Past Colloquium Events

Spring Quarter 2007

• Friday, June 8, 1:10-2:30pm: Steve Nicholson (UC Merced), "Ballots of Reward and Punishment: Target Group Cues and Electoral Support for Direct Legislation"
• Wednesday, June 6, 11am-12:30pm: Cheryl Boudreau, Talk TBA
• Friday, June 1, 2:10pm-3:30pm: Jim Adams and Zeynep Somer-Topcu, "Do Parties Adjust Their Policies in Response to Rival Parties' Policy Shifts? Spatial Theory and the Dynamics of Party Competition in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies."
• Friday, May 18, 12:10-1:00pm: Ben Highton, "The 'Choice Context' and the Political Significance of Political Awareness"
• Thursday, May 10, 11:30am-1pm: Nancy Burns* (University of Michigan), TBD
• Friday, May 4, 2:10-3:30pm: Liz Zechmeister, "Mexican Democracy in Crisis?"
• Friday, April 27, 12:10-1:30pm: Joe Fletcher (UC Toronto), "Why Bills of Rights?"
• Friday, April 20, 2:10-3:30pm: Kris Inman, "Participating Their Way to Democracy? An experimental Approach to Senegal."

Winter Quarter 2007

• Thursday, February 22, 3:10-4:30pm: Gary Segura, "Identity, Community, and Change: Preliminary Results from the Latino National Survey"
• Friday, February 9, 12:10-1:30 pm: Brad Jones, "Order Matters?: Alternatives to Conventional Practices for Ordinal Categorical Response Variables." (article and replication code)
• Friday, January 18, 2:10 pm: Cindy Kam, "The Omnibus Project (TOP): Experimental Studies at UC Davis."

Publications

Below is selection of papers published following presentation in The Colloquium Series.

• Fowler, James H. and Kam, Cindy D. 2006. "Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout." Political Behavior 28(2): 113-128.
• Gartner, Scott Sigmund. 2008. "The Multiple Effects of Casualties on Public Support for War: An Experimental Approach." American Political Science Review 102(1).
• Huckfeldt, R., J. Mondak, M. Craw, and J. Mendez. 2005. "Making Sense of Candidates: Partisanship, Ideology, and Issues as Guides to Judgment." Cognitive Brain Research 23: 11-23.
• Kam, Cindy D., and Carl L. Palmer. Forthcoming. "Reconsidering the Effects of Education on Political Participation." Journal of Politics.
• Merolla, Jennifer, Jennifer Ramos, and Elizabeth Zechmeister. 2007. "Crisis, Charisma, and Consequences: Evidence from the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election." Journal of Politics 69(1): 30-42.
• Sala, Brian R., John T. Scott, and James F. Spriggs II. 2007. "The Cold War on Ice: Constructivism and the Politics of Olympic Figure Skating Judging." Perspectives on Politics 5: 17-29.