FALL 2007 - SPRING 2008
September 28, 2007
"Title TBA"
- Speaker: Phil Paolino, NSF
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
October 1, 2007
"Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize
Authoritarian Regimes"
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- Speaker: Holger Kern, Ph.D. Candidate,
Cornell University; Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
October 12, 2007
"Culture Wars, Voting, and Polarization: Divisions and Unities in
Modern American Politics"
- Speaker: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
- Time: Lunch will be provided for seminar attendees
starting at noon, and the seminar will run from 12:30-2:00 p.m.
- Location: Tuck School of Business, Room 107 (the Conway
Room)
- This talk is co-sponsored by the Applied Statistics Working
Group http://www.dartmouth.edu/~stats/
November 2, 2007
"Degrees of Democracy: Government Institutions and the
Opinion-Policy Link" Click here to
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- Speaker: Christopher Wlezien, Temple University
- Time: 3 p.m.
- Location: 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
November 30, 2007
This talk is part of our Law and Politics
Program.
"TBA"
- Speaker: David O.Brien, University of Virginia
- Time: 12:30 p.m.
- Location: 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
January 18, 2008
This talk is part of our Law and Politics
Program.
"Political Competition as an Obstacle to Judicial Independence in
Electoral Democracies" Click here to download
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- Speaker: Maria Popova, McGill University
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
February 6, 2008
"Seats/Votes Responsiveness and Bias with Ideological
Voters"
- Speaker: William Leblanc, Yale University, Center for the Study of American
Politics
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
- This talk is co-sponsored by the Applied Statistics Working
Group http://www.dartmouth.edu/~stats/
February 8, 2008
This talk is part of our Law and Politics
Program.
"Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging" Click here to
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- Speaker: Andrew Martin, Washington University
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
- This talk is co-sponsored by the Applied Statistics Working
Group http://www.dartmouth.edu/~stats/
May 16, 2008
This talk is part of our Law and Politics
Program.
"The Fortune of Machiavelli's Unarmed Prophet"
- Speaker: John T. Scott, University of
California-Davis
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
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[Previous years' schedules of talks appear
below.]
FALL 2006 - SPRING 2007
October 27, 2006
"Party Polarization and Representation" Click here to
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- Speaker: John Griffin, University of Notre Dame
- Time: 12:15-1:30 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
November 3, 2006
"Party Discipline in the Contemporary Congress:
Rewarding Loyalty Using the Legislative Calendar" Click here to
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- Speaker: Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
January 12, 2007
"Holding out for a Hero: Crisis, Leadership, and Vote Choice"
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- Speaker: Jennifer Merolla, Claremont Graduate
University
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
January 19, 2007
"Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of
the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida" http://www.dartmouth.edu/~herron/cd13.pdf
- Speaker: Michael Herron, Dartmouth College
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
January 26, 2007
"Looking for Sex in All the Wrong Places: Press
Coverage of Gubernatorial Candidates, 1990 – 1997" Click here to
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- Speaker: Linda Fowler, Dartmouth College
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
March 2, 2006
"Are Political Markets Really Superior to Polls as Election
Predictors?" Click here to
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- Speaker: Robert Erikson, Columbia University
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
April 6, 2007
"How the Emotional Tenor of Campaigns Affects Political Behavior"
May 4, 2007
This talk is part of our Law and Politics
Program.
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
- Speaker: Bradley A. Smith, Capital University Law
School
- Time: TBA
- Location: TBA
May 11, 2007
"Moral Bias in Elections: Theory and Experimental
Evidence"
- Speaker: Sean Gailmard, Northwestern University
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- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
May 21, 2007
This talk is part of our Law and Politics
Program.
"Law's Allure: The Juridification of American Politics" Click here to
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- Speaker: Gordon Silverstein, University of California -
Berkeley
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
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SUMMER 2005 - SPRING 2006
July 18, 2005
"Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Reality of a Polarized
America"
October 14, 2005"
"Presidents and the Politicization of the United States Federal
Government, 1988-2004"
November 11, 2005
"While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War
Powers" Click here to download
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- Speaker: William Howell, Harvard University
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
JANUARY 27, 2006
"Qualitative Insights for Quantitative Analysts: Causal
Heterogeneity, Complexity and Contingency"
FEBRUARY 17, 2006
"School Lotteries and Voter Turnout"
MARCH 17, 2006
"Supreme Constraints: Decision-making on the U.S. Supreme
Court"
- Speaker: Forrest Maltzman, George Washington
University
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
APRIL 7, 2006
"Uncovering the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising"
JUNE 9, 2006
"From Punchcards to Touchscreens: Some Evidence from Pasco
County, Florida on the Effects of Changing Voting Technology"
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FALL 2004 - SPRING 2005
September 28, 2004
"The Tides of Opinion: The American Mass Public During the New Deal
and WWII"
- Speaker: Eric Schickler, Harvard University
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
October 12, 2004
"Welfare and the Multi-faceted Decision to Move"
- Speaker: Michael Bailey, Georgetown University
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
February 21, 2005
"Climbing and Clawing Their Way to the U.S. Senate: Political
Ambition and Career Building, 1880-1913"
- Speaker: Wendy Schiller, Brown University
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 208 Rockefeller
March 8, 2005
"Politics Meets Political Science: A Very Small-N Study of
Congressional Campaigns"
- Speaker: Jeffrey R. Smith, Visitor, Dartmouth College
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
April 4, 2005
"Assuming the Costs of War: Events, Elites, and the American
Public" http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/war.pdf
- Speaker: Adam Berinsky, M.I.T.
- Time: 4-5:30 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
April 29, 2005
"The Legislative Median and Partisan Policy" Click here to
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- Speaker: Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
May 6, 2005
"Assessing the Four Dimensions of Campaign Tone: An early look at
some new experimental results"
- Speaker: Deborah Brooks, Dartmouth College
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
MAY 19, 2005
"Political Corruption in America" Click here to
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- Speaker: Richard Winters, Dartmouth College
- Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
- Location: 209 Rockefeller
May 25, 2005
"Emotion, Group Cues, and Public Opinion on
Immigration" Click here to
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- Speaker: Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan
- Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
- Location: 215 Silsby
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