WOPSI
The World Politics of Social Investment
Conference at LIEPP, Sciences Po, Paris
March 9th-11th, 2017
Salle de conférences du CERI
56 rue Jacob
75007 Paris
organized by
Julian Garritzmann (University of Konstanz/ University of Zurich)
Silja Häusermann (University of Zurich)
Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, Paris)
(Download here the program of the conference)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8th 2017
Arrival of participants
THURSDAY, MARCH 9th 2017
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome! Organizational matters and first substantive input (Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier)
9.30 – 11.00 Panel 1 : The politics of social investment reforms in Nordic Europe
- Nordic lights? Assessing the transformation of social investment politics?
Carsten Jensen and Kees van Kersbergen
- From social investment by default to social investment by design : Re-combining economic viability and social inclusion in the Austrian and German skill formation systems
Niccolo Durazzi and Leonard Geyer
Discussant : Julian Garritzmann
11.00-11.15 Leg stretcher/ Coffee break
11.15-13.00 Panel 2 : The politics of social investment reforms in Southern Europe
- Catching up or Falling Behind? The Politics of Labour Market and Family Policy Reforms in Southern Europe
Reto Bürgisser
- Breaking through the ice? The politics of social investment reforms in Italy
Stefano Ronchi and Patrik Vesan
- The Politics of Employment-oriented Family Policies in Britain, Germany and Italy and the Role of Employers
Emmanuele Pavolini and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Discussant : Margarita León
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-16.00 Panel 3 : Neglected fields in the European social investment debate
- Public Preferences Towards Social Investment : A Multi-Level Analysis
Björn Bremer
- Social investment in health. The politics of disease prevention and health promotion in OECD countries
Katharina Böhm and Simon Ress
- When Social Investment Ideas Meet Technocratic Defunding: The Politics of Social Investment Reforms in Israel 1990-2016
Asa Maron
Discussant : Marius Busemeyer
16.00-16.15 Leg stretcher/ Coffee break
16.15-18.00 Panel 4 : The politics of social investment reforms in Eastern Europe
- Explaining the difference in social investment agendas between Estonia and Latvia through party competition on ethnic minorities
Sonja Avlijaš
- Governing “permanent austerity:” Social investment reforms and their enabling conditions in Baltic Europe
Anu Toots and Triin Lauri
- ‘Ugly’ Face of Social Investment? The Politics of Childcare in East and Central Europe
Michal Polakowski and Dorota Szelewa
Discussant : Jane Jenson
19.30- Dinner
FRIDAY, MARCH 10th 2017
9.00-10.45 Panel 5 : The politics of social investment reforms in Asian democracies
- Media legislative linkage of social investment politics in East Asia
Jaemin Shim
- Comparing Social Investment Strategy in South Korea and Japan
Mari Miura, Seung-ho Baek, Sophia Seung-yoon and Eriko Hamada
- Towards Social Investment Individual Preferences and Strategic Coalitions of Work-Family Policy in East Asia
Chung-Yang Yeh, Jen-Der Lue and Ming-Chang Tsai
Discussant : Bruno Palier
10.45-11.00 Leg stretcher/ Coffee break
11.00-12.45 Panel 6 : Cross-regional analyses of social investment reforms
- Social Investment or Child Care on the Cheap? Quality, Workforce, and Access Considerations in the Expansion of Early Childhood Education and Care
Kimberly Morgan
- Understanding politics behind policies: the development of Social Investment in Familialistic States. The cases of South Korea and Spain
Margarita León and Young Jun Choi
- Determinants of Social Investments: Structural typology of Indian states
Sony Pellissery and Vivek Raj Anand
Discussant : Kees van Kersbergen
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Panel 7 : The politics of social investment reforms in Latin America and around the globe
- Political Linkage Strategies and Social Investment Policies Clientelism and Educational Policy in the Developing World
Haohan Chen and Herbert Kitschelt
- Social Investment and Neoliberal Legacies : Breaking the Mold?
Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens and Claire Dunn
- The Politics of Social Investment in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Uruguay
Jesus Salvador Peralta
Discussant : Silja Häusermann
15.45-16.00 Leg stretcher/ Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Panel 8 : The politics of conditionnal cash transfers in Latin America
- Getting to social investment in Peru
Jane Jenson and Nora Nagels
- The politics of conditioning social investment: evidence from Latin America’s cash transfers
Florencia Antia, Cecilia Rossel and Pilar Manzi
- From the Local to the National, From the Left and the Right: The Origins of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America
Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
- The End of Inclusion? Lessons from Brazil in transforming CCTS into a Social Investment Strategy
Tracy Fenwick
Discussants : Evelyne Huber (on Jenson/Nagels and Antia/Rossel) & Melina Altamirano (on Velázquez Leyer and Fenwick)
20.00- Dinner
SATURDAY, MARCH 11th 2017
9.00-10.45 Panel 9 : Education and the sustainability of social investment in Latin America
- Early childhood education and care policies and labor market dualization in Latin America
Melina Altamirano and Barbara Zarate-Tenorio
- Skills Regimes in Latin America : Education, Inequality and Economic Specialization in Comparative Perspective
Aldo Madariaga and Juan Bogliaccini
- What is the future of human development income transfer programmes in Latin America?
Armando Barrientos
Discussant : Kimberly Morgan
10.45-11.00 Leg stretcher/ Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Panel 10 : Organizations and the social investment agenda
- Social Investment in the Child According to the World Bank
Rianne Mahon
Discussant : Carsten Jensen
12.00-13.00 Concluding discussion & outlook