Bruno Amable
Updated Thursday, 08 December 2011
Call for Papers: Socio Economic Conflict and the Dynamics of
Institutional Change
The 24th
Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics (SASE)
will be held this year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge (USA) on June 28-30, 2012. Within this Conference, we organize
a ‘mini-conference’ on ‘Socio Economic Conflict and the Dynamics
of Institutional Change’. The description of the mini-conference’s
theme is the following:
Globalization and the Great Recession have exacerbated socio-economic
conflicts in industrialized economies, putting macroeconomic policies under
pressure and modifying the political expectations of and the balance of power
between social groups. The social compromises supporting existing institutions
have been undermined, thus making institutional change and structural reforms
inevitable. In this framework economic institutions are understood as a way of
settling fundamental conflicts of interest between social groups. A change in
institutions such as the labour market, product market competition, innovation
and financial systems and social protection systems, can thus be traced back to
a change in social demands and balance of power between social groups, and the
reaction of political actors. The research called in this mini-conference will
seek to highlight this kind of interplay between the social, economic and
political spheres, where economic dynamics affect the social position of
agents, their expectations, the structuring in social groups, the political demands
expressed by these groups and the strategies of political actors. It will
welcome paper proposals focusing on industrialized countries, in a national or
a comparative perspective. We particularly encourage submissions that address
one or more of the following questions: What are the consequences of the
current transformations taking place in modern capitalism in terms of
de-structuring and re-structuring of social, economic or political conflict?
What are the new socio-political compromises and what does it imply for the
pattern of institutional change? What is the impact of the Great Recession on
the evolution of these compromises? Does it fundamentally challenge otherwise
stable equilibriums or does it act as an accelerator of previous trends? How did
the emergence of new actors (through globalization or the European integration)
modify national social and political equilibriums? How important are the
strategies of political actors for the dynamics of institutional change?
http://www.sase.org/mini-
Paper
submissions should be based on an extended abstract (approx. 1000 words) and made by January 15, 2012 on the SASE web page: http://www.sase.org/. The mini-conference will consist of 2 to 6 panels. Each panel will
have a discussant, meaning that selected participants must submit a completed
paper by June 1st, 2012. If a paper proposal cannot be accommodated
within a mini-conference, it will be forwarded to the program committee, who
will pass it on to one of the networks as a regular submission.
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