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2014-2015 CSDI Seminar Series
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Title
Speaker
Time/Place
.2014 Fall Semester 09/05/14 TBD MIchael Sances, CSDI Postdoctoral Fellow 12:10 pm Commons Center 349 09/12/14 TBD Eddie Camp, CSDI Postdoctoral Fellow 12:10 pm Commons Center 349 09/19/14 TBD Greg Caldeira, Distinguished University Professor, Dreher Chair in Political Communication and Policy Thinking, Professor of LawThe Ohio State University 12:10 pm Commons Center 349
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2014-2015 CSDI Seminar Series
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2012-2013 CSDI Seminar Series
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2011-2012 CSDI Seminar Series
Date
Title
Speaker
Time/Place
9/9/11 Polarized Protestants: A Confessional Explanation for Party Polarization Nicole Asmussen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI 12:10 p.m.
Commons Center 3639/16/11 Commitment and Consequences: Reneging on Cosponsorship Pledges in the US House
Tracy Sulkin, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois 12:10 p.m.
Commons Center 3499/24/11 The Meaningful Effects Hypothesis: Informing, Persuasion, and Vote Choice in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Campaigns Andrew Therriault, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI 12:10 p.m.
TBD10/7/11 Fall Break 10/14/11 Divided Responsibilities and Resilient Policy Regimes: Imperfect Competition and Products Liability when Harm is Cumulative
Andy Daughety, Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University; Jennifer Reinganum, Bronson Ingram Professor, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University 12:10 p.m.
TBD10/21/11 Political Understanding of Economic Crises: The Shape of Resentment Toward Public Employees Kathy Walsh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin 12:10 p.m.
CSDI 30110/28/11 Reclaiming the Legal Fiction of Congressional Delegation Lisa Bressman, Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School 12:10 p.m.
TBD11/4/11 Explaining Presidential Saber Rattling Dan Wood, Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University 12:10 p.m.
TBD11/11/11 U.S. Senate Elections before the 17th Amendment: Political Party Cohesion and Conflict 1871-1913 Wendy Schiller, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University 12:10 p.m.
TBD11/18/11 Transnational Business Influence: The Determinants of PAC Activity among Firms in the Global Fortune 500, 2000-2006 Joshua Murray, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Stony Brook 12:10 p.m.
TBD11/29/11
21st Century Democracy: Opening up the Political Process to all Voters Panel Discussion with Professors John Geer, Josh Clinton, Larry Bartels, and Liz Zechmeister with Americans Elect Chief Operating Officer Elliot Ackerman
1/13/12
Interpreting Regulations 1/20/12
Public Information, Public Learning, and Public Opinion: The Prospect for Bottom-Up Accountability in Education Policy Josh Clinton, Associate Professor, Political Science, Vanderbilt University;
Jason Grissom, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University
12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349 2/3/12 Overcome: Institutional Constraints on Presidential Rhetoric on Race Vanessa Beasley, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University 2/17/12 Blind Retrospection: Why Shark Attacks Are Bad For Democracy
Professor, CSDI Co-Director, Shayne Chair, Public Policy and Social Science
12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349
2/24/12 The 2012 Election John Sides, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University
Lynn Vavreck, Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication Studies at UCLA12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349 3/2/12 What's in Your Pocket: New Sources of Heterogeneity in Americans' Economic Evaluations Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349 3/16/12 Minority Party Influence in Competitive Partisan Legislatures Alan E. Wiseman, Political Science, Vanderbilt Univeristy
12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349 3/23/12 Growing the Vote: Majority Party Whipping in the U.S. House, 1955-2002 C. Lawrence Evans, Newton Family Professor of Government, The College of William & Mary 12:10 p.m. Commons Center 349 4/6/12 TBA Professor John Zaller (UCLA) -
2011 Conference "Government Expertise: Information and Political Institutions"
Date
Title
Speaker
Time/Place
9/30/11 "Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information" Hulya Eraslan, Johns Hopkins University; Ying Chen, Arizona State University 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Hyatt Room, Law School 9/30/11 "Information Aggregation and Optimal Structure of the Executive" Torun Dewan, London School of Economics; Andrea Galeotti, University of Essex; Christian Ghiglino, University of Essex; Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Hyatt Room, Law School 9/30/11 "Competition, Preference Uncertainty, and Jamming: A Strategic Communication Experiment" William Minozzi, The Ohio State University; Jon Woon, University of Pittsburgh 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
Hyatt Room, Law School10/1/11 "Elections and Reform: The Adoption of Civil Service Systems in the U.S. States" Olle Folke; Columbia University; Shigeo Hirano; Columbia University; Jim Snyder, Harvard University; Mike Ting, Columbia University
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Hyatt Room, Law School10/1/11 "Re-Election Through Division" Massimo Morrelli, Columbia University; Richard Van Weelden, University of Chicago 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Hyatt Room, Law School10/1/11 "Compliance, Competence and Bureaucratic Leadership in U.S. Federal Agencies: A Bayesian Generalized Latent Trait Analysis" George Krause, University of Pittsburgh; Anne Joseph O'Connell, UC-Berkeley 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Hyatt Room, Law School10/1/11 "Information and Contestation: A Formal Model of Notice and Comment" Sean Gailmard, UC-Berkeley; John Patty, Washington University 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Hyatt Room, Law School10/1/11 "Slackers, Zealots, Screening and Sorting: How Politicization Drives Agency Performance by Changing Internal Labor Markets" Charles Cameron, Princeton University; John de Figueiredo, Duke University; David E. Lewis 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
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2010-2011 CSDI Seminar Series
Date
Title
Speaker
Time/Place
9/10/10 "Challengers, Democratic Contestation, and Electoral Accountability" Scott Ashworth, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall9/17/10 "The Effect of Microtargeting on
Participation Decisions"CSDI Fellow Adam Levine 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall9/24/10 "The Power of Suggestion: Coordinating Compromise in the European Parliament" CSDI Fellow Dan Pemstein 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall10/8/10 "Legislative Effectiveness in the
United States Congress"CSDI Co-Director
Alan Wiseman, Vanderbilt University12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall10/15/10 "Partisan and Group Forces in Congress: An Analysis of Corporate and Labor Influence in the U.S. House, 1986-2004" John R. Wright, Dept. of Political Science, The Ohio State University 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall11/12/10 "...bipartisanship?" CSDI Visiting Professor Keith Krehbiel 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall12/3/10 "Realignments Are Not about Issues" Chris Achen, Princeton University 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall1/21/11 "Cosmopolitanism" Simon Jackman, Stanford University, and Lynn Vavreck, UCLA 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall2/11/11 "Dividing the Dirty Dollar: The Allocation and Impact of Illicit Campaign Funds in a Gubernatorial Contest in Brazil" Dan Gingerich, University of Virginia 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall3/14/11 "Legislator Shirking: Two Field Experiments." Christian Gross, USC 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall3/18/11 "Desegregating the Straight State: The Obama Administration in Historical Perspective, Rick Valelly, Swathmore College 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall3/25/11 “Toward a New Synthesis of the Politics of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.” Christopher Loss, Vanderbilt University 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall4/15/11 "Participation Decisions over Time." CSDI Fellow Adam Levine 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall4/22/11 "Confronting the Administrative Presidency: Analytical Bureaucracy and Congressional Governance." Sam Workman, University of Texas at Austin 12:15 p.m.
110 Alumni Hall4/29/11 "Brussels Bound: Candidate Selection in European Elections" CSDI Fellow Dan Pemstein 12:15 p.m.
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2009-2010 CSDI Seminar Series
Date
Title
Speaker
Time/Place
9/18/09 "Predicting Roll Calls with Legislative Text" CSDI Fellow Dan Pemstein Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 10/2/09 "The Effect of International Government Organizations on Institutional Design" CSDI Fellow Tana Johnson Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 10/30/09 "Much Ado About Nothing? The Effects of Open Primaries on Legislative Behavior" Josh Clinton Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 11/6/09 "Transnational Gangs, Non-State Armed Groups, and Fault Lines of Transitions in Central America" Jose Miguel Cruz LAPOP Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 11/13/09 "Ulysses and the Sirens vs. Jason and Pygmalian: An Essay on the Purpose of the Constitution" Ed Rubin Vanderbilt Law Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 11/20/09 "Turkey Farms, Patronage, and Obama Administration Appointments” Professor David Lewis and CSDI Undergraduate Fellow Gabe Horton Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 1/15/10 "Political Science Experiments at VU: An Introduction to the RIPS Lab" Cindy Kam, Liz Zechmeister with Jennifer Off-Anderson, Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 305 12 - 1:30 pm 1/22/10 "Black and White Americans and Latino Immigrants: A Preliminary Look at Attitudes in Three Southern Cities" Paula McClain, Duke University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm 2/5/10 "Solicitor General Influence and the United States Supreme Court" Professor Ryan Owens, Harvard University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm 2/26/10 "How Trust Matters: The Changing Political Relevance of Political Trust" Marc Hetherington and Jason Husser Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm 3/19/10 "Evaluating Political Leaders in Times of Economic and Terrorist Threat: The Joint Relevance of Incumbency and Politician Partisanship" Liz Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University and Jenn Merolla, Claremont University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 pm 3/24/10 “Repositioning Candidates” John Geer, Vanderbilt University Calhoun Hall Room 337 4:15 - 5:30 pm 4/16/10 "Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game" John Griffin, Notre Dame University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 p.m. 5/27/10 TBA Cindy Kam and Liz Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University Buttrick Hall Room 101 12 - 1:30 p.m.