This seminar focuses on patterns of contestation, protest, alternative forms of political participation, and how each of these have had an impact upon contemporary policymaking in political economy. This includes welfare policy, financial regulation, monetary policy, macroeconomic policy, and the austerity agenda. This is part of the ESRC Seminar Series: Understanding the post-crisis landscape: assessing change in economic management, welfare, work and democracy.
We welcome proposals for papers and panels for this two-day seminar, from those with an academic interest and/or campaigning experience in different types of anti-austerity campaigns, addressing one or more of the following questions:
We have limited funds available to support the travel and accommodation costs of activists campaigning around anti-austerity issues, PhD students and early career scholars.
Hosted by the Johns Hopkins University - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center.
Please submit abstracts or brief statements of intended contribution, by Friday 29 April, to both:
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ESRC Seminar Series: Understanding the post-crisis landscape: assessing change in economic management, welfare, work and democracy