COMPARATIVE POLITICS WORKSHOP 
Fall 2008
All meetings are at 4:30-6:00 p.m . in Room A001 , 77 Prospect Street (ISPS) except where noted. 

September 16 Holger Lutz Kern, YPD post-doc, “The Political Consequences of Transitions out of Marriage: Do Women Really Become More Left-wing?”.

Discussant: Abbey Steele

September 23 Milan Svolik, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, “The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions and Power-sharing in Dictatorships”.

Discussant: Madhavi Devasher

September 30 Ato Onoma, Yale University, “The politics of encounters”.

Discussant: Dominika Koter

October 7 Juan Rebolledo, Yale University, “Democratic Degrees and Inequality”.

Discussant: Mario Chacón

October 14 Vivek Sharma, Yale University, “A Social Theory of War: Clausewitz and War Reconsidered”.

Discussant: Ana Arjona

October 21 Pauline Luong, Brown University. “Taking Domestic Politics Seriously: Explaining the Structure of Ownership Over Mineral Resources”. [CANCELLED]

Discussant: Ryan Sheely

October 28 Karina Cendonboveda, Yale University, "On the Origins and Consequences of Institutions of Mass Political Participation: The Case of Compulsory Voting".

Discussant: Juan Rebolledo

November 4 Joshua Tucker, NYU, “New Approaches to Electoral Volatility: Evidence from Postcommunist Countries”.

Discussant: Regina Bateson

November 11 Robert Person, Yale University, “ 'You Have Nothing to Gain but Your Chains' Popular Support for Authoritarianism in Russia”.

Discussant: Erica de Bruin

November 18 Gretchen Helmke, Rochester University, "The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America". [CANCELLED]

Discussant: Luis Schiumerini

December 2 Maria José Hierro, Juan March Institute & UAM, “National Identification as a Preference”.

Discussant: Peter J. Verovšek

December 9 Michael Laver, NYU, “Multi-party competition in multidimensional policy spaces: an agent based dynamic model”.

Discussant: Edwin Camp