Upcoming Workshops, Conferences, & Speakers
2013-2013
This year, the Democracy and Development seminar series alternates with the Department of Politics' comparative politics* seminar series. A complete list is below. For more information on the Comparative Politics series click here.
SPRING 2013
Wednesday, February 6*
John Gerring, Boston University
127 Corwin Hall
Wednesday, February 20
Why Nations Fail
James Robinson, Harvard University
Discussant: Miguel Centeno, Princeton University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, March 6*
Paul Sniderman, Stanford University
127 Corwin Hall
Wednesday, March 27
The Politics of Improving Cabinet Office Performance
Jennifer Widner, Princeton University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, April 10*
Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
127 Corwin Hall
Wednesday, April 17
Responsiveness and Responsibility: Party-Voter Linkages in Argentina and Chile
Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, May 1
Social Democracy and Democratic Consolidation in Europe
Sheri Berman, Barnard College
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
FALL 2012
Wednesday, September 19*
Nahomi Ichino, Harvard Univesity
127 Corwin Hall
Wednesday, October 10*
Deborah Yashar, Princeton University
105 Bobst Hall
Wednesday, October 17
A Progressive Juristocracy? The Unexpected Social Activism of India's Supreme Court
Sanjay Ruparelia, The New School for Social Science Research and Democracy and Development visiting fellow
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, November 7
Can Peace be Engineered? Democratic Institutions, Political Inclusion, and Conflict
Andreas Wimmer, Princeton University
4:30 p.m.
127 Corwin Hall
Thursday, November 29*
Pippa Norris, Harvard University
300 Wallace Hall
Wednesday, December 5
Panel Discussion
Oligarchy and the Politics of Wealth Defense
Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University
Discussants: Paul Starr and Bradley Simpson, Princeton University
Chair: Deborah Yashar
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, December 12*
Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg
127 Corwin Hall
