Political and Social Sciences Research Forum

Programme for the year 2006-07, 10th edition

Third term

2nd may
Speaker:Maarten H.J. Wolbers (University Amsterdam)
Title: Increasing labor market instability among young people?

7th may
Speaker:Virginie Guiraudon (European University Institute)
Title: Explaining European immigration policy and its implications for EU studies

16th may
Speaker:Joan Antón Mellón (Universitat de Barcelona)
Title:Las concepciones nucleares, axiomas e ideas-fuerza del Fascismo Clásico (1919-1945)

23rd may
Speaker:Lucinda Platt ((Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER, University of Essex)
Title: Ethnicity and social mobility and the role of education

30th may
Speaker:Ciska Raventós (Universidad de Costa Rica)
Title:Costa Rica: Elecciones 2006 en perspectiva histórica

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Second term

17th january
Speaker: Javier G. Polavieja (ICREA and UPF)
Title: Occupational Sex-Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap

31st january
Speaker: José Fernández Albertos (IBEI, Harvard University)
Title: Domestic Institutions and Monetary Integration in the Global Economy

13rd february
Speaker: William van der Veld (University of Amsterdam)
Title: Measurement Error and Instability in Attitudes Survey Research

1st march
Speaker: Anthony Heath (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Title: Are traditional social identities in decline? The individualization thesis reconsidered

8th march
Speaker: Amparo González (Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: Who do immigrants marry? Market constraints and gendered ethnic effects (pdf, 174K)

16th march
Speaker: Cristina Solera (Dip. di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Trento)
Title: Women's work histories in Italy: Education as investment in reconciliation and legitimacy? (pdf, 821K)

20th march
Speaker: Luigi Manzetti (Dept. of Political Science, Southern Methodist University)
Title: Political Accountability and Market Reforms in the 1990s: A Cross-National Analysis (pdf, 326K)

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First term

11th october
Speaker: Javier Astudillo (Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: El Partido Popular: un partido regionalizado, no descentralizado

25th october
Speaker: Teresa Jurado (UNED)
Title: Causas y consecuencias del modelo de vivienda español (pdf, 257K)

31st october
Speaker: Carlos Closa (Centro de Estudios Constitucionales)
Title: Why convening referendums? Explaining decisions in EU constitutional politics (pdf, 248K)

2nd november
Speaker: José Ramón Montero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Instituto Juan March)
Title: Sobre democracia y sistemas electorales en España

3rd november
Speaker:Francesc Pallarés (Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: Debat sobre el resultat de les eleccions de l'1-N

8th november
Speaker: Robert Thompson (Trinity College, Dublín)
Title: Decision Making in the European Union

23rd november
Speaker:Tim Wegenast (Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title:Agrarian Elites and Educational Attainment in Developing Countries

13th december
Speaker: Yannis Karagiannis (Visiting Researcher, UPF i Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK)
Title: Principal-Agent Analyses of the European Union: Shirking Political Scientists?


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Last updated: 17-05-2007