The Crisis in Democracy and Development: A Scholar-Practitioner Conversation

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This invited panel brings together four prominent sociologists who have conducted important research that bears on the issues of democracy and aid and puts them into conversation with a recognized practitioner who has been working in these fields, with an eye towards helping us to interpret the colossal changes taking place globally and domestically in relation to democracy and foreign aid.

Jennifer Windsor, who is past Executive Director of Freedom House; former Deputy Assistant Administrator and Director of the Center for Democracy and Governance at USAID; and former CEO of Women for Women International serves as our practitioner on the panel. Ms. Windsor was one of the main people involved in the institutionalizing work on democracy, human rights, and governance at USAID, which had previously been the purview of other agencies. She also worked extensively with sociologists in her work on gender at Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Sociologists on the panel include Marco Garrido, Ali Kadivar, Yan Long, and Mary-Collier Wilks.

The conversation will begin by asking each panelist to offer brief responses in turn to a few questions that will be posed to them before opening the panel to the audience.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Development Section / The Crisis in Democracy and Development: A Scholar-Practitioner Conversation

Presider

• Joseph A. Harris, Boston University

Panelists

• Marco Z. Garrido, University of Chicago

• Yan Long, University of California-Berkeley

• Ali Kadivar, Boston College

• Mary-Collier Wilks, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

• Jennifer Windsor

Session Organizer

• Joseph A. Harris, Boston University