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2025 - West Eauropean Politics - has been released. The article was co-written by , Endre Borb獺th and Swen Hutter.

2025 - American Political Science Review - has been released. The article was co-written by Allison Anoll, Lauren Davenport, and

2024 - Presidential Studies Quarterly - T has been released. The article was co-written by Seth Masket and Caitlin Jewitt

2024 - Kansas Press - has been released. The book was co-authored by Bruce Oppenheimer and Robert Peabody.

2024 - Political Research Quarterly - ", has been released. The article was co-written by Seth Masket, Rachel Blum and Mike Cowburn

2024 - Democracy Fund - , has been released. The report was co-written by John Sides, Robert Griffin and Michael Tesler.

2024 - American Political Science Review - , has been released. The article was co-written by and Sarah Anzia

2024 - Annual Review of Political Science - has been released. The article ws co-authored by and Sarah Anzia

2023 - Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - has been released. The article was co-authored by and Sidra Goldman-Mellor

2023 - Journal of Experimental Political Science - has been released. The article was co-authored by Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Gadarian and

2023 - Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory - has been released. The article was co-authored by and Christopher Piper

2023 - Cornell Law Review - " has been released. The article was co-authored by and Neal Devins

2023- American Political Science Review- " has been released. The artcle was co-authored by Nicholas Bednar and

2023 - Political Research Quarterly - has been released. The article was co-authored by Andrew J. Clarke, Craig Volden and

2023 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - has been released. The article was co-authored by and Nick Carnes

2023 - Journal of Politics - has been published. The article was co-authored by Cindy Kam, Sara Kirshbaum and Lauren Chojnacki

2022 - American Political Science Review - has been published. The article was co-authored by , Lynn Vaverick and Christopher Warshaw

1/6/2021 - Science Advances - has been published. The article was co-authored by, J Cohen, J. Lapinski and M. Trussler

12/2/2020 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, has been published. The article was co-authored by Alexander Bolton and

11/13/2020- University of Chicago Pres Journals, has been published. It was co-authored by and Michael Sances

9/24/2020 CSDI Working Paper - 4 - 2020 titled"Democracy Erodes From the Top Public Opinion and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe" has been released. The paper was authored by

9/15/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, has been published. The article was authored by

9/8/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, has been published. The article was co-authoreed by , Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd

8/20/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd

7/20/2020 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2020 titled "Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes toward Refugees and Immigrant Outgroups: Evidence from Kenya" has been released. The co-authors are Nicole Audette, and Kristin Michelitch

6/20/2020 - Election Law Journal, " has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Nick Eubank, Adrienne Fresh and Michael Shepherd

5/1/2020 CSDI Working Paper 3 - 2020 titled "Work Welfare and Partisan Change" has been released. the co-authors are and

4/15/2020 CSDI Working Paper 2 -2020 titled "Conceptions of Good Citizenship in the Class of 1965" has been released. The co-authors are and

3/10/2020 - Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, has been published. The paper was authored by Sharece Thrower

10/20/2019 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism In Separation of Powers Systems" was released. The co-authors are Michael Barber, Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower

8/8/19 CSDI Working Paper 2 - 2019 titled "Candidate Coethnicity, Rural Dwelling, and Partisanship in Africa" has been released. The paper was co-authored by and Kristin Michelitch.

8/16/2019 - Public Choice - has been published. The paper was authored by Josh Clinton

7/30/19 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2019 titled "Bridge over Troubled Water: Same Gender Substantive Representation in 49 Subnational Ugandan Governments." has been released. The paper is co-authored by SangEun Kim and .

4/19 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, "Executive Control and Turnover in the Senor Executive Service." has been published. The article was co-authored by, and.

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2025-2026 CSDI Spring Seminars

February 20th - Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame

February 26th - Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan

March 6th - Zoe Nemerever, Auburn University

March 27th - Michael Bailey - Georgetown University

April 17th - Jennifer Lawless - The University of Virginia

May 1st - Allison Harris, Yale University

2025-2026 CSDI Fall Seminars

September 26th - Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki, CSDI postdoc

October 3rd - Diana Lee, CSDI postdoc

October 24th - Vlad Kogan, The Ohio State Universitry

December 12th - Sunshine Hilygus, Duke University

2024-2025 CSDI Spring seminars

January 17th - Devin Caughey, MIT

January 27th - Eric Schickler, UC Berkeley

February 7th Alexandra Filindra - CSDI, SVS

April 18th - Bruce Cain

2024-2025 CSDI Fall seminars

September 18th Keith Whittington, Yale University

September 20th Seth Masket, CSDI SVS, University of Denver

September 27th Miguel Rueda, CSDI SVS, Emory University

October 4th Scott Abramson, CSDI SVS, University of Rochester

2023-2024 CSDI Seminar Series

September 22 - Alison Craig - CSDI Senior Visiting Scholar

September 29 - Rachel Liensch - CSDI Postdoc

October 6 - Amna Salam - CSDI Postdoc

November 2 - Liz Suhay, American

December 1 - Charlotte Cavaille, University of Michigan

January 19 - Frances Lee, Princeton

January 26 - David Maraniss, 91勛圖厙

February 2 - Patrick Egan, New York University

February 23 - Jennifer Merolla, UC, Riverside

March 22 - Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia

April 19 - Sarah Anzia - UC, Berkekey

2022-2023 CSDI Seminar Series

September 30 - Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Harvard University

December 9 - Hannah Wilson, 91勛圖厙

January 20 - Diana O'Brien, Washington University

January 27 - Dan Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania

February 3 - Deva Woodly, New School

February 10 - TBD

February 24 - Matthew Hayes, Rice University

March 3 - Wendy Schiller, Brown University

March 24 - Sarah Binder, George Washington University

March 31 - Nicole Hemmer, 91勛圖厙

April 28 - Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine

2021-2022 CSDI Seminar Series

September 14, Marva Goodson, 91勛圖厙

April 1 - Michael Minta, University of Minnesota

April 20 - Doug Kriner, Cornell University

2020-2021 CSDI Seminar Series

September 25 - David Miller, 91勛圖厙

October 2 - Marzia Oceno, 91勛圖厙 Universitry

March 5 - Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame

March 26 - Josh Clinton, 91勛圖厙

April 2 - Betsy Sinclair, Washington University

April 9 - Jake Grumbach, University of Washington

April 23 - Nicholas Bednar, 91勛圖厙

April 30 - Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame

2019-2020 CSDI Seminar Series

September 6, 2019 - Shawn Patterson, CSDI Post-doc, 91勛圖厙

September 13, 2019 - Jeffrey Mondak, CSDI SVS, 91勛圖厙

September 2019 - Damarys Canache, CSDI SVS, 91勛圖厙

September 27 2019 - Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers

January 24, 2020 - Eleanor Powell, University of Wisconsin, Madison

February 14, 2020 - Mauricio Bugarin, University of Brasilia

February 21, 2020 - Donald Moynihan, Georgetown University

February 28, 2020 - Mary Kroeger, University of Rochester

March 13, 2020 - Alan Wiseman, 91勛圖厙

  • 2018-2019 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker
    9/7/18 "Political Lifetimes: How the Class of '65 Remade American Politics." Larry Bartels, 91勛圖厙
    9/14/18 "Civic Feedbacks: An Organizational Pathway Linking Participation to Influence." Hahrie Han, University of California, Santa Barbara
    9/28/18 "The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve." Sarah Binder, George Washington University and the Brookings Institute
    10/5/18 Politics and Policy Under Democratic One-Party Rule: Evidence from American Local Government. Peter Bucchianeri, 91勛圖厙, Center for Effective Lawmaking
    10/12/18 Rankings Matter Even When They Shouldnt: Bandwagon Effect in Two-Round Elections (with Vincent Pons) Cl矇mence Tricaud, Ecole Polytechnique
    12/7/18 "How Does Racial Political Representation Affect School District Outcomes?" Zachary Peskowitz, Emory University
    1/25/19 Blue is Blackand Red is White? Racialized Schemas of U.S. Partisan Coalitions and Their Affective Consequences. Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan
    1/31/19 The Mechanisms of Protest Recruitment through Social Media Networks: Twitter and the 2018 US Women's March. Joshua Tucker, New York University
    2/8/19 Dropout Decisions in U.S. House Elections. Danielle Thomsen, University of California, Irvine
    2/22/19 America's Inequality Trap: Four Political Responses to Shifting Inequality. Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee
    3/1/19 The Importance of Knowing What Goes With What: Reinterpreting the Evidence on Policy Attitude Stability. Gabriel Lenz, University of California, Berkeley
    3/22/19 The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era. Jim Curry, University of Utah
    3/29/19 The New Politics of Criminal Justice Reform?: Studies in Identity, Bureaucracy, and Race Amy Lerman, University of California, Berkeley
    4/12/19 Ideology of Affluence: Explanations for Inequality and Political Attitudes among Rich Americans. Liz Suhay, American University
  • 2016-2017 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    8/26/16 "The Parties in our Heads: Misconceptions 91勛圖厙 Party Composition and their Consequences." Doug Ahler, CSDI Postdoctoral Fellow 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    9/2/16 NO SEMINAR - APSA
    9/9/16 "Income and Public Service Demands: Comparative Voter Efficacy in Brazil." Marika Csapo, CSDI Postdoctoral Fellow 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    9/16/16 "Landmark Executive Orders." Richard Waterman, University of Kentucky 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    9/23/16 "Campaign Messaging and the Road to the White House." Lynn Vavreck, UCLA 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    9/30/16 "Political Capital in the 21st Century: Presidential Grassroots Lobbying in the Obama Administration." Jonathan Klingler, CSDI Visitor 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    10/7/16 "Negation Framing" Scott Matthews, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    10/14/16 NO SEMINAR -FALL BREAK
    10/21/16 "Rumors, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation" Adam Berinsky, MIT 12:10pm Commons Center, 349
    1/27/17 "Get your swabs out of my face." The Politics and Ideology of Genomic Science. Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    2/3/17 "The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965." Eric Schickler, UC Berkeley 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    2/10/17 "The Virtues and Limits of Democracy." Ed Rubin, 91勛圖厙 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    2/24/17 "What Does it Mean to be American?: How do I go about Researching a Partly Personal Book on the House un-American Activities Committee..." David Maraniss, 91勛圖厙 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    3/3/17 "Interviewer Ratings of Respondents Political Knowledge: Calibrating a Useful Measurement Instrument." William Jacoby, Michigan State University 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    3/24/17 Jim Snyder, Harvard 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    3/31/17 Liz Zechmeister, 91勛圖厙 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    4/21/17 Michael Barber, Brigham Young 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    4/28/17 Wendy Smooth, The Ohio State University 12:10pm Commons Center 349
  • 2015-2016 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    8/28/15 "Statehouse Democracy in an Era of Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/4/15 NO SEMINAR - APSA MEETING 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/11/15 "The Failures of Electoral Accountability for Corruption: Brazil and Beyond" , CSDI Postdoctoral Fellow 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/18/15 "Having It Both Ways: Cross- Pressured Senators and the Bureaucracy." , CSDI Postdoctoral Fellow 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/25/15 "City Policies, City Interests: An Alternative Theory of Interest Group Systems." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    10/2/15 "The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    10/9/15 "Opinion and Policy in Affluent Democracies" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    10/16/15 NO SEMINAR -FALL BREAK
    10/23/15 "The Partisanship and Ideology of the American Corporate Inner Circle: Evidence from Political Donations, 1982-2000" 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    10/30/15 TBD 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    11/6/15 TBD 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    11/13/15 "Women's Economic Rights and Policy Influence in Africa: Portfolio Allocation across Executive Cabinets" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    1/15/16 "Nashville, Now What Happens?" Mayor Bill Purcell, 91勛圖厙 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    1/22/16 "Why Washington Won't Work." 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    1/29/16 TBD  
    2/5/16 "The Diffusion of Electoral Democracy through Colonial Networks." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    2/12/16 "Recognizing cats is not social science: speculations and exhortations" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    2/19/16 "Learning about Voter Rationality." 12:10 Commons Center 349
    2/26/16 "Legislating for Litigationinthe Age of Statute." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    3/4/16 "Interventions to Improve Public Service Delivery via Politician Performance: A Field Experiment in Ugandan Subnational Governments." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    3/11/16 NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK  
    3/18/16 12:10 Commons Center 349
    3/25/16 "The U.S. as Majority-Minority Nation: A Research Agenda" 12:10 Commons Center 349
    4/1/16 12:10 Commons Center 349
    4/8/16 NO SEMINAR - MIDWEST MEETING  
    4/15/16 "Committee Chairs and the Concentration of Power in Congress." 12:10 Commons Center 349
    4/22/16 "Active Secularism and the Politics of Irreligion in the U.S." 12:10 Commons Center 349
  • 2014-2015 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    9/05/14 "Institutions and Accountability in Local Government." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/12/14 "Cultivating Effective Brokers: A Party Leader's Dilemma." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/19/14 "Parties, Boardinghouse, and Sections: The Congressional Community Before the Civil War." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    9/26/14 "The Blueing of Asian America? Evidence from the 2012 National Asian American Survey." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    10/03/14 "Party Rebranding in Election Campaigns." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    10/10/14 Informal Sanctions on Prosecutors and Defendants and the Disposition of Criminal Cases." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    10/17/14 NO SEMINAR - FALL BREAK
    10/24/14 Puzzles in the Practice of Pork-Barrel Politics. 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    11/28/14 NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING
    12/05/14 TBD 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    1/09/15 "Gender, Inequality, Deliberation, and Institutions." 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    1/23/15 "Public Opinion in the Americas: Important Advances and Key Findings from the 2014 AmericasBarometer." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    2/06/15 "Does Judicial Independence Matter for Judicial Influence?" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    2/06/15 "Publius's Political Science" 3:00 pm Commons Center 349
    2/13/15 "Political Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1875-2010."

    12:10pm Commons Center 349

     

    2/20/15 "A House Divided? Assessing Polarization in the U.S. House" 12:10pm Commons Center 349
    2/27/15 "Aims, Claims and the Bargaining Model of War." 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    3/06/15 NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
    3/13/15 "Varieties of Democracy: Has research on Democratization Been Misguided for 50 Years?" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    3/20/15 "An Aspirations-Based Model of Regime-change" 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    4/10/15 "Merit Capacity, and Politics in the United States Executive Establishment: Results from the 2014 Survey on the Future of Government Service" David Lewis, 91勛圖厙 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
    4/1715 NO SEMINAR - MPSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
  • 2013-2014 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    2014 SPRING SEMESTER
    01/10/14 "Behavioral War Powers: Psychology, Decision-Making, and Institutional Design." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    01/17/14 Graduate Student Poster Session - No CSDI Seminar
    01/24/14 "Ethnicity and Electoral Fraud in New Democracies: Modelling Political Party Agents in Ghana." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    01/31/14 No CSDI Seminar
    02/07/14 "Political Ideology and Racial Preferences in Online Dating." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    02/14/14 "An Experimental Study of Electoral Incentives and Institutional Choice" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    02/21/14 "Elections, Protest, and Alternation of Power" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    02/28/14 "Letting the Sun In: Administrative Procedure, Transparency, and Congressional Control of Executive Agencies." Kathleen M. Doherty , CSDI Post-Doctoral Fellow, 91勛圖厙
    12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    03/07/14 Spring Break - No CSDI Seminar
    03/12/14 " Do Moderate Voters Weigh Candidates' Ideologies? Voters' Decision Rules in the 2010 Congressional Elections." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    03/14/14 No CSDI Seminar
    03/21/14 No CSDI Seminar
    03/28/14 "Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers."

    12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    04/01/14 "Strategic Voting in Plurality Rule Elections." 3:00 p.m. CSDI Conference Room
    04/04/14 No Seminar No Seminar
    04/11/14 "Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    04/18/14 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    04/25/14 No Seminar
    05/02/14 No Seminar
    05/05/14 "Obama's Czar Problem: Rhetoric or Reality?" 12:10 p.m. CSDI Conference Room
    2013 FALL SEMESTER
    08/23/13 No CSDI Seminar
    08/30/13 APSA Conference - No CSDI Seminar
    09/06/13 Seeking Experts Of Agents Of Control: The Use Of Advisory Committees in Bureaucratic Policymaking Kathleen Doherty, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    09/13//13 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    09/20/13 Representation & Accountability in American Legislatures 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    09/27/13 Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: New Data 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/04/13 Minority Party Influence in Competitive Partisan Legislatures 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/11/13 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/18/13 Unresponsive and Unpersuaded: The Unintended Consequences of Voter Persuasion Efforts 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 363
    10/25/13 No CSDI Seminar
    11/01/13 No CSDI Seminar
    11/08/13 Communism's Shadow:
    The Effect of Communist Legacies on Post-Communist
    Preferences, Evaluations, and Behavior
    12:10 p.m. Commons Center
    11/15/03 More Women Can Run 3:00 p.m. Commons Center 363
    11/22/13 No CSDI Seminar
    11/29/13 Thanksgiving Break - No CSDI Seminar
    12/06/13 "Making Preemption Unpalatable: State Poison Pill Legislation." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 363
  • 2012-2013 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    04/26/13 "Designing Judicial Institutions: Special Federal Courts and the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    04/19/13 "Partisan Cheerleading and Evaluations of the Economy: Wisconsin 2012" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    04/05/13 "Uncertain Majorities and Senate Politics: The Permanent Campaign on the Senate Floor" 12:10 p.m.
    Commons Center 363
    03/29/13 "Do Campaign Ads Matter? Can We Tell From Experiments?" 12:10 p.m.
    Commons Center 349
    03/15/13 "You Cannot Be Serious: Do Partisans Believe What They Say?" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    02/28/13 "Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism" 3:30 p.m. Commons Center 363
    02/15/13 "One for You, Two for Me: Support for the Public Goods Investment in Homogenous Communities" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    02/08/13 "Primary Elections and the Quality of Elected Officials" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    01/18/13 "Beyond Open Gates: Investigating Patterns of Prison Release in California" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    01/11/13 "Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy" (with Pietro Ortoleva) 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    12/07/12 "Capitalist prigs: Corporate ideology, political influence, and social progress" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    11/30/12 "Where do Local Women Run?: Institutional, political, and party determinants of women's representation in local office in the U.S." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    11/16/12 Working Paper 3:00 p.m. Commons Center 349
    11/02/12 "Politics and Agency Performance: Which Agencies Effectively Implement the Freedom of Information Act?" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/26/12 "Strategic Partisanship: Party Priorities, Agenda Control and the Decline of Bipartisan Cooperation in the House." 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/19/12 Globalization and Corporate Political Unity Joshua Murray, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/12/12 "Dollars on the Sidewalk: Should U.S. Presidential Candidates Advertise in Uncontested States?" Sarah Niebler, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    10/9/12 Aliens, Amnesty, and Anchor Babies: The Framing of Immigrants and Immigration Policy in News Media and its Effects on Public Opinion

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    3:00 p.m. Commons Center 349
    9/28/12 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    9/21/12 "The Wartime President" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    9/14/12 "Policy and Power: How the President Pursues Short - and Long-Term Goals" 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    9/7/12 "Vacancies, Vetting, and Votes: A Unified Dynamic Model of the Executive Appointments Process"
  • 2011-2012 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    9/9/11 Polarized Protestants: A Confessional Explanation for Party Polarization 12:10 p.m.
    Commons Center 363
    9/16/11 Commitment and Consequences: Reneging on Cosponsorship Pledges in the US House 12:10 p.m.
    Commons Center 349
    9/24/11 12:10 p.m.
    TBD
    10/7/11 Fall Break  
    10/14/11 Divided Responsibilities and Resilient Policy Regimes: Imperfect Competition and Products Liability when Harm is Cumulative 12:10 p.m.
    TBD
    10/21/11 Political Understanding of Economic Crises: The Shape of Resentment Toward Public Employees 12:10 p.m.
    CSDI 301
    10/28/11 Reclaiming the Legal Fiction of Congressional Delegation 12:10 p.m.
    TBD
    11/4/11 Explaining Presidential Saber Rattling 12:10 p.m.
    TBD
    11/11/11 U.S. Senate Elections before the 17th Amendment: Political Party Cohesion and Conflict 1871-1913 12:10 p.m.
    TBD
    11/18/11 Transnational Business Influence: The Determinants of PAC Activity among Firms in the Global Fortune 500, 2000-2006 Joshua Murray, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Stony Brook 12:10 p.m.
    TBD
    11/29/11 21st Century Democracy: Opening up the Political Process to all Voters Panel Discussion with Professors John Geer, Josh Clinton, Larry Bartels, and Liz Zechmeister with Americans Elect Chief Operating Officer Elliot Ackerman  
    1/13/12 Interpreting Regulations
    1/20/12 Public Information, Public Learning, and Public Opinion: The Prospect for Bottom-Up Accountability in Education Policy

    , Associate Professor, Political Science, 91勛圖厙;

    , Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, 91勛圖厙

    12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    2/3/12 Overcome: Institutional Constraints on Presidential Rhetoric on Race , Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, 91勛圖厙
    2/17/12 Blind Retrospection: Why Shark Attacks Are Bad For Democracy

    Professor, CSDI Co-Director, Shayne Chair, Public Policy and Social Science

    12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    2/24/12 The 2012 Election , Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University
    , Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication Studies at UCLA
    12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    3/2/12 What's in Your Pocket: New Sources of Heterogeneity in Americans' Economic Evaluations

    Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota

    12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    3/16/12 Minority Party Influence in Competitive Partisan Legislatures , Political Science, 91勛圖厙 Univeristy 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    3/23/12 Growing the Vote: Majority Party Whipping in the U.S. House, 1955-2002 , Newton Family Professor of Government, The College of William & Mary 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
    4/6/12 TBA
  • 2011 Conference "Government Expertise: Information and Political Institutions"
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    9/30/11 "Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information" Hulya Eraslan, Johns Hopkins University; Ying Chen, Arizona State University 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Hyatt Room, Law School
    9/30/11 "Information Aggregation and Optimal Structure of the Executive" Torun Dewan, London School of Economics; Andrea Galeotti, University of Essex; Christian Ghiglino, University of Essex; Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Hyatt Room, Law School
    9/30/11 "Competition, Preference Uncertainty, and Jamming: A Strategic Communication Experiment" William Minozzi, The Ohio State University; Jon Woon, University of Pittsburgh 3:45 4:45 p.m.
    Hyatt Room, Law School
    10/1/11 "Elections and Reform: The Adoption of Civil Service Systems in the U.S. States" Olle Folke; Columbia University; Shigeo Hirano; Columbia University; Jim Snyder, Harvard University; Mike Ting, Columbia University 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
    Hyatt Room, Law School
    10/1/11 "Re-Election Through Division" Massimo Morrelli, Columbia University; Richard Van Weelden, University of Chicago 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
    Hyatt Room, Law School
    10/1/11 "Compliance, Competence and Bureaucratic Leadership in U.S. Federal Agencies: A Bayesian Generalized Latent Trait Analysis" George Krause, University of Pittsburgh; Anne Joseph O'Connell, UC-Berkeley 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
    Hyatt Room, Law School
    10/1/11 "Information and Contestation: A Formal Model of Notice and Comment" Sean Gailmard, UC-Berkeley; John Patty, Washington University 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
    Hyatt Room, Law School
    10/1/11 "Slackers, Zealots, Screening and Sorting: How Politicization Drives Agency Performance by Changing Internal Labor Markets" Charles Cameron, Princeton University; John de Figueiredo, Duke University; David E. Lewis 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
    Hyatt Room, Law School
  • 2010-2011 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    9/10/10 "Challengers, Democratic Contestation, and Electoral Accountability" Scott Ashworth, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    9/17/10 "The Effect of Microtargeting on
    Participation Decisions"
    CSDI Fellow Adam Levine 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    9/24/10 "The Power of Suggestion: Coordinating Compromise in the European Parliament" CSDI Fellow Dan Pemstein 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    10/8/10 "Legislative Effectiveness in the
    United States Congress"
    CSDI Co-Director
    Alan Wiseman, 91勛圖厙
    12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    10/15/10 "Partisan and Group Forces in Congress: An Analysis of Corporate and Labor Influence in the U.S. House, 1986-2004" John R. Wright, Dept. of Political Science, The Ohio State University 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    11/12/10 "...bipartisanship?" CSDI Visiting Professor Keith Krehbiel 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    12/3/10 "Realignments Are Not about Issues" Chris Achen, Princeton University 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    1/21/11 "Cosmopolitanism" Simon Jackman, Stanford University, and Lynn Vavreck, UCLA 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    2/11/11 "Dividing the Dirty Dollar: The Allocation and Impact of Illicit Campaign Funds in a Gubernatorial Contest in Brazil" Dan Gingerich, University of Virginia 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    3/14/11 "Legislator Shirking: Two Field Experiments." Christian Gross, USC 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    3/18/11 "Desegregating the Straight State: The Obama Administration in Historical Perspective, Rick Valelly, Swathmore College 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    3/25/11 "Toward a New Synthesis of the Politics of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century." Christopher Loss, 91勛圖厙 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    4/15/11 "Participation Decisions over Time." CSDI Fellow Adam Levine 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    4/22/11 "Confronting the Administrative Presidency: Analytical Bureaucracy and Congressional Governance." Sam Workman, University of Texas at Austin 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
    4/29/11 "Brussels Bound: Candidate Selection in European Elections" CSDI Fellow Dan Pemstein 12:15 p.m.
    110 Alumni Hall
  • 2009-2010 CSDI Seminar Series
    Date Title Speaker Time/Place
    9/18/09 CSDI Fellow Dan Pemstein Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    10/2/09 CSDI Fellow Tana Johnson Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    Gary Gerstle, 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    10/30/09 "Much Ado 91勛圖厙 Nothing? The Effects of Open Primaries on Legislative Behavior" Josh Clinton 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    11/6/09 "Transnational Gangs, Non-State Armed Groups, and Fault Lines of Transitions in Central America" 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    11/13/09 Ed Rubin 91勛圖厙 Law Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    11/20/09 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    1/15/10 "Political Science Experiments at VU: An Introduction to the RIPS Lab" , Liz Zechmeister with Jennifer Off-Anderson, 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm
    1/22/10 , Duke University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm
    2/5/10 Harvard University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm
    2/26/10 and 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm
    3/19/10 , 91勛圖厙 and , Claremont University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm
    3/24/10 "Repositioning Candidates" John Geer, 91勛圖厙 Calhoun Hall Room 337 4:15 - 5:30 pm
    4/16/10 , Notre Dame University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 p.m.
    5/27/10 TBA Cindy Kam and Liz Zechmeister, 91勛圖厙 Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 p.m.