SCHEDULED TALKS SPRING 2008

January 25
Camber Warren
The Geometry of Security: Modeling Interstate Alliances as Evolving Networks

February 1
Arturus Rozenus
Electoral Bias and the Origins of Proportional Representation

February 8
Nora Hanagan
From Walden to the World: Local and Global Responsibility in Thureau

February 15

February 22
Jie Lu
Society as the Third Party When Local and Center Disagree: Varieties of Electoral Institutions in China's Grassroots Democracy

February 29
Dan Kselman
Proportional Representation and Political Conflict

March 7
Brendan Nyhan
Interbranch Warfare: Congressional scandal allegations against the president

March 14
Spring break

March 21
Sinzi Popa

March 28
James Bourke
Nietzsche/Connolly: Problems of a Nietzschean Democracy

April 4
MPSA

April 11
Katie Cochran
Military Competition and the Spread of Democracy

April 18
Ian McDonald
Migration, Sorting, and Convergence in the U.S. Electorate: Evidence from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey

April 25
Haifeng Huang
Central Signaling and Local Reform in China