OLD PAPERS

Spring 2006

March 29
Brian Fried, Department of Political Science
Affirmative Action in Brazil: Foreign Import or Local Remedy

April 5
Jim Mahoney, Northwestern University
A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research

April 12
Nikola Mirilovic, Department of Political Science
Regime Type and Immigration

April 19
Christopher Berry, Harris School of Public Policy
Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Federal Discretionary Programs 1970-2004

April 26
Rohit Goel, Department of Political Science
Excepting Israel: Nationalism in the Security Age

May 3
Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University
Farewell to Revolution? Reflections on the Study of Chinese Politics

May 10
Tana Johnson, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
Distrust toward International Organizations: Findings from Ten Asian Countries

May 17
Ira Parnerkar, Department of Political Science
Economic Growth and Convergence in the Indian States: The Role of Politics, Institutions, and Policies

May 24
Mona Mehta, Department of Political Science
Producing the Incivility of the Everyday: Civic Practice and Gandhian in Contemporary Gujarat, India

Winter 2006

January 11
Carles Boix, Department of Political Science
The Birth of Party Democracy: Electoral Regimes in the West

January 18
Isabela Mares, Stanford University
The Great Divergence in Social Protection

January 25
Jeffrey Grynaviski, Department of Political Science
Inter-Party Differences and Intra-Party Unity: Explaining the Decline and Resurgence of Mass Partisanship in the United States

February 1
Matt Gabel, University of Kentucky
Judicial (In-)Dependence in the European Union Reconsidered: Evidence from Government Cour Briefs

February 8
Pavel Osinsky, Northwestern University
War and State Breakdown: Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany (1917-1918)

February 15
Christian Ponce de Leon, Department of Political Science
Distributive Politics and the Poor

February 22
Guillermo Trejo, Duke University
Religious Competition and Popular Mobilization: Evidence from Mexico's Indigenous Regions

March 1
Jean Comaroff, Department of Anthropology
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony

March 8
Eungsoo Kim, Department of Political Science
The Origins and Development of the Korean Welfare State

Autumn 2005

October 5
Lisa Wedeen, Department of Political Science
Imagining Unity: Lessons on Nationalism from Yemen

October 12
Raj Desai, Georgetown University
The Cost of Authoritarian Legitimacy

October 19
Deborah Boucoyannis, Department of Political Science
Property Rights, Trade, and the Constitutional State in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

October 26
Dan Slater, Department of Political Science
Ordering Power: Contentious Politics, State-Building, and Authoritarian Durability in Southeastern Asia

November 2
Branko Milanovic, World Bank Relationship Between Income and Emergence of Democracy Reconsidered, 1820-2000

Novemberr 9
M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University
The Policymaking Process and the Reform of Latin American Public Utilities: Ch. 1 Ch. 3

November 16
Omar Al-Ubaydli, Department of Economics
Diamonds Are a Dictator's Best Friend: Natural Resources and the Trade-off between Development and Authoritarianism

November 30
Milan Svolik, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
A Theory of Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes

Spring 2005

March 30
Zeynep Bulutgil, Department of Political Science
Religion, Education, and Ethnic Cleansing

April 6
Kenneth Scheve, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance

April 13
Waikeung Tam, Department of Political Science
Clientelist Politics in Singapore: Selective Provision of Housing Services as an Electoral Mobilization Strategy

April 20
Christian Ponce de Leon, Department of Political Science
Political Feasibility of Poverty Alleviation Programs in Developing Countries

April 27
Luis Fernando Medina, Department of Political Science Reconsidering the Grievances-Conflict Link: A Game Theoretic Approach

May 4
Jonathan Rodden, Massachusets Institute of Technology
Red States, Blue States, and the Welfare State: Political Geography, Representation, and Government Policy Aroung the World

May 11
Joan Serra, Department of Political Science
Vote Choice under Uncertainty

May 18
Gladys Mitchell, Department of Political Science
Brazilian Racial Consciousness, Anti-Black Sentiment, and Support for Affirmative Action and Quotas

May 25
Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
America's Kingdom: Race, State, and the Business of Myth-Making on the Saudi Oil Frontier

June 1
Lauren Duquette, Department of Political Science
Variation in IMF Conditionality Agreements: The Political Economy of Adjustment

June 8
Susan Stokes, Department of Political Science
Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico Chapter 5

Winter 2005

January 12
Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Cornell University
Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy, Development and Industrial Protest in South Asia

January 19
Mala Htun, New School for Social Research
Why Women, But Not Blacks or Indians, Got Quotas in Politics in Latin America

January 26
Eric Oliver, Department of Political Science
The Making of the Obesity Epidemic Finacial Crisis

February 2
Carles Boix, Department of Political Science
Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height and Inequality

February 9
Nikola Mirilovic, Department of Political Science
When Does Democracy Matter? Evidence from the Post-Civil War United States

February 16
Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Robust Federation

February 23
Milan Svolik, Department of Political Science
Robust Constitutions: Endogenous Voting and Delegation under the Lack of Enforcement

March 1
George Tsebelis, University of California-Los Angeles
Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting in Latin America

March 9
Adria Lawrence, Department of Political Science
Why Nationalism? Political Mobilization in Decolonization Movements

Autumn 2004

October 6
Gary Herrigel, Department of Political Science
Verieties of Vertical Disintegration: The Global Trend Toward Heterogeneous Supply Relations and the Reproduction of Difference in US and German Manufacturing

October 15
Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University
Socio-Economic Group Prefferences and Partisan Alignments

October 20
Daniel L. Chen, NICHD
Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence During the Indonesian Finacial Crisis

October 27
Valentin Estevez, Department of Economics
Liberals, Conservatives, and Your Tax Return: Partisan Politics and the Enforcement Activities of the IRS

November 3
Mateo Colombi, Department of Political Science
Revisiting the Governance-Interdependence Nexus: Imperial Transitions and European Regional Integration

November 10
Dwayne Woods, Purdue University
Bounded Generalizations: Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa

November 17
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
Associations without Democracy: The West Bank in Comparative Perspective

December 1
Luigi Zingales, Graduate School of Business
Media Vs. Special Interests

Spring 2004

March 31
Luis Fernando Medina, Department of Political Science
Income Support, Labor Legislation, and Collective Action in Democracies

April 7
Roger B. Myerson, Department of Economics
Federalism and Incentives for the Success of Democracy

April 14
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
Governable and Ungovernable Spaces in an Oil Nation [Nigeria]

April 21
Carles Boix, Department of Political Science
Security Dilemmas, Economic Integration, and the Number of Nations

April 28
Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
Support for Globalization and State Retrenchment in Latin America: Economic Performance and Partisanship

May 5
Mikhail Alexseev, University of California, San Diego
Migration Phobia: Moving Populations and the Security Dilemma in the Russian Far East

May 12
Lora Viola, Department of Political Science
Talking States: A Theory of Diplomacy

May 19
Daniel W. Drezner, Department of Political Science
Globalization, Coercion, and Competition: The Different Pathways to Policy Convergence

May 26
Pete Wolfe, Department of Political Science
Deliberation, Democracy, and Dueling: Legislative Violence in the United States

June 2
Joan Serra, Department of Political Science
Informative Dimensions: A New Model for Electoral Choice Under Uncertainty

Winter 2004

January 14
Bilguehan Ozturk, Department of Political Science
Corruption, Business Investment and Human Capital Formation: A Cross-Country Time Series Approach

January 21
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University
The Centralization of Fiscal Authority: An Empirical Investigation of Popitz's Law

January 28
Dingxin Zhao, Department of Sociology
The Rise of Early Chinese Empire and Patterns of Chinese History

February 4
Mark Smith, Department of Political Science
Corcyraean Interventions: Internal War and External Involvement

February 11
Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University
Expanding Economic Models of Civil War Using Case Studies

February 18
Jeffrey Herbst, Princeton University
The Determinants of the Internal Structures of States

February 25
Casey Mulligan, Department of Economics
Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Non-Democracies?

March 3
Valerie Funk, Department of Political Science
War in the Public Sphere: The Case of Ethical Frameworks in Newspaper Coverage of the Iraq Wars

March 10
Nikola Mirilovic, Department of Political Science
Regime Type and Population Growth

Autumn 2003

October 8
John Schuessler, University of Chicago
What's "Nationalist" about Nationalist Violence?

October 15
Leonard Wantchekon, New York University
Ethnicity, Gender and Demand for National Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Benin

October 29
Zeynep Bulutgil, University of Chicago
State Capacity, Social Organization, and First Movers in Civil War Initiation

November 5
Mark Jones, Michigan State University
Provincial Machine Politics and Party Government in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies

November 12
Mariela Szwarcberg, University of Chicago
Feeding Loyalties. Political Clientelism in Argentina. An Analysis of the case of Manzaneras

December 5
Nicolas Van de Walle, Michigan State University
Political Clientelism and Electoral Democracy

Spring 2003

April 2
Dan Posner, University of California, Los Angeles
The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi

April 9
Adria Lawrence, University of Chicago
Ethnicity and Information

April 16
Deborah Boucoyanis, University of Chicago
Trade, Cities, and the Emergence of the Constitutional State

April 23
Luis Fernando Medina, University of Chicago
A Strategic-Interaction Approach to the Collective Action Problem

April 30
Charalampos Mylonas, University of Chicago
Explaining Intra-state Variation in Ethnic Group Mobilization: The Estonian State Restoration and the Political Mobilization of the "Russian-speakers" category

May 7
Hyung-min Joo, University of Chicago
Hidden Transcript...Shared

May 14
Pieter Van Houten, Cambridge University
A Territorial Dimension of Party Politics in Western Europe:
National Parties in Regional Party Systems

May 21
Stathis Kalyvas and Matthew Kocher, University of Chicago
An Empirical Study of Civil War Dynamics: The Hamlet Evaluation System (HES)

May 28
Michael Biggs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
When Costs are Beneficial: Protest as Communicative Suffering

June 4
Stathis N. Kalyvas, University of Chicago
A Theory of Selective Violence in Civil War

Winter 2003

January 8
Robert J. Franzese, Jr. University of Michigan
The Effective Constituency in Distributive Politics: Geographic and Partisan Bases of Representation
Background Paper: Multiple Hands on the Wheel: Empirically Modeling Partial Delegation and Shared Control
of Monetary Policy in the Open and Institutionalized Economy

January 15
Luis Ramiro, University of Murcia in Spain
The Crisis of Western Communist Parties: Reconsidering Socio-Structural Explanations

January 22
Ronald Wintrobe, University of Western Ontario
Can Suicide Bombers Be Rational?
Co-Sponsored with PISP

January 29
Pete Wolfe, University of Chicago
Creating Democracy's Good Losers: The Rise and Fall of Parliamentary Violence in Postwar Japan

February 5
Zeynep Bulutgil, University of Chicago
Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995: Fear, Strategy, or Exclusive Political Imaginations

February 12
Mark Tessler, University of Michigan
Citizen Attitudes Toward Religion and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
Also available: Tessler, forthcoming: Do Islamic Orientations Influence  Attidues for Democracy in the Arab World: Evendence for the World Values Survey in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Algeria

February 26
Group discussion of 'Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science' by Lisa Wedeen.

March 5
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen

March 12
Jakub Zielinski, Ohio State University
Electoral Control in New Democracies  (For accompanying graph click here )

Autumn 2002


October 2
Matthew Cleary, The University of Chicago
Do Parties Enforce Electoral Accountability in Mexico?

October 9
Susan Stokes, The University of Chicago
Does Poverty Erode Democracy?  Evidence from Argentina

October 16
Sujatha Fernandes, The University of Chicago
Reinventing the Revolution: Artistic Public Spheres and the State in Contemporary Cuba

October 23
James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

October 30
Leticia M. Ruiz, University of Salamanca, Spain
Party Coherence in Latin American Political Parties

November 6
Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles
Postcommunist Corruption

November 13
Lisa Baldez, Washington University
Elected Bodies: Gender Quota Laws for Legislative Candidates

November 20
John Carey, Washington University
Getting Their Way, or Getting in the Way?  Presidents and Legislative Party Unity

December 4
Carles Boix, The University of Chicago
Between Protectionism and Compensation: The Political Economy of Trade

Spring 2002

April 3
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Yale University
Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist East Central Europe

April 10
Kamal Sadiq, The University of Chicago
Migratory Flows and the Conflict over Citizenship in Southeast Asia.
For copies e-mail: ksadiq@midway.uchicago.edu

April 17
Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Trust in Transition

April 24
William Clark, New York University
The Empirical Analysis of how Institutions Matter: The Importance of Modifying Variables

May 1
Pete Wolfe, The University of Chicago
Democracy Takes a Beating? When Losers in the Parliamentary Game Refuse to Play by the Rules

May 8
Peter Swenson, Northwestern University
Capitalists against Markets: Employers and the Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the U.S. and Sweden Preface

May 15
Ira Parnerkar, The University of Chicago
Electoral Structure, Social Cleavages and Size of the Party System: A District Level Analysis of the 1999 Parliamentary Elections in India

May 22
Marcelo Bucheli, Stanford University
Re-thinking the Political Role of Multinational Corporations in the Third World: The Case of United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1900-1970

May 29
Matthew Kocher, The University of Chicago
Ethnic violence as Military Strategy

Winter 2002

January 16
Luis Fernando Medina, The University of Chicago
Clientelism as Political Monopoly

January 23
Magdalena Inkinen, Uppsala University  
Social Position and Vote Choice: The Emergence of Caste-Based Voting among Dalits in North India

January 30
Susan Stokes and Carles Boix, The University of Chicago
Endogenous Democratization Figures

February 6
Zeynep Bulutgil, The University of Chicago
Mass Killings in Bosnia-Herzegovina: State Building or State Collapse 

February 13
Elise Guliano, Notre Dame University
Re-Thinking Transitions from the Bottom-Up: Federalism, Nationalism and Local Accountability in the Russian Federation

February 20
Gul Kurtoglu, The University of Chicago
Political Islam and Violence: a Case Study from Egypt

February 27
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University 
Patriotic Partnerships: Why Great Wars Nourished American Civic Voluntarism

March 13
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
Regionalism in World Politics

University of Chicago Dept. of Political Science Council for Advanced Studies