CIR Conference 2024

To mark the end of the multi-year SAMEVAL project funded by the Research Council Norway, which has funded the Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) seminar and workshop series at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, we invite you to the 2024 CIR Conference on Comparative Politics.

The conference takes place at Professorboligen, by UiO’s Law Faculty in downtown Oslo. Each presenter is given 20-25 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for the discussant and a 10-15 minute Q&A session.

Time and place: Apr. 18, 2024 12:00 PM–Apr. 19, 2024 4:00 PM, Karl Johans gate 47

THURSDAY APRIL 18TH

Time	Presenter	Title	Discussant
12:00	Lunch
	Chair: Vilde Lunnan Djuve
13:00	Carl Henrik Knutsen University of Oslo/PRIO	Opening remarks
13:10	Annekatrin Deglow Uppsala University	Militarized Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Rights: Evidence from India	Francesca R. Jensenius
13:50	Carl Henrik Knutsen University of Oslo	Synthesizing Research through Total Model Space: The Case of Democracy and Growth	Haakon Gjerløw
14:30	Break
	Chair: Miroslav Nemčok
14:50	Are Skeie Hermansen University of Oslo	Immigrant-native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs, not within job inequality	Martin Søyland
15:30	Scott Gates University of Oslo	Vote buying, beliefs, and the secret ballot	Jonas Schmid

FRIDAY APRIL 19TH

Time	Presenter	Title	Discussant
09:00	Coffee
	Chair: Martin Søyland
09:10	Vibeke Wøien Hansen Institute for Social Research (ISF)	Party responsiveness to party voters and interest groups on different policy dimensions	Maiken Røed
09:50	Jonathan Polk Lund University	Multidimensional Incongruence and Political Disaffection in Europe	Miroslav Nemčok
10:30	Break
	Chair: Carl Henrik Knutsen
10:40	Milan Svolik Yale University	Who (Really) Supports Democracy? Experimental Evidence from Revealed Preference Measures	Daniel Goldstein
11:20	Sirianne Dahlum University of Oslo	Elite Commitments to Democracy: Experimental Evidence from Norway	Jacob Nyrup
12:00	Lunch
	Chair: Eli Sofie Balterzen
13:00	Jennifer Gandhi Yale University	Do I Live in a Democracy? How Comparisons Influence Individual Assessments of Democracy	Carl Henrik Knutsen
13:40	Kalle Moene University of Oslo	Political competition over life and death -- Social provision and infant mortality in India	Tore Wig
14:20	Break
	Chair: Maiken Røed
14:40	Cathie Jo Martin Boston University	Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education System Development in Britain and Denmark	Jens Jungblut
15:20	Daniel Goldstein University of Oslo	The Weight of Precedent: Party Composition, Crises, and Exclusive Norms	Scott Gates

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Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR)

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