2017—18 Schedule

Find below our schedule for the 2017—18 academic year.

• VWAR 11 (September 20) - Inken von Borzyskowski (Florida State University), "Trust Us: Technical Election Assistance and Post-Election Violence."
• Discussants: S.P. Harish (College of William and Mary), Mai Hassan (University of Michigan), Aditi Malik (College of the Holy Cross)
• VWAR 12 (October 4) - Volha Charnysh (Princeton University) and Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University), "Past Experience with Elections and Democratic Stability: Voting in Imperial and Weimar Germany."
• Discussants: Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham), George Ofosu (Washington University), Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)
• VWAR 13 (October 18) - Paul Schuler (University of Arizona) and Chad Westerland (University of Arizona), "Authoritarian Legislatures and Property Rights Protection: Revisiting the Rubber Stamp Thesis with Bayesian Qualitative Analysis."
• Discussants: Quintin Beazer (Florida State University), Eric C. C. Chang (Michigan State University), Nathan M. Jensen (University of Texas, Austin), Matthew Charles Wilson (West Virginia University)
• VWAR 14 (November 1) - Yonatan Lupu (George Washington University) and Tiberiu Dragu (New York University), "Does Technology Undermine Authoritarian Regimes?"
• Discussants: Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Andrew Little (University of California, Berkeley), David A. Siegel (Duke University), and Milan Svolik (Yale University)
• VWAR 15 (November 15) - Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham), Johannes Gerschewski (Humboldt University Berlin), Roman-Gabriel Olar (University of Essex), "Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies: How Dictators Win the Hearts and Minds of Citizens?"
• Discussants: Jonathan Hanson (University of Michigan), Carl Henrik Knutsen (University of Oslo), and Nikolay Marinov (University of Mannheim)
• VWAR 16 (November 29) - Wonjun Song (Pennsylvania State University), "Dictators, Personalized Security Forces, and Coups."
• Discussants: Barbara Piotrowska (University of Oxford), Espen Geelmuyden Rød (Uppsala University), and Tore Wig (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
• VWAR 17 (January 17) - Yuhua Wang (Harvard University), "Historical Institution, Social Esteem, and Bureaucratic Capacity in China."
• Discussants: Vicky Fouka (Stanford University), Xiaobo Lü (University of Texas at Austin), Daniel Mattingly (Yale University), and Susan H. Whiting (University of Washington)
• VWAR 18 (January 31) - Christopher Sullivan (Louisiana State University), "Naming, Shaming, and Taming Human Rights Abuse in Severely Repressive Regimes."
• Discussants: M. Rodwan Abouharb (University College London), Sam R. Bell (Kansas State University), Courtney Hillebrecht (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and Amanda Murdie (University of Georgia)
• VWAR 19 (February 14) - Xiaobo Lü (University of Texas at Austin), "Local Governance and Political Support: Evidence from a List Experiment in China."
• Discussants: Hanzhang Liu (Columbia University), Jennifer Pan (Stanford University), Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), and Jason Wu (University of California, San Diego)
• VWAR 20 (March 21) - Jason Brownlee (University of Texas at Austin), "Smart People, Dumb War: America’s Intervention in Iraq."
• Discussants: Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M University), Jean Lachapelle (University of Michigan), Lindsey A. O'Rourke (Boston College), and Michael Poznansky (University of Pittsburgh)
• VWAR 21 (April 11) - Martin K. Dimitrov (Tulane University), Excerpts from Book Project.
• Discussants: Jennifer Gandhi (Emory University), Mark Kramer (Harvard University), Edmund Malesky (Duke University)
• VWAR 22 (April 18) - Henry Thomson (Arizona State University), "Repression and Opposition under Electoral Authoritarianism: The Growth of the German Social Democratic Party."
• Discussants: Volha Charnysh (Princeton University), Carlo Horz (Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse), Cathrin Mohr (University of Munich)