COMPARATIVE POLITICS WORKSHOP
Fall 2006
All meetings are at 4:30-6:00 p.m. in ISPS, Room A001 , 77 Prospect St.
September 12 Ana
Arjona and Stathis Kalyvas, Yale
University. “Testing
Theories of Recruitment by Armed
Groups: Survey Evidence from Colombia.” Discussant: Shivaji Mukherjee.
September 19 Brian Fried, Paul Lagunes and Atheendar
Venkatarami, Yale
University. “Which Way
Does The Law Bend: A Multi-Method Study of Corruption in Mexico City.” Discussant: Andira
Hernández-Monzoy.
September 26
Noam Lupu, Princeton University and Susan Stokes, Yale
University. “Democracy, Interrupted. Regime Change and Partisan Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina.”
Discussant: Xiaobo Lu.
October 3 Vineeta
Yadav, Yale University. “To Party or Not To Party in Rio: An
Empirical Analysis of
Interest Group Behavior in Developing Countries.”
Discussant: Leonid
Peisakhin.
October 10 Dan Slater, University of Chicago. “Uprisings,
Crackdowns, and Quiescence:
Symbolic Origins of
Democratic Protest in Southeast Asia.”
Discussant: Ryan Sheely.
October 17 Edmund Malesky, University
of California at San Diego. "Re-Thinking the
Obsolescing Bargain: Do Foreign Investors Really Surrender their Influence over
Economic Reform in Transition States?" Discussant:
Tom Pepinsky.
October 24 Brian Fried, Yale University. “Addressing
Inequality: The Case of Racial Quotas in Brazil.” Discussant: Karina
Cendon.
October 31
Jeff Goodwin, NYU. “Why Was There So Little Oppositional
Terrorism During the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa?.” Discussant: Laia
Balcells.
November 7 Jason Lyall, Princeton University. “Wolves Eat Dogs: Russian Counterinsurgency
Operations and Insurgent Reprisals in the Northern
Caucasus.”
Discussant: Jonah Schulhofer.
November 14 Richard Snyder, Brown University. “The Human Dimension of Comparative Research.” Discussant: Onur
Bakiner.
November 28 Steven Levitsky, Harvard University. “Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the Post-Cold War Era.”
Discussant: Harris
Mylonas.
December 5 Meghan Lynch, Yale University. “Engendering Equality
in
Political Representation:
Evidence from
Natural Experiments in France.” Discussant: Jennifer Green