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Schedule
All conference events will be held at the New Haven Lawn Club. The New
Haven Lawn Club is located at:
193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511.
Friday, April 11
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2:45 - 5:00pm
Session I: Why Study Institutions?
Presenters:
Claus Offe
"Institutions' role in the distribution
of social power: Empowering? Equalizing power? Concealing power? Controlling
power?"
John Ferejohn
Daniel Carpenter
"The Petition as a Tool of Mobilization:
Evidence from the Abolitionists' Congressional Campaign."
Discussant:
Pauline Jones-Luong
Chair:
Stephen Skowronek
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Saturday, April 12
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9:30 - 11:45am
Session II: The Foundations of Institutional
Politics
Presenters:
Jon Elster
"Authors and Actors: Executive-legislative
Relations in French Constitution-making"
Ulrich Preuss
"On Cognitive and Moral Learning of Institutions"
Terry Moe
"Power and Political Institutions"
Discussant:
Keith Darden
Chair:
Rose Razaghian
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1:15 - 3:30pm
Session III: Institutional Politics and Public
Policy
Presenters:
Paul Pierson
Kent Weaver
Margaret Weir
Discussant:
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Chair:
Jonathan Koppell
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4:00 - 6:15pm
Session IV: Courts as Political Institutions
Presenters:
Keith Whittington
"Preserving the 'Dignity and Influence of
the Court': Political Supports for Judicial Review in the United States"
Mark Tushnet
"Designing Judicial Review: From Strong
to Weak Forms"
Charles Cameron
Discussant:
Gregory Huber
Chair:
Akhil Amar
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6:30 - 7:30pm
Cocktail Reception for all attendees and conference
participants
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Sunday, April 13
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8:45 - 11:00am
Session V: Institutions and Social Change
Presenters:
Kathleen Thelen
"Institutions and Social Change: The Evolution
of Vocational Training Institutions in Germany"
Elisabeth Clemens
"State Building or Blurring?: Public Finance
and Private Governance in American Politics"
Rogers Smith
"Which Comes First, the Ideas or the Institutions?
Reflections on the Relative Autonomy of Political Institutions"
Discussant:
Jacob Hacker
Chair:
John Lapinski
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11:30 am - 1:00pm
Roundtable Discussion: What Have We Learned?
Participants:
Theda Skocpol
Peter Hall
Barry Weingast
Chair:
Ian Shapiro
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