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Frank Bohn
RUCAM Political Economy Workshop/Conference from Wednesday, 23 August (early morning), to Friday, 25 August 2023 (after award dinner).
Based on the workshop presentations there will be a special issue of the European Journal of Political Economy on “Political Competition and Public Policy in Liberal Democracies”. Papers may be empirical, experimental or theoretical.
The goal of the workshop/conference is (i) to learn about analytical modelling approaches in a particular area of political economy; (ii) to promote the exchange of research ideas in empirical and analytical political economy; and (iii) create a network of researchers. The workshop/conference consists of
- Graduate teaching by Allan Drazen (professor, University of Maryland) and Stanley Winer (professor, Carleton University) in the mornings;
- Research presentations (45 min.) by participants in the afternoons, with Prof Drazen and/or Prof Winer being present;
- Evening activities (1. panel on research strategies in political economy; 2. cooking workshop with gala dinner; 3. award dinner).
The graduate teaching: analytical modelling approaches to understanding democracy: Topic 1: Political Competition and Public Economics; Topic 2: Political Competition and Political Budget Cycles.
Your research presentations: You will present your own paper and benefit from feedback from a discussant and from the experts. We welcome empirical and theoretical papers from a wide range of topics such as (but not limited to) the economics and politics of public and non-market decision-making, political economy, public policy and the economics of institutions. Your discipline could be economics, political science, another social science or physics.
The cooking workshop: We’ll cook our own gala dinner. We’ll be split in groups to prepare parts of our own dinner (soup, entrée, main course(s) and desert) and then enjoy it together.
Important Dates:
There are two opportunities for submitting your paper. If you know early on that your paper is accepted, this may help with planning your summer.
You can submit your paper before 11 April or before 30 May. In each case, you will have to confirm your participation one week later, if your paper is accepted. You will then receive an invoice which must be paid within 5 working days.
First Round Submissions:
24 April, 2023 Deadline for paper submission (use rucam@ru.nl).
We’ll inform you (within days) whether your paper is accepted or not.
2 May, 2023 Deadline for confirming your participation: (use rucam@ru.nl).
Second Round Submissions:
30 May, 2023 Deadline for paper submission (use rucam@ru.nl).
We’ll inform you (within days) whether your paper is accepted or not.
7 June, 2023 Deadline for confirming your participation: (use rucam@ru.nl).
Programme and Final Paper:
Beg. of Aug. 2023 We’ll send out the programme, the reading list for the graduate teaching and the allocation of discussants.
7 August, 2023 Deadline for sending your final paper (to rucam@ru.nl and to your discussant).
Conference details:
- The RUCAM Workshop/Conference is organised by the Radboud University Centre for Analytical Modelling (www.rucam.nl).
- It takes place at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from 23 August to 25 August, 2023 (three full days).
- We expect participants to arrive on Tuesday, 22 August.
- Registration for the workshop is from 8:00-8:30 on Wednesday, 23 August. On the other days, we start at 9 o’clock.
- The conference finishes on Friday, 25 August, with dinner in combination with the best paper award.
- You are encouraged to travel by train or another environmentally friendly way or to compensate the CO2 emission of your flight.
Paper submission and presentation:
- Completed (or unfinished) papers must be submitted to rucam@ru.nl.
- Presenters have 25-30 minutes for their presentation.
- Discussants have maximally 5 minutes for comments.
- Expert comments and plenary discussion: 10-15 minutes.
- There will be a best paper award.
- We expect 20-40 participants. Depending on the number of presenters we may have to reduce the presentation time for some papers.
Your obligations:
- The conference fee is 100 Euro. Payment must be received within 5 working days upon receipt of our invoice.
- You are expected to actively participate in all sessions. Please do not submit a paper, if you are planning on not being present in all sessions.
- If your paper is accepted, we also expect you to prepare a couple of slides for discussing the paper of another participant.
- When you confirm your participation, you also accept that your email address will be shared with other workshop/conference participants.
The conference fee covers:
- Conference information / documentation
- Morning and afternoon breaks
- Conference lunches and buffet dinner during the panel discussion.
- Cooking workshop / gala dinner
Cancellation policy:
- All cancellations must be received in writing via email to frank.bohn@ru.nl by 3 July 2023.
- 50 Euro will be refunded (50 Euro will be retained for administrative charges).
- No refund will be given for cancellation requests received after 3 July 2023.
- No-shows are subject to the full conference fee.
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ Nijmegen , Netherlands
