Comparative Politics Graduate Research Seminar

Faculty Leader: Deborah Yashar
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Location: 127 Corwin Hall

Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

2019-2020 Schedule of Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic	Discussant	Year of Study/Purpose	Group #
9/17/2019	Prof. Andreas Wiedemann	Intro to Research Seminar	N/A	New Faculty	N/A
9/24/2019	Erik Wang	Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	N/A	Practice Job Talk	N/A
10/1/2019	Killian Clarke	Overthrowing Revolution: The Emergence and Success of Counterrevolution	N/A	Practice Job Talk	N/A
10/8/2019	Rachael McLellan	The Politics of Local Control in Electoral Autocracies	N/A	Practice Job Talk	N/A
10/15/2019	Harris Doshay	Solidarity or Schism? Registration and Demobilization of Chinese Christians	N/A	Practice Job Talk	N/A
10/22/2019	Daniela T. Barba-Sánchez	Private Gains and Human Rights Violations: Collateral Damage in Mexico's War on Drugs	N/A	Practice Job Talk	N/A
11/5/2019	Quinn Albaugh	Affirmative Gatekeeping: Informal Influences on Behalf of Women Candidates	N/A	Practice Job Talk	N/A
11/19/2019	Patrick Signoret	The Onset and Termination of Criminal Group Conflict	Maria Aranzazu Rodriguez Uribe	dissertation chapter	1
11/25/2019 Monday, 4:30 PM	Elsa Voytas	What Can Money Buy? The Political Consequences of Material Reparations	Will Freeman	dissertation chapter	2
11/26/2019	Benjamin Crisman	How We Fight: The Strategic Logic of Disruption	Sam Winter-Levy	dissertation chapter	3
12/3/2019	Daniel L. Tavana	The Social Origins of Opposition to Authoritarian Rule	Tiffany Simon	dissertation chapter	4
12/10/2019	José María Rodríguez-Valadez	Overlapping Jurisdictions: Social Program Delivery in Decentralized States	Perry Carter	dissertation chapter	5
2/4/2020	Galileu Kim	The Executive Dilemma: Legislative Cooptation and Cabinet Reshuffling	Beatriz Barros	dissertation chapter	1
2/11/2020	Carolyn Barnett	The Consequences of Gender Equality Reforms: Evidence from Morocco	Carissa Tudor	dissertation chapter	2
2/18/2020	Will Freeman	Outsider Governance	Elsa Voytas	draft prospectus	3
2/25/2020	Susanne Schwarz	More of the Same?: The Origins of Convict Leasing in the Postbellum American South	Alex Kerchner	dissertation chapter	4
3/3/2020	No Seminar
3/10/2020	No Seminar
3/24/2020	Beatriz Barros	Building Health Networks: Local Capacity, Political Competition, and Public Goods Provision in Brazil	Galileu Kim	draft prospectus	1
3/31/2020	Carissa Tudor	Revolutionary Reversal: Women’s Political Rights in the Longue Dur´ee	Carolyn Barnett	dissertation chapter	6
4/7/2020	Jeyhun Alizade, Perry Carter, Claire Willeck	The Police and the Radical Right An Impassible Road to Glory∗ : Territorial Loss and the Politics of History From the Classroom to Participation: Civic Education Teaching Methods and Political Participation	Will Horne	APSA-Style Panel - 2nd Year Students	4, 5, 6
4/14/2020	Tiffany Barron, Tiffany Simon, Arantza Rodriguez-Uribe	Countering the NGO Threat: A Closer Look at China’s Enforcement of Recent NGO Laws Understanding Political Behavior and Commitment in Authoritarian Regimes Unpacking Gang Entry: The Interplay of Structural and Behavioural Factors. Evidence from Medell´ın, Colombia	Federico Tiberti	APSA-Style Panel-2nd Year Students	1, 2, 3
4/21/2020	No Seminar
4/28/2020	Gaetan Tchakounte Nandong	Medias Freedom in Autocracies: Popular Uprising, Corruption, and Revolt-Proofing	Claire Willeck	draft prospectus	4
5/5/2020	Xiaoxiao Shen	I Want Propaganda	José María Rodríguez-Valadez	draft prospectus	5
5/12/2020	Will Horne	Do Voters Really Want Working Class Candidates?	Susanne Schwarz	dissertation chapter	6
5/19/2020	Federico Tiberti	Democratization and Local Bureaucratic Capacity in Argentina	Ben Crisman	dissertation chapter	5
5/26/2020	Sam Winter-Levy	CANCELED Misinformation Cascades and Correction Capacity: Evidence from WhatsApp in India	Jeyhun Alizade	draft prospectus	3

2018-2019

Faculty Leader: Rory Truex
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Location: 127 Corwin Hall

Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

2018-2019 Schedule of Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic	Discussant	Year of Study/Purpose
9/11/2018	Meir Alkon	Global Crisis, Domestic Stability: How Authoritarian Regimes Manage Economic Interdependence		Practice Job Talk
9/18/2018	Yang-Yang Zhou	How Refugee Resentment Shapes National Identity and Citizen Participation in Africa		Practice Job Talk
9/25/2018	Giuliana Pardelli	For Profit, Power and Protection: Landed Elites Incentives to Encourage Fiscal Capacity Development		Practice Job Talk
10/2/2018	Steve Monroe	Boundaries of Protectionism: Ethnic Politics and Elite Bargains in the Neo-Liberal Era		Practice Job Talk
10/9/2018	Chantal Berman	Protest, Social Policy, and Political Regimes in the Middle East		Practice Job Talk
10/16/2018	Alexander Kustov	Borders of Compassion: International Migration and the Politics of Parochial Altruism		Practice Job Talk
10/23/2018	Ted Enamorado	An Active Learning Approach for Probabilistic Record Linkage		Practice Job Talk
11/6/2018	Tom Pavone	The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe		Practice Job Talk
11/13/2018	Elizabeth Baisley	Sexuality Politics and Political Cleavage Development in the US and Canada		Practice Job Talk
12/4/2018	Patrick Signoret	Recovering from Large-Scale Criminal Violence	Maria Aranzazu, Rodriguez Uribe	Dissertation Research
12/11/2018	Sean Luna McAdams	Judicialization of Politics through Constitutional Rights Adjudication in Latin America	Galileu Kim	Dissertation Prospectus (3rd year)
1/8/2019	Harris Doshay	Solidarity or Division? Varying Responses to Repression by Co-opted and Independent Chinese Christians	Xiaoxiao Shen	Practice Job Talk
1/15/2019	Galileu Kim	The Executive Dilemma: Legislative Cooptation and Cabinet Reshuffling	Beatriz Barros	Dissertation Research
1/22/2019	Susanne Schwarz	Going National, Going Local?: Interest Mobilization and Poverty Relief Policy in the New Deal Era	Tom Pavone	Dissertation Research
2/5/2019	Quinn Albaugh	Does the UCLA School Travel?	Jeyhun Alizade	Dissertation Research
2/19/2019	Erik Wang	Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	Sean Luna McAdams
2/26/2019	Rory Truex	Professional Development
3/5/2019	Killian Clarke	Overthrowing Revolution: The Emergence and Success of Counterrevolutions, 1900-2015	Perry Carter
3/12/2019	Will Horne	Where Have All the Working Class MPs Gone? Challenges of Representation and Coalition Building	Alex Mayorga	Dissertation Research
3/26/2019	Federico Tiberti	The Broken Pact: Intra-Elite Conflict, Uneven States and Political Instability in South America	Claire Willeck	Dissertation Prospectus (3rd year)
4/2/2019	Mohammad Isaqzadeh	Religious Beliefs and Militancy: Reassessing the Causal Relationship	Tiffany Simon	Dissertation Prospectus (3rd year)
4/9/2019	Rachael McLellan	Asserting Autonomy, Resisting the Regime	Gaetan Tchakounte Nandong	Dissertation Research
4/16/2019	Daniel L. Tavana	A Theory of Compliance in Authoritarian Regimes	Will Freeman	Dissertation Research
4/23/2019	Tim Brackmann Beatriz Barros Sam Winter-Levy	2nd Year Mini-APSA: Represent, Accountability, and Public Good Provision Electoral Rules and Diverging Conceptions of Citizen-Elite Congruence: Evidence from Swiss Referendums Getting the Job Done: Development Projects, Incompletion, and Trust in Local Government in Brazil Direct Democracy in Europe's New Political Parties	Federico Tiberti	591 Papers (Mini-APSA)
4/30/2019	Will Freeman Xiaoxiao Shen Benjamin Crisman	2nd Year Mini-APSA: Order, Conflict and Violence Collective Action after Civil War: Colombia's Communal Action Councils Propaganda Effects in the Digital Era: The Case of China Why Extra-Dyadic Armed Groups Balance Internal Conflicts: Evidence from Colombia	Mohammad Isaqzadeh	591 Papers (Mini-APSA)
5/7/2019	Dela Kpo	Heterogenous Returns on Repatriation? A Study of the Political Effects of Return Migration	Benjamin Crisman	Dissertation Prospectus (3rd year)
5/14/2019	José María Rodríguez-Valadez	Overlapping Jurisdictions: Social Policy Delivery and Multilevel Governance	Tim Brackmann	Dissertation Research
5/21/2019	Alex Mayorga	Hostility and Immigrant Political Integration: Understanding the Muslim Experience in Western Europe	Sam Winter-Levy	Dissertation Research