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Comparative Politics PhD Job Candidates

2008 - 2009

Name
Area of Substantive Interest
Dissertation Title
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
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
Danielle Langfield
CV
Democratization, political parties, South African Politics "Harbingers of Change? Local Party Strategies in Dominant Party Systems"
Advisor: Richard Gunther
Political Economy of Taxation, State Building, Latin American Politics, Politics of Development, and Democratization
"The Politics of Taxation in Argentina and Brazil in the Last Twenty Years of the 20th Century"
Advisor: William Liddle

Yusuf Sarfati
WEB Site
CV

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

Sarah Wilson Sokhey
WEB Site
CV

Political economy
Post-communist countries

Market-Oriented Reforms & the Role of Private Interests in Russia
Advisor: Sarah Brooks, Timothy Frye
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

Christina Xydias
Web Site
CV

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
   

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