2011-2012
FALL 2011
Wednesday, October 5
The Institutional Legacy of African Independence Movements (.pdf)
Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the Comparative Politics Seminar
Wednesday, October 26
Rethinking the Vietnamese Revolution and the Vietnam War: New Historical and Comparative Research
Tuong Vu, Universisty of Oregon and PIIRS/Democracy and Development Visiting Fellow
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Wednesday, November 30
Education for All? The Political Economy of Primary Education in Kenya
Daniel Posner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
SPRING 2012
Wednesday, February 15
Hierarchical Capitalism: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development in Latin America
Ben Ross Schneider, MIT
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, March 7
CANCELLED
Institution-building in Hard Places: Challenges, Contexts, Pathways
Jennifer Widner, Princeton
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Conference
Democracy in China and Southeast Asia? Local and National Perspectives
202 Jones Hall
Click here for the conference agenda.
Wednesday, April 4
The Marxist Paradox: Socialist Revolutionary Rebels and Civil Wars
Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, April 18
From Armies to Parties: Civil War and New Democracies
Nancy Bermeo, Oxford University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
2010-2011
Sepember 29
Business and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Economic Elites and the Response to Social Crisis
Antoinette Handley, University of Toronto
October 20
A Good Paradigm Is Hard to Find: Arab? Middle Eastern? Muslim? Exceptionalism
John Waterbury, Princeton University, emeritus, former president of American University in Beirut
Reception to follow. Registration required. Contact pzimmer@princeton.edu
November 17
Capitalism and Democracy in Eastern and Central Europe: Does the Communist Legacy Matter?
Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University
December 1
Of Empires and Citizens
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
February 9
Reorganizing Political Representation in Latin America: Strategic Party Behavior and Neoliberal Reforms
Francis Hagopian University of Notre Dame
February 16
Islamic and Secular Values, Moderation, and Democracy: Empirical and Theoretical Implications of the Turkish Case
Murat Somer, Koc Univeristy, Istanbul (Democracy and Development Visiting Fellow)
March 2
Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University
March 30
Elections and Civil War in Africa
Jose Antonio Cheibub, University of Illinois
April 6
Endogenous Ethnicity: Urbanization and Ethnic Change in the Modern World
Elliott Green, London School of Economics
April 13
History, Land, and Rebellion: Explaining Durable Separatist Conflict in the Modern World
Benjamin Smith, University of Florida
| Oct. 8 | Panel on State and Development "Late Development and State Building", Bruce Cummings (University of Chicago); “States, Sovereignty, and Development: The Political and Economic Origins and Effects of Violence in Contemporary Latin America”, Diane Davis (MIT); "What are the Implications for Development of the Unusual Patterns of State Building in Contemporary Africa?", David Leonard (University of California - Berkeley) |
| Oct. 22 | Niraja Gopal Jayal ( D&D visiting fellow), In but Not of the State: Claims to Social Citizenship in Western India |
| Nov. 12 | Evan Lieberman (Princeton University), Ethnic Boundaries and Infectious Disease: Explaining Government and Citizen Responses |
| Dec. 10 | Kanchan Chandra (New York University), How Should Democracies Respond to Ethic Diversity? |
| Feb. 11 | Elisabeth Wood (Yale University), Explaining Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence |
| Mar. 11 | Michael Ross (University of California, Los Angeles), Latin America's Missing Oil Wars |
| Apr. 8 | Pauline Jones Luong (Brown), Why Oil is not a Curse: Lessons from the Soviet Successor States |
| Apr. 29 | Melanie Cammett (Brown University), Partisan Loyalty and Access to Welfare in Lebanon |
2008-2009 Speaker Series
| Sept. 25 | Jim Robinson, Harvard University- “The Formation of the State: Evidence from Colombia” |
| Oct. 9 | Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin, visiting fellow |
| Oct. 23 | Devesh Kapur, Uiversity of Pennsylvania, visiting fellow |
| Nov. 13 | Yasheng Huang, MIT |
| Dec. 4 | Jessica Allina-Pisano, University of Ottawa |
| Feb. 12 | Ellen Lust Okar, Yale University |
| Feb. 26 | Ato Onoma, Yale University |
| March 12 | Richard Snyder, Brown University |
| March 26 | Dan Slater, University of Chicago |
| April 9 | Lily Tsai, MIT |
| April 23 | Susan Stokes, Yale University |
Past Workshops & Conferences
Friday and Saturday, May 22-23, 2009- Politics of the Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries. For schedule, click here.
Friday and Saturday, April 3-4, 2009-
Conference in Honor of John Waterbury.
For schedule, click here.
Friday, November 7, 2008 - Urban Democracy and Governance in the Global South.
For schedule and to read papers, click here.
Friday, September 21, 2007 - Problems of Inequality in the Developing World.
For schedule, click here.
To read papers, click here.
Friday, March 7, 2008 - Violence and Citizenship in Post-Authoritarian Latin America. For schedule, click here.
To read papers, click here.
2007-2008 Seminars:
2006-2007 Seminars:
