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Video playlist: Democracy, Autocracy, and the Welfare State in the 21st Century: A Global Approach

Video playlist: Democracy, Autocracy, and the Welfare State in the 21st Century: A Global Approach

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You can re-watch the seminars in the series, organized by Dorottya Szikra.

This online Doctoral Seminar Series was organized as part of the initiative of CEU DI to set up an Observatory on Welfare and Democracy involving scholars to investigate polarization, the rise of third-wave autocracy, and its complex relationship with social policy programs and welfare states globally.

Click on the titles to re-watch the online sessions:

  1. Philip Rathgeb (University of Edinburgh), How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

  2. Dorottya Szikra (CEU), Illiberal Welfare States in Europe and its Periphery

  3. Daniel Béland et al. (McGill University), Social Policy Development in Authoritarian, Semi-Authoritarian, and Democratic Regimes: Comparing Long-Term Care Systems in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

  4. Linda J. Cook (Brown University), Immigration, Democracy and the Rise of Right Politics in Europe

  5. Anirvan Chowdhury (University of Lousiville), Parties against Democracy: How Ruling Parties Subvert Inclusion to Entrench Dominance in India (to be added later)

  6. Angelo Panaro (FAU), Political Regimes and Social Performance in the Age of Autocratization

  7. Erdem Yoruk (University of Koc), The Contentious Politics of the Welfare State in the Global South

  8. Candelaria Garay (Cornell University) & Emilia Simison (Queen Mary University of London), Democratic Responsiveness and Social Policy: Evidence from Latin America (not recorded)

  9. Eva Fodor (CEU), Carefare: How Ethno-Nationalist Pronatalism Changes the Logic of Social Citizenship

  10. Andrea Krizsan (CEU), Conny Roggeband (University of Amsterdam), Reconfiguring Collaborative Governance under Autocratization: Civil Society Exclusion and Policy Capture in Domestic Violence Policy

  11. Yamini Aiyar (Brown Univeristy), Techno-Patrimonial Welfarism: How technology enabled welfarism is shaping electoral choices, while undermining democratic accountability