Past Events
February 2019
Stephen Skowronek on The Policy State: An American Predicament
6:00pm, February 28th, 2019
Bush House (S) Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04)
How has policy making transformed American governance over time? Join us for a panel discussion of The Policy State: An American Predicament by Stephen Skowronek and Karen Orren of Yale University. Panelists include Peter John (King’s College London) and Gary Gerstle (Cambridge). Drinks and nibbles to follow discussion.
May 2019
Larry Bartels: Political Inequality in Affluent Democracies
6:30pm, May 14th, 2019
Bush House (S) Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04)
Professor Larry Bartels (Vanderbilt) examines the relationship between public opinion and social spending in thirty affluent democracies over the past three decades. He finds that governments’ responsiveness to citizens’ preferences was highly skewed in favor of affluent citizens, who were generally less supportive of the welfare state than poor citizens were. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
June 2019
Gary Cox: Patent Disclosure and England’s Industrial Revolution
6:30pm, June 5th, 2019
Bush House (S) Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04)
Did the English patent system help spark the Industrial Revolution? Most scholars addressing this question have focused on whether patents improved the economic incentive to invent. Professor Gary Cox (Stanford) examines whether patents improved access to useful knowledge. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
