12: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries

Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University, mh2245@columbia.edu

We invite all proposals in the field of comparative politics of developing countries and welcome especially integrated panel proposals that address this year's theme of politics in hard times. Papers and panels related to the conference theme could examine the political effects of global crises on policy choices and political structures, on relations between developing and developed areas, on income distributions and social cleavages, and on patterns of contestation and violence. We welcome especially panels and papers that employ innovative data and methods that can identify causal relations; mixed methods and cross-disciplinary work are also encouraged.