University of Bamberg
Anxieties of democracy in Europe and North AmericaProspects for Future Research and Collaboration March 7 – 9, 2019 | Hotel Bamberger Hof, Germany
Anxieties of democracy in Europe and North America
Prospects for Future Research and Collaboration
University of Bamberg | March 7–9, 2019
Workshop venue: Hotel Bamberger Hof, Lukas Schönlein Room
Organizers: Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld and Armin Schäfer
Thursday, 7 March 2019
15:55 Participants meet in the lobby of Hotel Bamberger Hof
16:00-16:30 Start of conference in the Hotel Bamberger Hof, Lukas Schönlein Room
Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld and Armin Schäfer
Introducing the workshop themes and participants
16:30 – 18:00
Panel I: Equal Citizens, Unequal Participation
Kris-Stella Trump (SSRC)
Political Participation and the Complexity of Economic Status
Christopher Ojeda (University of Tennessee)
How citizens react of economic (in)equality
Discussant
Josh Carpenter (Democracy Fellow, currently University of Mainz)
19:00 Dinner at Hofmanns Steak und Fisch Restaurant
Schillerplatz 7, 96047 Bamberg (vegetarian options are available)
Friday, March 8 2019
9:00 – 13:00
Panel II: Citizens’ Understanding of Democracy and Procedural Preferences
Claudia Landwehr (University of Mainz): Introduction
Claudia Landwehr (University of Mainz)
Citizens’ Conceptions of Democracy – Elite Discourses and Attitudinal Patterns
André Bächtiger (University of Stuttgart)
A New Look at Deliberative Democracy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Mónica Ferrín Pereira (University of Turin)
European Democratic Attitudes and the Party System – Learning from ESS 6
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch at the Hotel Bamberger Hof
14:00 – 18:00
Panel III: Representation
Armin Schäfer (University of Münster): Introduction
Hilde Coffe (University of Bath)
Political knowledge about the descriptive representation of women and ethnic minorities and its impact on support for measures to increase their representation
Armin Schäfer (University of Münster)
The Politics of Presence—for the Working Class?
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
Melody Crowder-Meyer (Davidson College)
Pipelines to More Equal Representation: Gender, Candidate Emergence, and Electoral Success in the US
Lars Vogel (University of Jena)
Descriptive and substantive representation in Germany
19:00 Dinner at the Restaurant Eckerts | Obere Mühlbrücke 9, 96049 Bamberg
Saturday, 9 March 2019
9:00 – 13:00
Panel IV: Legislatures as Institutional Arenas in Times of Polarization
Thomas Saalfeld (University of Bamberg): Introduction
Ulrich Sieberer (University of Bamberg)
Veto power induces cooperative behavior: How institutional incentives structure opposition behavior in the German Bundestag
Cheryl Schonhardt Bailey (LSE)
Deliberation in Oversight Committees: A Comparison Between the US and UK During the Financial Crisis Years
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Tom O’Grady (UCL)
Welfare Reforms and the Substantive Representation of Social Groups in the British Labour Party
12:30 – 13:00 Conclusions and future plans
13:00 End of Workshop
Hotel Bamberger Hof
Schönleinsplatz 4
96047 Bamberg
Tel. +49 951 98 550