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GLD Spring 2026 Work-in-Progress Series

GLD would like to welcome you to our Spring 2025 Work-in-Progress Series. This series offers scholars from around the world an opportunity to present and receive feedback on their works in progress, including manuscripts, PAPs, conference papers, articles, etc. This series is virtual and open to anyone to attend; we look forward to seeing you there!

The Spring Work-in-Progress Series will be held on Zoom and in-person in Lilla Skansen at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. If you plan to attend virtually, please register at the link below - you only need to register once and you will have access to the whole series. 

Please note, all sessions are at 16:00 CET/CEST.

Spring 2026 Work-in-Progress Schedule 

January 28, 2026

1600 CET

TBC

February 11, 2026

1600 CET

Tax Preferences Under Criminal Governance

Ana Lopez Garcia, Maastricht University

February 25, 2026

1600 CET

Social Capital and Smallholder Adaptation to Export Agriculture in Mexico

Brian Palmer-Rubin, University of Southern California 

March 11, 2026

1600 CET - NB - Daylight Savings Time in Europe starts March 29

More Local, More Clientelistic? How Clientelism Tolerance Differs by Election Levels in Taiwan

Sanho Chung, National Taiwan Normal University

March 25, 2026

1600 CET - NB - Daylight Savings Time in Europe starts March 29

International Pressure and Public Support for Opposition to Democratic Backsliding

Benjamin Yoel, Michigan State University

April 8, 2026

1600 CEST

The Economic Foundations of Illicit Power: DTO Strategies and Their Political Consequences in Guatemala

Diego Romero, University of Texas at Austin

April 22, 2026

1600 CEST

Weak Welfare State and Shallow Decentralization: Citizen-State Interactions in Urban India

Anstubh Agnihotri, Ashoka University

May 6, 2026

1600 CEST

When Policies Collide: Institutional Intercurrence and Environmental–Land Rights Conflicts in Latin American Cities

Marcela Alonso Ferriera, Sciences Po Paris