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The First Annual
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co-sponsored by |
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Society for Comparative
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May 8-9, 1999
Los Angeles, CA |
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Overview of Program |
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Saturday, May 8
Session A
10:00-11:45
Politics and Culture
Fried Gabriela
On Remembering and Silencing the Past -- the Adult Children of the
Disappeared in the Southern Cone of Latin America
Keary, Anne
Christian Missionaries, Colonial Knowledge, Contested Geographies
-- A Study of Protestant Missionizing and Colonialism in New South
Wales and Oregon Territories in the Nineteenth Century
Martinez, Sarah
Changing Campaign Strategies in Mexico: The Effects of Electoral
Reforms on Political Parties
Zalanga, Samuel
Ruling Elite Coalitions and State Bureaucratic Capacity:
Accounting for Developmental and Predatory States in Malaysia and
Nigeria
Discussant: Carlos Waisman
12:15-2:00
Economy I: institutions/institutional change
Niu, Hui
The Issue of Human Agency in the Reform of State Enterprises in
China
Guseva, Alya
The Role of Trust in the Russian Credit Card Market (click here to
view tables)
Discussant: David Stark (Columbia)
2:15-4:00
Economy II
Ellison, David
Of Wool and Sheep: The Return to Europe
Horne, Cynthia
The Politics Behind the Application of Antidumping Laws to
Nonmarket Economies: Distrust and Informal Constraints
Kemeny, Szabolcs
Flexibilities and Trust: Production Markets and Role Production in
the Hungarian Economic Transformation
Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas (UCSD)
4:15-6:00
Globalization
Biradavolu, Monica Rao
Uneven Globalization? Organizational Networks and India’s Niche in
the Global Software Industry
Hargittai, Eszter
Weaving the Western Web (Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, Table
5)
McMullen, Shannon
From Steel Mills to Shopping Malls: Changing Social Relations in
the Wake of Deindustrialization in Two Old Industrial Regions
Nakagawa, Trevor
The Future of European Software: European Software Responses to
Globalization
Discussant: Rebecca Emigh
Saturday, May 8
Session B
10:00-11:45
Ethnicity/National Identity/Immigration
Benson, Rodney
The journalistic construction of the American and French
immigration public debates: 1973-1994
DeFay, Jason
The Garifuna Community of Los Angeles: Ethnicity, Economic Success
and Political Organization
Dierkes, Julian B
Great Farmers: The German Nation in Postwar Textbook Portrayals of
Agrarian Uprisings
Valdez, Zulema
Assimilation and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Koreans and Mexicans in
Los Angeles
Discussant: Ivan Szelenyi
12:15-2:00
Ethnicity/National Identity/Immigration
Jenne, Erin
Political Opportunism and Ethnic Mobilization: A Triadic Model for
Predicting the Ethnicization of Politics in New States
O'Murchu, Niall
The Limits of Hegemony -- British Rule and Ethno-national Conflict
in Palestine and Northern Ireland
Stroschein, Sherrill
Ethnic Mobilization and Contentious Politics in Romania
Discussant: Barbara Geddes
2:15-4:00
Politics II
Schatz-Gutierrez, Sara
Delayed Transition to Democracy in Paternalistic Authoritarian
Regimes -- the Case of Mexico
Elin Skaar
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Human Rights in Democratic
Transitions
Ozler, Serife Ilgu
Political Institutions and Change in Poverty Policy in the
Less-Developed Countries: A Test of the Veto Players Model
Discussant: Jeffrey Broadbent
Sunday, May 9
Session A
10:00-11:45
Law/Administration
Baum, Jeeyang Rhee
The Logic of Presidential Delegation-- a Comparative Analysis of
Administrative Procedural Reform in Korea and Tawain
Kotin, Daniel
The Causes of Government Budget Deficits-- an Empirical
Re-examination of Partisan and Institutional Effects
Magar, Eric
Patterns of Executive-Legislative Conflict in Latin America and
the US
Yamanishi, David
Safeguarding Society? The Theory and Practice of Judicial Autonomy
and Judicial Independence
Discussant: Larry Diamond (Stanford)
12:45-2:30
Politics I: Social Movements
Emery, Alan
The Insurgent Origins of Democratization in South Africa
Morales, Laura Diez de Ulzurrun
Membership in Political Groups in Western Countries (figures)
Pfaff, Steven
Explaining Protest Mobilization in Repressive Settings: Lessons
from East Germany's Spontaneous Revolution
Wade, Shawn W.
The Rational Revolutionary-- Organizational and Ideological
Recruitment in the Development of Revolutionary Strategy
Discussant: Rebecca Emigh
2:45-4:30
Authoritarianism/ Fascism
Kellogg, Michael
Hitler's 'Russian' Connection: White Emigre Influence on the
Genesis of Nazi Ideology, 1917-1923
Riley, Dylan
Intellectuals and the Rise of Mass Politics
Kulke, Christine
The Communities of L'viv/ Lwow/ L'vov Lemberg, 1939-1953
Discussant: Gil Eyal
Sunday, May 9
Session B
10:00-11:45
Culture
Nakajima, Seio
Symbolism of the Middle Classes in Japan and Taiwan: A Comparison
Stamatov, Peter
State Socialist Omnivores: Distinction Through Leisure Activities
in Czechoslovakia, 1984.
Discussant: Jeffrey Broadbent
12:45-2:30
Class
Andreas, Joel
Political and Cultural Capital as Axes of Contention During the
Chinese Cultural Revolution
Hsu, Carloyn
Creating Legitimacy: Developing the Institutions of Market
Socialism in the People's Republic of China
Li, Bobai
Paths to Power: Sponsored Mobility into Socialist Bureaucratic
Elite
Southworth, Caleb
The Making of the Russian Working Class: Workplace Conflict and
Economic Development in Post-Soviet Factories of the Urals
Discussant: Gil Eyal
2:45-4:30
Gender and Politics
Gheytanchi, Elham
Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the Crisis of Civil
Society
Korteweg, Anna
Needs Interpretation and the Construction of Female Citizens: New
Welfare State Policies in the Netherlands and the United States
Faison, Elyssa
Female Factory Workers in Japan -- the Toyo Muslin Strike of 1930
Schalet, Amy
Raging Hormones, Regulated Love -- Adolescent Sexuality and the
Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United States and the
Netherlands
Discussant: Ruth Milkman |
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