Session Chair: Stelios Karagiannis, KEPE
Date: December 12, 2007
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: Auditorium
Political Institutions and Human Development: Does Democracy fulfil its “constructive” and “instrumental” role?
By Sebastian Vollmer, University of Goettingen & Maria Ziegler, University of Goettingen
Presented by: Maria Ziegler
Discussant: Mark Dincecco, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
Prelude to Development: Democratizing Power
By Bengi Akbulut, University of Massachusetts Amherst , & Ceren Soylu, University of Siena
Presented by: Ceren Soylu
Discussant: Jorge Gallego, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Democracy, Autocracy and Growth: Theoretical Considerations
By Alexander Salhi, Freie Universitaet Berlin, & Michael Bolle, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Presented by: Alexander Salhi
