Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Mathieu Hauchecorne How are political ideas produced? How do they circulate between different sectors of the social world, or between countries? Why do some ideas endure or become dominant while others disappear? What links do political theory and academic knowledge have with ordinary political discourse?

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Dans quelle mesure faudrait-il empêcher les pouvoirs publics de s’endetter, et de déplacer ainsi vers les générations futures de lourds fardeaux financiers ? Est-il possible de concilier démocratie et contraintes portant sur les déficits publics ? Si oui, quelles formes de contraintes relatives à l’endettement et aux déficits pourraient être compatibles avec une démocratie effective ?

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Andrès Salazar A prevalent argument to justify immigration restrictions stems from special associative duties and compatriot partiality. Institutional actors often employ strategies to protect our compatriots from the costs and risks associated with immigration, leading to highly restrictive immigration policies.

Robin Philips (UCLouvain) Multidimensional composite indicators of wellbeing: applications in economic history  Although economists and social scientists have widely contributed to the so-called ‘Beyond GDP’ debate, the view that current measures of economic growth are inadequate to measure well-being and multidimensional indicators, economic history has not been prominent in these debates.

Au-delà de l’élection du recteur (ou de la rectrice), quelle démocratie veut-on pour l’université ? Comment définir le « demos » pertinent pour une université démocratique ? Quelles règles de décision collective adopter pour une démocratie à l’université ? Quels aspects de la vie universitaire devraient faire l’objet de consultations démocratiques directes ?

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Manuel Sá Valente (Hoover Chair) & Tim Meijers (Leiden University) Limitarianism holds that it is bad or unjust if some people have too much. It has been subject to much debate in the last few years. Yet one crucial question, so far not discussed, is the temporal scope of `having too much'.

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Mathias Dewatripont et Jean Tirole (ULB) Scholars and civil society have argued that competition erodes supplier morality.

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Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Suzanne Bloks (Hamburg University) In Federalist 10, James Madison suggests that more diverse or heterogeneous electoral constituencies can provide a remedy against factionalism. Inspired by the pluralist reading of Federalist 10, I provide in this paper a novel defence of heterogeneous constituencies that are constructed through stratifed random sampling. At