Thursday 14 May 2009 Site Ulm Open to all, subject to availability 17:15 - 18:15 Documents and media Download the full text of the conference pdf (191 KB) Download the full text of the conference pdf (103.52 KB) Speaker(s) Olivier Beaud University of Paris II Panthéon-Sorbonne Events Previous Symposium 13 May 2009 09:10 to 10:10 Adrian Vermeule The Force of Majority Rule Not recorded Symposium 13 May 2009 10:10 to 11:10 Gerry Mackie The Reception of Social Choice Theory by Democratic Theory Not recorded Symposium 13 May 2009 11:25 to 12:25 Dominique Reynié The idea of majority and the impossible mourning of unanimity Not recorded Symposium 13 May 2009 14:00 to 15:00 Hélène Landemore Majority Principle and the Wisdom of Crowds: the Condorcet Jury Theorem, a failed explanation?… Not recorded Symposium 13 May 2009 15:00 to 16:00 Pasquale Pasquino Collective Decision-Making in Constitutional Democracies Not recorded Symposium 13 May 2009 16:15 to 17:15 Samuel Issacharoff Constitutional Courts and the Boundaries of Democracy Not recorded Symposium 13 May 2009 17:15 to 18:15 Melissa Schwartzberg Democracy, Juries, and Judgment Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 09:00 to 10:00 Aanund Hylland Implementing Majority Rule Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 10:00 to 11:00 Adam Przeworski Neutrality, supermajority, and its institutional implementations Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 11:25 to 12:25 Olivier Christin Putting faith to the vote : voting for the Protestant Reformation in the 16th… Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 14:00 to 15:00 Pierre Rosanvallon Consensus and dissensus in French political culture Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 15:00 to 16:00 Jon Elster Majority Voting Within and by Groups Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 16:15 to 17:15 Stéphanie Novak Apparent Unanimities, Real Majorities: the EU Pooling of Sovereignties in Practice Not recorded Symposium 14 May 2009 17:15 to 18:15 Olivier Beaud Majority voting in a federal system : the special case of constituent power Not recorded Next See also Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Majorities