December 4, 2010

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)