Stanford University
POLISCI 353: Workshop in Statistical Modeling
Jonathan Wand, Simon Jackman, and Doug Rivers

Spring 2004 Calendar

Meeting times and location

The workshop will meet weekly each Monday 12-2pm in Room 400 (the Graham Stuart Lounge) on the 4th floor of Encina Hall West, except where noted below.

Description of weeks

April 5 : Student research presentations (Student papers should be submitted in pdf form for posting by April 1st.)
Sarah Anderson, Median voters and committees
Alexander Kendall, The Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout
Matt Levendusky, Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowlege
Karla Lopez de Nava, Theories of Economic Voting Revisited
April 11: Paper presentation
(Part 1) Speaker: Christina Maimone, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Topic: Measuring heterogeneity
Paper #1: Dissertation proposal
Paper #2: The Estonian Russian Divide: Examining Social Diversity in Estonia with Cross-National Survey Data
(Part 2) Student research presentations (continued)
Kai Stinchcombe, Microstates and Democratization
April 19 : Paper presentation
Speaker: Keith Poole, Department of Political Science, University of Houston and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 2003-2004
Topic: The geometry of roll call voting and optimal classification
Readings: chapter 2 , chapter 3 , and chapter 3 appendix from Dr. Poole's new manuscript (additional parts available here)
April 26 : Paper presentation
Speaker: Doug Rivers, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Paper: Bias in ecological regression
May 3 : Paper presentation
Speaker: Daniel Butler, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Topic: Time-series Cross-section models
Paper: A Lot More to Do: The Promise and Peril of Panel Data in Political Science
May 10: Paper presentation
Speaker: Jasjeet Sekhon, Department of Government, Harvard University
Paper: Updating Voters: How cues and heuristics allow voters to act as if they are informed
May 17: Paper presentation
Speaker: Jonathan Katz, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Topic: TBA
May 24: Student presentations of final research projects
Alexander Kendall, The Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout
Sarah Anderson, Median voters and committees
Karla Lopez de Nava, Economic Performance and Accountability
June 2: Student presentations of final research projects (12-1pm)

!ROOM CHANGE! Meeting to be in the central conference room on the 2nd floor of IIS (Encina Hall central buidling), directly in front of the central elevators.

Kai Stinchcombe, Size Matters: Democratization Data from Microstates with Tables
Matt Levendusky, Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowlege


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Revised March 23, 2004