2024 Spring Schedule

• VWAR 89 (January 18) - Ting Luo (Manchester Metropolitan University), Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School of Governance), and Pierre Landry (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Social Context and Support for Authoritarian Surveillance: Evidence from a Geo-Spatial Multilevel Probability Sample of Chinese Adults"
• Discussants: Martin Dimitrov (Tulane University), Jeremy Wallace (Cornell University), and Xu Xu (Princeton University)
• VWAR 90 (January 31) - Daniel Tavana (Penn State University), "Ideology, Constraint, and Support for Authoritarian Rule"
• Discussants: Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Sabri Ciftci (Kansas State University), and Mirjam Künkler (Princeton University)
• VWAR 91 (February 14) - Ji Yeon Hong (University of Michigan) and Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College), "Repression in China, Money from China, and Attitudes toward China"
• Discussants: Brett Carter (University of Southern California), Lucie Lu (University of Southern California), and Jordi Muñoz (University of Barcelona)
• VWAR 92 (February 16) - Killian Clarke (Georgetown University), Anne Meng (University of Virginia), and Jack Paine (Emory University), "Violent Origins and Authoritarian Order: Divergent Trajectories after Successful Rebellions"
• Discussants: Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford), Paul Staniland (University of Chicago), and Megan Stewart (University of Michigan)
• VWAR 93 (March 6) - Erik H. Wang (New York University), "How (not) to Solve the Guardianship Dilemma: Counterbalancing and the Consequences of Military Control in Medieval China"
• Discussants: Erica De Bruin (Hamilton College), Kevin Koehler (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa), and Kevin Luo (University of Minnesota)
• VWAR 94 (March 20) - Alper Yagçi (Boğaziçi University), Cemalettin Yılmaz, and Uzay Çetin (Boğaziçi University), "Rival or Enemy? Incumbent Discourse towards Opposition during Democratic Backsliding"
• Discussants: Carlo Horz (Texas A&M University), Yunus Orhan (North Dakota State University), and Anton Shirikov (Columbia University)
• VWAR 95 (April 10) - Carl Henrik Knutsen (University of Oslo) and Jacob Nyrup (University of Oslo), "Coalition Diversity and Economic Growth"
• Discussants: TBD
• VWAR 96 (April 24) - Jun Koga Sudduth (Indiana University), "Elite Purges and the Consolidation of Power in Dictatorships"
• Discussants: TBD