May 8-10, 2008, Michael Lewis-Beck will host a conference on The American Voter, sponsored by the Benjamin Shambaugh Fund

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”
Click here for a copy of the paper

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

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