RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SCHEDULE 2008 INSTITUTE
Session One: Thursday January 3 - 2:00-3:45
Brady
Social Welfare Policies 1
Katherine (Katie) Boothe, University of British Columbia, kboothe@interchange.ubc.ca, Pharmaceutical benefits and the development of social policy: Comparing Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Karina Cendon Boveda, Yale University, karina.cendonboveda@yale.edu, Economic Openness and the Size of the Welfare State in Latin America.
Lindsay Flynn, Universty of Virginia, lbe3f@virginia.edu, Saving the Welfare State, One Baby at a Time.
Mahoney
Latin America I
Agustina Giraudy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, giraudy@email.unc.edu, Undemocratic and patrimonial subnational regimes after democratization. Argentina and Mexico in comparative perspective.
Stephen Kaplan, Yale University, stephen.kaplan@yale.edu , How Globalization Has Transformed Macroeconomic Policymaking in Latin American Elections.
Carlos Lisoni, University of Notre Dame, Carlos.M.Lisoni.1@nd.edu, Political Parties and Electoral Mobilization in Argentina.
Watson
Political Economy and Politics
Tari Ellis, University of California- Berkeley, tari.ellis@gmail.com, To Secure Petropolis: The changing economic strategies of rentier states.
Ehsaneh Sadr, University of Maryland, ehsaneh.sadr@gmail.com, When Structures Collide: Globalization vs. the Rentier state in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Daniel Stockemer, University of Connecticut, daniel.stockemer@uconn.edu, Regime Type, Governing Process and Socio-Economic and Political Outcomes in the post Cold War Period.
Kapiszewski
Law and Politics
David Bridge, University of Southern California, deb@usc.edu, The Supreme Court and Political Dynamics.
Garrett Schneider, University of Arizona, gads@email.arizona.edu, Politics, Policy Change and the Expansion of Punishment: The Enactment of “Three Strikes and You’re Out” Legislation in California and Washington.
Shauhin Talesh, University of California- Berkeley, stalesh@berkeley.edu, “Manufacturing” Law: Exploring How Organizations Managerialize, Weaken and Internalize Consumer Rights.
Elman
Terrorism
Tricia Bacon-Gonzalez, Georgetown University, tricbacon@hotmail.com, Terrorist Organization Alliances- Bitter Rivals and Strange Bedfellows?
Robin Bowman, University of California-Irvine, rbowman@uci.edu, Understanding Causes of Terrorism from a Meta-Theoretical Perspective.
Peter Krause, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pkrause@mit.edu, Coercion by Any Other Name Should Smell as Sweet: The Political Effectiveness of Terrorism.
Goertz
The State and Foreign Policy
Ehud Eiran, Brandeis University, ehud_eiran@ksg.harvard.edu, Settling to Win: Strategic Settlement Projects in Post Colonial Times .
Christof Kurz, Tufts University, christof.kurz@tufts.edu, Merely ’Weak’ or Truly ‘Failed?’ – State Formation, State Failure, and War in Four West African Countries
Joshua Walker, Princeton University, jww@princeton.edu, The Empire Effect: The effect of Imperial legacy on a successor state’s foreign policy.
Session Two: Friday January 4 - 10:45-12:30
Brady
Domestic Politics and Political Power
Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, University of Southern Denmark, cel@sam.sdu.dk, Campaign Rhetoric in a Multiparty System: The Dynamics of the Campaign Tone and Focus in Danish national Elections 1994-2005.
Kris Inman, University of California- Davis, klinman@ucdavis.edu, “Who Votes” in Africa? The Case of Political Participation in Senegal.
Vineeta Yadav, University of Notre Dame, vyadav@nd.edu, Legislative Design and Lobbying Behaviour.
Watson
Social Welfare Policies 2
Stacy Clifford, Vanderbilt University, stacy.a.clifford@vanderbilt.edu, In the System without Support: Understanding the Gap between Needs and Services for People with Disabilities.
Sai Ma, Johns Hopkins University, sma@jhu.edu, Convergence or Divergence: India’s Social Welfare Regimes in the Period of Economic Reforms (1990-2005).
Jennifer Rutledge, University of Minnesota, rutl0017@umn.edu, Feeding the Future: Child Feeding Programs and State Responsibility.
Kapiszewski
Governance in China
Jing Chen, Princeton University, jingchen@princeton.edu, Peasants in Action: Rural Resistance in Contemporary China.
Enze Han, George Washington University, enzehan@gwu.edu, Politics of Separatism in the People’s Republic of China.
Kristen Looney, Harvard University , kelooney@fas.harvard.edu, Local Responses to the Center: The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Rural China.
Arriola
Africa I
Jenni Fetters, Michigan State University, fettersj@msu.edu, Constructing Democracy: Social Difference and the Meaning of Democracy in South Africa.
Aslak Orre, Bergen University, Aslak.Orre@cmi.no, Reconstructing traditional authority - for whom? Political parties state administration and traditional authorities in Angola and Mozambique.
Wilson (Will) Prichard, The Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex, W.Prichard@ids.ac.uk, Taxation and State-Society Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Goertz
Post-Conflict: Problems and Solutions
Megan Bradley, Oxford University, megan.bradley@politics.ox.ac.uk, Just return: The emergence and evolution of norms on redress for refugees.
Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Tufts University, dipali80@gmail.com, Warlord as Governor? Post-Conflict State-Building in Afghanistan.
Andrea Strimling, Tufts University, andrea.strimling@tufts.edu, Networked Co-ordination in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding.
Elman
Governance and the Environment
Jessica Green, Princeton University, jfgreen@Princeton.EDU, Delegate, Delegate, Delegate? Non-state actors in international environmental politics.
Jennifer Hadden, Cornell University, jlh242@cornell.edu, Contesting Climate Change in the European Union.
Amanda Rosen, Ohio State University, rosen.81@polisci.osu.edu, Emission Impossible? The Impact of the International Climate Regime on National and Sub-National Policymaking
Session Three: Saturday January 5 - 10:45-12:30
Mahoney
Latin America/Mexico
Noam Lupu, Princeton University, nlupu@princeton.edu, Party Adaptation and Realignment in Latin America.
Eduardo Moncada, Brown University, Eduardo_moncada@Brown.edu, The Business Politics of Rule-of-Law Reform in Latin America.
Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, University of Southern California, whittenw@usc.edu, Media and Democracy: The Mexican Miss-Match.
Gerring
Community Power and Practice
John Bullock, University of Maryland, jbullock@gvpt.umd.edu, BUILD to WIN: Community Organizing and Power in the Urban Context.
Minnie Go, University of Chicago , minniego@uchicago.edu, A Tale of Two Cities: Natural Disaster and Recovery in New Orleans and Kobe.
Gitte Sommer Harrits, Aarhus University, gitte@ps.au.dk, Searching for a job. A Qualitative Study of Unemployed Peoples Job Search Practices.
Goertz
International Cooperation
Laura Janik, University of Connecticut, laura.janik@uconn.edu, Pathogens without Passports: The Provision and Underprovision of Global Health Goods.
Erin Kimball, Northwestern University, e-kimball2@northwestern.edu, Strategic Causes for Collective Action: Peacekeeping in Africa.
Richard Maher, Brown University, Richard_Maher@Brown.edu, What Kind of Partnership? Interests, Norms and European Foreign and Security Policy Cooperation.
Elman
How Big and Sticky Institutions Change
Tolga Demiryol, Universty of Virginia, td3x@virginia.edu, Crises, Conflicts and Coalitions: Common Processes and Divergent Outcomes in State Formation and Capitalist Development.
Curtis Nichols, University of Texas, curtnichols@mail.utexas.edu, Big Rare and Unusual: The Cycle of Change in American Political Development.
Sabina Stiller, Radboud University, s.stiller@fm.ru.nl, How politicians overcome resistance: a QCA/fs analysis European welfare state restructuring.
Lynch
Gender, the Physical, and Politics
Erin Rehel, Vanderbilt University, erin.m.rehel@Vanderbilt.Edu, Intersections on the College Playing Field: Gender Race Class and Sexuality among Student Athletes.
Libby Sharrow, University of Minnesota, shar0139@umn.edu , Women Who Win: A Research Design to Investigate the Impact of Athletic Competition on Politicians.
Dan Morrison, Vanderbilt University, dr.morrison@gmail.com, Shocking the Brain: Narrating a Cyborg Technology.
Chernoff
Military Organization, Efficiency and Power
Michael Jensen, Arizona State University , Michael.Jensen@asu.edu, Practicing What You Preach: The Gap Between Words and Deeds in Counterinsurgency.
Anit Mukherjee, Johns Hopkins University, amukher3@jhu.edu, "The Expert to the Politician": Civil Military Relations, at war and peace in India.
Jonathan Obert, University of Chicago , jobert@uchicago.edu, The Sources of Military Power.
Arriola
Social Movements
Anne Boxberger Flaherty, Duke University, afb4@duke.edu, The Land of Whose Father? The Politics of American Indian Land Claim Settlements.
Gwendolyn Leachman, University of California- Berkeley, gwendolyn@berkeley.edu, Law as Leverage: Diffusion, Domains of Dispute and Dominance in Social Movement Organizations.
Erica Simmons, University of Chicago , ericas@uchicago.edu, Resource Rebellion: Social Movements, Subsistence Resources and the Bolivian Water Wars.
Session Four: Tuesday January 8 - 10:45-12:30
McDermott
Inside and Out: Domestic Politics, Signaling and Foreign Policy
Matthew Fehrs, Duke University, matthew.fehrs@duke.edu, ‘Are You Talkin’ to Me?’ The Domestic Politics of Government Signaling in International Conflicts.
Kelly Grieco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,grieco@mit.edu, Balancing Acts: The Effects of Internal and External Balancing on Military Effectiveness.
Jerome Venteicher, University of Missouri, JFVenteicher@mizzou.edu, Aiming Beyond the Target: Sanctions as Signals to Third Party States.
Seawright
Immigration and Identity
Jason Gettel, University of Oregon, jgettel@uoregon.edu, Economics, Participation and Identity: Explaining local integration of immigrant populations in the EU.
Marisol Gutierrez, University of California- Los Angeles, Solazteca26@yahoo.com, Indigenous Mexican Immigrant Transnational Political Identity and Participation.
Annika Hinze, University of Illinois at Chicago, ahinze2@uic.edu, Unveiling Difference: Immigrant Women and Veiling in France and Germany.
Arriola
Ideas and Identity
Robia Charles, University of California- Berkeley, Robia@berkeley.edu, National Identity, State and Religion: Government Favoritism of Religion in the post-Soviet States.
Sherry Lowrance, University of Georgia, slowranc@uga.edu, Identity and the External Enemy: Minority Rebellion and Domestication.
Jeremy Menchik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, menchik@wisc.edu, Constructing Community: A Theory of Ideological Change within the Indonesian Ummah.
Gerring
Race and Politics, Politics and Race
Anthony Berryhill, Yale University, anthony.berryhill@yale.edu, Location Matters: Theorizing the State of America’s Segregated black poor.
Maya Evans, University of Illinois at Chicago, mevans7@uic.edu, An Invitation to Democracy: Politically incorporating the Poor in Black Middle-Class Suburbs.
Cory Gooding, University of California- Los Angeles, cgooding@ucla.edu, My God, My Race, My Government: The Impact of Religion on Group Identification and Political Participation in African-American Communities.
Dunning
Democratization
Melanie Barr, Ohio State University, barr.177@polisci.osu.edu, Pro-democratic popular protest in East and Southeast Asia.
Minna Jia, University of Southern California , mjia@usc.edu, The Influence of China's Post-80s Generation on China's Democratization.
Tsveta Petrova, Cornell University, tap25@cornell.edu, Go East!: Eastern European Members of the EU Promote Democracy Abroad.
Boas
Technology and Governance
Federico Caprotti, University College London, fkaprotz1@yahoo.co.uk, Environmental discourse and technology investment in the cleantech sector.
Meelis Kitsing, University of Massachusetts, mkitsing@polsci.umass.edu, Tacit Web: Institutional Determinants of Internet Diffusion.
Jessica Peet, University of Florida, jlpeet@gmail.com, Computer-Mediated Communication in Political Space: NGOs and the Movement to Stop Human Trafficking.
Session Five: Wednesday January 9 - 2:00-3:45
McDermott
Personality, Decision-Making and Foreign Policy
Stephen Dyson, University of Connecticut, stephen.dyson@uconn.edu, The Blair Identity: Personality and Foreign Policy.
Gautam Mukunda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mukunda@mit.edu, The Paths of Glory.
Wesley Renfro, University of Connecticut, wesley.renfro@uconn.edu, Presidential Decision-Making and Troop Deployment in a Post-Cold-War Era.
Seawright
Violence and its Causes
Jonathan Githens-Mazer, The University of Exeter, j.githens-mazer@exeter.ac.uk, Cultures of Repression: Legacies of Colonial Violence and State Repression in North African Diasporas in Europe.
Melissa McAdam, University of California- Berkeley, mlmcadam@berkeley.edu, Al Qaeda Affiliation Among Islamic Political Movements.
Alexandra Scacco, Columbia University, als2110@columbia.edu, Who Riots and Why? Individual Participation in Ethnic Violence in Nigeria.
Dunning
Democratization
Mayia Ramirez, University of California- Riverside, mrami022@student.ucr.edu, Critical Realist Study of Liberal Democracy in Ukraine.
Mihaiela Ristei, University of Western Michigan, mihaiela.ristei@wmich.edu, Competing Formal and Informal Institutions in a Democratizing Setting: An Institutional Analysis of Corruption in Romania.
Elton Skendaj, Cornell University, es324@cornell.edu, Weak State Institutions in Kosovo: Perverse Consequences of the International Administration.
Mansfield
International Trade and Investment
Wendy Diaz Pérez, Universidad de Guadalajara /Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, wendy@cucea.udg.mx, Playing poker with the neighbor: Mexico’s strategy in the selection and change of forum in the trade conflicts with the United States.
Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol, m.fairbrother@bristol.ac.uk, The Origins of Economic Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative Perspective.
Rachel Wellhausen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, rwellhau@mit.edu, Can the determinants of foreign direct investment explain the internationalization (or lack thereof) of R&D?
Monroe
Improving Politics
Dane Imerman, Ohio State University, imerman.2@osu.edu, The Politics of Progress.
Kristof Jacobs, Radboud University, k.jacobs@fm.ru.nl, Democratic reforms in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Who is behind the steering wheel?
Alex Street, University of California- Berkeley, street.alex@gmail.com, Contracting for Good Citizenship in 21st Century Europe.
Khagram
NGOs and Civil Society
Suerie Moon, Harvard University , suerie_moon@ksgphd.harvard.edu, Inside the Castle: The Institutionalization, Legitimacy and Influence of Civil Society in Global Governance.
Paloma Raggo, Syracuse University, pgraggo@maxwell.syr.edu, NGOs as Entrepreneurs of Change: Leadership in Agenda-Setting Processes.
Nukhet Sandal, University of Southern California, sandal@usc.edu, The Politics of Interdenominational Conflict and Conciliation: The Case of Northern Ireland.
Elman
Crime and Punishment
Gwyneth McClendon, Princeton University, gmcclend@princeton.edu, Does the Truth Set You Free? Assessing the Impact of Truth Commissions and Information on Human Rights Abuse.
Clare McGovern, University of British Columbia, cmcgover@interchange.ubc.ca, Police accountability in divided societies.
Christi Siver, University of Washington, chsiver@u.washington.edu, The Dark Side of the Band of Brothers: Explaining Variation in the Commission of War Crimes.
Kendra Koivu, Northwestern University, Protection for Sale: a comparative historical study of organized crime.
Session Six: Thursday January 10 - 10:45-12:30
Wedeen
Islam and Politics
James Mikulec Jr., George Washington University, jmikulec@gwu.edu, Parties of God: Assessing the Effects of Normative Debates on Islamist Political Movements.
Emily Regan Wills, The New School, wille480@newschool.edu, Political Discourse in Motion: Democracy Gender and International Relations between Arab New York and the Middle East.
Leila Zakhirova, Indiana University, lzakhiro@indiana.edu, The Paradox of Islamic Activism: Reemergence of Mosque Communities in post-Soviet Central Asia.
Seawright
Gender and Women's Rights
Heidi Haddad, University of California-Irvine, haddadh@uci.edu, Export-Led Industrialization, Female Employment and Women’s Movements: A Case Study of Morocco.
Sarah Tasnim Shehabuddin, Harvard University , stshehab@fas.harvard.edu, Rules of Engagement: Women’s Rights and the Determinants of Secularist-Islamist Relations.
Amber Ussery, University of Arizona, aussery@email.arizona.edu, Gender and Transitional Justice: Women as Legitimate Subjects of Discourse and Design?
Dunning
Complexifying Authoritarianism
Ella Gao, University of Michigan, ellagao@umich.edu, People and Power: The Role of Public Opinion in Autocracies.
Regina Goodnow, University of Texas, rrgoodnow@mail.utexas.edu, Institutional Change in the Wake of Liberalizing Electoral Outcomes in Post-Communist Competitive Authoritarian Regimes.
Payam Mohseni, Georgetown University , pm226@georgetown.edu, Authoritarianism Countered: Hybrid Institutionalization in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Eden
Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation and Surrender
Philipp Bleek, Georgetown University, pcb9@georgetown.edu, Re-caging the nuclear genie: Assessing U.S. targeted proliferation prevention efforts.
Thomas Doyle, University of California-Irvine, tdoyle@uci.edu, The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons Acquisition in the Second Nuclear Age.
Neerada Jacob, American University, nj6593a@american.edu, Sanctions as a Cause of Nuclear Reversal: (When) Do They Work?
Arriola
Africa II
Yakubu Azindow, University of Massachusetts, yazindow@polsci.umass.edu, Economic Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Political and Institutional Determinants of Policy Success.
Matthew Kirwin, Michigan State University, kirwinma@msu.edu, Political Identity and Conflict In Burkina Faso.
Kunle Owolabi, University of Notre Dame, kowolabi@nd.edu, The Colonial Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: British Rule and the Post-Independence Regimes of the Caribbean and Africa.
Elman
War and Peace
Susanna Campbell, Tufts University, susanna.campbell@tufts.edu, Organizational Barriers to Peace.
Jen Keister, University of California- San Diego, jkeister@ucsd.edu, Paying for Violence: the causes and consequences of rebel’s resource recruitment decisions.
Chris Sullivan, University of Maryland, csullivan@gvpt.umd.edu, Social Networks and the Diffusion of Information in Civil War: A Case Study of Colombia's Violencia.