Question: Sarah Birch was the Chair of Comparative Politics at a university that is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world, and was founded in what year?

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University of Glasgow: The University of Glasgow (Scottish Gaelic: "Oilthigh Ghlaschu" , Latin: "Universitas Glasguensis" ) (abbreviated as Glas.  in post-nominals) is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.  It was founded in 1451.  Along with the University of Edinburgh, the University was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.  It is currently a member of Universitas 21, the international network of research universities and the Russell Group.

Third-oldest university in England debate: The title of third-oldest university in England is claimed by three institutions: Durham University as the third oldest officially recognised university (1832) and the third to confer degrees (1837), the University of London as the third university to be granted a Royal Charter (1836), and University College London as it was founded as "London University" (1826) and was the third oldest university institution to start teaching (1828).  A fourth institution, King's College London, officially claims to be the fourth oldest university in England but is claimed by some students to be the third oldest as the third university institution to receive a Royal Charter (1829).  Deciding which is truly the "third oldest university" depends largely on the definition of university status and how this is applied historically.

Alfred Diamant: Alfred Diamant (September 25, 1917 – May 11, 2012) was an American political scientist.  His main contribution was in the field of comparative politics and comparative public administration.  He was a member of the Comparative Administration Group (CAG) and a co-chairperson of the Council for European Studies based at Columbia University.  According to Peter Alexis Gourevitch, Diamant was both “on the Executive Committee of the Council for European Studies (based in New York) and the Interuniversity Center for European Studies in Montreal.”  Alfred Diamant was published by Princeton University Press and by top ranking journals like Administrative Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and PS.  Political Science and Politics.  (See List of publications) Diamant’s “areas of expertise” were “Comparative Western European Politics and Social Policy.”  Together with his colleague, James Christoph, he “established Indiana University as a major site of the study of European culture, society and politics.”  John D.Martz called the “works of Maurice Duvergier, Sigmund Neumann and Alfred Diamant” that focus on the study of political parties “Western European-oriented classics.”  D.B. Robertson saw Alfred Diamant as “a gifted and humane scholar.”

Joseph LaPalombara: Joseph LaPalombara (born May 18, 1925) is the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Management, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University.  He is best known for his contributions to the fields of comparative politics, comparative public administration, political development, Italian politics and the organization and behavior of international firms.  He served as chair of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies for five years, and as Chair of its Department of Political Science for two three-year terms.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Program.  He has been awarded the Medals of Honor by the Presidency of the Italian Republic and by the Italian Constitutional Court.  He is a Knight-Commander in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Adrian Guelke: Adrian Guelke (born 15 June 1947) is Professor of Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.  He was previously Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 1993 to 1995.  After attending Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town, he studied for his BA and MA at the University of Cape Town and his PhD at the London School of Economics.  He specialises in the comparative study of ethnic conflict, particularly the cases of Northern Ireland, his native South Africa and Kashmir.  He is chair of the International Political Science Association's research committee on politics and ethnicity.  And, as of 2013, Editor of the Academic Journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.  

Commonwealth &amp; Comparative Politics: Commonwealth & Comparative Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of political science covering comparative politics, with an emphasis on the Commonwealth of Nations.  It was established in 1961 as the "Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies" and renamed "The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics" in 1974, before obtaining its current title in 1998.  The editors-in-chief are James Chiriyankandath (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) and Peter Clegg (University of the West of England).  The journal is published by Taylor & Francis.

Amparo Menendez-Carrion: Amparo Menéndez-Carrión (born 1949 in Uruguay and naturalized Ecuadorean) is an author and a scholar specialized in comparative politics and Latin American Sudies.  She received her BA in Political Science at the University of Minnesota and her M.A. and Ph.D in International Relations and Comparative Politics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.  She was Director General of FLACSO Ecuador (Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences at Quito) for two consecutive terms (1987-1995).  Her book "La Conquista del Voto en Ecuador" (Quito, FLACSO-CEN, 1986) was declared by her peers ‘Best Book of the Year in the Social Sciences’ (December 1986).  Her most recent book ("Memorias de Ciudadanía.  Los Avatares de una Polis Golpeada.  La Experiencia Uruguaya", Montevideo: Fin de Siglo, three-volumes, 2015) was recipient of the Bartolome Hidalgo award for non-fiction book of 2016 in Uruguay.

Sarah Birch: Sarah Birch, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 5 December 1963) is a American political scientist and academic, specialising in comparative politics.  Since 2016, she has been Professor of Political Science at King's College London.  She had taught at the University of Essex between 1996 and 2013, and held the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow between 2013 and 2016.

Stephen Silvia: Stephen Silvia is a Professor at American University's School of International Service and an Affiliate Professor in American University's Economics Department.  He teaches international economics, international trade relations, and comparative politics.  He is a noted expert on the German economy, in particular, on German labor markets and industrial relations.  He also has written about comparative industrial relations, European Union economic policy, and comparative economic policy, with an emphasis on Germany and the United States.  Silvia serves as a Board Member on the American Consortium on European Union Studies (ACES), which is an EU Center of Excellence.  He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS).  Silvia served as a Trustee on the American University Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010.  He was Chair of the American University Faculty Senate during the 2008-2009 academic year.

Stein Rokkan memorial lecture: The "Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture" is an annual lecture which is arranged by the Department of Comparative Politics (Norwegian: "Institutt for sammenliknende politikk" ) at the University of Bergen, Norway.  Since 2002, the organising of the lecture has been in cooperation with the UNI Rokkan Centre.  The purpose of the lecture is to draw attention to some of the most outstanding exponents of Stein Rokkan’s fields of research; first and foremost political science, sociology and comparative politics.

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Answer: 1451