COMPARATIVE POLITICS WORKSHOP
Spring 2009
All meetings are at 4:30-6:00 p.m . in Room A001 , 77 Prospect Street (ISPS)
January 13 Jose Fernández-Albertos, IBEI, “Exporters, Institutions, and Exchange Rate Politics. Evidence from EMU”. Discussant: Cameron Ballard-Rosa
January 27 Markus Kreuzer, Villanova University, “Varieties of Electoral Systems in Early 20th c. Democracies: Endogeneity, Methodology and Theory Development in the Study of Institutional Origins.” Discussant: Luis Schiumerini
February 3 Matthew Longo, Yale University, "A Checkpoint Effect?: Examining the Impact of Transportation Restrictions on Palestinian Political Preferences in the West Bank" Discussant: Julia Choucair
February 10 Kimuli Kasara, Columbia University, “Electoral Geography and Conflict in Kenya: Examining the Local-Level Causes of Violence in Rift Valley Province after the 2007 Election”. Discussant: Alexandra Hartman
February 17 Leonid Peishakin, Yale University, “Historical Determinants of Attitudes towards Authorities, the State, the Law, and Private Property: From Russia to Prussia Across a Bridge” Discussant: Rebecca Nielsen
February 24 Prerna Singh, Harvard University, “Measuring Subnationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States.” Discussant: Anne Nguyen [Tables and Figures]
March 3 Pierre Landry & Robert Person, Yale University, “Economic Transitions and Political Participation in China and Russia.” Discussant: Andrea Katz
March 24 James Vreeland, Georgetown University, “Global Horse Trading: IMF loans for votes in the United Nations Security Council.” Discussant: Suon Choi (Cancelled)
March 31 Nahomi Ichino, Harvard University, "Preliminary Results from a Randomized Field Experiment on Voter Registration in Ghana 2008." Discussant: Lucy Martin
April 7 Ana Arjona, Yale University, “The Creation of Local Orders in Civil War.” Discussant: Rob Blair [Appendix]
April 14 Regina Bateson, Yale University "The Political Consequences of Crime Victimization in Latin America". Discussant: Francesca Grandi
April 21 Carles Boix, Princeton University, “Political Origins of Economic Inequality” Discussant: Juan Rebolledo
April 28 Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University, “Elections, Information and Liberalization in the Post-Cold War Era” Discussant: Suon Choi