2008-09 Co-Chairs: Adam Berinsky & Orit Kedar
All meetings will take place on Fridays or Thursdays 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Millikan Room (E53-482)
February 6 – FRIDAY – John Carey – Dartmouth:
» The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low-magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems
February 12 – THURSDAY – Rick Locke – MIT:
» Making Globalization Work For All?: Reflections on Improving Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains
March 5 – THURSDAY – Melvin Rogers – University of Virginia:
» The Fact of Sacrifice and Necessity of Faith: Dewey, Maine, and the Ethics of Democracy
April 9 – THURSDAY – Fotini Christia – MIT:
» Institutionalizing Cooperation: Public Goods Games in a Divided Society
April 24 – FRIDAY – Pradeep Chhibber – University of California, Berkeley:
» Religiosity and Representation in Indian Elections
May 1 – FRIDAY - Ben Ross Schneider – MIT:
» Varieties of Capitalism in Latin America: Liberal or Hierarchical?
May 7 – THURSDAY - Lily Tsai – MIT:
» Giving Up Power to Get Power? Nonstate Public Goods Provision and Citizen Compliance in Rural China
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:
October 24 – Marc Meredith, MIT:
» The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
October 31 – Thad Dunning, Yale:
» Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: Results from an Experiment in Mali
November 6 - (Thursday WIP) – Joanne Gowa, Princeton: