11th November 2014
h 16.30, Room A, via Pace 10
in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Social Action

Prof. Raymond Duch CESS - Nuffield College, Oxford
"Attributing responsibility to collective decision makers"

Leaflet

Abstract

We argue that individuals use responsibility attribution heuristics that apply to collective decisions made, for example, by families, teams within firms, boards in international organizations, or coalition governments. We conduct laboratory and online experiments to tease out the heuristics subjects use in their responsibility attribution for collective decision makers.
The lab experiments comprise a collective dictator game in which decision makers have weighted votes and recipients can punish individual decisionmakers. Our results show that recipients punish unfair allocations andmainly target the decision maker with proposal power and with the largest vote share. We find weak evidence that decision makers with veto power are targeted or that recipients punish proportional to vote share. The online experiment demonstrates that subjects indeed believe that the decision maker with proposal power has the most influence on the collective decision outcome. We discuss the implications of our findings for theories of vote choice.

Responsibility Attribution for Collective Decision Makers - paper

12th December 2014
h 14.30, Room A, via Pace 10

Prof. Charles Ragin University of California, Irvine - Department of Sociology

"Set-Analytic Methods for the Study of Social Inequality"

11th February 2015
h 14.30, Room A, via Pace 10

Prof. Helma Lutz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
"Care migration – a case study for the intersectionality of positions and practices and intersections of migration-, gender and care-regimes"

Abstract

Reflecting my own work on care-migration, I will introduce the concept of intersectionality and will demonstrate how I use it as a heuristic device in my research. I will focus on the intersectionality of positions and practices and the intersectionality of migration-, gender- and care regimes. I will conclude with open questions emerging from the realm of the concept.

27th March 2015
h 14.30, Room A, via Pace 10

Prof. Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim)
"Education systems and migrant-specific labour market returns"

15th May 2015
h. 14.30, Room A, via Pace 10

Prof. Johan De Deken (University of Amsterdam)
"Social investment and its critics. Conceptualising and measuring social investment using expenditure data"

12th June 2015
h 14.30, Room A, via Pace 10

Prof. Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham)
"The character of the 'electoral menu' and its implications for the quality of representative democracy"