The Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Workshop takes place at least every other week in the Michaelmas and Lent Term on Thursdays from 1-2 pm.
The Workshop provides a platform for research students and faculty to discussion on-going work of local and international researchers. Its main focus is comparative politics, development and comparative political economy. It is supported by the Departments of Government and International Development and involves PhD students and faculty from these and many other departments. All interested are welcome to attend. We usually circulate a draft paper at least a week in advance.
Lunch is provided, however please join the mailing list to get details on how to pre-order. To join the mailing list or if you have an interest in presenting, please J.Finnegan@lse.ac.uk or Dr. Steffen Hertog (S.Hertog@lse.ac.uk).
CP/CPE Seminar Series 2016-17
Thursdays, 1-2pm, room CLM.3.07, Clement House, LSE, London.
Lunch Provided
Chairs: Jonathan Hopkin (GV), Catherine Boone (GV and ID), Steffen Hertog (GV).
Seminar organizers: Jared Finnegan (PhD student, GV), Jan Stuckatz (PhD student, GV), Portia Roelofs (PhD student, ID).
Michaelmas Term
6 October 2016
Geoffrey Underhill, University of Amsterdam, (with Erik Jones, SAIS JHU)
'The Theory of Optimum Financial Areas: Retooling the debate on the governance of global finance'
Abstract
20 October 2016
Henry Thompson, University of Oxford
‘Dictator's Harvest: Agriculture and Power under Authoritarianism’
3 November 2016
Ashu Varshney, Brown University
‘Does Citizenship Abate Class? Reflections on Urban India’
Abstract
17 November 2016
Maya Tudor, University of Oxford
'Imagining Citizens: How Egalitarian Nationalism Supports Democracy' (with Dan Slater)
Abstract
24 November 2016
Mark Vail, Tulane University
‘Beyond Neoliberalism: National Liberalisms and Labor-Market Reform in Contemporary France and Germany’
Abstract
1 December 2016
Livia Schubiger, London School of Economics and Political Science
‘Vigilante Mobilization and Local Order: Evidence from Mexico’ (with Javier Osorio, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and Michael Weintraub, Binghamton University and Universidad de los Andes)
Abstract
Lent Term
26 January 2017
Dann Naseemullah, King’s College London
‘TBC’
9 February 2017
Clark Gibson, University of California, San Diego
‘TBC’
23 February 2017
Steffen Hertog, London School of Economics and Political Science
‘TBC’
23 March 2017
Evan Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
‘TBC’
2016
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21 January 2016
Melani Cammett, Professor of Government, Harvard University
'Resource Wealth, Institutional Development and Governance in the Middle East' (co-authored with Ishac Diwan)
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28 January 2016
Timothy Power, Director of Latin American Center, Oxford, and Associate Professor, Oxford University
'Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective''
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1 February 2016 - Half-Day Workshop*
Comparative Studies on Subnational Politics: Reports from the Frontier
Speakers: Catherine Boone (GV and ID), John Sidel (GV), Clionadh Raleigh (University of Sussex), Tomila Lanika (IR), Michael Beuhler (SOAS), Jean Paul Faguet (ID), Katerina Tertychnaya (University of Oxford), Dann Naseemullah (Kings College London)
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4 February 2016
Khalid Nadvi, Professor of International Development, University of Manchester
'Rising Powers, Labour and the Governance of Global Production Networks'
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25 February 2016
Ashu Varshney, Sol Goodman Professor and Director of the Brown-India Initiative, Brown University.
'Democracy, Citizenship and Public Service Delivery in Urban India'
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10 March 2016
Ferdinand Eibl, Research Officer, LSE Middle East Centre
‘Beyond the Barrier: Cronyism and Trade Protection in Tunisia and Egypt’
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17 March 2016
Nahomi Ichino. Associate Professor, Dept. of PS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Joint African Political Economy/CP-CPE Speaker.
'Segregation, Diversity, and Candidate Entry in Ghana'
2015
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15 January 2015
Dawn Teele (Department of Government, LSE)
The Logic of Women's Enfranchisement
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22 January 2015
Jane Gingrich (University of Oxford)
Parents against Policy?: A race between social investment versus and social closure
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29 January 2015
Dirk de Bievre (Universiteit Antwerpen)
WTO dispute settlement: origins, lobbying effects, and implications for the world trading system
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5 February 2015
Peter Hall (Harvard)
The Political Sources of Social Solidarity
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19 February 2015
Ken Shadlen (Department of International Development, LSE)
The New Politics of Patents in Development: The Second Image Reversed, Revisited
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26 February 2015
Mayling Birney (Department of International Development, LSE)
Authoritarian governing with repression versus responsiveness: a within-country comparative study in China
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5 March 2015
Oyvind Skorge (Department of Government , LSE)
The gendered consequences of knowledge economies: Why women and men have more equal opportunities in some jobs than others
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12 March 2015
Ian Shapiro (Yale)
“Democracy vs. Republicanism.
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17 March 2015 (note: Tuesday, joint event with PSPE)
Adam Przeworski (NYU)
“Elections as a method of processing conflicts”
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19 March 2015
Robert Bates (Harvard)
From Field Research to Social Science
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18 May 2015
Tom Pepinsky (Cornell)
Resource Shocks and Local Public Goods: A Tale of Two Districts
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8 October 2015
Alex Kuo (Department of Government, Cornell)
Business Preferences and the Eurozone Crisis
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15 October 2015
Mark Thatcher (Department of Government, LSE)
The State and Cultural Nationalism: Preserving Historic Buildings
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22 October 2015
Francisco Panizza (Department of Government, LSE)
Counsellors, Commissars and Clients: Modalities of Patronage and Political Institutions in Latin America
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12 November 2015
Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
The Politics of Health Inequalities in Rich Democracies
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19 November 2015
Nicola Lacey (Law, LSE)
Political Economy and Crime and Punishment
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3 December 2015
Tasha Fairfield (International Development, LSE)
Bayesian Probability: The Logic of (Political) Science – Opportunities, Caveats and Guildelines
2014
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24 January
Student presentation: Ellie Knott
Generating data: studying identity politics through political ethnography in Ukraine and Moldova
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7 February
Student presentation: Kate Alexander
The life cycle of an economic narrative: New Labour and the rhetoric of boom and bust
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14 February
Student presentation: Christian Schuster
When the Victor Cannot Claim Most Spoils: Patronage Control and Bureaucratic Professionalization in Latin America
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14 March
Faculty presentation: Steffen Hertog
Petro-populist states in the international system
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1 July
Student presentation: Flavia Donadelli
Biodiversity conservation and climate change regimes in Brazil: overlaps and conflicts
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16 October
Faculty presentation: Jonathan Hopkin
Winner-Take-All Politics in Europe?: Crisis, Capital, and Inequality in the EU
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4 November
Staffan Lindberg (Lund University)
Re-thinking How Democracy is Measured: Introducing the Varieties of Democracy Data Project (V-Dem)
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13 November
Kathleen Thelen (MIT)
Drift and Conversion: Hidden Faces of Institutional Change (with Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson)
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13 November (evening seminar with IDEAS)
Ben Ross Schneider (MIT)
The Middle Income Trap in Latin America: More Politics than Economics?
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27 November
Stephen Levitsky (Harvard)
The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes
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11 December
David Rueda (University of Oxford)
The People You Are: Personality Traits as Determinants of Redistribution Preferences
2012/2013
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11 October 2012
‘Meet & Greet’ – introduction to the workshop by Pon and Steffen, and opportunity for new and seasoned PhD students to mingle
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25 October 2012
Faculty presentation: Francisco Panizza
“Away with them all” – “We are fantastic” Critical junctures and crises narratives in the 2001-02 financial crises in Argentina and Uruguay”.
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1 November 2012
Getting a job in comparative politics (or with a comparative politics PhD) - Steffen Hertog and Bill Kissane
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29 November 2012
Faculty presentation: Dann Naseemullah
The Politics of Developmental State Persistence: Institutional Origins, Industrialization and Agrarian Challenge
Download the paper
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13 December 2012
Faculty presentation: Ken Shadlen (International Development)
The Politics of Patents and Innovation Policy in Latin America
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24 January 2013
Student presentation: Juergen Braunstein
The political economy of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment
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31 January 2013
Student presentation: Mollie Gerver
Comparing Non-Governmental Organizations Facilitating Repatriation of Refugees and Failed Asylum Seekers in Israel
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14 February 2013
Faculty presentation: Jonathan Hopkin
Economic Reform and the Debt Crisis in Southern Europe
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21 February 2013
Faculty presentation: Elliott Green (International Development)
Endogenous Ethnicity: How Urbanization Promotes Homogenization
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28 February 2013
Faculty presentation: Mayling Birney (International Development)
Authoritarian Stability under a Rule of Mandates: The Conditional Implementation of Village Elections in China
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7 March 2013
Student presentation: Sasha Jesperson
Addressing Organised Crime though the Security-Development Nexus: Questions of Interface
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21 March 2013
Getting published: a discussion with faculty – Prof. Simon Hix, Dr. Steffen Hertog
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29 May 2013
Student presentation: Ting Luo
Authoritarian control in China’s village committee elections: Economic development and Incumbency advantage