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 UniversityWhich 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