Department Seminars are scheduled from 12:30 to 2:00 in the Department conference room (715 Broadway, 4th floor). Lunch is available beforehand.
January 28 - Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Harvard University, "LessThan the Sum of its Parts: Monitoring Legislative Teamwork in Multi-Member Districts."
February 1 - Brandice Canes-Wrone, MIT. "Presidential Pandering and Leadership."
February 4 - James Alt, Harvard University, "The Political Economy ofInstitutions and Corruption in American States." In his talk Prof. Altwill be presenting extensions on the attached paper, "FiscalTransparency, Gubernatorial Popularity, and the Scale of Government: Evidencefrom States."
February 5 - George Tsebelis, UCLA, "Agenda Setting in Politics". The talkwill be based on Prof. Tsebelis' forthcoming book, VetoPlayers: How Political Institutions Work. The chapters which are particularlyrelevant to the talk are the introductory chapter and chapters 1 and 4:
February 11 - Michael Wallerstein, Northwestern University, "Income Inequalitiesand Welfare Expenditures: How Policy Design Shapes the Patterns of Support."
February 12 - Genie Baker, New York University, "Market Realism: Differentially Risky Currencies and the Gains
from Trade under the Liberal Economic Order."
February 19 - Miriam Golden, UCLA, "The Sudden Collapse of a
One-Party Dominant System: The Case of Italy." Prof. Golden's talk will
be loosely based inon the following two articles:
February 25 - Harold Clarke, University of North Texas. "Fractional(co) Integration and Governing Party Support in Britain: A Methodological ResearchNote."
February 26 - Barry O'Neill, UCLA. The talk will be based on his book, Honor,Symbols, and War.
March 4 - John Freeman, University of Minnesota, "Democratizationand Globalization in Emerging Market Countries: An Econometric Study."
March 5 - Neal Beck, University of California at San Diego, "Thinking about
Dynamics in the Study of Political Economy." The following papers will be relevant to Prof. Beck's talk:
March 18- Bruce Western, Princeton University, "HowUnregulated in the US Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution."
April 1 - Lawrence Broz, University of California at San Diego, "TheDomestic Politics of International Bailouts: Congressional Voting on BailoutLegislation in the 1990s."
April 8 - John Huber, Columbia University, "CabinetInstability and the Accumulation of Experience in the Cabinet. The French Fourthand Fifth Republics in Cpmaparative Perspective."
April 15- Erik Gartzke, Columbia University, "Alliances,Perceptions, and International Politics."
April 22- Kelly Kadera, University of Iowa, "Witha Little Help from My Friends: Democratic Survival in the International System."
May 10 (friday) - Northeast Methodology Program
(first paper - 12:30; all presentations in room 405, Main Building :100 Washington Square East)
