How do Presidents Build Multi-Party Support in the Modern World? Talk of Professor Paul Chaisty
Professor Paul Chaisty of Oxford University will visit HSE Doctoral School in Political Science on April 1st 2016.
He would give a talk on the topic “How do Presidents Build Multi-Party Support in the Modern World?: Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective”.
In his talk prof. Chaisty will present finding from a four-year project on the strategies that presidents use to manage legislative coalitions. He will discuss the findings of surveys that were conducted with legislators in Africa, Latin America and the former Soviet Union.
Professor Chaisty would give his talk on Friday April 1 st at 6 p.m. in room 305 of the Faculty of Social Sciences on Il’inka 13.
Professor Paul Chaisty is the Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St. Antony’s College and the Director of the St. Antony’s Summer School in International Politics.
Professor Chaisty’s research interests include the study of Russian legislative and party politics. His doctoral thesis was on Russia’s first post-communist parliament, the Supreme Soviet. Since then much of his research has focused on legislative and party political developments in the Supreme Soviet’s successor institution, the State Duma as well as in comparative analysis of legislatures.
Currently prof. Chaisty is involved in a three-year, ESRC-funded, cross-regional research project on the tools that presidents use to build legislative coalitions in emerging democracies. This research covers the Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian assemblies.