"Easy and Hard Redistribution: The Political Economy of Welfare States in Latin America."

Ben Schneider (MIT)

Jointly supported by Blavatnik School of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College.

This seminar is for students, faculty and invited groups only - advance sign-up is required by email to events@bsg.ox.ac.uk. However, if you have a particular interest in attending this event, please email events and we will try to accommodate your request. Lunch is provided.

 

The global democratic recession around the world today raises academic and policy concerns about the possibilities for representative political institutions and the rule of law in the developing world. At the same time, deepening income inequality around the world is the signature challenge of our time, a pressing trend that challenges the credibility of political institutions in every poor polity around the world. The Comparative Regimes and Development seminar, under the direction of Professor Nancy Bermeo (Nuffield /DPIR) and Dr. Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government/ St. Hilda’s) proposes to promote research excellence on comparative regimes in the developing world at Oxford University.  The seminar series aims to provide an intellectual home for research within Oxford’s academic disciplines that focuses upon the challenges of representation and regime transition facing governments around the developing world. 

For 2015, the speaker series proposes to explore the subject of Democracy and Difference, focusing on the implications of economic and social divides for regime trajectories in developing countries.  Its empirical focus would be on policy-relevant, case-based research that clearly delineates the causal mechanisms behind core findings. The seminar series is intended to promote cutting-edge pre-publication research on timely policy questions.