Thursday, May 8

5:30 p.m. Reception and Welcome Dinner
East Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Speaker: David Beetham, Leeds University, IDEA-International

Friday, May 9

8-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Bowie Vernon Room (N262) WCFIA, 2nd Floor, CGIS North, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

8:30-9:00 Opening Session
Posing the Questions
Beth Simmons, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Richard Simeon, WCFIA WLMK Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies
William Cross, Director, Canadian Democratic Audit, Carleton University

9:00-9:30 Keynote Address
Measuring Democracy and Defining the Deficit I
Pippa Norris, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

9:30-10:00 Keynote Address
Measuring Democracy and Defining the Deficit II
Robert Pastor, Director, Center for Democracy and Election Management, American University

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 p.m. Electoral Reform
John Courtney, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Fred Schaffer, Social Studies, Harvard University

Discussant: Joey Fishkin, Politics and International Relations, Oxford University

12-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:45 Citizens’ Assemblies I
Amy Lang and Mark Warren, Political Science, University of British Columbia
Archon Fung, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Discussant: Jane Mansbridge, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

2:45-4:00 Citizens’ Assemblies II
June Macdonald, Fair Vote Canada
Pam Wilmot, Common Cause Massachusetts

Discussant: Thomas Ponniah, Social Studies, Harvard University

4:00-4:30 Break

4:30-5:45 Extending the Vote
Patti Tamara Lenard, Social Studies, Harvard University
Daniel Munro, Conference Board of Canada

Discussant: Ofrit Liviatan, Government, Harvard University

Saturday, May 10

8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:30 Citizen Apathy and Virtue
Neil Nevitte, Political Science, University of Toronto
Eric Beerbohm, Government, Harvard University

Discussants:
Jason Kaufman, Sociology, Harvard University
Daniel Nadler, Government, Harvard University

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 p.m. Institutional Failures: The Executive
Graham White, Political Science, University of Toronto
Daniel Tichenor, Political Science, Rutgers University

Discussant: Karim Bardeesy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:15 Institutional Failures: The Legislatures
David Docherty, Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Discussant: Eleanor Neff Powell, Government, Harvard University

2:15-3:45 Campaign Finance Reform
Lisa Young, Political Science, University of Calgary
Jennifer Steen, Political Science, Boston College

Discussant: Robert Vipond, Political Science, University of Toronto

3:45-5:15 Canada and the United States in Comparative Perspective Simone Chambers, Political Science, University of Toronto
Jim Snider, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University