Events
Recent Events
May 7-9, 2009, Shambaugh Conference "Election Reform Agenda"
Events from the 2000 and 2004 elections have produced intense interest in updating America's election system. On May 7-9, the Department held a conference which brought together the best scholars working in the area of election reform. These scholars considered best practices in reform based on empirical literature. In other words, use political science research to affect real world politics in a thoughtful manner. The event was sponsored by the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Memorial Fund of the Department of Political Science.
Past Events (2007-2009)
January 17-19, Suzie DeBoef, Talk and Workshop, "Do Voters Care Who Gets What?"
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
January 26, noon, Schaeffer Hall Bose Library- IR Workshop, Cunningham, David. 2006. “Veto Players and Civil War Duration.” American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 50, No. 4: pp. 875-92.
February 9, noon, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Kelly Kadera, “The Trade-offs of Fighting and Investing: A Model of the Evolution of War and Peace.” (with Dan Morey)
February 16, 1:45-2:45 pm, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Fred Slocum, “Authoritarianism, Resistance to Diversity and Republican Realignment Among White Southerners.”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
February 23, IR Workshop, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, noon, Benjamin Knoll, “Beyond Counter Terrorism: The Effects of 9/11 on Exclusionary Policies Targeting Undocumented Latinos in the United States”
March 2, noon, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Fred Boehmke, “The Subversion of Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections”
March 9, noon, Schaeffer Hall Bose Library, Comparative Studies Reading Group
March 23, 1:30-2:30 pm, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall. Stephen Nemeth and Sara Mitchell, "Institutionalization vs. Privatization: UNCLOS, EEZs, and the Management of Maritime Claims"
March 25-26, Rodney Hero, Talk, 12-1:30 pm, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, “Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
April 23, 2007, 11:30-12:30 pm, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, David Makovsky, “Will Condoleezza Rice Bring Israelis and Palestinians Together?”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series, the University of Iowa Louis Shulman Foundation, and the Israel on Campus Coalition
April 24, 2007, 12:30-1:30 pm, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Lord Brian Mawhinney, “Balancing Force and Diplomacy”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
April 26-29, 2007, Iowa City, IA
Kelly Kadera and Sara Mitchell hosted the third Journeys in World Politics workshop.
Click here for a description and schedule
May 10, 2007, noon, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Political Science Workshop, Cary Covington, “Testing for the Effects of Party in the Senate: The Jeffords' Switch”
June 3-5, 2007, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Dave Redlawsk and Tom Rice hosted a Shambaugh Conference on Service Learning with State and Local Government Partners. Participants discussed their work with service learning and civic engagement across a wide range of institutions and projects.
July 26-29, 2007, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Jae-Jae Spoon will host a mini Shambaugh Conference titled, "Kirchheimer Reconsidered: Applications and Implications of the Catch-All Thesis Forty Years Later" Click here for the schedule.
September 7, 2007, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., The Commons, 302 Schaeffer Hall, Political Science Workshop, Brian Lai
“Reducing the Effects of Moral Hazard: Institutional Designs Within International Alliances.”
Click here for a copy of the paper
September 14, 2007, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 140 Schaeffer Hall, Corwin Smidt
“Determinants of Attitudes toward the Role of Religion in Public Life.”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
October 5, 2007, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., The Commons, 302 Schaeffer Hall
James Kuklinski, Professor of Political Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Building Self Selection into Experimental Designs"
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
October 11, 2007, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., The Commons, 302 Schaeffer Hall, Joe Crowley
“The Politics of Being a University President.”
October 12, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m., The Commons, 302 Schaeffer Hall, Rick Lau
“The Effects of Negative Political Campaigns: A Meta-Analytic Reassessment.”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
October 17, 2007, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., Social Science Research Center, 311 Calvin Hall, John Gewecke, “Topics: Time Series”
November 9, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., The Commons, 302 Schaeffer Hall, Political Science Workshop, Dan Smith
"Granting Power to the People: The Adoption of Direct Democracy in the American States"
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
Caroline Tolbert and Peverill Squire hosted a conference January 3-4, 2008, entitled "Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process." Leading scholars in the discipline working in this area attended the academic conference and an Iowa caucus.
March 28, noon, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Political Science Workshop, Rene Rocha, “Racial Diversity and Public Policy in the States”
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March 31, 1:30 p.m., The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Maggie Penn, "Citizenship versus Ethnicity"
April 1, 12:15 p.m., The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, John Patty, "Equilibrium Party Government"
April 11, noon, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Political Science Workshop, Chris Jensen and Jae-Jae Spoon
April 15, 12:30 p.m., The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, David Cunningham
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
April 15, 12:30 p.m., The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Kaare Strom
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
May 5, 11:30 p.m., The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, David Bonior
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
May 8-10, 2008, Michael Lewis-Beck hosted a conference on The American Voter, sponsored by the Benjamin Shambaugh Fund
September 23, 12:15 p.m., Matthew Barreto, "Bull's Eye or Richochet? The Effect of Ethnically Targeted Campaign Ads in the 2008 Presidential Election"
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
September 26, 12:00 p.m., Rene Rocha and Tracy Osborn
Political Science Workshop Series
October 9-11, Journeys in World Politics 2008 Workshop
http://www.saramitchell.org/journeys08.html
October 22, noon, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Justin Phillips, “Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness: Gay Rights in the States.”
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science Bose Lecture Series
October 24, 12:30-1:30PM, The Commons in Schaeffer Hall, Political Science Workshop (Practice Job Talk), James Krueger, “Context and Consistency: A Test of Multiple Frame Environments on Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions.”
November 10, 2008, UI alumnus David Bonior, former Democratic majority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives and the national campaign manager for John Edwards' 2008 presidential race, discussed the election and its outcome at 7 p.m. at Shambaugh Auditorium in the university's Main Library. The talk was titled, "The New Progressive Coalition: An Interpretation of the 2008 Election." Bonior, a Michigan congressman from 1977 to 2003, is known for his work with labor unions. He served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1973 to 1977. Bonior earned his bachelor's degree from the UI in 1967, served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and earned a master's degree from Chapman College in California.
The event was sponsored by the Sudhindra Bose Lecture Series and the Redman Lecture Series of the Department of Political Science, part of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
March 5-8, 2009, Shambaugh Conference "Understanding the 2008 Presidential Election"
