The Australian Political Economy Network and the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab welcome you to the 2021 Australian Political Economy Workshop.
The workshop will run in dual mode at UNSW Sydney and on Zoom.
To register for the workshop and receive information regarding the Zoom link or the location of the workshop use this registration form.
PROGRAM
9:30-10:00 IN PERSON REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10:00-10:45 Jörg Spenkuch (Northwestern) Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations (with Edoardo Teso and Guo Xu)
10:45-11:30 Kathryn Baragwanath (UCSD) The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
11:30-11:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:45-12:30 Gabriele Gratton (UNSW) Liberty, Security and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies (with Barton E. Lee)
12:30-2:45 LUNCH BREAK
2:45-3:30 Shawn Treier (ANU) Founding Factions: How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution (with Jeremy C. Pope)
3:30-4:15 Umair Khalil (Monash) Gender, Discouragement, and the Stigma of Failure (with Marco Faravelli and Sundar Ponnusamy)
4:15-4:30 COFFEE BREAK
4:30-5:15 Bård Harstad (Oslo) The Conservation Multiplier
5:15-6:00 Alessandra Casella (Columbia) Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment (with Michelle Jiang and Jeffrey Guo)