Daniel Epstein

 

Daniel Epstein

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies
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Rochester, NY 14627-0147
Thesis Title: Tipping the Scales for Parties: Executive-Legislative Balance and Political Party System Institutionalization in post-transition Russia and Brazil
Major Field: Comparative
Advisors: Timothy Colton, Jorge Dominguez, Yoshiko Herrera, Steven Levitsky

Biographical Note:

I grew up in Vermont and received a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard in 1999. After living in Russia for a year, I returned to Harvard, to the Department of Government, to study Comparative Politics. I broadened my regional focus to include Latin America in addition to the post-socialist region, and studied in Mexico and Brazil. I selected the latter for comparison with Russia in my dissertation on political party systems, and conduced extensive field-work in both, much of it traveling among the states and regions of both nations to compare party systems within countries as well as between the two.

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Dissertation Abstract