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American Politics Seminars

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"    Click here to download PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • 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 PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • 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"   Click here to download PDF

  • 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 download PDF

    • 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 download

    • 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"  

  • Speaker: Ted Brader, University of Michigan  Click here to download
  • Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
  • Location: 215 Silsby

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  Click here to download
  • 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 download

  • 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 PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • 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 download PDF

  • Speaker: Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan
  • Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
  • Location: 215 Silsby

 

Last Updated: 2/19/08