The Comparative Politics Workshop provides a forum for graduate students and faculty to present work in progress in the field of comparative politics. The Workshop meets on Thursday evenings at 6:15-8:15 pm in Harkness Hall 329. The Comparative Politics Workshop is organized by Professor Gretchen Helmke (hlmk@mail.rochester.edu).

January 31 Alexandre Debs and Hein Goemans “On War, Regime Type and the Survival of Leaders”

February 14 Tanya Bagashka and Randy Stone “Risky Signals: The Political Costs of Exchange Rate Policy in Post-Communist Countries”

March 6 Arthur Spirling (co-authored with Daniel Ruben and Peter John Loewen) “Testing the Power of Arguments with a Bradley-Terry Model: An Application to Electoral Reform”

March 20 Navine Murshid Title TBA

April 10th Christian Houle “Inequality and Democracy”

April 17th Jack Knight and Gary Miller (Washington University in St. Louis) “Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Credible Commitment”

May 1 Mehdi Shadmehr Title: TBA

May 15 Patrick Kuhn “Co-optation, Repression, and Dictatorship”