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American Politics Workshop - Justin Grimmer
October 24, 2012

Justin Grimmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science.  His research interests include political representation, Congress, bureaucracies, and political methodology.  His book project, Representational Style: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters, demonstrates that to understand how representation occurs in Congress, one must examine how legislators engage constituents outside of it.  Justin received his PhD from Harvard University in 2010 and his AB from Wabash College.

American Politics Workshop

Department Event - Professor Tom Clark
October 24, 2012

Tom S. Clark is associate professor of political science. His research focuses on judicial politics, American political institutions, rational choice institutionalism. Current research projects include a the study of law-making in the judicial hierarchy, the development of statistical models of legal doctrine, and the consequences of various methods of selection for state supreme court judges' responsiveness to public opinion. Prof. Clark's book, The Limits of Judicial Independence, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. Prof. Clark received his BA (2003) from Rutgers University, and his MA (2005) and PhD (2008) in Politics from Princeton University. Clark also holds a courtesy appointment in the Emory School of Law.

Political Methodology Workshop - Arjun Wilkins
October 25, 2012

Arjun Wilkins is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate (degree expected June 2013), whose areas of interest include congressional elections, political partisanship, and quantitative methodology. His dissertation research uses vast datasets on congressional elections and individual-level survey responses (from Gallup) to study how the behavior of congressional incumbents and party identification in the mass public shape election outcomes in the United States.

Political Methodology Workshop

CP/IR Workshop - Xiaojun Li
October 26, 2012

Abstract: In this paper, I propose a theory of endogenous protection under authoritarianism, which argues that the structure of protection, both across industries and over time, reflects not only the distribution of winners and losers from free trade and the cost of lobbying but also, more importantly, different groups’ access to trade policymakers. I test the theory by examining the domestic sources of trade protection across manufacturing industries in China after it joined the WTO, when the state's delegation of trade policymaking power to a expanded bureaucracy has created more opportunities for industrial lobbying. The empirical evidence is based on two original, large-scale datasets: a dataset on the economic and geographical characteristics of 471 Chinese industries from 1999-2009 and a dataset on HS-6 digit product-level non-tariff and behind-the-border measures (NBMs) from 2003-2009.  I find that the percentage of state ownership and the geographical distribution of firms, two measures of access to trade policymakers, are significant predictors of industry-level protection. My research suggests that domestic groups in nondemocratic regimes have a greater impact on trade policies than is often recognized by conventional wisdom.

International Relations Workshop

Theory Workshop - William Scheuerman
October 26, 2012

William Scheuerman's primary research and teaching interests are in modern political thought, German political thought, democratic theory, legal theory, and international political theory. After teaching at Pittsburgh and Minnesota, he joined the Indiana faculty in 2006. He is the author of BETWEEN THE NORM AND THE EXCEPTION: THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND THE RULE OF LAW (MIT, 1994), CARL SCHMITT: THE END OF LAW (Rowman & LIttlefield, 1999), LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE SOCIAL ACCELERATION OF TIME (Johns Hopkins, 2004), FRANKFURT SCHOOL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION, DEMOCRACY, AND THE LAW (Routledge 2008), HANS J.

Political Theory Workshop

CP/IR Workshop - David Vogel
November 2, 2012

David Vogel's research focuses on business-government relations with a particular emphasis on the comparative and international dimensions of environmental and consumer regulation. He also writes on corporate social responsibility, and religion and environmentalism. Vogel teaches classes on environmental policy, and business ethics and corporate responsibility. His books include The Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies (co-editor, Robert Kagan) (UC Press 2004), Barriers or Benefits?

International Relations Workshop

Theory Workshop - Jeff Stout
November 2, 2012

Jeffrey Stout is professor of religion at Princeton University. He is a member of the Department of Religion, and is associated with the departments of Philosophy and Politics and with the Center for the Study of Religion and the Center for Human Values.  He joined the Princeton faculty in 1975.  This year he is director of graduate studies in Religion.

Political Theory Workshop

CP/IR Workshop - Avital Livny
November 9, 2012

Avital Livny is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Politics (degree expected in 2013). Her dissertation evaluates Islam’s growing significance for socio-economic cooperation and political mobilization in Turkey and the Muslim World: using survey and observational data, along with experimental methods, she shows that references to a common religious identity are increasingly valuable to political and economic groups because they build trust among individual Muslims, trust which compensates for high levels of generalized distrust in Muslim-majority countries.

Comparative Politics Workshop

Theory Workshop - Mark Reiff
November 9, 2012

Abstract: The need for further exploration of the economic injustice of unemployment should be obvious.  Unemployment is currently at historically high rates and these high rates may be becoming structural.  Aside from inequality, unemployment is accordingly the problem that is most likely to put critical pressure on our political institutions, disrupt the social fabric of our way of life, and even threaten the continuation of liberalism itself.  Despite the obvious importance of the problem of unemployment, however, there has been a curious lack of attention paid to this issue by contemporary non-Marxist political philosophers.  Non-Marxists typically view unemployment as a technical matter, and doing something about it a question of means not ends, with the solution to this question depending on the kind of empirical determinations about what causes what that are best left to economists, not political philosophers.  But I think this is a mistake.  Because work is a major part of our social life, as well as something that for a great many people grounds their sense of who they are and provides the basis of their sense of self-respect, those unable to find work are missing out on a great deal of what makes for a meaningful life, and not just the economic benefits that social cooperation has to offer.  Those who are unemployed accordingly have something to complain about, even if we do not let them starve, and the rest of us (or at least the institutions that represent us) may have some sort of moral obligation to take action to increase the number of employment opportunities currently available regardless of any uncertainty surrounding the effects that any actions open to us might have.  The nature and extent of this moral obligation is what this paper is dedicated to exploring.

Political Theory Workshop

CP/IR Workshop - Rachel Brule
November 16, 2012

Rachel Brulé is a PhD candidate (expected degree in Spring 2013) specializing in comparative politics and South Asia, with a focus on the political economy of development and gender. Her dissertation provides a unique investigation into the perverse effects of legal empowerment in rural India. Her research is based on two years of fieldwork and rigorous empirical analysis, combining a wide range of methods: difference in differences OLS regressions of large panel survey data, geo-spatial analysis, archival research into national- and state-level legislative debates and 30 years of district-level court rulings, as well as focus group interviews with 1,200 individuals across South India.

Comparative Politics Workshop