Political Science mostly focusses on the electoral processes of democracy and political behavior of the population. However, democracies are embedded in capitalist political economies, where quiet politics rather than the electoral arena is often calling the shots. One of the most important transformations of capitalism of recent debates has been the rise of finance, or financialization as some authors call it.

This event aims to bring together colleagues from Circle U. who work on topics related to democracy and finance, such as public supervision of banking and financial sector, control of illicit financial flows, taxation of financial transactions and assets, impact of financialization on State-Market relations, on political representation or on social and economic policies, with the aim get insights in existing research agendas and explore the potential for future collaboration.

Programme

June 12

13:30 -14:00 Introduction
14:00 - 15:30

Taxation & Finance

  • Taxation of the financial sector : typology and current developments
    Daniela Hohenwarter-Mayr, University of Vienna & Caroline Heber, University of Vienna
  • Taxation of crypto assets and currencies
    Svetislav Kostic, University of Belgrade
16:00 - 17:30

Democratizing money

  • Narratives of household debt
    Johnna Montgomery, King's College London
  • Crypto currencies in the Global South
    Tobias Boos, University of Vienna

June 13

9:00 - 10:30

Regulating finance

  • The ECB and the inflation monsters: the democratic fears of a technocratic institution
    Clément Fontan, UCLouvain
  • More Control of Digital Finance? How the EU's Discourse on Digital Sovereignty Strengthened Financial Regulation
    Sebastian Heidebrecht, University of Vienna
11:00 - 12:30

Regulating finance

  • The establishment of anti-corruption institutions
    Lars Johannsen, University of Aarhus
  • When a corrupt mentality hits low corrupt organisations: the example of money laundering in the Danish Bank
    Karin Hilmer Pedersen, University of Aarhus

Registration

In case you are interested to participate online, please send an email to Maximiliam Rigele maximilian.rigele@univie.ac.at to register and get the zoom link by June 10.

Organisers

Circle U. Democracy Hub by Dorothee Bohle (University of Vienna) and Edoardo Traversa (UCLouvain), Circle U. Academic Chair

The alliance of 9 European Universities