WORKSHOP

Unless otherwise noted, all CHSS workshop meetings are held on Friday from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Center for International and Comparative Studies.  Snacks and beverages are provided.

CURRENT QUARTER (Winter 2008)

Graduate Student Presentations:

Friday February 1,2008

Andrew Kelly
The Sources of Radicalism and Reformism in Socialist Parties


Jesse Dillon Savage
The Persistence and Breakdown of International Hierarchy




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FALL 2007

This Friday, November 2, at 3 pm, the Comparative Historical Social Science Program will hold its "proposal roundtable" for students interested in preparing dissertation funding proposals. We will discuss some general issues regarding the writing of funding proposals, and CHSS students will present abbreviated versions of their proposals for (constructive!) discussion. Sebastian Karcher, Salvador Vazquez, David Steinberg, and possibly others will present their proposals. We will e-mail you a one-page abstract of their proposals, so you can read them before you come to the meeting.

As usual, fine food and beverages (including those that make you talkative) will be available for all.

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THE WORKSHOP OF
THE PROGRAM IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
invites you to attend our
INTRODUCTORY MEETING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 3:00-4:30 pm,
Seminar room, Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, 1902 Sheridan Road

We'll introduce the program, and discuss ideas for the upcoming year's programming. 

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Ed Gibson or Ann Orloff, this year's co-directors of the program:
egibson@northwestern.edu
a-orloff@northwestern.edu

Spring 2007


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Program in Comparative Historical Science Workshop :: Fri 04/06 : 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Graduate Student Presentations

LABOR CONTROL INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A CHILEAN CASE STUDY
P. Larkin Terrie
Graduate Student, Department of Political Science

BUREAUCRATIC SUBCULTURES
Erin Metz McDonnell
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology

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Program in Comparative Historical Science Workshop:: Fri 04/13 : (please note the time) 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Daniel Carpenter, Department of Government, Center for Government and International Studies,
Harvard University
"The Governance of Medical Research: Regulation by Satellite, the Politics of Cancer Treatment, and the Guidance Document"

Download Papers :

Daniel Carpenter Paper I

Daniel Carpenter Paper II

Daniel Carpenter, Professor of Government and, Director of the Center for American Political Studies Daniel Carpenter grew up in Elk Rapids, Michigan (where there are neither elk nor rapids), and graduated from Georgetown University in 1989 with distinction in Honors Government. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago in 1996. He taught as Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University from 1996 to 1998, and from 1998 to 2000 was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy in residence at the University of Michigan. He joined the Harvard University faculty in 2002 and became director of the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) in July 2006.

Dr. Carpenter's primary interest is in the theoretical, historical and quantitative analysis of American political development, executive agencies, and government regulation. In his brief career, Carpenter has won seven different best paper or publication awards for his research. He is a two-time winner of the Herbert Kaufman Award for the Best Paper presented in the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association. His first book – The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy – won the Gladys Kammerer Award and the Charles Epstein Award of the American Political Science Association. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California, at the Brookings Institution, and the Santa Fe Institute. He has also been the recipient of grants from Princeton University for teaching innovations. Recently, Professor Carpenter has commenced a large-scale theoretical, historical and empirical analysis of the regulation of pharmaceutical products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is writing a book – Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA – that attempts to shed new light on the world’s most powerful regulatory agency. In addition he has also been working on health policy research in areas which include mathematical models of “placebo learning” along with a large empirical project on coverage of disease in the mass media and in public forums such as congressional hearings.

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Program in Comparative Historical Science Workshop :: Fri 04/20 : 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Jeff Goodwin, Department of Sociology, New York University
"Case Selection in Comparative-Historical Research on Terrorism"

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Program in Comparative Historical Science Workshop :: Fri 04/27 : 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
David Soskice, Department of Political Science, Duke University
"DISTRIBUTION AND REDISTRIBUTION: THE SHADOW OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY"

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Program in Comparative Historical Science Conference:: Thu 05/03 – Sat 05/03
Graduate Student Workshop on Comparative & Historical Approaches to Taxation
"The Thunder of History: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective"

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Program in Comparative Historical Science Workshop :: Fri 05/18 : 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Abigail Saguy, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
"French women don't get fat? News reporting on body weight in the US and France"

Women (and increasingly men) spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and money striving to achieve a culturally ideal body size. While these standards are shaped by fashion, they are increasingly defined in terms of health. This talk examines how medical science and the news media frame overweight and underweight/eating disorders, thereby informing what it means to fall below or surpass the limits of the “normal weight” category. Media analyses suggest that the news media are more likely to portray overweight, compared to eating disorders, as a crisis or epidemic. We find that the news media’s tendency to dramatize the issue of overweight is partly a reflection of medical science but that the news media also increase alarm through selective attention and by expressing skepticism of research that challenges the “obesity epidemic” narrative. Contrary to earlier work, we do not find evidence that medicalization alleviates the moral blame associated with heavier weights, as both medical science and medical reporting tend to attribute overweight to individual choices and to discuss individual solutions more than systemic ones. While medical science and reporting portray obesity as an equal concern for men and women, this issue has gendered implications, with women more likely to seek out medical intervention.

Abigail Saguy (Ph.D., Princeton 2000; doctorat, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1999) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She has research interests in sociology of gender, cultural sociology, sociology of law, political sociology, comparative sociology, sociology of the media, and health policy. Her book What is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne (2003), studied how and why sexual harassment has been defined very differently in the United States and France and across national institutions, including the law, corporations, and the mass media. She is currently studying scientific and political debates over body weight in the United States and in France. Professor Saguy has published her work in the American Sociological Review, Law and Society Review, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and the Journal for Health Politics, Policy and Law, among other journals. Her work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the French Government, the Council for European Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and has received an article prize from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.

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Winter 2006-07

 
January 12:  "Moral Views of the Market Society" [Forthcoming in the Annual Review of Sociology 2007 ]
Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley

This piece reviews the different ways social scientists have understood and judged market society in recent decades, particularly as it relates to morality. Beyond the traditional views that market exchange can be thought of as "civilizing, destructive or feeble" (to use Albert Hirschman's typology), we identify a whole new scholarship about markets as "moral projects" of their own. Bringing a series of disparate studies under this concept, we review the complex ways in which people use (consciously or unconsciously) markets to categorize, normalize, and naturalize particular behaviors and rules, in the name of economic principles ( e.g. efficiency, productivity, transparency) or more social ones (e.g. justice and responsibility).

Click on the following Link to Download the Paper :

"Moral Views of Market Society" (with Kieran Healy), Draft of a paper forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology 2007, vol 33. Please do not cite this paper without permission.

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January 26: Graduate Student Presentations


"Experts, Ideas and Policy Change: The Russell Sage Foundation and Small Loan Reform, 1909-1941," by Elisabeth Anderson (Sociology)

"Farmers versus Financiers: Logrolling and the Political Economy of Exchange Rate Overvaluation in Developing Countries” by David A. Steinberg (Political Science)

"From Jim Mahoney:  I look forward to seeing everyone on Friday the 26th to discuss these two papers.  I would like to ask everyone to have read the papers in advance so we could focus on discussion and comments. Given that this is a session dedicated to graduate student work, I thought that this might be a good occasion for us to interact a little more as a group.  Hence, after we informally discuss the two papers, I was hoping that people might be able to stick around and socialize some.  I am going to ask Juan and Umud to pick up some extra beverages for this post-presentation socializing event.”

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February 9: "Globalization, Union Decline and the Politics of Social Spending Growth in OECD Countries"
Jonas Pontusson, Department of Politics, Princeton University

The paper uses moving-windows analysis to trace the effects of government partisanship on social spending growth in 17 OECD countries over the period 1962-2000. Across these countries, we find no evidence of partisan effects in the 1960s: partisan effect grew from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s and declined sharply in the second half of the 1990s. To explain this pattern, we argue that partisan effects are jointly conditioned by globalization and union strength. When unions are strong, globalization leads to partisan polarization; when unions are weak, globalization leads to partisan convergence.

Jonas Pontusson received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986 and taught at Cornell University before joining the Princeton faculty in 2005. His most recent book, Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe versus Liberal America (Cornell University Press, 2005) explores the political economy of inequality, redistribution, and employment growth in the advanced industrial countries. The role of labor market institutions and welfare states in shaping distributive outcomes remains an abiding interest, but his new research project focuses on the consequences of rising inequality for political participation, policy preferences and vote choice, with a focus on Western Europe.

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Wednesday Feb. 21 ( February 23 presentation has been CANCELLED)
Lane Kenworthy "Jobs with Equality"
Department of Sociology, University of Arizona
Ripton Room, Departmetn of Political Science)