Program

British Law
 and
 Caste Identity
 Manipulation
 in
 Colonial
 India:
 The 
Punjab
 Alienation
 of
 Land 
Act
Guilhem Cassan (Paris School of Economics, Bocconi University and Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée)
Discussant: Martin Ljunge

Civic Virtues, Family Ties, and Political Participation
Martin Ljunge (University of Copenhagen and SITE)
Discussant: Danila Serra

The Consequences of Being Forced to Vote: Evidence from Brazil´s Dual Voting System
Fernanda de Leon (University of East Anglia)
Discussant: Guilhem Cassan

Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment
Danila Serra (Florida State University)
Discussant: Fernanda de Leon

Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine Deaths in China
Ruixue Jia (IES, Stockholm University)
Discussant: Justina 
Fischer

Living Under the ‘Right’ Government: Does Ideology Mater to Trust in Political Institutions? An Analysis for OECD Countries
Justina 
Fischer (University 
of 
Mannheim)
Discussant: Ruixue 
Jia

Why do Good Politicians Take Bad Actions?
Margherita Negri (Université catholique de Louvain, CORE)
Discussant: Galina Zudenkova

A Model of Party Discipline in Congress
Galina Zudenkova (Department of Economics and CREIP, Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Discussant: Margherita Negri

Seeds of
 Distrust:
 Conflict
 in
 Uganda
*Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
Discussant: Alvaro Aguirre

Targets of Violence: Evidence from India’s Naxalite Conflict
Oliver Vanden Eynde (Sticerd – LSE)
Discussant: Jean-Paul Azam

The Risk of Civil Conflicts as a Determinant of Political Institutions
Alvaro Aguirre (Central Bank of Chile)
Discussant: Mathias Thoenig

A State is Born: Transport Infrastructure and Democracy in Somaliland
Jean-Paul Azam (Toulouse School of Economics)
Discussant: Oliver Vanden Eynde

Rule of Law, Institutions and Information
Randolph Luca Bruno (University of Birmingham, IZA and Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti)
Discussant: Enriqueta Aragonès

Electoral Competition through Issue Selection
*Enriqueta Aragonès (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Discussant: Marta Curto-Grau

Comparative Politics with Endogenous Party Discipline
*Benoît Crutzen (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Discussant: Randolph Bruno

The Returns to Partisan Alignment between Regional and Local Governments
*Marta Curto-Grau (Universitat Barcelona and Institut d’Economia de Barcelona)
Discussant: Benoît Crutzen

Fiscal Union Consensus Design under the Risk of Autarky
Jaime Luque (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Discussant: Anil Yildizparlak

Vertical Aspects of Sub-national Deficits: The Impact of Fiscal Rules and Tax Autonomy in European Countries
Dirk Foremny (University of Bonn, Germany)
Discussant: Jaime Luque

Colonialism, Elite Formation and Corruption
Kyriakos C. Neanidis (University of Manchester and Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research)
Discussant: Dirk Foremny

Give Peace a Chance: The Effect of Incomplete and Imperfect Information on Mediation
Anil Yildizparlak (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Discussant: Kyriakos Neanidis