Fall 2018 Schedule

Location: All sessions will meet in the Institute of International Studies, Moses Hall 223 (lunch is provided on a first-come, first-served basis).

Time: Thursdays, 12:30PM – 2:00PM

Faculty Convener: Leonardo Arriola

September 13

Mlian Svolik, Yale University

Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States

September 20
Paul Thissen, UC Berkeley

Legacy Institutions and Political Order in Weak States: Evidence from Chad

September 27
Matthias Poertner, UC Berkeley

Amassing Support: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America

October 4
Kristin Michelitch, Vanderbilt University

Gender, Networks, and Politician Performance: Evidence from 50 Ugandan Subnational Governments with Women’s Reserved Seats

October 11
Rachel Brulé, NYU Abu Dhabi

Women’s Representation & Resistance: Positive & Perverse Consequences of Indian Laws for Gender Equality

October 18
Jennifer Pan, Stanford University

How China’s Use of Welfare and Surveillance to Prevent Collective Action Backfires

October 25
Michael Weaver, University of British Columbia

‘Let our ballots secure what our bullets have won:’ Union Veterans and Voting for Radical Reconstruction and Black Suffrage

November 1
Candelaria Garay, Harvard Kennedy School

November 8 
Daniel de Kadt, University of California, Merced

November 15
Eva Anduiza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

November 22 
No Meeting: Thanksgiving

November 29 
Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania

Articulating Indigenous Demands in the Americas