Welcome to the website of the Conference on Representation and Popular Rule. This is the last of a series of conferences that is part of the Yale Department of Political Science's Initiative on Rethinking Political Order: The Nation State in the Emerging World. The conferences will result in a set of published books that are intended to exemplify and advance the best political science.

This conference will focus on both the theory and the practice of political representation. Participants will offer original contributions that span the disciplines of political science, economics, philosophy, history and anthropology. The papers will explore, among other topics: the concept of representation before democracy, the conceptual and empirical issues at stake with representation in international institutions, the relationship of representative institutions to racial and economic inequality, and the effects of representative institutions on redistributive policies.

The conference will bring together a distinguished group of scholars representing a diversity of disciplines and methodological approaches. To learn more, click on one of the links on the left.