Our paper “Race in the War on Drugs The Social Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric” can be found on SSRN. It was presented at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies and published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. The abstract is available below the fold. Continue reading
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I’m currently president of the Midwest Public Administration Caucus. The Caucus is hosting three events at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.
1. Herbert Simon Lecture. Professor Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University, Crystal Room, 3rd Floor. Saturday, April 2nd at 4:35 PM.
We are honored to have Dan Carpenter of Harvard give this year’s Herbert Simon Lecture. Dan is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and the Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard. His most recent book is Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
My thanks go out to Tom Hammond of Michigan State University, Brandice Canes-Wrone of Princeton, and Mike Ting of Columbia for their service on the committee to select this year’s recipient of the Herbert Simon Award.
At that time we will also take a few minutes for an MPAC business meeting, such that it is.
2. Roundtable on Public Services in an Economic Downturn. Saturday, April 2nd, 12:45 PM. Location TBA
This roundtable examines the impact of economic downturns on public services and how public agencies cope with the demand to “do more with less”. Our panelists will be Don Moynihan of Wisconsin, Sean Nicholson-Crotty of Missouri-Columbia, Hal Rainey of Georgia, and B. Guy Peters of Pittsburgh.
3. Roundtable on Regulatory Competition: Causes and Consequences. Sunday, April 3rd, 8:30 AM. Location TBA
This roundtable examines the balance of effective regulatory enforcement against the need to attract business and how this may result in regulatory competition between jurisdictions. Our panelists will be Evan Ringquist of Indiana, David Konisky of Georgetown, Dorothy Daley of Kansas, and Neal Woods of South Carolina.
My thanks go out to Colin Provost of University College London for arranging our two roundtables.
I hope you will take time to attend all of these events.
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In the mail:
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Call for Papers: Social Conflict and Social Simulation panel at World Congress on Social Simulation
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We kindly invite you to submit a paper to the Special Interest Group Social Conflict and Social Simulation (SIG-SCSS) panel at the 2010 World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS). As in the last two years we welcome papers that are thematically relevant to social conflict and social simulation in general. Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Outstanding submissions will be selected to be published as a book chapter in the WCSS proceedings.We expect full papers to be submitted no later than 1 May 2010. Papers shall not exceed 8 pages in length. Detailed submission guidelines can be found on the WCSS 2010 website (http://www.usf.uni-kassel.de/wcss2010/guidelines.php). To indicate submission of your paper for this panel, check the ‘I.4 conflict and cooperation’-box when asked to chose your topic.
For questions please contact Nanda Wijermans (F.E.H.Wijermans@rug.nl)
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All expenses paid for selected grad students!
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From Polmeth:
That path dependence is a key feature of complex human systems is now well-recognized by students of politics and other social sciences. How best to model path dependence both mathematically and statistically is a matter of debate. This small, select conference will bring together scholars and graduate students who are producing models of path dependence and/or attempting to fit these models to data. The objective is to stimulate conversations, future exchanges and eventually new work on this topic.
The conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Political Methodological Society. Additional support will be provided by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. The dates of the conference are tentatively set for June 4 and 5, 2010. Papers will be presented and discussed on Friday afternoon the 4th and most of Saturday the 5th. There will be a dinner for conference participants on Friday evening. All coach travel and local expenses will be reimbursed. If accepted, all participants must submit a short, at least 4 to 5 pages, think piece on the topic for circulation to the participants at least 1 week prior to the conference. Advanced graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Interested scholars should send a one paragraph proposal to John Freeman (freeman@umn.edu) and John Jackson (jjacksn@umich.edu) by Feb. 20, 2010. Invitations will be issued by March 15, 2010. Questions about logistics should be sent to Freeman.
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Seton Hall school of law is hosting “Religious Legal Theory: The State of the Field” November 12th – more details here.
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David Law (Washington University Law School) and David Zaring (University of Pennsylvania Legal Studies Department) have recently posted “Why Supreme Court Justices Cite Legislative History: An Empirical Investigation” on SSRN. Law presented this paper on our panel at the Western Political Science Association Conference in Vancouver and it sounds like a very interesting project. The abstract if available below the fold.
