Workshop Program
Yale University, Henry R. Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut
Sessions to be held in Room 203
Friday, 24 April
2:30pm Opening Remarks
Jack Knight, Duke University
Margaret Levi, University of Washington, Seattle
Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University
2:45pm "Learning to
Love Democracy: A Theory of Democratic Consolidation"
Milan Svolik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Mat McCubbins, University of California, San Diego
3:45pm Paper: "How Fiscal Pressures Drive Land Disputes and Shape Dispute Resolution
Mechanisms
in Rural and Peri-Urban China"
Susan Whiting, University of Washington, Seattle
Discussant: Pierre Landry, Yale University
7:30pm Dinner
Foster's Restaurant
56 Orange Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Saturday, 25 April
8:00am Continental Breakfast
Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall
8:30am "The Rule of Law in Latin America: Structural Origins, Institutional Manifestations?"
Daniel Brinks, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Margaret Levi, University of Washington, Seattle
9:30am "Courting Conflict: A Logic of Risky Judicial Decisions in Latin America"
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester and Jeffrey Staton, Emory University
Discussant: Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:45am "Local Level Legal Institutions and Development"
Varun Gauri, World Bank
Discussant: Jack Knight, Duke University
11:45am "The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective"
Timur Kuran, Duke University
Discussant: John Ferejohn, New York University and Stanford University
12:45pm Lunch
Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall
1:45pm Concluding Discussion