Lineages of Partimonial Politics, Then and Now :: Center for Comparative Research

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9:15am Session I

Ivan Ermakoff, University of Wisconsin/Madison, "Patrimony and Collective Capacity. A Theoretical Outline"

John R. Hall, University of California/Davis, "Patrimonialism under the Sign of Modernity: The Case of the U.S. Public Domain from Colonial Times to the Late 19th Century"

Vivek Sharma, Yale University, "War, State Formation and Territorial Formation in Europe"

Commentator -- Peter Stamatov, Yale University

11:15am Session II

Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, "Patrimonial Alliances and State Penetration: An Historical Dynamic with Applications to Revolutionaries, Gangs, and Mafias"

Stephen Hanson, University of Washington, "Plebiscitarian Patrimonialism in Putin's Russia: Legitimating Authoritarianism in a Post-Ideological Era"

Edgar Kiser, University of Washington & Audrey Sacks, University of Washington, "African Patrimonialism in Historical Perspective: Assessing Decentralized and Privatized Tax Administration"

Commentator -- Malik Martin, Yale University

1:45pm Session III

Ho-Fung Hung, Indiana University , "Grandpa State instead of Bourgeois State Fictitious Patrimonial Politics in China’s Age of Commerce, 1644-1839"

Suad Joseph, University of California/Davis, "Political Familialism in a Stalemate State: A View from the Ground in Lebanon"

Paul McLean, Rutgers University, "Patrimonialism and Constitutionalism in Late Eighteenth Century Poland"

Commentator -- Katherine Verdery, City University of New York

3:45pm Session IV

Daniel Goh Pei Siong, University of Singapore, "Neopatrimonialism and the Postcolonial Periphery: Colonialism, Culture and Class Struggle in the Making of the Third World"

Kerry Ward, Rice University, "Patrimonial Politics and Imperial Networks at the Cape, c1652-1795"

John Padgett, University of Chicago, "Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282-1494"

Commentator -- Julia Adams, Yale University

9:00am Session V

Gary Hamilton, University of Washington, "Family Firms: The Institutional Origins of East Asian Economic Organization"

Pavla Miller, RMIT University, "Antipodean Patrimonialism?"

Romain Bertrand, Institute of Political Studies of Paris, "Locating the 'Family-State'. The Forgotten Legacy of Javanese Theories of the State as a Public Domain (17th-20th c.)"

Commentator -- Eiko Ikegami, The New School for Social Research

11:00 Wrap-Up

Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, "American Patrimonialism: The Return of the Repressed"

Commentator -- Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University