TECHNO: How Technological Change Reshapes Politics: Technology, Elections, and Policies

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Technological change and automation are disrupting labor markets in advanced democracies andrekindling fears about technological unemployment and how the future of work will be. While there islittle doubt that rapid technological progress has far-reaching economic effects, its political consequencesremain largely unexplored. The goal of this project is to study how technological change in the workplacecontributes to ongoing deep political transformations (including the surge of populist movements), theadoption of policies to address change, and the political consequences of such policies.The project is organized in four complementary work packages (WP). WP1 examines how workers’individual economic trajectories and political behavior change when their industries digitalize. WP2studies how the introduction of technology affects local-level political and electoral outcomes using richadministrative data. WP3 assesses how technological vulnerability affects citizen preferences for a widerange of policies to respond to technological change. WP4 analyses the successes, failures, and politicalconsequences of existing social policies to reduce individual and regional disparities due to technologicalchange.The project will contribute to understanding how the grievances generated by profound technologicalchange manifest themselves politically. It will result in recommendations of politically viable and effectivepolicies to help workers and communities adapt to a fast-changing economic landscape and increasedinsecurity about what the future of jobs will be, which ensures a high potential for impact. The projecthelps understand “The evolving politics of threat” (theme 2 of the call) and the underlying causes of“Shifting identities and representation” (theme 4).