*Monday, September 17*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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//Organizational Meeting/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
This workshop brings together graduate students, post-docs, and area
faculty to discuss new work related to politics and economics in the
post-communist (and communist) countries of Eastern Europe, the former
Soviet Union, and Asia. In 2007-2008 the workshop is being chaired by
Gerald Easter <mailto:easterg@bc.edu> (of Boston College), Dmitry
Gorenburg <mailto:gorenburg@gmail.com> (of Harvard University and AAASS)
and Pauline Luong (of Brown University).
The regime changes and economic transformations underway in the
socialist and post-socialist world have provided a unique natural
experiment for many of the existing theories of political science and
economics. The workshop has forged an explicit link between the
theoretical literature on institutions, transitions, economic reform,
and democratization and evidence from the post-communist cases. Workshop
participants have presented both theoretical propositions and empirical
findings, permitting critical reevaluation of theories and analytical
treatment of data.
In order to support the workshop's emphasis on substantive discussions
of new scholarly work, all presenters submit a written paper, and all
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the
meeting. At the meeting, the presenter briefly summarizes the paper and
participants offer comments on the written work. In addition, all
presenters are expected to commit to attending all workshop sessions.
All meetings will be from 12:15 to 2:00 pm, at the Davis Center
<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/>, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S354.
Lunch will be available beginning at 12:15 and discussion of papers will
start promptly at 12:30. See the schedule
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/Schedule.html> for dates and
specific presentation information. If you would like further
information or would like to be included on our e-mail list for future
announcements of scheduled meetings please contact Gavril Bilev
(gavril_bilev(a)brown.edu).
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