SG's activities in Mainz and Bordeaux 2013

[Kemmerlinga]

Dear group members,

we would like to give you an update of the SG activities next year.

1.) We have successfully proposed a session for the Joint Sessions in
Mainz 2013
Socio-Economic Inequalities and Political Cleavages in Post-Industrial
Societies

Here is what we submitted: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, dualization 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: 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
would 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 deal with both OECD and/or non-OECD countries.
We also invite contributions from adjacent disciplines such as
sociology or economics.

For those of you interested in the session, we will send out a call
for papers asap. For all others, we invite you to make suggestions for
the following joint sessions 2014 and please keep on reading point
2.). For further information see the upcoming ECPR website or contact
me directly.


2.) 'Political Economy' Section at the General Conference in Bordeaux,
September 2013
Since the topic for the joint session is probably for many of you not
of interest, we would like to submit a proposal for section at the
general conference in Bordeaux which is very general. In fact, we
would like to establish a 'Political Economy' section routinely at the
biannual conferences. The section would invite all types of
contributions from a political-econoy perspective: theoretical,
comparative or international. We are going to submit a proposal for
such a section to ECPR. You can help us by suggesting a panel you
might want to organize under the umbrella of such a section. Please
send your suggestions to me directly.

Looking forward to meeting you in either Mainz or Bordeaux next year!

Achim