Institutions in Context The Role of Money in Politics

Institutions in Context: The Role of Money in Politics

School of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Tampere, Finland

June 6-12, 2016

Organized and Hosted by the North American Studies Program of the
University of Tampere and the Master’s Degree program in Public Choice
Funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation


Institutions in Context: The Role of Money in Politics
Workshop 2016, University of Tampere
Professor Katri Sieberg
Program Coordinator Anna Vähämäki
Conference Assistant Ilmari Reunamäki
Assistants Elizabeth Harjunpää and Arseniy Lobanovskiy
Preliminary Programme

Monday 6 June, 2016 Pinni B 1100
9.30

Registration – Pinni B, lobby

Welcome – Introductory Overview
9.55 Katri Sieberg, University of Tampere
10.00 Opening Lecture
United States Ambassador to Finland, Charles C. Adams Jr.
10.30 Coffee Break
Lecture Session I: Interest Groups

11.00 The Effect of Interest Group Pressure on Favorable Regulation
Thomas Stratmann, George Mason University
11.30 Political Cooperation and Conflict in Restoration England
Kara Dimitruk, University of California, Irvine
12.00 Lunch
Lecture Session II: Lobbying and Austerity
13.30 Policy Determination Under Persuasive Lobbying: The Role of Biases,
Organization, and Resources
Stergios Skaperdas, University of California, Irvine
14.00 Variations in the Economic Crisis and Austerity Responses
Maria Jimena Valdez, Cornell University


14.30 Harmonizing Fiscal Policies – Institutional Economic Coordination in European
Union
Olli Herranen, University of Tampere
15.00 Coffee Break
Lecture Session III: Money and the Welfare State
15.30
Anu Partanen, Journalist
16.00 Comparative Education Systems – Private and Public Funding
Tuomo Kuivalainen, University of Tampere
16.30 Family policy and Gender Inequality in the Process of Career Decisions
Saki Kudo, University of Tampere
17.00 Moving from dual provision to multiple providers of health care: Political and
well-being implications
Jani-Petri Laamanen, University of Tampere
19.00 Reception Hosted by Vice Rector Harri Melin

Tuesday 7 June - Main Building A32

Lecture Session IV: Money and Communities
10.00 What will work better, peer-pressure or own responsibility in environmental
protection?
Elizabeth Harjunpää, University of Tampere
10.30 Grew up in a slaughterhouse - The effect of public policy on gang violence in
Chicago, Illinois
Pekka Vatanen, University of Tampere
11.00 Coffee Break
Lecture Session V: Lobbying and Outcomes
11.30 Congressional Issue Networks: A Temporal Analysis of Network Impacts From a
Lobbyist Perspective
Cantay Caliskan, Boston University
12.00 The use of an alternative private system in a public health care system – critical
viewpoints
Mikko Poutanen and Katri Sieberg, University of Tampere


12.30 Lunch
Lecture Session VI: Campaign Finance
14.00 The Politics of American Corporations
Gregory Robinson, Binghamton University
14.30 Campaign Contributions and Primary Elections
Jillian Evans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15.00 Institutional Predictors of Campaign Finance Law: An Analysis of 31
Democracies
Maneesh Arora, University of California, Irvine
15.30 Coffee Break
Lecture Session VII: Money
16.00 International Monetary Power and the End of Bretton Woods: Economic
Constraint or "Crisis as Opportunity"?

Christopher Zoeller, University of California, Irvine
16.30 Institutional Politics and Class Conflict: National Policy-Making and Regional
Implementation in New Deal U.S. Labor Policy
Tyson Patros, University of California, Irvine
17.00 Regional Economic Growth in the EU: Economic Integration and Redistribution
Jan Fidrmuc, Brunel University

Wednesday 8 June - Main Building A32
Lecture Session VII: Inequality
10.00 The Political Economy of Inequality Traps: Rent-seeking Interlinkages
Mayuri Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine
10.30 Chiefs in South Africa: What Role in Upholding or Undermining Inequalities?
Carol Mershon, University of Virginia
11.00

Coffee Break

11.30 Inequality, Elite-Biased Institutions and Democratic Stability
Geoff Gordon, University of Virginia
12.00 Lunch


Lecture Session IX: Money, Power and Discrimination
13.00 Global Economic Downturn and Local Support for the Far-Right
Pauliina Patana, Cornell University
13.30 Radical-Right Backlash in Europe: Church-State Relations, Individual Religiosity,
and Party Success
Jennifer Simons, University of Virginia
14.00 Policies Towards Minorities: Spatial Voting Modeling
Aleksandr Ilikbaev, University of Tampere

14.30 Coffee Break
Lecture Session X: Money and Voting
15.00 Money and voting: the effect of intra-generational social class and income
mobility on turnout
Hanna Wass, University of Helsinki
15.30 Expressive Voting
Elena Labzina, Washington University St. Louis
16.00 Guessing Right and Wrong: Intra-Party Bargaining and Voter Support in
Democracy
Arseniy Lobanovskiy, University of Tampere
Sauna Evening – Bus leaves from hotel 17.30 – remember your swimsuits!

Thursday 9 June - Main Building A32
Lecture Session XI: Returns to Office
10.00 Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kaisa Kotakorpi, University of Turku
10.30 The Monitoring of Corruption for Economic Growth Purposes: An Empirical
Analysis
Kouramoudou Keita and Hannu Laurila, University of Tampere
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Corruption and Red-Tape with Heterogeneous Firms
Sebastian Hohmann, London Business School
13.00 Recreational Day Trip – cruise and lunch


Friday 10 June - Main Building A32
Lecture Session XII: Experiments
10.00 Do FEC Disclosures Matter Anymore? Prediction Market Evidence using a
Natural Experiment
AJ Bostian, University of Virginia

10.30 Spending to hurt your competitor: Inter-group conflict in the lab
Rick Wilson, Rice University
11.00

Coffee Break

11.30 Cooperation and Decision Making Processes
Daniel Kalchev, University of Tampere
12.00 Lunch
Lecture Session XIII: Money and Foreign Policy
13.30 The Political Implications of Economic Dependence: The Case of Taiwan
Emerson Niou, Duke University
14.00 Varieties of Democratic Accountability: Clientelism and Policy-based Linkage in
Comparative Perspective
Daniel Kselman, Madrid IE School of International Relations
14.30 Coffee Break
15.00 Political and Strategic Implications of Foreign Direct Investment on Host States
Youyi Zhang, Cornell University
15.30 Closing Reception

Saturday 11 June
Activity
Restaurant

Sunday 12 June
Departure