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Democracy in
​the U.S. States

This CSDP workshop will convene leading scholars of subnational politics to present research on state level democracy and to work together to create a measure of state level democracy across time, analogous to cross-national measures of democracy.

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March 29, 2019
300 Wallace Hall
By invitation only

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​All information is preliminary and subject to change.

Friday, March 29, 2019

Organized by Jake Grumbach and Paul Frymer

8:30-9:00am   Breakfast available

9:00-9:15   Welcome and opening remarks (Jake Grumbach, Princeton/CSDP)


9:15-10:05 Paper 1: Philip Rocco, Marquette University: “Laboratories of What? Civic Epistemology and the Challenge of Subnational Democracy” Discussant: Thomas Ogorzalek, Northwestern University
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10:05-10:55 Paper 2: Laura Bucci, St. Joseph's University: “Alone or Together? State Pathways for Economic Stability under Union Decline”  Discussant: Paul Frymer, Princeton University
 
10:55-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30   Conference-style Research Presentations
 
11:15-11:30   Jake Grumbach, “When Governments Learn from Copartisans: Partisan Policy Diffusion”
  
11:30-11:45   Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University:  “The Right to Strike: State Law and its Consequences”
 
11:45-12:00   Jamila Michener, Cornell University: “The Uncivil Polity: Race, Poverty and Unequal Legal Protection”
 
12:00-12:30   Discussion and Q&A
Discussants: Paul Frymer; Patricia Kirkland, Princeton University; Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University

 
12:45-1:45 Lunch: Open discussion
 
1:45-4:00 Measuring Democracy Working Sessions
 
1:45-2:15   Measuring democracy 1: Core concept
Chair: Suzanne Mettler
Facilitators: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Jamila Michener
 
2:15-2:30 Afternoon break
 
2:30-3:15   Measuring democracy 2: Components
Chair: Paul Frymer
Facilitators: Laura Bucci, Philip Rocco
 
3:15-4:00   Measuring democracy 3: Indicators
Chair and Facilitator: Jake Grumbach

 
4:00-5:00 Summary and Discussion (full group)