2008-2009 MIT American Politics Speaker Series
All presentations are from 4-5:30 PM on Mondays in the Millikan Room (E53-482)
Spring 2009
February 9, 2009 – Wendy Tam Cho, University of Illinois
"Legislative Success in a Small World: Social Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Congressional Legislation"
March 9, 2009 – Markus Prior, Princeton University
"Who Cares? Development and Stability of Political Interest"
April 13, 2009 – Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
CANCELLED
May 11, 2009: Nancy Burns, University of Michigan
"Gender and Public Opinion"
Fall 2009
September 22, 2008 – John Patty, Harvard
"Politics of Biased Information and Oversight"
October 20, 2008 – Larry Bartels, Princeton
-"The Opinion-Policy Disconnect: Cross-National Spending Preferences and Democratic Representation"
November 10, 2008 – Sarah Binder, George Washington
December 1, 2008 – Claudine Gay, Harvard
"Moving Out, Moving Up: Housing Mobility and the Political Participation of the Poor"
