Fall 2009
"Confirmation Bias in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database" Anna Harvey (NYU) 09/22/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Economic Facts and Economic Voting" Political Economy Workshop Stephen Ansolabehere (Harvard University) 11/06/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals." Political Economy Workshop Ebonya Washington (Yale University) 10/09/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Electoral Competition when Candidates are Better Informed than Voters." Tuesday In-House Seminar Thomas Jensen (NYU (Visiting Scholar)) 11/03/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Family Ties." Political Economy Workshop Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) 10/16/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation" Tuesday In-House Seminar Steven Brams (NYU) 10/06/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Let the Experts Decide? Asymmetric Information, Abstention, and Coordination in Standing Committees" Tuesday In-House Seminar Rebecca Morton (NYU) 11/24/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Media Market Structure and Political Participation: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers" Political Economy Workshop Jesse Shapiro (Chicago, GSB) 10/23/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Old Wine in a New and Improved Bottle: Prospective Economic Voting in the 2008 US Presidential Elections.” Tuesday In-House Seminar Joshua Tucker (NYU) 12/08/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Opinion Leadership, Backlash, and Delegitimation: Supreme Court Rulings and Public Opinion" Tuesday In-House Seminar Patrick Egan (NYU) 10/27/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Satisficing and/or Policy-Seeking Party Leaders" Tuesday In-House Seminar Mik Laver (NYU) 09/15/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Scholasticism in Political Science" Tuesday In-House Seminar Lawrence Mead (NYU) 11/17/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Shares, Coalition Formation and Political Development: Evidence from 17th Century England" Political Economy Workshop Saumitra Jha (Stanford GSB) 12/11/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Taxes, Institutions and Governance: Evidence from Colonial Nigeria" Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars Daniel Berger (NYU) 09/24/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"The Impact of Electoral Laws on Turnout - A Cross-sectional Time-Series Analysis" Tuesday In-House Seminar Jonathan Nagler (NYU) 11/10/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"The Origin of Parties. Theory, and Evidence from the United States Congress 1789-1801" Tuesday In-House Seminar Jon Eguia (NYU) 10/13/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"The Twilight of the Setter? Local School Finance in a Period of Institutional Change." Political Economy Workshop Thomas Romer (Princeton University, WWS) 12/04/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
Identification, Inference, and Sensitivity Analysis for Casual Mediation Effects Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars Luke Keele (Ohio State University) 02/02/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Paternalism and Welfare" Political Economy Workshop Nolan McCarty (Princeton University, WWS) 10/02/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
TBA Political Economy Workshop William Easterly (NYU) 10/30/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
TBA Tuesday In-House Seminar Jan Sauerman (NYU (Visiting Scholar)) 12/01/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
“Pivotal Patronage” Political Economy Workshop Alastair Smith (NYU) 11/13/2009 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217

Spring 2010
"Deliberation, Single-Peakedness, and the Possibility of Meaningful Democracy: Evidence from Deliberative Polls" External Speakers Series Christian List (LSE) 02/09/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"How the West Invented Fertility Restriction." Political Economy Workshop Nico Voigtlaender (Anderson/UCLA) 04/02/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Oil, Conflict, and Stability" External Speakers Series Kevin Morrison (Cornell) 03/23/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"On the Demos and its Kin" External Speakers Series Arash Abizadeh (McGill) 03/30/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: Theory and Evidence from Pre-1914 Germany" External Speakers Series Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) 03/04/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"The Legal Doctrine Constraint" External Speakers Series Mike Bailey (Georgetown) 04/13/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
"To Elect or to Appoint? Bias, Information, and Responsiveness of Bureaucrats and Politicians." (co-authors Garrett Lewis and Matt Shum) Political Economy Workshop Matias Iaryczower (Caltech) 03/05/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
A Theory of Learning and Coordination in the Presidential Primary System Political Economy Workshop Mattias Polborn (University of Illinois) 02/26/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
Can Hearts and Minds be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq External Speakers Series Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University) 02/02/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
Civil War and Social Capital: Evidence from Nepal Internal Speakers Series Michael Gilligan (NYU) 04/27/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
Investment and Bargaining: Equilibrium Constraints on Prior Beliefs in Bargaining Problems (co-author Kristopher W. Ramsay) Political Economy Workshop Adam Meirowitz (Princeton University) 04/30/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
Optimal Domestic Constraints in International Crises (with Kristopher W. Ramsay) Political Economy Workshop Scott Ashworth (Harris School) 05/07/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
Surviving Disasters Internal Speakers Series Alejandro Quiroz Flores and Alastair Smith (NYU) 02/23/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
TBA Political Economy Workshop Emir Kamenica (Booth/University of Chicago) 04/16/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
“Courts of Many Minds” and "Epistemic Aspects of Representative Government" External Speakers Series Robert Goodin (Australian Nation University) 05/20/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 212
“Executive Control vs. Bureaucratic Insulation: Evidence from General Services Administration Contracting” Internal Speakers Series Sanford Gordon (NYU) 03/09/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217
“Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs" Political Economy Workshop Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (Harris/University of Chicago) 02/19/2010 ( - ) Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217