Comparative Politics Colloquium

The Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC) is the intellectual forum for comparativists of all areas and methods to meet and discuss current work.  In addition to featuring faculty papers and occasional outside speakers, the CPC is an integral part of graduate training in the department of political science, serving as a place for students to present papers as well as dissertation prospectuses, grant proposals, dissertation chapters and practice job talks.  The general format is for papers to be made available on our website a week in advance, and there is an expectation that colloquium participants will have read the papers in advance.  The CPC meets weekly during the academic year.  For fall 2011, we will meet on Wednesdays from 1:30-2:45.  All meetings will be in the Ogg room (# 422) in North Hall unless otherwise noted on the schedule.  The CPC is a great opportunity to get to know fellow comparativists as well as to learn about and advance each others' scholarship. The faculty director of the CPC for the coming year is Nils Ringe. Please contact Nick Barnes (njbarnes@wisc.edu) for additional information about the CPC or to be added to its mailing list.

The Comparative Politics Colloquium is grateful for the generous support of the Thomas Leonard Wemple Endowment Fund.

Fall 2011 Schedule

September 7: Organizational Meeting

September 14: Third-year Proposals: Nick Barnes "Monopolies of Violence: Urban Gangs in Brazil" and Kyle Marquardt "Disaggregating Ethnicity: Linguistic Identity, Counter-Entropic Traits and Political Mobilization".

September 21: Third-year Proposals: Matt Scharf, "New Brooms, Old Bristles? Patronage Networks, Political Turnover, and Investment" and Steven Wilson, "The Political Implications of Social Technology".

September 28: Marko Grdesic, "Information and Selection in Protest Waves". Discussant: Kyle Marquardt.

October 6 (Thursday): (Jointly with Political Economy Colloquium) John Ahlquist of UW-Madison and Eric Wibbels of Duke University, "Riding the Wave: World Trade and Factor-Based Models of Democratization".

October 13 (Thursday): (Jointly with Political Economy Colloquium) Erik Wibbels of Duke University, "State Building and the Geography of Governance: Evidence from Satellites".

October 19: Kyle Hanniman (job talk)

October 26: Evgeny Finkel (job talk)

November 2: Dan Miodownik of Hebrew University, "Group Segregation and Urban Violence"

November 11 (Friday, 1:30-2:45, Ingraham 206): Peter Katzenstein of Cornell University, "Many Wests and Polymorphic Globalism" with Preface

December 7: Kristin Vekasi of UW-Madison, "The Political Economy of Rare Earth Metals". Discussant: Dave Ohls