COMPARATIVE POLITICS WORKSHOP 

Fall 2007 

All meetings are at 4:30-6:00 p.m . in Room A001 , 77 Prospect Street (ISPS) except where noted. 

September 14(Friday) Ivan Szelenyi and Katarzyna Wilk , Yale University. "Poverty and popular mobilization in post-communist capitalist regimes". 
Discussant: Sigrun Kahl.

September 18 Vijayendra Rao, World Bank. “The Political Construction of Caste in Rural India. An econometric analysis”. 
Discussant: Jennifer Green .

September 25 Kenneth Greene, University of Texas at Austin. “Resource Theory of Single-Party Dominance”. Discussant: Juan Rebolledo.

October 2 Sigrun Kahl. Yale University. “Religion and the Spirit of Welfare: Poverty, Unemployment and Welfare Reform in Europe and the United States”. Discussant: Onur Bakiner.

October 9 Joseph Wright, UCLA. “Economic Crisis, Globalization, and Democratization”. Discussant: Karina Cendonboveda.

October 16 Laia Balcells, Yale University. “Explaining Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)”. 
Discussant: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl.

October 23 Ato Onoma, Yale University. The contradictory potential of self-reinforcing institutions: the rise and decline of land documentation in Kenya. Discussant: Abbey Steele.

 October 30 Dominika Koter, Yale University. “Urban Anti-Incumbent Bias: the Case of Senegal”. Discussant: Nathaniel Cogley.

November 6 Ana Arjona, Yale University. “Local Orders and Civilian Collaboration in Civil War”. Discussant: Regina Bateson.

November 13 Leonard Wantchekon, New York University. “Expert Information, Public Deliberation and Electoral Support for "Good" Governance: Experimental Evidence from Benin”. 
Discussant: Leonid Peisakhin.

November 27 Abbey Steele, Yale University. “Urban and Rural Displacement in Civil Wars ”. Discussant: Steve Shewfelt.

 December 4 Patrick Heller, Brown University. “Civil Society and Democracy in Post-Transition South Africa”. Discussant: Laia Balcells.