Seminars this Semester

"Policing Politicians: Citizen Empowerment and Political Accountability in Uganda."
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University)
02/21/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War."
Ethnic Politics Seminars
Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute, Behavioral Sciences)
02/22/2008 ( - )
Location: Columbia University


"Congress, Lawmaking and Political Failure? The Case of the Fair Labor Standards Act."
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Joshua Clinton (Princeton University)
02/26/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"(Aspects of) spatial competition between adaptive agents."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Michael Laver (New York University)
02/27/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Strategic Militarization, Deterrence, and Wars."
Political Economy Workshop
Massimo Morelli (Columbia University)
02/29/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Incentive Compatibilty Implies Signed Covariance."
Political Economy Workshop
Michael Chwe (UCLA)
03/05/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 517


"Assessing Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Sanford Gordon (New York University)
03/12/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation."
Ethnic Politics Seminars
Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University, Dept. of Economics)
03/14/2008 ( - )
Location: Columbia University


"Taxes, Institutions and Governance: Evidence from Colonial Nigeria"; "TBA."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Daniel Berger; TBA (New York University)
03/26/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Globalization, the Welfare Gap, and the Rise of the Left in Latin America."
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Susan Stokes (Yale University)
03/27/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Strategic Redistricting."
Political Economy Workshop
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University)
03/28/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 101


"A Day by Day Measure of Legislator Ideology: Non-parametric Smoothing of Legislator Ideal Points with Nearest Neighborhood Estimators and Optimal Classification"; "Planned Missingness with Multiple Imputation: enabling the use of exit polls to reduce measurement error in surveys"; "Priorities and Partisanship: An Algorithim for Machine-Assisted Coding of Short Text Responses."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Adam Bonica; Marco Morales; Melanie Goodrich (New York University)
03/31/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


“International System and Internal Conflict: The End of the Cold War Effect."
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University)
04/01/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Political Regimes, Redistribution and Poverty: An Empirical Investigation"; "Coups, Elections and the Predatory State."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Tolga Sinmazdemir; Anjali Thomas Bohlken (New York University)
04/02/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Muslim Integration into EU Societies: Comparative Perspectives."
Ethnic Politics Seminars
David Laitin (Stanford University, Dept. of Political Science)
04/04/2008 ( - )
Location: Columbia University


"A Model of Endogenous Government Formation."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Anna Bassi (New York University)
04/07/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Elections, Ethnic Identity Salience, and Cooperation: An Experiment on Public Goods Provision."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Kristin Michelitch (New York University)
04/09/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Authoritarian elections and leadership succession, 1975-2000."
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Gary Cox (University of California San Diergo)
04/10/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West Fourth Street, Room 217


“The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Congresswomen and the Distribution of Federal Spending.”
Political Economy Workshop
Christopher Berry (Harris/Chicago)
04/11/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 101


"Which Way is the Rich Way? The Micro-Macro Paradox of EU Accession."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Joshua Tucker & Alex Herzog (New York University)
04/16/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


“Fighting Neighbors or Fighting the State: Subnational Variation in Immigrant Conflict Outcomes.”
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Rafaela Dancygier (Princeton University)
04/17/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


Northeast Political Methodology Meeting
Michael Herron (Dartmouth); Kevin Quinn (Harvard); Nathaniel Beck (NYU) ()
04/18/2008 ( - )
Location: Kimmel Center, LaGuardia Place at West 4th St., Room 914


“When do legislators pass on ‘pork’? The Role of Political Parties and Affirmative Action in Determining Legislator Effort.”
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
Philip Keefer (World Bank)
04/24/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Moral Bias in Large Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence."
Political Economy Workshop
Tim Feddersen (Kellogg/Northwestern)
04/25/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Do Participants and Observers Assess Intentions Differently During Bargaining and Conflict? An Experiment."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Eric Dickson (New York University)
04/28/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games."
Wednesday In-House Seminar
Steven J. Brams (New York University)
04/30/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"When Parties Meet Voters: Partisan Networks and Distributive Expectations in Argentina and Chile."
Politics Tues/Thurs Seminars
M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)
05/01/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


“Combinatorial Voting.”
Political Economy Workshop
Santiago Oliveros (Haas/Berkeley)
05/02/2008 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"A selection from 'Race Counting in America: Past, Present and future,' a book in progress."
Ethnic Politics Seminars
Kenneth Prewitt (Columbia University, SIPA)
05/02/2008 ( - )
Location: Columbia University