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Harris Mylonas

Fields: Comparative Politics & International Relations

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Yale University interested in the processes of nation- and state-building, the politicization of cultural differences, immigrant and refugee integration policies, and institutional change. I have two co-authored articles forthcoming: one in Comparative Political Studies entitled "When Do Votes Count?" looking at the effects of electoral conduct and regime type on political competition in Sub-Saharan African elections and another in an edited volume entitled "Immigrant and Minorities: Discourse and Policies" explaining the variation in state-orchestrated incorporation strategies towards different Greek repatriate groups after the collapse of the communist bloc. My dissertation, "Assimilation and its alternatives: A Theory of Nation-Building," identifies the conditions in which the ruling political elites of a state target non-core groups with assimilationist policies instead of granting them minority rights or excluding them from the state. The microfoundations of the theory are based on extensive archival research as well as in-depth informational sessions with NGO officials, academics, and state elites in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The theory is tested against a variety of alternative explanations on multiple levels of analysis and a variety of data sources: a dataset of nation-building policies towards all non-core groups in Southeastern Europe after WWI, archival evidence on case studies of country-minority dyads over time, and a microlevel subnational study of a religiously, culturally, and linguistically heterogeneous province.

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Email: charalampos.mylonas@yale.edu

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Department of Political Science
124 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone: (203) 809-1751