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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 3:30 to 5:00 pm in The Olson Room (Gowen Hall 1A), unless otherwise noted.
For more information, please contact Ryan Goehrung at srscp@uw.edu.
The SR-SCP is generously sponsored by the Severyns Ravenholt endowment.
About the Severyns Ravenholt Endowment and Call for Nominations
Past Events
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 3, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Waleed Saleem, "Judicial Agency in Transition Politics" - April 19, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Prof. Devon Joshi, "Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective" - April 12, 2024
- Tateuchi East Asia Library Talk: Prof. Devon Joshi, "Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective" - April 11, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 23, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 2, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - January 19, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Ramses Llobet, "Labor Union Solidarity, Risk-dependent Altruism, and Demand for Redistribution in Europe" - November 17, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - October 27, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - October 13, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Yu Sasaki, Kanazawa University - May 19, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Tiago Ventura, New York University - May 5, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Brian Leung, UW Political Science Ph.D. Student - April 7, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - February 24, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Anna Wilke, Washington University, St. Louis - February 10, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Ryan Geohrung, UW Ph.D. Student - January 27, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Zhaowen Guo, UW Political Science Ph.D. Student - December 2, 2022
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Haifeng Huang, University of California, Merced: Triumphalism and the Inconvenient Truth: Correcting National Overconfidence in a Rising Power - November 4, 2022
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Alexandra Cirone, Cornell University, “When Women Win: Land Lotteries and Civic Participation in Georgia” - October 21, 2022
- Asli Cansunar, Professor UW Political Science: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 6, 2022
- Peter T. Calcagno, College of Charleston: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - April 29, 2022
- Mai Hassan, University of Michigan: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - April 8, 2022
- Daniel de Kadt, Data Scientist : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics "State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre" - March 4, 2022
- Alexandra Siegel, University of Colorado at Boulder: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 18, 2022
- Hanjie Wang, Political Science Graduate Student: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - January 21, 2022
- Inhwan Ko, Political Science Graduate Student: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - December 3, 2021
- Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day - November 19, 2021
- Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China - October 8, 2021
- Kenya Amano, Ph.D. Student: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Kenya Amano (Political Science, UW) - May 28, 2021
- Amanda Clayton, Vanderbilt University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Amanda Clayton (Vanderbilt University) - May 21, 2021
- Cesi Cruz, University of British Columbia: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: "Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises" - April 9, 2021
- Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Gender Credibility Gap: All-Male Boards and Substantive Gender Representation in Central Banking - February 26, 2021
- Ryan Goehrung, Ph.D. Student: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: The Price of Marriage and Women's Political Representation - February 5, 2021
- David Skarbek, Brown University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Casting the First Stone: Understanding Attitudes towards Lynching in Brazil - January 15, 2021
- Daniel M. Smith, Harvard University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids - November 20, 2020
- Brian Leung, PhD Student UW: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Bricks, Molotov Cocktails and Engaged Bystanders: Why Violence Becomes Sustained in Popular Protests - October 30, 2020
- Dominic Nyhuis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Pay attention to this! Explaining emphasis in legislative speech using automated video analysis in the US House of Representatives - October 9, 2020
- Aaron Erlich, McGill University: Severyns Ravenholt Talk - May 22, 2020
- Yusri Supiyan, UW Ph.D Candidate: Severyns Ravenholt Talk - May 1, 2020
- Taisu Zhang, Yale University (Yale Law): Severyns Ravenholt Talk - April 17, 2020
- Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania: Severyns Ravenholt Talk - March 13, 2020
- Jonathan C. Beck, UW Ph.D Candidate: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Citizen’s Right, Fundamental Right, Human Right, or Privilege? Human Rights and the German Movement Against Tuition Fees - February 14, 2020
- Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Poverty and Clientelism: Do the Poor Embrace Handouts? - January 17, 2020
- Calla Hummel, University of Miami: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Why Do Informal Workers Organize? Street Vendors, Contentious Politics, and the State - November 22, 2019
- Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Labor’s Struggle Against Investment Privatization - November 1, 2019
- Paul Musgrave, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Developing the Resource Purse: State Formation, Resource Politics, and Regime Outcomes - October 11, 2019
- Timothy Frye, Columbia University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD - May 24, 2019
- Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comp. Pol. - Ethnicity as an Institution and the Origins of Ethnic Orders - April 26, 2019
- Will Gochberg, PhD Student UW: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - The Social Cost of Titling Land: Evidence from Uganda - April 5, 2019
- Calvin Garner, PhD Student UW: SRSCP - Citizen Solidarity, Ethnic Rivalry, or Self-interest? Implicit & Explicit Biases During Wartime - February 14, 2019
- Beatrice Magistro, University of Washington Ph.D. Candidate: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar - "The Effects of Financial and Economic Literacy on Policy Preferences in Italy" - February 1, 2019
- Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University: Severyns Ravenholt: Political Knowledge in Comparative Perspective - January 18, 2019
- Kevin Aslett, PhD Student UW: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title "The Effect of Infrastructure Legacies on Innovation" - November 30, 2018
- Jowei Chen, University of Michigan: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar - The Loser's Bonus: Political Geography and Minority Party Representation - November 9, 2018
- Shelby Grossman: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Politics of Order in Informal Markets - October 19, 2018
- Noel Maurer: The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Economic Development in Peru - May 17, 2018
- David Lopez, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW: State Building and the Making of Education Leviathans since the 19th Century - April 27, 2018
- Benjamin Smith, University of Florida: The Origins of Self-Determination Conflicts in the Modern World - March 30, 2018
- Tan Zhao, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD - February 23, 2018
- Susan Hyde, University of California, Berkeley: Information, Political Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I - January 26, 2018
- Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD - January 5, 2018
- Nora Webb Williams, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW: Economic Resilience and Social Trust after the Fall of the Soviet Union - November 30, 2017
- Changdong Zhang, Peking University: Co-optation through Patronage and Deterrence: The Political Weakness of Chinese Capitalists - October 16, 2017
- Kate Baldwin, Yale University: Increasing Village-Level Accountability via Horizontal Pressure: Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe - September 29, 2017
- Daniel Yoo (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science): SR-SCP: Separating Powers: Local Governance, Institutional Change, and Political Participation in Indonesia - May 19, 2017
- Timothy Hicks, University College London: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: All Keynesian, Now? Popular Austerity Attitudes in Comparative Perspective - May 5, 2017
- Tariq Thachil (Vanderbilt University): Who do Political Brokers Serve? Experimental Evidence from Informal Leaders in India’s Slums - April 14, 2017
- Xiaobo Lü: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 24, 2017
- Dorothy Kronick, University of Pennsylvannia : SR-SCP: The Arbitrage Lobby: Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of Dual Exchange Rates - January 27, 2017
- Sarah Dreier, University of Washington: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Church Leadership, Local Demands, and Shifting Global Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa - January 6, 2017
- Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Participation: Prior Consultation in Extractive Economies - November 18, 2016
- Leonardo Arriola, UC-Berkeley: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Political Endorsements and Cross-Ethnic Voting in Africa - November 4, 2016
- Hind Ahmed Zaki, University of Washington: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Unlikely Potential of Polarization: Renegotiating Legacies of State Feminism in Tunisia's Post-Revolutionary Constitution - October 28, 2016
- Dan Berliner: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - The Political Logic of Information Disclosure: Evidence from 1 Million Information Requests in Mexico - October 10, 2016
- Xiao Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Washington: Bargained Authoritarianism: Bureaucratic Competition and Government Investment in China - May 20, 2016
- Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, UNC Chapel Hill : What Moves Consumer Sentiment? Economics, Politics, and the Information Environment - April 29, 2016
- Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan: Segregation, Diversity, and Intra-Party Competition in Ghana - April 8, 2016
- David Lopez: Legitimacy, Corruption, and Preferences for Redistribution in the Developing World - February 26, 2016
- Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin: Tocqueville's Warning: Reform and Rebellion in Autocratic States - January 29, 2016
- Filiz Kahraman (PhD Candidate, Political Science): A New Era for Labor Activism? Strategic Mobilization of Human Rights against Blacklistings - January 8, 2016
- Armando Razo, Indiana University: Political competition and social spending in Mexico's municipalities: Spatial dimensions of social policies after political and economic liberalization - October 30, 2015
- Aaron Erlich, UW Political Science: Do Pre-Election Polls Changes Citizens Beliefs or Behavior?: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment in the Country of Georgia - May 15, 2015
- Edmund Malesky, Duke University: Does the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Reduce Bribery? An Empirical Analysis Using the Unmatched Count Technique - May 8, 2015
- Nita Rudra, Georgetown University: Poor Democracies in a Conundrum? International Trade and Government Revenues in Developing Countries - April 24, 2015
- Nahomi Ichino (University of Michigan): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - April 3, 2015
- Michael Albertus, University of Chicago: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - March 6, 2015
- Yoav Duman, UW Political Science: Bolstering the National Project: Competitive Nation Building and Immigration in Israel and Quebec - February 20, 2015
- Linxiu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences/REAP-China): Human Capital Inequality and China's Future Development Challenge - January 23, 2015
- Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University): Guns, Gavels, and Bribes: Firm Strategies for Securing Property Rights in Contemporary Russia - November 14, 2014
- Yu Sasaki (University of Washington): State Is Not What Makes Nation: Testing the Historical Legacy of State-building on Nation-building Onset fir Contemporary European Ethnic Groups, 1400-2000 - October 24, 2014
- Milan Svolik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud - October 3, 2014
- Milli Lake (University of Washington): Violence by Other Means: Reproducing Violent Practice Through Post-Conflict Human Rights Trials - June 6, 2014
- Christopher Blattman (Columbia): Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? Experimental Evidence from an Agricultural Intervention in a Fragile State - May 7, 2014
- Jared Rubin (Chapman): Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The English Reformation and the Institutional Foundation of Limited Government - April 18, 2014
- Kendra Dupuy (University of Washington): Community Development Requirements in Mining Laws, 1993-2012 - March 14, 2014
- David Leblang (UVA): Harnessing the Diaspora: The Political Economy of Migrant Dual Citizenship - February 21, 2014
- Matthew Nelson, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of African and Oriental Studies (London, UK): Islamic States and the Securitization of the Muslim Self - February 14, 2014
- Saadia Pekkanen, Job & Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington: Asian Designs: Risen Powers and the Struggle for International Governance - January 17, 2014
- Carolina Johnson (University of Washington): Engaging Democracy: Information & Agendas in Participatory Budgeting Reforms - December 6, 2013
- Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego): Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics after the Post-Soviet Wars - November 22, 2013
- He Weifang (Peking University): The Chongqing Story and the Rule of Law in China - November 15, 2013
- Zhu Tianbiao (Peking University): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 17, 2013
- Jennifer Noveck (UW): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 10, 2013
- Teri Caraway (Minnesota): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - April 19, 2013
- Melanie Manion (Wisconsin): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - March 1, 2013
- Amanda Fulmer (UW): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 1, 2013
- Catherine Boone (UT Austin) : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - January 11, 2013
- Will Murg (University of Washington) : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - December 7, 2012
- Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - November 16, 2012
- Dan Slater (Chicago) : The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia - October 5, 2012
- Adrian Sinkler (Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Washington): Land Without Opportunity: State-Peasant Relations and Land Privatization in Mexico - June 1, 2012
- Isabela Mares (Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University): From 'Open-Secrets' to the Secret Ballot: The Economic & Political Determinants of Secret Ballot Reform - May 18, 2012
- Yuen Foong Khong (Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford): International Politics: The Rules of the Game - April 27, 2012
- Barry Buzan (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics/UWISC Lecture on Regional Security in Asia - April 6, 2012
- David Kang (Professor of International Relations & Business, University of Southern California): Power & Authority in International Relations: Evidence from a Non-Western Case - January 13, 2012
- Madame Yang Lan (Chairwoman, Sun Culture Foundation) : The Development of Philanthropy in Contemporary China - May 31, 2011
- Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General : Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - October 26, 2009
- Jingjing Zhang (Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in China): Law & the Environmental Movement in China - May 21, 2009
- Anwar Ibrahim, President, Anwar Ibrahim & Associates, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and former Minister of Finance: Democracy, Human Rights, and the Destiny of Southeast Asia - October 10, 2006
- Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia: Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - October 14, 2004
- 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: Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - June 8, 2003
- Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - October 8, 2001
- Frank Ching, Senior Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review : Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - May 16, 2000