Date

Name of  Speaker

University

Title of Talk (Link to Paper)

September 10

Evan S. Lieberman

Princeton University

Ethnic Politics, Risk Pooling, and Social Status: Explaining Government Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

September 24

Leonard Wantchekon

New York University

Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism? Experimental Evidence from Benin

October 22

Daniel Posner

UCLA

Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods

November 19

Michael Bratton

Michigan State University

Voting in Africa:  Ethnic, Economic, or Strategic?

December 10

Jennifer Widner

Princeton University

Governance Traps