American Politics Workshop Archive

January 7

Boris Shor, University of Chicago
"A Bridge to Somewhere: Mapping State and Congressional Ideology on a Cross-Institutional Common Space"

January 14

Jamie Druckman, Northwestern University
"Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies"

January 28

Frederick Boehmke, University of Iowa
"Subverting Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections"

February 11

Douglas Kriner, Boston University
"Limited War and American Civic Engagement"

February 25

Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois
"Promises to Keep? Campaign Appeals and Legislative Action"

March 3

Zachary Callen, University of Chicago
"Responding to Railroad Hubs: State-Level Coordination and American Political Development"

March 10

Robert Lieberman, Columbia University
"Private Power and American Bureaucracy: The EEOC and Civil Rights Enforcement"

October 1

James Fowler, UC San Diego
"The Genetic Basis of Political Participation"

October 15

Eric Schickler, UC Berkeley
"Platforms and Partners: The Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered"

October 29

John Griffin, Notre Dame
"Political Parties and Democracy: The Case of the American South"

November 5

Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago
"Strangers vs. Neighbors: The Efficacy of Grassroots Voter Mobilization"

November 12

Becky Morton, NYU
"Delegating Disenfranchisement Decisions"
Supplemental Paper:
"How the Delegation of Voting Rights Affects the Measurement of Voting Behavior"

November 19

Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago
"A Theory of Conscription: Loyalty, Threats, and Labor Markets"

December 6

Authors Round Table for Chris Berry
more details >>

December 10

Don Green, Yale
"The Influence of Television and Radio Advertising on Candidate Evaluations: Results from a Large Scale Randomized Experiment"
See also the accompanying charts & graphs

April 2

James Gimpel, University of Maryland
"The Check is in the Mail: Interdistrict Funding Flows in Congressional Elections"
Related Papers:
"The Political Geography of Campaign Contributions in American Politics"
"Prospecting for (Campaign) Gold"

April 16

Eric Dickson, New York University
"Testing the Effect of Social Identity Appeals in Election Campaigns: An fMRI Study"
paper will be distributed via email

April 30

Zachary Callen, University of Chicago
"The Origins of Federal Involvement in Transportation Infrastructure: The Frontier, Sectionalism and the 1850 Illinois Central Railroad Land Grant"

May 14

David Primo, University of Rochester
"The Effect of Local Initiatives on Government Spending"

June 4

Paul Sniderman, Stanford University
"The Behavioral Bases of Rational Choice in Politics"

January 8

Gerald Rosenberg, University of Chicago
"Confusing Rights with Reality: Litigation for Same-Sex Marriage and the Counter-Mobilization of Law"

January 29

Greg Huber, Yale University
"The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior"

February 12

Linda Fowler, Dartmouth
"Guarding the Guardians: U. S. Senate Oversight of Foreign and Defense Policy, 1947-2004"
[PowerPoint slides]

February 26

Michael Herron, Dartmouth
"Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida"

March 12

Jeffrey Segal, SUNY at Stony Brook
"Congress, the Court, and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model"

October 9

Eric Oliver, University of Chicago
"Vote Choice in Suburban Elections"

October 23

Walter Mebane, Cornell University
"Election Forensics: Errors, Frauds, Tests and Recounts"

November 6

Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University
"The Persuadable Voter: Strategic Candidates and Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns"

November 20

Marissa Guerrero, University of Chicago
"Negotiating the Ideology of Motherhood: The Construction of Mothers on Welfare in Mainstream Leftist Media"

December 4

Lee Epstein, Northwestern University
"Extensions on 'The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees'"
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