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Crafting and Operating Institutions is one of a series of conferences in the Yale Political Science Department's initiative on "Rethinking Political Order: The Nation-State in the Emerging World." To learn more about the initiative, please visit our website at http://www.yale.edu/polisci/initiative.htm . The conferences will result in a series of published books that are intended to exemplify and advance the best political science.
Concerns relevant to the Crafting and Operating Institutions conference include, but are not limited to, the following: political institutions above and below the nation-state and their evolution; the relevance of classics of institutional choice and contemporary analytic theory; parliamentism v. presidentialism, bicameralism v. unicameralism; confederal, federal, and unitary systems; components of institutional regimes such as courts, legislatures, bureaucracies, and executives, as well as their interactions; and the political functions of non-governmental organizations. The conference will include panels on the following topics:
Direct all questions, information requests to conference coordinator Daniel Galvin. |