PIPE Workshop featuring Katherine Levine Einstein
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Local Political Economy Symposium
VirtualThe Local Political Economy Symposium at USC brings together nationally renowned scholars who study the most pressing political-economic issues at the local level — from compensation of public employees, to municipal bankruptcy, to criminal justice reform.
PIPE Workshop: Chad Kendall (Political Parties as Drivers of US Polarization)
VirtualThe current polarization of elites in the U.S., particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones. Politicians, however, do not operate as isolated agents, driven solely by their preferences. They act within organized parties, whose leaders exert control over the Read more…
PIPE Workshop featuring Wallsten & VanSickel-Ward
Rachel Van Sickle-Ward, Professor of Political Studies at Claremont University, along with Kevin Wallsten, Associate Professor of Political Science at CSULB, will present their research. Register for link to join the Zoom Webinar.
PIPE* Workshop: Trevon Logan, Ohio State
Competition and Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Evidence from the Green Books, presented by Trevon Logan (OSU)
PIPE* Workshop: Miguel Pereira, USC Dornsife
Miguel Pereira, Assistant Professor of Political Science at USC Dornsife, will present research: The Expertise Curse: How Policy Expertise Can Hinder Responsiveness.
PIPE* Workshop: Thomas Gray, UT-Dallas
Thomas Gray, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Texas at Dallas, will present research.
Slavery & Its Legacies Symposium
Slavery, as an institution, traces its origins back to Mesopotamia in 3500 B.C. Slavery was abolished by most nations sometime in the 19th century. Slavery’s effects, however, persisted in many nations for decades — and still persist in various forms today. The Slavery and Its Legacies Symposium examines this historical persistence of institutionalized slavery, both in the United States and in other nations.
PIPE* Workshop: Christina Kinane, Yale
Christina Kinane, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale, will present research
PIPE* Workshop: Volha Charnysh, MIT
Volha Charnysh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT, will present Dispute Resolution in Heterogenous Societies.
PIPE Workshop: Zhao Li, Princeton
Zhao Li, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, studies American politics and political economy with a focus on campaign finance in the United States. In particular, her research examines both institutional and behavioral factors that motivate campaign donors to give money to different types of recipients (candidates, interest groups, etc.), as well as the implications of these donations for different aspects of democratic representation in the U.S., including corporate political strategy, political extremism, and electoral accountability.
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PIPE Workshop: Jake Grumbach, University of Washington
VirtualLaboratories of Democratic Backsliding Using 61 indicators of democratic performance from 2000 to 2018, we develop a measure of subnational democratic performance, the State Democracy Index. We use this measure to test theories of democratic expansion and backsliding based in party competition, polarization, demographic change, and the group interests of Read more…
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PIPE Workshop: Leticia Arroyo Abad & Noel Maurer
VirtualWhat Have the Americans Ever Done for Us? Lessons from the United States in Latin America, 1895-1929 The United States spent 20 years in Afghanistan attempting to achieve two interrelated aims: reduce the level of political instability and build Afghan state capacity. It partially succeeded in the first: the Afghan Read more…
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PIPE Workshop: Emily Sellars, Yale
VirtualFiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico We examine how fiscal legibility, the ability of a central government to observe local economic conditions for the purposes of taxation, shapes political centralization. When a ruler is unable to observe economic conditions, it can be preferable to grant Read more…
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PIPE Workshop: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford
VirtualTilly goes to Church: the Medieval and Religious Roots of European State Formation Medieval religious rivalry fundamentally shaped European state formation. The single most powerful challenger to kings and emperors in the Middle Ages was the Catholic Church. To protect its interests and ensure its autonomy, the papacy deliberately fragmented Read more…
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