Jun
25
6:30pm
Messaging and the Politics of Basic Income
By The BIG Conference
Basic income and unconditional cash transfers are a widely popular idea when communicated effectively to different audiences. Join Catherine Thomas, Jason Murphy, and Leire Rincón Garcia to discuss the arguments that resonate most with individuals across the political spectrum.
Papers to be Presented
Moral Reframing of a Universal Basic Income Mitigates Both Welfare-Related Prejudice and Partisanship among US Conservatives by Catherine Thomas
Speakers
Catherine Thomas, Stanford University
Catherine Thomas is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology and Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at Stanford University. She studies how we can integrate economic and social inclusion in the context of cash-based policies. From the perspective of public opinion, she assesses how certain narratives of cash-based policies can reduce prejudicial attitudes towards policy recipients and increase policy support, particularly among conservatives. From the perspective of cash recipients, she assesses how certain narratives and behavioral insights can be used to improve policy impacts on recipients' dignity, agency, and economic outcomes. She has conducted research on cash-based policies in Kenya with the nonprofit GiveDirectly and in West Africa with the World Bank and Government of Niger. A former Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Basic Income Lab, she co-authored a guide for cities conducting basic income pilots.
Jason Burke Murphy, US Basic Income Guarantee Network
Jason Burke Murphy is a Professor of Philosophy at Elms College. He started and curated the social media accounts for US Basic Income Guarantee Network and Basic Income Earth Network for years. He has published in Basic Income Studies. He also has written about sports as well on "the meaning of life."
Leire Rincón Garcia, Humboldt University of Berlin
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Sociology and Social Policy at Humboldt University in Berlin. Before joining Humboldt, I was a pre-doctoral fellow at IBEI and UB. During my thesis I have been a visiting researcher at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. My research interests revolve around the topic of universal basic income, ncluding public opinion, field experiments and the politics of this proposal. Other research interests include gender-based violence and political elites.
Moderator
Mike Howard, President, US Basic Income Guarantee, Inc.
Michael Howard has taught philosophy at the University of Maine since 1981. He has published 4 books, including, with Karl Widerquist, two books on Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend, and many articles on basic income in relation to immigration, inequality, and climate change.
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