A pdf version of the conference program is available here.
Location: GM Room in Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Avenue)
| 12:00-12:45 | Lunch | |
| 12:45-1:00 | Opening Remarks | Alexandre Debs and Milan Svolik (Yale University) |
| Panel I: Regime Stability | ||
| Chair: | Milan Svolik (Yale University) | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Paper 1 | Scott Abramson and Sergio Montero (University of Rochester), “Learning about Growth and Democracy” Discussant: Fabrizio Zilibotti (Yale University) |
| 2:00-3:00 | Paper 2 | Monika Nalepa (University of Chicago), Georg Vanberg and Caterina Chiopris (Duke University), “Authoritarian Backsliding” Discussant: Tiberiu Dragu (NYU) |
| 3:00-3:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:15-4:15 | Paper 3 | Jack Paine (University of Rochester), “The Repression-Revolution Dilemma” Discussant: Gerard Padro-i-Miquel (Yale University) |
| 4:15-4:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Panel II: Protests | ||
| Chair: | James Fearon (Stanford University) | |
| 4:30-5:30 | Paper 4 | Marco Battaglini (Cornell University), Rebecca Morton (NYU NYC and Abu Dhabi), and Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell University), “Public Protests and Policy Making: Theory and Experiments” Discussant: Horacio Larreguy (Harvard University) |
| 8:15-9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Panel III: Order, Conflict, and Violence | ||
| Chair: | Ana de la O (Yale University) | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Paper 5 | Juan Camillo Castillo (Stanford University) and Dorothy Kronick (University of Pennsylvania), “Prohibition vs. Peace” Discussant: Emily Sellars (Yale University) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Paper 6 | Brendan Cooley, Colin Krainin, and Kristopher Ramsay (Princeton University), “Prohibition, Theft, and Violence: Monopolistic Pricing and Exchange in Illicit Markets” Discussant: Alastair Smith (NYU) |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| Panel IV: Elections | ||
| Chair: | John Roemer (Yale University) | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Paper 7 | Benjamin G. Ogden (Texas A&M University), “The Imperfect Beliefs Voting Model” Discussant: Mattias Polborn (Vanderbilt University) |
| 12:15-1:00 | Lunch | |
| Panel V: Social Interactions | ||
| Chair: | Deborah Beim (Yale University) | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Paper 8 | Torun Dewan and Stephane Wolton (LSE), “A Political Economy of Social Discrimination” Discussant: Avidit Acharya (Stanford University) |
| 2:00-2:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 2:15-3:15 | Panel VI: Publishing Formal Models of Comparative Politics | |
| Chair: | Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin – Madison, current editor of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science) | |
| Participants: | Torun Dewan (LSE, current co-editor of Journal of Theoretical Politics) John Huber (Columbia University, former editor of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science) B. Peter Rosendorff (NYU, current editor of Economics and Politics) |
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