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Presidents Day

Wednesday April 25 there will be no advising hours in the morni
ng. They will begin at 1:30 that day and continue until 4

The UCSD Comparative Politics GroupSponsored byThe Depa
rtment of Political Science

and

The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies

Presents

Hal Wilensky

University of California, Berkeley

"Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance:

Comparing 19 Rich Democracies"

This talk is based on Professor Wilensky's book, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance (U. of Cal. Press 2002), Chs. 1 (Convergence Theory), 2 (Types of Political Economy), and 7 (Political Economy, Party Ideology, and Family Policy). Details, including the Table of Contents and a 9-page Preface are available at http://go.ucpress.edu/wilensky <http://go.ucpress.edu/wilensky> . His most recent article, "Tradeoffs in Public Finances: Comparing the Well-being of Big Spenders and Lean Spenders", International Political Science Review (2006), v. 27, #4, 405-425, is available on line."

Harold L. Wilensky is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. His fields include comparative political economy, public policy, and labor and industrial relations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of 13 books and more than 70 articles. Before joining the University of California at Berkeley in 1962 he taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.

Professor Wilensky has spent much of his career studying what is distinctly modern about modern societies and explaining differences among rich democracies. His publications deal with four main problems: the interplay of knowledge and power, the role of the expert\; the ascendance of the mass media in politics and culture\; the fate of minority groups\; the politics of taxing and spending and the welfare state. His books include Industrial Society and Social Welfare (1958, 1965)\; Intellectuals in Labor Unions (1956)\; Organizational Intelligence (1967, 1969) The 'New Corporatism', Centralization, and the Welfare State (1976)\; The Welfare State and Equality (1975)\; and (with Lowell Turner) Democratic Corporatism and Policy Linkages (1987).

His most recent book is Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance (University of California Press, 2002) His talk today is based on this book.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

12 noon

SSB 107

Lunch will be provided.

The UCSD Department of Political Sciencepresents Mark T
urner
(Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University)
"Homo Oeconomicus is a Cognitively Modern Human Being: Activation, Motivation, and Persuasion at Human Scale"

Friday, May 11, 12 Noon
Room: Atkinson Hall, Multi-Purpose Room
Lunch will be provided

The UCSD American Politics and Institutions ProjectSponsore
d by

The Department of Political Science

Presents

Kevin Quinn

Harvard University

"Assessing Political Positions of Media"

ABSTRACT: Although central to understanding the role of the media, few quantitative measures of the political positions of media exist. Collecting and classifying every editorial adopted by 20 major U.S. newspapers on 495 Supreme Court cases from 1994-2004, we apply an item response theoretic approach to place newspapers on a substantively meaningful -- and long validated -- scale of political preferences. Our results provide significant insights into the study of the media.

Monday, May 14, 2007

3:00 pm

SSB 104

The UCSD Department of Political Sciencepresents Barry
R. Weingast
and
Edward H. Stiglitz
(Stanford University)
"Agenda Control in Congress: Evidence from Cut Point Estimates and Ideal Point Uncertainty"

Thursday, May 24, 12 Noon
Room: SSB 107
Lunch will be provided & the Paper is Attached

2007 Annual Meeting: Political Science and BeyondChicago\
, Illinois ~ August 30 - September 2, 2007
Hyatt Regency & Sheraton Chicago



The 2007 APSA Annual meeting aims to embrace the extraordinary potential of linking political scientists with researchers, teachers, and scholars from other disciplines. We encourage participants to think across disciplinary boundaries in contributing to the program. We particularly encourage the participation of scholars from cognate fields. Doing so will expose political scientists to the newest research currents in other arenas, demonstrate in return the intellectual vitality of political science, and most of all enrich the discussion across disciplines and our understanding of politics.









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The Call for Proposals
Proposals were accepted until November 15, 2006. Decisions were announced in mid-March 2007.





2007 Program Chairs

Elisabeth Gerber,
University of Michigan
David Lake
University of California, San Diego

This is an event reminder

"Immigrants and Baby Boomers: Forging A New Social Contract For
The U.S."
3:00-5:00pm

This is an event reminder

"DIFERENCIAS DE PRODUCTIVIDAD O DISCRIMINACION? - INMIGRANTES D
E AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE EN EL MERCADO LABORAL ESTADOUNIDENSE"
3:00-5:00pm

(Presentation in Spanish\; joint seminar with the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies)

Professor Stephen K. White, "Ethos and Democracy"\;David Lei
tch, discussant

"INTEGRATING IMMIGRANTS OR TESTING FOR CITIZENSHIP? -- RECONCIL
ING GOALS AND PRACTICES IN U.S. NATURALIZATION POLICIES"
3:00-5:00PM

"GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON MIGRATION IN MEXICAN AGRICULTU
RAL COMMUNITIES"
3:30-5:00PM

(Joint seminar for U.S.-Mexican Studies)

Visiting UCSD Campus on November 14th, noon (lunch will be ser
ved)

THE EFFECT OF VOTER IDENTIFICATION LAWS ON TURNOUT

R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Delia Bailey, Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology

Since the passage of the "Help America Vote Act" in 2002, nearly half of the states have adopted a variety of new identification requirements for voter registration and participation by the 2006 general election. There has been little analysis of whether these requirements reduce voter participation, especially among certain classes of voters. In this paper we document the effect of voter identification requirements on registered voters as they were imposed in states in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, and in the 2002 and 2006 midterm elections. Looking first at trends in the aggregate data, we find no evidence that voter identification requirements reduce participation. Using individual-level data from the Current Population Survey across these elections, however, we find that the strictest forms of voter identification requirements - combination requirements of presenting an identification card and positively matching one's signature with a signature either on file or on the identification card, as well as requirements to show picture identification - have a negative impact on the participation of registered voters relative to the weakest requirement, stating one's name. We also find evidence that the stricter voter identification requirements depress turnout to a greater extent for less educated and lower income populations, but no racial differences.

David Parkes, as part of the CALIT2 seminar series, will be s
peaking on Computation Mechanism Design.

Day 1 of Wallis - Weingast Talk: general framework of "A Conc
eptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History" with some discussion of how the natural state works

Day 2 of Wallis-Weingast Talk:

Farid Abdel-Nour, SDSUPaper Title: "Bringing Citizens To Acc
ount: State Injustices and Political Resposibility"
Discussant: Ivo Gatzinski

The CLASSICAL STUDIES PROGRAM, The VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT an
d The POLITICAL THEORY COLLOQUIUM are pleased to sponsor a talk by PROFESSOR BABETTE E. BABICH Fordham University and Georgetown University on "Greek Bronzes: Holding a Mirror to Life" This talk explores the ethical and political role of life-sized bronzes in ancient Greece given Pliny's claim of 3,000 (others count as many as 73,000) such statues in a city like Rhodes or like Athens or Olympia. Using the resources of hermeneutic phenomenological reflection together with a review of the nature of bronze and of casting techniques, I argue that the ancient Greeks encountered such statues as images of themselves in agonistic tension. The Greek saw and at the same time felt himself regarded by the statue not because he believed the statue divine as such but because he found himself poised against the statue as a living exemplar. At 4PM on FRIDAY, February 15 in the De CERTEAU room, Literature Department Paper is online at http://web.mac.com/jrfritsch/ucsdPTC/Current_Schedule_%26_Papers.html

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2008: Bo Cowgill, Justin
Wolfers, and
Eric Zitzewitz, "Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows:
Evidence from Google." January 6, 2008

ABSTRACT: In the last 2.5 years, Google has conducted the largest corporate
experiment with prediction markets we are aware of. In this paper, we
illustrate how markets can be used to study how an organization processes
information. We document a number of biases in Google's markets, most
notably an optimistic bias. Newly hired employees are on the optimistic side
of these markets, and optimistic biases are significantly more pronounced on
days when Google stock is appreciating. We find strong correlations in
trading for those who sit within a few feet of one another\; social networks
and work relationships also play a secondary explanatory role. The results
are interesting in light of recent research on the role of optimism in
entrepreneurial firms, as well as recent work on the importance of
geographical and social proximity in explaining information flows in firms
and markets.

The paper is available at http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jlbroz/PElunch/index.html
We meet at noon in Social Science Building 333. Lunch is provided. For
directions and other information, please see the website.

&quot\;Small Group Deliberation&quot\;
Abstract:

Political scientists know that education, gender, income, age and race matter for public opinion and behavior. But these are more than characteristics of individuals\; they are features of groups too. This paper argues that the growing interest in citizen deliberation is an opportunity to revive the study of groups in public opinion. I analyze data on over 400 groups from a study of jury-eligible Arizona citizens reaching decisions about punitive damages against large corporations. I first establish that these decisions resemble the ones people make about the politics of redistribution, which allows the findings to generalize beyond juries to the general study of public opinion. I then analyze decisions at both the individual and group level and find that the group's demographic composition can be at least as potent as the individual's demographics. The experience of being among many women or people of color can matter far beyond the experience of being a woman or person of color. The implications of this group influence extend to our understanding of deliberation, social cleavages, and the contextual dynamics of public opinion.

Workshop with Mark Turner.

"Local Inequality and Project Choice"Abstract: This paper
provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province-level electoral results, we test a simple model of project choice when local political power is unequally distributed. In accordance with the predictions of the model, poorer villages are more likely to receive projects that provide excludable (private) good to the poor, such as latrines. Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive such projects. Consistent with the hypothesis of elite capture, these results are sensitive to the specific measures of inequality and elite power used in the empirical analysis, and are strongest for expenditure shares at the top of the distribution.

"Candidate Positioning in U.S. Senate Elections: An Empirical I
nvestigation of the Revised Spatial Model"

Abstract: Existing empirical investigations of the spatial model of two candidate elections have focused on recovering the utility functions of voters, and testing the validity of the spatial model's characterization of voter behavior. The spatial model also makes strong predictions about candidate positioning. Empirical work testing the implications of the spatial model's predictions for candidate positioning is more limited because simple models are too easy to reject and more realistic models are hard to solve. We develop a 'revised' spatial model that incorporates non-policy factors, uncertainty, and policy-motivated candidates. We develop a structural approach to estimate both voter-specific and candidate-specific parameters using the Simulated Method of Moments. We use this approach to test the validity of the revised spatial model as an account of candidate positioning in U.S. Senate elections. We apply our approach to study the link between competitiveness and representation.

George C. Edwards, Texas A&M University, will be giving an AP
IP talk, Thursday, April 24, scheduled for 12:30 in SSB 104. It will present his forthcoming book's central argument challenging the Neustadt's classic analysis of presidential power. The talk is entitled,

"Presidential Power is Not the Power to Persuade"

Lunch will be served.

George will be happy to meet with faculty and students before and after the talk (9:30-11:30 and 2:30-4:30). Anyone interested should contact Christy directly at cnygren@ucsd.edu

"How Do Political Institutions Work? Veto Players, Intertempo
ral Interactions, and Policy Adaptability"

Abstract:
This paper presents an approach to study the effects of political institutions on policies, which puts emphasis on the intertemporal nature of policymaking. We argue that viewing political institutions from the perspective of their effects on intertemporal interactions and intertemporal cooperation can lead to predications different from those emerging from view that do not emphasize such dimensions. We illustrate this point by contrasting predications from an intertemporal perspective with predictions from veto player approaches, and we provide evidence supporting our argument. In particular, increasing the number of veto players does not necessarily make a polity less able to change policies.

The Center on Pacific Economies Presents "From Deng to Demsetz:
Speculations
on the Implications of Chinese Growth for Property Theory"
Speaker: Frank K. Upham
Wilf Family Professor of Property Law
New York University School of Law
Monday, April 28th
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Dean's Conference Room
Robinson Building Complex, IR/PS
For more information, please visit the Events Calendar at cpe.ucsd.edu

The Political Theory Workshop and Speaker Series is pleased to
welcome Professor Cheryl Welch from Simmons College on Monday May 5, at 12:00pm, in IRPS 1301.

She will present a paper -- "Les injustices révoltantes: Gustave de Beaumont and the Pre-history of Crimes against Humanity"
The flyer is attached. Please post as appropriate. Please also note our working schedule below.

Professor Welch's paper will be available shortly at polisci.ucsd.edu <http://polisci.ucsd.edu> under the "Speaker Series" tab. Hit "Political Theory Workshop" and then "Current Schedule and Papers"




THE POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP

AND SPEAKER SERIES

is pleased to sponsor a talk by

PROFESSOR CHERYL WELCH

Simmons College
on

"Les injustices révoltantes:

Gustave de Beaumont and the Pre-history of Crimes against Humanity"


Monday, May 5
in
IRPS 1301 at 12:00 noon

The discussant will be David Selby

Paper may be accessed at the following site
http://web.mac.com/jrfritsch/iWeb/ucsdPTC/Welcome.html

Then by going to "Current Schedule"
or by going to "polisci.ucsd.edu <http://polisci.ucsd.edu> ", then to "Speaker Series"




Working schedule (more TBA)

Stephen K. White (UVA), Monday, October 29
Robert Meister (UCSC), Thursday, November 15 (note special date)
Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago), Monday, November 26
Alan Houston (UCSD), Monday, January 14
Antony Lyon (UCSD), Monday, February 25
Shannon Stimson (UCBerkeley), Monday March 3
Andrew Poe (UCSD), Monday April 21
Cheryl Welch (Simmons), Monday May 5
Lisa Ellis (Texas A&M), Monday June 2

This Thursday's theory lunch speaker is Jaimie Lien. Her talk i
s titled:

Smoothing, Self-Control or Cruise-Control?
Evidence on Intertemporal Consumption Choices from a University
Dining Plan

The lunch is noon to 1:00 in Sequoyah 244. Sandwiches and drinks are
provided.

Note: There will be no theory lunch on Thursday, May 15. Instead there
will be an additional lunch on Thursday, June 12 (during finals week).

THE POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOPAND SPEAKER SERIESis pleas
ed to sponsor a talk by

Andrew Poe

University of California, San Diego

„The Presence of Strangers"


Monday, May 12
in
IRPS 1301 at 12:00 noon

The discussant will be Justin Gottschalk



Please also note the remainder of our Spring schedule below:

Monday, May 5 Cheryl Welch, Simmons College (discussant David Selby)
Monday, May 12 Andrew Poe (discussant Justin Gottschalk)
Monday, May 19 Justin Gottschalk (3rd year prospectus presentation\; discussant Dave Leitch)
Monday, June 2 Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M (discussant Andrew Poe)

Project on International Affairs Presents:"Producer, Consu
mer, Family Member: The Relationship Between Trade
Attitudes and Family Status"

Professor Judith Goldstein

Stanford University



Thursday, May 15, 2008

3:00 - 4:30 PM

Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107

The Department of Political Science presents a talk in the Publ
ic Policy Research Group:

"Genes, Brains, Environment and Behavior: The Road from Genotype to Political Phenotype"

Peter Hatemi
Virginia Commonwealth University

The talk will be on Thursday, May 22 at 12:30 in SSB 104. Lunch will be provided.

Abstract:

Genes are major contributors to many behavioral traits, but their mechanisms of action and origin remain understudied. More than half a century of research in psychiatric and behavioral genetics has established almost beyond doubt that genes influence complex social and political behaviors in humans, however this is too simple a view.

The Genes, Brains, Environment, Behavioral model, based on the "intermediate phenotype" concept represents a strategy for characterizing the neural systems affected by candidate genes for a given behavior, to elucidate the mechanics behind significant genetic associations with certain political phenotypes. This process is well established for psychiatric disorders and can be modified for political behaviors. Using two examples involving dopamine and vasopressin along with party identification and partisan intensity, we illustrate recent advances, challenges and implications of linking genes to brain functions which interpret and interact with the environment, which in turn influence both preferences and political behaviors.

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