Center for Metropolitan Studies Special Seminar

Is it All Personal? Explaining Policy Preferences through Economic Insecurity, with Christine Lipsmeyer (Texas A&M University)

On August 5, 2015, from 5.30 to 7 pm, the professor Christine Lipsmeyer, from the Political Science Department at the Texas A&M University, presents the seminar "Is it All Personal? Explaining Policy Preferences through Economic Insecurity". 

In this seminar, Professor Lipsmeyer will present an ongoing research project being undertaken with Mallory Compton related to  the comparative political economy research on how individual economic insecurity influences policy preferences by considering the broader economic context in which individuals create those preferences. The project uses the ISSP 1996 and 2006 Surveys, including the countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Great Britain, and the United States. Relying on a combination of data on individual insecurity (by occupational unemployment, i.e., using the method of Iversen and Soskice), macroeconomic insecurity (national level unemployment), and institutional insecurity from a new source (Centre for the Study of Living Standards, Osberg and Sharpe 2014), this project explores how insecurity at the individual and national levels influences preferences on unemployment policy.

When: August 5th 2015 (Wednesday), from 5.30 to 7 pm.

Open to all without prior registration (seminar will be given in English without simultaneous translation)