2015 Nuffield Politics Graduate Student Conference
Date: 21 May 2015
Location: Nuffield College conference room (L entry)
Organizers: Andy Eggers and Ben Ansell (with financial support from the Nuffield Politics Group)
Program
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Opening remarks and introduction
Panel 1 10:50-12:35
- 10:50 Denise Laroze [Essex] "The Impact of Group Identity on Coalition Building"
- 11:25 Félix Krawatzek [Oxford] "New Perspectives on Democratic Breakdown -- Weimar’s Youth: Mobilisation and Discourse Networks"
- 12:00 Nicola Mastrorocco [LSE] "Information and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
12:35-1:35: Lunch
Panel 2 1:35-2:45
- 1:35 David Hope [LSE] "Explaining current account deterioration in the Eurozone: a synthetic control approach"
- 2:10 Claire Peacock [Oxford] "Domestic Appeasement: Human Rights Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements"
Panel 3 3:05-4:50
- 3:05 Alexandra Cirone [Columbia/LSE] "Shadow Parties: Dual Mandates, Patronage, and Partisanship in the French Third Republic"
- 3:40 Matthias Dilling [Oxford] "A missed chance: Why Christian Democracy failed in France and why this matters"
- 4:15 Laura Bronner [LSE] "Pro-civil liberties but anti-suffrage: Why would MPs support some aspects of democracy but not others?"
Panel 4 5:15-6:25
- 5:15 Alexander Gard-Murray [Oxford] "Geography, Accessibility, and Civil Wars"
- 5:50 Jack Blumenau [LSE] "Never let a good crisis go to waste: Agenda-setting and legislative voting in response to external shocks" (appendix)
6:30 For presenters: Drinks in Senior Common Room, followed by dinner in Fellows Dining Room