The Waning of the Downsian Era and the Rise of Policy-Focused Analysis

A Max Planck Sciences Po Center (MaxPo) event in the series Seminars and Colloquia On Ökonomie, Politics and Society (SCOOPS),

 
Guest speaker: Paul PIERSON, University of California at Berkeley

Discussant: Bruno PALIER, Sciences Po, CEE / CNRS

 

Paul PIERSON is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research focuses on American and comparative political economy as well as social theory. Together with Jacob Hacker, he is the author of the highly influential book Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (Simon and Schuster 2010), whose impact goes much beyond the scientific realm. Other recent books include The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism (Princeton University Press 2007), co-edited with Theda Skocpol, and Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (Yale University Press 2005), co-authored by Jacob Hacker, and Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis (Princeton University Press 2004).

 

Bruno PALIER is CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po. His research focuses on welfare reforms in Europe, a subject he investigates through various comparative projects: on social investment policies, on social dualisations, and on the politics -both national and European- of welfare reforms. Palier was a visiting scholar at Stockholm University, Northwestern University, Harvard University and the European University Institute in Florence and is Honorary Professor of Welfare State Research at Odense University, South Denmark. He also acted as scientific coordinator of an European Network of Excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare).

 

Please make sure to register before 6th June with Marina Abelskaïa-Graziani at marina.abelskaiagraziani@sciences-po.fr