This speaker series is sponsored by the Center in Political Economy at Washington University. All members of the Washington University community are welcome to attend. If you are a Wash. U. faculty member and are interested in presenting a paper, or for more information, please contact John W. Patty at jwpatty@wustl.edu.
WHEN & WHERE: Meetings held on Fridays from 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Seigle Hall 248 - Political Science Conference Room unless otherwise noted.11/7/08: Reputation and Civil War: Why separatist conflicts are so violent
Barbara F. Walter, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD
Bio: http://irps.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/barbara-walter.htm
11/14/08: Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Relief, and Policy Coordination in a Federation
David Wildasin, School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky
Bio: http://www.martin.uky.edu/~web/dir/faculty/wildasin/wildasin.html
12/5/08: Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: Results from an Experiment in Mali
Thad Dunning, Department of Politics, Yale University
Bio: http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/tdunning.html
1/14/08: Leadership,
Followership, and Beliefs about the World: Theory and Experiment
Eric Dickson, Department of Politics, New York University
Bio: http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/ericdickson.html
2/11/08: Voter Turnout
EITM Style: No More Garbage Can Probits
Chris Achen, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Bio: http://www.princeton.edu/politics/people/bios/index.xml?netid=achen
3/3/08: Who Abstains
in Equilibrium?
Santiago Oliveros, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
Bio: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/oliveros.html
3/17/08: Partisanship, Cascades, and the Value of
Oversight
Justin Fox, Political Science, Yale University
Bio: http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/jfox.html
3/20/08: The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and
the Demand for Progressive Taxation
Kenneth Scheve, Political Science, Yale University
Bio: http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/kscheve.html
3/24/08: Valence Competition and Platform Divergence
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies,
University of Chicago
Bio: http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/faculty/web-pages/ethan-bueno-de-mesquita.asp
4/7/08: Government Control of the Media
Scott Gehlbach, Political Science, University of Wisconsin
Bio: http://polisci.wisc.edu/gehlbach/biography.html
4/14/08: Auctioning off the Agenda: Bargaining in
Legislatures with Endogenous Scheduling
Jonathan Katz, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California
Institute of Technology
Bio: http://jkatz.caltech.edu/
4/28/08: Political
Ambition and Legislative Behavior in the European Parliament
William Bernhard, Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bio: http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/profile.asp?bernhard
5/01/08: Searching for Good Policies: Repeated
Elections, Learning, and Policy Dynamic
Steven Callander, Kellogg School of Management, MEDS, Northwestern University
Bio: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/bio/callander.htm
5/12/08: CANCELED-NO RESCHEDULE THIS SEMESTER
John Lapinski, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Bio: http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/~lapins/
9/17/07: Superpower
Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy
Shanker Satyanath, Department of Politics, NYU
10/8/07: Sex Differences in
Risk-Taking? Evidence from Female Representation in Legislatures
Dino Falaschetti, College of Law, Florida State University
10/29/07: "Why Are So Many States Moving Their
Primaries"
David Epstein, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
11/5/07: From
Many, One: State representation and the construction of American national
identity
Maggie Penn, Department of Government, Harvard University
Bio: http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/epenn/
11/12/07: Amendments,
Covering, and Agenda Control: The Politics of Open Rules
John Patty, Department of Government, Harvard University
Bio: http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/jpatty/
12/10/07: Delineating the Problem
William Galston, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Bio: http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Galston.html
12/17/07: Sophie de Grouchy and Adam Smith on
Sympathy and its Implications for Social and Political Philosophy
Karin Brown, Department of Philosophy, San Jose State University
James E. McClellan III, College of Arts & Letters, Stevens Institute of
Technology
1/29/07: Signaling Character in Electoral Competition
(with Preston McAfee)
Navin Kartik, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
2/5/07: Strategic Risk, Civil War and Intervention
Gerard Padró i Miquel, Graduate School of Business, Stanford
2/12/07: Secrecy and War: The Origins of Private
Information (with Anne Sartori)
Adam Meirowitz, Department of Politics, Princeton
2/26/07: Incumbents' Interests, Voters' Bias and Gender Quotas
(with Guillaume R. Fréchette and Francois Maniquet)
Massimo Morelli, Departments of Economics and Political Science, Ohio State
3/5/07: Cognition
and Extended Rational Choice (especially chapters 10 and 11)
Howard Margolis, Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago
3/26/07: Policy Dynamics and Legislative Bargaining (with Pohan Fong)
Daniel Diermeier, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
4/23/07: Feigning Weakness
Branislav Slantchev, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
4/30/07: Bureaucratic Decision Costs and Endogenous
Agency Expertise
Matthew Stephenson, Harvard Law School
9/11/06: The Price of Oil and the Pace of Democracy
Kristopher Ramsay, Department of Politics, Princeton
9/18/06: Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions (with Alastair Smith)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Department of Politics, NYU and Hoover Institution, Stanford
***SPECIAL PLACE AND TIME: 12:00 - 1:30 pm in Eliot 200-F***
10/9/06: Political Dynasties (with Pedro Dal Bó and Jason Snyder)
Ernesto Dal Bó, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
10/16/06: Segregation and Black Civic Efficacy
(with Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat)
Ebonya Washington, Departments of Economics and Political Science, Yale
10/30/06: Policy Dynamics and Efficiency in
Proportional Representation Parliamentary Democracies (with Daniel Diermeier and Pohan Fong)
David Baron, Graduate School of Business, Stanford
2/6/06: Ethical Voting and
Costly Information Acquisition
Tim Feddersen, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
2/20/06: Risk, Uncertainty and Economic Development: A
Comparison of World Regions
Hilton Root, Department of Economics, Pitzer College
***THIS TALK WILL BE HELD FROM 2-3:30 IN ELIOT 300 (WEIDENBAUM CONFERENCE ROOM)***
2/27/06: Narrow Interests or the Scandinavian
Experience: The Institutional Foundations of Societal Investment (with Brandon
C. Zicha)
Katri Sieberg, Department of Political Science, Binghamton University
3/6/06: Bribery and Corruption: The Role
of Corruption Control Mechanisms (with Jean Paul Azam and Jonathan Goyette)
Bernard Gauthier, Institute d'economie applique, HEC Montreal
3/27/06: Contestable Leaderships: Party
Discipline and Vote Buying in Legislatures
Matias Iaryczower, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech
4/10/06: Constraining Conflict: Multiparty Government and Legislative Review
Georg Vanberg, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina
10/10/05: In Defense of Comparative
Statics Analysis: A Comment on Signorino's Treatment of Empirical Tests
of Theoretical Models.
Cliff Carrubba, Department of Politcal Science, Emory University
***THIS TALK WILL BE HELD IN ELIOT 300 (WEIDENBAUM CONFERENCE ROOM)***
10/24/05: Leadership,
Trust, and Constitutions.
Roger Myerson, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
2/28/05: Retrospective Voting in Single
Function Elections: School Boards and Student Achievement. (with William Howell)
Christopher Berry, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
3/14/05: Campaign Effects with Ambiguity Averse Voters
Scott Ashworth, Department of Politics, Princeton
3/21/05: Income and Democracy (with
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and Pierre Yared)
James
Robinson, Department of Government, Harvard
3/28/05: Social Identity, Political Speech, and Electoral Competition (with Ken Scheve)
Eric Dickson, Department of Politics, NYU
4/4/05: Electoral Institutions
and Incentives to Cultivate Favored Minorities: Evidence from Japanese
Electoral Reforms
Shigeo Hirano, Department of Politics, NYU
4/18/05: Media Markets' Impact on Politics (with David Strömberg)
James Snyder, Departments of Economics and Political Science, MIT
5/2/05:A Dynamic Model of Legislative
Policy Making (with Steve Coate)
Marco Battaglini, Department of Economics, Princeton
9/20/04: Deliberation,
Unanimity Rule and Majority Rule. (with Tim Feddersen)
David
Austen-Smith, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
10/4/04: Damned Lies, and Political Campaigns.
(with Simon Wilkie)
Steve Callander, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
10/11/04: Control of Elected Prosecutors. (with Brandice Canes-Wrone
and Michael Herron)
Ken Shotts, Graduate School of Business, Stanford
10/18/04: Public Goods in
Federal Unions. (with Dimitri Landa)
Catherine Hafer, Department of Politics, NYU
10/25/04: Public Goods, Redistribution,
and Constitutional Design. (with Alessandro Lizzeri)
Nicola Persico, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
3/29/04: Pre-Negotiation
Public Commitment in Domestic and International Bargaining (with Ahmer Tara)
Bahar Leventoglu, Department of Political Science, SUNY Stony Brook
4/12/04: The Political
Economy of “Truth-in-Advertising� Regulation during the Progressive Era. (with Marc T. Law)
Zeynep Hansen, Olin School of Business, Washington University
4/19/04: Why
Do Incumbent Senators Win? Evidence from a Dynamic Selection
Model.(with Matthew F. Mitchell and Andrea
Moro)
Gautham Gowrisankaran, Olin School of Business, Washington University
4/26/04: Bargaining in the
Presence of a Strategic Ratifier.
N. Macartan Humphreys, Department of Political Science, Columbia
5/10/04: An Experimental
Study of Storable Votes (with Andrew Gelman and
Thomas Palfrey)
Alessandra Cassela, Department of Economics, Columbia