Comparative Politics Colloquium, Spring 2017
UC Berkeley, Travers Department of Political Science
Location: All sessions will meet in the Institute of International Studies, Moses Hall 223
POL SCI 291AS (CCN: 22292)
Time: Thursdays, 12:30PM – 2:00PM
January 19
Michael Bernhard, University of Florida
Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
Faculty Chair: Steve Fish
Student Discussant: Katherine Beall
January 26
NO SESSION
February 2
Carles Boix, Princeton University
Faculty Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Student Discussant: Mathias Poertner
February 9
John Marshall, Columbia University
Political Information Cycles: When Do Voters Sanction Incumbent Parties For High Homicide Rates?
Faculty Chair: Thad Dunning
Student Discussant: Chris Chambers-Ju
February 16
Leonardo Arriola, UC Berkeley
Political Endorsements and Cross-Ethnic Voting in Africa
Faculty Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Student Discussant: Anna Callis
February 23
Bradley Holland, Ohio State University
Private Conflict, Local Organizations, and Mobilizing Ethnic Violence in Southern California
Faculty Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Student Discussant: David Dow
March 2
Calvert Jones, University of Maryland
Gender Segregation as Social Engineering: Exploring the Civic Costs in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
Faculty Chair: Jennifer Bussell
Student Discussant: Melissa Carlson
March 9
Daniel Corstange, Columbia University
Sectarian Framing in the Syrian Civil War
Faculty Chair: Steve Fish
Student Discussant: Anustubh Agnihotri
March 16
Cyrus Samii, New York University
On the mechanics of kleptocratic states
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Justine Davis
March 23
Arturas Rozenas, New York University
The Logic of Collective Repression
Faculty Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Student Discussant: Laura Jakli
March 30
Spring Recess
April 6
Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan
Democratizing the Party: The Effects of Primary Election Reforms in Ghana
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
April 13
Vicky Fouka, Stanford University
How do immigrants respond to discrimination? The case of Germans in the US during World War I
Faculty Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Student Discussant: Danny Choi
April 20
Leonid Peisakhin, New York University
Bridging the Sectarian Divide: An Experiment on Intersectarian Cooperation in Lebanon
Faculty Chair: Susan Hyde
Student Discussant: Joe Gardner
Faculty Convener: Jason Wittenberg
The colloquium is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science, the Institute of International Studies, and the Center on the Politics of Development.