Spring 2006
January 20. John Huber, Columbia University. “Religious belief, religious participation, and social policy attitudes across countries” Friday meeting: 12:00 in Room 119, 8 Prospect Place.
January 25. Branko Milanovic, World Bank. “A reexamination of the relationship between income and the emergence of democracy, 1820-2000”
Wednesday meeting: 6:00 in Room 119, 8 Prospect Place.
January 31. Ellen Lust-Okar, Yale University. “Elections under Authoritarianism: Tentative Conclusions from the MENA”
February 7. Nandini Deo, Yale University. “Civil Society and Democracy: the Transnational Connection”
February 14. Elizabeth Levy Paluck and Donald Green, Yale University. “Reconciling Ethnic Conflict Through Mass Communications: A Field Experiment in Rwanda”
February 21. Julia Adams, Yale University. “Poststructuralist Foundations of Social Theory, or the Unknown James Coleman”
February 28. Steve Hanson, University of Washington. “Ideology, Uncertainty, and Democracy: Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia”
March 21. Martin Dimitrov, Harvard University. “Why Communism Didn't Collapse: Exploring Regime Resilience in China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba”
March 28. Rob Person, Yale University. “The Third Wave Reversed: Undercurrents of Authoritarianism in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (dissertation prospectus)”
April 4. Pierre Englebert, Pomona College and Katharine Boyle, Cornell University.“The Primacy of Politics in Separatist Dynamics”
April 11. Francisco Gutierrez, Colombia National University. “Kidnapping and Democracy. A discussion of the Colombian Case”
April 18. Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University and Matt Kocher, CIDE. “EA Violence and Insurgency: Implications for Collective Action”
April 25. Dominika Koter, Yale University. “Salience of Ethnicity in Electoral Politics in sub-Saharan Africa”