Call for Papers
The 2019 Workshop on Comparative Political Selection
Student Session
June 4-5, 2019
National School of Development, Peking University
Beijing, China
Political selection and political leadership has become an increasingly important topic in the literatures of political science and economics in the past decades. The developed and developing countries face the same problem of how to select competent leaders and ensure their incentives to serve the public interests. The Third International Workshop on Comparative Political Selection will host scholars in political science and economics to present papers on a variety of topics, including the mechanisms of political meritocracy, populism, accountability, political competition in authoritarianism, non-electoral motives of politicians, and democratic backsliding. This year, we will organize a special session for graduate students to present their in-progress research projects broadly related to political selection. We welcome manuscripts from all topics, methodologies, and area focus. The accepted manuscripts will be presented and discussed by senior scholars at the workshop.
Participating scholars:
Jose Cheibub, Texas A&M University
Heng Chen, Hong Kong University
Justin Fox, Washington University in St. Louis
Pierre Landry, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhaotian Luo, University of Chicago
Melanie Manion, Duke University
Edmund Malesky, Duke University
Adam Przeworski, New York University
Tianyang Xi, Peking University
Sherry Xue Qiao, Tsinghua University
Victor Shih, University of California, San Diego
Milan Svolik, Yale University
Yao Yang, Peking University
Submission guidelines:
The workshop considers manuscripts authored and coauthored by graduate students only. Applicants should send one manuscript and Curriculum vitae by Email to tyxi@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Important dates:
Manuscripts submission deadline: May 1, 2019
Decision notification: May 5, 2019
Funds: The National School of Development will provide a lump-sum travel fund of 500 dollars for each participating student (one presenter for each accepted paper).