9:9:20-9:50am Registration, Coffee and Pastry9:50-10:00am Opening Remarks10:00-11:05am Speaker: W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University) Co-author: Elliott Ash (Columbia)Title: “Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts”
Thirty-six years have elapsed since the Iranian revolution of 1978/79 toppled the Shah’s pro-Western monarchy and spawned Ayatollah Khomeini’s theocratic pluralist Islamic regime, with an anti-American and anti-Israeli posture. Placing Iran between the "sovereignty of God" and the "sovereignty of people," the regime has…