Workshop on globalization, attitudes and populism

Under the INTER project EUFIRST, a Workshop on « Globalization, Attitudes and Populism » will be held on March 23-24 at LISER.

The program consists of ten presentations, including two keynote speeches by Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University) and Hillel Rapoport (Paris school of Economics and LISER), and two presentations by younger researchers linked to the ACROSS/MINLAB doctoral training units.

2 of our DTU students: Silvia Peracchi (MINLAB) and Etienne Bacher (ACROSS) will participate as speakers.

The workshop deals with the causes and consequences of populism and sanction votes, their links with perceptions of inequality and cultural threats, trade and immigration shocks. The workshop is part of the EUFIRST supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (EUFIRST, n.13956644) and by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). The objective of the project is to gain understanding of (i) the conditions that cause natives’ hostile or positive reactions to trade and migration; (ii) the specific determinants of left-wing and right-wing responses; (iii) the political competition induced by the entry or by the rise of populist parties (how does populism affect the political platform of traditional parties?); and (iv) the reverse impact of populism on the size and structure of trade and immigration.

Keynote speakers