11: Comparative Politics

Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester, hlmk@mail.rochester.edu
John Gerring, Boston University, jgerring@bu.edu

The Comparative Politics section welcomes papers and panels on a broad range of substantive topics, including the study of democracy and dictatorship, accountability and representation, civil war, comparative political institutions (political parties, party systems, electoral rules, legislatures, courts, and central banks, etc.), political behavior (participation, voting, and social movements), and comparative political economy. Given this year’s theme, “The Politics of Hard Times,” we especially welcome papers that focus on the comparative political consequences of economic strife. We are also interested in soliciting papers that interpret the mandate of ‘comparative politics’ in new ways, i.e., that step outside the traditional canon of established subjects. We encourage papers from a variety of methodological perspectives.