Dear Colleagues,

The Governance Department at the German Development Institute (Deutsches 
Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, DIE) and the Hertie School of Governance 
are organizing a workshop on political institutions and inclusive 
development. The workshop will feature innovative empirical and analytic 
papers on the effects of political institutions on economic or human 
development outcomes. It is also open to contributions developing new 
schemes to classify political regimes or measure political institutions 
and to papers exploring the various governance implications of 
institutional performance across regime types. The organizers particularly 
welcome papers that aim at one or more of the following objectives:

-  Disentangle the institutional bundles that make up political regimes 
and examine the effects of  specific political institutions on development 
outcomes.
-  Analyze the distributional consequences of political regimes or 
specific political institutions across income categories, ethnic groups, 
or other social groupings.
-  Evaluate the effects of political regimes or specific political 
institutions making use of natural experiments or quasi-experimental 
methods.
-  Develop approaches that distinguish regimes types in the middle ranges 
of the autocracy-democracy spectrum, particularly with regard to so-called 
hybrid regimes.
-  Introduce comparative perspectives on developed and developing country 
patterns, including the EU. 

The workshop seeks to provide a space where authors can receive 
high-quality feedback from other scholars working on similar issues and to 
create opportunities for collaboration among participants. To allow for 
this type of interaction, participation will be limited to about 15 
presenters.

The full call for papers can be found here.

The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2014. 

We are looking forward to your submissions.

Jörg Faust (DIE), Helmut Anheier (Hertie School of Governance), Luis A. 
Camacho (DIE), and Sebastian Ziaja (Heidelberg University)

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