Unless noted otherwise, the seminar will meet from 4:00-5:30 PM on Friday in the department conference room (715 Broadway, 4th floor) and will be followed by the departmental happy hour.

Friday, February 2, Adam Przeworski, New York University, "Why Democracy Survives in Affluent Societies."

Friday, February 9, David Epstein and Sharon O'Halloran, Columbia University, "Legislative Organization Under Seperate Powers ".

Friday, February 16, Adam Berinksy, Princeton University, "The Search for the Voice of the People: Social Welfare Policy Opinions and Political Equality in America." (Also available as: WordPerfect )

Friday, February 23, Brandice Canes-Wrone, MIT, " Bureaucratic Decisions and the Composition of the Courts."

Friday, March 2, Kenneth Schultz, Princeton University, " Risking Peace: The Politics of Learning to Cooperate."

Friday, March 9, Jeffry Ritter, Rutgers University, TBA

Friday, March 16 Spring Break - No Seminar

THURSDAY, March 22, Donald Wittman, UC Santa Cruz, "Rational Voters and Political Advertising."

Friday, March 30, James Morrow, University of Michigan, "The Laws of War as an International Institution."
Related Paper: "The Institutional Features of the Prisoners of War Treaties"

Friday, April 6, Lee Sigelman, George Washington University, "The Rational Attacker? Negative Campaigning in Russia and the United States."

Friday, April 13, Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia and Annenberg Center, and Michael Hagen, the Annenberg Center - University of Pennsylvania. "Dynamics of the 2000 Presidential Campaign: Evidence from the Annenberg Survey."

THURSDAY, April 19, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover and New York University, "An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace."

Friday, April 27 (All presentations: Room 401 - Main Building, 33 Washington Place):

• 12:45 - 2:15 Neal Beck, UCSD, Issues in the Analysis of IR Dyad-Year Data.
  1. "Throwing Out the Baby With the Bath Water: A Comment on Green, Kim and Yoon" Table 2 Table 3 (Beck and Katz).
     • "Dirty Pool" , Green, Kim, and Yoon.
  2. "Modeling Dynamics in the Study of Conflict: A Comment on Oneal and Russett" .
• 2:30 - 4:00 Jim Snyder, MIT, "The Effects of Malapportionment on the Distribution of Public Expenditures". << Figures >>.
• 4:15-5:45 Larry Bartels, Princeton, "Beyond the Running Tally: Partisan Bias in Political Perceptions."

Friday, May 4: Anne Sartori, Princeton University, "Hawks, Doves, and Diplomats; Reputation and Communication in a Modified Hawk-Dove Games."