Spring 2017 Schedule

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/

January 19th Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
Joint session with Leitner Workshop.
January 24th   Joshua Tucker, New York University
Learning (and Unlearning) from the Media and Political Parties: Evidence from the 2015 UK Election.
January 31st   Virginia Oliveros,  Tulane University and Yale University
Working for the Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina.
February 7th Amy Catalinac, New York University
Positioning Under Alternative Electoral Systems: Evidence From 7,497 Japanese Candidate Election Manifestos
February 14th Timur Kuran , Duke University
The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law.
February 21st Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
Conflict and Identity in Post-Revolutionary Ukraine.
February 28th Laia Balcells, Duke University
The Political Consequences of Terrorism: a Quasi-Experimental Approach.
March 7th Milan Svolik, Yale University
When Polarization Trumps Civic Virtue: Partisan Conflict and the Subversion of Democracy by Incumbents
March 14th Spring Break– no Comparative Politics Workshop
March 21st Spring Break– no Comparative Politics Workshop
March 28th Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Politics After Civil War.
April 4th John Huber, Columbia University
TBA
April 11th Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago
Queens
April 18th Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University
Opposition Unity and Cooptation in Hybrid Regimes
April 25th Philipp Rehm, The Ohio State University
TBA