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Democracy and its Development

2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine

April 29, 2006

Conference Proposals

"Colonial Effects: Women, the Nation and the Iranian Revolution of 1979"
Heather Barahmand, UCR
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"How do we get the institutions right? The conditions for institutional effectiveness"
Cheryl Boudreau and Nicholas Weller, UCSD
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"Political Threats and Reactive Movements: White Supremacist Public Actions in the U.S., 1947-1997"
Steve Boutcher, UCI
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"Do Democracies Outperform Non-democracies in Income Inequality?"
Liang-chih Evans Chen, UC Riverside
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"The cost of Solidarity – A historical analysis of workers’ struggles for democracy during and after state socialism"
Maria Dziembowska, UCLA
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"Where does it Work? An Empirical Analysis of Political Conditionality"
Nikolas Emmanuel, UC Davis
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"Does a Large Number of Parties, and the Type of Electoral System Affect Public Opinion in the 1999-2002 World Values Survey?"
John Ensch, UCI
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"Political Shirking - Proposition 13 vs Proposition 8"
Seiji Fujii, UCI
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"The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): The Future of Islamist Democracy?"
Faisal Ghori, Columbia University
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"Clientelism and War Criminals: What Keeps Serbia from Cooperating with the Hague?"
Keith Jarrett, UCI
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"Impact of Internet on Chinese Authoritarian Rule during SARS and Falun Gong Incidents"
Minna Jia, USC
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"Democratic Support in Post-Communist Europe"
Willy Jou, UCI
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"Untitled"
Reuben Kline, UCI
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"Untitled"
Maryam Komaie, UCI
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"Platform Leadership: Cultivating Support for a Public Profile"
Kelsy Kretschmer, UCI
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"Strong and Weak Institutionalization: The Chilean-Argentine Paradox"
Moira Mackinnon, UCSD
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"Citizenship Policies in the 15 Former Soviet Union Republics: A Quantitative Analysis"
Shushanik Makaryan, Washington State University
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"A City Upon a Hill:Religious Participation, Ideology, and Conservative Political Attitudes in the United States"
Adam Martin, UCI
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"The Origins of Paraguayan Post-Authoritarian Electoral Institutions and Their Effects on Internal Party Organization"
Tatiana Petrova Rizova, UCLA
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Chris Stout, UCI
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"Explaining Variance in State Spending in Public Post-Secondary Education: A Look at Legislature Identification with Target Populations"
Megan Thiele, UCI
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"Estimations of the Incumbency Effects in the US State Legislatures: A Quasi-experimental approach"
Yogesh Uppal, UCI
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"Promoting Democracy without Naming It: International Organizations in China"
Xiangfeng Yang, USC
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