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| Dissertation
Defenses |
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The following Ph.D.
dissertations are scheduled for defense:
Stacy Bondanella
"Intergovernmental Organizations and the Determinants of Member
State Interest Convergence"
Monday, April 13, 2009
Liying Ren
"Surveying Public Opinion in Transitional China: An Examination
of Survey Response”
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Thomas Twiss
"Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy"
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Lisa Pohlman London
"The Structure of Attitudes toward the European Union in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia"
Friday, April 17, 2009
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| Undergraduate
Advising and Enrollment |
| Advising and enrollment
for the Fall Term begins the week after Spring Break for Seniors
and the second week after the break for non-Seniors. For the Spring
Term, advising usually begins during mid- to late October. Course
descriptions are typically published in early February for the
Summer Term/Sessions, early March for the Fall Term, and early October
for the Spring Term.
Professors Donaldson and Altdorfer are available to help you to
review your academic progress and plan for upcoming semesters. To
schedule an advising appointment, call the PS department receptionist
(412-648-7250), who handles all scheduling of appointments.
Advising and enrollment for the 2009 Summer Term/Sessions
begins the week of February 16 and continues through the first week
of the Summer term. You may call now to schedule an appointment
in the next weeks. If you prefer, you may schedule your summer term
courses during your regular Fall Term advising appointment in March.
Fall Term 2009 advising and enrollment begins
for Seniors (students who will have completed at
least 84 credits at the end of this term) the week after Spring
Break (March 16-20). Seniors can call the PS receptionist the week
of March 2-6 to schedule an appointment for that week. Advising
and open enrollment for all students begins March
23. Non-Seniors (those who will have completed
83 or fewer credits this term) can call starting on Monday,
March 16 to schedule an appointment for March 23 or later. |
| Departmental
Lectures |
| Robert Erikson,
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
"Vietnam Lottery Status and Political Behavior"
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 / 3:30-5:00 PM / Room 4500 WWPH
Colloquium on American Politics and Society (CAPS) Speaker
Series:
John Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science,
Duke University
"Party and Democracy in the South in the Jacksonian, Post-Reconstruction
and Post WWII Eras"
Friday, March 20, 2009
Jonathan Harris, Professor of Political Science
"President Medvedev’s Program of Democratic Reforms in
Russia and Why You Don’t Know About It"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
David Plouffe, Campaign Manager for President Barack Obama
"Organizing a Modern Political Campaign"
Monday, February 23, 2009
Research in International Politics (RIP) Speaker Series:
Stephen Gent, Asst. Prof. of Political Science, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Effectiveness and Pursuit of Binding Conflict Management"
Friday, February 20, 2009
Research in International Politics (RIP) Speaker Series:
David Andrew Singer, Asst. Prof. of Political Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
"Remittances, Government Policymaking, and the Global Economy"
Friday, January 23, 2009
Womens' Studies Brown Bag lunch series:
Susan Hansen, Prof. of Political Science
"Gender and the 2008 Presidential Election"
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
American Politics Workshop:
Jonathan Woon, Assistant Prof. of Political Science
"The Timing of Congressional Appropriations"
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Robert Putnam, Prof. of Political Science, Harvard University
"American Grace: The Changing Role of Religion in American
Communities"
Friday, September 26, 2008
Colloquium on American Politics (CAPS) Speaker Series:
Charles R. Shipan, Ira J. and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science,
University of Michigan
"When the Smoke Clears: Learning, Experience, and the Diffusion
of Youth Access Laws"
Friday, September 19, 2008
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
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 (CAPS) Speaker
Series:
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 |
| 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
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
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| Research
in International Politics (RIP) Speaker Series |
| Stephen Gent, Asst.
Prof. of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
"The Effectiveness and Pursuit of Binding Conflict Management"
Friday, February 20, 2009 / 12:00pm - 1:30pm / Room 4500 Posvar
Hall
David Andrew Singer, Asst. Prof. of Political Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
"Remittances, Government Policymaking, and the Global Economy"
Friday, January 23, 2009
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
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| Colloquium
on American Politics and Society (CAPS) Speaker Series |
| John Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt
University Professor of Political Science, Duke University
"Party and Democracy in the South in the Jacksonian, Post-Reconstruction
and Post WWII Eras"
Friday, March 20, 2009 / 1:30-3:00 PM / Room 4500 WWPH
Charles R. Shipan, Ira J. and Nicki Harris Professor of Social
Science, University of Michigan
"When the Smoke Clears: Learning, Experience, and the Diffusion
of Youth Access Laws"
Friday, September 19, 2008
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
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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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