Unless otherwise noted, seminar talks run from 12:30-1:50 on Mondays. A light lunch is available beginning at Noon.

September 8	Lucy Goodhart, Columbia, "Market Forces? The U.S. Stock Market and Presidential Approval"
September 15	No Seminar
September 22	Michael Ward, U of Wash.,Seattle, "Large Modelling Dependencies in International Relations Networks"
WEDNESDAY, October 1	Daniel Posner, UCLA, "When and Why do Some Ethnic Cleavages Become Politically Salient Rather Than Others? Applications of a Simple Model" Chapter 11, Chapter 51
October 13	Jan Leighley, Texas A&M, "Electoral Reform, Party Mobilization and Voter Turnout"
October 20	David Samuels, Minnesota, TBA
October 27	Kanchan Chandra, MIT, "A Combinatorial Model of Ethnic Identity Change"
November 3	Greg Wawro, Columbia, Gregory Wawro, Columbia U., "Cloture Reform Reconsidered"
WEDNESDAY, November 5	Jeffrey Segal, SUNY Stony Brook, "During War, Is Law Silent?" (with Lee Epstein, Daniel Ho, and Gary King) Please look at the following sections: Introduction: 1-6 Measures and Data: 25-34 Methods 43-50 Results 50-55 Implications (optional) 69-75 Appendix G 85 Because there are three pages in the paper that precede the page numbering, printing pages 1-6 requires telling the computer to print pages 4-9, etc.
November 10	Nicholas Sambanis, Yale, "Expanding Economic Models of Civil War Using Case Studies"
November 17	Adam Fagan, Queen Mary, University of London, "Civil society and democratisation in CEE: conceptual uncertainty, ideological hegemony, or the weakness of empirical analysis?"
TUESDAY, November 18	Nathan Monroe, U. of California, San Diego, "The Value of Majority Status: The Effect of Jeffords’s Switch on Asset Prices of Republican and Democratic Firms"
December 1	Wendy Schiller, Brown U., "Climbing and Clawing Their Way to the U.S. Senate: Political Ambition and Career Building 1880-1913."
TUESDAY, December 2	Eduardo Aleman, UCLA, "Legislative Rules and the Amending Process in Argentina, Chile and Mexico: Theory and Evidence"
December 8	Michael Laver, Trinity College, Dublin, " Policy and The Dynamics of Political Competition" [Paper] [Slides-PDF] [Slides-PPT]
THURSDAY, December 11	Kathryn Pearson, UC Berkeley, "Party Discipline in the Contemporary Congress: Rewarding Loyalty in Theory and in Practice"