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.
2012-2013 Workshops
Democrats, Republicans and Politics of Gender
4:00-6:30pm
Nancy Burns (Chair), Vince Hutchings, Jane Junn (University of Southern California), Corrine McConnaughy (Ohio State University), Nick Winter (University of Virginia), and UM graduate students
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Communicating Science in Politicized Environments
September 5, 2012
Arthur Lupia
What Happened to Hope and Change? Looking at the 2012 Presidential Campaign
September 12, 2012
Michael Traugott
Racial Appeals in Contemporary American Politics
September 19, 2012
Lafleur Stephens
The Cinderella Effect: Why Presidentialism is Bad for Favored Parties
October 3, 2012
Kharis Templeman
2012 Pre-Election Panel: Domestic Policy and the 2012 Election
October 10, 2012
Panelists: Walter Mebane, Rob Mickey, and Nicholas Valentino
Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation
October 23, 2012
Dan Myers
2012 Pre-Election Panel: Foreign Policy and the 2012 Election
October 24, 2012
Panelists: Pauline Jones Luong, James Morrow, and Mark Tessler
The Local Politics of Muslim Immigration
October 30, 2012
Janna Bray
2012 Post Election Panel, Making Sense of the 2012 Election
November 7, 2012
Panelists: Vince Hutchings, Don Kinder, and Michael Traugott
The Privatization of Conflict? A Spatial Analysis of the System of 1896
November 28, 2012
David Darmofal (University of South Carolina)
Developing Race as Multi-dimensional Concept/ Measures and Self Reported Health Status
December 5, 2012
John Garcia
Perils of Centralization in Governments and Organizations
January 16, 2013
Ken Kollman
Exploring the Effects of Implicit and Explicit Racial Cues on Black Attitudes about Whites
January 30, 2013
Vince Hutchings
I Respectfully Dissent: How Voting Outcomes on the U.S. Supreme Court Influence Press Coverage
February 6, 2013
Michael Zillis
Redefining the Nation: Center-Right Party Outreach toward Ethnic Minorities in Western Europe
February 13, 2013
Jennifer Miller-Gonzalez
Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11
February 20, 2013
Michael Heaney
Which Issues are Moral? A Psychological Approach to Conception, Measurement, and Significance
March 13, 2013
Timothy Ryan
Undermining Resistance: Mobilization, Repression and the Enforcement of Political Order
March 14, 2013
Christopher Sullivan
The Ownership Society: Political Implications of Pension Reform
March 20, 2013
Andrew Kerner
Robin Hoods in the 21st Century: Class Attitudes and Evaluations of Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements
March 27, 2013
Spencer Piston
Deliberate Indiscretion: Why Bureaucratic Agencies are Differently Corrupt
April 3, 2013
Shaun McGirr
The Polarizing Effect of Incivility in the Political Blog Commentsphere
April 17, 2013
Elizabeth Suhay
ISR Event – Communicating Science in Politicized Environments
April 23, 2013
Arthur “Skip” Lupia
Economic Evidence: How the Media Shapes Public Opinion on Unemployment and Income Inequality
April 24, 2013
Adam Levine (Cornell University) and Yanna Krupnikov (Northwestern University)
Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to the Study of Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate
May 1, 2013
Rocio Titiunik
Political Participation and Equality: How Participatory Democracy Biases Representation
May 8, 2013
Georg Lutz
Moderation from the African Airwaves: A Field Experiment on Partisan Radio Effects
May 15, 2013
Devra Moehler (University of Pennsylvania)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Foreign Direct Investment
June 18, 2013
Andrew Kerner
Why I-Paid-A-Bribe Worked in India but Failed in China: How Authoritarianism Constrains Online Activism
June 26, 2013
Yuen Yuen Ang