Comparative Politics Colloquium

Thursdays, 12:30PM – 2:00PM, Moses Hall 223

Faculty Coordinator: Leonardo Arriola

 

January 31
Jennifer Bussell, UC Berkeley
Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies

February 7
Noah Nathan, University of Michigan
Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana

February 14
Jake Bowers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Does Politics Affect Perceptions of Place? The Effect of Campaigns on Perceptions of Diversity in the UK

February 21
Jessica Gottlieb, Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University
Keeping the State Weak to Prevent Claim-Making in Young Democracies

March 7
Eugene Finkel, SAIS Johns Hopkins University
Religious Diversity and Contentious Politics in the Russian Empire

March 14
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University
How the Catholic Church Shaped Early State Formation in Europe

March 21
Rob Blair, Brown University
Foreign Aid and State Legitimacy

April 4
Peter Loewen, University of Toronto
Politician Health and Democratic Representation

April 11
Kim Dionne, UC Riverside
Constraints on Women Politicians' Role Model Effects: Evidence from Africa

April 25
Adrian Lucardi, ITAM
Electoral Rules and the Geographic Distribution of Public Goods

 

Thursdays, 12:30PM – 2:00PM, Moses Hall 223

 

September 13

Milan Svolik, Yale University 

Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States

 

September 20

Paul Thissen, UC Berkeley

Legacy Institutions and Political Order in Weak States: Evidence from Chad

 

September 27

Mathias Poertner, UC Berkeley

Amassing Support: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America

 

October 4

Kristin Michelitch, Vanderbilt University

Gender, Networks, and Politician Performance: Evidence from 50 Ugandan Subnational Governments with Women's Reserved Seats

 

October 11

Rachel Brulé, NYU Abu Dhabi

Women's Representation & Resistance: Positive & Perverse Consequences of Indian Laws for Gender Equality

 

October 18

Jennifer Pan, Stanford University

How China’s Use of Welfare and Surveillance to Prevent Collective Action Backfires

 

October 25

Michael Weaver, University of British Columbia

'Let our ballots secure what our bullets have won:' Union Veterans and Voting for Radical Reconstruction and Black Suffrage

 

November 1

Candelaria Garay, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

 

November 8

Daniel de Kadt, University of California, Merced

 

November 15

Eva Anduiza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Powerful and Enraged: Political Efficacy, Emotion, and Support for Populism in Europe

 

November 29

Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania

Articulating Indigenous Demands in the Americas