September 8th
Gareth Nellis, Yale University:
Intra-Party Factionalism and Incumbency Spillovers in India

September 15th
Steven Rosenzweig, Yale University
Dangerous Disconnect: How Politicians’ Misperceptions About Voters Lead to Violence in Kenya

September 22nd
Pia Raffler, Yale University
Bureaucrats Versus Politicians: A Field Experiment on Political Oversight in Uganda

September 29th
Michael Weaver, Yale University (with the American Politics Workshop)
Publicity and the De-legitimation of Lynching

October 6th
Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley
Economic Rights and Women’s Policy Influence in Africa: Portfolio Allocation across Executive Cabinets

October 13th
Roger Petersen, MIT (with the Order, Conflict, and Violence Workshop)
A Social Science Guide to the Iraq Conflict

October 20th
Alisha Holland, Harvard University
Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Enforcement Against Latin America’s Urban Poor

October 27th
Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania
TBD

November 3rd
Erik Wibbels, Duke University (with the Leitner Political Economy Workshop)
Land Title, Slum Recognition and the Emergence of Property Rights: Evidence from 157 Slums in Bangalore

November 9th
Sarah Parkinson, University of Minnesota (with the Order, Conflict, and Violence Workshop; Location: Rosenkranz Hall 202)
Organizational Evolution and Repertoires of Violence in Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps, 1982-1988

November 10th
Alexander Lee, University of Rochester
Path Dependence in European Development: Medieval Politics, Conflict and State Building

November 17th
Rogers Brubaker, UCLA (with the Sociology Colloquium)
The Dolezal Affair: Race, Gender, and the Micropolitics of Identity

December 1st
Jason Brownlee, The University of Texas at Austin
Distinguishing Preference Falsifiers from Genuine Compliers under Authoritarianism (coauthored with Steven Brooke)

December 8th
Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University
Religious Parity or Gender Parity? Political Parties and Muslim Inclusion in Europe