Institutions in Context The Role of Money in Politics

Institutions in Context: The Role of Money in PoliticsWorkshop 2016, University of Tampere Professor Katri Sieberg Program Coordinator Anna Vähämäki Conference Assistant Ilmari Reunamäki

Institutions in Context: The Role of Money in Politics

School of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Tampere, Finland

June 6-12, 2016

Organized and Hosted by the North American Studies Program of the University of Tampere and the Master’s Degree program in Public Choice

Funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation

Institutions in Context: The Role of Money in Politics

Workshop 2016, University of Tampere

Professor Katri Sieberg Program Coordinator Anna Vähämäki Conference Assistant Ilmari Reunamäki Assistants Elizabeth Harjunpää and Arseniy Lobanovskiy

Preliminary Programme

Monday 6 June, 2016 Pinni B 1100

9.30 Registration – Pinni B, lobby

Welcome – Introductory Overview

9.55 Katri Sieberg, University of Tampere

10.00 Opening Lecture

United States Ambassador to Finland, Charles C Adams Jr

10.30 Coffee Break

Lecture Session I: Interest Groups

11.00 The Effect of Interest Group Pressure on Favorable Regulation

Thomas Stratmann, George Mason University

11.30 Political Cooperation and Conflict in Restoration England

Kara Dimitruk, University of California, Irvine

12.00 Lunch

Lecture Session II: Lobbying and Austerity

13.30 Policy Determination Under Persuasive Lobbying: The Role of Biases,

Organization, and Resources

Stergios Skaperdas, University of California, Irvine

14.00 Variations in the Economic Crisis and Austerity Responses

Maria Jimena Valdez, Cornell University

14.30 Harmonizing Fiscal Policies – Institutional Economic Coordination in European

Union

Olli Herranen, University of Tampere

15.00 Coffee Break

Lecture Session III: Money and the Welfare State

15.30

Anu Partanen, Journalist

16.00 Comparative Education Systems – Private and Public Funding

Tuomo Kuivalainen, University of Tampere

16.30 Family policy and Gender Inequality in the Process of Career Decisions

Saki Kudo, University of Tampere

17.00 Moving from dual provision to multiple providers of health care: Political and

well-being implications

Jani-Petri Laamanen, University of Tampere

19.00 Reception Hosted by Vice Rector Harri Melin

Tuesday 7 June - Main Building A32

Lecture Session IV: Money and Communities

10.00 What will work better, peer-pressure or own responsibility in environmental

protection?

Elizabeth Harjunpää, University of Tampere

10.30 Grew up in a slaughterhouse - The effect of public policy on gang violence in

Chicago, Illinois

Pekka Vatanen, University of Tampere

11.00 Coffee Break

Lecture Session V: Lobbying and Outcomes

11.30 Congressional Issue Networks: A Temporal Analysis of Network Impacts From a

Lobbyist Perspective

Cantay Caliskan, Boston University

12.00 The use of an alternative private system in a public health care system – critical

viewpoints

Mikko Poutanen and Katri Sieberg, University of Tampere

12.30 Lunch

Lecture Session VI: Campaign Finance

14.00 The Politics of American Corporations

Gregory Robinson, Binghamton University

14.30 Campaign Contributions and Primary Elections

Jillian Evans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

15.00 Institutional Predictors of Campaign Finance Law: An Analysis of 31

Democracies

Maneesh Arora, University of California, Irvine

15.30 Coffee Break

Lecture Session VII: Money

16.00 International Monetary Power and the End of Bretton Woods: Economic

Constraint or "Crisis as Opportunity"?

Christopher Zoeller, University of California, Irvine

16.30 Institutional Politics and Class Conflict: National Policy-Making and Regional

Implementation in New Deal U.S Labor Policy

Tyson Patros, University of California, Irvine

17.00 Regional Economic Growth in the EU: Economic Integration and Redistribution

Jan Fidrmuc, Brunel University

Wednesday 8 June - Main Building A32

Lecture Session VII: Inequality

10.00 The Political Economy of Inequality Traps: Rent-seeking Interlinkages

Mayuri Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine

10.30 Chiefs in South Africa: What Role in Upholding or Undermining Inequalities?

Carol Mershon, University of Virginia

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Inequality, Elite-Biased Institutions and Democratic Stability

Geoff Gordon, University of Virginia

12.00 Lunch

Lecture Session IX: Money, Power and Discrimination

13.00 Global Economic Downturn and Local Support for the Far-Right

Pauliina Patana, Cornell University

13.30 Radical-Right Backlash in Europe: Church-State Relations, Individual Religiosity,

and Party Success

Jennifer Simons, University of Virginia

14.00 Policies Towards Minorities: Spatial Voting Modeling

Aleksandr Ilikbaev, University of Tampere

14.30 Coffee Break

Lecture Session X: Money and Voting

15.00 Money and voting: the effect of intra-generational social class and income

mobility on turnout

Hanna Wass, University of Helsinki

15.30 Expressive Voting

Elena Labzina, Washington University St Louis

16.00 Guessing Right and Wrong: Intra-Party Bargaining and Voter Support in

Democracy

Arseniy Lobanovskiy, University of Tampere

Sauna Evening – Bus leaves from hotel 17.30 – remember your swimsuits!

Thursday 9 June - Main Building A32

Lecture Session XI: Returns to Office

10.00 Returns to Office in National and Local Politics

Kaisa Kotakorpi, University of Turku

10.30 The Monitoring of Corruption for Economic Growth Purposes: An Empirical

Analysis

Kouramoudou Keita and Hannu Laurila, University of Tampere

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Corruption and Red-Tape with Heterogeneous Firms

Sebastian Hohmann, London Business School

13.00 Recreational Day Trip – cruise and lunch

Friday 10 June - Main Building A32

Lecture Session XII: Experiments

10.00 Do FEC Disclosures Matter Anymore? Prediction Market Evidence using a

Natural Experiment

AJ Bostian, University of Virginia

10.30 Spending to hurt your competitor: Inter-group conflict in the lab

Rick Wilson, Rice University

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Cooperation and Decision Making Processes

Daniel Kalchev, University of Tampere

12.00 Lunch

Lecture Session XIII: Money and Foreign Policy

13.30 The Political Implications of Economic Dependence: The Case of Taiwan

Emerson Niou, Duke University

14.00 Varieties of Democratic Accountability: Clientelism and Policy-based Linkage in

Comparative Perspective

Daniel Kselman, Madrid IE School of International Relations

14.30 Coffee Break

15.00 Political and Strategic Implications of Foreign Direct Investment on Host States

Youyi Zhang, Cornell University

15.30 Closing Reception

Saturday 11 June

Activity

Restaurant

Sunday 12 June

Departure