Past Events

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Professor in the Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, will speak on the topic "Election Forensics:  A Finite Mixture Model that Estimates Realized Election Frauds."

Naima Green-Riley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, will speak on the topic "How Perilous are Paper Fans? Public Diplomacy through Confucius Classrooms and Implications for Chinese Influence."

Jennifer Gandhi, Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale University, will speak on the topic "Fixing the Past: The Effects of Human Rights Trials on Political Attitudes in Argentina."

Michael Joseph, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California- San Diego, will speak on the topic "Unattributable Coercion."

Julia Payson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California- Los Angeles, will present research on "Spending Constraints: Why Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods."

Natalia Bueno, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory University, will present research on the topic of "(De)Mobilizing Effects of Misinformation: Evidence from Brazil."

Ismail White, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will present research on the topic of "Assessing Racial Identity as Constraint on Democratic Accountability."

Michael Olson is a Weidenbaum Resident Fellow and Assistant Professor of Political Science at WashU.