2007-08 Co-Chairs: Adam Berinsky & Orit Kedar
All meetings will take place on Fridays 12:00-1:30 in the Millikan Room (E53-482)
February 8 – Ashutosh Varshney, Michigan:
» Sparks and Fires: Revisiting the Role of the State in Ethnocommunal Violence
February 22 – Emilie Hafner-Burton, Princeton:
» Imposing Justice: How Powerful Countries Regulate Human Rights Through Preferential Trade Agreements
February 29 – Michael Ross, UCLA:
March 14 - Jamie Druckman, Northwestern:
»The Dynamics of Public Opinion: Framing Over Time
April 11 – Kimberly Morgan, George Washington:
» The Origins of Tax Systems: A French-American Comparison
April 18 – Suzanne Berger, MIT:
» The Politics of the First Globalization
April 25 – Chappell Lawson, MIT:
» Television is Evil: Candidate appearance and Candidate Quality in American Politics
May 2 – Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton:
» Electoral Institutions and Judicial Decisions
Background PaperMay 9 – Orit Kedar, MIT:
» Voting for Coalitions: Strategic Voting under Proportional Representation
September 21 – Taylor Fravel, MIT:
» China's Territorial Future: Will Conquest Pay?
September 28 – Dan Reiter, Emory University:
» The Determinants of Postwar Peace Duration, 1914-2001: Institutions, Information, and Commitments.
October 12 – Gabe Lenz, MIT:
» More Warren Hardings in our future? Television and the effects of candidate image in American elections
October 19 – Greg Huber, Yale:
» Partisanship and Economic Behavior.
October 26 – Jonathan Nagler, NYU:
» American Voter Turnout, 1972-2004
November 2 – Edward Steinfeld, MIT:
» Playing Our Game: Institutional Outsourcing in China's Energy Sector
December 7 – Frances Rosenbluth, Yale:
» Gender and Political Careers: A Comparative Labor Market Analysis of Female Political Representation