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Comparative Politics Research Workshop (CPRW)

Director:

Marcus Kurtz

This workshop serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of research related to comparative politics. Past seminars have examined political identity, presidential power, voting rules, consolidation of party systems, economic sanctions, language politics, and ethnic mobilization. All methodologies, including case studies, statistics, formal theory, and interpretivist approaches are welcome. We encourage papers with a specific geographic focus, as well as broad cross-regional analyses. The mission of the workshop is to foster a vibrant intellectual exchange among comparativists, to bring students and faculty into contact with nationally recognized figures in the field of comparative politics, and to create a comfortable, professional environment for the development of faculty and graduate student research at all levels.

Presentations for Calendar Year 2009:

May 22, 2009
12:00-1:30 pm in the Spencer Room, Derby Hall
Bill Liddle, Ohio State
“Swing Voters and the 2009 Indonesian Parliamentary Election” (slides)

April 24, 2009
3:30-5:00pm in the Spencer Room, Derby Hall
Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State
“Voting for Peace: Do Post-Conflict Elections Help or Hinder Recovery?”

February 20, 2009
4:00-5:30pm in the Spencer Room, Derby Hall
Daniel Corstange, University of Maryland
Overview: In collaboration with PRISM, the CPRW will be proud to present Professor Daniel Corstange of the University of Maryland. Prof Corstange will be presenting his research on the use of unobtrusive measures in surveys to study controversial topics, with a substantive application to ethnic conflict in Lebanon. He represents a unique combination of skills, and is the only Middle East specialist I know who has also derived his own statistical estimator. He has published work based on fieldwork in Yemen in PS: Political Science & Politics and has a forthcoming piece in Political Analysis. He has also won numerous research awards, most recently being recognized by APSA’s Comparative Democratization Section with their Best Fieldwork Award. He is a graduate of Northwestern University (BA 2000) and of the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 2008). You can learn more about Prof Corstange here.

Presentations for Calendar Year 2008:

October 10, 2008

3:30-5:00pm in the Spencer Room, Derby Hall

Pedro Magalhaes

"Europe à la Carte: Public Support for Policy Integration in an Enlarged European Union"

February 15, 2008

3:30-5:00pm in the Spencer Room, Derby Hall

Danielle Langfield

"Harbingers of Party System Change? Party Organization and Candidate Strategies in Dominant Party Systems"

February 28, 2008

2:30-4:00pm in the Spencer Room, Derby Hall

Michael Cohen