MIT Political Science Work in Progress Colloquia (WIP)

2008-09 Co-Chairs: Adam Berinsky & Orit Kedar

All meetings - except the two noted below - will take place on Fridays 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Millikan Room (E53-482)

Topics and Papers to download will be posted here as they are received.

 

Fall 2008

September 12 – Michael Piore, MIT:  

» Shifting Axes of Social Mobilization and Regimes of Work Place Governance

September 19 – Tanisha Fazal, Columbia:

» The Informalization of Interstate War

September 26 – Dan Hopkins, MIT:  

» Threatening Changes: Experimental Evidence on Americans' Responses to Immigrants

October 16 - (Thursday WIP) – Christopher Achen, Princeton:  

» Does Voluntary Voter Registration Bias American Electorates toward the Educated and Prosperous?  Using Rational Expectations to Identify and Estimate a Non-Ignorable Selection Model

October 24 – Marc Meredith, MIT:

» The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

October 31 – Thad Dunning, Yale:

» Clientelism and Democratic Stability

November 6 - (Thursday WIP) – Joanne Gowa, Princeton:

» The GATT/WTO: Theory and Practice.