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Wed, 05.21.2008, 6pm, Wilder House
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Thursday, 05.29.2008
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Welcome to the Comparative Politics Workshop at the University of Chicago.
The Comparative Politics Workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work-in-progress in the field of comparative politics. Comparative politics is a broad and methodologically eclectic field. The common thread running through the research presented in our workshop is the search for broad theoretical propositions and fresh empirical insights through the comparative study of politics. The types of questions raised in this workshop include: What explains the levels of violence in civil wars? Under what conditions do clientelism and patronage politics emerge? Why do poor people sometimes migrate internationally to countries that are just as poor as the countries they left? If economic growth encourages democratization, is this because modern economies are wealthier or because they are more egalitarian? Do democracies affect public policies differently than authoritarian regimes?
The workshop meets 6:00 pm, every Wednesday at Wilder House. Hard copies of the paper are available one week in advance in the Pick student lounge (5th floor). If, under request of the author, the paper is not available online, please contact the workshop coordinators for access to the paper.
If you want to be included on the email list of the workshop you can sign-up for our email announcements via our listserv by clicking here. If you have other questions or requests please contact Chris Haid or Erica Simmons--the workshop's co-coordinators.