The PROGRAM

Keith Banting, Queen’s University (Canada), Richard Johnston, University of Pennsylvania (USA), Will Kymlicka, Queen's University (Canada) and Stuart Soroka, McGill University (Canada):
“National Identity and Support for the Welfare State” Discussant: John Stephens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
Christer Gerdes, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“The impact of immigration on the size of government: empirical evidence from Danish municipalities” Discussant: Mikko Niemela, Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Finland)
Thomas Dejgaard, Aalborg University (Denmark) and Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University (Denmark):
“Welfare Regimes and Images of poor and welfare Recipients” Discussant: Rune Ervik, University of Bergen (Norway)

Rianne Mahon, Carleton University (Canada):
"Transnationalising (Child) Care Policy: the OECD and the World Bank" Discussant: Hildegard Theobald, University of Vechta (Germany)
Wapula Raditloaneng, University of Botswana (Botswana):
“A comparative analysis of the impact of non-formal education on poverty reduction: implications for North-South cooperation” Discussant: Hrvoje Kap, Stockholm University (Sweden)
HyeKyung Lee, Yonsei University (Korea):
“Emergence of Korea as a democratic welfare state: is post-developmentalism sustainable?” Discussant: Michelle Dion, McMaster University (Canada)

Walter Korpi, Stockholm University (Sweden) and Stefan Englund, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“Distributive Institutions as Mediators of Partisan Politics to Household Income Inequality: A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis” Discussant: Alain Noël, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University (Denmark):
“Why social cohesion declines in liberal regimes and increases in social democratic regimes: A comparative study of the USA, Great Britain, Denmark and Sweden” Discussant: Kenneth Nelson, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Julia Szalai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary):
“Policies of inclusion and exclusion in education: potentials and limitations in an East-West comparative perspective” Discussant:Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield (UK)

Joya Misra, Michelle Budig and Irene Boeckmann, University of Massachusetts (USA):
“A Cross-National Perspective on Gender, Parenthood and Employment” Discussant: Timo Fleckenstein, London School of Economics (UK)
Susan McDaniel, University of Lethbridge (USA) and Amber Gazso, York University (Canada):
“Differences that Amplify: Canadians and Americans in Mid-Life Looking to the Later Years” Discussant: Bettina Cass, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Gholamabbas Tavassoli, University of Tehran (Iran):
“The main causes of housekeeping role conflict and women's employment” Discussant: Sally Bould, University of Delaware (USA)

Teppo Kroger, University of Jyväskylä (Finland):
“Dedomestication and childcare policy: A comparison of care service provisions of fifteen welfare states” Discussant: Silke Bothfeld, University of Applied Science (Germany)
Mikko Niemela, Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Finland) and Arttu Saarinen, University of Turku (Finland):
“The role of Ideas and Institutional Change in Finnish Public Sector Reform” Discussant: Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, University of Oxford (UK)
Hrvoje Kap, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“Reform of the Swedish education system in the post-war period as social rights of citizenship” Discussant: Paul Bernard, Université de Montréal (Canada)

Michelle Dion, McMaster University (Canada):
“Welfare and redistribution in Latin America: Toward a New Model?” Discussant: Juliana Martinez Franzoni, University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
Noemi Lendvai, University of Bristol (UK):
“Variety of post-communist welfare: Europeanisation and emerging welfare regimes in the new EU Member States” Discussant: Monique Kremer, Netherlands Science Council for Government Policy (Netherlands)
Tuba Agartan, Providence College (USA):
“Weak Informal Security Regime, Failing Health Care System: An Alternative Explanation of Reform in Turkey” Discussant: Ingalill Montanari, Stockholm University (Sweden)

Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Mareike Gronwald, University of Mannheim (Germany) :
“International Policy Diffusion or Path Dependent Adaptation: The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe” Discussant: David Natali, University of Bologna (Italy)
Bjorn Hvinden, Norwegian Social Research (Norway) and Håkan Johansson, Växjö University (Sweden):
“Supranational and bilateral policy transfer: how does it impact national welfare reform?” Discussant: Jane Jenson, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Huck-ju Kwon, Seoul National University (Korea):
“Policy learning and transfer: the experience of the developmental state in East Asia” Discussant: Ito Peng, University of Toronto (Canada)
Ann Orloff, Northwestern University (USA):
“Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States.
An Unfinished Agenda” Discussant: Deborah Brennan, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Chair: Deena White, Université de Montréal (Canada)