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Political Economy I

N. Bandelj
Creation of Foreign Investment Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

E. Larson
Temporality and Market Construction : The stock exchange in Ghana, Fiji, and Iceland

B. Smith
Rethinking the Politics of the Resource Curse: Oil Wealth and Regime Durability

Discussant:
Ivan Szelenyi

Political Economy II

C. Glass & J. Kawachi Welfare States in Transition: Family Policies in Hungary, Poland, and Romania

M. L. Krook
Increasing Women's Political Representation: A Comparative-Dynamic Model

M. Starbuck
An Explanation of Tipping Practices Worldwide

Discussant:
Margaret Levi

Political Economy III

J. Kunicova
Electoral Rules and Corruption: The Risks of Closed-List Proportional Representation

S. Salkin
Causes of bureaucratic corruption among public officials and private agents

M. A. Pickert
Endangered Service? Volunteer Provision of Social Services in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Discussant:
Hannah Brueckner

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M. Bastholm
Solidarity in Action: Collective Rescue Efforts in Nazi-Occupied Europe

P. Faudree
The Reading Lesson: Indigenous Language Literary and Literacy Movements in Mesoamerica, A Case Study in Comparative Perspective

D. Kitzinger
Scope of Comparative Methods in Social Movement Research

Q. Mecham
From the Sacred to the State: Institutional Origins of Islamic Political Mobilization in Turkey 1970-2000/Graphics

Discussant:
Bela Greskovits

D. Brinks
Informal Institutions and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to State Killings in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo in the 1990s

K. Buerkle
The Development of Civil Society in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

W. Maas
Free Movement and the 'Return to Europe'

J. Terra
Political Institutions and Dual Transitions to Democracy and the Market/Tables

Discussant:
Andras Bozoki

O. Cisar
Transnationalization of Domestic Politics:
The Influence of Transnationally Acting NGOs on Policy Making in the Czech Republic

K. Inoue
Title Page/Empowering Individuals: Rise and Expansion of Health Education and Women’s Issues at the WHO

E. Kaldor
Working Knowledge: Weaving Local and Globalizing Knowledges in Hungary’s Telecommunication and Financial Service Sectors

Discussant:
Edgar Kiser

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Political Economy IV

H. Brueckner-J. Kawachi
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market in Germany and the U.S.

S. Avdagic
Shaping the Paths to Labor Weakness in Post-Communist Central Eastern Europe: The Interplay of Political Strategies and Institutional Structures

S. Grattan
Family, labour, and the welfare state in Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland

Discussant
Ivan Szelenyi
 

Political Economy V

A. Stoica
From Good Communists to (Even) Better Capitalists? Entrepreneurial Strategies in Post-Socialist Romania

B. Vedres
Narrating Postsocialism: From Transition Narratives to Typical Sequences of Ownership in Hungary, 1991-1999

F. Zhang
Embedded Industrial Production in Chinese Enterprises: Firm Performance, Workplace Power Relations, and Social Structure

Discussant
Laszlo Bruszt

Culture/Religion

P. Froese
The Rise and Fall of Scientific Atheism

A. Sun
The Emergence of the World Religions Paradigm and the Construction of Confucianism as a Religion, 1870-1916

C. Valle
For everything to remain the same, everything must change? Catholic social organizations, christian democracy and post-demochristian politics in Italy

Discussant
John Comaroff

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Ethnic and National Conflicts

G. Dimitrova
Bulgaria’s Road to Europe: The Symbolic Economy of Civilization and Self-Representation in the ‘Turbulent’ Balkans

D. Gupta
Nationalism in a Transnational Age: Regional Nationalist Networks in the European Union

R. Rufino
Ethnic parliamentary incorporation in Central and Eastern Europe: finding mechanical explanations

Discussant
Gail Kligman

Politics I

F. Martinez
Electoral Campaign Effects in Europe

C. Schneider
The Consolidation of Democracy in Different Contexts: An Inter-regional Comparison

J. Smith
The Professionalization of Election Campaigns

Discussant
Edgar Kiser

Politics II

T. Falleti
Not just What but When and By Whom. Decentralization Trajectories and Balance of Power in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, 1982-1999

G. Soos
Social Capital and Democratic Performance: Local Representatives in Hungary

A. Sznajder
Politics of Regulation and Redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe

J. Staton
Public support and Judicial Policy Implementation in Mexico City and Merida

Discussant
Barbara Geddes