Module

Contemporary Developments in Comparative Historical Analysis

Schedule:

  • 20 July (09:30 – 12:00)
  • 21 July (09:30 – 12:00)
  • 24 July (09:30 – 12:00)
  • 25 July (09:30 – 12:00)
  • 26 July (09:30 – 12:00)
  • 27 July (09:30 – 12:00)

Fee:

  • UIII Participant: Rp300.000
  • Non-UIII Participant: Rp700.000
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About

The second module is intended for doctoral students and faculty members who would like to develop articles or manuscripts using comparative historical analysis. The module introduces students or course participants to present-day debates of comparative historical analysis in political science and social sciences in general. The module contains threefold structure: exploring the substantive contributions to theory development and research programs in social sciences, theoretical accomplishments and conceptual innovations in comparative historical analysis, and methodological strategies or procedures of making inferences and the importance of comparative historical sequences in CHA. The module also brings together the works of leading scholars—including James Mahoney, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Kathleen Thelen, Dan Slater, Maya Tudor, Fiona Shen-Bayh, and Yegor Lazarev—who work in diverse empirical areas and engage recent and ongoing debates and problems in the field. Additionally, this module covers new topics and tools that attribute to the enduring impact of comparative historical analysis on the discipline of social and political sciences.

Instructors

Dan Slater

University of Michigan, USA

Dan Slater (Ph.D. Emory, 2005) specializes in the politics and history of dictatorship and democracy, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. He came to Michigan in 2017 after twelve years on the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he served as Director of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and associate member in the Department of Sociology. His book examining how divergent historical patterns of contentious politics have shaped variation in state power and authoritarian durability in seven Southeast Asian countries, entitled Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia, was published in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series in 2010.