2006-07 Co-Chairs: Chappell Lawson, Lily Tsai
All meetings will take place on Fridays 12:00-1:30 in the Millikan Room (E53-482)
February 9 - Jim Snyder - MIT
Discussant: Gabriel Lenz» Measuring the Partisan Positions of Newspapers
Background Reading: Paper (pdf)
February 16 - Gabriel Lenz - MIT
Discussant: Chappell Lawson» Why Priming Is Rare: Explaining Changes in the Importance of Issues for Voters
March 2 - Adam Berinsky - MIT
Discussant:» Elections during Wartime
March 16 - Andrea Campbell - MIT
Discussant:» Tax Policy in the United States
April 6- Mariano Tommasi - Yale & Universidad de San Andrés
Discussant:» Democratic Tradeoffs? Not Necessarily. An Intertemporal Approach to Political Institutions
May 4 - Roger Petersen - MIT
Discussant: Sarah Zukerman» The Effectiveness of Conflict Intervention: Findings from Kosovo
May 11 - Ellen Lust-Okar - Yale
Discussant: Kristin Fabbe» Authoritarian Elections in the Arab World