MPSA

14-13 International Political Economy in East and
Southeast Asia
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Chien-Kai Chen, Rhodes College
chenc@rhodes.edu
3:05 Strategic Twist: China's "One Belt One Road" vs.
Taiwan's "New Southbound Policy"
Yi-hung Chiou, National Chiao Tung University,
Taiwan
astrophia@gmail.com
3:18 Empirical Analyses on Political Economy of
Transparency in ASEAN
Sang-Hwan Lee*, Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies
leepol@hufs.ac.kr
Jangho Kim*
jangho@hufs.ac.kr
3:31 The Cold War and the Origins of the
Developmental State
James Lee, Princeton University
jl18@princeton.edu
3:44 A Synthetic Approach of Structural Power in
International Relations: Structural Factors as a
Driver Behind Free Trade Agreements
Andrej Pustovitovskij*, Center for Global Studies,
Bonn
apust@uni-bonn.de
3:57 Disc., Chien-Kai Chen, Rhodes College
chenc@rhodes.edu
Disc., Yangmo Ku, Norwich University
yku@norwich.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
15-10 Negotiating Political Institutions in Africa
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Natalie Wenzell Letsa, Cornell University
njw57@cornell.edu
3:05 Legislator Turnover and Political Accountability
in Africa
Shana Warren, New York University
shana.warren@nyu.edu
3:18 Devolution and Altered Patterns of Electoral
Violence: Theory and Evidence from Kenya
Aditi Malik, California State University-San Marcos
aditi.malik87@gmail.com
3:31 Landlord or Land Patron?: The Politics of Land
Security in Multi-Party Kenya
Kathleen Klaus, Northwestern University
kathleen.klaus@northwestern.edu
3:44 Endogenous Decentralization? The Politics of
Subnational Boundary Creation
Martha Wilfahrt, Northwestern University
martha.wilfahrt@northwestern.edu
3:57 Disc., Elizabeth Sperber, University of Denver
elizabeth.sperber@gmail.com
Disc., Erin Accampo Hern, The College of Idaho
erin.hern@gmail.com
4:10 Audience Discussion
17-6 Parties and Elections
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Jing Chen, Hartwick College
jingcjessem@gmail.com
3:05 Party Blight?: Explaining Persistence and Demise
of Agrarian Parties in East Central Europe
Aleksandra Sznajder Lee, University of Richmond
asznajde@richmond.edu
3:18 The Left Parties Choices and The Emergence of
The Far Right
Maria Snegovaya, Columbia University in the City
of New York
snegovaya@gmail.com
3:31 Strong Parties but Weak States: Aid and Resource
Wealth in the Durability of Asian Communism
Christopher Richard Heurlin, Bowdoin College
cheurlin@bowdoin.edu
3:44 How Dangerous is Bad Leadership?: A
Comparative Analysis of the Relationship
Between Leadership, Regime Types and
Governance in Selected Countries of Eastern
Europe
Nicolas Hayoz, University of Fribourg
nicolas.hayoz@unifr.ch
Vedran Dzihic, Austrian Institute for International
Affairs
vedran.dzihic@univie.ac.at
3:57 Disc., Nicolas Hayoz, University of Fribourg
nicolas.hayoz@unifr.ch
Disc., Aaron S. Erlich, McGill University
aaron.erlich@mcgill.ca
4:10 Audience Discussion
18-7 The Comparative Political Economy of
Institutions
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Isa Camyar, St Francis College
icamyar@sas.upenn.edu
3:05 Explaining De-Liberalisation in Developed
Market Economies
Anna M. Fill, University of Bern
anna.fill@ipw.unibe.ch
3:15 Four Paths to Fiscal Rules: The Diverse Political
Origins of Fiscal Rules Across the World
Pascal Doray-Demers, University of British
Columbia
pascal.doray-demers@alumni.ubc.ca
3:26 Law, Chinese Style
Lizhi Liu, Stanford University
lizhiliu@stanford.edu
Barry Weingast*, Stanford University
Weingast@stanford.edu
3:37 The Redistributory Effects of Constitutional
Courts in Latin America
Thomas Ricardo Vargas, University of Minnesota-
Twin Cities
trv@georgetown.edu
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