Leitner Political Economy Seminar
12:00-1:15 PM on Thursdays via Zoom (subscribe to mailing list for link and password)*
Fall 2020
September 10 - No Meeting
September 17 - Emily Sellars, Yale University.
“Epidemics, Rent Extraction, and the Value of Holding Office.”
September 24 - Daniel Mattingly, Yale University.
“How the Party Commands the Gun: Coups, Revolts, and the Military in China.”
October 1 - Sarah Bush, Yale University.
“Facing Change: Identity and Cross-National Responses to Climate Change.” (co-authored with Amanda Clayton)
October 8 - Sarah Khan, Yale University.
“Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Improve Women’s Turnout in Pakistani Elections.”
October 15 - No workshop; Politics Across Borders
October 22 - Daniel Goldstein, Yale University.
“State Capacity and the Erosion of Norms of Good Governance”
October 29 - Liz McGuire, Yale University. (practice Job Talk)
“Norms as a Bridge between Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania on gender norms.”
November 5 - Anton Sobolev, Yale University.
“How Pro-Government “Trolls” Influence Online Conversations in Russia.”
November 12 - No workshop; Politics Across Borders
November 19 - Didac Queralt, Yale University.
“Expected Returns from Taxation: Do Elites differ from Nonelites?” (co-authored with Xiaobo Lü and Jay Kao)
December 3 - Milan Svolik, Yale University.
Title TBA.
December 10 - Greg Huber, Yale University.
“Makers and Takers: How We (Don’t) Tax the Poor Reduces Support for Taxing and Redistribution,” (co-authored with Scott Bokemper).
Spring 2020
January 16 - Mike Tomz, Stanford University, “Public Reactions to Foreign Interference in Elections”. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.
January 30 - Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Invisible Innovators: How Markets Emerge Under Adversity in the Global South”. This seminar is joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop.
February 6 - Timur Kuran, Duke University, “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul”. This seminar is joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop and CHESS Workshop.
February 20 - Pauline Jones, University of Michigan, “Religious Repression & Political Mobilization in Muslim Majority States”. This seminar is joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop.
February 27 - Robert Gulotty, University of Chicago, “Supplying Influence: How Supply Chains Shape Corporate Politics”. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.
March 5 - Scott Ashworth, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, “Electorates vs. Voters”.
March 26 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Anton Sobolev, Yale University, “How Pro-Government ‘Trolls’ Influence Online Conversations in Russia”.
April 2 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Stephane Wolton, London School of Economics, “Executive Absolutism: A Model”.
April 16 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Amy Pond, Texas A&M University, paper to be announced. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.
April 23 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- B. Pablo Montagnes, Emory University, paper to be announced.
April 30 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Sam van Noort, Yale University, “TThe Structural Economic Roots of Liberal Democracy”.
May 5 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Sascha Becker, Monash University and University of Warwick, paper to be announced.
Fall 2019
Faculty co-organizers: Gerard Padro i Miquel (Political Science and Economics) and Tyler Pratt (Political Science)