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

 

11/17 Teppei Yamamoto Peter Buisseret "A Counterfactual Analysis of Necessary Causation"
11/24 Ignacio Jurado (Oxford)   "Political Geography and Social Policies"
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"