AIG meets every other Friday during the academic year. The specific discussion topic for each meeting is proposed by rotating pairs of graduate student participants to promote conversations that deal directly with our participants’ current research interests and agendas.
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Meetings and Topics
Winter 2025
(List to be updated as needed)
January 31: “Presidential Cues and the Nationalization of Congressional Rhetoric, 1973–2016” by Benjamin Noble (2023). Meeting in Prefunction Room (Haven 5769)
February 14: Guest Speaker: Rachel Porter (Notre Dame) "Evaluating (in)experience in congressional elections" Meeting in Walker Room (Haven 5664)
February 28: TBD. Meeting in Prefunction Room (Haven 5769)
March 14: TBD. Meeting in Prefunction Room (Haven 5769)
March 28: TBD. Meeting in Prefunction Room (Haven 5769)
April 11: TBD. Meeting in Prefunction Room (Haven 5769)
April 25: TBD. Meeting in Prefunction Room (Haven 5769)
Past Meetings and Topics
Fall 2024
September 20: "Race, Legislative Speech, and Symbolic Representation in Congress" by Arjun Vishwanath - Meeting in the Walker Room (5664 Haven)
October 4: "On the Congress Beat: How the Structure of News Shapes Coverage of Congressional Action" by Jim Curry, Frances Lee, and Rob Oldham- Meeting in the Chairs Room (6551 Haven)
November 1: Canceled
November 15: "Residency Blues: The Unintended Consequences of Police Residency Requirements" by Julia Payson and Srinivas Parinandi - Meeting in the Walker Room (5664 Haven)
December 13: Guest Speaker: Jonathan Mummolo (Princeton University)
Winter 2024
January 19: "Agenda Control under Policy Uncertainty" by Callander & McCarty (2023).
February 16: "Conducting the Heavenly Chorus: Constituent Contact and Provoked Petitioning in Congress" by Henderson, G., Hertel-Fernandez, A., Mildenberger, M., & Stokes, L. C. (2023).
March 8: Guest Speaker: Jessica Trounstine (Vanderbilt University)
March 29: Guest Speaker: Dave Lewis
April 12: TBA
Fall 2023
September 8: September 8: "Changing the Dialogue: Descriptive Candidacies & Position Taking in Campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives” by Rachel Porter, Sarah Treul, and Maura McDonald (2022)
September 22: "How the Constitution Aggravates Polarized Politics: The Trap the Framers Left Us" by Jeremy Pope (2022).
October 6: Canceled
October 27: "Gridlock, Bureaucratic Control, and Nonstatutory Policymaking in Congress" by Alexander Bolton (2021).
November 10: Guest Speaker: Matt Grossmann (Michigan State University)
December 1: Fall 2023 Subfield Lunches
Fall 2022
September 9: TBA
September 23: TBA
October 7: TBA
October 21: TBA
November 4: TBA
November 18: TBA
December 2: Guest Speaker: Jake Grumbach (University of Washington)
Winter 2023
January 13: TBA
January 27: Guest Speaker: Jaclyn Kaslovsky (Rice University)
February 10: TBA
February 24: TBA
March 10: TBA
March 24: TBA
April 7: TBA
Winter 2022
January 21: Guest Speaker: Adam Dynes (Brigham Young University)
February 4: Ban et. al. (2021). "How Does the Rising Number of Women in the U.S. Congress Change Deliberation? Evidence from House Committee Hearings?" (Working Paper)
February 18: Eckhouse (2021). "Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing." AJPS.
March 18: Guest Speaker: Gary Hollibaugh (University of Pittsburgh)
April 1: TBA
Fall 2021
(List to be updated as needed)
September 10: Napolio and Grose (2021). "Crossing Over: Majority Party Control Affects Legislator Behavior and the Agenda.” APSR.
September 24: Krause and Byers (2021). "Confirmation Dynamics: Differential Vetting in the Appointment of U.S. Federal Agency Leaders." JOP.
October 8: Pavone and Stiansen (2021). "The Shadow Effect of Cours: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform." APSR.
October 22: Guest Speaker: Pamela Ban (UC San Diego)
November 5: Nou and Nyarko (2021). "Regulatory Diffusion." (Working Paper)
November 19: Postponed
December 3: Zelizer (2021). "Talking Shops." AJPS.
April 22: Guest Speaker: Anthony Fowler (University of Chicago)
May 6: Guest Speaker: Chris Tausanovitch (UC: Los Angeles)
Academic Year 2020-2021
October 16: Guest Speaker: Mary Kroeger (UNC Chapel Hill) "Bureaucrats as Lawmakers"
March 12: Guest Speaker: Anne Joseph O'Connell (Stanford Law) "Stand-Ins" -- Working Chapter
March 26: Jonathan Cohn (Huffington Post) "The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage"
April 9: Vanessa Williamson (Brookings Institution) "“If there is any virtue in taxation”: Reconstruction, Reaction and the Development of Taxpayer Citizenship" (Working Chapters)
Winter 2019
January 25: Clayton, et al. (2018). "All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic Legitimacy." AJPS.
February 8: Guest speaker: Dan Magleby (Binghamton)
February 22: Stiglitz (2018). "The Limits of Judicial Control and the Nondelegation Doctrine." JLEO.
March 15: Zelizer (2019). "Is Position-Taking Contagious? Evidence of Cue-Taking from Two Field Experiments in a State Legislature"APSR.
March 28: Guest speaker: Ian Turner (Yale)
April 12: Guest speaker: Will Howell (Chicago)
April 19: Guest speaker: Susan Yackee (Wisconsin)
Fall 2018
October 5: Epstein, Parker, and Segal (2018). "Do Justices Defend the Speech they Hate?" Journal of Law and Courts.
October 19: Reeves & Rogowski (2018). "The Public Cost of Unilateral Action." AJPS.
November 2: Guest speaker: Alex Acs (Ohio State)
November 30: Guest speaker: Dan Magleby (Binghamton) - RESCHEDULED
December 3: Guest speaker: Will Howell (Chicago) - RESCHEDULED
Winter 2017
January 20: MacDonald, Jason and Robert McGrath. (2016). "Retrospective Congressional Oversight and the Dynamics of Legislative Influence over the Bureaucracy." Legislative Studies Quarterly.
February 10: ten Brinke et al. (2016). "Virtues, Vices, and Political Influence in the U.S. Senate." Psychological Science.
February 24:
March 17: GUEST SPEAKER: Ian Ostrander (Michigan State University) "The Politics of Executive Nominations in the Post-Nuclear Senate" Working Paper.
April 21: Carnes, Nicholas and Eric Hansen. (2016). "Does Paying Politicians More Promote Economic Diversity in Legislatures?" American Political Science Review.
May 5: GUEST SPEAKER: Larry Rothenberg (University of Rochester) "Bureaucrats, Judges, and Societal Welfare." Working Paper.
Fall 2016
September 23: Yaver, Miranda. (2016). "Re-Setting the Agenda: Estimating Congressional Responses to Fire Alarms in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals." Working Paper. (Invited to revise and resubmit to the Journal of Politics)
October 7: Franz, Fowler, and Ridout. (2016). "Loose Cannons or Loyal Foot Soldiers? Toward a More Complex Theory of Interest Group Advertising Strategies." American Journal of Political Science.
October 21: Boushey, G. (2016) "Targeted for Diffusion? How the Use and Acceptance of Stereotypes Shape the Diffusion of Criminal Justice Policy Innovations in the American States." American Political Science Review.
November 4: The 2016 Presidential Election
November 18: Black et al. (2016). "The Influence of Public Sentiment on Supreme Court Opinion Clarity." Law and Society Review.
December 2: Bendix, William. (2016) "Bypassing Congressional Committees: Parties, Panel Rosters, and Deliberative Processes." Legislative Studies Quarterly.
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