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Colloquium on Positive Political Economy
2005-2006
2003-2004 Speakers
2004-2005 Speakers
2005-2006 Speakers
November 8th
Michael Munger
Professor
Department of Political Science and Department of Economics
Duke University
Tuesday, November 8
3:30-5:00 PM
Spencer Room, Derby Hall
Title: "Preference Modification vs. Incentive Manipulation as
Tools of Terrorist Recruitment: the Role of Culture" (Download
a Copy)
Bio: Michael Munger is a professor of political science and
economics at Duke University, and the current Chair of the Department of
Political Science. His research interests include the study of ideology,
legislative institutions, elections, and public policy, especially campaign
finance. In addition to more than 80 articles and papers published in
professional journals and edited volumes, Prof. Munger has coauthored or
coedited (with Melvin Hinich) three books, Ideology and the Theory of Political
Choice (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Analytical Politics (Cambridge
University Press, 1997), and Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (Kluwer
Academic Press, 1998). His most recent book, Analyzing Policy: Choices,
Conflicts, and Practices, was published in August 2000 by W.W. Norton. Prof.
Munger received his Ph.D. in Political Economy at Washington University in St.
Louis in 1984. Following his graduate training, he worked as a staff economist
at the Federal Trade Commission. His first teaching job was in the Economics
Department at Dartmouth College, followed by appointments in the Political
Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-1990) and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990-7). He moved to Duke in 1997.
February 24th
Kenneth A. Shepsle
George D. Markham Professor of Goverment
Harvard University
Department of Government
Friday, February 24, 2005
4:00-5:30 PM
Spencer Room, Derby Hall
Title: ""Advising and Consenting in the 60-Vote Senate" (joint
work with David Rohde) (Download a Copy)
Bio: Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of
Government and a founding member of the Center for Basic Research in the Social
Sciences at Harvard. Professor Shepsle has written numerous articles on formal
political theory, congressional and parliamentary politics, public policy, and
political economy. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Fellow of
the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Guggenheim
Fellow. He was editor of Public Choice, sits on the Board of Editors of the
Cambridge University Press Series on the Political Economy of Institutions and
Decisions, and served as Vice President of the American Political Science
Association. In 1990 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was chair of the Department of
Government at Harvard, 1995-98.
He presently chairs the Faculty Planning Committee for the Center for Government
and International Studies, a building complex planned for government,
international and social scientific research centers. His current research
focuses on formal models of political institutions and intergenerational
politics.
April 13th
Mathew D. McCubbins
Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Associates Chair
Department of Political Science
University of California, San-Diego
Professor of Law
University of San Diego Law School
Thursday, April 13 2005
3:30-5:00PM
1039 Derby Hall
Title: "When Does Deliberating Improve Decision Making?" (with
Daniel Rodriguez) (Download a Copy)
Bio: Mathew D. McCubbins is the Chancellor's Associates Chair
VIII in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San
Diego. He has a B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and an M.S. and
Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Professor McCubbins is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also taught at the
University of Texas, Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis,
and the Law School at the University of San Diego. He is the co-author of five
books, The Logic of Delegation (University of Chicago Press 1991), winner of the
American Political Science Association's 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award;
Legislative Leviathan (University of California Press 1993), winner of the
American Political Science Association, Legislative Studies Section's 1994
Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize; The Democratic Dilemma (Cambridge University Press,
1998); Stealing the Initiative (Prentice-Hall 2000); and Setting the Agenda:
Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (Cambridge
University Press 2005). He is also editor or coeditor of eight additional books
and has authored more than seventy-five scientific articles, with one winning
the Congressional Quarterly Prize for best article on legislative politics.
Professor McCubbins was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Science in 1994-95. He served as a co-editor of the Journal of Law,
Economics & Organization (Oxford University Press).
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