Seminars 2019-2020

11:00-1:30 PM, Luce Hall Room 202 unless otherwise noted with an *

Fall 2019

September 12 - Nageeb Ali, Penn State University, “Adverse Selection in Distributive Politics”.

September 19 - Ken Scheve, Stanford University, “Mass Support for Global Climate Policies”. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.

September 26 - Michael Ting, Columbia University, “An Organizational Theory of State Capacity”. This seminar is joint with the American Politics Workshop.

October 3 - Ro’ee Levy, Yale University, “Social Media and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment”.

October 7 - Katherine Casey, Stanford Graduate School of Business , “An Experiment in Candidate Selection”. This seminar will be joint with the Economic Development Workshop.

October 24 - John Roemer, Yale University , “What is Socialism Today? Several Conceptions of a Cooperative Economy”.

October 31- Amanda Kennard, New York University, “The Enemy of My Enemy: When Firms Support Climate Change Regulation”. This seminar will be joint with the International Relations Workshop.

November 11 - Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-winner of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, “Public Information is an Incentive: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections”. This seminar will be joint with the Economic Development Workshop. *Watson Center A53, 60 Sachem St.

November 14 - Jennifer Bussell, University of California, Berkeley, paper to be announced. This seminar will be joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop.

December 5 - Vicky Murillo, Columbia University, paper to be announced. This seminar will be joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop.

December 12 - Alexander Kustov, Yale University, “When Co-ethnicity Fails: Explaining the Lower Public Goods Provision in Homogeneous Communities”.

Spring 2020

January 16 - Mike Tomz, Stanford University, “Public Reactions to Foreign Interference in Elections”. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.

January 30 - Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Invisible Innovators: How Markets Emerge Under Adversity in the Global South”. This seminar is joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop.

February 6 - Timur Kuran, Duke University, “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul”. This seminar is joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop and CHESS Workshop.

February 20 - Pauline Jones, University of Michigan, “Religious Repression & Political Mobilization in Muslim Majority States”. This seminar is joint with the Comparative Politics Workshop.

February 27 - Robert Gulotty, University of Chicago, “Supplying Influence: How Supply Chains Shape Corporate Politics”. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.

March 5 - Scott Ashworth, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, “Electorates vs. Voters”.

March 26 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Anton Sobolev, Yale University, “How Pro-Government ‘Trolls’ Influence Online Conversations in Russia”.

April 2 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Stephane Wolton, London School of Economics, “Executive Absolutism: A Model”.

April 16 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Amy Pond, Texas A&M University, paper to be announced. This seminar is joint with the International Relations Workshop.

April 23 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- B. Pablo Montagnes, Emory University, paper to be announced.

April 30 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- ~~Sam van Noort,~~ ~~Yale University, “TThe Structural Economic Roots of Liberal Democracy”.~~

May 5 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK- Sascha Becker, Monash University and University of Warwick, paper to be announced.

Faculty co-organizers: Gerard Padro i Miquel (Political Science and Economics) and Tyler Pratt (Political Science)