PEDD Conference Program 2019

Note: The program might be subject to change.

The detailed conference program can also be downloaded here.

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Conference venue: CIW

Program Time Venue
Registration 12:00 – 18:00h  102
Opening Speech 14:00 – 14:30h SCH2

Plenum I: Keynote Lecture

Martin Paldam: What Do We Know about the Democratic Transition? The Links between Income and the Political System

14:30 – 16:00h SCH2
Coffee Break 16:00 – 16:30h 101
Parallel Sessions A1-A3 16:30 – 18:00h 107, 124, 125

A1 Inequality and Political Transitions

Quentin David, LAURA DUTHILLEUL (LEM CNRS UMR 9221, Lille), Abel Francois

Does economic inequality poison democracy?

Discussant: Rainer Kotschy

 

RAINER KOTSCHY (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich), Uwe Sunde

Income shocks, inequality, and democracy

Discussant: Adilzhan Ismailov

 

Antonio Ciccone, ADILZHAN ISMAILOV (University Pompeu Fabra)

Income inequality and political transitions

Discussant: Laura Duthilleul

 

Session Chair: Adilzhan Ismailov

  107

A2 Varieties of Autocracy

RAUL V. FABELLA (University of the Philippines and NAST)

Dutertismo: The autocrat as solution to the poverty of public goods

Discussant: Sylvia Sztern

 

SYLVIA SZTERN (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Techno-institutional propriety and measurable power - The time and scope of revolution in late imperial Russia

Discussant: Mario Ferrero

 

MARIO FERRERO (University of Eastern Piedmont)

Accidental socialism: A natural experiment in Haiti 1796-1820

Discussant: Raul V. Fabella

 

Session Chair: Mario Ferrero

  124

A3  Terrorism and Domestic Politics

Moamen Gouda, SHIMAA HANAFY (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), Marcus Marktanner

Democracy, Personal Freedom, and Islamic State Fighters

Discussant: Daniel Meierrieks

 

Marc Helbling, DANIEL MEIERRIEKS (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

Transnational terrorism and restrictive immigration policies

Discussant: Anna Nowak

 

ANNA NOWAK (University of Münster)

You failed! Government satisfaction and party preferences facing Islamist terrorism

Discussant: Shimaa Hanafy

 

Session Chair: Anna Nowak

  125

Welcome Reception

Café Gasolin

18:30 – 21:00h

Aegidiistraße 45

 

Friday, March 1, 2019

Conference venue: CIW

Program Time Venue
Registration 08:30 – 18:00h 102

Plenum I: Keynote Lecture

Timothy Besley: The Rise of Identity Politics

09:00 – 10:30h SCH2
Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:00h 101
Parallel Sessions B1 – B4 11:00 – 12:30h 107, 124, 125

B1 Political Stability and Threats to Democracy

RONALD WINTROBE (Western University)

21 reasons and a simple model of why liberal democracy is in decline

Discussant: Felix Roesel

 

Luisa Doerr, Niklas Potrafke, FELIX ROESEL (ifo Institute for Economic Research, Dresden)

Right-wing populists in power

Discussant: Mario R. Gilli

 

MARIO R. GILLI (Bicocca University Milan)

Populism, the backlash against the elites and the malfunctioning of representative democracy

Discussant: Ronald Wintrobe

 

Session Chair: Mario R. Gilli

  SCH2

B2 Democracy, Aid and Development

STEFAN KRUSE (Center for the Study of Democracy, Lüneburg)

Democratic governance, civic engagement and the effect of  foreign aid on population health

Discussant: Katrin Kamin

 

Vanessa A. Boese, KATRIN KAMIN (University of Kiel)

Quadrangulating peace: Democracy, development, trade and conflict

Discussant: Andreas Fuchs

 

ANDREAS FUCHS (Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg and Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Angelika Müller

Democracy and aid donorship

Discussant: Stefan Kruse

 

Session Chair: Andreas Fuchs

  107

B3 Democratic Institutions

Shiyu Bo, LIUCHUN DENG (IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research and University of Jena), Yufeng Sun, Boqun Wang

On intergovernmental communication: A tale of two decentralization reforms

Discussant: Andrea Schneider

 

ANDREA SCHNEIDER (University of Münster)

Policy diffusion and the competition for mobile resources

Discussant: Vincenzo Galasso

 

VINCENZO GALASSO (Bocconi University)

Market reactions to non-violent claim of independence: Evidence from Catalonia

Discussant: Liuchun Deng

 

Session Chair: Vincenzo Galasso

  124

B4 Political Accountability and Redistribution

EDWIN ATILANO ROBLES (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, A.C. (CIDE))

The politics of authoritarian income redistribution

Discussant: Antonio Smith Bravo

 

Michael Dorsch, ANTONIO SMITH BRAVO (Central European University)

Constraining the executive in petrostates

Discussant: Moamen Gouda

 

MOAMEN GOUDA (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), Jerg Gutmann

Are Islamic constitutions bad for minorities?

Discussant: Edwin Atilano Robles

 

Session Chair: Moamen Gouda

 

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Lunch 12:30 – 14:00h Mensa am Aasee
Parallel Sessions C1 – C3 14:00 – 15:30h 107, 124, 125

C1 Political Instability and Leadership Survival

RICHARD JONG-A-PIN (University of Groningen), Shu Yu

Rich or alive? Political (in)stability, political leader selection and economic growth

Discussant: Cosima Meyer

 

COSIMA MEYER (University of Mannheim)

Surviving the aftermath: Understanding how military and political experience affect post-war political leadership survival

Discussant: Lena Gerling

 

LENA GERLING (University of Münster)

Public protests, coups and elections: Evidence from Africa

Discussant: Richard Jong-A-Pin

 

Session Chair: Lena Gerling

  107

C2 State Capacity, Development and the Threat of Conflict

JOHANNES BLUM (ifo Institute for Economic Research)

The impact of democracy’s Third Wave on national defense burdens: Evidence from a spatial panel analysis 1972-2013

Discussant: Sezer Yasar

 

SEZER YASAR (TED University)

Fiscal capacity with accumulating defense activities

Discussant: Antonio Savoia

 

Roberto Ricciuti, ANTONIO SAVOIA (University of Manchester), Kunal Sen

What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Discussant: Johannes Blum

 

Session Chair: Antonio Savoia

  124

C3 Electoral Institutions, Redistribution and Democracy

Sugat Chaturvedi, SABYASACHI DAS (Ashoka University)

Group size and political representation under alternate electoral systems

Discussant: Izaskun Zuazu

 

IZASKUN ZUAZU (University of the Basque Country)

Electoral systems and income inequality: A tale of political equality

Discussant: Jan U. Auerbach

 

JAN U. AUERBACH (University of Exeter)

Office-holding premia and representative democracy

Discussant: Sabyasachi Das

 

Session Chair: Jan U. Auerbach

  125
Coffee Break  15:30 – 16:00h 101
Parallel Sessions D1 – D3 16:00 – 17:30h 107, 124, 125

D1 Accountability and Political Outcomes

PATRICK BALLES (University of Basel), Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer

Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Discussant: Alfa Farah

 

ALFA FARAH (University of Münster)

Winning a local office in a clientelistic society:  Evidence from a decentralized Indonesia

Discussant: Patrick Balles

 

Session Chair: Alfa Farah

  107

D2 Regime Transitions and Institutional Quality

TOMMY KRIEGER (University of Konstanz)

Democracy and institutional quality: Theory and evidence

Discussant: Martin Roessler

 

MARTIN ROESSLER (TU Dresden), Jonathan D. Old, Patrick Zwerschke

(When) does democratization reduce state repression?

Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov

 

Daniel L. Bennett, CHRISTIAN BJØRNSKOV (Aarhus University), Stephan F. Gohmann

Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change

Discussant: Tommy Krieger

 

Session Chair: Stephan F. Gohmann

  124

D3 Ideology, Electoral Outcomes and Policies

Dodge Cahan, NIKLAS POTRAFKE (University of Munich and ifo Institute for Economic Research)

The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state governments

Discussant: Nicolas Schreiner

 

NICOLAS SCHREINER (University of Basel), Alois Stutzer

Direct democracy and political extremism

Discussant: Niklas Potrafke

 

Session Chair: Niklas Potrafke

  125

Conference Dinner

Lolas Schicksaal

18:30 – 21:00h

Albersloher Weg 12

 

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Conference venue: CIW

PROGRAM TIME VENUE
Registration 08:30 – 12:00h 102
Parallel Session E1 – E2 09:00 – 10:30h 107, 124, 125

E1 Political Conflict and Democratic Institutions

JEAN LACROIX (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Ballots instead of shots?  The impact of the Voting Rights Act on political violence

Discussant: Vanessa A. Boese

 

VANESSA A. BOESE (Humboldt University of Berlin), Scott Gates, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Håvard Strand

Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time

Discussant: Soeren C. Schwuchow

 

SOEREN C. SCHWUCHOW (Brandenburg University of Technology), George Tridimas

Taking sides: The political economy of Solon’s Law for civil wars

Discussant: Jean Lacroix

 

Session Chair: Soeren C. Schwuchow

  107

E2 Religion, Culture and Institutional Quality

ANTONIS ADAM (University of Ioannina), Sofia Tsarsitalidou

Serving two masters: State religion and fiscal capacity

Discussant: Christian J. Sander

 

Aloys Prinz, CHRISTIAN J. SANDER (University of Münster)

Leadership and public goods provision: Does religion matter?

Discussant: Antonis Adam

 

Session Chair: Christian J. Sander

  124
Coffee break 10:30 – 11:00h 101
Parallel Session F1 – F3 11:00 – 12:30h 107, 124, 125

F1 Violent Conflicts – Determinants and Strategies

Uih Ran Lee, PIOTR LIS (Coventry University), Michael Spagat

Civilian targeting in African conflicts – a poor actor´s game that spreads through space

Discussant: S. Mansoob Murshed

 

Muhammad Badiuzzaman, Scott Gates, Rashel Hasan, S. MANSOOB MURSHED (Coventry University and Erasmus University), Havard Strand

Food insecurity and conflict

Discussant: Uih Ran Lee

 

UIH RAN LEE (University of Sussex)

Public opinion and war casualties: Interplay and misinterpretation

Discussant: Piotr Lis

 

Session Chair: Uih Ran Lee

  107

F2 Culture, Institutions and Politico-Economic Outcomes

NOUHOUM TOURÉ (University Paris II Panthéon-Assas)

Culture, institutions and the industrialization process

Discussant: Felix Hoch

 

FELIX HOCH (University of Münster), Todor S. Lohwasser

Do political characteristics influence the relationship between family control and performance? A meta-analytical approach

Discussant: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska

 

KATARZYNA METELSKA-SZANIAWSKA (University of Warsaw)

De jure and de facto democracy in post-socialist countries

Discussant: Nouhoum Touré

 

Session Chair: Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska

  124

F3 Ethnic Inequality, Political Institutions and Economic Outcomes

ANDREAS BACKHAUS (Centre for European Policy Studies)

Ethnic favoritism revisited: Competitive voting in Ghana

Discussant: Lennart Kaplan

 

LENNART KAPLAN (Georg-August University of Göttingen)

Unequal gains from trade – The role of political biases

Discussant: Klaus Gründler

 

KLAUS GRÜNDLER (ifo Institute for Economic Research), Andreas Link

Ethnic inequality and the wealth of nations

Discussant: Andreas Backhaus

 

Session Chair: Andreas Link

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Farewell Lunch 12:30h

Mensa am Aasee