Tuesdays, 1-2:20pm

Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall

Faculty Coordinators: Hoyt Bleakley, Edgar Franco-Vivanco, Mark Dincecco, Iain Osgood

Graduate Student Coordinator: Jun Fang

Fall 2023

9/26: Charlotte Cavaille, UM Ford School of Public Policy, "Caught in the Crossfire: World War I and the Extension of Women’s Suffrage in France"

10/10 (2:30-3:50pm, 201 Lorch): Naomi Lamoreaux, UM Law School, "General Laws and the Emergence of Durable Political Parties: The Case of Pennsylvania" (joint with Economic History Seminar) (note different time and place)  

10/24: Emily Sellars, Yale University, Political Science, "The Tightrope of State Building: Why States Centralize Power and Why Those Efforts Backfire"

11/28: Massimiliano Onorato, University of Bologna, Economics, "Borders and Conflict in Europe, 1000-1800"

Winter 2024

1/23: Jonathan Weigel, UC Berkeley, Haas Business School, "Does Collecting Taxes Erode the Accountability of Informal Leaders? Evidence from the DRC"

1/30: Yusuf Neggers, UM Ford School of Public Policy, "Updating the State: Does Easier Access to Program Information Improve Bureaucrat Performance?"

2/6: Christian Fong, UM Political Science, "Heat Shields"

3/5: Deborah Beim, UM Political Science, "The Influence of Dissenting Opinions"

3/12: Lauren Prather, UCSD, Political Science, "No Man Left Behind? Hostage Deservingness and the Politics of Hostage Recovery"

3/15 (10:00-11:15am, 5240 Weill): Vicky Fouka, Stanford University, Political Science, "Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement" (joint with International Policy Center Seminar) (note different time and place)  

3/19: Richard Clark, Cornell University, Political Science, "Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries"

4/2: Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy (joint with Economic Development Seminar), "Measuring Religion from Behavior: Economic Adversity, State Control and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan"

4/9: Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University, Economics, "Movies"