2016 Lectures

2015 Lectures

• Francisco Cantu:

  • A (Very Brief) Introduction to Ideal Point Estimates

• Harold Clarke:

  • Does Mode Matter For Modeling Political Choice? Evidence from the 2005 British Election Study

  • The Effect of Economic Priorities on the Measurement of Value Change: New Experimental Evidence

  • The Endogeneity of Preferences in Spatial Models: Evidence from the 2005 British Election Study

  • Heuristics, Heterogeneity and Green Choices: Voting on California's Proposition 23

  • Hunting the Snark - How We Should Study Electoral Choice in the Twenty-First Century

  • Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics

  • The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined

  • Pooling the Polls Over an Election Campaign

  • Survey Experiments: Illuminating Theoretical and Methodological Controversies

  • Voting Intentions During the 2015 UK General Election Campaign: Analyzing Mode and House Effects in Opinion Polls

• Jeremy Gilmore:

  • Behavioral Voting Models and an Evolution of Voting Theory

• Jim Granato:

  • The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models: Unifying Formal and Empirical Analysis in the Political, Social, and Economic Sciences by Jim Granato, Melody Lo and M.C. Sunny Wong(Password Required)

  • Degrees of Identification

  • Economic Voting

  • EITM: Background and Overview

  • Expectations Modeling (Basics)

  • Homework Assignments

  • Lecture Notes

  • Rank and Order Conditions

  • Simultaneity 

  • Strategists and Party Identification

• Guillermina Jasso:

  • EITM Lecture

• Rose McDermott and Rick Wilson:

  • Experimental Design

  • Experimental Section Syllabus

• Frank Scioli:

  • NSF Proposal Writing: A 40 Year Perspective

  • Preview

• M.C. Sunny Wong:

  • Dynamic Optimization

  • Social Behavior and Evolutionary Dynamics

  • Social Behavior and Evolutionary Dynamics Handout 

2015 Student Presentations

• Brittnee Carter, If You See a Bandwagon, Is It Really Too Late?: Testing Theories of Alliance Dynamics and Systemic Polarity

• Mallory E. Compton & Andrew Q. Philips, EITM in Practice: On the Determinants of Individual Preferences for Social Insurance

• Cong Huang, Reality vs. Ideology: An Alternative Explanation of Individual Preferences for Redistribution

• Alexander Hudson, The Impact of Public Participation in Constitution Making

• Yeaji Kim, The Monetary Value of Education on Voting Participation in the United States

• Amanda Krzyzanowski, Female Education & Economic Development: What is Needed for Female Secondary Education to Directly Improve Economic Growth?

• Fanglu Sun, Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Ethnic Rebellion: A Cure or a Curse

• Irwanda Wardhana, Clean Image or Vote Buying? Strategy to Win Elections in Indonesia

2014 Lectures

• Harold Clarke:

  • Does Mode Matter for Modeling Political Choice? Evidence from the 2005 British Election Study by David Sanders, Harold D. Clarke, Marianne C. Stewart and Paul Whitely

  • The Effect of Economic Priorities on the Measurement of Value Change: New Experimental Evidence by Harold D. Clarke, Allan Kornberg, Chris McIntyre, Petra Bauer-Kaase and Max Kaase

  • The Endogeneity of Preferences in Spatial Models: Evidence from the 2005 British Election Study by David Sanders, Harold D. Clarke, Marianne C. Stewart and Paul Whitely

  • Hunting a Snark - A Reply to 'Re-Evaluating Valence Models of Political Choice' by Harold D. Clarke, Paul Whitely, David Sanders and Marianne C. Stewart

  • The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined by Brian J. Gaines, James H. Kuklinski and Paul J. Quirk 

• Jeremy Gilmore

  • A Behavioral Model of Turnout by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier and Michael Ting

  • Behavioral Voting Models and an Evolution of Voting Theory

  • Habitual Voting and Behavioral Turnout by James H. Fowler

  • 'Rational' Theories of Voter Turnout: A Review by Benny Geys

• Jim Granato:

  • EITM: An Assessment with an Application to Economic Voting (With Cong Huang, Kwok Wai Wan, Ching-Hsing Wang and M.C. Sunny Wong) PowerPoint / PDF

  • EITM Manuscript (Password Required)

  • Homework Assignments 

• Guillermina Jasso:

  • Presentation

• M.C. Sunny Wong:

  • Dynamic Optimization: An Introduction

  • Genetic Algorithm Learning and the Cobweb Model by Jasmina Arifovic

  • Social Behavior and Evolutionary Dynamics

2014 Student Presentations

• Luai Allarakia, Institutional Manipulation in Authoritarian Regimes: The Kuwaiti National Assembly

• Santiago Alles, Electoral Rules' Change in Latin American Democracies

• Abdullah Aydogan, Constitutional Foundations of Military Coups

• Mallory E. Compton-Vuillaume, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Optimizing Agent Choice Under Uncertainty

• Ryan Dawe, A Generalized Model of Legislative Committees

• Hiroki Kubo, Intraparty Bargaining and Ministerial Selection under Mixed Member Systems

• Dong-wook Lee, Linking Regional Income Inequality to Government Spending: A Spatial Concept of Redistributive Government Spending

• Seonghui Lee, What Makes Politics Interesting?: How Political Context Shapes Political Interest

• Nick Lin, Ideological Insiders and Punishment of Coalitional Compromise

• Rodrigo Nunez-Donoso, Interethnic Tolerance, Demographics, and the Electoral Fate of Non-nationalistic Parties in Post-war Bosnian Municipalities

• Anup Phayal, Post-Conflict Elections and Recurrence of Violence

• Andrew Phillips, By Any Means Necessary: Multiple Avenues of Political Cycles

• Mitch Radtke, War is Bad Advice: Dictators, Cronyism and War

• Ben Rondou, Rebel Group Emergence: Domestic Conflict and International Pressures

• Carolina Tchintian, Ballot design and intraparty fragmentation. Electronic Voting in Brazil

• Cassandra Thompson, Assessing Voter's Attitudes on the Affordable Care Act: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model Approach Using Cultural Cognition, Public Policy and Geographic Variation Theory

2013 Lectures

• Christopher Achen, When is Myopic Retrospection Rational? PowerPoint / PDF

• Douglas Dion, Remarks on EITM

• Rick Wilson, EITM: Experimental Design

• M.C. Sunny Wong: Dynamic Optimization: An Introduction Presentation

2013 Student Presentations

• Eric Gartzke and Oliver Westerwinter, Bargaining, Information Networks and Interstate Conflict

• Chris Kromphardt, Shine a Light: Televised Oral Arguments, Judicial Legitimacy, and Compliance

• Daniel McCormack, International Intervention and the Limits of Coercion: The Redistributive Implications of Foreign Policy Alignment

• Mark Owens, Party Influence in a Bicameral Setting: U.S. Appropriations from 1880-1947

• Henry Pascoe, Who Complies? International Agreements and Non-State Actors

• Kivan Polimis, How Do We Find High-Performing Charter Schools and Assess Their Long-Term Effects on Students?

• Jonathan Ring, The Diffusion of Norms in the International System Presentation / Analysis

• Bethany Shockley, A Theory of Local Resource Allocation with Electoral Constraints Presentation /Parameters

• Ching-Hsing Wang, Revisiting the Theory of the Calculus of Voting

• Shaun Williams-Wyche, Power of the President: Political Party Competition in Presidential Systems Presentation / Paper

• Cathy Wu, Revisionist Ally in Crisis Bargaining: To Support or Not to Support

• Josh Wu, Religion's Effects on Foreign Policy Public Opinion and Crisis Bargaining

• Ken Yashima, Institutional Choice of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs)

• Yang Zhang, Reexamining Education Fairness: An Experimental Study of College Admission Policies in China

2012 Lectures

• Christopher Achen, Palpating the Cat: Getting the Political Back into Political Methodology

• Christopher Achen, Taking Civic Duty Seriously: Political Theory and Voter Turnout

• Guillermina Jasso, EITM Lectures

• Rick Wilson, EITM: Experimental Design