SOCIAL PROTESTS AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE

FALSET, OCTOBER 18-20, 2012 ORGANIZED BY ENRIQUETA ARAGONES AND SANTIAGO SANCHEZ-PAGES Sponsored by

SCHEDULE Thursday October 18 10:00 Depart from Hotel Catalonia La Pedrera (Carrer Còrsega 368, Barcelona) 13:00-14:00 Lunch at Hotel Hostal Sport (Carrer Miquel Barceló 4, Falset) 14:00-17:15 Paper presentations at Hotel Hostal Sport 18:00-20:00 Conference Reception at Celler Devinssi. 20:30 Dinner at Restaurant Celler de l’Aspic Friday October 19 9:30- 13:45 Paper presentations at Hotel Hostal Sport 14:00 Lunch at Hotel Hostal Sport 16:30-19:30 Conference reception at Vinyes Domenech 20:30 Dinner at Hotel Hostal Sport Saturday October 20 9:30- 13:45 Paper presentations at Hotel Hostal Sport 14:00 Lunch at Hotel Hostal Sport 16:00-19:00 Conference reception at Cellers d'Scala Dei 19:00 Depart to Barcelona Aparthotel Mariano Cubi (Carrer Mariano Cubí 62-64, Barcelona) 21:30 Dinner at Restaurant Coure

PROGRAM Thursday October 18 Session 1: Social protests and corruption 14:00 -15:00 Marco Giani (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Political Persuasion: Theory and Evidence 15:00 – 16:00 Vasileios Vlaseros (U of Edinburgh) “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”: Heterogeneous Beliefs, Costly Political Action and Majority Decisions 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break 16:15 – 17:15 Amrita Dhillon (U of Warwick) Status, incentives and corruption Friday October 19 Session 2: Electoral competition 9:30- 10:30 David López-Rodriguez (Banco de España) Distributive Politics and Economic Ideology 10:30 – 11:30 Alessandra Bonfiglioli (IAE-CSIC) The Political Cost of Reforms 11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break Session 3: Electoral Systems 11:45 – 12:45 Orestis Troumpounis (U Carlos III) Disproportionality of the electoral system and the incentives for policy convergence 12:45 – 13:45 Santiago Sánchez-Pagés (UB and U of Edinburgh) (Don’t) Make My Vote Count Saturday October 20 Session 4: Direct Democracy 9:30- 10:30 Patricia Funk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) How do Electoral Systems Affect Ficsal Policy? Evidence from Cantonal Parliaments, 1890-2000 10:30 – 11:30 María del Pino Ramos-Sosa (Universidad de Málaga) Downsian competition with participatory democracy 11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break Session 5: Experiments 11:45 – 12:45 Karine Van Der Straeten (Toulouse School of E) Sorting Out Mechanical and Psychological Effects in Candidate Elections: An Appraisal with Experimental Data 12:45 – 13:45 Micael Castanheira (ECARES-ULB) and Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Max Planck Institute) Divided Majority and Information Aggregation in Small Elections: Theory and Experiments

PARTICIPANTS

Enriqueta Aragones, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC

Alexandra Bonfiglioli, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC

Micael Castanheira, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Maria Cubel, Universitat de Barcelona

Amrita Dhillon, University of Warwick

Patricia Funk, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Marco Giani, Université Libre de Bruxelles

David López, Banco de España

Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Max Planck Institute

Maria del Pino Ramos-Sosa, Universidad de Málaga

Santiago Sanchez-Pages, Universitat de Barcelona

Orestis Troumpounis, Universidad Carlos III

Karine van der Straeten, Université of Toulouse

Vasileios Vlaseros, University of Edinburgh