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Cathie Jo Martin

Torben Iversen

The Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 serves as a forum for discussion of research in progress and forthcoming papers on issues in comparative political economy, institutional change, and issues in historical institutionalism. It brings together faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students from Harvard, MIT, and other colleges in the Boston area. This seminar especially welcomes regular participants who plan on attending most sessions during the semester. In lieu of a formal presentation, attendees are expected to read a paper in advance of each seminar and participate in a discussion. Relevant papers are shared at least a week in advance of each seminar.

** Please note: Events in this seminar series do not include a presentation. Attendees of this seminar are expected to read a paper in advance and enter into a discussion. To receive a copy of the paper and the Zoom link, please contact Laura Falloon, CES Program Coordinator.**

Seminar Events Calendar

Upcoming Events Past Events

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Self-Government Interrupted: Legacies of External Rule in Brazil and Poland

April 28, 2023
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Taylor Boas – Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Boston University
Daniel Gingerich – Professor of Politics and Director of UVa’s Quantitative Collaborative, University of Virginia
Chair Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden? A Counterfactual Approach

March 24, 2023
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Bo Rothstein – August Röhss Professor in Political Science, Gothenburg University
Jette Knudsen – Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Business, Tufts University
Chair Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Local Knowledge Economies, Mobility Perceptions and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Case of Germany

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Local Knowledge Economies, Mobility Perceptions and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Case of Germany

February 24, 2023
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Marius R. Busemeyer – Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz
Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Re-imagining Identities: The Decline of Social Democracy, the Rise of Right-wing Populism and the Fate of Democracy

State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Re-imagining Identities: The Decline of Social Democracy, the Rise of Right-wing Populism and the Fate of Democracy

December 2, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Sheri Berman – Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Chair Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Why Is It So Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from England and Wales

November 4, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Ben Ansell – Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
William Clark – Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
Chair Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Social Investments in the Knowledge Economy: The Politics of Inclusive, Stratified, and Targeted Reforms across the Globe

State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Social Investments in the Knowledge Economy: The Politics of Inclusive, Stratified, and Targeted Reforms across the Globe

September 30, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Bruno Palier – CNRS Research Director, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po
Jonas Pontusson – Professor, University of Geneva
Chair Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Politics of Pessimism: Turning Aspirational Voters into Populists

March 25, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Alice Xu – Ph.D. Candidate in Government, Harvard University
James Alt – Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Political Economy of Law Enforcement

March 11, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Matias Dewey – Senior Researcher, University of St. Gallen
Lucas Ronconi – Professor of Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Cornelia Woll – President and Professor of International Political Economy, Hertie School; Member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School
Alisha Holland – Associate Professor, Government Department, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Parents Against Social Investment Policy? Marketization and Public Services in the Third Way Turn of Social Democracy

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Parents Against Social Investment Policy? Marketization and Public Services in the Third Way Turn of Social Democracy

February 11, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Jane Gingrich – Professor of Politics, University of Oxford
Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800 — The Changing Faces of the Modern State

January 28, 2022
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Johannes Lindvall – Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Katren Rogers – Doctoral Student in Political Science, Lund University
Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800 — Aspiration versus Apprehension: Economic Opportunities and Electoral Preferences

November 19, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Silja Häusermann – Professor of Political Science, University of Zurich
Thomas Kurer – Research Group Leader and Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality", University of Konstanz, Germany
Delia Zollinger – PhD Student, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich
Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

The Fractured Political Economy: The Muting of Place-Based Economic Interests in the United States

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Fractured Political Economy: The Muting of Place-Based Economic Interests in the United States

October 8, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Daniel P. Carpenter – Allie S. Freed Professor of Government & Chair of the Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Paul Pierson – John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Sam Zacher – Ph.D. Student in Political Science, Yale University
Jacob Hacker – Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Distributional Context of Populist Protest

April 30, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Alexander Gattig – Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bremen
Phillip Manow – Professor of Comparative Political Economy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen
Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Entrenchment or Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Mortgage Debt Subsidies in the United States and Germany

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Entrenchment or Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Mortgage Debt Subsidies in the United States and Germany

April 16, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Alexander Reisenbichler – Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Anke Hassel – Professor of Public Policy, Hertie School
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

A Forgotten Working Class: Perceptions of Representation and the Role of Labour in a Comparative Perspective

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — A Forgotten Working Class: Perceptions of Representation and the Role of Labour in a Comparative Perspective

March 26, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Jonas Pontusson – Professor, University of Geneva
Line Rennwald – Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Geneva
Devin Caughey – Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Integrative Institutions and Mainstream Party Collapse: The Regional Context

March 12, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Jane Gingrich – Professor of Politics, University of Oxford
Julia Lynch – Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Franklin – John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Trinity College; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Shifting Relationship Between Postwar Capitalism and Democracy

February 26, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Herman Mark Schwartz – Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Virginia
Chair Kathleen Thelen – Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Social Rights of Citizens in an Age of Financialization

February 12, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Lawrence R. Jacobs – McKnight Professor or Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Desmond King – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do About It

March 5, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Julia Cagé – Assistant Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
Lawrence Lessig – Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

European Union Study Group — Varieties of Disintegration: Why Neoliberals Continue to Be Ambivalent About the EU

October 23, 2018
12:30pm - 2:00pm

Dieter Plehwe – Senior Research Fellow, Inequality and Social Policy Research Unit, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Chair Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University & CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800 — What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty

October 19, 2018
2:30pm - 4:00pm

Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Margaret Weir – Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Brown University

Reform from Within: The Political Economy of Women's Enfranchisement

April 22, 2016
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Dawn Teele – Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Smith – Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University

Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Democracy in Europe

April 8, 2016
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Noam Gidron – Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Electoral Coordination, Legislative Cohesion, and the Rise of the Modern Mass Party: The Limits of Majoritarian Representation in Germany, 1890‐1918

March 4, 2016
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Valentin Schröder – Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen
Phillip Manow – Professor of Comparative Political Economy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen

Nationalism in Contemporary Nation States: Imagined Political and Cultural Community across 44 Countries

February 26, 2016
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Bart Bonikowski – Past Resident Faculty
Christian Albrekt Larsen – Department of Political Science, Aalborg University

Dilemmas of Inclusion: — The Political Representation of Muslims in Europe

February 5, 2016
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Rafaela Dancygier – Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Democratization after Democratization: Electoral Reform and Voter Autonomy in Late 19th Century Europe

December 4, 2015
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Isabela Mares – Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

The Middle Income Trap: More Politics than Economics

November 20, 2015
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Alisha Holland – Associate Professor, Government Department, Harvard University
Ben Ross Schneider – Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Brazil Program, MIT

Where is the Response to Political Inequality in the U.S.?

October 30, 2015
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez – Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Lucy Goodhart – Lecturer in International and Global Studies, Brandeis University

Preferences that Matter: Redistribution and Voting in the Industrialized Democracies

October 15, 2015
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Daniel Stegmueller – Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Graduate School of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Mannheim
David Rueda – Professor of Comparative Politics, Merton College, Oxford

No Growth and No Equality: Supply and Demand in an Intellectual Property Rights World

September 25, 2015
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Gunnar Trumbull – Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Herman Mark Schwartz – Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Virginia

Corporate Power in the 21st Century

April 24, 2015
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Gerald F. Davis – Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business

Knowledge Economies: A Comparative Political Economy Framework

April 10, 2015
2:15pm - 4:00pm

David Soskice – Professor of Political Science and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Cornelia Woll will discuss her new book "The Power of Inaction" on bank bailouts

March 4, 2015
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Sofia A. Perez – Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Cornelia Woll – President and Professor of International Political Economy, Hertie School; Member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School

Extending Experimentalist Governance? The EU and Transnational Regulation

November 14, 2014
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Jonathan Zeitlin – Senior Fellow in International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Professor of Public Policy and Governance and Jean Monnet Chair in European and Transnational Governance, Department of Political Science University of Amsterdam

The Future of Democratic Capitalism

November 7, 2014
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Pablo Beramendi – Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Herbert Kitschelt – George V. Allen Professor of International Relations, Duke University

Partisan Impacts on Social Policy and Distributive Outcomes in the Eras of Welfare State Expansion and Retrenchment

October 24, 2014
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Jason Beckfield – Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
John Stephens – Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina

The Political Economy of Mass Polarization in Advanced Democracies

May 5, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
David Soskice – Professor of Political Science and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Konstantin Vössing – Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Politics in the Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin; Visiting Scholar 2013-2014, CES, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2013-2014, CES, Harvard University

Benefits and Ballots: Explaining Party Preferences on Citizenship Policy

April 11, 2014
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Jeremy Ferwerda – Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
Quinton Mayne – Assistant. Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy: A book presentation

April 10, 2014
12:15pm - 2:00pm

Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Mark Thatcher – Professor of Government, London School of Economics

What Kind of Political Economy Have We Had? Political Consequences Of a Consumer-Oriented Growth Model

March 28, 2014
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Frank Dobbin – Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Monica Prasad – Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

National Growth Strategies and Welfare State Reforms

March 7, 2014
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Bruno Palier – CNRS Research Director, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po

Representation and Taxation: Lessons from European History

February 28, 2014
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Deborah Boucoyannis – Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Virginia

Stratifying Europe: How Regional Integration Reshaped the Welfare State and Reversed the Egalitarian Turn

January 31, 2014
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Jason Beckfield – Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Autocracy, Democracy and Global Tax Competition

December 6, 2013
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Philipp Genschel – CES and Professor of Political Science, Jacobs University Bremen

Weapons of the Meek: How Religious Groups Influence Domestic Politics

November 22, 2013
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Anna Grzymała-Busse – Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Elizabeth H. Prodromou – Visiting Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution , The Fletcher School for Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Paradoxes Lost and Found: The Dimensions of Social Welfare Transfers, Relative Poverty and Redistribution Preferences

November 6, 2013
5:15pm - 7:00pm

David Brady – Adjunct Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University; Director of the Research Unit “Inequality and Social Policy”, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Christopher Jencks – Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Harvard University

Spend and Tax: Determinants of the Underprovision of Public Goods

October 4, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Philipp Genschel – CES and Professor of Political Science, Jacobs University Bremen
Margaret Levi – Bachrach Professor of International Studies, University of Washington

Altered States: Negotiation and the Microfoundations of Institutional Change

September 13, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Daniel P. Carpenter – Allie S. Freed Professor of Government & Chair of the Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

The Politics of Austerity in the US and Europe: Why Did a Failure of Laissez-Faire Reinforce the Orthodoxy?

May 3, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Robert Kuttner – Editor, The American Prospect; Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair, Brandeis University, Brandeis University

The Political Theory of Austerity

April 12, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Rawi E. Abdelal – Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Emma Bloomberg Co-chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Mark Blyth – Eastman Professor of Political Economy & Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Watson Institute, Brown University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Conceptual Orders of the Regulatory State

April 5, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Daniel P. Carpenter – Allie S. Freed Professor of Government & Chair of the Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Can’t We All be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

March 29, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm

James Robinson – David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University

The Politics of Public Debt: Capitalist Development and the Rebuilding of the State

March 7, 2013
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Wolfgang Streeck – Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society

Changing Welfare States and the Euro Crisis

February 22, 2013
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Anton Hemerijck – Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam

Symposium on "Subnational Authoritarianism: The US in Comparative Perspective"

February 15, 2013
3:00pm - 7:30pm

Robert Mickey – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Edward L. Gibson – Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW- The Informational Role of the Welfare State: How Policy Shapes Public Preferences and Political Contestation

February 8, 2013
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Jane Gingrich – Professor of Politics, University of Oxford

The Political Economy of Ownership: Housing Markets and the Welfare State

December 7, 2012
3:15pm - 5:15pm

Ben Ansell – Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Beyond Cooperation: Competition in Coordinated Capitalism

November 9, 2012
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Jing Jing Huo – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo

Redistributive Attitudes in Hard Times

October 5, 2012
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Charlotte Cavaillé – Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Kris-Stella Trump – Doctoral Student in Government, Harvard University

Education Funding and Individual Preferences for Redistribution

September 28, 2012
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Marius R. Busemeyer – Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz

Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change

September 14, 2012
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Giovanni Capoccia – Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Oxford

Equality and Efficiency in Advanced Democracies: Revisiting the Leaky Bucket Hypothesis

April 18, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Jonathan Hopkin – Reader in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics

Racial Policy Alliances and Partisan Polarization: An Integrated Analysis

April 6, 2012
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Desmond King – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Towards a Social Investment State

March 21, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Bruno Palier – CNRS Research Director, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po

Activation, American Style

March 2, 2012
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Margaret Weir – Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of California at Berkeley; Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Economic Patriotism: Reinventing Control over Open Markets

February 17, 2012
3:15pm - 5:00pm

Cornelia Woll – President and Professor of International Political Economy, Hertie School; Member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School

The Two-Tiered Politics of Financial Reform in the United States

November 18, 2011
3:15pm - 5:00pm

J. Nicholas Ziegler – Professor (Research) of International and Public Affairs, Watson Institute, Brown University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
John Woolley – Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California - Santa Barbara

Ten Questions about the Eurozone Crisis and Whether It Can Be Solved

November 9, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm

Wendy Carlin – Professor of Economics, University College, London; Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Inequality and Capitalism in the Long Run

November 3, 2011
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Thomas Piketty – Professor, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics.

The Co-evolution of Political and Capitalist Institutions since the Industrial Revolution

October 28, 2011
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
David Soskice – Professor of Political Science and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

The Quality of Government, Inequality and Social Trust

October 19, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Bo Rothstein – August Röhss Professor in Political Science, Gothenburg University

Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France

October 7, 2011
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Gunnar Trumbull – Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Social Resilience and Well-Being under Neo-Liberalism in the Developed Democracies

September 16, 2011
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University