Comparative Politics Colloquium
Welcome to the website of the Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, hosted by the Department of Political Science. This workshop invites outside speakers, faculty members, and graduate students to present their work and receive feedback.
Our meetings are held on Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:15pm. Unless noted otherwise, the meetings will take place in the Ogg Room (Room 422) in North Hall.
For any questions regarding CPC, or if you wanted to be added to our mailing list, please reach out to one of the graduate coordinators listed below.
Faculty Director
Yoshiko M. Herrera
(yherrera@wisc.edu)
FALL 2024
September 9: No meeting, APSA
September 12: Pär Zetterberg (Uppsala University)
Topic: "Autocratic Genderwashing: Women’s Rights as Authoritarian Strategies"
Discussant: Monica Komer
Co-Sponsored by Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP) Lecture Series
September 19: Cancelled.
September 26: Yiqing Xu (Stanford University)
Topic: "Factorial Difference-in-Differences"
Discussant: TBD
Co-Sponsored by the Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop (MEAD)
October 3: Sven-Oliver Proksch (University of Cologne)
Topic : "Rise of the Radical Right and Government Formation: A Survey Experiment of Voters’ Coalition Preferences"
Discussant: Ethan vanderWilden
Co-Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies (CGES), Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE), and Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop (MEAD)
October 10: Priyadarshi Amar (UW-Madison)
Topic: "Do Electoral Quotas for Marginalized Ethnic Groups Improve Women’s Representation? Evidence from India"
Co-Sponsored by Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP) Lecture Series
October 10, 4 PM: Hilary Appel (Claremont McKenna College)
Topic: "Competing Narratives of the Russia-Ukraine War: Why the West Hasn’t Convinced the Rest"
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA )
October 17: Nicholas Kuipers (Princeton University)
Topic: "Frustrated Expectations, Time Horizons, and Trust in Elections"
Discussants: Amit Jadhav
Co-Sponsored by the Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop (MEAD) and Political Economy Colloquium (PEC)
October 24: Second-Year Graduate Students Paper Presentation
Norah-Frida Tebid: "Marginalization and Militancy: The Role of Land in the Anglophone Cameroonian Conflict"
Ilia NADPOROZHSKII: "When people matters: public opinion as a determinant of changes in ruling coalitions of non-democratic regimes in Eurasia"
NOOR MAY HAMWY: "Rewriting Religious Identity in MENA"
October 31: TBD, possible job talk
November 7: TBD, possible job talk
November 14 noon: TBD, possible job talk
November 14, 4 PM: Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton University)
Topic: Spatial Dimensions of Contentious Politics in Eurasia
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 21: TBD, possible job talk
December 5: Amanda Lea Robinson (Ohio State University)
Topic: Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Discussant: Norah-Frida Tebid
Co-Sponsored by the Political Economy Colloquium (PEC), Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop (MEAD), and Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP) Lecture Series
SPRING 2025
January 23: Mingcong Pan (UW-Madison)
January 30: Jennifer Gandhi (Yale University)
Topic: TBD
Discussants: TBD
February 6: TBD
Topic: TBD
Discussants: TBD
February 13: TBD
February 20: TBD
February 27: Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University)
Topic: TBD
Discussants: TBD
Co-Sponsored by the Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop (MEAD)
March 6: Zhaotian Luo (The University of Chicago)
Topic: “Sustaining democracy under the shadow of conflict” coauthored with Adam Przeworski and Hongding Zhu.
Discussants: TBD
March 13: TBD
March 20: TBD
March 27: No Meeting, Spring Recces
April 4: No Meeting, MPSA
April 10: Beatriz Magaloni (Stanford University)
Topic: TBD
Discussant: TBD
April 17: John Alhquist (University of California San Diego)
Topic: TBD
Discussant: TBD
Co-Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty
Co-Sponsored by the Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop (MEAD)
May 1: TBD
Department of Political Science110 North Hall1050 Bascom MallUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonMadison, WI 53706
Email: info@polisci.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-2414