Thursday 25 April 2024

9.00 - 9.05h: Welcome

9.05 - 9.50 h: Is that the Way? Social Capital in a Service Society. Author: Jose Maycas (UC3M)

• • Discussant: Sofia Breitenstein

9.55 - 10.40h: Unveiling place-based identities: Exploring rural-urban consciousness and stereotypes. Authors: Sofia Breitenstein (UB), Toni Rodon (UPF), Guillem Riambau (UB)

• Discussant: Jose Maycas

10.45 - 11.15 h: Coffee Break

11.15 - 11.55 h: The Political Geography of Satisfaction with Democracy. Authors: David M. Willumsen (University of Innsbruck), Pedro Riera (University Carlos III of Madrid)

• Discussant: Toni Rodon

12 - 12.45 h: Under Paving Stones, the Votes! The relationship between improving the public realm and electoral fortunes. Authors: Toni Rodon (UPF), Maria Delgado-García

• Discussant: Pedro Riera

12.50 - 13.35h: Rural representation in Europe: An assessment of descriptive and substantive place-based representational gaps in national legislatures. Authors: Guillem Rico (UAB), Enrique Hernández (UAB), Rubén García del Horno (UAB)

• Discussant: Rebeca G-Antuña

13.35 - 14.45h: Break

15.00 - 15.45h: Where do place-based identity and place-based resentment come from? Authors: Antonia Lang (Goethe University Frankfurt), Rubén García del Horno (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Alina Zumbrunn (University of Bern)

• Discussant: Guillem Rico

15.50 - 16.35 h: From Fields to Fringe: An experimental approach to the Economic and Cultural determinants of Rural Resentment. Author: Rebeca G-Antuña (EUI)

• Discussant: Rubén García del Horno

Friday 26 April 2024

9.30 - 10.15h: Donations and Prejudice: Evidence from Spain. Author: Guillem Riambau (UB)

• Discussant: Fernando de la Cuesta

10.20 - 11.05h: Unnatural Division: How Decentralization of Public Services Shapes Political Behavior. Author: Fernando de la Cuesta (UCM)

• Discussant: Guillem Riambau

11.05 - 11.35h: Coffee Break

11.35 - 12.20h: Don’t Look Back in Anger. Place-based resentment and electoral behaviour in Spain. Author: Álvaro Sánchez-García (USAL)

• Discussant: Alberto de León

12.25 - 13.10h: The Role of Political Parties in the Rural-Urban Divide: A Study of Parliamentary Debates in Spain. Authors: Alberto de León (University College Dublin, Ireland),  Silvia Clavería (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)

• Discussant: Álvaro Sánchez-García

13.15 - 13.30h: Closing