curriculum vitae
conference papers & other presentations
- "Shifting the boundaries of the secular and sacred in Europe: Islam in Britain, France and Germany" Presentation at the conference, "East and West: the Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe" University of Wisconsin, Madison 25-27 March 2004.
- "Understanding the Political Organization(s) of Islam in Europe" Presentation at the seminar on September 11, Immigration and Nationalism in Europe, Center for West European Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 10 April 2003.
- "The Corruption of Decentralization, Privatization and Competition in the European Union" Paper presented at the "Corruption: Its Consequences and Cures" conference, Center on Development, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, 31 Jan.-1 Feb. 2003.
- "The Corruption of Competition in the European Union", Center for West European Studies and Department of Political Science Seminar Series, University of Washington, Seattle, 8 Jan. 2003.
- "Common Market Institutions, Fraud and Informal Networks" Paper prepared for the Conference on Informal Governance in the European Union. Florence, EUI, Itay, 13-15 June, 2002.
- "Corruption and Fraud in the European Union". Presentation at the US and World Affairs seminar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 8 May 2002.
- "The Catholic Church as a Political Actor" Paper presented to the Conference on Religion and Politics, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder, 1-3 Feb., 2002.
- "Is clientelism a superfluous term? Some conceptual inquiries and evidence from two historical cases." Conference on Citizen-Politician Linkages in Democratic Politics, Duke University, 30 March -1 April, 2001.
- "Organized Religions and their Political Alliances: an economic analysis". American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., 30 Aug.- 3 Sept., 2000.
- "Globalizing Corruption at the Expense of the State? Corruption in the European Union." American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., 30 Aug.- 3 Sept., 2000.
- "Competing for the Soul of Europe: Interest Group/Party Conflict between the Catholic Church and Christian Democracy" American Political Science Association, Atlanta: 2-5 Sept., 1999.
- "Organizing Islam for Politics in Western Europe." American Political Science Association, Atlanta: 2-5 Sept., 1999.
- "Strategies of an Interest Group: The Catholic Church and Christian Democracy in Post-War Europe, 1944-1958." Conference on Christian Democracy in Europe and Latin America, University of Notre Dame: April 9-11, 1999. Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
- "Institutions of Corruption or the Corruption of Institutions? Fraud in the European Union." American Political Science Association, Boston: 2-5 Sept., 1998.
- "Constructing Religious Communities in Secular Societies: Catholicism and Islam in Western Europe." American Political Science Association, Boston: 2-5 Sept., 1998. "Political Parties and the Opportunity Costs of Patronage." American Political Science Association, Washington, DC: 28-31 Aug., 1997.
- "The State, Political Parties and the Opportunity Costs of Patronage." Western Political Science Association, Tucson: 13-15 March, 1997.
- "The Catholic Church and Christian Democracy: Competing for the Soul of Europe." European Studies Association, Omaha, Nebraska, October, 1996.
- "Changes in the Italian Party System." American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 1995.
- "Controlling the Costs of European Integration: a Study of Christian Democracy in France and Italy." American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 1995.
- "Political Manipulation of Social Divisions in Post-War France and Italy." Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1995.
- "Priests and Politicians: the Role of Institutions and Elite Political Strategies in the Construction of the French and Italian Christian Democratic Parties, 1944-1958." American Political Science Association, New York, Sept. 1994.