Dear all,
this is just a reminder for the Joint Sessions Mainz, Paper submission
(see below). The deadline is 5th of November. We hope to see many of
you there. Please help us by forwarding the email to anyone who might
be interested in this.
Best
AK
ECPR workshop on Socio-Economic Inequalities and Political Cleavages
in Post-Industrial Societies at the Joint Sessions, Mainz, March
11th-16th 2013.
Link:
http://new.ecprnet.eu/Events/PanelList.aspx?EventID=7
Workshop Directors:
Silja Haeusermann
University of Zurich
Achim Kemmerling
Central European University
Jose Fernandez-Albertos
Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Marcia Taylor
ECPR Central Services
Abstract:
The workshop will address three questions: first, what are the major
(new) socio-economic divides in post-industrial societies? Second,
under what conditions, by whom and how are these divides politically
mobilized? And third, to what extent do these political differences
lead to changing dynamics in major areas of welfare state policy? The
workshop taps into a very prolific field of the comparative political
economy of welfare states in recent years: labour market segmentation,
dualisation and insider-outsider divides, new social risks, and new
political conflict lines in welfare state politics.
Even though these ideas have spread widely in the discipline, this
emerging strand of research still faces major theoretical and
empirical challenges that we would like to address in this workshop.
Some examples suffice to show this: What are the theoretical
implications of cleavage lines that are endogenous to the politics of
welfare states? How do we measure these cleavages? When and how do
these cleavages get translated into politics? And how do these
cleavages affect traditional insurance- and redistribution-based
politics? The workshop will thereby contribute to establishing the
terms of this ongoing and rapidly growing debate in the literature.
The workshop invites theoretical and empirical (preferably
comparative) contributions which deal with some of these theoretical
or empirical problems. We encourage contributions that deal with both
OECD or non-OECD countries. We also invite contributions from adjacent
disciplines such as sociology or economics.