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The PROGRAM
Friday, August 21
Parallel sessions C – 9:00 – 10:30
1 –Travelling ideas – agents, processes and mechanisms (mentoring session)
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Silvia Avram, European University Institute (Italy):
“Safety nets in Central and Eastern Europe: The Influence of External Agents” Mentor: Bjorn Hvinden, Norwegian Social Research (Norway) -
Cem Utku Duyulmus, Université de Montréal (Canada):
“Social Security Reform in Turkey: Different usages of Europe in shaping the national welfare reform” Mentor: Stefan Bernhard, IAB Nuremberg (Germany) -
Umut Ozkan, Carleton University (Canada):
“The Translation of Competing Ideas to the Turkish Welfare-Production Regime” Mentor: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim (Germany)
2 – Ideas about family and gender policies
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Tommy Ferrarini and Ann-Zofie Duvander, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“Earner-Carer Model at the Crossroads: Reforms and Outcomes of Sweden’s Family Policy in Comparative Perspective” Discussant: Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts (USA) -
Timo Fleckenstein, London School of Economics (UK) and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, University of Oxford (UK):
“The Political Economy of Family Policies: Analyzing Family Policy Expansions in Britain and Germany” Discussant: HyeKyung Lee, Yonsei University (Korea) -
Debora Lopreite, Carleton University (Canada):
“Advancing Reproductive Rights in Conservative Gender Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Change in Argentina and Mexico” Discussant: Évelyne Huber, University of North Carolina (USA)
3 – Anti-poverty strategies and instruments (mentoring session)
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Paula Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina):
“State intervention and famil(ies) definitions in Argentina social policies: Gender mainstreaming and its local translations” Mentor:Rianne Mahon, Carleton University (Canada) -
Mi Ah Schoyen, European University Institute (Italy):
“Pension reform and intergenerational redistribution in Italy and Germany: similar solutions, different outcomes” Mentor: Joakim Palme, Institute for Futures Studies (Sweden) -
Jisun Kim, University of New South Wales (Australia):
“ ‘Self-reliance Program’ in South Korea: Focused on the Experiences of the Participants” Mentor: Rianne Mahon, Carleton University (Canada)
Pause - 10:30 - 11:00
Plenary 3 – 11:00 – 12:30
Local experiments and shifting patterns of governance
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Tracy Fenwick, University of Oxford (UK):
“Local solutions to national challenges? The politics of income transfer programs in Brazil and Argentina” Discussant: Rianne Mahon, Carleton University (Canada) -
Shih-Jiun Shi, National Taiwan University (Taiwan):
“The Territorial Politics of Social Protection in China: Local Governments as an Emerging Locomotive of Policy Learning and Diffusion” Discussant: Deena White, Université de Montréal (Canada) -
Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University (USA) and Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA):
“Exploring the Rube Goldberg Welfare State” Discussant: Ann Orloff, Northwestern University (USA) -
Chair: Rianne Mahon, Carleton University (Canada)
Lunch - 12:30 - 14:00
Parallel sessions D – 14:00 – 15:30
1 – Embedding new ideas – the example of ageing
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Huck-ju Kwon, Jae-eun Hyun, Hyunsub Kum, Seoul National University (Korea) and Si-yeon Won, National Assembly Research Service (Korea):
“Care-giving and Freedom: Evidence from Time-use Survey in Korea” Discussant: Trudie Knijn, University of Utrecht (Netherlands) -
Patrik Marier, Concordia University (Canada):
“Ageing Strategies in the United States” Discussant: Susan McDaniel, University of Lethbridge (Canada) - Joakim Palme, Institute for Futures Studies (Sweden) and Ingrid Esser, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“Do Public Pension Rights Matter for Health and Well-being Among Retired Persons? Basic and Income Security Pensions across 13 Western European Countries” Discussant: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim (Germany)
2 – Ideas about health and healthcare
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Ingalill Montanari and Kenneth Nelson, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“Governance of health care: converging trends?” Discussant: Julia O'Connor, University of Ulster (UK) -
Claus Wendt, Harvard University (USA):
“Ideas and Institutions in the field of healthcare” Discussant: Daniel Béland, University of Saskatchewan (Canada) -
Shiri Noy, Indiana University (USA):
“The Welfare State and Health Spending: A Comparative Analysis of Social Spending and Public Health Expenditure in Latin America and Europe” Discussant: Tuba Agartan, Providence College (USA)
3 – Rethinking the social, the family and the individual
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Silke Bothfeld, University of Applied Science (Germany):
“Revising the ‘independent variable problem’: individual autonomy as normative core of democratic welfare statehood” Discussant: Kirstein Rummery, University of Stirling (UK) -
Sally Bould, University of Delaware (USA), Gunther Schmaus, CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg) and Claire Gavray, University of Liege (Belgium):
“The Danish Model: the case of partnership dissolution in a cross national comparison” Discussant: Tommy Ferrarini, Stockholm University (Sweden) -
Lukasz Czarnecki and Veronica Villarespe Reyes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico):
“Never-ending enemy? Poverty in Mexico” Discussant: Juliana Martinez Franzoni, University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)