Past Speaker Schedule and Paper Downloads

Spring 2011

Thursday, February 17th
Ernesto Dal Bó (webpage)
Associate Professor
Haas School of Business
University of California-Berkeley
Term Length and the Effort of Politicians
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Wednesday, March 9th (Co-sponsored with the Comparative Politics Colloquium)
Yasushi Asako (webpage)
Economist
Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan
Dynastic Legislators: Theory and Evidence from Japan
1:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 14th
Jennifer Alix-Garcia (webpage)
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Inequality, Civic Participation, and the Allocation of Collective Profits
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 21st
Bonnie M. Meguid (webpage)
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
Endogenous Institutions: The Origins of Compulsory Voting Laws
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Monday, April 25th (Co-sponsored with the Chinese Politics Workshop)
Xin Meng (webpage)
Professor
Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences
Australia National University
Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 28th (Sponsored by WAGE and the La Follette School of Public Affairs)
Conference on Long-Term Unemployment in Industrial Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses (webpage)
 Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
9 am-5 pm

Fall 2010

Thursday, September 16th
Lisa Blaydes (webpage)
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, October 14th
Adam Meirowitz (webpage)
John Work Garrett Professor of Politics
Department of Politics
Princeton University
Credible Commitments and Retractable Offers in Crisis Bargaining (with Kris Ramsay)
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, October 28th
Alexandre Debs (webpage) and Nuno Monteiro (webpage)
Assistant Professors
Department of Political Science
Yale University
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself? Nuclear Proliferation and Preventive War
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Spring 2010

Thursday, February 4th
Steven N. Durlauf (webpage)
Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Social Interactions"
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, February 18th
Jennifer Gandhi (webpage)
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Emory University
Coordination among Opposition Parties in Authoritarian Elections
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, March 4th
James M. Snyder, Jr. (webpage)
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Returns to U.S. Congressional Seats in the Mid-19th Century
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, May 6th
Laura Schechter (webpage)
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vote Buying and Reciprocity
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Fall 2009

Thursday, September 17th
Scott Ashworth (webpage)
Associate Professor
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
"When are Audience Costs Socially Optimal?"
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, September 24th
Rawi Abdelal (webpage) [Co-sponsored by CREECA]
Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
"The Rise of Gazprom: Profits and Politics"
4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall (Note the different time and location)

Thursday, October 8th
Rohini Pande (webpage)
Mohanmmed Kamal Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Can Voters be Primed to Choose Better Legislators? Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Rural India"
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, November 19th
Konstantin Sonin (webpage)
 Visiting Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Georgy Egorov (webpage)
 Senior Lecturer of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences/Donald P. Jacobs Scholar
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments"
11:45 a.m., 422 North Hall

Spring 2009

Thursday, January 29
Michael Carter (webpage), Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics
John Morrow, PhD Candidate of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Politics of Economic Polarization in Peru"
11:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, February 19
James Montgomery (webpage)
Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Intergenerational Cultural Transmission as an Evolutionary Game"
12:30 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall

Thursday,March 12
Craig Volden (webpage)
 Professor of Political Science
Ohio State University
"Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations"
11:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 9
Elizabeth Maggie Penn (webpage)
Assistant Professor of Government
Harvard University
"Strategic Manipulation in Representative Institutions"
11:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 16
Peter Lorentzen (webpage)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California-Berkeley
"Deliberately Incomplete Press Censorship"
11:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 30
Stanislav Markus
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Chicago
"Property Rights from Property Fights"
11:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Fall 2008

Thursday, September 18
Yasushi Asako (webpage)
PhD Candidate of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Partially Binding Platforms in Electoral Competition"
12:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, September 25
Jennifer Brick (webpage)
PhD Candidate of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Political Economy of Customary Village Organizations in Rural Afghanistan"
4:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall

Thursday,October 16
Scott Gehlbach (webpage)
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Government Control of the Media"
12:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, October 23
Filipe Campante (webpage)
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
"Redistribution in a Model of Voting and Campaign Contributions"
12:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, November 13
John Huber(webpage)
Professor of Political Science
Columbia University
"Redistribution and Pork in Two-Party Competition"
 12:30 p.m., 422 North Hall

 

Spring 2008

Thursday, February 14
Ben Ansell (webpage)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Minnesota
"Bubbling Under: Political Preferences During Asset Bubbles"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, February 28
Sarah Brooks (webpage)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
The Ohio State University
“Embedding Neoliberal Reform in Latin America” 
11: 30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, March 27
Ahmer Tarar (webpage)
Associate Professor of Political Science
Texas A&M University
"Bargaining and Signaling in International Crises"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 10
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (webpage)
Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago
"Terrorist Factions"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall


Fall 2007

Thursday, October 4
Menzie Chinn (webpage)
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
 University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Measuring Currency Misalignment: Theories, Models, and the Chinese Yuan"
 12 noon, 422 North Hall

Thursday, October 18
Nathan Jensen (webpage)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Washington University in St. Louis
"Where Do U.S. Multinationals Pay Taxes?"
12 noon, 422 North Hall

Thursday, December 6
Yoshikuni Ono
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Intra-Party Allocation in Japan 
12 noon, 422 North Hall

Spring 2007

Thursday, February 15
Timothy Fry
Professor
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
"Property Rights and Property Wrongs in Russia"
4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
(co-sponsored by CREECA)

Thurday, February 22
John Nye
Professor
Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis
"The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, March 15
Kenneth Scheve
Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University
"Political Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall
(co-sponsored by WAGE and APD Workshop)

Thursday, March 22
Ilia Murtazashvili
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Private Provision of Public Law: Contracting in the Great Society,"
Based on Chapters Two and Three of The Political Economy of Private-Order Property Systems: Informal Contracting and the Emergence of Legal Titles in the United States (dissertation)
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 19
Alberto Simpser
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
"A Theory of Elections with Electoral Corruption"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, May 3
Daniel Treisman
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
"Policy Decentralization and Policy Experimentation" (with Hongbin Cai)
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

 

Fall 2006

Friday, September 8
Daniel Diermeier
IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
"Bicameralism and Government Formation"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, September 29
Joshua Tucker
Associate Professor
Department of Politics
New York University
"Pathways to Partisanship: Evidence from Russia"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall
(co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science)
Addtional reading

Thursday, October 5
Monika Nalepa
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Rice University
"Why Do Post-Communist Parties in New Democracies Hurt Themselves? A Model of Strategic Preemption"
4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham
(co-sponsored by CREECA)

Friday, October 20
Edmund Malesky
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
"Re-Thinking the Obsolescing Bargain: Do Foreign Investors Really Surrender ther Influence over Economic Reform in Transition States?"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, November 3
Henry Brady
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
"Why do the Rich Contribute so Much to Political Campaigns? Some Surprising Results from a Formal Model"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, November 17
Randall Calvert
Thomas S. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Department of Political Science
Washington University in Saint Louis
"Deliberation as Coordination through Cheap Talk"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, December 1
Justin Fox
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University
"Electoral Donations and Interest Group Influence"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Spring 2006

Thursday, January 26
Philip Keefer
Senior Research Economist
Development Research Group
The World Bank
"Clientelism, Credibility and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies"
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, February 9
Songying Fang
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota
"Electoral Incentives and the Pacific Effect of International Institutions"
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, October 5
Randall Stone
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
 "Formalizing Informal Cooperation: Norm-Based Cooperation and the European Stability and Growth Pact"
9:30 a.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, March 9
Jenna Bednar
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
The Robust Federation
Chapter 7, Chapter 8
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, March 30
Santiago Oliveros
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Information Acquisition and Flexible Preferences in Committees", Appendix
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, April 13
Matt Dimick, Department of Sociology
Scott Gehlbach, Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Political Transitions in Warring States"
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall