Research in Political Development meeting - Patrick O’Brien, Yale

Research in Political Development (RIPD) working group seeks to provide constructive feedback on working projects focused on issues in American political development and historical institutionalism broadly construed.

The meetings are intended to provide graduate students and faculty helpful, constructive feedback on working projects.  RIPD meetings are not intended to critically evaluate a finished research product.  Instead, RIPD meetings seek to offer helpful comments and constructive suggestions for how to improve research projects as they are unfolding. 

During our meetings, research material will be circulated before the meetings, which we expect will occur once or perhaps twice a month.  The presenter will offer a brief ten-minute summary of the project, and then the floor will be opened for constructive comments, questions, and suggestions.  All participants should read the circulated materials before the meeting.  We hope to keep the meetings fairly small, and while we hope the discussions will be focused, RIPD seek to cultivate an informal, helpful, and constructive atmosphere.

Patrick O’Brien, Political Science Grad Student, will be presenting “Restructuring the Financial System: Changing the Unity and Procedures of the Presidency, 1789-2012”.   Contact samuel.decanio@yale.edu if you are interested in attending.