https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/63482254164?pwd=zfRnpu2Olcht2XXiwxTheBBFcRYzTh.1

Labour markets across the Global South are divided into formally employed "insiders" with contributory social security and informally employed "outsiders". Governments rarely redistribute towards the latter despite their potential majority. We ask whether outsiders themselves back such redistribution, taking Egypt as a most-likely case given its unusually deep insider-outsider gap and minimal mobility between the two groups. An original survey confronts respondents with concrete, locally embedded policy trade-offs that juxtapose pro-insider and pro-outsider policies. However defined and measured, outsiders support pro-outsider reform less than insiders — especially those in government employment — and no experimental framing, including one invoking social solidarity, shifts these attitudes. Low trust in government and doubt that new policies would benefit outsiders personally appear to mediate this result. Follow-up qualitative interviews trace such scepticism to disappointing experiences with existing health and cash-grant schemes and show that "outsider" is not a socially salient identity in Egypt, helping explain the political challenges faced by inclusive welfare reform in Egypt and beyond.

Steffen Hertog is Professor in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He joined the Department of Government in 2010 as a lecturer. He was previously Kuwait Professor at Sciences Po Paris, lecturer in political economy at the University of Durham and post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University. He holds an MA from the University of Bonn, an MSc from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Political Economy Workshop: The paper presenter starts with a few words about the paper (max. 10 min), followed by a discussant (max. 10 min). The floor will then be opened for the remaining 40 minutes for an open discussion.

Political Economy Workshop: The paper presenter starts with a few words about the paper (max. 10 min), followed by a discussant (max. 10 min). The floor will then be opened for the remaining 40 minutes for an open discussion.

Political Economy Workshop: The paper presenter starts with a few words about the paper (max. 10 min), followed by a discussant (max. 10 min). The floor will then be opened for the remaining 40 minutes for an open discussion.

Political Economy Workshop: The paper presenter starts with a few words about the paper (max. 10 min), followed by a discussant (max. 10 min). The floor will then be opened for the remaining 40 minutes for an open discussion.

As aid budgets contract, development actors are increasingly turning to local community contributions and diaspora resources to finance public goods in fragile settings. Drawing on programme documentation, campaign-level data and text analysis of campaign narratives, we examine 173 closed crowdfunding campaigns hosted on two digital platforms which combine local community contributions, diaspora donations and donor matching funds for public projects across Somalia and Somaliland. Across campaigns, communities have agency over project selection and fundraising, yet donors determine how much communities are expected to finance, and which forms of collective action receive more favourable matching terms. These cost-sharing rules vary substantially across programmes, from fixed splits or tiered schedules rewarding project scale and inter-clan cooperation. Among projects of similar size and sector within the same programme, however, higher community shares are not associated with proportionally larger amounts raised, but with a lower likelihood of meeting fundraising targets. Raising community shares may therefore leave more projects underfunded rather than compensate for declining donor support. By revealing the gap between how much donors expect communities to contribute and how much they actually mobilise, a vital contribution is hereby made to debates on informal taxation, development finance and the political economy of community co-funding arrangements in fragile settings.

Ana Isabel López García is Assistant Professor of Global Migration in the Department of Politics at Maastricht University. She holds an MPhil in Latin American Studies and a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. Before joining Maastricht University, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz.

Political Economy Workshop: The paper presenter starts with a few words about the paper (max. 10 min), followed by a discussant (max. 10 min). The floor will then be opened for the remaining 40 minutes for an open discussion.

The workshop will cover the fundamentals of identifying and dealing with missing data based on examples from quantitative surveys and will extend to macro-comparative data as well.

The workshop will be given by Florian Meinfelder who is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bamberg and Co-Ordinator of the Master in Survey Statistics. Florian also teaches at the GESIS summer school on these topics, and worked previously at the Media Research division of the Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (GfK).