The following doctoral students are on the academic job market in 2007-08. You can access more information about each by clicking on their name to go to their student bio. Links to their individual home pages may be available from their student bio page.
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Comparative Politics
Georgia Kernell
Advisor: John Huber
Dissertation: "Political Party Organizations and Representation: Intraparty Institutions and Competition in Established Democracies"
Piero Stanig
Advisor: John Huber
Dissertation: "Political Corruption, Campaign Finance, and Freedom of Press"
Xiaohong Yu
Advisors: Andrew Nathan, Thomas Bernstein, and Michael Ting
Dissertation: "Rule of Law under Authoritariansim--Understanding the Constitutional Initiatives from Chinese Local Courts"
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International Relations
Masashi Ito
Advisor: Robert Jervis
Dissertation: "Surprised Because Unaware: Bounded Rationally and Military Strategy"
Ivan Savic
Advisor: Helen Milner
Dissertation: "The Politics of International Financial Crisis Response"
Qiang Zhou
Advisor: Pablo M. Pinto
Dissertation: “Endogenizing Factor Mobility-The political root of interindustry labor mobility”
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Political Theory
Julia Maskivker
Advisor: Jon Elster
Dissertation: "A case for the right to opt out of work"
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