#  CES Visiting Scholars Seminar: Economic Downturns and Political Competition since the 1870s 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 9, 2016** 

 12:15PM - 01:45PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland St. Cambridge**  



 

 



 

*Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe*

SPEAKER[Johannes Lindvall](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/johannes-lindvall)Professor of Political Science, Lund University; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard UniversityRelying on new data on the ideology of heads of government in 32 democracies over a period of more than 140 years, this paper shows that short economic downturns, with a single year of falling per-capita consumption or economic output, have more often resulted in shifts to the right than shifts to the left. But long-lasting economic downturns, with more than one consecutive year of falling consumption or output, are different, since they often affect a much greater proportion of the population: compared with short downturns which favor the right, long downturns have more uniform political effects.  
  
  
## Sponsors

- [Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups/visiting-scholars-seminar-new-research-on-europe)

### CONTACT

[Arthur Goldhammer](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/000201-arthur-goldhammer)<art.goldhammer@gmail.com>

 

 



 

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