Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions, and Politics
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The American Birth of Political Science: Liberalism and Democracy in Transatlantic Perspective
Robert Adcock
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
S-050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Local democracy and public goods provision in Benin
Amanda Pinkston
- Graduate Student, Department of Government, Harvard University
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
S-050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Historical Approaches to Political Science Roundtable
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
S-050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Putting the Collapse of the Fourth Republic in Historical Perspective: Understanding the Anomalous Failure of Postwar French Parliamentarism
Michael Mencher
- PhD student, Government Department, Harvard University
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
S-050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions, and Politics/ TBA
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
S-050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Flexible Markets, Protected Workers: Unions and Labor Market Adjustment in Europe
Tobias Schulze-Cleven
- Visiting Scholar, CES
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
S-050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Past Events
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Making Cooperation Work
Mareike Kleine
- Visiting Scholar, CES
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
CGIS South Building, S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Grzegorz Ekiert
- Professor of Government, Harvard University
Daniel Ziblatt - Professor of Government, Harvard University
Daniel Ziblatt - Professor of Government, Harvard University
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
K262, CGIS North Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Monday, December 5, 2011
Making Democracy, Fighting Poverty: The Japanese Safety Net in Comparative Perspective
Yumiko Shimabukuro
- Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, MIT
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, November 28, 2011
The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Constructing Business Interests and Policy Preferences in Post-war India and Brazil
Jason Jackson
- International Development Group, MIT
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, November 14, 2011
Political Remittances: The Impact of Transnational Migration on Political Systems and Voting in the Migrants' Homelands
Ruxandra Paul
- Graduate Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, November 7, 2011
The Decline of Clientelism in Advanced Democracies: Towards a Working Theory
Joanna Didi Kuo
- Graduate Student, Department of Government, Harvard University
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, October 31, 2011
Rectificatory Justice as Fairness: Rethinking What Liberal Democracies Owe Historically Marginalized Groups
Jennifer Page
- Graduate Student, Department of Government, Harvard University
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Politics of Legitimacy: Child Labor Law During the British Industrial Revolution
Emily Clough
- Graduate Student (Social Policy), Department of Government, Harvard University
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, October 17, 2011
Engineering Electoral Dominance: Democratization and Electoral System Choice in the Age of Industry
Amel Ahmed
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, October 3, 2011
When Do Americans Vote for Tax Increases? The Politics of Tax Initiatives Since 1970
Vanessa Williamson
- Graduate Student (Social Policy), John F. Kennedy School of Government
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, September 26, 2011
Death by Taxes: Why Democrats Struggle with the Politics of Revenue
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
- Graduate Student (Social Policy), Department of Government, Harvard University
Theda Skocpol - Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Department of Government, Harvard University
Theda Skocpol - Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Department of Government, Harvard University
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Monday, September 19, 2011
Channeling the Restless Spirit of Innovation: Elite Concessions and Institutional Change in the British Reform Act of 1832
Bruce Morrison
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 3rd floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Friday, April 9, 2010
Inequality and Labor Market Coordination in the First Half of the 20th Century
David Rueda
- Merton College, Oxford
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
MIT Lucian W. Pye Conference Room, MIT Center for International Studies, Building E40, 1 Amherst Street, Room 496
Friday, April 2, 2010
Saving the Poor: Religion and the Politics of Welfare and Work in Europe and the United States
Sigrun Kahl
- Department of Political Science, Yale University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
MIT; Lucian W. Pye Conference Room, MIT Center for International Studies, Building E40, 1 Amherst Street, Room 496
Friday, March 26, 2010
Inequality and the Labor Market: Theories, Opinions, Models and Practices of Unequal Distribution and How They Can be Justified
Claus Offe
- Visiting Faculty, CES
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, February 26, 2010
Selections from "Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA" (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Daniel Carpenter
- Freed Professor of Government, Government Department, Harvard University
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, February 12, 2010
Building an American Empire: Territorial Expansion and Indian Removal, 1787-1850
Paul Frymer
- Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, November 20, 2009
African Chiefdoms and Institutional Resilience: Public Goods and Private Strategies
Ann Swidler
- Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, October 9, 2009
After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research
James Mahoney
- Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Northwestern University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
E40-496 (the Lucian W. Pye Conference Room) MIT
Friday, September 18, 2009
Reforming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy
Wolfgang Streeck
- Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, April 24, 2009
Games, Genes, and Politics
James Fowler
- Department of Political Science, University of California at San Diego
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, March 20, 2009
Electoral Rules, Income Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution
Noam Lupu
- Department of Politics, Princeton University
Jonas Pontusson - Department of Politics, Princeton University
Jonas Pontusson - Department of Politics, Princeton University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, March 6, 2009
Comparing Capitalisms: Liberal, Coordinated, Networked and Hierarchical Varieties
Ben Schneider
- Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University and M.I.T.
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, February 13, 2009
What Causes Inequality and What Does Inequality Cause?
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, December 12, 2008
Democratization, Diffusion and Contingency: Lessons from Europe
Richard Snyder
- Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Time: 2:15 AM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, November 14, 2008
The Downside of Deliberative Public Administration
Lucio Bacarro
- Maurice F. Strong Assistant Professor, Sloan School, M.I.T.
Archon Fung - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Archon Fung - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Time: 2:15 AM - 4:00 AM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Friday, October 17, 2008
A panel on: "What are the Most Promising New Frontiers in the Study of Comparative Politics?"
Steven Levitsky
- Professor of Government, Harvard
Torben Iversen - H.H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard
Melani Cammett - Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Brown University
Torben Iversen - H.H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard
Melani Cammett - Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Brown University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Monday, April 14, 2008
"Multilevel Governance in the EU: The Theoretical Challenge"
Simona Piattoni, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Trento
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Guido Goldman Seminar Room
Comparative European Politics
Contact: Andrew Martin, amartin5@earthlink.net
Discussant: Jonas Tallberg, Visiting Scholar, CES
Simona Piattoni, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Trento
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Guido Goldman Seminar Room
Comparative European Politics
Contact: Andrew Martin, amartin5@earthlink.net
Discussant: Jonas Tallberg, Visiting Scholar, CES