Graduate Research Seminar in Comparative Politics
Faculty Leader: Jonas Pontusson
Day/Time: Tuesday, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
The graduate research seminar in comparative politics focuses on research emphasizing the comparative analysis of political systems and cultures.
Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation: you may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.
Related link: Comparative politics community at Princeton
| Date | Speaker |
Discussant |
Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/22 | Kristen Harkness |
Michael Woldemarian |
"Military Responses to Constitutional Changes of Leadership in Africa" |
| 9/29 |
Elena Nikolova |
Scott Abramson |
"Labor Markets and Representative Institutions: Evidence From Colonial British America" |
| 10/6 |
Avi Acarya |
Carlos Velasco Rivera |
"Coordinating on a Revolution" |
| 10/13 |
Gwyneth McClendon |
Sarah El-Kazaz |
"Politics and Envy: A Behavioral Mechanism and Its Consequences for Development |
| 10/20 |
Michael Miller |
Bryn Rosenfeld |
"Authoritarian Elections as a Mechanism for Information Revelation and Policy Responsiveness." |
| 10/27 |
Daniela Campello |
Michael Becher |
"The Politics of Dollar Scarcity in Latin America" |
| 11/10 |
Michael Woldemarian Room Change: 023 Robertson Hall |
Erin Lin |
Success, Failure, and Something in Between: Rebel Fragmentation and the Dynamics of War
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| 11/17 | Teppei Yamamoto | Peter Buisseret | "A Counterfactual Analysis of Necessary Causation" |
| 11/24 | Ignacio Jurado (Oxford) | "Political Geography and Social Policies" |
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| 12/1 | Amaney Jamal | Yanilda Gonzalez | "Of Empires and Citizens: Authoritarian Persistence in the Arab World." |
| 12/8 | Jing Chen | Dinsha Mistree | "Village Social Cells and Collective Petitions in China" |