Fourth Annual:

Berkeley PSGSA Graduate Student Conference

8:30 am: Continental Breakfast

9:00 am: Opening Remarks - Pradeep Chhibber

9:15 am:
Panel 1 - International Policymaking and Signaling Theory

Faculty Discussant: Giacomo Chiozza
Allan Dafoe
Observing the Capitalist Peace? A Test of Whether State Leaders Signal Resolve through Capital Markets
Jonathan Hassid, Bart Watson, and Jakub Wrzesniewski
The Benefits of Cost: Politics and Signaling Theory
Boris Barkanov
Constructing the National Interest: Transformations in Russian Foreign Energy Policy Thinking and the Energy Charter Treaty

10:45 am: Coffee Break

11:00 am:
Panel 2 - Market Formation, Ownership Disputes and Lobbying in Comparative Political Economy

Faculty Discussant: Jonah Levy
Regine Spector
Who Owns the Marketplace? Conflict over Property in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
Marcy McCullaugh
Regional Variation in Russia's Health Insurance System
Neal Richardson
The Politics of Abundance: The State and the Modern Agricultural Export Boom in South America
Lee Drutman
The Business of America is…Lobbying?

12:45 pm: Lunch

1:45 pm:
Panel 3 - Gender, Social Identity and the 'Concept' in Political Theory

Faculty Discussant: Mark Bevir
Asaf Kedar Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Concept and its Relation to his Concept of the Political
Toby Reiner
Marx on Gender and the Family
Tacuma Peters
The Effacement of the Political: Science and Politics in the Leviathan
Nina Kelsey
Aid, Image, and Attraction: A Social Identity Framework for Public Diplomacy

3:30 pm: Coffee Break

3:45 pm:
Panel 4 - Influencing Electoral Outcomes: the Role of Ideology, Race and Drug Militias

Faculty Discussant: Jason Wittenberg
Danielle Lussier
The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs in Postcommunist Russian Political Space
Danny Hidalgo and Ben Lessing
Politics in the Shadow of the Drug War: Does Parallel Power Affect Electoral Outcomes?
Devin Caughey
Responding to the Roosevelt Reconstruction: The South, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal Coalition

5:30 pm: Reception