Dr. Steven Wilkinson, from the University of Chicago
"Violence and Votes in India: The 2002 Riots and Elections and After"
Thursday, May 8, 2008
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
UC San Diego
Abstract:
This paper tries to understand why communal riots broke out in Gujarat in the spring of 2002, and their effect on the subsequent 2002 election in the state, when the BJP won a decisive victory over the Congress. Why did violence break out in 2002, but not before the 2007 elections in the state? And more generally why does violence take place in Indian states at some times and not others?
Biography:
Steven Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he is also Chair of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies. He has worked on ethnic conflict and violence, and on clientelist politics, and he is currently working on a broad comparative book on colonial institution building and its legacies for democracy, governance and conflict. His books include Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India (Cambridge, 2004), and an edited book with Herbert Kitschelt on Patrons, Clients or Policies (Cambridge, 2007).
Directions and parking information are available online here. This event is sponsored by South Asian Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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Suneeta Krishnan, from
the Research Triangle Institute:
"Multisectoral Responses to Gender Based Violence in Urban India"
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Indira Rajaraman, from
the National Institute of Public Policy and Finance in Delhi:
"Fiscal Strains in the Indian Federation "
Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 108
Pranab Bardhan, from the University of California, Berkeley:
"Economics and Politics of Land Reform in India"
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IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
Sumit Ganguly , from Indiana University:
"Structure and Agency in The Transformation of India's Foreign Policy "
Monday, March 12 , 2007, 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
Andrei Lankov, from Australian National University:
"North Korea in the 1950's: Resistance to Stalinism and Its Collapse "
Monday, February 6, 2006, 5:00 PM
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
Hugh Patrick:
"Japan's Economic Future in Historical Perspective"
Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Gardner Room
Sanjay Nigan
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Deutz Room
David Ludden
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ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
