AxPo Polarization Workshop

Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:40-10:00 

Session 1: 10:00-12:00 

Chair: Bruno Cousin 

• Olivier Godechot, Sciences Po, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), CNRS and AxPo. “Segregation at work and its societal consequences” 
• Myungji Yang, University of Hawai'i - Mānoa. “Reactionary Politics in South Korea: Historical Legacies, Right-Wing Intellectuals, and Political Mobilization”
• Vicente Valentim, University of Oxford, “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand”

Lunch Break: 12:00-13:00

Session 2: 13:00-15:00 

Chair: Emiliano Grossman 

• José Miguel Rojo Martinez, University of Murcia. “Love in Times of Political Polarization: The Impact of Affective Polarization on Social Distancing”
• Catarina Leão, Sciences Po, AxPo and Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). “Beyond Indoctrination: The Role of Material Benefits in Shaping Autocratic Legacies”
• Carlos Meléndez, Central European University Democracy Institute (CEU- DI). “Building Grietas. Polarization and negative partisanship in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile”

Session 3: 15:30-17:30

Chair: Jen Schradie 

• Georgia Thébault, Sciences Po, Department of Economics. “The Closer the Better? Geographical Constraint and Selective Programs in French Higher Education” 
• Alexander Bor, Central European University Democracy Institute (CEU- DI). “Global Differences in Experiences of Hostility on Social Media Reflect Political and Economic Inequalities” 
• Noam Titelman, Sciences Po, AxPo and Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF). “Popular Authoritarianism: The Social and Discursive Underpinnings of Democratic Erosion from Below”

Final round table: 17:30-18:30

Chair: Olivier Godechot 

Panelists: Bruno Cousin, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Sciences Po; Emiliano Grossman, Center for Socio- Political Data (CDSP), CEE, Sciences Po; Jen Schradie, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), Sciences Po