COMPARATIVE POLITICS WORKSHOP
Spring 2008
All meetings are at 4:30-6:00 p.m . in Room A001 , 77 Prospect Street (ISPS) except where noted.
January 15 Stephen Wilkinson, University of Chicago. “ Colonial legacies and democratic outcomes. ” Discussant: Dominika Koter
January 22 Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University. “ Economic Performance and the Unraveling of Hegemonic Parties. ” Discussant: Bonny Lin
January 29 Jason Brownlee, University of Texas at Austin. “ Do We Need Hybrid Regimes?” Discussant: Matt Longo
February 5 Gemma Sala, Yale University. “You Do Not Want to Know: The Effect of Judicial Unpredictability on Federal Stability.” Discussant: Adi Greif
February 12 Gina Bateson, Yale University. “Violent Peace: Exploring Post-Conflict Violence.” Discussant: Leslie Hough
February 19 Ana de la O, Yale University. “Do Poverty Relief Funds Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico.” Discussant: Cory McCruden
February 26 Catherine Boone, University of Texas at Austin. “The Geography of Politicized Land Conflict in Africa.” Discussant: Corinna Jentzsch .[Tables available here]
March 4 Gabriel Negretto, Princeton University and CIDE. “Party Systems and Institutional Design. Explaining Constitutional Choice in Latin America.” Discussant: Gemma Sala
March 25 Paul Pinto and Leonid Peisakhin, Yale University. “Quantifying Corruption and Assessing Anti-Corruption Initiatives:Evidence from a Field Experiment in India” Discussant: Brian Fried
April 1 Mariela Szwarcberg, University of Chicago. “Counting Heads and Votes: Authoritarian and Democratic Strategies of Electoral Mobilization in Argentina. ” Discussant: Alexandra Hartman
April 15 María Victoria Murillo, Columbia University. “Partisan Politics in an Era of Globalization: the Reform of Latin American Public Utilities.” Discussant: Paul Lagunes
April 22 Johanna Birnir, CIDCM – University of Maryland. “The turnaround of terror: terrorists and the populations that support them ” Discussant: Joshua Simon
April 29 Pranab Bardhan, University of California at Berkeley. “Institutional Economics of Development.” Discussant: Lucas Entel