Research Activities
PIEP: Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference > Program
Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy
Cambridge, December 4, 2010
Sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
8:30–9 AM Continental breakfast and introductions
9–11 AM Suresh Naidu (Columbia), “Suffrage, Schooling and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South”
Discussants: Lee Alston (Colorado) and Randall Calvert (Washington University)
11–11:30 AM Coffee break
11:30 AM–1:30 PM Torun Dewan (LSE) and Arthur Spirling (Harvard),“Strategic Opposition and Government Cohesion in Westminster Democracies”
Discussants: Scott Ashworth (Chicago) and Howard Rosenthal (NYU)
1:30–3:00 PM Lunch
3:00–5:00 PM Gary Cox (Stanford), “War, Moral Hazard and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution”
Discussants: Ron Rogowski (UCLA) and Matthew Stephenson (Harvard)