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Winter 2008 Workshops

January 23	John Patty, Harvard University "On the Basis and Measurement of Power in Congress" Papers: "Amendments, Covering, and Agenda Control: The Politics of Open Rules" (w/ Elizabeth Maggie Penn) "Equilibrium Party Government"
February 6	Shigeo Hirano, Columbia University "Direct and Indirect Representation"
February 20	Craig Volden, Ohio State University "Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations" (w/ Vanessa Bouché)
March 5	Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia "Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy"

Fall 2007 Workshops

September 26	Nicola Persico, New York University "Factions and Political Competition" (w/ José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita & Dan Silverman)
October 3	Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago "What Drives Media Slant?" (with Matthew Gentzkow)
October 10	John Matsusaka, University of Southern California "Institutions and Popular Control of Public Policy"
October 31	Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago "Long Term Persistence" (w/ Luigi Guiso & Paola Sapienza)
November 7	Bard Harstad, Northwestern University "Strategic Delegation and Voting Rules" Supplemental paper: Do Side Payments Help? Collective Decisions and Strategic Delegation"
November 14	David Baron, Stanford University "Morally-Motivated Self-Regulation"
December 6	Author Roundtable Chris Berry, University of Chicago Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multi-Level Governments

Spring 2007 Workshops

March 26	Sarah Anzia, University of Chicago "She Works Hard for Your Money: Congresswomen and Federal Domestic Spending" (with Christopher Berry)
April 9	Jeffrey Grynaviski, Political Science, University of Chicago "Entrenching the Machine: Political Defenses to Reform Party Challenges"
April 23	Pedro Camarinha Vicente, Oxford University "Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in West Africa"
May 7	Avinash Dixit, Princeton University "Predatory states and failing states - An agency perspective" Supplemental Paper: "Selecting Caring Bureaucrats"
May 21	Steve Ansolabehere, MIT "Constituents' Policy Perceptions and Approval of their Members of Congress"

Winter 2007 Workshops

January 22	Shanna Rose, New York University, Wagner "Accountability, Selection, and Term Limits: Theory and Evidence from U.S. State Elections" (with James Alt and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)
February 5	Alberto Simpser, University of Chicago, Political Science "A Theory of Corrupt Elections"
February 19	Navin Kartik, University of California at San Diego, Economics "A Theory of Momentum in Sequential Voting" (with Nageeb Ali)
March 5	Steve Callander, Northwestern University, Economics "A Theory of Policy Expertise"

Fall 2006 Workshops

October 2	No regular meeting. Tim Groseclose, UCLA talks at Noon in Harris School Room 140C "A Rational-Choice, Format-Theoretic Argument against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"
October 16	Randall Calvert, Washington University "Deliberation as Coordination through Cheap Talk"
October 30	Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan "The Robust Federation"
November 13	Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago "Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress"
November 27	Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago "Regime Type and Immigration"

Spring 2006 Workshops

April 4	Amrita Dhillon, Economics, University of Warwick "Enforcing Contracts"
April 18	Dimitri Landa, NYU "Challenger Entry and Voter Learning"
April 25	Christian Ponce de Leon, University of Chicago "Distributive Politics and the Poor"
May 9	Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago "Rethinking Jackson’s Bank War: Party Politics and American Monetary Union in the Antebellum Period"
May 16	Chris Berry, Public Policy, University of Chicago "The Life and Death of Federal Domestic Programs, 1970- 2004"
May 23	Tim Groseclose, UCLA "A Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument for the Inexistence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"
May 30	Ken Shepsle, Harvard University "Advising and Consenting in the 60-Vote Senate: Strategic Aspects of Supreme Court Appointments"

Winter 2006 Workshops

January 17	Boris Shor, Public Policy, University of Chicago "Testing Partisan Theories of Defense Procurement 1983-1992"
January 24	Milan Svolik, Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign "A Theory of Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes"
February 7	Zahi Ben-David, Business School, University of Chicago "Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies" (with John Graham and Campbell Harvey)
February 21	Jeff Jenkins, Political Science, Northwestern University "Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate" (with Sean Gailmard)
March 7	Roger Myerson, Economics, University of Chicago "Leadership, Trust and Constitutions"

Fall 2005 Workshops

October 4	Daniel Chen, Political Science, University of Chicago "The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Do Fiscal and Social Conservatives/Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand?"
October 11	Stephanie Waldhoff, Public Policy, University of Chicago "Economic and Political Determinants of Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Reexamining the Environmental Kuznets Curve"
October 18	Scott Basinger, Political Science & Public Policy, Stony Brook University "Congressional Campaigns and Voter Choice: A New Framework for Analyzing Aggregate Electoral Behavior"
October 25	William Bianco, Political Science, Penn State University "The Art of the Possible: Majority Rule, the Uncovered Set, and the Limits of Legislative Action"
November 1	Omar Al-Ubaydli, Economics, University of Chicago "Diamonds are a dictator's best friend: natural resources and the tradeoff between development and authoritarianism"
November 8	Brian Knight, Economics, Brown University "The Political Economy of School District Mergers"
November 15	Mike Munger, Political Science, Duke University "Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of insurgent recruitment: the role of culture"
December 6	Adrian Vermeule, Law School, University of Chicago "Absolute Voting Rules"

Spring 2005 Workshops

March 29	Jon Caverley, University of Chicago "Blood and Treasure: Testing a Theory of Democratic Defense Production"
April 12	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University "Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities"
April 26	John Duggan, University of Rochester "Private Polling in Elections and Voter Welfare"
May 5	John Roedden, MIT co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Workshop
May 10	Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago "Regime Type and Immigration"
May 24	Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago
May 31	Nolan McCarty, Princeton University "Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches"

Winter 2005 Workshops

January 4	Pedro Vicente Department of Economics, University of Chicago "Does Oil Corrupt? Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa"
January 18	Daniel Chen Department of Economics, University of Chicago "Does Religious Intensity Cause Social Violence?"
February 1	Chris Rohlfs Department of Economics, University of Chicago "How Much did the U.S. Government Value its Troops' Lives in WWII? Evidence from Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles"
February 15	Sandy Gordon Department of Political Science, NYU "Consumption or Investment? Campaign Contributions and the Structure of Executive Copensation"
February 22	Gary Cox Department of Political Science, UC San Diego "The Logic of Gamson's Law: Pre-election Coalitions and Portfolio Distributions"
March 1	George Tsebelis Department of Political Science, UCLA
March 8	Milan Svolik Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Fall 2004 Workshops

October 5	Valentin Estevez Department of Economics, University of Chicago
October 19	John Binder Department of Finance, University of Illinois Chicago
October 26	Merri Rolfe Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
November 2	David Austen-Smith Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
November 16	session cancelled
November 23	Cathy Hafer Department of Political Science, New York University
November 30	Seung Jung Lee Department of Economics, University of Chicago
December 7	Chris Berry Harris School, University of Chicago

Spring 2004 Workshops

March 30	Joan Serra, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago "Informative Dimensions: A New Model for Electoral Choice Under Uncertainty"
April 6	Casey Mulligan, Department of Economics, University of Chicago "Causes and Consequences of Political Competitiveness"
April 20	Luis Fernando Medina, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago "Toward an Operational Theory of Collective Action"
April 27	Dali Ma, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago "Blocked Mobility and Crosscutting Social Circles in the Creation of Entrepreneurship"
May 11	Michael Chwe, Department of Political Science, UCLA "Statistical Game Theory"
May 18	Adam Meirowitz, Department of Political Science, Princeton University "In Defense of Exclusionary Deliberation: Communication and Voting With Private Beliefs and Values"
June 2	Nikola Mirilovic, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago "Regime Type and Population Growth"

Winter 2004 Workshops

January 13	Thomas Stratmann, Stigler Center, University of Chicago; Department of Economics, George Mason University "The Returns to Campaign Spending"
January 27	Shang Ha, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago "Party Activists and the Ideological Polarization of American Parties"
February 10	Sven Feldmann, Harris School, University of Chicago "Lobbying Bureaucrats: Influence and Delegation Under Alternative Political Structures"
February 24	Milan Svolik, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
March 2	Leonid Polishchuk, Department of Economics and Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland "Distribution of Assets and Credibility of Property Rights"
March 9	Lindsey Leininger, Harris School, University of Chicago
March 16	Lars Frisell, Sveriges Riksbank "Populism"

Spring 2003 Workshops

April 1	Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School and CEFIR, Moscow, and CEPR
April 8	Richard Boylan, University of Alabama, Department of Economics and Finance
April 15	Rafeal Ditella, Harvard Business School
April 22	Milan Svolik, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
April 29	Tim Feddersen, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
May 13	Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
May 20	Brandice Canes-Wrone, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science
May 27	Michael Herron, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science

Winter 2003 Workshops

January 21	Eric Helland, Claremont Graduate School, Dept. of Economics, and the Stigler Center, Chicago GSB
January 28	David Figlio, University of Florida, Dept. of Economics
February 4	Mike Ensly, Indiana University, Dept. of Political Science
February 11	Barbara Kormenos, UCLA, Dept. of Political Science
February 18	John Griffin, University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Political Science
February 25	John Lott, American Enterprise Institute
March 4	Charles Shippan, University of Iowa, Dept. of Political Science
March 11	Susan Stokes, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science

Fall 2002 Workshops

October 1	Steve Callander, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Simon Wilke, Caltech "Candidate Motivation and Electoral Competition"
October 15	John Brehm, Dept. of Poltical Science, University of Chicago "Using Mixture Models as a Means to Ascertain 'Type.'"
October 29	Joan Serra, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago "Vote Choice and Economic Interest"
November 19	Steve Ansolabehere, Dept. of Political Science, MIT "Distributive Politics in the American States"
December 3	Jeff Grynavisky, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
December 6	Gary King, Harvard University "Enhancing the Validity and Cross Cultural Comparability of Survey Research"
December 10	Libor Dusek, Dept. of Economics, University of Chicago "Do governments grow when they become more efficient? Evidence from tax withholding"

Spring 2002 Workshops

April 2	John Patty, Carnegie-Mellon University
April 9	Howard Margolis, Harris School, University of Chicago
April 16	Kate Baicker, Dartmouth College and CEA "The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions"
April 23	Phillippe Aghion, Harvard University
April 30	Jim Snyder, MIT
May 7	Ken Schotts, Northwestern University "A Time to Lead and a Time to Pander: The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion"
May 14	Ken Williams, Michigan State University "Sequential and Strategic Voting in Collegial Courts: An Experimental Design"
May 21	John de Figueiredo, MIT "Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying"
May 28	Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago
June 4	Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago "An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable Public Goods"

Winter 2002 Workshops

January 15	Sharun Mukand, Tufts University
January 29	Fred Boehmke, University of Iowa
February 12	Lisa George, Michigan State University
February 26	Serguey Braguinsky, Stigler Center Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
March 12	Ken Shotts, Northwestern University

Fall 2001 Workshops

October 16	Koleman Strumpf, University of North Carolina and the Stigler Center "Assessing the Importance of Tiebout Sorting: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990"
October 30	Casey Mulligan , University of Chicago "Economic Limits to 'Rational' Democratic Redistribution"
November 13	Mike Ting, University of North Carolina "A Strategic Theory of Bureaucratic Redundancy"
November 27	Mike Bailey, Georgetown University "Campaign Contributions and Responsive Democracy: A Neo-Pluralist Approach"
December 11	Howard Margolis, Harris School, University of Chicago

Spring 2001 Workshops

March 28	Randall Kroszner, University of Chicago "Obstacles to Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms"
April 4	Christopher Berry, University of Chicago "Political Institutions and Public Finance: Some Preliminary Results"
April 18	Gregory Wawro, Columbia University "Is All Political-Economics Local? National Elections and Local Economic Conditions; or 'It's the (Local) Economy, Stupid'"
April 26	John Ferejohn, Stanford University "Institutionalizing Judicial Independence"
May 2	Arthur Lupia, University of California, San Diego "Private Interventions and Public Competence: What citizens learned from election-oriented web sites"


	Contact Information 4:00-5:30 p.m. Harris School, Room 140B 1155 East 60th Street Faculty Organizer: Chris Berry Student Coordinator: Sarah Lee E-mail: sllee@uchicago.edu


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