OCSID Podcasts
OCSID produces audio podcasts wherever possible for our Round Tables and other events. All podcasts are listed below individually - please note that Q&A are not included in the recordings.
The Historical Turn in the Study of Democracy Lecture Series 2010-2011
Programme (pdf)
Tuesday 25 January 2011, “What is a Historical Legacy? An Analysis of New Democracies.”
Jason Wittenberg, University of California, Berkeley, Audio file 45.04MB
Faculty Workshops and Seminars in Comparative Politics Programme Michaelmas Term 2010
Michaelmas Term 2010 Programme
Thursday 2 December 2010, “Economic Integration, Inequality and Growth: Latin America vs. the European Economies in Transition.”
Giovanni Andrea Cornia, University of Florence, Audio file 36.34MB
Thursday 21 October 2010, “Colonialism and Democracy.”
Steven Wilkinson, Yale University, Audio file 48.3MB
Inequality and Institutions in Industrialised Democracies, 8-9 May 2009
Programme (pdf)
The Politics of Inequality
Chair: Nancy Bermeo, Department of Politics and International Relations and Nuffield College, Oxford
Discussant: Thomas Plümper, University of Essex
Ronald Rogowski, UCLA, Audio file 14.11MB
Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson, University of Princeton, Audio file 13.20 MB
Pablo Beramendi, Duke University, and David Rueda, University of Oxford, Audio file 8.52 MB
Experimental Approaches to Inequality
Discussant: Meredith Rolfe, University of Oxford
Benjamin Barber, Pablo Beramendi, Duke University, and Erik Wibbels, Duke University, Audio file 14.81 MB
Efficiency, Redistribution and Reform
Chair: David Rueda, University of Oxford
Discussant: Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University
Mark Wickham-Jones, University of Bristol, Audio file 7.54 MB
International Political Economy of Redistribution
Chair: Pablo Beramendi, Duke University
Discussant: Johannes Lindvall, University of Oxford, and Philip Rehm, University of Oxford
Lucie Cerna, University of Oxford, Audio file 9.02 MB
Individual Preferences and Distributive Politics
Chair: Johannes Lindvall, University of Oxford
Discussant: James Alt, Harvard
Valentino Larcinese, LSE, James M. Snyder Jr, MIT, and Cecilia Testa, Royal Holloway, Audio file 15.60 MB
Round Table: Growing Unequal? Inequality in the Advanced Industrial Societies, 27 February 2009
Flyer (pdf)
Tony Atkinson, Department of Economics and Warden of Nuffield College, with commentary by David Grusky, Stanford University; Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine and David Rueda, Department of Politics and International Relations. Audio file 82.7 MB
OCSID Faculty Workshops and Seminars in Comparative Politics, Trinity Term 2009
Discussion: 'India's General Election Results: What they mean for India and beyond', 18 May 2009
Flyer (pdf)
Chair: Nancy Bermeo, Department of Politics and International Relations and Nuffield College, Oxford
Sarmila Bose, Department of Politics and International Relations and Green Templeton College, Oxford, Audio file 7.3MB
David Washbrook, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Audio file 4.11MB
Kanti Bajpai, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford, Audio file 6.38MB
Rosalind O'Hanlon, Oriental Institute, St Cross College, Oxford, Audio file 3.62MB
Laurence Whitehead, Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College, Oxford, Audio file 3.97MB
OCSID launch: 'Democracy and Inequality: Old Questions, New Agendas', 16 May 2008
Welcome and IntroductionsWelcome and Introductions- Neil MacFarlane (Head of Department, Politics and International Relations and St Anne's College, Oxford) Audio file 2.56MB
Welcome and Introductions - Nancy Bermeo, Department of Politics and International Relations and Nuffield College, Oxford, Audio file 2.91MB
How Does Democracy Affect Inequalities?Chair - Joe Foweraker, Director, Latin American Centre, Department of Politics and International Relations and St Antony's College, Oxford, Audio file 632KB
Deborah Yashar, Politics Department, Woodrow Wilson School and Chair of Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Audio file 10.2
Mary Gregory, Department of Economics and St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Audio file 10.3MB
Commentator - David Rueda, Department of Politics and International
Relations and Merton College, Oxford,
Audio file 4.13MB
Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College, Oxford, Audio file 9.57MB
Philippe Schmitter, European University Institute, Audio file 11.6MB