Spring 2016 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
February 4
Raul Sanchez De La Sierra, UC Berkeley
On the Origin of States: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Carlos Schmidt Padilla
February 11
John McCauley, University of Maryland
Ethnicity and Religion as Sources of Political Division in Africa
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Melanie Thompson
February 18
Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University
Resource Shocks and Local Public Goods: A Tale of Two Districts
Faculty Chair: T.J. Pempel
Student Discussant: Anirvan Chowdhury
February 25 — SESSION CANCELED
Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University
Faculty Chair: Michaela Mattes
Student Discussant: Sherry Zaks
March 3
Edmund Malesky, Duke University
Pandering Upward: Tax Incentives and Credit Claiming in Authoritarian Countries
Faculty Chair: Jennifer Bussell
Student Discussant: Dan Mattingly
March 10
Devra Moehler, University of Pennsylvania
Media and Attitudes about Electoral Malpractice: A Field Experiment in a New Democracy
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Danny Choi
March 17
Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University
Rape as a Practice of War: Towards a Typology of Political Violence
Faculty Chair: Alison Post
Student Discussant: Anna Callis
March 24
NO SESSION
March 31
Sona Golder, Pennsylvania State University
An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics
Faculty Chair: Pradeep Chhibber
Student Discussant: Shinhye Choi
April 7
Mike Albertus, University of Chicago
Land Inequality and Rural Unrest: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Faculty Chair: Thad Dunning
Student Discussant: Fiona Shen-Bayh
April 14
Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University
The Loser’s Bonus: Political Geography and Minority Party Representation
Faculty Chair: Alison Post
Student Discussant: Guadalupe Tuñón
April 21
Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University
Opposition Unity and Cooptation in Hybrid Regimes
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Anne Meng
April 28
Alison Post, UC Berkeley
Does Service Predictability Affect Household Welfare and State-Society Relations? Field Experimental Evidence from Bangalore’s Water Sector
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Susan Ostermann
The colloquium is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Department of Political
Science, the Institute of International Studies, and the Center on the Politics of Development.