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Workshop in Comparative Politics

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

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 San Diego

 

April 21

How Do Political Institutions Work? Veto Players, Intertemporal Interactions, and Policy Adaptability

Mariano Tommasi

Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andres

 

April 28

Land Rights Without Law: Understanding Property Rights Institutions, Growth, and Development in Rural India

Rachel Brule

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

May 5

Bureaucracies as In-House Contractors: Self-Raised Funds and Policy Awards in the Chinese Polity

Yuen Yuen Ang

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

May 12

The Disenfranchisement of the Indian Voter: The Effects of Malapportionment in Parliamentary Systems

Rikhil Bhavnani

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

May 19

Reflective and Unreflective Partisans: Experimental Evidence on the Links between Information, Opinion, and Party Identification

Joshua Tucker

Department of Politics, New York University

 

June 2

Inequality, Representation, and Endogenous Fiscal Institutions

Pablo Beramendi

Department of Political Science, Duke University

 

 

Winter 2008

January 14

“Going Negative” in Comparative Perspective: Campaign Strategy and Its Impact on Voters in Latin America

Scott Desposato

Department of Political Science, UC San Diego

January 21

The Origins of Sub-National Autonomy and Insurgency: The case of Indian language groups

Bethany Lacina

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

January 28

The Robust Federation: Designing for Resilience

Jenna Bednar

Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

 

February 11

The Emergence of Cultural Signatures and Persistence of Diversity: A Model of Conformity and Consistency

Scott Page

Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

 

February 25

Mexican Democracy in Crisis? Results from Two Experiments on Threat and Attitudes toward Leaders and Institutions

Elizabeth Zechmeister

Department of Political Science, UC Davis

 

March 3

Feeding Civil War: Markets, Resources, and Rebel Organizations

Nicholai Lidow

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

March 10

Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia

Yoshiko Herrera

Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

 

Autumn 2007

September 24

Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism?

Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

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, Stanford University

October 15

The Effect of Electoral Geography on the Size of Government

Jowei Chen

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

October 22

Strategies of Vote Buying: Poverty, Democracy and Social Transfers in Mexico

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

October 29

Democracy and the Threat of Redistribution in Latin America

Michael Albertus

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

November 5

Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Migration, and Authoritarian Resilience in China

Jeremy Wallace

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

November 12

Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens

Josiah Ober

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

 

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

Department of Economics

Stanford Center for International Development

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