Department Seminars are scheduled from 12:30 to 2:00 in the Department conference room (726 Broadway, 7th floor, Room 747). Lunch is available at 12:00.
September 9 - Mark Hallerberg,
University of Pittsburg. "The Treaty
of Maastricht and the Making of Budgets in Europe 1980-2002."
September 16 - Michael Gilligan,
NYU. "Is There a Wider-Deeper Tradeoff?".
September 23 - Larry Mead, NYU.
"State Governmental Capacity and Welfare Reform."
September 30 - Jana Kunicova, World
Bank.
"When are Opposition's Lips Sealed?
Comparative Political Corruption in Democracies."
October 7 - Edward Miguel, University
of California, Berkeley. "Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods
in Kenya versus Tanzania."
October 14 - Robert Lieberman, Columbia.
"Weak State, Strong Policy: Paradoxes
of Race Policy in the United States, Great Britain and France."
October 21 - Liz Gerber,University
of Michigan. "Land Use Policy, Institutional
Design, and the Responsiveness of Representative Government."
October 22 - Ken Shotts, Northwestern
(visiting at Princeton). "Does
Racial Redistricting Cause Conservative Policy Outcomes?"
October 28 - Tim Frye, Ohio State.
"Political Economy in the Post
Communist World."
October 29 - Diana Mutz, Ohio State.
"In Mixed Company: Communication Across Lines of Political Difference."
The talk will be based on her article in the latest American Journal of Political
Science.
November 4 - Allan Stam, Dartmouth.
The talk will be based on his book, Democracies
at War (co-authored with Dan Reiter).
November 5 - Eric Dickson, Harvard.
"Perceptual Biases, Non-Bayesian Beliefs,
and Coordination: A Model of Preference Formation."
Novermber 11 - Tassos Kalandrakis,
Yale. "Minority Governments: Ideology
and Office."
November 12 - Jeffrey Staton, NYU.
"Public Relations and Judicial Authority: Strategic Communication By Mexico's
Supreme Court." The talk will be based on the following chapters:
- Chapter
3: Theoretical Model
-
Chapter 6: Constitutional Decision-Making in the Mexican Supreme Court
- Appendices
November 14 - Christopher Berry,
Harvard. "Piling On: The Fiscal Effects of
Jurisdictional Overlap."
November 18 - Keith E. Whittington,
Princeton University. "Presidential
Challenges to Judicial Supremacy."
November 19 - Adam Berinsky, Princeton. "Silent
Voices: Social Welfare Policy Opinions and Political Equality in America."
November 21 - Scott Gehlbach, Berkeley.
"Taxability, Elections, and Government
Support of Business Activity."
November 25 - James Vreeland, Yale.
"Institutional Determinants of IMF Agreements."
November 26 - Elizabeth Maggie Penn,
Caltech. "A Markov Voting Model with Farsighted
Agents."
December 2 - Leonard Wantchekon, NYU. "Clientelism
and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin."
December 3 - Shigeo Hirano, Harvard.
"Electoral Systems and Threshold Effects:
Quantitative Evidence from the Japanese Experience in the 1990s."
December 9 - Roger Petersen, MIT.
"The Strategic Use of Emotion in Ethnic Conflict."
December 10 - David Rohde, Michigan
State. "Conditional Party Government Under Republican Rule."
December 12 - Julie Taylor, UCLA.
"Prophet Sharing: Strategic Interaction between Islamic Clerics and Middle
Eastern Regimes."
