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”