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.
January 22 - Scott Ashworth, Harvard. "Legislative Cohesion and Particularism."
Jan. 27 - Robert Bates, Harvard. "Institutions
and Development."
February 3 - Chris Adolph, Harvard. "Paper
Autonomy, Private Ambition: Theory and Evidence Linking Central Bankers' Careers and Economic Performance"
March 8 - Mark Kayser, Rochester. "Trade and the Timing of Elections." an additional paper is also available for your reference .
March 15 - No Seminar Spring Break
March 29 - Mark Hallerberg, University of Pittsburgh. "Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU." (Chapters 1 and 2)
April 5 - David Laitin, Stanford, "Rational Martyrs vs. Hard Targets:
Evidence on the Tactical Use of Suicide Attacks"
April 12 - Josh Tucker, Princeton University “Transitional Economic
Voting: Economic Conditions and Election Results in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from 1990-1999”
April 19 - Macartan Humphreys, Columbia, "Bargaining in the Presence of a Strategic Ratifier"
April 22 *THURSDAY* Michael Herron, Northwestern, "Was Ralph Nader a Spoiler? A Study of Green and Reform Party Voters in the 2000 Presidential Election"
April 26 - Bahar Leventoglu, Suny Stonybrook "Pre-Negotiation Public Commitment in Domestic and International Bargaining."
April 30 *FRIDAY* - Northeast Methodology Program
**All Papers and Events will be in Room 207 of the Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East (Between Waverly and Washington Place). Click here for a map: http://www.nyu.edu/maps/virtual.nyu**
May 3 - Michael Hiscox, Harvard University "Through a Glass and Darkly:
Framing Effects and Individuals’ Attitudes Toward International
Trade"
