Friday 8 May

10:00 -- 11:00

Coffee & Registration

11:00 -- 12:30

The Politics of Inequality

What Changes Inequality, and What Does Inequality Change?
Vicious and Virtuous Cycles

Ronald Rogowski (UCLA)

The Structure of Inequality and Demand for Redistribution

Noam Lupu (Princeton University) & Jonas Pontusson (Princeton University)

Inequality and Labor Market Coordination in the Early 20th Century

Pablo Beramendi (Duke University) & David Rueda (University of Oxford)

Chair: Nancy Bermeo (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Thomas Pluemper (University of Essex)

12:30 -- 14:00

Lunch

14:00 -- 15:30

Experimental Approaches to Inequality

The Behavioral Foundations of Social Politics: An Experimental Approach

Benjamin Barber (Duke University), Pablo Beramendi (Duke University), & Erik Wibbels (Duke University)

The Singer not the Song?:
Evidence From a Field Experiment in British Columbia, on the impact of Leaders and the Messages they Convey

Torun Dewan (LSE), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University), & Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson University)

Democratic Inequality and the Economic Vote

Ray Duch (University of Oxford) & Philip Rehm (University of Oxford)

Chair: TBC

Discussant: Meredith Rolfe (University of Oxford)

15:30 -- 16:00

Coffee

16:00 -- 17:30

Efficiency, Redistribution and Reform

Privatization in Europe:
Systemic Left-Wing Strength, Power Resources, and Productive Efficiency

Tim Hicks (University of Oxford)

Coordinated Capitalism in the United Kingdom:
Wage Bargaining and British Social Democracy

Mark Wickham-Jones (University of Bristol)

Street Protests and the Politics of Reform

Johannes Lindvall (University of Oxford) [contact directly for paper]

Chair: David Rueda (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Jonas Pontusson (Princeton University)

17:30 -- 18:30

Reception

19:00

Dinner (by invitation only)

Saturday 9 May

8:30 -- 9:00

Coffee

9:00 -- 10:30

International Political Economy of Redistribution

Tax Competition, Fiscal Policies and Income Redistribution:
A Simultaneous Equation Model

Thomas Pluemper (University of Essex) and Vera Troeger (University of Essex)

A Political-Institutional Model of Real Exchange Rates,
Competitiveness,and the Division of Labor

Torben Iversen (Harvard University) & David Soskice (Duke University and University of Oxford)

The Institutional Dimensions of High-Skilled Immigration Policy Changes

Lucie Cerna (University of Oxford)

Chair: Pablo Beramendi (Duke University)

Discussants: Philipp Rehm (University of Oxford) and Johannes Lindvall (University of Oxford)

10:30 -- 11:00

Coffee

11:00 -- 12:30

Individual Preferences and Distributive Politics

Core Voters or Swing Voters?
The Distributive Politics of Higher Education Spending

Timo Idema (University of Oxford)

Testing Models of Distributive Politics Using Exit Polls to Measure Voter Preferences and Partisanship

Valentino Larcinese (LSE), James M. Snyder, Jr (MIT), & Cecilia Testa (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Electoral Incentives, Group Identity, and Preferences for Redistribution

Francesc Amat (University of Oxford) & Erik Wibbels (Duke University)

Chair: Johannes Lindvall (University of Oxford)

Discussant: James Alt (Harvard University)