2017-2018
TU POLITICAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
*Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are on Fridays 2pm Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall.
FALL SEMESTER
September 22
William Hurst, Northwestern University
Sponsored by the Murphy Institute
“Ruling Before the Law: the Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia”
William Hurst is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. He works on labor politics, contentious politics, political economy, and the politics of law and legal institutions, principally in China and Indonesia. He is the author of The Chinese Worker after Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and his articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and other journals. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the comparative politics of law and legal institutions in China and Indonesia since 1949.
November 3
Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
Sponsored by CIPR
“Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico’s Drug War”
Beatriz Magaloni is Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She works on governance, poverty reduction, electoral clientelism, provision of public goods and criminal violence. She is the author of Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Strategies of Vote Buying: Democracy, Clientelism, and Poverty Relief in Mexico (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez, Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her work has also appeared in appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, World Development, Comparative Political Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and other journals.
November 17
Marcelo Leiras, Universidad de San Andres
Sponsored by CIPR
“If the Hill Won’t Come to Muhammad: Landowner Influence in Labor Scarce Countries”
Marcelo Leiras is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). His research focuses on comparative democratic institutions, theories of democracy and democratization, constitutional politics, political parties and electoral behavior, federalism and multilevel governance, and Latin American politics. He is the author of “Todos los caballos del Rey. La integración de los partidos políticos y el gobierno democrático de la Argentina, 1995-2003. (Prometeo, 2007) and several chapters in English and Spanish in edited volumes. His work has been published on The Journal of Politics, World Development, and Political Science Research and Methods, among other journals.
December 1
Matthias Matthijs, John Hopkins/SAIS
Sponsored by the Murphy Institute
“Hegemonic Leadership Is What States Make Of It: Reading Kindleberger in Washington and Berlin”
Matthias Matthijs is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on the politics of economic crises, the role of economic ideas in economic policymaking, the politics of inequality, the limits of regional integration, and the erosion of democratic legitimacy in the advanced industrial world. He is the recipient of a 2015 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award in recognition of his work as a promising early-career investigator. He is editor (with Mark Blyth) of the book The Future of the Euro (Oxford University Press, 2015), and author of Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005) (Routledge, 2011). Matthijs is also the author of numerous peer reviewed articles published or forthcoming in journals like Perpective on Politics, Politics & Society, Review of International Political Economy, Governance, Government and Opposition, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European Integration, and the International Spectator.
SPRING SEMESTER
February 2
Tiffany D. Barnes, University of Kentucky,
Sponsored by Newcomb College Institute
“Voting Procedures and Women’s Access to Power: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Argentina”
Tiffany D. Barnes is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. Her research is in the field of Comparative Politics with an emphasis on gender and politics, Latin America, and comparative political institutions. She is the author of Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Politics & Gender, Governance, Election Law Journal, Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, PS: Political Science & Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, The Journal of Political Science, and an edited volume on women’s political representation. In 2017, she received the Early Career Award from the Midwest Women's Caucus for Political Science.
February 23
Steven Levitsky, Harvard University
Sponsored by CIPR
"The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes"
Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include political parties, authoritarianism and democratization, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003), co-author (with Lucan Way) of Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (2010), and co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (2005); Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (2006); and The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America (2011). He is currently engaged in research on the durability of revolutionary regimes, the relationship between populism and competitive authoritarianism, problems of party-building in contemporary Latin America, and party collapse and its consequences for democracy in Peru.
March 9
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored by CIPR
"Political Foundations of the Rule of Law: Judicial Purges in the Americas"
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is is Professor of Political Science and a member of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on democratization, political institutions, and the rule of law in new democracies. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall (with Scott Mainwaring, Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is the chief editor of Latin American Research Review, the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).