"Thinking About Politics": A Conference Dedicated to Explaining and Perpetuating the Political Insights of James Q. Wilson

Thursday, April 4, 2013
3:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, Harvard 
(1730 Cambridge St.)
 
Opening Reception3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Welcome and Introduction3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
 
Political Parties and Organized Interests
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
 
Papers:
Martin Shefter, Cornell
Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins
Marc Landy, Boston College
 
Discussants:
David Mayhew, Yale (chair)
James Ceaser, University of Virginia
McGee Young, Marquette
 
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Friday, April 5, 2013
9:00 am - 6:00 pm 
Heights Room, Boston College 
(140 Commonwealth Ave.)
 
Crime and Policing
9:00 am - 10:15 am
 
Papers:
Mark Moore, Kennedy School
Mark Kleiman, UCLA
 
Discussants:
Christopher Foreman, University of Maryland (chair)
George Kelling, Manhattan Institute and Rutgers
David Kennedy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
 
Bureaucracy and Regulation
10:30 am - 11:45 am
 
Papers:
Daniel Carpenter, Harvard
 
Discussants:
Judge Robert Katzmann, Second Circuit Court of Appeals (chair)
Paul Quirk, University of British Columbia
Steven Kelman, Kennedy School
Harvey Sapolsky, MIT
 
Lunch, followed by two talks
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
 
Hugh Heclo, George Mason
Peter Schuck, Yale Law School
 
From Political Science to Policy Analysis
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
 
Papers:
Lawrence Mead, New York University
Shep Melnick, Boston College
 
Discussants:
William Kristol, The Weekly Standard (chair)
Pietro Nivola, Brookings Institution
Christopher DeMuth, Hudson Institute
 
Character and Culture
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
 
Papers:
John DiIulio, University of Pennsylvania
Martha Bayles, Boston College
 
Discussants:
Charles Kesler, Claremont McKenna (chair)
John Shields, Claremont McKenna
Linda McClain, BU Law School
 
Closing Reception
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
 
RSVP to attend:pcg@gov.harvard.edu