Fifth Annual:
Berkeley Political Science Graduate Student Conference
Friday April 25, 2008
Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
Sponsored by the by the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and the Graduate Assembly
PROGRAM
9:30 am: Continental Breakfast
9:45 am: Introductory Remarks by Paul Pierson
10:00 am: Panel I - The State and Development
- Faculty Discussant: Chris Ansell
- Jennifer Naomi Brass
Djibouti's Unusual Resource Curse - Alexsia Chan
Managing Political Constraints on Reform: State-Owned Enterprises in China - Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
EU Aid Contracts and Russian Federalism: Development Assistance in the Service of Administrative Authoritarianism? - Martha Johnson
The Politics of Bureaucratic Capacity in Senegal
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Panel II - Shifting Institutions and Policies
- Faculty Discussant: Steve Vogel
- Boris Barkanov
Saving the Gold Mine: Gazprom, Energy Charter Treaty Preferences, and Transformations in Russian Policy Thought (1997-2001) - Darius Ornston
Varieties of Cooperation: How Conceptualizing Cooperation Influences Conclusions in Comparative Political Economy - Tobias Schulze-Cleven
Labor Market Adjustment in Germany
2:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:00 pm: Panel III - Politics and Ethnic Minorities
- Faculty Discussant: Leo Arriola
- Sener Akturk
Political Construction of an Assimilationist Hegemony and the Transformation of the Ethnicity Regime in Germany, 1973-2005 - Francesca Refsum Jensenius
Designing Political Representation, Safeguards for Underrepresented Groups in India - George Willcoxon
How Does Peacekeeping Work? Quantitative Evidence from Kosovo
4:30 pm: Reception
*This Conference is open to the entire Berkeley Campus
For questions regarding papers, email Susanne Wengle (wengle –at- berkeley.edu) or Kristi Govella (kgovella –at- gmail.com).