Political Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Hülya Eraslan, James M. Snyder Jr., and Thomas Fujiwara
October 20-21, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suite, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and Zoom
Thursday, October 20
6:00 pm
Group Dinner
Friday, October 21
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Black Empowerment and Whites’ Backlash: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act

Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford
Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham

Discussant:
Sebastian Ottinger, CERGE-EI
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Competitive Media Capture

Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right (slides)

Oren Danieli, Tel-Aviv University
Shinnosuke Kikuchi, University of California, San Diego
Noam Gidron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University

Discussant:
Jeffry Frieden, Columbia University
12:30 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
1:30 pm

Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response

Juan Pablo Chauvin, Inter-American Development Bank
Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Delegation under Liquid Democracy: Two Experiments (slides)

Alessandra Casella, Columbia University and NBER
Joseph Campbell, Columbia University
Lucas de Lara, Columbia University
Victoria R. Mooers, Columbia University
Dilip Ravindran, Humboldt University of Berlin

Discussant:
Chloe Tergiman, The Pennsylvania State University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China

Jaya Wen, Harvard University

Discussant:
Silvia Vannutelli, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn