Comparative Politics Workshop

Faculty Conveners:
Karen Jusko
Jonathan Rodden

2009-2010 Schedule
: Fall : Winter : Spring

Past Workshop:
2008-2009

Fall Quarter:
September 21:
Rikhil Bhavnani (Practice Job Talk)
Stanford University
Title: Do Electoral Quotas Work After They are Withdrawn?

September 28:
Bethany Lacina (Practice Job Talk)
Stanford University
Title: When Do Governments Prevent Civil Violence? A Study of India's Federal Reorganization
Paper

October 05:
Natan Sachs (Practice Job Talk)
Stanford University
Title: Experimenting with Identity: Islam, Nationalism and Ethnicity
Paper

October 12:
Oliver Kaplan (Practice Job Talk)
Stanford University
Title: Civilian Autonomy in Civil War

October 19:
Roy Elis (Practice Job Talk)
Stanford University
Title: The Redistributive Consequences of Democratization
Paper

October 26:
Charlotte Lee (Practice Job Talk)
Stanford University
Title: Managing the Managers: Party Schools and Cadre Selection in Post-Mao China

November 02:
Julia Tobias
Stanford University
Title: “Do Village Politics Matter?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Distribution of a Cash Transfer in Indonesia”

November 09: 
Ken Schultz & Alex Lee
Stanford University
Title: Comparing British and French Colonial Legacies: A Discontinuity Analysis of Cameroon

November 16:
Sarah Anzia
Stanford University
Title: Partisan Power Play: The Origins of Election Timing as an American Political Institution

November 23: 
Thanksgiving Recess - No Meeting

November 30:
Ruth Kricheli
Stanford University
Title: Mass Revolutions vs. Elite Coups

Winter Quarter:
January 04:
TBA

January 11:
TBA

January 18:
MLK Day - No Meeting

January 25:
David Laitin, Claire Adida, & Marie-Anne Valfort
Stanford University, UCSD, and Economics at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

February 01:
TBA

February 08:
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
UCSD

February 15:
President's Day - No Meeting

February 22:
Kanchan Chandra
NYU and CASBS Fellow

March 01:
Avital Livny
Stanford University

March 08:
Erik Wibbels
Duke University

March 15:
Daniel Posner
UCLA

Spring Quarter
March 29:
Alex Lee
Stanford University

April 05:
Michelle Robinson
Stanford University

April 12:
Kathleen Bawn
UCLA

April 19:
Lisa Blaydes
Stanford University

May 26:
Amanda Robinson
Stanford University

May 03:
Ana de la O
Yale University

May 10:
Jim Robinson
Harvard University

May 17:
Maggie Peters and Rikhil Bhavnani
Stanford University

May 24:
Saumitra Jha
Stanford University

May 31:
Memorial Day - No Meeting