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Department of Political Science Seminar SeriesDepartment of Political Science Seminar Series Presents Michael Ross – “Oil and Unbalanced Globalization”
Department of Political Science Seminar Series Presents Melani Cammett – ”Welfare and Politics in the Middle East”
Seminar Series: James Mahoney – Colonialism and Development in Spanish America – CANCELLED
The Department of Political Science presents:James MahoneyColonialism and Development in Spanish AmericaDate: Friday, April 13, 2012
James Mahoney is a comparative-historical researcher with interests in socioeconomic development, political regimes, and methodology. His most recent books are Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (2010) and Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (2010; co-edited with Kathleen Thelen). He is also the author of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (2001) and co-editor of Comparative-Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (2003; with Dietrich Rueschemeyer). His article publications feature work on political and socioeconomic development in Latin America, path dependence in historical sociology, and causal inference in small-N analysis. Mahoney is a past President of the APSA Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, and he is Chair of the ASA Section for Comparative and Historical Sociology.
Seminar Series: Harald Bathelt – Learning, Knowledge Generation and Space in the Relational Economy
The Department of Political Science presents:Harald BatheltLearning, Knowledge Generation and Space in the Relational EconomyDate: Friday, March 30, 2012 Reception (3:30 – 5:00 p.m.) to follow in SSH 3037
How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, and competition on the organization of production, and how do these effects vary between communities, regions, and nations? This book synthesizes theories from across the social sciences with empirical research and case studies in order to answer these questions and to demonstrate how people and firms organize economic action and interaction across local, national, and global flows of knowledge and innovation. It is structured in four clear parts: - Part I: Foundations of Relational Thinking The book employs a novel relational framework, which recognizes values, interpretative frameworks, and decision-making practices as subject to the contextuality of the social institutions that characterize the relationships between the human agents. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students across the social sciences, and practitioners in clusters policy.
Seminar Series: Lawrence LeDuc – Dynasties and Interludes: Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics
The Department of Political Science presents:Lawrence LeducDynasties and Interludes: Past and Present in Canadian Electoral PoliticsDate: Friday, March 23, 2012 Reception (3:30 – 5:00 p.m.) to follow in SSH 3037
Dynasties and Interludes provides a comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the recent spate of minority governments. Its principal argument is that the Canadian political landscape has consisted of long periods of hegemony of a single party and/or leader (dynasties), punctuated by short, sharp disruptions brought about by the sudden rise of new parties, leaders, or social movements (interludes). Changes in the composition of the electorate and in the technology and professionalization of election campaigns are also examined in this book, both to provide a better understanding of key turning points in Canadian history and a deeper interpretation of present-day electoral politics.
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