14 June
Transparency for Authoritarian Stability: Open Government Information and Contention with Institutions in China
Presenter: Handi Li – Emory University
Discussants: Edmund Malesky (Duke), Dimitar D. Gueorguiev (Syracuse University)
31 May
Anti-Colonial Environmentalism: Internal Colonisation and the Struggle for Land in Post-Soviet Russia
Presenter: Maria Chiara Franceschelli – Scuola Normale Superiore
Discussants: Tamar Koplatadze (Queen Mary, London), Allison Evans (University of Nevada, Reno)
17 May
Elite Volatility in Two Different Types of Military Dictatorship: An Individual Level Quantitative Analysis of South Korean Elite (1961-1988)
Presenter: Taekbin Kim – Seoul National University
Discussants: Jun Koga Sudduth (University of Strathclyde), Edward Goldring (University of York)
3 May
Teachers as State-Builders: Public Education and Land Reform in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Presenter: Manuel Cabal – University of Chicago
Discussants: Francisco Cantu (University of Houston), Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University), Emily Sellars (Yale)
Authoritarian Political Systems Group 