We are pleased to announce our schedule for the Fall of 2017. You may access the schedule by clicking here. Continue reading →

Please join us on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 for:

Party Factions and Co-partisan Campaign Support: Congressional Campaigning in Mexico

by 

Joy Langston
Discussant: José María Valenzuela

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-4:30pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 for:

Formalizing Informality: Iranian Revolutionary Militias’ Unconventional Establishment

by 

Maryam Alemzadeh
Discussant: Asfandyar Mir

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 for:

Colonial Approaches to Governance in the Periphery: Direct and Indirect Rule in French Algeria

by 

Adria Lawrence
Discussant: Fahad Sajid

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 for:

Are We All Phalaris Now? Pleasure, Pain, and In(Visible) Suffering in These Modern Times

 by 

Timothy Pachirat
Discussant: Yuna Blajer

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 for:

Electoral Violence and Democratization in West Africa

 by 

Jonathan DePoyster
Discussant: Bastian Herre

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 for:

Faith in Conquest: The Politics of Forced Conversion

 by 

Aditi Rajeev Shirodkar
Discussant: Manuel Cabal

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 for:

Democracy Under High Inequality: Political Participation and Public Goods

 by 

Pablo Beramendi
Discussant: Nuannuan Xiang

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Please join us on Thursday, April 13, 2017 for:

Expanding the Pie: Compensating Losers in Authoritarian Regimes

 by 

Jennifer Gandhi
Discussant: Yan Xu

The workshop meets in Pick 506 (5828 S. University Ave.) from 3:00-5:00pm. Please note that for this particular session it will meet on Thursday from 12:00-2:00pm in the same location. Please contact Fahad Sajid (fmsajid@uchicago.edu) should you require assistance, or if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

The Comparative Politics Workshop is pleased to announce its Spring 2017 schedule.