Society for Comparative Research 2004 Graduate Student Retreat
University of California, San Diego Friday, May 14 and Saturday, May 15, 2004
The Retreat was made possible by a grant from the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at UCSD, funds from the Institute for International Comparative and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD, and organizational support from the Department of Sociology, UCSD.
PROGRAM	Friday  8:50-9:00 Welcome 9:15-11:00 Politics; Space and Politics Coffee Break 11:30-1:15  Nature and Society; Globalization 1 Lunch 2:30-4:15 Globalization 2; Protest, Social Movements and the State	Saturday 9:00-11:00 Transition from a Socialist Economy ; Democracy; Culture Coffee Break 11:30-1:15  State and Inequalities; Ethnicity; Economy and Society Lunch 2:45-4:30 Organizing; Law and Rights
Friday, May 14, 2004 8:50-9:10    ERC Provost Plaza Welcoming Remarks
Bruce Western, President of the Society for Comparative Research Harvey Goldman, Chair of Department of Sociology, UCSD Akos Rona-Tas, Organizer
Friday, May 14, 2004 9:15-11:00    ERC 201 Politics
Tatiana Rizova UCLA Beyond Hegemony: Internal Party Organization of Hegemonic Successor Parties Heather Stoll Stanford Another Endogeneity Problem in Electoral Studies Benjamin Nyblade UCSD The Dynamics of Dominance Presider and Discussant: Gary Cox
Friday, May 14, 2004 9:15-11:00      ERC 115 Space and Politics
Meg Rincker, Washington University in St. Louis. The Local Option: Political Decentralization and Women's Representation Turan Kayaoglu University of Washington Sovereignty, State-Building, and the Abolition of Extraterritoriality Endre Tvinnereim Harvard Democratic Contestation and Citizen Satisfaction in German States Karrie J. Koesel Cornell University Does Democracy Influence the Quality of Life? Presider and Discussant: Matt Shugart
Friday, May 14, 2004 11:00-11:30  ERC Provost Plaza COFFEE BREAK
Friday, May 14, 2004 11:30-1:15    ERC 201 Nature and Society
Caroline Lee UCSD In Between the Commons: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Bowling Shirt Politics of Environmental Decision-Making Matthew Hill University of Chicago 'Revitalizing' Old Havana: Patrimony, Tenement Housing and Overlapping Property Claims Under Late Socialism Bogdan Vasi Cornell University Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Local Actions against Global Climate Change in the US, Canada and Australia Presider and Discussant: Martha Lampland
Friday, May 14, 2004 11:30-1:15    ERC 115 Globalization 1
Luke Dauter Berkeley Buyouts Beyond Borders: Transnational Mergers and Acquisitions and the Globalization Question Sebnem Ozkan Madison More Global Than Ever, As Local As Always: Internationalization and Shop-floor Transformation at Oyak-Renault and Tofas-Fiat in Turkey Dora Piroska Central European University How is the global-state formed? Internalization of global norms by local institutions: Banking sector supervision in Hungary and Slovenia Presider and Discussant: Steph Haggard
Friday, May 14, 2004 1:15-2:30    ERC Provost Plaza LUNCH
Friday, May 14, 2004 2:30-4:15    ERC 201 Globalization 2
Anastassia Gnezditskaia Central European University "Unidentified Shareholders" : the Impact of Petroleum Power Upon the Banking Sector in Russia Vis-a-Vis Other Petrostates Monica Arruda de Almeida UCLA Vested Interests and the Political Economy of Tariff Setting in Brazil Pablo M. Pinto UCSD Foreign Direct Investment, Distributive Concerns, and Domestic Politics Labor and Business Influence, Investment Regimes and Foreign Investment in Argentina Presider and Discussant: Nina Bandelj
Friday, May 14, 2004 2:30-4:15    ERC 115 Protest, Social Movements and the State
Daniel Aldrich    Harvard Excavating the Agile State:  Adaptive State Responses to Contentious Politics Dani Vos Columbia University Social Movements and Citizenship: Comparison of Conscientious Objection Movements in France, the United States and Israel Kurtilus Gemici UCLA Spontaneity in social protest: The April 2001 shopkeeper protests in Turkey Presider and Discussant: Jeff Haydu
Friday, May 14, 2004 7:00pm DINNER Yen's Wok on Pearl 915 Pearl Street La Jolla, CA
SATURDAY
Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:00-11:00   IRPS Dean's Conf. Room Transition from a Socialist Economy
Yumin Sheng Yale Governing Economic Openness: Provincial Level Evidence from China (1977-2002)  Lu Zheng Stanford Entry into the Emerging Private Sector: an Institutional Analysis of Entrepreneurship in Urban China Kenneth McGill University of Chicago An East German Distinction: Understanding Culture and Social Status in Germany’s neue Bundesländer Presider and Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas
Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:00-11:00    ERC 201 Democracy
Barak Hoffman UCSD Hand Outs or Handcuffs: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Democracy Allen McDuffee University of Pennsylvania Democratization as Technology of the Authoritarian State: Lessons from Morocco, Egypt and Jordan Sun-Chul Kim Columbia University Protracted Transition and Popular Contention: South Korean Democratization from a Comparative Perspective Sada Aksartova Princeton Does the Context of Reception Matter?  Comparing U.S. Involvement in Russia and Central Asia Presider and Discussant: Carlos Waisman
Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:00-11:00   SSB 101 Culture
Ericka Albaugh Duke The Colonial Image Reversed: A New Politics of Language in African States Ahmet Kuru University of Washington  Two Types of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey Tammy Smith Columbia University Boundary Stories and the Development of Narrative Differences Nahomi Ichino Stanford Voters and Thugs: Political Tournaments in Nigeria Presider and Discussant: Rick Biernacki
Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:00-11:30    ERC Provost Plaza COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:30-1:15     SSB 101 State and Inequalities
Jeff Timmons UCSD The Fiscal Contract: States, Taxes and Public Services Patricia Ahmed  UCLA Women's Access to Maternity Care in Egypt and India during Structural Adjustment: Does Minority Status Matter? Christian Brunelli Harvard Heaven for a Cop?  Police Organization and Rising Crime in Japan Presider and Discussant: Bruce Western
Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:30-1:15   ERC 201 Ethnicity
Alexander Kolev UCLA Why Bulgaria Remained Peaceful and How This Helps Us Understand Nationalist Conflict in Post-Communist  Eastern Europe Carolina de Miguel University of Michigan Theoretical Explorations to Study Federal Stability Party Systems and Party Competition Christina Maimone Stanford The Estonian Russian Divide: Examining Social Diversity in Estonia with Cross-National Survey Data Presider and Discussant: Paul Frymer
Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:30-1:15    IRPS Dean's Conf. Room Economy and Society
Kyoko Sato Princeton What Are Genetically Modified Foods About?: Comparative Analysis of How Newspapers Frame GM Foods in the United States, France and Japan Simcha Jong Kon Chin  Istituto Universitario Europeo Entrepreneurship and Marketplace Formation in German Biotechnology Katarzyna Iwinska Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw Rational Agency in Sociology and Economy Presider and Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas
Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:15-2:45    ERC Provost Plaza LUNCH
Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:45-4:30    IRPS Dean's Conf. Room Organizing
Neilan Barnes UCSD Structural, Cultural and Social features of a Binational Organizational Community: Binational Collaboration between the US and Mexican HIV/AIDS Sectors Haroon Ullah University of Michigan Perspectives on Shariah, Federalism and Religious associations in Nigeria: An urban case study of Kaduna and the 2000 riots Cecelia Walsh-Russo Columbia University Diffusion and Social Movements: A Review of the Literature Presider and Discussant: Bruce Western
Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:45-4:30    SSB 101 Law and Rights
Henry Dougan Northwestern Securing property rights in land: politics on the land frontier in post-colonial Ghana and Botswana Imke Kruse Max Planck Institute The EU's Policy on Readmission of Illegal Migrants Kerstin Carlson  Berkeley Hearts, Minds and Laws: Russia as Defendant Before the European Court of Human Rights Presider and Discussant: John Skrentny
Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:00pm DINNER India Palace 7514 Girard Ave La Jolla, CA