Past Colloquia
As many papers presented at CPC are earlier drafts of journal articles or book chapters, copies are only available for a short time before and after presentation. To obtain a copy of a paper--or, in many cases, its final product--please contact the author directly or follow links to download or purchase.
Spring 2011 Schedule
January 19: Organizational Meeting
January 26: Brett Kyle, "Recycling Dictators: The Election of Ex-Authoritarians in New Democracies." Discussant: Evgeny Finkel.
February 9:David Laitin, Stanford University. James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science. "'One Muslim is Enough!' Evidence from a Field Experiment in France."
February 16: Jeremy Menchik, "Conceptualizing and Measuring Group Tolerance." Discussant: Jeff Paller.
February 23: Discussion of Thad Dunning and Lauren Harrison. "Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: An Experimental Study of Cousinage in Mali." American Political Science Review. 104(1): 21-39. Discussant: Steven Wilson.
March 2: Benjamin Smith, University of Florida. Associate Professor of Political Science. "Separatist Conflict in the Soviet Bloc and Beyond: How Different Was Communism?"
March 9: Yasushi Asako, Bank of Japan. Economist at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies. "Dynastic Legislators: Theory and Evidence from Japan."
March 23: Scott Straus. "Changing Patterns of Political Violence in Africa." Discussant: Nick Barnes.
March 30: Amnon Cavari and Shlomo Egoz (Bar Ilan University),"Cohort Analysis of American Public Opinion about the Israeli-Arab Conflict." Discussant: Jeremy Menchik. Location: Ingraham 206.
April 6: Discussion of Jason Lyall. "Are Coethnics Better Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second Chechen War." American Political Science Review. 104(1): 1-20. Discussant: Matt Scharf. Location: Social Sciences 8411.
April 13: Discussion of Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik. "Defeating Dictators: Electoral Change and Stability in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes."World Politics. 62(1): 43-86. Discussant: Brett Kyle. Location: Social Sciences 8411.
April 20: Yoshiko Herrera and Nicole Kraus, "Pride versus Prejudice: Xenophobia and National Identity in Russia." Discussant: Sanja Badanjak. Location: Social Sciences 8411.
April 27: Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania. Associate Professor of Political Science. "Rethinking Labor Passivity in Post-Communist Europe: The Evolving Dynamics of Labor Politics in Russia and Elsewhere." Location: Social Sciences 8411.
May 4: Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach and Tricia Olsen. "Imperfect Institutional Change: Peasant Disturbances Before and After Russia's Emancipation Reform of 1861." Discussant: Brandon Lamson. Location: Social Sciences 8411.
Fall 2010 Schedule
September 8: Organizational Meeting
September 15: Discussion of Shawn Treier and Simon Jackman. 2008. "Democracy as a Latent Variable." American Journal of Political Science. 52(1): 201-217. Discussant: Emily Sellars.
September 22: Discussion of Ziblatt, Daniel. 2009. "Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Germany." American Political Science Review. 103(1): 1-21. Discussant: Meina Cai.
September 29: Evgeny Finkel, "Why Ukraine is not Russia: Hegemonic National Identity and Democratization in Russia and Ukraine." Discussant: Steven Wilson.
October 6: Aseema Sinha, "When David Meets Goliath: How Global Markets and Rules are Shaping India's Rise to Power." Discussant: Brandon Lamson.
October 13: Tricia Olsen, "When the Market Meets the State: Microfinance Policy Adoption in Emerging Economies."
October 20: Jeremy Menchik, "Tolerance without Liberalism: Conflict and Coexistence in Twentieth Century Indonesia." Note: CPC to be held in Bascom Hall, Room 52.
October 27: James Mahoney, Northwestern University. Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Sociology. "Two Approaches to Concepts and Measurement in Comparative Research." Discussant: Galina Belokurova. Note: CPC to be held in Education Building, Room 198.
November 10: Session rescheduled to Friday.
Friday, November 12 (2:00-3:30): Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University. Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. "Did Marxism Make a Difference? Marxist Rebellions and National Liberation Movements." Social Sciences 8417 (Sewell Room).
2009-2010
Fall 2009 Schedule
October 12: Sanja Badanjak, "Dynamics and change within and across party groups in the European Parliament" and Peter Nasuti, "A policy issue in a patronage-democracy: The lawyers' movement in Pakistan."
October 19: Lauren McCarthy. "Trafficking (In)justice: Russian Law Enforcement's Response to Human Trafficking." (Discussant: Evgeny Finkel)
October 26: Adam Auerbach, "Cooperation in Uncertainty: Migration, Ethnicity, and Community Governance in India’s Urban Slums" and Jennifer Petersen, "The Local Politics of Post-Conflict Rebuilding in Rwanda and Burundi." (Discussants: Peter Nasuti and Brandon Kendhammer)
November 2: Brandon Kendhammer. Dissertation Chapter 4. "Framing Sharia Law and Democracy (I): The Media and Public Discourse." (Discussant: Howard Schweber)
November 9: Alice Kang. Practice Job Talk. Meets in Social Socience 8417. "Bargaining with Islam: Of Rule, Religion, and Women in Niger."
November 16: Jeffrey Paller, "Empty Threats, Empty Promises: African Slums." (Discussant: Barry Driscoll)
November 23. Evgeny Finkel. "An Unpredictable Past: Constructing Genocides." (Discussant: Lauren McCarthy)
December 1, 3-4:30 PM: David Samuels. University of Minnesota. Meets in Ingraham 336. "Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach." (Discussant: Howard Schweber)
December 7: Scott Straus and Charles Taylor, "Democratization and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2007." (Discussant: Michael Schatzberg)
December 14: NO CPC
December 16, 7 PM: Comparative Politics Gathering at Melanie Manion's House
Spring 2010 Schedule
January 20: Organizational Meeting
January 27: Barry Driscoll, "What explains subnational variation in governing capacity in developing countries?: Taxing market traders in Ghana." (Discussant: Scott Gehlbach)
February 3: Kyle Marquardt, "Language and Sovereignty: A Comparative Analysis of Language Policy in Tatarstan and Kazakhstan." (Discussant: Peter Nasuti)
February 10: Nadav Shelef, "Radicalization of religious nationalists: re-evaluating the democratic inclusion hypothesis in Israel." (Discussant: Jason Ardanowski)
February 17: Lauren McCarthy, “Law in Action: Incentives and Disincentives for Human Trafficking Investigations in Russia.” (Discussant: Kyle Marquardt)
February 24: Kristen Vekasi, "Nationalist Tension and Economic Exchange: Evidence from China." (Discussant: Brandon Lamson)
March 3: Brett Kyle and Andrew Reiter, "Dictating Justice: Military Courts and Judicial Reform in Latin America." (Discussant: Christina Ewig)
March 10: Teri Caraway, University of Minnesota. "Gendering Comparative Politics."
March 17: Brandon Lamson, "Distributional Consequences of Globalization: Local Public Spending in China." (Discussant: Emily Sellers)
March 24: Kimiko Osawa. "Lack of Attention and Resistance: Japanese Conservatives' Inability to Block the Basic Law for a Gender Equal Society." (Discussant: Kristen Vekasi)
April 7: Matt Scharf. "Dynamic Contention, Durable Regimes: The Role of Ideology and Institutions in Ethiopia’s Dual Revolutions." (Discussant: Kathleen Klaus)
April 14: Dan Slater, University of Chicago. "Democracy without Accountability: Party Powersharing and Presidential Domineering in Indonesia."
April 21: Nils Ringe, Jennifer Victor (University of Pittsburgh) and Christopher Carman (University of Strathclyde). "More than Cheap Talk: Legislative Member Organizations in a Comparative Perspective." (Discussant: Melanie Manion)
April 28: William Reno, Northwestern University. "The Evolution of Warfare in Independent Africa." Co-Sponsored by the African Studies Program, funded by the UW-Madison Lectures Committee.
May 5: Tricia Olsen, "When the Market Meets the State: Microfinance Policy Adoption in Emerging Economies."(Discussant: Matt Scharf)
2007-2008
Fall Semester
October 4th, 7:30
Jen Ziemke will present a chapter from her dissertation, "From Battles to Massacres: An Analysis of Changing Conflict Patterns in Angola, 1961-2002." Crawford Young and Charles Franklin will serve as discussants and Melanie Manion will host.
November 8th, 7:30
Nils Ringe will present chapters from his book manuscript project Who Decides, and How? Preferences, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice in the European Parliament. David Canon and Timo Weishaupt will serve as discussants, and Leigh Payne will host.
December 13th, 7:30
Yoshiko Herrera will present her paper, "Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia". Susan Yackee and Amy Forster Rothbart will serve as discussants, and Melanie Manion will host.
Spring Semester
March 6th, 7:30
Erick Danzer will present his paper "Chain Politics and Agricultural Development in Indonesia." Jennifer Brick and Aseema Sinha will serve as discussants, and Ed Friedman will host.
May 1st, 7:30
Leigh Payne, Tricia Olsen, and Andy Reiter
2006-2007
Fall Semester
October 4th, 7:30
Jen Ziemke will present a chapter from her dissertation, "From Battles to Massacres: An Analysis of Changing Conflict Patterns in Angola, 1961-2002." Crawford Young and Charles Franklin will serve as discussants and Melanie Manion will host.
November 8th, 7:30
Nils Ringe will present chapters from his book manuscript project Who Decides, and How? Preferences, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice in the European Parliament. David Canon and Timo Weishaupt will serve as discussants, and Leigh Payne will host.
December 13th, 7:30
Yoshiko Herrera will present her paper, "Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia". Susan Yackee and Amy Forster Rothbart will serve as discussants, and Melanie Manion will host.
Spring Semester
March 6th, 7:30
Erick Danzer will present his paper "Chain Politics and Agricultural Development in Indonesia." Jennifer Brick and Aseema Sinha will serve as discussants, and Ed Friedman will host.
May 1st, 7:30
Leigh Payne, Tricia Olsen, and Andy Reiter
2006-2007
October 12, 2006
Presenter: Jonathan Zeitlin
Discussants: Aseema Sinha and Timo Weishaupt
Paper: "Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the European Union"
October 26, 2006
Presenter: Timothy Hildebrandt
Discussants: Pamela Oliver and Simanti Lahiri
Paper: "Strange Bedfellows: Social movements, the state, and strategic limitation in China"
December 7, 2006
Presenter: Tamir Moustafa
Discussants: Michael Schatzberg and Courtney Hillebrecht
Paper: "The Politics of Domination: Law and Resistance in Authoritarian States"
February 7, 2007
Presenter: Shawn Boyne
Discussants: Bert Kritzer and Lauren McCarthy
March 28, 2007
Presenter: Christina Ewig
Discussants: Joe Soss and Tricia Olsen
Paper: "Critical Junctures and Gendered Divisions: Healthy Policy Reform in the 1990s."
April 18, 2007
Presenter: Nadav Shelef
Discussants: Crawford Young and Renee Buhr
2005-2006
April 7, 2005
Presenter: Jelena Subotic
Discussants: Tamir Moustafa and J.D. Bowen
Paper: “Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation of International Norms”
April 21, 2005
Presenter: Dave Leheny
Discussants: Richard Merelman and Brandon Kendhammer
Excerpts from: Think, Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan (Cornell 2006)
October 20, 2005
Presenter: Alex Caviedes
Discussants: Ben Marquez and Amber Wichowsky
Excerpts from dissertation: “Chipping Away at Fortress Europe: How Sectoral Needs Shape Labor Migration Policy”
December 1, 2005
Presenter: Scott Straus
Discussants: Scott Gehlbach and Alice Kang
Excerpts from: The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell, Dec. 2006)
February 23, 2006
Presenter: Ehito Kimura
Discussants: Aili Tripp and Jen Brick
Paper: “Regional Autonomy on the Indonesian Archipelago”
March 2, 2006
Presenter: Scott Gehlbach
Discussants: Scott Straus and Mark Schrad
Excerpts from book manuscript “Representation Through Taxation: Taxability and the Political Economy of Postcommunism”
April 6, 2006
Presenter: Aseema Sinha
Discussants: Joe Soss and Rajen Subramanian
Journal Article: “Political Foundations of Market-Enhancing Federalism: Theoretical Lessons from India and China,” Vol. 37, No. 2 (April 2005), Comparative Politics