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.
2014-2015 Workshops
Linking Together Preference Falsification and Election Fraud: a Cross-National Analysis
Kirill Kalinin
Racial Gerrymandering and Electoral Geography: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act on Partisanship and Gerrymandering
September 3, 2014
Jowei Chen
The Politics of Competence: How Values, Institutions, and Biology Affect What Information Matters
September 10, 2014
Arthur Lupia
After the Spring: Measuring Transition to Democracy in the Arab World
September 17, 2014
Khalil Shikaki
Contingent Technocracy: Agency Independence, Democracy, and the Politics of Privatization in Developing Countries
September 24, 2014
Anne Pitcher and Manny Teodoro (Texas A&M)
When Expertise Gets In The Way: Arousal, Self-Reported Emotion, and Political Participation
October 1, 2014
Kristyn Karl
Decomposing Trends in Election Polls From 2008-2014: An Initial Post-Election Analysis
November 5, 2014
Josh Pasek
Rule of Law as Foundational Principle of Immigration Attitudes
November 12, 2014
Francisco Pedraza (Texas A&M University)
The Color of our Skin and the Content of our Politics: Exploring the Effects of Skin Tone among African Americans
December 3, 2014
Vincent Hutchings
Designing an Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Michigan
January 14, 2015
Michael Traugott
Old and Young Politicians
February 4, 2015
Ugo Troiano
Voting and Voting Intentions in South Africa, 2003-2011
February 11, 2015
Barbara Anderson and John Romani
The Politics of Generation X: A Look at the Future of American Politics
February 18, 2015
Jon Miller
Divided by (Skin) Color: The Partisan Preferences of Latinos and Asian Americans Vary by Skin Tone
February 25, 2015
Spencer Piston
Why the Sky Didn’t Fall: Mobilizing Anger in Reaction to Voter ID Laws
March 11, 2015
Nicholas Valentino
What Would We Need to Study Injunctions Quantitatively?
March 18, 2015
Margo Schlanger
Telling The Truth About Believing The Lies? Expressive Responses on Political Rumor Questions
March 25, 2015
Adam Berinsky (MIT)
Attitudes Towards Trade and Exposure to FDI
April 1, 2015
Andrew Kerner
Trading Hard Hats for Combat Helmets: The Economics of Rebellion in Eastern Ukraine
April 8, 2015
Yuri Zhukov
Why Media Coverage of Inequality Makes People Less Concerned about It
April 22, 2015
Adam Levine (Cornell University) and Yanna Krupnikow (Northwestern University)
Survey-Based Measures of Negativity Biases
April 29, 2015
Stuart Soroka
The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions: Evidence from the World
May 6, 2015
George Tsebeli
Ethnic Filter Questions: Problematic Priming of Identity?
May 20, 2015
Mara Cecilia Ostfeld