Tuesdays, 1-2:20pm

Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall

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

Graduate Student Coordinators: Pedro Luz de Castro and Zhen Zhang

Fall 2026

9/15 (4:00-5:20pm, Weill 3240): Vincent Pons, Harvard Business School, "The Global Incumbency Advantage" (joint with UM Democracy Week) (note different time and place)

9/29: Kenneth Scheve, University of Notre Dame, "Market Power and Distorted Democracy in the Progressive Era"

10/1 (2:30-3:50pm, 4325 North Quad): Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Brown University, "Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860-1911" (joint with Economic Development Seminar) (note different time and place)

11/3: Avidit Acharya, Stanford University, "Partisan Alignment and Extremism in Multidimensional Elections: Voter Welfare and Polarization"

11/10: Valentin Figueroa, MIT (joint with Economic History Workshop)

12/8: Adam Liu, National University of Singapore, "The Political Economy of Traditional Beliefs in China" (joint with Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies)

Winter 2027

1/26:

2/2:

2/9:

2/16: David Stasavage, New York University

2/23: Fiona Bare, MIT

3/2: George Tsebelis, UM Political Science, "Constitutional Amendments: A Matter of Institutions or Culture?"

3/9: UM Spring Break; No Meeting

3/16:

3/23:

3/30: AAPS Spring Break; No Meeting

4/6: Germán Gieczewski, Princeton University

4/13: Robert Blair, Brown University

4/20: Nita Rudra, Georgetown University