Lunch seminars in Comparative Political Economy
An inter-departmental seminar series at the University of Bergen
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Spring 2025
Convenors: Georg Picot (Department of Comparative Politics), georg.picot@uib.no
Katharina Sass (Department of Sociology), katharina.sass@uib.no
Location: meeting room, Christies gate 15, 2nd floor
Website: https://www.uib.no/en/sampol/114899/lunch-seminars-comparative-political-economy
27 January, 12:15-13:15h
Collective discussion of:
Margalit, Y. (2019) Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 33(4), 152–70, https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.33.4.152
17 February, 12:15-13:15h
Collective discussion of:
Heiret, Y. & Innset, O. (2025) “Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (online first).
https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241311020
10 March, 12:15-13:15h
Collective discussion of:
Sharpe, M. (2021) “Capitalism and the Far Right Revisiting the Pollock-Neumann Debate in the Era of Authoritarian Ethnonationalism”, Philosophy and Public Issues, 11(2), 173-212.
24 March, 12:15-13:15h
Collective discussion of:
Harrington, B. (2023) The Populism of Transnational Plutocrats, in Feldmann, M. & Morgan, G. (eds), Business and Populism: The Odd Couple? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 326-342.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894335.003.0016
28 April, 12:15-13:15h
Collective discussion of:
Bandau, F. (2022) The Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy: Postindustrial Dilemmas or Neoliberal Contamination? Political Studies Review, 20(3), 493-503.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211032461
26 May, 12:15-13:15h
Pieter Vanhuysse (University of Southern Denmark)
“Why do some aging democracies have elderly-oriented welfare states and others not? Evidence from 32 OECD countries, 1995-2015”
16 June, 12:15-13:15h
Hanna Kuusela (University of Jyväskylä)
“Economic elites in Finland” (title tbc)