Legacies of History and the Modern State

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel examines the way historical legacies affect the modern era in diverse ways, including how self-reproducing sequences affect contemporary phenomena in the social sciences; how constitutional development is best explained by non-normative principles established hundreds of years ago; how transitions to modernity include emblematic social relationships via objects, such as the sword; and how historical forms of familial government, such as the monarchical state, promote components of the modern liberal state.

Sub Unit

• Division 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• Regularities: The Case of Self-Reproducing Sequences - Laura Acosta Gonzalez, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY; James Mahoney, Northwestern University

• The Deep Constitution: A Positive Theory of American Constitutional Development - Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles

• Patriarchy Resartus - Julia Potter Adams, Yale University

• Parents of the People: The Familial Foundation of the Modern State - Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University

Chair

• James Mahoney Northwestern University

Discussants

• Jason Wittenberg University of California, Berkeley

• Eileen McDonagh Northeastern University