The Department "Governance, Statehood, Security" at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the Hertie School of Governance organised a workshop on political institutions and inclusive development. The workshop featured innovative empirical and analytic papers on the effects of political institutions on economic or human development outcomes. It was also open to contributions developing new schemes to classify political regimes or measure political institutions and to papers exploring the various governance implications of institutional performance across regime types. The workshop sought to provide a space where authors can receive high-quality feedback from other scholars working on similar issues and to create opportunities for collaboration among participants.

The conference organisers were:

• Jörg Faust (DIE)
• Helmut Anheier (Hertie School of Governance)
• Luis A. Camacho (DIE)
• Sebastian Ziaja (Heidelberg University)