2016 Prospectus Development Workshop Participants

Evelyn Atkinson

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: "Law, Injury, and Corporate Responsibility, 1870-1920"

Patrick Behrer

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC POLICY

PROJECT TITLE: "Crowding Out and the Environment: Testing for Pro-social Crowd Out with a Field Experiment in Recycling"

Mercy DeMenno

DUKE UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC POLICY

PROJECT TITLE: "Technocracy, Democracy, and Public Policy: Evaluating and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Stakeholder Participation in Financial Regulation"

Nikhil Kalyanpur

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: "Nationally Embedded Moral Hazard and the Transnationalization of Risk"

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project analyzes the conditions under which international investors price in moral hazards. Furthermore, it investigates how the concentration of political power within great powers affects the risk-management strategies of firms in other jurisdictions.

David Kearney

DUKE UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: "How to Win Friends and Influence Nations: Towards an Empirically Based Soft Power"

James Sasso

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, POLITICS

PROJECT TITLE: "Beyond a Secular Theory of Federal Courts as Legislative Agents"

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Supreme Court has always had an impact on policy in the United States, but the extent to which it has played the role of legislative agent appears to fluctuate with the changing political environment over the course of American history. In particular, moments of high polarization and divided government with closely competitive parties could encourage political actors to turn to litigation as a method of winning policy or electoral victories which they are unable to achieve through the traditional arenas of legislation in Congress or the Executive Branch. This project will use qualitative methods to tease out the reasons for which the Supreme Court has taken on this legislative role and what it means for the continued success and functionality of the American constitutional system.