of the book Turbulències i tribulacions. Els anys de les retallades (Edicions 62), co-authored by Andreu Mas-Colell and Ivan Planas.
Speaker
Albert Carreras de Odriozola (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Time
(Tuesday) 12:00
Location
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona
Avda. Diagonal 690, Barcelona