Sandwiches will be provided.

Abstract:

Prof. Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is a Head of the BA Honors Track in Strategy and Decision Making at the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC Herzliya, Israel. His research interests include international security, cultural approach to IR, modern military thought, and American, Russian and Israeli national security policy. He has published on these topics in Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Intelligence and National Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Journal of Cold War History.

How important is the de facto enforcement of political rights in new democracies? We use the enfranchisement of the emancipated slaves following the American Civil War to study this question. Critical to our strategy, black suffrage was externally enforced by the U.S. Army in ten Southern states during Reconstruction. We employ a triple-difference model to estimate the joint impact of enfranchisement and its enforcement on taxation. We find that occupied counties where black voters comprised larger shares of the electorate levied higher taxes compared to similar non-occupied counties.

Profs Stephen Whitefield and Florence Faucher will host an ‘OxPo Exchange Surgery’ on 8 February at 10am in Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building, for all those who might be interested to learn more about the OxPo exchanges (https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxpo/oxpo-call-for-applications.html), with tea, coffee, and biscuits.