Past Seminars:
Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
-
30 April 2013
16:00
- 17:30
Primary Elections and the Quality of Elected Officials
James M Snyder Jr
(Harvard)
, joint with Shigeo Hirano
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 March 2013
16:00
- 17:30
Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Maoist Belt
Shanker Satyanath
(New York University)
, joint with Kishore Gawande and Devesh Kapur
Location:
32L 3.05
3rd Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
12 March 2013
16:00
- 17:30
Preemptive Policy Experimentation
Steve Callender
(Stanford GSB)
Location:
32L 3.05
3rd Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
05 March 2013
16:00
- 17:30
The Lawmakers: Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Alan Wiseman
(Vanderbilt)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
26 February 2013
16:00
- 17:30
Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin
Leonard Wantchekon
(Princeton)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 February 2013
16:00
- 17:30
Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia
Maria Petrova
(New Economic School, Moscow)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
04 December 2012
16:00
- 17:30
International Conventions and Non-State Actors: Selection, Signaling, and Reputation Effects
Kristian Gleditsch
(University of Essex)
, joint with Simon Hug, Livia Isabella Schubiger and Julian Wucherpfennig
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
27 November 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Transparency and Legislative Behavior
John Carey
(Dartmouth College)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
20 November 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Credibility and Commitment in Crisis Bargaining
Kris Ramsay
(Princeton University)
, joint with Mark Fey and Adam Meirowitz
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
13 November 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Procedural Choice in Majoritarian Organizations
Daniel Diermeier
(Northwestern University)
, joint with Carlo Prato and Razvan Vlaicu
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
30 October 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Information & Contestation: A Formal Model of Notice and Comment
Sean Gailmard
(Berkeley)
, joint with John Patty
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
23 October 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Ethnic Inequality
Alberto Alesina
(Harvard University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 October 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Contracts Between Friends: Alliances, Reputation and International Politics
Erik Gartzke
(UCSD)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
09 October 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Marketing sovereign promises: The English model
Gary Cox
(Stanford University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
13 March 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Markovian Elections
John Duggan
(Rochester)
, joint with Jean Guillaume Forand
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
06 March 2012
16:00
- 17:30
To Vote or to Abstain? An Experimental Study of Rational and Normative Considerations Under First Past the Post and PR Elections
Andre Blais
(University of Montreal)
, joint with Jean-Benoit Pilet, Karine van der Straeten, Jean-François Laslier,and
Maxime Héroux-Legault
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 February 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Vote Trading with and without Party Leaders
Thomas Palfrey
(CalTech)
, joint with Alessandra Casella and Sebastien Turban
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
21 February 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Information Revelation and (Anti-)Pandering in Elections
Navin Kartik
(Columbia)
, joint with Francesco Squintani and Katrin Tinn
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
14 February 2012
16:00
- 17:30
The Treaty of Lisbon and European Union Trade Policy: A Political-Economic Analysis
Christophe Crombez
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 February 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Money in Judicial Politics: Individual Contributions and Collective Decisions
Matias Laryczower
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
31 January 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Female representation but male rule? Elite entrenchment, gender quotas and the political glass ceiling
Olle Folke
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
24 January 2012
16:00
- 17:30
Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: A Laboratory Experiment
Laurent Bouton
(Boston University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
17 January 2012
16:00
- 17:30
The Total Survey Error Paradigm and Pre-election Polls: The Case of the 2006 Italian General Election
Laura Fumagalli
(University of Essex)
, joint with Emanuela Sala
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 January 2012
16:00
- 17:30
The impact of elections on cooperation: Evidence from a lab in the field experiment in Uganda
Guy Grossman
(Princeton)
, joint with Delia Baldassarri
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
06 December 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release
Nicholas Sahaguet
(HEC Montreal)
, joint with Stéphane Mechoulan, Dalhousie University
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
29 November 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Markov Voting Equilibria: Theory and Applications
Georgy Egorov
(Northwestern)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 November 2011
16:00
- 17:30
The Self-Defeating Rationale for Torture
Sandeep Baliga
(Northwestern)
, joint with Jeffrey C. Ely
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 November 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Is Political Behavior Better Explained Using Self-Confirming Equilibria?
Arthur Lupia
(Michigan)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
08 November 2011
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Randy Stone
(Rochester)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 November 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Dynastic Leaders and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence
Tim Besley
(EOPP, LSE)
, joint with Marta Reynal-Querol
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
25 October 2011
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Robert Powell
(Berkeley)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
18 October 2011
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Peter Rosendorff
(NYU)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
11 October 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Should Audiences Cost? Optimal Domestic Constraints in International Crises
Scott Ashworth
(Chicago)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
04 October 2011
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Joan Esteban
(Barcelona)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 March 2011
16:00
- 17:30
A Theory of Shared Values
Maggie Penn
(Washington University, St Louis)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 March 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Media and Polarization
Felipe Campante
(Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
, joint with Daniel Hojman, Harvard University
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
08 March 2011
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Riccardo Puglisi
(Universita di Padua)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 March 2011
16:00
- 17:30
A Political Agency Model for Coat-tail Voting
Galina Zudenkova
(Carlos III University of Madrid)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 February 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Tenure in Office and Public Procurement
Stefano Gagliarducci
(University of Roma II Tor Vergata)
, joint with Decio Coviello, University of Roma II Tor Vergata
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 February 2011
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
(Harris School, University of Chicago)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
08 February 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Measuring Ethnic Voting: The political context and the politicization of ethnicity
John Huber
(Columbia University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 February 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Coalition Formation and Political Decision Making: Evidence from Finnish Municipal Mergers
Janne Tukiainen
(HECER and VATT, STICERD visitor)
, joint with Tuukka Saarimaa, VATT
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
25 January 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Challengers, Democratic Consolidation and Electoral Accountability
Ken Schotts
(Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
, joint with Scott Ashworth
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
18 January 2011
16:00
- 17:30
Caste, Political Parties and Distribution in Indian Village Councils
Thad Dunning
(Yale University)
, joint with Janhavi Nilekani (Harvard University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 December 2010
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Andy Eggers
(Yale University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
30 November 2010
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Shigeo Hirano
(Columbia University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
23 November 2010
16:00
- 17:30
Comparative Politics with Endogenous Intra-Party Discipline
Micael Castanheira
(University of Brussles (ULB))
, joint with Benoit Crutzen
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 November 2010
16:00
- 17:30
Testing proposer and voter rationality
Tasos Kalandrakis
(University of Rochester)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
09 November 2010
16:00
- 17:30
A political theory of populism
Konstatin Sonin
(New Economic School, Moscow)
, joint with Daron Acemoglu (MIT) and Georgy Egorov (Northwestern)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
02 November 2010
16:00
- 17:30
Islamic Rule and the Emancipation of the Poor
Erik Myersson
(IIES, Stockholm, and EOPP Visitor)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
26 October 2010
16:00
- 17:30
Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938.
Toke Aidt
(University of Cambridge)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 October 2010
16:00
- 17:30
Mediocracy
Andrea Mattozzi
(CalTech and AUB)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
12 October 2010
16:00
- 17:30
Commercial Imperialis? Political influence and trade during the Cold War
Shanker Satyanath
(New York University)
, joint with Daniel Berger, William Easterly and Nathan Nunn
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
08 December 2009
16:00
- 17:30
TBC
Arthur Spirling
(Harvard)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 December 2009
15:30
- 17:00
TBC
Christopher Kam
(University of British Columbia)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
24 November 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Sociotropic Voting and the Media
Erik Snowberg
(California Institute of Technology)
, joint with Stephen Ansolabehere (Harvard University) and Marc Meredith (University of Pennsylvania)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
17 November 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Competing on Good Politicians
Tommaso Nannicini
(Bocconi University)
, joint with Vincenzo Galasso, Bocconi University
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 November 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Political Bias in Economic Perceptions
Piero Stanig
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 November 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Culture Wars, Voting and Polarization: Divisions and Unities in Modern American Politics
Andrew Gelman
(Columbia University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
17 March 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Bargaining, Institutions, and War with Endogenous Strength
Adam Meirowitz
(Princeton)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 March 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Exchange Rate Regime Choice with Multiple Key Currencies
Thomas Plümper
(Essex University)
, joint with Eric Neumayer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 March 2009
16:00
- 17:30
The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout
Jonathan Katz
(Caltech.)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
24 February 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Competence and Ideology
Francesco Squintani
(Warwick University)
, joint with Dan Bernhardt and Odilon Camara (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
17 February 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Do the Advantages of Incumbency Advantage Incumbents?
Sanford Gordon
(NYU)
, joint with Dimitri Landa (NYU)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 February 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Endogenous Birth and Death of Political Parties in Dynamic Party Competition
Michael Laver
(NYU)
, joint with Ernest Sergenti, New York University, and Michel Schilperoord, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
04 February 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Welfare and Paternalism
Nolan McCarty
(Princeton)
, joint with Stu Jordan (University of Rochester)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
20 January 2009
16:00
- 17:30
Public Disclosure, Private Revelation or Silence: Whistleblowing Incentives and Managerial Policy
David Austen Smith
(Northwestern)
, joint with Tim Feddersen, Northwestern University
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
02 December 2008
16:00
- 17:30
Beyond Muddling Through: Institutions, Accountability, and Endogenous
Bureaucratic Expertise
Sean Gailmard
(Berkeley)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
25 November 2008
15:30
- 17:00
Let the Experts Decide: Asymmetric Information, Abstention, and Coordination on Committees
Rebecca Morton
(NYU)
, joint with Jean-Robert Tyran
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 November 2008
16:00
- 17:30
Rationalization
Tim Feddersen
(Northwestern)
, joint with Vadim Cherepanov and Alvaro Sandroni
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
11 November 2008
16:00
- 17:30
TBA
David Laitin
(Stanford)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
04 November 2008
16:00
- 17:30
Media Freedom in Dictatorships
CANCELLED
Konstatin Sonin
(New Economic School, Moscow)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 October 2008
16:00
- 17:30
Promotions and Decisions in the English Judiciary
Jordi Blanes-i-Vidal
(LSE)
, joint with Clare Leaver (Oxford)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
21 October 2008
15:30
- 17:00
A Spatial Theory of Party Formation
John X Eguia
(NYU)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
14 October 2008
16:00
- 17:30
The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
Rohini Pande
(Harvard, EOPP Visitor)
, joint with Torsten Persson
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 October 2008
16:00
- 17:30
Term Length and Political Performance
Ernesto Dal Bo
(Berkeley)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
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