Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy
Cambridge, December 4, 2010
Sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
8:30AM–9:00AM Continental breakfast and introductions
9:00AM–11:00AM: Session 1
- Suresh Naidu (Columbia), “Suffrage, Schooling and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South”
- Discussants: Lee Alston (Colorado) and Randall Calvert (Washington University)
11:00AM–11:30AM Coffee break
11:30AM–1:30PM: Session 2
- Torun Dewan (LSE) and Arthur Spirling (Harvard),“Strategic Opposition and Government Cohesion in Westminster Democracies”
- Discussants: Scott Ashworth (Chicago) and Howard Rosenthal (NYU)
1:30PM–3:00PM Lunch
3:00PM–5:00PM: Session 3
- Gary Cox (Stanford), “War, Moral Hazard and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution”
- Discussants: Ron Rogowski (UCLA) and Matthew Stephenson (Harvard)
See also: December 4, 2010