Workshop on Right Parties and (In)equality

When it comes to (in)equality and the politics of inequality, political scientists often focus on left parties and far right parties. This workshop addresses this gap and aims to shed a broader light on the
changing ways in which different parties right of the center — center right, radical right, and extreme right parties — conceive of (in)equality, broadly construed.

Issues the workshop intends to focus on include, but are not limited to:

• The extent to which right parties have changed their profiles and ideology regarding equality;
• The determinants of ideological change on the right on issues related to various inequalities;
• The utility of categories of party families, and the mainstream\radical distinction, on the right;
• The adoption of certain egalitarian and/or anti-egalitarian policies by parties right of the center.

To address these issues, we invite papers that adopt diverse methodological toolkits and theoretical perspectives. The workshop will take place at the University of Konstanz, on May 11th and will be followed by a workshop dinner. The Emmy Noether Group Varieties of Egalitarianism: Mapping the Politics of Inequality (led by Alexander Horn) will organize and sponsor accommodation for two nights.

Please submit your abstract (<400 words) by 28 February 2023 to voe@uni-konstanz.de.