A conference at Yale titled "Contingency in the Study of Politics" will pay tribute to the work of Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor of Political Science and senior research scholar in sociology.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place Friday-Saturday, Dec. 3-4, in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. It is sponsored by the Center for International & Area Studies, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
The conference organizers write: "Contingency's challenge seems both fundamental and elusive. If certain political events or actions had not happened, or had or happened otherwise, political history would undoubtedly be different. ... Yet social scientists try to develop general accounts of democratic transitions in ways that differentiate their enterprise from that of the historian. ... The purpose of the conference is to focus on how the social scientific study of politics should strive to take contingency into account."
A complete schedule and list of speakers is available at www.yale.edu/polisci/info/conferences/Contingency%20Conference. The conference will result in a published book of collected essays.
Dahl, a scholar of democratic theory and practice, has written 21 books and over 100 articles. His books include "Politics, Economics and Welfare" (with Charles Lindbloom), "Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City," "Regimes and Oppositions," "Democracy, Liberty, and Equality," "Democracy and Its Critics," "The New American Political (Dis)Order" and "On Democracy."
The political scientist earned a Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1940 and began teaching at the University in 1946. He has received numerous honors, including the first John Skytte Prize, the only international award in the field of political science, and the DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching at Yale. He has collaborated with the Center for Voting and Democracy; serves on the Research Council of the National Endowment of Democracy; and is a senior scholar in Yale's Center for Comparative Research.
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