Spring 2004
January 16. Matthew Kocher, Yale University. “ Local Allies and Indirect Rule: Statecraft in Ottoman Kurdistan.”
January 23. Annalisa Zinn, Yale University. “Anocracy and the Onset of Civil War: A Reconsideration.”
January 26. Robert Bates, Harvard University. “Institutions and Development. Joint session with Political Economy workshop.”
January 30. Robert Mickey and Paul Pierson, University of Michigan and Harvard University. “ As Long As It Takes: Duration and the Explanation of Political Outcomes. ”
February 6. Shamit Saggar, Yale World Fellows Program. “ Immigration and the Politics of Public Opinion in Britain.”
February 13. Mei Guan, Yale University. “ The Effect of Non-Coercive Mobilization on Voter Turnout in China.”
February 20. Angelica M. Bernal, Yale University. “ On the ÒParadoxÓ of Constitutionalism and Democracy in the EU: The Case of the Convention on the Future of Europe.”
February 27. Roger Petersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “ Emotion and Interest in the Reconstruction of Multiethnic States.”
March 5. Benjamin Smith, Harvard University. “ Life of the Party: The Origins of Strong and Weak Single-Party Regimes.”
March 26. Eric Dickson and Kenneth Scheve, New York University and Yale University. “ Social Identity, Political Speech and Electoral Competition.”
April 1. Chris Mantzavinos, Max Planck Institute (Bonn, Germany) and Center for European Studies, Harvard.“Actions as Meaningful Events. ”
April 9. Seyla Benhabib, Yale University. “ Transformations of Citizenship: The Case of Contemporary Europe.”
April 16. Kanchan Chandra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Ethnic Diversity and Democratic Stability.”
April 23. Ellen Lust-Okar, Yale University. “Institutional Reform under Authoritarianism.”