The Challenges and Dilemmas of Democratization: Lessons from Europe


October 3 and 4, 2008



Friday, October 3, 2008

10:00 am: Coffee

10:30 am: Welcome/Introductory Comments



Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University



11:00-12:30 pm Session #1

Chair: Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Paper #1: Thomas Ertman, "Religious Conflict, Church-State Relations and
Democratization: the Case of the United Kingdom"

Discussant: Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Watson Institute, Brown University

Paper #2: Giovanni Capoccia, "Stabilizing New Democracies: Italy in the
Aftermath of World War II"

Discussant: Andy Gould, Department of Political Science, Notre Dame
University

12:30-1:30: Lunch at CES

1:30-3:00 pm: Session #2

Chair: Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University

Paper #3; Jeff Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg: "Modes of Inclusion and
Exclusion: The Political Sociology of Regime Types in Interwar
East-Central Europe"

Discussant: Michael Bernhard, Department of Political Science, Penn
State University

Paper#4: Daniel Ziblatt, "Prussia's Difficult Democratization: Suffrage
Reform Before and After World War I"



Discussant: Michael Bernhard, Department of Political Science, Penn
State University


3:00-3:30 pm: Coffee Break at CES

3:30-5:00 pm: Session #3

Chair: Michael Bernhard, Penn State University

Paper #5: Kurt Weyland, "The Diffusion of Regime Contention in European
Democratization, 1830-1940"

Discussant: Steven Levitsky, Department of Government, Harvard University

Paper #6: Zachary Elkins, "Diffusion and the Design of Constitutions"

Discussant: Wolfgang Merkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

Saturday, October 4, 2008

9:00 am: Continental Breakfast at CES



9:30-11 am: Session #4

Chair: Jeff Kopstein, University of Toronto

Paper #7: Stephen Hanson, "The Founding of the French Third Republic"

Discussant: Patrice Higonnet, Department of History, Harvard University

Paper #8: Nancy Bermeo, "Contested Boundaries and New Identities in New
Democracies: The Pivotal Role of Political Elites in France and Portugal"

Discussant: Andy Gould, Department of Political Science, Notre Dame

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:30: Session #5: Concluding "Roundtable" on Democratization in
Europe (and on Capoccia/Ziblatt Introductory Paper)

Gregorz Ekiert, Harvard University

Peter Hall, Harvard University

Wolfgang Merkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Watson Institute, Brown University

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:30: Wrap Up Discussion: What's Next?