Most seminars are held Fridays from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in Room 747 in the Politics Department at 726 Broadway. To reach room 747 take the elevator to the 6th floor and follow signs to the Politics Department. This academic year we will also co-sponsor talks with the Departments of Political Science and Economics at Columbia University. Some talks will be held at Columbia University at the same time. Directions are available here. Talks at Columbia are noted below.

Coordinators:
Prof. Catherine Hafer @ (212) 992-9679 or catherine.hafer@nyu.edu
Prof. John Huber @ Columbia University - Columbia Information

February 4 @ NYU - Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School and the Institute for Advanced Study). "Dictators and Their Viziers: Agency Problems in Dictatorships, with Gregory Egorov."

February 11 @ NYU - David Epstein (Columbia). "Dividing Lines: Racial Redistricting and Substantive Representation."

February 18 @ Columbia - Gilat Levy (LSE and Princeton). "Class and Tastes: The Effect of Income and Preference Heterogeneity on Redistribution."

February 25 @ Columbia - Torbin Iversen (Harvard) **Cancelled**

March 4 @ NYU - Rob Franzese (Michigan). "Effective Representation and Multiple Authorities in Democratic Policymaking." ["Understanding and Modeling Comparative Democratic Policymaking"] ["The Effective Constituency in (Re)Distributive Politics"] ["Fiscal Policy with Multiple Policymakers"]

March 11 and 18 - No Seminars for Public Choice and Spring Break

March 25 @ NYU - Helios Herrera (ITAM). "Group Formation and Voter Participation, with Cesar Martinelli."

April 1@ NYU - Diego Comin (NYU). "Lobbying and Technology Diffusion (with Bart Hobijn."

April 8 - No Seminar for MPSA

April 15 @ Columbia - Gerard Roland (UC-Berkeley)

April 22 @ NYU - Amanda Friedenberg (Washington University). "Optimal Retrospective Voting Rules (joint with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)."