Contemporary Challenges of Democracy and Inclusive Growth

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together scholars working on different aspects of some of the major contemporary challenges of democracies: inclusive growth, redistribution, extremism, and housing. The papers to be presented build on a variety of empirical strategies, historical foci, and theoretical foundations but have in common the concern with topics that are salient contemporarily in advanced and developing democracies.

Sub Unit

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• Does Democracy Cause Inclusive Growth? - Fernando Bizzarro, Boston College; Ian Shapiro, Yale University

• Countering Parliamentary Decline or Counter Provoking Extremists? - Isabela Mares, Yale University

• Quality of Government Perceptions and Preferences for Redistribution - Bilyana Petrova, Texas Tech University

• Housing Financialization and Political Opportunism - Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University; Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University; Vincent Heddesheimer, Princeton University

Chair

• Ian Shapiro Yale University

Discussants

• Alisha Caroline Holland Harvard University

• Jonathan Rodden Stanford University