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The QuaSSI Symposium on Quantitative Political History (QuaPH)


Tuesday, May 20, 2008.
Pond Laboratory, Room 302.
Hosts / Discussion Leaders: Burt Monroe, Michael Bernhard, Douglas Lemke
Time Speaker  
9:15 Opening Remarks (Burt Monroe)

 
9:30 Benjamin Valentino
Assistant Professor, Government
Dartmouth University

“Bear any Burden? How Democracies Minimize the Costs of War.”
(Paper joint with Paul Huth and Sarah Croco, Maryland.)
 
10:45 Break

 
11:00 Daniel Ziblatt
Associate Professor, Government and Social Studies
Faculty Associate, Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University

“The Causes of Electoral Fraud: A Theory and Subnational Evidence from Germany, 1871-1914.”


 
12:15 Lunch

 
1:30 Jeffery Jenkins
Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
Senior Scholar, Miller Center of Public Affairs
University of Virginia

“Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the U.S. Senate.”
(Paper joint with Sean Gailmard, UC-Berkeley.)

 
2:45 Discussion: Politics, History, and Quantitative Analysis

 
(5:00) Otto's, all interested

 



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