Friday January 27: F.H. Buckley (George Mason), "The Efficient Secret: How America Nearly Adopted a Parliamentary System, and Why It Should Have Done So." DOWNLOAD
Monday September 26: Edward J. Lopez (San Jose State), "The Problem with the Holdout Problem." 12:00 PM, Park 502. download paper download figures
Friday October 29: Larry Bartels (Princeton), "Public Opinion, Political Institutions, and Policy Congruence: Taxes and Spending in Comparative Perspective." 12:30 PM, Park 502. download related paper
Thursday October 28: Guy Whitten (Texas A&M), "Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies." 4 PM, Park 502.
Wednesday September 15: Peter Leeson (George Mason), "Trial by Battle," location & time TBA. DOWNLOAD (pdf)
Friday March 5: Michael Ross (UCLA), "Latin America's Missing Oil Wars," 502 Park Hall, 11 AM DOWNLOAD
Friday November 13: Robert Grafstein (Georgia), "Conflict Between Altruistic Generations: Social Security and the Politics of Aging Societies," 502 Park Hall, 1 PM DOWNLOAD (pdf)
Friday April 17: Jim Gimpel (Maryland), "Regional Migration Flows and the Partisan Sorting of the American Electorate," 280 Park Hall, 11 AM DOWNLOAD (pdf)
Thursday February 26, 11:30 AM, 502 Park Hall: Jonathan Rodden (Stanford), "Why the Democrats Need Boll Weevils and Blue Dogs: The Distribution of Political Preferences Across U.S. House Districts"
Wednesday November 19, 11:30 AM: William Reed (Rice), "Decomposing the Relationship Between Contiguity and Militarized Conflict" DOWNLOAD (pdf)
Monday April 7, 11:30 AM, 280 Park Hall: Erik Gartzke (UCSD), "The Relevance of Power in International Relations"
Friday April 25, 11:50 AM, 250 Park Hall: David Konisky (Missouri), "Exporting Air Pollution? Regulatory Enforcement and Environmental Free Riding in the United States" (with Neal D. Woods) DOWNLOAD (pdf)
Friday May 2, 11:30 AM, 280 Park Hall: Nita Rudra (Pittsburgh), "Have Governments Gone Too Far?" (with Irfan Nooruddin) DOWNLOAD (pdf)