Public Choice Center Seminar Series – Spring 2008

Seminars are held from 4:00-5:15 in Carow Hall.

Date	Speaker	Topic
1/23	--	--
1/30	Roland Benabou Princeton University	Groupthink and Ideology
2/6	Mark Smith Department of Political Science University of Washington	The Right Talk
2/13	Daniel Klein Department of Economics George Mason University	Groupthink in Academia
2/20	Garett Jones Department of Economics George Mason University	The O-Ring Sector and the Fool-Proof Sector: An Explanation for Cross-Country Growth Differences
2/27	Ragnar Torvik Department of Economics Norwegian University of Science and Technology	When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia
3/5	--	--
3/12	--	--
3/19	Roberta Romano Yale Law School	The Uncertain Future of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
3/26	Erik Snowberg Graduate School of Business Stanford University	A Multi-Dimensional Signaling Model of Campaign Finance
4/2	Timur Kuran Department of Economics Duke University	The Logic of Foreign Commercial Privileges in the Middle East
4/9	Fabio Rojas Department of Sociology Indiana University	Social Movement Mobilization in a Multi-Movement Environment: Spillover, Interorganizational Networks, and Hybrid Identities
4/16	Jeffrey Jenkins Department of Politics University of Virginia	Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the U.S. Senate
4/23	Jason Snyder School of Law Northwestern University	Political Dynasties
4/30	David Redlawsk Department of Political Science University of Iowa	The Affective Tipping Point Do Motivated Reasoners ever “Get It”?
5/7	--	--