American Politics Workshop: Schedule

The American Politics faculty welcomes you to our bi-weekly research workshop for all faculty and graduate students interested in American Politics. The plan for the workshop is that each meeting will feature a paper by a faculty member or graduate student.

The papers will be posted here at least one week prior to the meeting, with the expectation that all participants will have read the papers in advance. Paper authors will make no formal presentations, and one participant will be asked to serve as the discussion leader.  In addition, papers from previous years are available in the Workshop archive area.

Schedule for Spring 2013 Semester

February 1
1101 Morrill Hall
Irwin Morris, MV Hood III, and Quentin Kidd, “Tea Leaves and Southern Politics: Explaining Tea Party Support Among Southern Republicans.”
Discussants: Stella Rouse and Jeffrey Taylor

February 15
1101 Morrill Hall
Stella Rouse and Ashley Ross, “Economic Uncertainty, Competition and The Millennial Generation’s Attitudes Toward Immigration.”
Discussants: Robert Koulish and Stephen Yoder

March 1
1101 Morrill Hall
Paul Herrnson and Justin Kirkland, “Political Parties and Campaign Finance Networks.”
Discussants: Ernesto Calvo and Joe Wantz

March 15
Friday’s American Politics Workshop will feature guest speaker Prof. Jonathan Ladd (Georgetown University). His presentation is titled “How Influential are Party Positions on Mass-Level Policy Preferences?”

March 29
1101 Morrill Hall
Kris Miler, “The Effects of Committee Requests: Constituency Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Discussants: David Karol and Mike Parrott

April 26
1101 Morrill Hall
Jennifer Lawless (American University), “A Non-Gendered Lens: The Absence of Stereotyping in Contemporary Congressional Elections.”
Note: Workshop will be in 1101 Morrill Hall from 11:00am-12:30pm.