Introduction
Each semester, the Comparative Politics Subfield within Cornell University's Government Department organizes an in-house workshop with faculty and graduate students. During each workshops, a mix of faculty and graduate student papers are shared and discussed. The purpose of this workshop is to hear about each other's work, provide constructive comments on papers and preliminary research designs, and to learn from one another. Graduate students develop a better understanding of faculty research and about the paper-editing process. Faculty learn about innovative graduate student research. The workshops are usually held in December and May.
Spring 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026
Location: 104 White Hall
9:00-9:45am: It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Detecting Preference Falsification in Authoritarian Public Opinion with Audio Data, Georgy Tarasenko
Discussants: Alex Blackman and Greta Schenke
Chair: Ken Roberts
9:45-10:30am: Ethical Distance May Diminish Democratic Attitudes in Advanced Democracies, Mujahed Islam
Discussants: Ken Roberts and Georgy Tarasenko
Chair: Taylor Vincent
10:30-11:15am: Correcting Misperceived Gender Norms, Research Design, Alex Blackman
Discussants: Mujahed Islam and Angela Kothe
Chair: Ellen Lust
11:15am-12:00pm: Women’s Political Ambition and Candidate Selection in Subnational Executive Offices: Pathways to Vice-Gubernatorial Candidacies in Peru, María Belén Elías-Pineda
Discussants: Ellen Lust and Dayra Lascano
Chair: Sarah Thompson
12:00-12:45pm: Lunch Break
12:45-1:30pm: Community-Level Treatment of Sexual Violence in Postwar Liberia, Taylor Vincent
Discussants: Sarah Thompson and María Belén Elías-Pineda
Chair: Georgy Tarasenko
1:30-2:15pm: Weaponized Regionalism? Geoeconomic Rivalry and Overlapping Organizations in Latin America and Southeast Asia, Dayra Lascano
Discussants: Tom Pepinsky and Taylor Vincent
Chair: Isabel Perera
2:15-2:30pm: Coffee Break
2:30-3:15pm: An Electoral Connection? How Electoral Mandates Shape Parliamentary Speechmaking Behavior, Greta Schenke
Discussants: Isabel Perera and Mateo Garcia
Chair: Tom Pepinsky
3:15-4:00pm: Improving Police Service Delivery: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a Fragile Context, Sarah Thompson
Discussants: Bryn Rosenfeld and Izza Malik
Chair: Alex Blackman
Social Hour
Past Workshop Schedules
The archives can be found here.