Comparative Politics PhD Job Candidates
2008 - 2009
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Name
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Area of Substantive Interest
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Dissertation Title
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Michael Cohen CV Web Site |
Parties and Elections; Comparative Political Institutions (specifically Federalism); and Public Policy Diffusion | "Behavioral
Expectations, Voter Perceptions and Regional Parties" Advisor: Marcus Kurtz |
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Delia Dumitrescu CV WEB Site |
Comparative political communication; political behavior; advanced democracies; parties and elections; political psychology |
Election
Posters Campaigns: An Old Form of Campaign Communication in a New Light Advisor: Anthony Mughan |
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Danielle Langfield CV |
Democratization, political parties, South African Politics |
"Harbingers of Change? Local Party Strategies in
Dominant Party Systems" Advisor: Richard Gunther |
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Political Economy of Taxation, State Building, Latin American Politics,
Politics of Development, and Democratization
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"The Politics of Taxation in Argentina and Brazil in the Last Twenty Years
of the 20th Century"
Advisor: William Liddle |
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Politics of the Middle East, Religion and Politics, Culture and Politics, Social Movements, Political Theory, Democratic Theory |
State Co-optation,
Religiopolitical Actors, and the Mobilization of Sociocultural Cleavages: A
Comparative Study of the Rise of Religious Parties in Turkey and Israel Advisor:R. William Liddle | |
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Political economy |
Market-Oriented Reforms & the Role of Private
Interests in Russia Advisor: Sarah Brooks, Timothy Frye | |
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Konstantin Vössing Web Site CV |
Institutions of advanced democracies, institutionalist approaches, political development, comparative political parties, social movements, comparative political behavior, European integration |
"The formation of social
democratic parties. Degrees of inclusion as external constraints and the
strategic choices of labor elites." Advisor: Richard Gunther |
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Women in politics, comparative electoral systems, democratic theory, gender theory, and terror and terrorism |
“Women Representing Women?: Pathways to Substantive
Representation” Advisor: Goldie A. Shabad |
