Building Institutional Resilience Workshop

The recent assault on institutions in many countries has generated a new set of problems, unrecognized in older accounts of institutional change and not yet addressed in the literature on democratic backsliding.  These include identifying what properties of institutions can render them resilient in the face of sustained assaults; how to reverse declines in institutional quality after a “near miss” event, in which backsliding was arrested; and how to think ahead about building resilient institutions in conditions of deep degradation.  This workshop addresses these questions.

Participants: 

Waqar Abbas is a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

Sumit Bisarya is the Head of Constitution-Building Processes at International IDEA, The Hague.

Tom Clark is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Tom Daly is the Deputy Director of the Melbourne School of Government, Director of the Global Research Platform Democratic Decay & Renewal (DEM-DEC), Associate Director of the Edinburgh, Centre for Constitutional Law at Edinburgh Law School, and a Convenor of the Constitution, Transformation Network at the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Wioletta Dziuda is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at the

Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Hanna Folsz is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.

Timothy M. Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University.

Nuno Garoupa is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Graduate Studies at George Mason University.

Scott Gehlbach is the Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also the Faculty Director of the Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, and Faculty Director of the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago.

Yoshiko M. Herrera is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

William Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago.

Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Mohammad Khalilzadeh is a JSD Candidate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Yegishe Kirakosyan is a Lecturer of International Law and the Chair of the Program International Courts and Arbitration LLM Program at Yerevan State University, Armenia. He is also a Malyi Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Egor Lazarev is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Zhaotian Luo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Pavel Malyi is the Co-founder of Matrix Capital.

Armen Mazmanyan is an Associate Professor at the American University of Armenia.

Sultan Mehmood is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New Economics School, Moscow.

Thomas J. Miles is the Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.

Evgeniia Mitrokhina is a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tsend Mönkh-Orgil is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the former Minister of Justice of Mongolia.

Roger Myerson is the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Monika Nalepa is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity.

Shamshad Pasarlay is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.

Philip Petrov is the Wachtell Fellow in Behavioral Law and Economics at the University of

Chicago.

Madeleine Rogers is a Consultant at International IDEA. She is a PhD Candidate (Law) at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Bryn Rosenfeld is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University.

Konstantin Sonin is the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity.

Susan Stokes is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Marcin Szwed is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Alexei Trochev is an Associate Professor at the School of Sciences and Humanities at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

Thomas S. Ulen is the Swanlund Chair Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Georg Vanberg is the Ernestine Friedl Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

Alexei Zakharov is an Associate Research Scholar at Yale University.

Marina Zaloznaya is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the European Studies Group at the University of Iowa.