Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions: “Political Compromise: History, Theory and Practice”

Event time: 
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 9:15am
Location: 
Hall of Graduate Studies See map
320 York Street, Room 211
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions presents a conference:

Political Compromise: History, Theory and Practice.

This day long conference on the idea of compromise, based on the book by Alin Fumurescu, centers on the history and implications of political compromise.

9:15 a.m. - Opening remarks

  • Stephen Smith, Yale University

9:30 a.m. - Political Compromise and History

  • Richard Boyd, Georgetown University
  • Fergus Bordewich, Independent Scholar
  • Keith Wrightson, Yale University - Chair
  • James Caudle, Yale University - Discussant

11:30 a.m. - Lunch

1:00 p.m. - Normative Implications of Political Compromise

  • Russell Muirhead, Dartmouth College
  • Andrew Sabl, UCLA
  • Danilo Petranovich, Yale University - Chair
  • Turkuler Isiksel, Columbia University - Discussant

3:00 p.m. - Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. - Roundtable on Compromise:  A Political and Philosophical History

  • Alin Fumurescu, Post Doc, YCSRI, Yale University
  • Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
  • Martyn P. Thompson, Tulane University
  • Richard Boyd, Georgetown University
  • Andrew Sabl, UCLA