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)
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.