30 September 2020 Stefan Müller (UCD) Title: Multimodal Determinants of Voter Impression Formation of Female Political Candidates During Televised Debates
7 October 2020 Kieran Mitton (KCL) Title: ‘A Game of Pain’: Youth Marginalisation and the Gangs of Freetown
14 October 2020 Ana Catalano Weeks (Bath) Title: When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation
21 October 2020 Cancelled
28 October 2020 Saad Gulzar (Stanford) Title: Political Quotas and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas
11 November 2020 Chris Wratil (UCL) Title: From Rhetoric to Voting: Government Responsiveness in International Negotiations
18 November 2020 Mathilde Emeriau (LSE) Title: Shipwrecks, Terrorist Attacks and Asylum Decisions in France
25 November 2020 Sarah Brierley (LSE) Title: Manipulating Leviathan: Public Service Delivery, Corruption, and Bureaucratic Co-optation in Ghana
2 December 2020 Omar Wasow (Princeton) Title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting
9 December 2020 Reed Wood (Essex) Title: Disease and Dissent: Epidemics as a Catalyst for Social Unrest
13 January 2021 Anna Oltman (UCL) Title: Protection and Evasion: Refugee Status Determination and Immigration Deterrence
20 January 2021 Sabine Otto (Uppsala) Title: What Do Peacekeepers Do, Really? A Research Note About Activities in UN Peacekeeping
27 January 2021 Jennifer Pan (Stanford) Title: Online Criticism and Support for the Chinese Government in the Early Days of COVID-19
3 February 2021 Johannes Lindvall (Lund) Title: The Changing Faces of the Modern State
10 February 2021 Daniela Donno (Cyprus) Title: International Incentives for Women’s Rights in Dictatorships
17 February 2021 Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook) Title: No-Blame Republicans and No-Credit Democrats: Does Partisanship Trump Accountability in Handling COVID-19?
24 February 2021 Inken von Borzyskowski (UCL) Title: When is it “Okay” to Leave? U.S. Public Opinion Toward Withdrawal from International Organizations
3 March 2021 Nita Rudra (Georgetown) Title: Trade as Villain: The Fading American Dream and Declining Support for Globalization
10 March 2021 Silja Häusermann (Zurich) Title: Old Left, New Left, Centrist or Left Nationalist? Determinants of Support for Different Social Democratic Programmatic Strategies
17 March 2021 Judith Spirig (UCL) Title: Media Take-Over and Voting Behavior: Can Politician-Owned Newspapers Sway Voters?
28 April 2021 Sarah Khan (Yale) Title: Count Me Out: Women’s Unexpressed Preferences in Pakistan
5 May 2021 Amelia Hoover Green (Drexel) Title: Armed Organizations in Cross-National Perspective: A New Approach
12 May 2021 Martin Bisgaard (Aarhus) Title: The Politics of Self-Interest
19 May 2021 Anastasia Shesterinina (Sheffield) Title: Civil War Paths: Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages
26 May 2021 Noam Gidron (Hebrew University) Title: Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies
2 June 2021 Carl Dahlström (Gothenburg) Title: TBC
9 June 2021 Diana O’Brien (Rice) Title: TBC
2019/2020 Academic Year
2 October 2019 Kate Cronin-Furman (UCL) Title: The Things They Carry: Victims’ Documentation of Forced Disappearance in Colombia and Sri Lanka
9 October 2019 Claudio Radaelli (UCL) Title: Consultation and Corruption: An Empirical Exploration of the Causal Relations in the EU 28
16 October 2019 Anita Gohdes (Hertie School of Governance) Title: Women Combatants and the Politics of Gender-Selective Killings in the Syrian Conflict
23 October 2019 Jane Green (Oxford) Title: Majority Expectations and Support for Minor Parties
30 October 2019 Darin Christiansen (UCLA) Title: How does Violence Shape Mining Investment?
13 November 2019 George Ofosu (LSE) Title: Under what Conditions do Voters Cross the Party Line?
20 November 2019 Michael Findley (University of Texas at Austin) Title: Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict
27 November 2019 Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca (University of Madrid) Title: The Scope Conditions of the Relationship between Modernization and Democracy
4 December 2019 Cancelled
11 December 2019 Ellen Lust (University of Gothenbug) Title: Poverty and Clientelism: Do the Poor Embrace Handouts?
15 January 2020 Arturas Rozenas (NYU) Title: State-Controlled Media and Government Evaluation: A Theory and Experimental Design
22 January 2020 David Fortunato (Texas A&M) Title: Studying Voters’ Perceptions of Party Brands: Theory, Data, and Strategy
29 January 2020 Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow) Title: Political Habit Formation under Democratic and Authoritarian Elections
5 February 2020 Lauren Young (UC Davis) Title: Repression and Dissent Around a Potential Critical Juncture: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe’s 2018 Election
26 February 2020 Francesca Jensenius (University of Oslo) Title: Party System Institutionalization and Economic Voting: Evidence from India
4 March 2020 Cancelled
11 March 2020 Cancelled
18 March 2020 Cancelled
25 March 2020 Cancelled
6 May 2020 Christel Koop (KCL) Title: Democracy, policy complexity and the politics of competition policy in the Global South
13 May 2020 Christina Zuber (Konstanz) Title: The Promise of Status-Improvement: How Nationalists Attract Working-Class Votes
27 June 2020 Ben Lauderdale (UCL) Title: The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric
10 June 2020 Sara Hobolt (LSE) Title: Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments
24 June 2020 Jonathan Weigel (LSE) Title: Local Elites as Tax Collectors: Experimental Evidence from the DRC