Description:

The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a two-day conference, The Politics and Policies of Inclusive Growth, a gathering of scholars who study the ways in which political institutions – regime types, electoral systems, political parties, labor unions, bureaucracies, and other governance structures – influence economic performance, and in particular how widely the benefits of economic growth are dispersed across society.

The conference will span two days:

Friday, April 11, 1:30-4:45pm, Rosenkranz Hall 005, 115 Prospect Street

Saturday, April 12, 9:00am-3:45pm, GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue

Participants will include: John Alquist, UC San Diego; Fernando Bizzarro, Boston College; Jennifer Gandhi, Yale; Jane Gingrich, Oxford; Daniele Girardi, King’s College, London; Miriam Golden, Stanford; Jacob Hacker, Yale; Silja Hausermann, Zurich; Torben Iversen, Harvard; Soo Yeon Kim, UBC; Carl Hendrik Knutsen, Oslo; Didi Kuo, Stanford; William Kwok, Yale; Johannes Lindvall, Gothenburg; Isabela Mares, Yale; Carlos Oliveira, Paris School of Economics; Biliyana Petrova, Texas Tech; Didac Queralt, Yale; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford; Ian Shapiro, Yale; Joel Simmons, Georgetown; Raffaelle Soffe, Yale; Milan Svolik, Yale; Sander Trubowitz, Oxford.

This conference is open to the Yale community. It is co-sponsored by the Jackson School of Global Affairs, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.