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relay Indiana, the overall training is better at Michigan and arguably Northwestern as well. Given you are interested in China, as am I, it's unlikely that you would find someone at Northwestern who knows 'closely' about China (this is why I didn't apply though it is very strong in comparative-historical studies in which I'm interested). As you also want a solid training in quantitative methods, Xie is your guy and potentially your advisor (it of course depends on your speciality). If you want to go back to qualitative research somehow, Steinmetz (his 'Devil's Handwriting' touched upon Qingdao) and Zubrzycki will suffice. In short, Michigan. My two pennies anyway...

I'll claim UC Irvine. Apparently some delays for non-US citizens. Good luck everyone!

cheers, gretagarbo. It was from a faculty member whose name, however, was not in my SoP (not my POI).

I'll claim Berkeley. Financial packages are to be determined in next few weeks.

hey guys, I'm a foreign student. I guess it's a bit late to do researches for fall 12, but I just wanted to ask if anyone knows any schools that are well known for studies on authoritarianism and democratization in comparative politics? Based on my research, it seems that UCLA (Geddes), Chicago (Slater), Ohio State (Gunther, Kurtz, Shabad, Sisson), Stanford (Magaloni, McFaul), Cornell (Bunce, de Walle, Pepinsky), Harvard (Putnam, Ekiert, Ziblatt, Pharr) have scholars that do these topics. Did I miss any schools or people?