The Research in Comparative Politics (RCP) workshop serves as a forum for the presentation of research by faculty and graduate students in comparative politics.
AY22/23
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Feb 1 | Cathie Martin, BU | “Same as it Ever was? Culture, Literature, and Institutional Change” |
| Feb 15 | Jessie Trudeau (Brown) | “Criminal Capital, Voter Mobilization, and Suppression” |
| Apr 15 | Ora Szekely (Clark) | “Syria Divided” |
| May 3 | Mai Hassan (MIT) | “Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism” |
AY21/22
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Oct 20 | Anne Meng, University of Virginia | “Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: Evidence from Rebel Regimes” |
| Dec 8 | Nadya Hajj, Wellesley College | “Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age” |
| Jan 31 | Jeremy Menchik, BU | “The Spirit and/of Political Science” |
| Feb 9 | Megan Turnbull, University of Georgia | “Support, Toleration, and Repression: Incumbent Responses to Dissident Armed Groups in Nigeria and Kenya” |
| Mar 2 | Steven Wilson, Brandeis University | “Measuring Internet & Politics: Introducing the Digital Society Project” |
| Apr 28 | Lisel Hintz, John Hopkins University | “Fight Scenes: Identity and Contestation in Turkey’s Pop Culture Arena” |
AY20/21
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Discussant |
| Sept 23 | Richard Nielsen, MIT | How the Rhetoric of Women in the Alt-Right Broadens the Movement’s Appeal | Katherine Levine Einstein, BU |
| Oct 7 | Rachel Brule, BU | Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India | Virginia Sapiro, BU |
| Feb 10 | Hannah Alarian, University of Florida | Immigrant Voting Rights and Naturalization in the European Union | None |
| Mar 3 | Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell | Voting in Authoritarian Elections (with Turkuler Isiksel) | None |
| Mar 31 | Susan Stokes, University of Chicago | Parties and Mobilization in Referendums | None |
| Apr 28 | Laura Paler, American University |
Can Mediated Contact Change Prejudice and Political Preferences? Evidence from a “Married at First Sight” Experiment (with Kyle Gray)
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AY19/20
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Mar 4 | Angelica Duran-Martinez, UMass Lowell | Negotiating with Criminal, Non-Rebel Groups in Latin America |
| Sept 25 | Milan Svolik, Yale | Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States |
| Oct 15 | Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut | Why Run for Office in an Authoritarian Regime? MP Motivations and Role Orientations in Cameroon |
| Nov 6 | Chipo Dendere, Wellesley | Three Decades of HIV – A Look at How Parties Benefited from Crisis |
| Nov 20 | Nicholas Barnes, Brown | Monopolies of Violence: Gang Governance in Rio de Janeiro |
AY 2018/19
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sept 12 | Bill Grimes, BU | Institutionalizing Financial Cooperation in East Asia cosponsored by the Pardee Research Seminar |
| Oct 10 | Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University | What is Political Knowledge Good for? Conceptualizing Political Knowledge in Developing Country Democracies |
| Oct 31 | Nicholas Rush Smith, The City College of New York | Democratic Death: South Africa’s Killing State cosponsored by the African Studies Center |
| Feb 6 | Michael Woldemariam, BU | From Rebelling to Ruling: How Power Distributions and Communal Structure Affect Regime Consolidation After Rebel Victory in Africa |
| Mar 20 | Steve Rosenzweig, BU | What Explains Ethnic Voting? |
| Apr 17 | Guadalupe Tunon, Harvard | When the Church Votes Left: The Electoral Consequences of Progressive Religion |
AY 2017/18
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Oct 24 | Pia Raffler, Harvard | Meet the Candidates: Experimental Evidence on Information and Voting Behavior in Uganda Primary and General Elections |
| Jan 31 | Robert Blair, Brown | The Effects of Chinese Development Finance on State Legitimacy in Africa: Cross-National and Sub-National Evidence from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games |
| Feb 7 | Jeremy Menchik, BU | Woodrow Wilson and the Spirit of Liberal Internationalism |
| Apr 4 | Melani Cammett, Harvard | Coethnicity and Clientelism in Divided Societies: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon |
| Apr 18 | Germán Feierherd, Yale | Does the Left Breed Economic Informality? Party Strategies and Selective Enforcement in Brazil |
AY 2016/17
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Nov 7 | Prerna Singh, Brown | How Ideas and Institutions Explain the Differential Control of Disease in China and India |
| Dec 12 | Johannes Lindvall, Lund University | Economic Downturns, Political Competition, and State Capacity |
| Mar 1 | Cathie Jo Martin, BU | Imagine All the People: Literature, Society and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems |
| Mar 22 | Gwyneth McClendon, Harvard | Religious Influences on Political Engagement: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Apr 26 | Taylor Boas, BU | Norms versus Action: Voting Against Malfeasance in Brazil |