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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, 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