About the Workshops
Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy are weekly seminars hosted by the Center for Political Studies. Speakers present current research on a wide range of topics. Archives of past workshops are available in the menu to the right.
Workshops typically take place on Wednesdays at noon, in room 6080; check back to confirm the location; alternative rooms will be starred below.
Abstracts will be added as they become available.
2008-2009 Workshops
Three Implications of Current Research on Public Opinion
Arthur Lupia
Broadening Minds: Effective Constituency Breadth and the Provision of Health and Education in Developing Countries
Joel Selway
The Motivated Partisan: A Dual Motivations Theory of Partisan Change and Stability
Eric Groenendyk
Where is the Bias? Comparing Democratic and Autocratic Risks for Transnational Terrorism
September 10, 2008
Dominick Wright
Challengers as Delegated Monitors
September 26, 2008
Kenneth Shotts (with Scott Ashworth)
An Economic Analysis of International Rulemaking
October 1, 2008
Barbara Koremenos
Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Choice
October 3, 2008
Rob Van Houweling
Ideologies of Diversity in the UM Application Essay: A Multimethod Study
October 8, 2008
Anna Kirkland
Political Consequences of Prejudice amongst Mexicans and Mexican Americans: Evaluation of Electoral Candidates
October 10, 2008
Rosario Aguilar-Pariente
Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Inter-Faction Bargaining in Japan in a Comparative Perspective
October 15, 2008
Yoshikuni Ono
Voter Trends in the 2008 Campaign
October 22, 2008
Michael Traugott
Comparative Analysis of Incumbency Advantage Across Different Electoral Rules
October 29, 2008
Kenichi Ariga
Who Votes? How and When Negative Campaign Advertisements Affect Voter Turnout
November 5, 2008
Yanna Krupnikov
Shari’a and the Secular State in Senegal: Understanding Citizen Preferences for Islamic Family Law
November 12, 2008
Carrie Konold
Exploring the Universe of UN Human Rights Agreements
December 3, 2008
Jana von Stein
Why Do Some Autocracies Perform Surprisingly Well?
December 10, 2008
Bill Clark
Attributing Effects to A Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign
January 28, 2009
Ben B. Hansen (with Jake Bowers)
Why Many Solicitations for Political Donations have the Opposite of their Intended Effect
February 11, 2009
Adam Levine
Shocking Demands: How Local Governments Respond to Unexpected Population Changes
February 18, 2009
Elisabeth Gerber
When Do Electoral Rules Buttress Single-Party Dominance?
March 4, 2009
Kharis Templeman
Creative Synthesis: A Model of the Origins of Ideology.
March 11, 2009
Hans Noel
The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of Health Care Reform in the States
March 18, 2009
Anthony Chen
Lobbying Without Bribing or Lying
March 25, 2009
Rick Hall
An Empirical Model of Comparative Democratic Policy Manipulation: The Context-Conditional Magnitude and Nature of Policymakers’ Incentives and Strategic Capacity to Budgeteer
April 8, 2009
Rob Franzese
Do People Matter in Social Scientific Studies of the Environment?
April 15, 2009
Arun Agrawal
Gender and Public Opinion
April 22, 2009
Nancy Burns & Don Kinder
Political Institutions, Voter Uncertainty, and Legislative Turnover
April 29, 2009
Chuck Shipan
The Partisan Representation of the Poor
May 6, 2009
Karen Long Jusko
Explaining Perceptions of Advertising Tone
May 13, 2009
Erika Fowler
The Sword’s Other Edge: Perceptions of Discrimination and Racial Policy Opinion after Obama
May 20, 2009
Nick Valentino (and Ted Brader)
Where does Diffusion Take Place? The Role of Intergovernmental Cooperation for the Spread of Health Care Policies in Switzerland
May 27, 2009
Katharina Fuglister
Communism’s Shadow: A Theory of Post-Communist Legacies and Political Behavior
June 3, 2009
Joshua Tucker
Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties
June 10, 2009
Nick Winter
Revisiting the Macropartisanship Debate: Measuring Change in Aggregate Party Identification Over Time
June 17, 2009
Laurel Elms