Student Seminar 2012-2013
Fall 2012
September 28
Rob Blair, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Measuring Legitimacy in Behavioral Games”
October 12
Rory Truex, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Representation by Design: Preference Congruence in an Authoritarian Parliament”
November 9
Lucy Martin, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Taxation and Accountability: Experimental Evidence for Taxation’s Effect on Citizen Behavior”
December 7
Steven Rosenzweig, PhD candidate in Political Science: “The Politics of Microfinance: How Access to Microcredit Affects Politics in Kenya”
Spring 2013
January 25
German Feierherd, PhD candidate in Political Science: “The Politics of the Shadow Economy in the Developing World”
February 1
Nikhar Gaikwad, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Ethnic Divisions and Trade Politics”
February 14
Pia Raffler, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Bureaucrats vs. Politicians: Lateral Accountability in Developing Democracies”
February 22
Luis Schiumerini, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Term limits and incumbency bias in a weak partisan environment. Evidence from Brazilian Mayoral Elections”
March 1
Qiuqing Tai, PhD candidate in Political Science: “Returning Migrants in Authoritarian Regimes: The Chinese Case”
March 6
Erdem Aytac, PhD candidate in Political Science: “The Economic Vote and Relative Economic Performance: Survey Experiments from the U.S. and Turkey”
May 2
Natalia Bueno and Guadalupe Tuñón, PhD candidates in Political Science: “Nonparametric Combination in Balance Tests with Dependent Covariates”
May 8
Erica De Bruin, PhD candidate in Political Science: “International Conflict and Coup Prevention in Developing States”