Political Methodology Research Seminar

The Political Methodology Colloquium and the graduate research seminar in Formal Theory and Quantitative Methods have been combined, and take place Fridays, 12pm-1:30pm, in 127 Corwin.

The Political Methodology Colloquium is a forum where graduate students and faculty members from various subfields present their ongoing research that either applies or develops formal/quantitative methods.  Occasionally, external speakers are invited to give a presentation. Faculty Coordinator is Kosuke Imai. Graduate Student Coordinator is Carlos Velasco Rivera. Papers are posted in advance of the presentation. You may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

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Past Seminars

2008-2009  2010-2011  2011-2012

Current Year Seminars

Date Presenter Title
8/21/2012 Deborah Beim, Peter Buisseret, Scott Abramson, Alex Ruder Text Analysis of Doctrinal Development in the Judicial Hierarchy (Beim)
Parliamentarism or Presidentialism? (Buisseret)
A Military Revolution in State Size? (Abramson)
Institutional Design and Attributions of Presidential Control (Ruder)
9/14/2012 Marc Ratkovic A Matching Method for General Treatment Regimes (Practice Job Talk)
9/21/2012 Deborah Beim Learning in the Judicial Hierarchy (Practice Job Talk)
9/28/2012-9/29/2012 Experimental Research Methods Workshop

Workshop's Program
10/5/2012 Peter Buisseret

Parliamentarism or Presidentialism? (Practice Job Talk)
10/12/2012 Michael Donnelly Identity and Interests (Practice Job Talk)
10/19/2012 Alex Ruder  Institutional Design and the Attribution of Presidential Control (Practice Job Talk)
10/26/2012 Michael Becher Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Redistribution (Practice Job Talk)

11/2/2012

 Fall Break

11/9/2012

 Leonard Wantchekon

Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Benin
11/16/2012 Job Talk
11/23/2012 Thanksgiving
11/30/2012 Job Talk
12/7/2012 Job Talk
12/14/2012 Luke Keele (Pennsylvania State University)

Geography as a Causal Variable

Talk based on the following two papers:

GeoMatch.pdf  GeoRDD.pdf

1/10/2013

 Poster Session

Wallace 300 (noon-2pm)

Poster Abstracts

1/18/2013

 Jidong Chen Committee Deliberation before Agenda Setting

1/25/2013

 Jonathan Olmsted GIT Workshop

2/1/2013

 Alex Tahk (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Continuous-Time, Latent-Variable Model of Polling and Other Time-Series Data

2/8/2013

 Kentaro Hirose Why Do Strong States Rarely Threaten Weak States Explicitly? A Mediation Analysis of Power, Trade, and Military Conflict
2/15/2013 In Song Kim
2/22/2013 Justin H. Gross (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Ideology-Etch-a-Sketch (IDEaS) Model: Inferring Ideological Profile from Key Phrases
3/1/2013 Jake Shapiro Is There a Law of One Attitude?
3/8/2013 Jerry Reiter (Duke University)

Protecting confidentiality in public use data with mulitple imputation
3/15/2013 Carlo Prato

Costly campaigns and reforms in democracy
3/22/2013 Spring Break
3/29/2013 Ruben Enikopolov Randomized Impact Evaluation of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Programme
4/5/2013 Jonathan Olmsted Intro to Della: Basic HPC at Princeton University
4/12/2013 Midwest Conference

4/19/2013

Kare Vernby (Uppsala University)

 Do Participatory Democratic Institutions Engender Civic Engagement? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
4/26/2013 Politics Department Reunion

5/3/2013

 Gaurav Sood Coming to Dislike Your Opponents: The Polarizing Impact of Political Campaigns

5/10/2013

 NO SEMINAR TBD

5/17/2013

 Graeme Blair Why Oil-Rich States Are So Violent

5/24/2013

 Maria Petrova TBD

5/27/2013-5/31/2013

Advanced Statistical Programming Camp

9:30-11:30am