Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. A lecture by Diana Kapiszewski, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Location: Room C103, Hesburgh Center
Analytic iteration – cycling among collecting data, analyzing data, and refining critical aspects of research design – is central to all types of fieldwork-based empirical inquiry in social science, from field experiments to ethnography, and across the epistemological spectrum.
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A Ford Seminar with Kellogg Faculty Fellows Jaimie Bleck and A. Nilesh Fernando.
The Ford Program Research Seminar meets monthly, providing faculty members doing research supported by or related to the Ford Program’s mission the chance to share their work, whether in early, middle or late stages of development. It is an opportunity for colleagues to come together in a friendly atmosphere to offer constructive feedback and perhaps come away with some new ideas for our own human development/human dignity-related research. The Seminar hopes to build intellectual community around the Ford Program’s mission of conducting research that promises to deepen our understanding of human dignity and enhance the effectiveness of efforts to promote integral human development. …
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Professor Steven Pincus is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History at the University of Chicago. He specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and European history.
In his talk on the Irish Revolution of 1782, Professor Pincus will contextualize the events of that year within the context of the Age of Revolutions. One focus will be the social, cultural, and ideological similarities between Ireland and America at this time, and why Americans severed ties with the British Empire while the Irish did not.
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Peter McQuillan, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature, will deliver the annual Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture, a signature event in the Institute's academic year. The title of his lecture is: "Remarks on the History of Social and Political Concepts in Irish."
The lecture honors the memory of Breandán Ó Buachalla (1936-2010), who was the inaugural Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O'Donnell Chair of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame and was instrumental to the success of both the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Department of Irish Language and Literature.
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Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. A lecture by Melani Cammett.
What is the relationship between clientelism and “identity politics” in driving political behavior in developing countries, particularly where patronage structures political life and identity-based cleavages are politicized? This talk will address questions including: Does clientelism “buy” support? Do shared ethnic or religious identities between candidates and voters garner political support, or do they serve as cues for potential access to more clientelist benefits? Cammett’s talk is based on a survey experiment in Lebanon, conducted with Dominika Kruszewska of Harvard University and Sami Atallah of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, aimed at testing the relative influence of clientelism and religion on citizen political behavior.
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Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. If you are a freshman interested in applying to the Kellogg International Scholars Program, or a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute or the Keough School of Global Affairs interested in working with the program, this event is for you! Come learn about the research current International Scholars are doing with their faculty advisers. Then attend the reception to get your questions answered and network with students and faculty.…
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Engaging with Empathy: a preferential option for the poor in development
The poor, according to Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, consist of individuals who are deprived of basic freedoms such as education, political power, and other capabilities that allow individuals to achieve full lives that they have reason to value. This approach broadens the definition of poverty beyond traditional terms of financial power to recognize a multitude of “unfreedoms” which hinder upward movement in society. Historically, marginalized individuals most affected by policy changes are often ignored in the decision-making process in the development arena. This creates dire consequences: from lack of acceptance and implementation of new initiatives at the grassroots level to the inability of locals to adapt and scale programs according to their own community’s specific needs.…
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Engaging with Empathy: a preferential option for the poor in development
The poor, according to Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, consist of individuals who are deprived of basic freedoms such as education, political power, and other capabilities that allow individuals to achieve full lives that they have reason to value. This approach broadens the definition of poverty beyond traditional terms of financial power to recognize a multitude of “unfreedoms” which hinder upward movement in society. Historically, marginalized individuals most affected by policy changes are often ignored in the decision-making process in the development arena. This creates dire consequences: from lack of acceptance and implementation of new initiatives at the grassroots level to the inability of locals to adapt and scale programs according to their own community’s specific needs.…
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Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. A World Politics Series lecture by Allen Hicken.
The literature on party and party system institutionalization focuses on party institutionalization as a function of democratic factors. But more than half of authoritarian regimes from 1950 to 2006 had at least one political party. Hicken, drawing on a paper co-authored with Darin Self of Cornell University, investigates the extent to which the institutional environment under authoritarian rule shapes party competition and institutionalization after a democratic transition.…
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