BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracie s - Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Robe rt Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, Andres Uribe (Stanford)\, Ipek Cinar (Chicago)\, Lautaro Cella (Chicago)\, Melis Laebens (Central European University)\, Marcin Slarzynski (Polish Academy of Sciences)\, David Bateman (Cornell)\, Laura Jakli (Harvard)\, Vicente V alentim (University of Oxford)\, Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley)\, Antonis Ell inas (University of Cyprus)\, Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)\, Michael Biggs (U niversity of Oxford)\, Mihail Chiru (University of Oxford)\, Martin Conway (University of Oxford)\, Nicholas Dickinson (University of Oxford)\, Davi d Doyle (University of Oxford)\, Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford )\, Desmond King (University of Oxford)\, Alex Kuo (University of Oxford)\, M arek Naczyk (University of Oxford)\, Adam Smith (University of Oxford)\, K aterina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231103T144500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231104T183000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e5280c6c-41a3-4d05-84a8-f9d8d3ab1940/ DESCRIPTION:This one and a half day conference\, organized by Prof. Giovan ni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from E urope and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can a dopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies. \nFor mor e information and provisional program see https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073 /Workshops%20and%20collaborations.html \nSpeakers:\nGiovanni Capoccia (Un iversity of Oxford)\, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopki ns University)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, Andres Uribe (Stanford)\, Ipek C inar (Chicago)\, Lautaro Cella (Chicago)\, Melis Laebens (Central European University)\, Marcin Slarzynski (Polish Academy of Sciences)\, David Bate man (Cornell)\, Laura Jakli (Harvard)\, Vicente Valentim (University of Ox ford)\, Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley)\, Antonis Ellinas (University of Cypru s)\, Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)\, Michael Biggs (University of Oxford)\, Mi hail Chiru (University of Oxford)\, Martin Conway (University of Oxford)\, Nicholas Dickinson (University of Oxford)\, David Doyle (University of Ox ford)\, Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford )\, Desmond King (University of Oxford)\, Alex Kuo (University of Oxford)\, Marek Naczyk (University o f Oxford)\, Adam Smith (University of Oxford)\, Katerina Tertytchnaya (Uni versity of Oxford) LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Lecture Theatre)\, Manor Road OX1 3UQ TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e5280c6c-41a3-4d05-84a8-f9d8d3ab1940/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal D emocracies - Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Isabela Mares (Yal e)\, Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\ , Andres Uribe (Stanford)\, Ipek Cinar (Chicago)\, Lautaro Cella (Chicago) \, Melis Laebens (Central European University)\, Marcin Slarzynski (Polish Academy of Sciences)\, David Bateman (Cornell)\, Laura Jakli (Harvard)\, Vicente Valentim (University of Oxford)\, Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley)\, An tonis Ellinas (University of Cyprus)\, Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)\, Michael Biggs (University of Oxford)\, Mihail Chiru (University of Oxford)\, Mart in Conway (University of Oxford)\, Nicholas Dickinson (University of Oxfor d)\, David Doyle (University of Oxford)\, Stathis Kalyvas (University of O xford )\, Desmond King (University of Oxford)\, Alex Kuo (University of Ox ford)\, Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford)\, Adam Smith (University of Ox ford)\, Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies: One-day confere nce - Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin) \, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)\, Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)\, Justin Grimmer (Stanford)\, Lonna Atkeson (Florida)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopk ins University)\, Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego)\, David Bateman (Cornell) \, Melis Laebens (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220521T100000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220521T173000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/276d65b5-7f2b-4c26-8ba2-e8907d30fbe2/ DESCRIPTION:A one-day conference on backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies\, to be held at Oxford University\, Department of Politics and International Relations. We will have a roundtable format\, with three th ematic panels\, there are 4 presenters panel.\n\nThe speakers will deliver a 20 minute presentation\, followed by an audience Q&A. Each presentation will be on a particular aspect of democratic backsliding and resilience l inked to their current or recent research.\n\nOur speakers have been flown in globally to join us live for this one day event\, be sure not to miss it.\n\nThe event will be in person and streamed live on Zoom.\n\nItinerary & speakers\n\n10.00-10.15 – Introduction: Giovanni Capoccia and Petra S chleiter\n\n10.15-12.00 Panel 1— Confronting Illiberalism and Populism i n Liberal Democracies\nChair: Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford)\nGiovanni Capoccia (Oxford) “Confronting Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Conceptual Ch allenges and Historical Perspectives”\nIvan Ermakoff (Winsconsin) “Dem ocratic Resistance to Authoritarian Bids for State Power: Challenges and P rospects”\nIsabela Mares (Yale) “The Erosion of Parliamentary Norms: E vidence from Weimar Germany”\nVicente Valentim (Oxford) “Social Norms\ , Preference Falsification\, and Democratic Backsliding”\n\n12.00-13.30 – Lunch break: lunch isn't provided but there are cafes and restaurants nearby\n\n13.30-15.15 Panel 2 – Challenges to democratic participation a nd representation\nChair: Jane Green (Oxford) [TO BE CONFIRMED]\nPetra Sch leiter (Oxford) “The Attitudinal and Behavioural Effects of Voter ID in the UK and Northern Ireland”\nJustin Grimmer (Stanford) “Crisis and Op portunity in American Election Administration”\nLonna Atkeson (Florida) “Restoring Voter Confidence: Conditional Explanations for the Partisan E ffects on Voter Confidence”\nSusan Stokes (Chicago) “Polarization as a Strategy for Aspiring Autocrats: Why does it Work? What are its Limits? ”\n\n15.15-15.45 - Short break\n\n15.45-17.30 Panel 3 – Sources and St rategies of Democratic Resilience\nChair: Andrea Ruggeri (Oxford)\nRobert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins) “Backsliding in Reverse? Reflections on Democr atic Fragility and Resilience”\nDavid Bateman (Cornell) “Democratic Ha rdball: Clutching for Straw at the Edge of the Cliff”\nMelis Laebens and Marcin Slarzynski (Oxford) “Political Sources of Democratic Resilience in Poland”\nStephen Haggard (UC San Diego) “Backsliding\, Incrementali sm and Resilience”\nSpeakers:\nGiovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\ , Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)\, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Vicente Valentim (Nuf field College)\, Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)\, Justin Grimmer (Stanford)\, Lonna Atkeson (Florida)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, R obert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University)\, Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego )\, David Bateman (Cornell)\, Melis Laebens (University of Oxford) LOCATION:Manor Rd\, Oxford OX1 3UQ TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/276d65b5-7f2b-4c26-8ba2-e8907d30fbe2/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies: One-da y conference - Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Ivan Ermakoff (W isconsin)\, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)\, P rofessor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)\, Justin Grimmer (Stanford )\, Lonna Atkeson (Florida)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, Robert Lieberman (J ohns Hopkins University)\, Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego)\, David Bateman (Cornell)\, Melis Laebens (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies: One-day confere nce - Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin) \, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)\, Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)\, Justin Grimmer (Stanford)\, Lonna Atkeson (Florida)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopk ins University)\, Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego)\, David Bateman (Cornell) \, Melis Laebens (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220521T100000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220521T173000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/276d65b5-7f2b-4c26-8ba2-e8907d30fbe2/ DESCRIPTION:A one-day conference on backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies\, to be held at Oxford University\, Department of Politics and International Relations. We will have a roundtable format\, with three th ematic panels\, there are 4 presenters panel.\n\nThe speakers will deliver a 20 minute presentation\, followed by an audience Q&A. Each presentation will be on a particular aspect of democratic backsliding and resilience l inked to their current or recent research.\n\nOur speakers have been flown in globally to join us live for this one day event\, be sure not to miss it.\n\nThe event will be in person and streamed live on Zoom.\n\nItinerary & speakers\n\n10.00-10.15 – Introduction: Giovanni Capoccia and Petra S chleiter\n\n10.15-12.00 Panel 1— Confronting Illiberalism and Populism i n Liberal Democracies\nChair: Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford)\nGiovanni Capoccia (Oxford) “Confronting Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Conceptual Ch allenges and Historical Perspectives”\nIvan Ermakoff (Winsconsin) “Dem ocratic Resistance to Authoritarian Bids for State Power: Challenges and P rospects”\nIsabela Mares (Yale) “The Erosion of Parliamentary Norms: E vidence from Weimar Germany”\nVicente Valentim (Oxford) “Social Norms\ , Preference Falsification\, and Democratic Backsliding”\n\n12.00-13.30 – Lunch break: lunch isn't provided but there are cafes and restaurants nearby\n\n13.30-15.15 Panel 2 – Challenges to democratic participation a nd representation\nChair: Jane Green (Oxford) [TO BE CONFIRMED]\nPetra Sch leiter (Oxford) “The Attitudinal and Behavioural Effects of Voter ID in the UK and Northern Ireland”\nJustin Grimmer (Stanford) “Crisis and Op portunity in American Election Administration”\nLonna Atkeson (Florida) “Restoring Voter Confidence: Conditional Explanations for the Partisan E ffects on Voter Confidence”\nSusan Stokes (Chicago) “Polarization as a Strategy for Aspiring Autocrats: Why does it Work? What are its Limits? ”\n\n15.15-15.45 - Short break\n\n15.45-17.30 Panel 3 – Sources and St rategies of Democratic Resilience\nChair: Andrea Ruggeri (Oxford)\nRobert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins) “Backsliding in Reverse? Reflections on Democr atic Fragility and Resilience”\nDavid Bateman (Cornell) “Democratic Ha rdball: Clutching for Straw at the Edge of the Cliff”\nMelis Laebens and Marcin Slarzynski (Oxford) “Political Sources of Democratic Resilience in Poland”\nStephen Haggard (UC San Diego) “Backsliding\, Incrementali sm and Resilience”\nSpeakers:\nGiovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\ , Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)\, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Vicente Valentim (Nuf field College)\, Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)\, Justin Grimmer (Stanford)\, Lonna Atkeson (Florida)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, R obert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University)\, Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego )\, David Bateman (Cornell)\, Melis Laebens (University of Oxford) LOCATION:Manor Rd\, Oxford OX1 3UQ TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/276d65b5-7f2b-4c26-8ba2-e8907d30fbe2/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies: One-da y conference - Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Ivan Ermakoff (W isconsin)\, Isabela Mares (Yale)\, Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)\, P rofessor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)\, Justin Grimmer (Stanford )\, Lonna Atkeson (Florida)\, Susan Stokes (Chicago)\, Robert Lieberman (J ohns Hopkins University)\, Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego)\, David Bateman (Cornell)\, Melis Laebens (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): external validity and general ization in case study and multi-method research - Stephan Haggard (UCSD) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220520T160000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220520T170000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d9ce95e8-c589-4cc0-aeeb-2836e7affb1f/ DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Ezequiel Gonzales Ocantos (Oxford)\n\nThis is a hy brid event. If you wish to join the Join Zoom Meeting\, please use the fol lowing details: us06web.zoom.us/j/81400620216?pwd=ZXdSWGxkWmZ3dmZvM1BVVnJo MnVldz09 Meeting ID: 814 0062 0216 Passcode: 535586\nSpeakers:\nStephan Ha ggard (UCSD) LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Lecture Theatre\, and online)\, Manor Road O X1 3UQ TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d9ce95e8-c589-4cc0-aeeb-2836e7affb1f/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): external validity an d generalization in case study and multi-method research - Stephan Haggard (UCSD) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Legalist Assaults on Democracy - Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220510T160000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220510T170000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e0da231f-5207-415e-9dd7-30e52f6ce0fd/ DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Nicholas Dickinson (Oxford)\n\nThis is a hybrid ev ent. If you wish to join the Join Zoom Meeting\, please use the following details: us06web.zoom.us/j/81400620216?pwd=ZXdSWGxkWmZ3dmZvM1BVVnJoMnVldz0 9 Meeting ID: 814 0062 0216 Passcode: 535586\nSpeakers:\nIvan Ermakoff (Wi sconsin) LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Lecture Theatre\, and online)\, Manor Road O X1 3UQ TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e0da231f-5207-415e-9dd7-30e52f6ce0fd/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Legalist Assaults on Democracy - Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin ) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Political Dynasties in the European Parliament - Alexandra Cirone (Cornell) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220506T160000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220506T170000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e7243074-0121-4600-9941-44042e0084af/ DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Mihail Chiru (Oxford)\n\nThis is a hybrid event. I f you wish to join the Join Zoom Meeting\, please use the following detail s: us06web.zoom.us/j/81400620216?pwd=ZXdSWGxkWmZ3dmZvM1BVVnJoMnVldz09 Meet ing ID: 814 0062 0216 Passcode: 535586\nSpeakers:\nAlexandra Cirone (Corne ll) LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Lecture Theatre\, and online)\, Manor Road O X1 3UQ TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e7243074-0121-4600-9941-44042e0084af/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Political Dynasties in the European Parliament - Alexandr a Cirone (Cornell) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Post-Communist Regime Trajectories - A Challenge to the Mainstream Comparative Approach - Balint Magyar (CEU) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220311T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220311T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d093d803-6d21-4262-9181-a28efd87bae2/ DESCRIPTION:After the collapse of the Soviet Union\, the newly gained domi nance of liberal democracy as a political regime was accompanied by a new dominance of liberal democracy as a descriptive language. Concepts of poli tical science\, sociology\, and economics that had been developed for the analysis of Western-type polities were applied to the various phenomena in the newly liberated countries. But the language of liberal democracies bl urs the understanding of the current state of post-communism as it leads t o conceptual stretching and brings in a host of hidden presumptions.\n\nDi scussant: Eli Gateva (Oxford)\nSpeakers:\nBalint Magyar (CEU) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d093d803-6d21-4262-9181-a28efd87bae2/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Post-Communist Regime Trajectories - A Challenge to the M ainstream Comparative Approach - Balint Magyar (CEU) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Challenges to Representative Democracy: Populism\, Technocracy and Political Pluralism - Daniele Caramani (EUI) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220304T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220304T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d5f16c5d-07ec-49b4-bc76-12450ae58a2d/ DESCRIPTION:The talk presents theoretical and empirical research on the ch allenges to the core features of representative democracy as an attempt to combine the broad inclusion of citizens in the democratic process with ef ficiency of policy making and problem solving. It addresses the critique m ounted by technocratic claims and highlights the tension between the holis tic technocratic\, and populist\, conceptions of representation and plural ist representative democracy. Theoretical expectations are illustrated in a historical perspective that inserts the current challenge in the long-te rm development of the nation-state and tested empirically through a novel survey battery on technocratic attitudes fielded in fifteen Western democr acies. The talk concludes with the normative question of the challenge bei ng a threat or possibly a corrective to the shortcomings of representative democracy and with a discussion of the possible politicization by politic al entrepreneur for citizens' demands for expertise and competence.\n\nDis cussant: Zack Grant (Oxford)\nSpeakers:\nDaniele Caramani (EUI) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d5f16c5d-07ec-49b4-bc76-12450ae58a2d/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:The Challenges to Representative Democracy: Populism\, Te chnocracy and Political Pluralism - Daniele Caramani (EUI) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conflict Shapes in Flux: A Typology of Spatial Change in Armed Con flict - Kate Tcakova (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220225T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220225T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b4ef9b47-7086-4646-b4a3-ecfe013c607b/ DESCRIPTION:In armed conflicts across the globe\, the loci of violence cha nge over time\, including across state borders. Nonetheless\, both academi c and policy analyses are typically still guided by static units of analys is and hence fail to capture spatial change in conflict. What explains cha nge in the territorial scope and location of violent events in a single se tting of armed conflict? We argue that shifts in two factors contribute to patterns in spatial change across conflicts: the relative strength of the state actor and whether there is a change in the conflict’s dominant ac tors. To demonstrate our argument\, we build a typology of spatial change in armed conflict based on conceptualising conflict as a fluid multi-actor phenomenon. Using the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset\, we construct a “conflict shape” in the form of a yearly changing polygon as a dynamic spatial unit of analysis. We apply the typology to five cases to show the validity of these factors: the conflict in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borde rlands\, the conflict in the Horn of Africa\, the Islamist insurgency in N igeria\, the conflict in Colombia\, and the conflict in Iraq/Syria. The an alysis demonstrates the typology’s utility for analysing conflict geogra phies\, conducting within-case and cross-case comparisons of conflicts\, a nd explaining common patterns across various conflicts.\n\nDiscussant: Mar ia Gargiulo\nSpeakers:\nKate Tcakova (University of Oxford) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b4ef9b47-7086-4646-b4a3-ecfe013c607b/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Conflict Shapes in Flux: A Typology of Spatial Change in Armed Conflict - Kate Tcakova (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Democratization after Democratization: how first wave democracies ended electoral corruption - Isabela Mares (Yale) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220218T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220218T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0d025412-f149-4d5d-b27d-89ece55a5b24/ DESCRIPTION:Between 1850 and 1918\, many first wave democracies adopted el ectoral reforms that reduced the incidence of various forms of electoral m alfeasance. These reforms imposed harsher punishments for bribing or the p oliticization of state resources during campaigns. They improved electoral secrecy\, providing a better protection of voters’ autonomy. By mandati ng the presence of candidate representatives supervising electoral operati ons\, reforms adopted at this time also reduced the incidence of electoral fraud. Drawing on analysis of parliamentary deliberations and roll call v otes in France\, Germany\, Belgium and the United Kingdom\, I examine the adoption of these reforms in first-wave democracies. I document how elite splits modified the calculations about the desirability of the status quo among legislators who could access resources to produce various forms of m alfeasance\, facilitating the formation of parliamentary majorities in sup port of electoral reforms. \n\nDiscussant: Marcin Walecki (Oxford)\nSpeak ers:\nIsabela Mares (Yale) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0d025412-f149-4d5d-b27d-89ece55a5b24/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Democratization after Democratization: how first wave dem ocracies ended electoral corruption - Isabela Mares (Yale) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How Emancipation Drives Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from Imperial Brazil - Jorge Mangonnet (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220211T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220211T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/218dc6d7-cec3-4468-8426-9077097aff52/ DESCRIPTION:Local landed elites are expected to oppose private property ri ghts out of fear of losing traditional privileges in land tenure. In this paper\, I advance a theory of property rights formation in contexts of low infrastructural power and relative land abundance. I contend that the exo genous abolition of labor-repressive arrangements encourages landed elites to adopt private property rights as a legal means to prevent free rural w orkers from having access to land and thus reduce the cost of labor. I tes t this argument in Imperial Brazil\, where an external ban on the Altantic slave trade pushed planters to endorse the 1850 Land Law. Using novel arc hival data\, I show that planter parliamentarians were more likely to vote in favor of the new law. I also show that planters in parishes with great er shares of slave population were more likely to voluntarily formalize th eir plantations as private freeholds to subsidize immigrant labor. Land fo rmalization in turn facilitated the introduction of indentured labor and e victions. These findings reveal how landed elites strategically exploited one of the linchpins of private property to keep labor cheap: the right to exclude others.\n\nDiscussant: Andres Guiot-Isaac (Oxford)\nSpeakers:\nJo rge Mangonnet (University of Oxford) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/218dc6d7-cec3-4468-8426-9077097aff52/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:How Emancipation Drives Property Rights: Theory and Evide nce from Imperial Brazil - Jorge Mangonnet (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online Hate Speech and How to Counter it - Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220204T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220204T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5fef24af-08bb-4a9d-8203-2a35bcba5e1d/ DESCRIPTION:Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media platforms on affected communities and public dis course\, there is little consensus on approaches to mitigate it. While con tent moderation---either by governments or social media companies---can curb online hostility\, such policies may suppress valuable as well as ill icit speech and might disperse rather than reduce hate speech. As an alt ernative strategy\, an increasing number of international and non-governme ntal organizations (I/NGO) are employing counterspeech to confront and r educe online hate speech. Despite their growing popularity\, there is scan t experimental evidence on the effectiveness and design of counterspeech strategies (in the public domain). Modeling our interventions on current I/NGO practice\, we conduct a series of experiments which randomly assign Twitter users who have sent messages containing hate speech to dif ferent counter speech treatments. Preliminary results point to the cen tral role of empathy in reducing exclusionary behavior and inform the desi gn of future counterspeech interventions. \n\nDiscussant: Arun Frey (Oxf ord)\nSpeakers:\nDominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5fef24af-08bb-4a9d-8203-2a35bcba5e1d/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Online Hate Speech and How to Counter it - Dominik Hangar tner (ETH Zurich) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeois ie to Post-Communist Middle-Class - Tomila Lankina (LSE) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220121T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220121T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/afc0f656-a16b-49a9-9ff0-994c1b4755ec/ DESCRIPTION:The talk is based on a chapter discussing the links between pr e-communist social structure and post-communist voting patterns among the middle class from her forthcoming book The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class (coming o ut with Cambridge University Press in 2022). The book departs from classic accounts in historical political economy and comparative politics that an alyze the significance of the bourgeoisie from the perspective of coalitio nal dynamics and role in genesis of particular orders—democracy or autoc racy. Instead\, it regards the bourgeoisie as an intergenerational social category that is best analyzed within the context of the transition of lat e feudal societies into modern knowledge economies where human capital acq uires centre stage as a social marker and as a driver of autonomy of group s and individuals\; the long reach of this transition in turn has implicat ions for social positioning in present-day illiberal regimes and democraci es under threat.\n\nDiscussant: Nicholas James (Oxford)\nSpeakers:\nTomila Lankina (LSE) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/afc0f656-a16b-49a9-9ff0-994c1b4755ec/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class - Tomila Lankina (LSE) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities\, Political Competition \, and Democracy - Jan Rovny (Sciences Po Paris) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220128T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220128T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa6d8325-2c97-4333-b62a-36d055e58780/ DESCRIPTION:Ethnic minorities make contemporary Europe increasingly divers e. The prevailing wisdom in research on ethnic politics is that ethnicity is a trouble-maker disrupting programmatic politics -- it tends to priorit ize group identity over ideology\, polity or policy\, principle over compr omise. In short\, ethnicity is expected to be a source of particularistic tension. This talk takes a theoretical step back. Approaching ethnic polit ics as a component of normal politics\, it investigates the ideological po tential of ethnicity\, and examines the conditions that determine the form ation of diverse preferences and behavior among ethnic groups and their re presentatives. The talk seeks to answer central questions: What are the po litical preferences of ethnic minority groups and their representatives? H ow are ethnic preferences translated into political representation\, how d oes this representation shape political competition\, and with what system ic effects?\n\nDiscussant: Nico Buettner (Oxford)\nSpeakers:\nJan Rovny (S ciences Po Paris) LOCATION:Online via Zoom TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa6d8325-2c97-4333-b62a-36d055e58780/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities\, Political Co mpetition\, and Democracy - Jan Rovny (Sciences Po Paris) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Roundtable on Primaries and Populism in the US and in France - Gil lian Peele (University of Oxford)\, Desmond King (University of Oxford)\, Florence Faucher (Sciences Po)\, Rémi Lefebvre (Lille) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190508T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190508T180000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3d7bf3c5-2f2a-4b44-a43c-0352255f2a37/ DESCRIPTION:\nSpeakers:\nGillian Peele (University of Oxford)\, Desmond Ki ng (University of Oxford)\, Florence Faucher (Sciences Po)\, Rémi Lefebvr e (Lille) LOCATION:Maison Française TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3d7bf3c5-2f2a-4b44-a43c-0352255f2a37/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Roundtable on Primaries and Populism in the US and in Fra nce - Gillian Peele (University of Oxford)\, Desmond King (University of O xford)\, Florence Faucher (Sciences Po)\, Rémi Lefebvre (Lille) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:After Italy’s general election - Giovanni Capoccia (University o f Oxford)\, Annalisa Piras (filmmaker and journalist\, co-author and direc tor\, “Girlfriend in a Coma”)\, Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxfor d)\, Federico Varese (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180307T171500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180307T190000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/bc9275f0-7431-4c0e-8510-8b0e3651e382/ DESCRIPTION:A discussion of the results of the March 4th election and the potential consequences for Italy and for the European Union. \n\nThe semin ar will be introduced by Bill Emmott\, Visiting Fellow at All Souls\, auth or of “Good Italy\, Bad Italy” (2012) and co-author of the documentary “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013)\, who will then moderate a discussion a mong the panel.\n\nDVDs of “Girlfriend in a Coma” will be available fr ee of charge for all attendees.\nSpeakers:\nGiovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)\, Annalisa Piras (filmmaker and journalist\, co-author and dire ctor\, “Girlfriend in a Coma”)\, Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxfo rd)\, Federico Varese (University of Oxford) LOCATION:All Souls College (The Old Library)\, High Street OX1 4AL TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/bc9275f0-7431-4c0e-8510-8b0e3651e382/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:After Italy’s general election - Giovanni Capoccia (Uni versity of Oxford)\, Annalisa Piras (filmmaker and journalist\, co-author and director\, “Girlfriend in a Coma”)\, Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)\, Federico Varese (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR