Colloquium on Positive Political Economy
The Colloquium on Positive Political Economy is a department speaker series that brings in faculty presenting cutting edge research focused on recent developments in positive political economy. These presentations are framed around: (1) the creation of formal models of political interactions, and (2) the testing of the predictions arising from these models, consistent with the recent NSF-sponsored Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) initiative. The seminars will cut across the subfields of American Politics, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. Moreover, the topics build bridges to faculty and graduate students in the economics Department. This series complements the growing educational opportunities available to our graduate students in various game theoretic classes offered by faculty in the Economics and Political Science departments.
Others to be announced
Please contact Professor William Minozzi for further details, or if you would be interested in speaking in the colloquium series.
Presentation by Professor Kenneth Shotts
January 23, 2009 - 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Spencer Room (2130) - Derby Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Professor Kenneth Shotts is an associate professor of political economy at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His research interests include U.S. politics, electoral and legislative politics, political methodology, and game theory. He is the recipient of the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution, and has been a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, as well as being a current visiting scholar at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. Hehas also published numerous articles in prominent journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Economic Theory, and Political Analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and has previously taught at the Northwestern University Department of Political Science. Among his numerous service activities to the profession, he is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Analysis.
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