American Politics Workshop
Fall 2008 Schedule

Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

September 5     American Politics Meet & Greet Luncheon

 

September 19   Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, “Residential Isolation and Latino Political Socialization”

 

October 3        Joe Oppenheimer, Norman Frohlich, Maria Dimitriu & Cyrus Aghamolla, “Some Democracies are More Equal Than Others: using Social Welfare as a Metric for Political Evaluation.”

 

October 17      Daron Shaw (University of Texas-Austin), An Insider’s Perspective on Exit Polling in American Politics

                        Workshop to be held in the afternoon, time TBA

 

October 24      Professionalization Session: Rosalyn Cooperman (University of Mary Washington) on life and work at a teaching institution.

                        Session to be held from 3:30 to 5:00, followed by happy hour at Franklin’s.

 

October 31      Mike Hanmer and Richard Niemi (University of Rochester), “Voter Turnout Among College Students: New Data and a Rethinking of Traditional Theories”

 

November 14   Irwin Morris, “Explaining Presidential Greatness: Peace, Prosperity, and the Luck of Following Losers.”

 

December 5     Geoff Layman “Parties, Partisanship, and the Nature of Issue Conflict in American Politics”