Regular Department Seminars are scheduled from 12:30 to 2:00 Monday in the Department conference room (715 Broadway, 4th floor). Lunch is available beforehand. Political Economy of Development (PED) seminars are scheduled from 10:30 to 12:00 on Mondays, location to be announced.
September 24, Dr. Hafiz Pasha, Assistant Secretary General of Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Program. "Pro-Poor Economic
Policies: Why the Poor are Left Behind." PED, Monday 10:30-12.
October 1 Dr. Abulei Bacari, Director of the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York. "Politics of Human
Rights and Development." PED, Monday 10:30-12.
October 8 Shanker Satanayath, New York University. "Political Determinants of Central Bank Misgovernance: Asia and Latin America under Liberal Capital Flows." PED, Monday 10:30-12.
October 15 Dr. G. Shabbir Cheema. Director of the Governance Division, United Nations Development Program. "Decentralization and
Development." PED, Monday 10:30-12.
October 22 Kuba Zielinski, Ohio State University.
"Translating Social Cleavages into Party Systems: The Significance of New Democracies."
October 29 John Ferejohn, NYU and Stanford and Pasquale Pasquino, CNRS, Paris and NYU.
"Courts as deliberative institutions."
November 5 Brian Barry, Columbia University.
"Equal treatment and same treatment."
November 6,
Tuesday, Federico Varese, Yale University.
"Altruism and the Theory of Rational Choice: An Empirical Exploration."
November 9, Friday, David Primo, Stanford University,
"A Formal Model of Distributive Politics with and Executive and a Budget Cap."
November 12 David Denoon, New York University. "Differences in East Asian Recovery Strategies." PED, Monday 10:30-12.
November 13, Tuesday, Fiona McGillivray, Yale University. Government Hand-Outs, Political Institutions, and Stock Price Dispersion."
November 15, Thursday, Joshua Clinton, Stanford University.
Legislators and their Constituencies: Representation in the 106th Congress."
November 19 Josep Colomer, Higher Council of Scientific Research and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
"Which are the best institutions for a satisfactory and durable democracy? Worlwide evidence since the 19th century"
November 20, Alastair Smith, Yale University. "Timing of Elections." Also available is a new book manuscript, Election Timing. (279 pages.)
November 26, 10:30 - 12:00 , Sanford Gordon, Ohio State University,
"Bureacratic Autonomy and Environmental
Federalism."
November 26 Norman Schofield, Washington University in St Louis.
"The Republic of Virtue and the Empire of Liberty"
November 29, Thursday, Ahmer Tarar, University of Rochester. "International Bargaining with Two-Sided Domestic
Constraints."
November 30, Friday, Robert Weiner, UC Berkeley.
