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Prof Giovanni Capoccia – Curriculum vitae; page 8 of 12
2009 “The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: Lessons from Europe” (with D Ziblatt),
American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Toronto, ON, August.
2008 “Stabilizing new democracies: Italy in the aftermath of WWII”, in the workshop “Dilemmas
and Challenges of Democratization: Lessons from Europe”, Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October.
2008 “‘Gravity of evil’ or partisan politics? Banning extremist parties in consolidated democracies”,
American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, August.
2008 “Restricting Party Pluralism in Democracies: Repression of the Extreme Right in post-war
Western Europe”, Council for European Studies, Chicago, Ill., March.
2007 “Limits to political pluralism in Western European democracies: A comparative and
longitudinal analysis”, American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill.,
August.
2007 “Institutional Change and Constitutional Traditions in German Counterterrorism after 9/11”,
American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill., August.
2007 “When State Responses Fail: Religious Radicalism and Separatism in India 1955-2002”,
American Political Science Association Annual Convention (with L. D. Sáez and E. De Rooij),
Chicago, Ill., August.
2006 “Multi-method Research in Comparative Politics and Political Theory: Insights and Tradeoffs”
(with M. Freeden), American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia,
PA, August.
2006 “Measuring Repression in Western European Democracies”, American Political Science
Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, August.
2006 “Giovanni Sartori’s contribution to Italian and international Political Science”. Roundtable
“Giovanni Sartori: Work and Legacy”, American Political Science Association Annual
Convention, Philadelphia, PA, August.
2006 “Defending Democracy. Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe”, book presentation,
Roundtable “Comparative Historical Analysis and the Study of States and Regimes: New
Research and New Perspectives”, Council for European Studies, Chicago, Ill., March.
2005 “Theory, narrative and counterfactuals in the analysis of critical junctures” (with D. Kelemen),
American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., September.
2005 “The Study of Political Repression in Western Europe: Data and Methods for the Analysis of
‘Militant Democracies’ ”, American Political Science Association Annual Convention,
Washington, D.C., September.
2004 “When State Responses Fail: Religious Radicalism in India”, American Political Science
Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill., September (with L. D. Sáez).
2004 “Structuralism, Contingency, and Regime Survival: Evidence from Inter-war Europe”, Council
for European Studies, Chicago, Ill., March.
2003 “Difficult Democracies and Responses to Extremism: A Comparison Between Inter-war
European Democracies and Cases of Recent Democratization”, American Political Science
Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, August.
2003 “State Responses to Religious Radicalism in India”, European Consortium of Political Research
Joint Sessions of Workshops, Edinburgh (UK), March (with L. D. Sáez).
2002 “Regime Defense in Difficult Democracies: The Case of the First Czechoslovak Republic”,
American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, August.
2002 “The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws. The German System at Fifty”, American
Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, August.
2002 “Legislative Responses to Extremism. The ‘Protection of Democracy’ in the First Czechoslovak
Republic”, Council for European Studies, Chicago, Ill, March.