Stanford University
POLISCI 353: Workshop in Statistical Modeling
Jonathan Wand, Simon Jackman, and Doug Rivers
Autumn 2004 Calendar
Meeting times and location
The workshop will meet weekly each Thursday 4-6pm, except where
noted for occassional AES seminars. Workshops take place in Room 400
(the Graham Stuart Lounge) on the 4th floor of Encina Hall West,
except where noted in the schedule.
Description of weeks
Oct 7: Paper presentation
- Speaker: Daniel Butler
- Paper: The Interdependence of Sequential Senate Elections: Evidence from 1946-2002
Oct 14: Practice Job Talk
- Speaker: Hahrie Han
- Paper: Who is Represented? The Impact of Issue Publics on Roll-Call Voting in the Senate
Oct 21: Paper presentation
- Speaker: John Bullock
- Paper:
Re(:)Measuring Political Sophistication (with Robert C. Luskin)
- Companion:
The ideal and practice of measuring political sophistication
Oct 28: NO WORKSHOP -- instead: American Empirical Seminar meeting 5-7pm
- AES Speaker: David Brady and Mo Fiorina
Nov 4: Paper presentation
- Speaker: Alberto Simpser
- Paper: Making Votes Not Count: Strategic Incentives for Electoral Corruption
Nov 11: NO WORKSHOP -- instead: American Empirical Seminar meeting 5-7pm
- AES Speaker: Gary Jacobson
Nov 18: Paper presentation
- Speaker: Neil Malhotra
- Paper: Bureaucracy and Budgets: Government Growth and Professionalism in U.S. State Legislatures
Nov 25: Thanksgiving break
Dec 2: Paper presentation
- Speaker: Robert Anderson
- Paper: Reexamining the Dimensionality of the Rehnquist Supreme Court
- Speaker: Alex Tahk
- Paper: The Signals in the Noise: A Cross-Validation Approach to Estimating the
Dimensionality of Roll Call Voting
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Revised October 18, 2004