American Politics Workshop
Fall 2009 Schedule

Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

September 11:        American Politics Meet & Greet Happy Hour (1101 Morrill Hall, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) 

September 18:        Anne Cizmar, “What Makes an Issue Easy?  The Impact of Party and Neutral Cues on Attitudes Toward Abortion” 

October 2:             Antoine Banks, “Is it Fear? Emotions Undergirding Group Conflict Attitudes” 

October 16:            John Aldrich (Duke University), "Conditional Party Government 15 Years after the Republican Revolution." Please note that this workshop will be in Morrill 1101 from 11:00-12:20. 

November 20:        Jeff Taylor, “Do Committees Preempt Party Domination? An Analysis of State Legislatures” 

December 4:           Brian McKenzie, TBA