Electoral Systems

14:00 Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm) 

How do electoral rules shape party structures, government coalitions and economic policies?

13:00 Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University) 

Mixed member parliamentary governance in Germany

16:00 Coffee 

Presidential and Parliamentary Governance

16:30 Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern University)

Executive control and legislative success in presidential and parliamentary democracies

Direct Democracy

17:30 Bruno Frey (University of Zurich) 

Direct democracy: designing a living constitution

 

19:00 Dinner Cruise in the Archipelago
 
 

8:30 Barry Weingast (Stanford University) 

Self-enforcing constitutions

9:30 Coffee

10:00 Bjørn Erik Rasch (University of Oslo) 

Amendment procedures and the politics of constitutional change

11:00 Stefan Voigt (University of Kassel) 

Making judges independent

 
12:15 Lunch
 

Bicameralism

14:00 Roger Congleton (George Mason University) 

On the merits of unbiased bicameralism

17:30 Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania) 

Bicameralism and government formation

16:00 Coffee 

Federalism

16:30 Brian Knight (Brown University)

Common tax pool problems in federal systems

15:00 Dennis Mueller (University of Vienna)

Federalism: a constitutional perspective

8:30 Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) 

The economic effects of constitutions

9:30 Randall Holcombe (Florida State University) 

The impact of legal and economic institutions on the wealth of nations

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Round Table Discussion