POST-COMMUNIST POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

2006 Comparative Politics Workshop
Duke University, Department of Political Science
April 7-8, 2006

214 Perkins Library, Breedlove Room


List of Participants Abstracts


Friday, April 7

Legacies as Explanatory Concepts for Postcommunist Politics?
Chair: Karen Remmer, Duke University

2:00pm-3:20pm Grigore Pop-Eleches, The Long Arm of the Past: Historical Legacies and Political Development in Eastern Europe
Discussant: Steven Wilkinson

Cristina Corduneanu-Huci and Lenka Siroky, The Black Box of the Past: Postcommunist Governance, Legacies, and Mechanisms
Discussant: Keith Darden

3:20pm-4:40pm Keith Darden, The Great Divide: Pre-Communist Schooling and Post-Communist Trajectories, co-authored with Anna Grzymala-Busse
Discussant: Cristina Corduneanu-Huci

Shale Horowitz, Party Systems and Economic Policy Change in Post-Communist Democracies: Ideological and Institutional Predictors, with Eric Browne
Discussant: Conor O'Dwyer


4:40pm-5:00pm Break


Post-Communist Social Policy: Placing It in the Context of Political-Economic Reform World Wide
Chair: Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University

5:00pm-6:20pm Sarah M. Brooks, Institutional Legacies in Post-Communist Pension Reform
Discussant: Graeme Robertson

Erik Wibbels, The Three Worlds of Developmental Welfare States: Labor, Inequality, and Redistribution
Discussant: Victoria Frolova


7:30pm Dinner at Chamas, Brightleaf Square (conference participants only)


Saturday, April 8

8:00am-9:00am Breakfast in the Breedlove Room (214 Perkins)


Recasting Social Protection in the Post-Communist Region
Chair: Conor O'Dwyer, University of Florida

9:00am-11:00am Christine Lipsmeyer, Beyond Spending. How Politics Affects Welfare Policy Structures in Post-Communist Europe
Discussant: Erik Wibbels

Victoria Frolova, Political Economy of Higher Education. Concepts and Lessons from the Post-Communist Experience
Discussant: Sarah Brooks

Arturas Rozenas, Party Choice, Issue Salience, and Redistribution
Discussant: Scott Gehlbach


Post-communist Political Economy I: Patterns of Diversity in Economic Institutions and Governance Structures
Chair: Timothy Frye, Ohio State University

11:20am-1:00pm Dorothee Bohle and Bela Greskovits, The Variety of Socio-Economic Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
Discussant: Herbert Kitschelt

Conor O'Dwyer, And The Last Shall Be First: Party System Institutionalization and Second-Generation Economic Reform in Postcommunist Europe
Discussant: Arturas Rozenas

1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch Break


Post-Communist Political Economy II: The Development of Credit and Capital Markets
Chair: Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University

2:00pm-3:20pm Damon Palmer, Institution Building, Privatization, and Banking Market Development in the Post-Communist World
Discussant: Edmund Malesky

Sinziana Popa, Not Always Welcome: Regime Type and the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investments
Discussant: Tim Frye


Post-Communist Political Economy III: Public Supply of Collective Goods and Business Strategies:
Taxation, Collective Goods, Credit Market Regulation
Chair: Bela Greskovits, Central European University

3:30pm-5:30pm Edmund Malesky, Where is Credit Due? Legal Institutions, Relationships and the Impact of Bank Lending on Investment Growth in Vietnam
Discussant: Damon Palmer

Scott Gehlbach, The Consequences of Political Action: An Incomplete-Contracts Approach
Discussant: Sinziana Popa

Tim Frye, Reputation and the Rule of Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia
Discussant: Lenka Siroky


7:00pm Dinner at Spice Street (conference participants only)