Faculty Coordinators: Mai Hassan, Iain Osgood, Ugo Troiano, Scott Tyson

Fall 2016

9/13: Iain Osgood, "Intellectual Property Provisions and Support for US Trade Agreements"

9/20: Geoff Lorenz, "Informative Interest Group Position-Taking: How Lobbying Influences Congressional Committee Agenda-Setting"

9/27: Maiko Heller, "Keep Me If You Can: Exit Power and Government Spending"

10/4: Meredith Blank, "Dancing in the Dark: The State’s Information Challenges and Internal Armed Forces"

10/11: Diana Greenwald, "The Gap Between Autonomy and Statehood: Policing, Taxing, and Resisting in the West Bank"

10/25: Joe Ornstein, "Subnational Public Opinion Estimation Using MrsP"

11/4: Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University, "Opposition Unity and Cooptation in Hybrid Regimes"

11/8: Alexander Persaud, "Risk Mitigation and Selection under Forward Contracts: 19th-Century Indian Indentureship"

11/29: Diogo Ferrari, "Income, Redistributive Preferences, and Preferences for Centralization of Political Authority"

12/7: Chris Blattman, University of Chicago, "Do Anti-Poverty Programs Sway Voters? Experimental Evidence from Uganda"

12/9: Peter Rosendorff, New York University, "Cooperative Autocracies: Leader Survival, Creditworthiness, and  Bilateral Investment Treaties"

Winter 2017

1/17: Andrew Kerner, "Ex Post Revisions and the Stability of Empirical Relationships in Political Economy Research"

1/24: Kevin Cope, "Alliance-Forming in International Convention Negotiations: The International Criminal Court"

1/31: Alon Yakter, "Circles of Solidarity: Diversity and Redistribution in Developed Democracies"

2/7: Carly Wayne, "The Goldilocks Problem of Counter-Terrorism: Why Governments Over- and Under-Invest in Counter-Terror"

2/14: Traviss Cassidy, "Resource Curse or Revenue Curse? Federal Transfers and Government Accountability in Indonesia"

2/21: Hang Yu, "The Value of Political Connections for Firms: The Case of Government-Official Outside Directors in China"

2/24: Marion Dumas, Santa Fe Institute, "A Theoretical Model of Technological Change in Industrial Networks and Implications for a Green Technological Transition"

3/7: Ajay Shenoy, "Do Voters or Politicians Choose the Outcomes of Elections? Evidence from the Struggle to Control Congressional Redistricting"

3/17: Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin, "The Tocqueville Paradox: When Does Reform Provoke Rebellion?"

3/28: Scott Tyson, "Counterterrorism under the Shadow of an Escalating Threat"

4/4: Joe Ornstein, "Diverse Cities Spend More"

4/11: Nadiya Kostyuk, "From Words to Actions: Cross-National Approaches to Cyber Security," and Tom O'Mealia, "Burning it Down: The Use of Scorched Earth in Civil Conflict"

4/14: Konstantinos Matakos, King's College London, "Waking up to a Golden Dawn: The Effect of Exposure to the Refugee Crisis on Political Attitudes and Support for Far-Right Parties"

4/21: End-of-Year Mini-Conference featuring James Morrow, "Modeling Multilateral International Negotiations"