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Guest Lectures

New Methods in Political Science Speaker Series:
Michael M. Ting, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, Columbia University and SIPA
"Distributive Politics with Primaries"

Friday, April 18, 2008 / 2:30-4:00pm / Room 4500 Posvar Hall

 

Colloquium on American Politics and Society (CAPS) Speaker Series:
Jennifer Eberhardt, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, Stanford University
"Criminalization and Dehumanization of Blacks in the Modern Era"

Friday, April 11, 2008

 

Colloquium on American Politics and Society (CAPS) Speaker Series:
E. Scott Adler, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
"A Governing Theory of Legislative Organization"

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

 

Research in International Politics (RIP) Speaker Series:
Emilie Hafner-Burton, Asst. Prof. of Public Policy and Politics, Princeton University
"Coercing Human Rights: How Powerful States Regulate Repression Through Preferential Trade Agreements"

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

 

Research in International Politics (RIP) Speaker Series:
Sara Mitchell, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
"Bargaining in the Shadow of International Courts: The Intersection of Domestic and International Law"

Friday, January 25, 2008

 

Colloquium on American Politics and Society:
John Hibbings, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Liberals and Conservatives are Physiologically Different"

Friday, January 18, 2008

 

Steven Finkel, Daniel Wallace Chair in Political Science
"The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990-2004"

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

 

Quan Li, Assoc. Prof., Pennsylvania State University
"Trading for Peace? Disaggregated Bilateral Trade and Interstate Military Conflict Initiation"

December 5, 2007

 

Daniel Vreeland, Assoc. Prof., Yale University
"Linkage Politics Across International Organizations: The UN Security Council, the IMF and the World Bank"

November 19, 2007

 

Daniela Donno, Yale University
"Defending Democratic Norms: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations, Domestic Opposition and Democratization after Flawed Elections"

November 14, 2007

 

Ahmer Tarar, Assoc. Prof., Texas A & M University
"Public Commitment in Crisis Bargaining" - Research in International Politics Speaker Series

April 6, 2007

 

Dr. Burt Monroe, Assoc. Prof. and Director of the Quantitative Social Science Initiative, Penn State University
"Analyzing Agendas and Representation through Automated Coding of Legislative Speech" - New Methods in Political Science Speaker Series

March 30, 2007

 

Nolan McCarty, Professor of Politics and Associate Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization?"

March 23, 2007

 

Jennifer Victor, Asst. Prof. of Political Science
"Get to Know Your 2008 Presidential Candidates"
Guest speaker for monthly Pi Sigma Alpha meeting

March 21, 2007

 

Michael Goodhart, Asst. Prof. of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies
"International Norms and National Sovereignty: the Case of the ICC"
Guest speaker for monthly Pi Sigma Alpha meeting

February 21, 2007

 

Ward Thomas, College of the Holy Cross
"Non-State Actor Violence and International Normative Change"

February 9, 2007

 

Curt Signorino, University of Rochester
"Back to the Future: Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data"

January 26, 2007

 

Jana Grittersova, Cornell University
"Financial Interests and Exchange Rate Regime Choices in Transition Economics"

December 8, 2006

 

Despina Alexiadou, Duke University
"The Politics of Price Stability: The Role of Social Transfers in Monetary Management"

December 11, 2006

 

Julia Gray, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Company You Keep: How International Institutions Can Make Developing Countries Look Less Risky"

December 4, 2006

 

Christian Breunig, University of Washington
"Institutions, Attention, and Changes within National Budgets"

December 1, 2006

 

Marc Hetherington, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
"Divided We Stand: Authoritarianism, Polarization, and Political Conflict in the United States"

October 11, 2006

 

Daniel Y. Kono, Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis
"Beating the System or Fixing It? International Legal Institutions and Trade Cooperation under Anarchy"

October 6, 2006

 

Series: New Methods in Political Science

New Methods in Political Science Speaker Series:
Michael M. Ting, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, Columbia University and SIPA
"Distributive Politics with Primaries"

Friday, April 18, 2008 / 3:00-4:30pm / Room 4500 Posvar Hall

 

Dr. Burt Monroe, Assoc. Prof. and Director of the Quantitative Social Science Initiative, Penn State University
"Analyzing Agendas and Representation through Automated Coding of Legislative Speech"

March 30, 2007

 

Curtis Signorino, University of Rochester.
"Back to the Future: Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data"

You can read about Curt's work at http://www.rochester.edu/college/psc/signorino/.

January 26, 2007

 

Jim Vreeland, Yale University.
"Institutional Determinants of IMF Agreements"

You can read about Jim's work at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jrv9.

April 7, 2006

 

Kevin Quinn, Harvard University.
Kevin spoke about Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. You can read about Kevin's work at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kquinn.

April 14, 2006

 

Michael Bailey, Georgetown University.
"Bridging Institutions and Time: Creating Comparable Preference Estimates for Presidents, Senators, Represenatives, and Judges, 1950-2002." You can read about Mike's work at http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/baileyma.

March 31, 2006

Craig Volden, The Ohio State University.
"Bargaining in Legislatures over Particularistic and Collective Goods." You can read about Craig's work, as well as download a copy of his paper, at http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/cvolden.

March 24, 2006

Jeff Gill, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC-Davis
"Bayesian Learning for Understanding Individual Human Behavior: Inference in a World of Uncertainty"

March 4, 2005

 

John Londregan, Professor of Political Science, Princeton University
"Urgencies, Gate Keeping, and Agenda Control in the Chilean Congress"

February 4, 2005

 

William Reed, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University
"Avoiding Selection Bias in Political Science Research"

October 19, 2004

 

Series: Research in International Politics

Emilie Hafner-Burton, Asst. Prof. of Public Policy and Politics, Princeton University
"Coercing Human Rights: How Powerful States Regulate Repression Through Preferential Trade Agreements"

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

 

Sara Mitchell, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
"Bargaining in the Shadow of International Courts: The Intersection of Domestic and International Law"

Friday, January 25, 2008

 

Ahmer Tarar, Assoc. Prof., Texas A & M University
"Public Commitment in Crisis Bargaining"

April 6, 2007

 

Ward Thomas, Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross
"Non-State Actor Violence and International Normative Change"

February 9, 2007

 

Daniel Y. Kono, Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis
"Beating the System or Fixing It? International Legal Institutions and Trade Cooperation under Anarchy"

October 6, 2006

 

Molly Cochran, Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Conceptualizing the Power of Transnational Agents: Pragmatism and International Public Spheres"

April 12, 2006

 

Sebastian Rosato, Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs;
JFK School of Government, Harvard University
"The Strategic Logic of European Integration"

January 27, 2006

 

Series: CAPS - Colloquium on American Politics and Society

Jennifer Eberhardt, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, Stanford University
"Criminalization and Dehumanization of Blacks in the Modern Era"

Friday, April 11, 2008

 

E. Scott Adler, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
"A Governing Theory of Legislative Organization"

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

 

John Hibbings, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Liberals and Conservatives are Physiologically Different"

Friday, January 18, 2008

 

Nolan McCarty, Professor of Politics and Associate Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization?"

March 23, 2007

 

Brad T. Gomez, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
"Rethinking Symbolic Racism: Evidence of Attribution Bias"

September 15, 2006

 

Forrest Maltzman, Professor, George Washington University
"Invitations and Signals: The Relationship Between the Solicitor General and the Supreme Court"

April 1, 2005

 

Diana Mutz, Samuel S. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Pennsylvania

April 15, 2005

 

Walter Stone, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, UC-Davis
"Money, Entry, & Retirement: Reassessing Candidate Investment in US House Elections"

October 29, 2004

 

Other Recent Lectures

Michael Goodhart, Asst. Prof. of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate
"International Norms and National Sovereignty: the Case of the ICC"
Guest speaker for monthly Pi Sigma Alpha meeting

February 21, 2007

 

Mark Hallerberg, Emory University
"A New Approach to the Role of Central Banks: Sending Signals to Voters In Europe"

Monday, April 10, 2006

 

Heather Larsen
"Bounded Rationality and Presidential Policy Attention"

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

 

Gisela Sin
"Separation of Power and Legislative Institutions: a Constitutional Theory of Legislative Organization"

Thursday, October 20, 2005

 

John Ferejohn, Carolyn Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
"A Planning Theory of Legislation"

Friday, October 7, 2005

 

Jim Mosher, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio University
"The Relationship between Trade Openness and the Size of Government Spending in Developed Democracies: Causal Direction"

Monday, January 31, 2005

 

John Scherpereel, Adj. Asst. Prof. of Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
"Europeanization and State Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe"

Friday, January 28, 2005

 

Dana Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The New Politics of Welfare Reform in Post-Communist Europe"

Friday, January 21, 2005

 

Nicole Richardt, Northwestern University
"What Difference Does the European Union Make? Using European Law in the United Kindgom and Germany"

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

 

Robert Rohrschneider, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
"Responsible Party Government? Explaining Party Stances on European Integration in Post-Communist Eastern Europe"

Monday, January 10, 2005

 

Chris Carman, Assistant Professor of Political Science
"Norms, Incentives and Institutions: On the Development of Cross Party Groups in the Scottish Parliament."

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

 

Taeko Hiroi, Ph.D. candidate
"Comparing the Components of Elections: The Local Vote, Nationalization, & Volatility."

Friday, November 12, 2004

 

Scott Morgenstern, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Duke University
"Comparing the Components of Elections: The Local Vote, Nationalization, & Volatility."

Friday, November 5, 2004

 

John Jackson, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
"Employment Change, Attitude Evolution and Voting During Poland's Transition: Longitudinal Evidence from 1988 to 1998."

Thursday, October 14, 2004

 

 

 



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