Comparative Politics Workshop

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