Colloquium on Positive Political Economy 2005-2006
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).
