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.
Tuesday, September 14 -- Michael Ting, Columbia. "Organizational
Capacity."
Tuesday, September 21 -- Adam Meirowitz, Princeton. "In defense of exclusionary
deliberation: communication and voting
with private beliefs and values".
Tuesday, September
28 -- Kanchan Chandra, MIT. "Ethnic
Parties and Democratic Stability".
Tuesday, October 5 -- B. Peter Rosendorff,
University of Southern California. "Democracy and the Supply of
Transparency".
Thursday, October 14 -- Hilton Root, Claremont College. "Capital and Collusion: Political Logic
of Global Economic Development."
Tuesday, October 19
-- Jeff Jenkins, Northwestern. "Parties as Procedural Coalitions in Congress: An Examination of Differing Career Tracks".
Friday, October 22 -- Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, UC San Diego.
"Civil War, Tenure and Interstate Insecurity."
Tuesday, October 26 -- David Stasavage, London School of Economics.
"Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining."
Monday,
November 1 -- James Rogers, Texas A & M. "Lochner and Legislation: The Virtues of Political Judges and Legal Indeterminacy."
Thursday, November 4 -- Milan Svolik, University of Chicago. "Lies, Defection, and the Pattern of International Cooperation."
Tuesday, November 9 -- Thomas Brauninger, Konstanz University. "A Partisan Model of Government Expenditure."
Thursday, November 11 -- Jonathan Woon, Stanford. "Issue Attention and Legislative Proposals in the U.S. Senate."
Tuesday, November 16 -- Daniel Posner, UCLA. "The Political Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa." Based on:
Friday, November 19 -- Monika Nalepa, Columbia University. "Why post-communists punish
themselves: a model of transitional justice legislation."
Tuesday, November 23 -- Giacomo Chiozza, Harvard
University. "Love and Hate:
Anti-Americanism and the American World Order."
Tuesday, November 30 -- Gerard Padro i Miquel, MIT. "Political Accountability in Divided Societies: The
Politics of Fear."
Thursday, December 2 -- Roger Myerson, University of Chicago "Federalism
and Incentives for Success of Democracy."
Monday, December 6 -- Norman Schofield, Washington University at St Louis. "Voting Models under Proportional Representation."
Tuesday, December 7 --
Justin Fox, Yale. "Electoral
Donations and Interest Group Influence."
Tuesday, December 14 -- Ozge Kemahlioglu, Columbia. "When the
Agent Becomes the Boss: The Politics of Public Employment." [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4]
