Seminars this Semester


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


"Satisficing and/or Policy-Seeking Party Leaders"
Tuesday In-House Seminar
Mik Laver (NYU)
09/15/2009 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


"Confirmation Bias in the United States Supreme Court Judicial Database"
Anna Harvey (NYU)
09/22/2009 ( - )
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


"Paternalism and Welfare"
Political Economy Workshop
Nolan McCarty (Princeton University, WWS)
10/02/2009 ( - )
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


"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


"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


"Family Ties."
Political Economy Workshop
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University)
10/16/2009 ( - )
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


"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


TBA
Political Economy Workshop
William Easterly (NYU)
10/30/2009 ( - )
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


"Economic Facts and Economic Voting"
Political Economy Workshop
Stephen Ansolabehere (Harvard University)
11/06/2009 ( - )
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


“Pivotal Patronage”
Political Economy Workshop
Alastair Smith (NYU)
11/13/2009 ( - )
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


"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


TBA
Tuesday In-House Seminar
Jan Sauerman (NYU (Visiting Scholar))
12/01/2009 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217


TBA
Political Economy Workshop
Thomas Romer (Princeton University, WWS)
12/04/2009 ( - )
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


TBA
Tuesday In-House Seminar
Joshua Tucker (NYU)
12/15/2009 ( - )
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 217