“The Difficult Politics of Institutional Adoption” with Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 4:30pm through 6:00pm
Location: 
Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Room A002
77 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

2016 CASTLE LECTURES IN ETHICS, POLITICS & ECONOMICS

This is the second lecture of a three-part series on “Constitutional Design for Severely Divided Societies: Many Architects, Few Buildings.”

Lecture Two: “The Difficult Politics of Institutional Adoption”: An inquiry into the adoption and non-adoption of institutions that might reduce conflict leads to interesting conclusions about the ways in which ethnic groups and their leaders go about assessing their interests and preferences, often limiting their options along the way.

Speaker: Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University and a Senior Fellow in the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. He holds law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. Professor Horowitz is the author of seven books: The Courts and Social Policy (1977), which won the Louis Brownlow Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; The Jurocracy (1977), a book about government lawyers; Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective (1980); Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1985, 2000); A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (1991), which won the Ralph Bunche Prize of the American Political Science Association; The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001); and Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press and issued in a Bahasa Indonesia translation in 2014. Professor Horowitz is currently writing a book about constitutional process and design, particularly for divided societies, a subject on which he has advised in a number of countries.

Part 3: “Constitutional Process: A Fraught Enterprise” on Thursday, September 29

Sponsored by the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University.

Open to: 
General Public
Admission: 
Free
Event type 
Lecture