Seminar Series
Government and Public Policy sponsors a quarterly seminar series that hosts intellectual and scholarly leaders from across the social sciences. Past speakers include Margaret Levi and Michael Hechter.
Activities
The Government and Public Policy research cluster supports a variety of activities, including conferences and workshops, a quarterly seminar series, and research funding for individual members.
Activity Highlights
Event Funding
The cluster actively supports conferences, workshops, and retreats, including the NYUAD Pademic Politics Workshop (April 2023), the Yonsei-NYUAD Joint Workshop on Domestic Politics and International Relations (May 2023), and many others.
Cluster Member Accomplishments
Cluster members have won numerous awards. Recent highlights include:
Elisabeth Anderson receiving the 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and J. Andrew Harris receiving the 2022 Elinor Ostrom Award for the Best Article published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics awarded by the Formal Theory Section of the American Political Science Association.
Other Activity
Workshop on Intersection between Domestic Politics and International Relations
Organized by Sujeong Shim and J. Andy Harris (joint with Global Dynamics)
On May 18-19, 2023, NYUAD and Yonsei University hosted a workshop that brought together international relations and comparative politics scholars whose research addresses important political economy issues of our time, ranging from democratic backsliding and the rise of China to foreign aid and human rights.
NYUAD Pandemic Politics Conference
Organized by Joan Barcelo and Robert Kubinic
On April 4th, 2023, the Pandemic Politics Workshop convened approximately twelve researchers from the US, Europe, Central Asia, and the UAE. The workshop focused on presenting research aimed at understanding and modeling the impacts of the pandemic on governments and societies. The papers showcased a variety of methodologies, ranging from survey experiments to big data Twitter analysis and network modeling. A central theme of the conference was the challenges governments faced in responding to the evolving dynamics of the pandemic. The workshop emphasized the necessity for robust and comprehensive models of human behavior to predict and elucidate the potential effects of government policies during pandemics.
Seed Funding for Works in Progress
"Formation of Macroeconomic Expectations within Production Networks" Jordan Norris (NYUAD), Saten Kumar (AUT), Samreen Malik (NYUAD)
Firms are interconnected through market competition, input-output relationships, and collaborative ventures. However, the understanding of how macroeconomic information is transmitted across firms and the factors that influence this flow remains limited. To address this gap, a dataset has been developed that captures these linkages. The dataset comprises 2000 interconnected firms and includes critical details such as the number of suppliers, primary suppliers, share of input from the main supplier, number of customers, and primary customers. The next steps involve surveying and experimenting with firm managers, necessitating further enrichment of the dataset with additional pairs, currently underway.
Seed Funding for Works in Progress
"Out-Group Tax Compliance and Tax Morale: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Brazil and Turkey," Yusuf Magiya (NYUAD) and Giuliana Pardelli (NYUAD)
This project conducted a face-to-face survey experiment in Turkey to examine how outgroup tax evasion affects tax morale and evaluations of outgroups compared to ingroup tax evasion. Using a factorial survey design, participants were presented with vignettes depicting individuals varying in tax compliance status, access to public goods, economic status, and ethnic background. The findings revealed that exposure to tax evasion reduced overall tax morale and led to more negative evaluations of individuals involved in evasion. Importantly, outgroup tax evasion intensified negative evaluations of individuals to a greater extent than it affected tax morale, highlighting distinct impacts on outgroup perceptions in comparison to ingroup evaluations.