Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics

The Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (SR-SCP) brings together visiting speakers, faculty, and graduate students to discuss research on the forefront of comparative politics and political economy. The seminar generally meets three times a quarter, with a mix of presentations by visiting scholars and UW graduate students. All lectures are held on Fridays from 12:00-1:20pm in the Olson Room (Gowen 1A), unless otherwise noted.

For more information, please contact srscp@uw.edu.

The SR-SCP is generously sponsored by the Severyns Ravenholt endowment.
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Upcoming Events

January 18, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University
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February 1, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Taisu Zhang, Yale University
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February 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Calvin Garner, PhD Student UW
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April 5, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Will Gochberg, PhD Student UW
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April 26, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
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May 24, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Timothy Frye, Columbia University
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Past Events

2018
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title "The Eﬀect of Infrastructure Legacies on Innovation" Kevin Aslett, PhD Student UW	Nov 30	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room)
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar - The Loser's Bonus: Political Geography and Minority Party Representation Jowei Chen, University of Michigan	Nov 9	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room)
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Politics of Order in Informal Markets Shelby Grossman	Oct 19	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room)
The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Economic Development in Peru Noel Maurer	May 17	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
State Building and the Making of Education Leviathans since the 19th Century David Lopez, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW	Apr 27	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
The Origins of Self-Determination Conflicts in the Modern World Benjamin Smith, University of Florida	Mar 30	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD Tan Zhao, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW	Feb 23	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Information, Political Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I Susan Hyde, University of California, Berkeley	Jan 26	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University	Jan 5	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)

2017
Title	Date	Time	Location
Economic Resilience and Social Trust after the Fall of the Soviet Union Nora Webb Williams, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW	Nov 30	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Co-optation through Patronage and Deterrence: The Political Weakness of Chinese Capitalists Changdong Zhang, Peking University	Oct 16	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Increasing Village-Level Accountability via Horizontal Pressure: Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe Kate Baldwin, Yale University	Sep 29	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
SR-SCP: Separating Powers: Local Governance, Institutional Change, and Political Participation in Indonesia Daniel Yoo (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science)	May 19	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: All Keynesian, Now? Popular Austerity Attitudes in Comparative Perspective Timothy Hicks, University College London	May 5	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Olson Room (Gown 1A)
Who do Political Brokers Serve? Experimental Evidence from Informal Leaders in India’s Slums Tariq Thachil (Vanderbilt University)	Apr 14	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Xiaobo Lü	Feb 24	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Olson Room/Gowen Hall 1A
SR-SCP: The Arbitrage Lobby: Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of Dual Exchange Rates Dorothy Kronick, University of Pennsylvannia	Jan 27	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Church Leadership, Local Demands, and Shifting Global Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa Sarah Dreier, University of Washington	Jan 6	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1A)

2016
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Participation: Prior Consultation in Extractive Economies Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania	Nov 18	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Political Endorsements and Cross-Ethnic Voting in Africa Leonardo Arriola, UC-Berkeley	Nov 4	1:30pm to 3:00pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Unlikely Potential of Polarization: Renegotiating Legacies of State Feminism in Tunisia's Post-Revolutionary Constitution Hind Ahmed Zaki, University of Washington	Oct 28	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - The Political Logic of Information Disclosure: Evidence from 1 Million Information Requests in Mexico Dan Berliner	Oct 10	12:00pm to 1:30pm	The Olson Room (Gowen Hall room 1A)
Bargained Authoritarianism: Bureaucratic Competition and Government Investment in China Xiao Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Washington	May 20	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
What Moves Consumer Sentiment? Economics, Politics, and the Information Environment Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, UNC Chapel Hill	Apr 29	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Segregation, Diversity, and Intra-Party Competition in Ghana Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan	Apr 8	1:30pm to 2:30pm	Parrington Forum
Legitimacy, Corruption, and Preferences for Redistribution in the Developing World David Lopez	Feb 26	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Olson Room (Gowen 1 A)
Tocqueville's Warning: Reform and Rebellion in Autocratic States Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin	Jan 29	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
A New Era for Labor Activism? Strategic Mobilization of Human Rights against Blacklistings Filiz Kahraman (PhD Candidate, Political Science)	Jan 8	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A

2015
Title	Date	Time	Location
Political competition and social spending in Mexico's municipalities: Spatial dimensions of social policies after political and economic liberalization Armando Razo, Indiana University	Oct 30	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Do Pre-Election Polls Changes Citizens Beliefs or Behavior?: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment in the Country of Georgia Aaron Erlich, UW Political Science	May 15	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Does the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Reduce Bribery? An Empirical Analysis Using the Unmatched Count Technique Edmund Malesky, Duke University	May 8	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Poor Democracies in a Conundrum? International Trade and Government Revenues in Developing Countries Nita Rudra, Georgetown University	Apr 24	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Nahomi Ichino (University of Michigan)	Apr 3	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Michael Albertus, University of Chicago	Mar 6	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Bolstering the National Project: Competitive Nation Building and Immigration in Israel and Quebec Yoav Duman, UW Political Science	Feb 20	12:00pm to 1:30pm	Gowen 1A
Human Capital Inequality and China's Future Development Challenge Linxiu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences/REAP-China)	Jan 23	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A

2014
Title	Date	Time	Location
Guns, Gavels, and Bribes: Firm Strategies for Securing Property Rights in Contemporary Russia Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University)	Nov 14	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
State Is Not What Makes Nation: Testing the Historical Legacy of State-building on Nation-building Onset fir Contemporary European Ethnic Groups, 1400-2000 Yu Sasaki (University of Washington)	Oct 24	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud Milan Svolik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Oct 3	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Violence by Other Means: Reproducing Violent Practice Through Post-Conflict Human Rights Trials Milli Lake (University of Washington)	Jun 6	12:00pm	Gowen 1A
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? Experimental Evidence from an Agricultural Intervention in a Fragile State Christopher Blattman (Columbia)	May 7	12:00pm	Gowen 1A
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The English Reformation and the Institutional Foundation of Limited Government Jared Rubin (Chapman)	Apr 18	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Community Development Requirements in Mining Laws, 1993-2012 Kendra Dupuy (University of Washington)	Mar 14	12:00pm	Dempsey Hall 002
Harnessing the Diaspora: The Political Economy of Migrant Dual Citizenship David Leblang (UVA)	Feb 21	12:00pm	Gowen 1A
Islamic States and the Securitization of the Muslim Self Matthew Nelson, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of African and Oriental Studies (London, UK)	Feb 14	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Asian Designs: Risen Powers and the Struggle for International Governance Saadia Pekkanen, Job & Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington	Jan 17	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A

2013
Title	Date	Time	Location
Engaging Democracy: Information & Agendas in Participatory Budgeting Reforms Carolina Johnson (University of Washington)	Dec 6	12:00pm
Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics after the Post-Soviet Wars Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego)	Nov 22	12:00pm	Gowen 1A
The Chongqing Story and the Rule of Law in China He Weifang (Peking University)	Nov 15	12:00pm
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Zhu Tianbiao (Peking University)	May 17	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Jennifer Noveck (UW)	May 10	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Teri Caraway (Minnesota)	Apr 19	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Melanie Manion (Wisconsin)	Mar 1	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Amanda Fulmer (UW)	Feb 1	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Catherine Boone (UT Austin)	Jan 11	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A

2012
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Will Murg (University of Washington)	Dec 7	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University)	Nov 16	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1 A
The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia Dan Slater (Chicago)	Oct 5	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Land Without Opportunity: State-Peasant Relations and Land Privatization in Mexico Adrian Sinkler (Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Washington)	Jun 1	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
From 'Open-Secrets' to the Secret Ballot: The Economic & Political Determinants of Secret Ballot Reform Isabela Mares (Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University)	May 18	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
International Politics: The Rules of the Game Yuen Foong Khong (Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford)	Apr 27	12:20pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics/UWISC Lecture on Regional Security in Asia Barry Buzan (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science)	Apr 6	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A
Power & Authority in International Relations: Evidence from a Non-Western Case David Kang (Professor of International Relations & Business, University of Southern California)	Jan 13	12:00pm to 1:20pm	Gowen 1A

2011
Title	Date	Time	Location
The Development of Philanthropy in Contemporary China Madame Yang Lan (Chairwoman, Sun Culture Foundation)	May 31	7:00pm to 8:30pm	210 Kane Hall

2009
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General	Oct 26	7:00pm
Law & the Environmental Movement in China Jingjing Zhang (Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in China)	May 21	7:00pm to 8:30pm	110 Kane Hall

2006
Title	Date	Time	Location
Democracy, Human Rights, and the Destiny of Southeast Asia Anwar Ibrahim, President, Anwar Ibrahim & Associates, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and former Minister of Finance	Oct 10	8:00pm	Kane Hall 210

2004
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia	Oct 14	7:00pm	Kane Hall 210

2003
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Long Yongtu, Secretary-General, Bo'Ao Forum for Asia, former Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the People's Republic of China, Former Chief Trade Representative	Jun 8	7:30pm	Kane Hall 210

2001
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Winner	Oct 8	7:00pm	Kane Hall 210

2000
Title	Date	Time	Location
Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Frank Ching, Senior Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review	May 16	7:00pm	Kane Hall 210

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