Fall 2016
Sept. 21
Thad Dunning, UC Berkeley (co-sponsored with the Comparative Politics Colloquium)
Dec. 14
Michael Albertus, Chicago
March 1
Prerna Singh, Brown
March 8
Anna Grzyzmala-Busse, Stanford University (co-sponsored with the Comparative Politics Colloquium)
March 29
Agustina Giraudy, American University
April 26
Antoinette Handley, WP Fellow, University College
Spring 2016
Indirect and Direct Rule in Colonial Africa
February 17, 2016 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · 216 Aaron Burr Hall
Adria Lawrence, Yale University
Path Dependence or Ship of Theseus? Transitions to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden
February 24, 2016 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · 127 Corwin Hall
Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sons-of-the-Soil Conflict in Africa: Ethnicity and Migration in Institutional Context
March 30, 2016 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · 216 Aaron Burr Hall
Catherine Boone, London School of Economics
Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change
April 13, 2016 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · 216 Aaron Burr Hall
Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University
Wednesdays – 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Oct. 21
Kent Eaton, UC Santa Cruz and Woodrow Wilson Center
Dec. 2
Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
Feb. 17
Adria Lawrence, Yale University
Fe. 24
Kathy Thelen, MIT
March 30
Cathy Boone, London School of Economics
April 13
Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University
2014-2015
October 1, 2014
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
"Democratic Dynasties: Parties and the Dynastic Advantage in Indian Elections."
Kanchan Chandra, Visiting Research Scholar in Democracy and Development (fall term), Visiting Research Collaborator (spring term)
October 22, 2014
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
"The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes"
Steven Levitsky, Harvard University
November 12, 2014
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
"Lustration and Support for Democracy: Evidence from Post-War Germany"
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
December 3, 2014
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
“Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa?”
Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan
February 11, 2015
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
“Discrimination on the Basis of Citizenship”
Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
February 25, 2015
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
"Authoritarian Successor Parties, Security Threats, and Regime Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Rachel Beatty Riedl, Northwestern University
March 4, 2015
4:30PM
127 Corwin Hall
"Distributive Conflict and the Transition to Democratic Rule"
Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University
March 30, 2015
4:30PM
216 Aaron Burr Hall
"Unequal Trajectories, Prenatal Exposures, Stratification, and Children’s Outcomes"
Florencia Torche, New York University
April 8, 2015
12:00 pm
216 Aaron Burr Hall
“The Decline of Democracy in Turkey: Popular Support, Institutional Decay”
Yeşim Arat, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
cosponsored by NES
April 8, 2015
4:30PM
219 Aaron Burr Hall
"Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Modern Democracy”
Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University
2013-2014
These events are presented by Comparative Politics and the Project in Democracy and Development and cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and the William F. Ogden, Jr., ’53 Fund.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Election Fraud, Motivated Reasoning and Durable Authoritarianism: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Russia
Read Paper >>
Graeme B. Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
4:30 p.m.
Robertson 023
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Social Foundations of Institutional Order
Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University
Read Paper >>
4:30 p.m.
127 Corwin
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Unpacking Ethnic Voting: Theory and Micro-Level Evidence from North India
Simon Chauchard
Dartmouth College
4:30 p.m.
127 Corwin
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
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
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:
