Fall 2004
September 14. Harris Mylonas and Nasos Roussias, Yale University. “ Regime Type and Political Competition in Africa. ”
September 21. Elisabeth J. Wood, Yale University. “ Sexual Violence in War: Explaining Variation. ”
September 28. Mario Chacon, Yale University. “ Dynamics and Determinants of the Violence during ÒLa ViolenciaÓ in Colombia, 1946-1963.”
October 5. Rohini Pande, Yale University. “ Politics as Usual? Local Democracy and Public Resource Allocation in South India. ”
October 12. Ingrid van Biezen, Yale University and the University of Birmingham, UK. “ Political Parties and the Making of Modern Democracy.”
October 19. Ryan Sheely, Yale University. “ Family Ties: Kinship, Institutions, and Regime Stability in the Middle East and North Africa.”
October 22. Carol Mershon, University of Virginia. “ Party Switching in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1996-2001.”
October 26. Jason Wittenberg, University of Wisconsin. “ Historical Legacies and Comparative Politics. ”
November 2. Shireen Hassim, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. “ Interrogating the Virtuous Circle of Representation: South Africa and Sweden in Comparative Perspective.”
November 5. Norman Schofield, Washington University St. Louis. “ Voting Models under Proportional Representation.”
November 9. Margaret Levi, University of Washington. “ Inducing Preferences within Organizations: The Case of Unions.”
November 12. Orit Kedar, University of Michigan. “ How Institutional Context Affects Voter Strategy: Hierarchical-Analysis.”
November 16. Jose Antonio Cheibub, Yale University. “Why Are Presidential Democracies Fragile?. ”
November 30. Yitzhak Brudny, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “ National Identity Choice and Emergence of Illiberal State in Post-Communist Russia.”
December 7. Ivan Ermakoff, University of Wisconsin at Madison. “ Ruling Onself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications.”