Winter 2009
January 28 2009, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Christa Scholtz, Political Science, McGill University
"Aboriginal Voting and the Charlottetown Accord of 1992."
February 4 2009, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
John Sandberg, Political Science, McGill University
"Family Size, Children’s Cognitive Test Scores and Familial Interaction: US, 1997-2002"
February 18 2009, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Garnett Picot, Statistics Canada
"Immigrant Economic Outcomes over the past Quarter Century: Trends and Explanations with some U.S. Comparisons"
March 11 2009, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University
"The New Political Methodology: Microfoundations, Experiments, and ART", Presented in conjuntion with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
March 18 2009, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Social Science Research Center, Berlin
"Programmatic Profiles of Political Parties in the Member Countries of the Enlarged European Union: An East-West Comparison Based on the Comparative Manifesto Project ", Presented in conjuntion with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
March 25 2009, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Erin Strumpf, Departments of Economics & Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, "Variation in Compliance with Cancer Screening Guidelines Across Canadian Provinces"
Fall 2008
September 24 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Stuart Soroka, Political Science, McGill University and Director of Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University
"I Know What's Going to Happen Five Days From Now Media Content Analysis and Canadian Election Campaigns."
October 1 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Matthew Lange and Andrew Dawson, Sociology, McGill University
"It's "Teaching Violence? An Analysis of Education and Its Impact on Ethnic Conflict."
October 8 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Jim Engle-Warnick , Economics, McGill University
"Willingness to Pay to Avoid Future Risk"
October 22 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Peter Loewen Post-Doctoral Fellow, Peter Loewen,
"3 A's & 2 P's: Altruism, Antipathy, Affinity, Partnership & Participation"
October 29 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Michiko Ueda-ballmer Department of Political Science, California Institute of Technology,
"The Economic Effects of Gerrymandering"
November 5 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Sandy Hofferth, Department of Family Science, University of Maryland
"Family Structure and the Transition to Early Parenthood"
November 12 2008, Leacock 429, 12:00-1:00
Marc Helbling, Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich
"How to measure the real positions of political parties. Crossvalidating media-, manifesto-, expert- and survey-data"