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, January 18 -- Rose Razaghian, Yale. "Financing the Civil War: The Confederacy's Financial Strategy." [Table 1] [Table 2] [Tables 3-11] [Tables 12-15/Figures 1-2] [Figure 3] [Figure 4]

Monday, January 24 -- William Howell, Harvard. "Debating Iraq before the War, some findings from WHILE DANGERS GATHER: CONGRESSIONAL CHECKS ON PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWERS, a book manuscript by William Howell and Jon Pevehouse." [Chapter 5] [Figures]

Tuesday, February 1 -- Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis. "On the Priority of Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach to Political-Economic Institutions and the Burden of Justification."

Tuesday, February 8 -- Orit Kedar, University of Michigan. "How Institutional Context Affects Voter Behaviour: Policy Balancing in Parliamentary Elections."

Monday, February 14 -- Lawrence Rothenberg, the Kellogg School, Northwestern. "From Goals to Actions: The Dynamics of Cosponsorship Reconsidered."

Thursday, February 17 -- Sonja Amadae, New School University. "Did The Victim Compensation Fund Allocate Resources Fairly?"

Thursday, February 24 -- Jason Wittenberg, University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Electoral Extremism: Lessons from Interwar Poland and Czechoslova." **Recent paper written out of larger project. Talk will include aspects of project not covered in paper**

Monday, March 7 -- Sanford Gordon, Cathy Hafer, & Dimitri Landa, NYU. "Consumption or Investment: Campaign Contributions and the Structure of Executive Compensation."

Monday, March 28 -- Benjamin Jones, the Kellogg School, Northwestern. "Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II."

Monday, April 4 -- Amitai Etzioni. "From Emprire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations."

Monday, April 18 -- Leonard Wantchekon, NYU. "Information, Social Networks and the Demand for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Benin."

April 22 *FRIDAY* - Northeast Methods Program

• Jas Sekhon, Harvard.
  • "Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A New Method of Achieving Balance in Observational Studies."
  • "The Varying Role of Voter Information Across Democratic Societies."
• Chris Achen, Princeton.
  • "What Kinds of Rational Choice Models Best Predict Governmental Policymaking? A Test using a Large New Dataset of European Union Decisions." [Chapter 4, Tables and Figures] [Chapter 10, Tables and Figures]
• Andrew Gelman, Columbia.
  • "Learning About Social and Political Polarization Using 'How Many X's Do You Know' Surveys." [Other References]
  • "How many people do you know in prison?: Using overdispersion in count data to estimate social structure in networks. (with Tian Zheng and Matthew J. Salganik)"

Monday, April 25 -- Robert Erikson, Columbia University. "Macro vs. Micro-Level Perspectives on Economic Voting: Is the Micro-Level Evidence Endogenously Induced?"

Tuesday, April 26 -- James Fowler, UC Davis. "Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Future."

• "Policy-Motivated Parties in Dynamic Political Competition. (with Oleg Smirnov)"
• "Elections and Markets: The Effect of Partisanship, Policy Risk, and Electoral Margins on the Economy."
• "Dynamic Responsiveness in the U.S. Senate."

Wednesday, May 4 -- Henry Brady, Berkeley. "Can Social Science Concepts, Measurements, and Data Support a Science of Human Behavior?"

Thursday, May 12 -- Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Hebrew University. "Family Fairness."