COMPARATIVE POLITICS WORKSHOP

Spring 2007

All meetings are at 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Room A001, 77 Prospect Street (ISPS) except where noted.

 January 16        Nassos Roussias, Yale University. “Strategic Voting in Transitional Democracies: Evidence from the District Level”. 

 January 23        Harris Mylonas, Yale University. “Assimilation and Its Alternatives: Nation-Building in Southeastern Europe”. Discussant: Josh Simon.

 January 30       Amaney Jamal, Princeton University, and and Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State University. “The Democratic Utility of Trust: A Cross-National Analysis”

February 6        Lucan Way, University of Toronto. “The Evolution of Post-Soviet
Competitive Authoritarianism, 1992-2005".
Discussant: Tom Pepinsky

 February 13      Steven Wilkinson, University of Chicago. “Colonization, Governance and Conflict”. Discussant: Shivaji Mukherjee

          February 20     Steve Kosack, Yale University. "The Education of Nations". Discussant: Paul Lagunes.

 February 27     Thad Dunning, Yale University. “Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes”. Discussant: Eddie Camp.

 March 6           Gemma Sala, Wesleyan University. “Learning to Litigate: The Judicialization of Federalism in Spain”. Discussant: Leonid Peisakhin.

March  27          Xiaobo Lu, Yale University. “Inequality of Opportunity and Beliefs Formation in Developing Countries.” Discussant: Kyohei Yamada.

 March 30          Josep Colomer, Pompeu Fabra University. “The Chicken or the Egg? 
                           On the Origins of Electoral Systems and Political Parties”.                                                          Discussant: Mario Chacón

April 3                Torben Iversen, Harvard University and David Soskice, Duke University. “Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century”.    Discussant: Nassos Roussias.

 April 10             Melani Cammett, Brown University. “Citizenship and Social Welfare in the Middle East: Religion and Politics in Lebanon”. Discussant: Lihi Ben Shitrit.         

 April 17             Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago. Peripheral Visions: Political Identifications in Unified Yemen. Discussant: Brian Fried.

April 24              Rogers Brubaker, UCLA.  “National Homogenization and
Ethnic Reproduction on the European Periphery”.                             Discussant: Harris Mylonas.

 * Friday sessions will be from 12:00 to 1:30 in 8 Prospect Place, Room 119. Lunch will be served.