Rule and Reform in the Giants: China and India Compared

Rule and Reform in the Giants: China and India Compared

A Two-Day Conference

Friday, November 30

10-10:30am

Editors’ Introduction

, Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Perry, Harvard

University

10:30am-12pm

What holds the giants together? I. Nationalism and the Idea of China/India

China: Zhao Suisheng, University of Denver

India: Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University

1:30-3pm

What holds the giants together? II. Institutions and Center-Sub-national

relations

China: Yang Dali, University of Chicago

India: Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz

3:15pm-4:45pm

Political Process. I. Democracy and Authoritarianism

China: Bruce Dickson, George Washington University

India: Pratap Mehta, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi

Saturday, December 1

9-10:30am

Political Processes. II. Majorities, Minorities and Separatist Movements

China: Gardner Bovingdon, Indiana University

India: Sanjib Baruah, Bard College

10:45am-12:15pm

Reform Processes and Outcomes. I. The Development Record

China: Martin Whyte, Harvard University

India: Lant Pritchett, Harvard University (formerly The World Bank)

1:45-3:15pm

Reform Processes and Outcomes. II. The Politics of Economic Reform

China: Mary Gallagher, Cornell University

India: Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania

3:30-4:30pm

Wrap-Up

Seminar Room S020, Concourse Level, Center for Government and

 International Affairs (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Co-sponsored by the Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,

Harvard University, and the Center for the Advanced Study of India,

 University of Pennsylvania