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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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Monday
10/8/07 |
Christian Davenport,
University of Maryland |
State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace |
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Monday
10/22/07 |
Ken Williams,
Michigan State University
|
The Effects of Identities, Incentives, and Information on Voting |
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Friday
10/26/07 |
Songying Fang,
University of Minnesota
|
The Strategic Use of International Institutions in Dispute Settlement |
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Friday
12/7/07 |
Michael Colaresi,
Michigan State University |
The Secrecy Dilemma: Accountability, Legislative Oversight and National Security Policy |
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Friday
12/14/07 |
Jim Gibson,
Washington University at St. Louis |
Group Identities and Theories of Justice: An Experimental Investigation Into the Justice and Injustice of Land Squatting in South Africa |
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Friday
1/18/08 |
Georg Vanberg,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
The Value of Vagueness: Delegation, Defiance, and Judicial Opinions |
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Friday
1/25/08 |
Paul Diehl,
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign |
The Dynamics of International Law |
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Friday
2/8/08 |
Zoltan Hajnal,
University of California-San Diego |
The Consequences of Uneven Turnout in City Politics |
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Friday
2/15/08 |
Thomas Remington,
Emory University |
Decrees, Laws, and Interbranch Relations in Russia |
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Friday
2/29/08 |
Dennis Chong,
Northwestern University |
The Value of Information and Endorsements |
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Friday
4/25/08 |
Keith Poole,
University of California-San Diego |
Who is More Liberal, Clinton or Obama? |
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Friday
5/2/08 |
Scott Gehlbach,
University of Wisconsin
|
The Role of Veto Players in Economic Reform |
International Relations Workshop:
This group meets from 11:00-12:00 on Mondays to discuss international relations research. For more information, please contact Ashley Leeds at leeds@rice.edu.
Comparative Politics Workshop:
The workshop convenes every other Tuesday from 3:30 to 5pm in the conference room for informal discussion of four types of work:
- dissertation prospectuses of comparative politics students
- papers of speakers coming to the Department
- interesting articles in the most recent issues of journals
- conference papers and grant proposals that participants of the workshop would like to share with the group.
You will find our discussion schedule posted here. For more information, please contact Monika Nalepa at nalepa@rice.edu.
