The UW-Madison American Politics Workshop is a multidisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students that meets every other Monday at noon in 422 North Hall to discuss new and ongoing research projects in American Politics. A typical workshop meeting will open with 10-15 minutes of comments by the paper author followed by an hour of discussion. Papers are posted online for reading one week prior to the meeting. Faculty and graduate students wishing to present at the workshop should send an email to David Canon.
Fall 2009 (the workshop meets from noon-1:15 in the Ogg Room on Mondays)
• November 16, Hans Noel, Georgetown University, "It's not Personal; It's Strictly Business: A Social Network Analysis of Presidential Endorsements, 1972-2008."
• November 2, Sara Dahill-Brown and Lesley Lavery,University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Implementing Federal Policy: Confronting State Capacity and Will."
• October 26: Kathy Cramer Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Rural Republicans? Conservative Democrats? Listening to the Content of Partisanship."
• October 19: Stéphane Lavertu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, practice job talk, "Political Conflict and Bureaucratic Politics"
• October 12: Amber Wichowsky, University of Wisconsin, Madison, practice job talk, "The Variable Effect of Congressional Competition on Incumbent Accountability: A Multilevel Model."
• September 28: Barry Burden, David Canon, Ken Mayer, and Don Moynihan, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Effects and Costs of Early Voting, Election Day Registration, and Same Day Registration in the 2008 Elections.”
• September 21: organizational meeting.
• September 14: Chris Achen, Princeton University, Department of Politics, Paper download: "It Feels Like We’re Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter and Electoral Democracy” Tables Download click here: (with Larry Bartels)
Spring 2009
• February 16: Amber Wichowsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "Throw the Bums Out: Competition & Accountability in Congressional Elections"
• February 23: Michael Tofias (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Political Science): "Passing the Bucks: The Congressional Contribution Network 1985-2006"
• March 2: Michael Franz (Bowdoin College, Government & Legal Studies): "The Effects of Advertising Content on Voter Evaluations and Choice"
• March 9: Barry Burden (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending"
• March 23: James Gimpel (University of Maryland, Government & Politics): "Rough Terrain Spatial Variation In Political Participation" (20+ MB)
• April 6: Amnon Cavari (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "The Interplay of Macropartisanship and Macrohandling"
• April 20: John Petrocik (University of Missouri, Political Science): "The 2008 Presidential Contest: Big Change? More of the Same?"
• May 4: Matt Holleque & Sarah Niebler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "Does Campaign Advertising Get Out the Vote?"
Fall 2008
• September 15: Heidi Swarts (Rutgers University-Newark, Political Science): "Forging Unity Across the Class Divide: The Techniques of Congregation-Based Community Organizing"
• September 29: Kathy Walsh (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "Connecting Economic Interests & Policy Preferences: The Role of Attitudes Toward Authority "
• October 13: Meghan Condon, Jason Engle, Amber Wichowsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "The Gender Gap in Ideology Revisited"
• October 22 : Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto (Northwestern University) & Jennifer L. Merolla (Claremont Graduate University): "Hitting the Mark? The Effect of Ethnically Targeted Campaigns in the 2000 Presidential Election"
• October 27: Tracy Sulkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science): "Campaign Appeals & Legislative Action"
• November 10: Elections Roundtable - Barry Burden, Charles Franklin and Byron Shafer
• November 24: No APW Meeting. Happy Thanksgiving!
• December 8: Mark Rom (Georgetown University, Political Science): "Laboratories of Democracy: State Electoral Processes"