Post-conference news
A related panel was held at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Conference schedule
| Time | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 10:45-11 am | Jacob T. Levy, McGill | Opening remarks |
| 11 am-12:45 pm | Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka, Queen's | Theories of Justice, the Strains of Commitment, and Realistic Utopias |
| Suzanne Dovi, Arizona | The Four Janus-Faces Of Misogyny: Or How To Measure Bad Behavior? | |
| David Wiens, UCSD | Ideal Theories in Political Science: Lessons from Game Theory and Statistics | |
| Chair/ discussant: Catherine Lu, McGill | ||
| 2-3:45 pm | Jenna Bednar, Michigan | Federalism as a Mechanism of Collective Problem Solving |
| Michael Neblo, Ohio State | Building a Directly Representative Democracy | |
| Jack Knight, Duke and Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU | The Moral Limits of Bargaining | |
| Chair/ discussant: Rob Reich, Stanford | ||
| 4:15-6 pm | Samuel Bagg, McGill | Beyond Collective Self-Rule: Towards A Realistic Defense of Democracy |
| Menaka Philips, Tulane, and Jennifer Forestal, Stockton | "Democracy Dies in Darkness": Anonymity, Accountability, and Information as a Public Good | |
| Andrew Sabl, Yale/Toronto | The Strange Career of Aggregative Democracy | |
| Chair/ discussant: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| 6-6:15 pm | Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania, and President-Elect, American Political Science Association | Reflections |
| 6:15-7:15 pm |
Reception in celebration of the awarding of the 2018 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science to Jane Mansbridge Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Political Science, McGill University |
| Time | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9 am | Jane Mansbridge, Harvard | Opening remarks |
| 9:15-11 am | Federica Carugati, Indiana | Tradeoffs of Inclusion: Development Before Liberalism |
| David Stasavage, NYU | Origins of Early Democracy | |
| Josiah Ober, Stanford | Rationality and the origins of social cooperation in Greek thought | |
| Chair/ discussant: Christa Scholtz, McGill | ||
| 11:15 am-1 pm | Graduate student panel | |
| Aberdeen Berry, McGill | Arendtian Judgment and Pluralism | |
| Alec Crisman, McGill | Instrumentalism and the Space of Non-Democracy | |
| Vertika | Seeking Agency in the Interstices of Power | |
| Chair/ discussant: Jane Mansbridge, Harvard | ||
| 2:30-4:15 pm | William Roberts, McGill | Ideologies of domination and democratic theory |
| Deva Woodly, New School | From Idea To Ideology | |
| Laurel Weldon, Purdue | Active Solidarity: Strategies For Transnational Political Cooperation In Contexts Of Difference, Domination And Distrust | |
| Chair/ discussant: Kelly Gordon, McGill | ||
| 4:15-4:30 pm | Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU | Reflections |
| Time | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9-11 am | Sean Ingham, UCSD | Rule by Multiple Majorities: A New Theory of Popular Control |
| Mariah Zeisberg, Michigan | A New Political Jurisprudence | |
| Daniel Weinstock, McGill | The Political Theory of Really Existing Democracies: The Case of Electoral Reform | |
| Barry Weingast, Stanford | Should Majoritarians Embrace Countermajoritarian Constitutional Provisions? | |
| Chair/ discussant: Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli, McGill | ||
| 11:15 am-1 pm | Kevin Elliott, Columbia | The Uses and Abuses of Public Opinion in Political Theory |
| Alison McQueen, Lisa Blaydes and Justin Grimmer, Stanford | Mirrors for Princes and Sultans | |
| Arash Abizadeh, McGill | Representation, Bicameralism, and Sortition | |
| Chair/ discussant: Edana Beauvais, McGill | ||
| 1-1:15 pm | Josiah Ober, Stanford | Closing remarks |
Conference co-chairs
Jacob T. Levy (McGill), Josiah Ober (Stanford), Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU)
A conference of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies, a unit of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds at McGill University, and the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique.
This conference is made possible by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the John Templeton Foundation.
With additional support from the McGill Department of Political Science, the Centre de Recherche en Éthique, and the Research Group on Global Justice of the Lin Centre.
