The University at Buffalo’s Department of Political Science holds a bi-weekly workshop where faculty, graduate students and guests present papers and receive feedback from other members of the department. Please read the posted version of the paper before the scheduled workshop date.

Fall 2009 Schedule

9/18/09: Chuck Lamb and Adam Nye

10/2/09: Jason Sorens and William Ruger, "Structural Dependence, Alienation, and Conflict: The Role of Foreign Investment in Civil War Onset"

10/16/09: Dinissa Duvanova, "Postcommunist Regulatory Regimes and Business Organization"

10/30/09: Christy Boyd

11/13/09: Harvey Palmer

12/4/09: Jesse Wasson

12/18/09: Bagel Johnson

Past Paper Archive

9/14/07: Jim Battista - "Legislator Financial Interests and Distributive Committees"

9/28/07: Gregg Johnson and Sooh-Rhee Ryu - "Campaign Promises, Economic Performance, and Electoral Accountability in Latin America"

10/12/07: Harvey Palmer - "Making Sense of the Noise in Personal Financial Evaluations: Reconsidering the Evidence of Pocketbook Economic Voting"

10/19/07: Jason Sorens - "The Partisan Logic of Decentralization in Advanced Democracies"

11/16/07: Michelle Benson and Gregory Saxton - "Moving Up and Down the Ladder of Contention:Explaining the Intensity of Ethno-Nationalist Conflict"

11/30/07: James Campbell - "Is the American Electorate Increasingly Polarized Because of Growing Income Inequality?"

1/18/08: Harvey Palmer and Andrew Garner - "Accounting for Candidate Obfuscation and Electoral Context when Modeling Issue Voting under Uncertainty"

2/1/08: Charles M. Lamb and Eric M. Wilk - "Civil Rights and the Administrative Process: Favorable Outcomes by Federal, State, and Local Agencies in Housing Discrimination Complaints"

2/15/08: James Battista - "Institutional Power, Perceived Power, and Conditional Party Government"

2/29/08: Lynn Mather -"Business, Law, and Politics Through the Lens of the Patent Bar: A Preliminary Study"

3/21/08: Graduate Student Mock Conference

4/18/08: Michelle Benson - "Assessing the Determinants of Trade Decreases During War: 1950-1998"

9/12/08: Philip Arena - "Diversionary Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process"

9/26/08: Lee Epstein - "Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging" (co-sponsored with the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy)

10/10/08: Joshua J. Dyck - "Context, Race and Attitudes About Welfare"

10/24/08: Dinissa Duvanova - "Collective Action in an Adverse Business Environment"

11/7/08: 2008 American Presidential Election post-mortem

1/23/09: Jason Sorens - "Fiscal Federalism: A Return to Theory and Measurement"

2/6/09: Jim Battista - "Survey-Based Measures of Leadership Strength and Party Polarization."

2/20/09: Fred Boehmke (University of Iowa) - "Subverting Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections"

3/6/09: Dinissa Duvanova - "Regulation or Deregulation? Regulatory Policy towards Small Business in Russia and Ukraine"

3/20/09: Graduate Student Mock Conference

4/24/09: Chuck Lamb and Adam Nye - "The Origins of Federal Fair Housing Policy: Racial Segregation, Restrictive Covenants, and the Truman Administration"

9/18/09 Chuck Lamb and Adam Nye