Fall 2016 Schedule | The MacMillan Comparative Politics Workshop

The workshop meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12:00 PM – 1:20 PM in Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue (Luce Hall), unless otherwise noted. Papers can be accessed at: https://campuspress.yale.edu/cpworkshop/papers/

September 6^th	Steven Rosenzweig, Yale University* Dangerous Disconnect: Voter Backlash, Elite Misperception, and the Costs of Violence as an Electoral Tactic.
September 13^th	Pia Raffler, Yale University* Eyes On, Hands Off: A Field Experiment on Political Oversight of Local Bureaucracies in Uganda.
September 20^th	Natalia Bueno, Yale University* The Distributive Politics of Non-State Welfare Provision.
September 27^th	Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University Oil Windfalls and the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Brazil.
October 4^th	Malte Lierl, Yale University Cooperation Under the Risk of Capture: Why Citizens Pay Taxes That Can Be Embezzled.
October 11^th	Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University The Origins of Ethnic Orders: Institutional Emergence in Authoritarian Malaysia.
October 13^th	Adam Przeworski, New York University Economic Inequality, Political Inequality, and Redistribution.
October 25^th	German Feierhard, Duke University* Partisanship, Informality, and the Enforcement of Labor Standards.
November 1^st	Job Talk TBA
November 8^th	Job Talk TBA
November 15^th	Claire Adida, University of California, San Diego Coethnicity moderates the effect of information on voting behavior: experimental evidence from Benin.
November 29^nd	Job Talk TBA
December 6^th	Eric Kramon, George Washington University Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods.