Workshop in Comparative Politics
Department of Political Science,
Graham Stuart Lounge, Encina Hall
West, 4th Floor, 4:15-6:05pm
Faculty Conveners: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni
Student Organizer: Rikhil Bhavnani
Schedule, 2007-08
Spring
2008
April
7
How
Similar Are They? Rethinking Electoral Congruence
Jason Wittenberg
Department
of Political Science, UC Berkeley
April
14
North and Weingast Revisited: Credible Commitments and
Public Borrowing in the Pampas
Sebastian Saiegh
Department
of Political Science, UC
April
21
Mariano Tommasi
Department
of Economics, Universidad de San Andres
April
28
Rachel Brule
Department
of Political Science,
May
5
Bureaucracies
as In-House Contractors: Self-Raised Funds and Policy Awards in the Chinese
Polity
Yuen Yuen Ang
Department
of Political Science,
May
12
The Disenfranchisement of the Indian Voter: The
Effects of Malapportionment in Parliamentary Systems
Rikhil Bhavnani
Department
of Political Science,
May
19
Joshua Tucker
Department
of Politics,
June
2
Inequality,
Representation, and Endogenous Fiscal Institutions
Pablo Beramendi
Department
of Political Science,
Winter
2008
January
14
“Going Negative” in Comparative
Perspective: Campaign Strategy and Its Impact on Voters in
Scott Desposato
Department
of Political Science, UC
January
21
The Origins of Sub-National Autonomy and Insurgency:
The case of Indian language groups
Bethany Lacina
Department
of Political Science,
January
28
The Robust Federation: Designing for Resilience
Jenna Bednar
Department
of Political Science,
February
11
Scott Page
Department
of Political Science,
February
25
Elizabeth Zechmeister
Department
of Political Science, UC Davis
March
3
Feeding
Civil War: Markets, Resources, and Rebel Organizations
Nicholai Lidow
Department
of Political Science,
March
10
Yoshiko Herrera
Department
of Political Science,
Autumn
2007
September
24
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism?
Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo
Department
of Political Science,
October
1
Pipelines and Party Switching: Resource Control and
Legislator Strategies in Brazil and Japan
Ethan Scheiner
Department
of Political Science, UC Davis
October
8
Exiting
Anarchy: Militia Politics in Postwar Tajikistan and Georgia
Jesse Driscoll
Department
of Political Science,
October
15
The Effect of Electoral Geography on the Size of
Government
Jowei Chen
Department
of Political Science,
October
22
Strategies of Vote Buying: Poverty, Democracy and
Social Transfers in
Alberto
Diaz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni
Department
of Political Science,
October
29
Democracy
and the Threat of Redistribution in Latin America
Michael Albertus
Department
of Political Science,
November
5
Cities
and Stability: Urbanization, Migration, and Authoritarian Resilience in China
Jeremy Wallace
Department
of Political Science,
November
12
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in
Classical
Josiah Ober
Department
of Political Science,
November
26
When Does Aid Conditionality Work?
Gabriella Montinola
Department
of Political Science, UC Davis
Other Stanford Seminar
Series
Department
of Political Science: Workshop in International Relations
Department
of Political Science: Political Theory Workshop
FSI:
Asia-Pacific Research Center
FSI:
Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
FSI:
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Graduate School of Business: Political Economy Seminar
Center for Latin American Studies
Stanford
Center for International Development