"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