6th Annual Retreat
 
 
 
 
 

 

The Third Annual Retreat

 

 May 11-12, 2001

Yale University

 
 
     Friday, May 11th
 

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10:00 - 12:00

1:00 - 3:00

3:30 - 5:30

Comparative Political Economy I

N. Bandelj
Dealing with Globalization: A Case Study of Foreign Investment Reception

C. Cosovanu
Intellectual Property, Price Discrimination, and Development: The Case of Software in Central and Eastern Europe

M. Dimitrov
How Pirates Learn to be Law-Abiding Citizens: The Protection of Intellectual Property in China and Taiwan

Discussant
Mattei Dogan

Comparative Political Economy II

P. Keat
Government Favoritism, Geographic Concentration, and Enterprise Restructuring in Post-Socialist Poland: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Industrial Manufacturing Firms

S. Mutzel
Journalistic accounts of moving the German capital from Bonn to Berlin - The 'Berlin Republic' as the Primum Movens

G. Rosas
Badgehot or Bailout: Explaining Government Reponse to Bank Crises in Developing Economies

Discussant
Wolfgang Streeck

Comparative Political Economy III

A. Sznajder
Effects of Post-Communist Coalitions on Capitalist Development in Central and Eastern Europe

S. Stockdale
The Macro-ideological Contexts of Shifts in Central Bank Independence in the United States and England

W. Zhou
Market Reform and the Making of an Integrated National Grain Market in China

Discussant
Akos Rona-Tas

 

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9:30 - 11:30

1:00 - 3:00

3:30 - 5:30

Social Structure I

A. Buck
From Status to Faction: The Networks of Political Succession in Post-Socialist Russia

C. Glass/J. Kawachi
Gender and Unemployment in Market Transition: Hungary and Poland Since 1988

R. Morioka
Cultural Mediation of Work-Related Stress: Japan and the United States

Discussant
Jeff Broadbent

Social Structure II

V. Molnar
Changing Social Hierarchy in Hungary: The Nouveaux Riches and the Rest

Z. Valdez
Evidence for a Polanyian Interpretation of Entrepreneurship: Reciprocal, Redistributive, and Market Strategies in Ethnic Enterprise

L. Zhao
Human Capital, Political Capital and Family Business: The Market Transition Debate Revisited

Discussant
Anna Grzymala-Busse

Comparative Politics I

N. Barnes
Binational Collaboration between the United States and Mexico’s HIV/AIDS Sectors: A Comparison of National and Organizational Responses

J. Chi
Plural Identities: A Comparative Analysis of Nation-building Processes in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore

B. Dill
Social Capital and the Transition to Democracy: An Analysis of Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria

Discussant
Margaret Levi

 
     Saturday, May 12th
 

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9:30 - 11:30

1:00 - 3:00

Comparative Political Economy IV

D. Brancati
Cure-all or Cure-not-at-all? The Role of Decentralization on Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism

P. Gutierrez
Nation-building, Native Peoples, and Citizenship in the "New Settlement": A Comparative Perspective of Argentina and the U.S.

R. Seher
The Political Outcomes of Regional Autonomy Movements in Europe

S. Mitraud
Understanding The Process Of Social Change In Conservation And Development Initiatives: A Comparative Study In Brazil"

Discussant
Barbara Geddes
 

Comparative Politics II

A. Hicken
Party Systems, Political Institutions and Policy: Policymaking in Developing Democracies

J. Jin
Protest Leader Logic and Semi-formalized Organization: A case study of a long-term Chinese peasants’ collective protest at Dahe Dam

N. Brune
Government Ownership and Privatization of Financial Institutions

Jessica Allina-Pisano, Yale
The State Against Itself: Policy Ambivalence and Social Conflict in Ukranian Agrarian Reform

Discussant
Ivan Szelenyi

 
 

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9:30 - 11:30

1:00 - 3:00

Ethnicity and Social Movements

M. Bastholm
Collective Identity in Action: The 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jewish Community

D. Riley
Italian Fascism and the Dispersal of Weber’s Means of Administration

M. Kocher
Ethnic Violence and the Problem of Order: What do communist insurgencies tell us about the causes of contemporary conflict?

Discussant
Karen Barkey

Comparative Politics III

M. Leiras
Constitutionalism and the Supremacy of Law at the Origins of Two South-American Republics: Political Ideas, Constitutional Projects and Practices in Argentina and Chile (1833-1912)

S. Recchia
Taking it to the Streets or the Elites? Environmental Group Successes in Four Countries

B. Smith
Hard Times in the Land of Plenty: Oil Booms and Opposition in Late Developing States

Discussant
Larry Diamond

 

 
 
 



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