American Politics Workshop Archive

April 6

John Levi Martin, University of Chicago
"An Approach to the Question of the Nationalization of Political Action from a Vaguely Field-Theoretic Perspective"

April 20

Sean Theriault, University of Texas
"The Procedurally Polarized Congress"

April 27

William Howell, University of Chicago
"Wartime Judgments of Presidential Power"

May 4

Ken Goldstein, University of Wisconsin

May 18

Tom S. Clark, Emory University
"Locating Supreme Court Opinions in 'Doctrine Space'"

June 1

Jon Rogowski, University of Chicago
"Smoke Signals: The Strategic Use of Ambiguity in Political Campaigns"

January 12

Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago
"Political Networks and the Impact of Term Limits"

January 26

Bryan Jones, University of Texas
"Can Legislators Vote Against their Preferences? Some Thoughts and a Research Program"

See also: "Is Choice Space Dimensionality a Variable?"

February 9

Jamila Celestine-Michener, University of Chicago

February 23

Thomas Holbrook, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Retrospective Politics in U.S. Cities"

March 9

John Geer, Vanderbilt University
"Political Advertising & Information"

October 6

Claudine Gay, Harvard University
"Moving Out, Moving Up: Housing Mobility and the Political Participation of the Poor"

October 20

John Hibbing, University Nebraska-Lincoln
"Connecting Genes to Political Preferences"

November 3

Zachary Callen, University of Chicago
"Local Rail Innovations: Antebellum States and Policy Diffusion"

November 17

Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago
"Reconciling Candidate and Party Brand Names"

December 1

Traci Burch, Northwestern University
"Trading Democracy For Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Voter Registration in Atlanta."

December 11

Half Day Conference: Race and the American Voter

April 7

Marlone Henderson, University of Chicago
"The Effects of an Implemental Mind-Set on Attitude Strength"

April 21

William Howell, Harris School
"Congress, in Theory: Subjecting Canonical Models of Distributive Politics to Basic (but Long Overdue) Empirical Tests"

April 28

Joan Serra, University of Chicago
"Probabilistic Ideal Points: A General Spatial Model of Voting"

May 5

Dave Campbell, Notre Dame
"Partisan Hearts, Minds, and Souls: Candidate Religion and the Activation of Partisan Voting"

May 19

Scott Adler, University of Colorado
"A Governing Theory of Legislative Organization"

June 2

Michael Bailey, Georgetown
"Does Legal Doctrine Matter? Unpacking Law and Policy Preferences on the U.S. Supreme Court"

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

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"

April 16

Eric Dickson, New York University
"Testing the Effect of Social Identity Appeals in Election Campaigns: An fMRI Study"

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"

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'"