The theme of the 2022 RC 19 annual conference is social policy development in the post-Covid-19 era. It welcomes comparative and case study papers that cover a broad range of social policy issues. The focus is on the post Covid-19 world, the implication of the pandemic on people’s wellbeing,...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. Attendance by registration only.

This event has been cancelled due to the global health crisis. The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America.

There seems to be general agreement that „populism“ has been on the rise over the past decade, and that it has implications for election outcomes and economic policies. There is the notion that pupulist economic policies oriented towards short-term gains at the cost of long-term structural...

By organising this conference, the Bank of Lithuania seeks to gather policy advisors and academics to discuss best practices and solutions to these pressing labour market challenges. We expect that the ideas and insights shared at the event will aid Lithuania’s policy makers in adopting...

The twelfth ESPAnet Italy annual conference aims to shed light on the complex intertwining of politics and policy, scales, and opening and closures in welfare transformation, that may increase inequalities. La conferenza annuale di ESPAnet Italia intende accendere i riflettori sul complesso...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

Sustainability is often referred to as a major objective to be respected by social policy makers. Yet, what is to be understood by this principle? Is there something as a common understanding of the principle of sustainability, valid across various disciplines, in a cross-national setting and...

Topics: - Financial sustainability and adequacy of social protection systems, – Advocating rights for “invisibles”, – Role, competences, and training of social workers in the face of current emergences, – Globalization and changing labour markets and labour rights, – Social...

The 16th annual conference of the ESPAnet will be an exciting opportunity to discuss the challenges, problems and future prospect of European welfare systems at the time of great political, economic and environmental uncertainties of the globalized world. For centuries the welfare state in...