Deil S. Wright Symposium

Introductions and Welcome

8:45–9:00AM

The Future of Fiscal Federalism

9:00–10:30AM

If Congress Can’t Budget, Can It Influence Intergovernmental Relations?

Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College

Fiscal Sustainability of Mexican Debt Decisions: Is Bad Behavior Rewarded?

Carmina Jimenez Quiroga & Heidi Jane M. Smith, CENTRUS/Universidad Iberoamericana

Too Many Governments and Not Enough Government: Does Citizen Voice Restrain Government Growth?

Yoon-Jung Choi, Syracuse University

Discussant

Paul Chalekian, University of Nevada, Reno

Break

10:30–10:45AM

Rethinking Models of Intergovernmental Relations

10:45AM–12:15PM

Overcoming dysfunctional integration through domestic administrative capacity building: a new approach to Europeanization

Claudia Badulescu-Colfer, European University Institute

National and Subnational Bureaucracies’ Capacity for Service Provision: A Human-Capital Approach to Decentralized Governance

Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez, Indiana University

Immigration Federalism in the U.S.: A New Theoretical Model

Sara Kuehlhorn Friedman, Portland State University

Intergovernmental Collaboration or Conflict?

Matt Bagwell, Tarleton State University

Discussant

TBA

Lunch Break

12:15–1:15PM

Studying and Practicing Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism Across Fields

1:15–2:45PM

Going Deep: Studying Charter Schools from the Bottom Up

Carol Weissert and Matthew Uttermark, Florida State University

A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies

John Kincaid, Lafayette College

Using Wright’s ASAP Data from 1964-2008 to Study Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: New Data for Scholars and Practitioners

Jason Webb Yackee and Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Discussant

TBA

Wrap Up

2:45-3:00PM