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In this seminar promoted by CEM and the Political Science Department at USP, Professor Lipsmeyer presented an ongoing research project being undertaken with Mallory Compton (PhD candidate at Texas A&M University) 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.