March 19, 2010 - Parthemos Lecture
This year's Parthemos Lecture will be given by Elinor Ostrom, the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. Her public lecture will be Friday, March 19, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. in the Chapel.

February 5, 2010
Cary Nederman, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, to speak as part of the series sponsored by the Georgia Ethics and Political Philosophy Workshop. Nederman's talk will be Friday, February 5, 2010 at 3:30, with the location to be determined.

February 1, 2010_- Talarico Lecture
This year's Talarico Lecture will be given by Joe Whitley, the first General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He has also served as a U.S. Attorney and as Acting Associate Attorney General, the third-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Justice. The Talarico Lecture will be held on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in the Walker Room at the UGA Law School.

January 8, 2010
Ted H. Miller, Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama will also speak to the Georgia Ethics and Political Philosophy Workshop on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 3:30. The location of that talk is to be determined.

November 13, 2009
Brandon Turner, assistant professor of Political Science at Clemson University, will give a talk titled "Liberalism and Antagonism." It will be at 3:30 in Baldwin 302, and will be followed by light refreshments. This talk is sponsored by the Ethics in Political Philosophy Workshop.

October 23, 2009
Cliff Carrubba, Trade and the European Court of Justice, 2:00 – 3:30 in 302 Baldwin. A download of the paper can be found here.

June 9, 2009
David C.W. Parker, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Montana State University, will present a paper entitled "Making Good Impressions: Resource Allocation, Home Styles, and Washington Work" at 3:30 in Baldwin 302.

June 5, 2009
Michael Lynch will be in town giving a talk at 2:00 pm in Baldwin 302. Lynch is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas. The talk is on a paper he and Dr. Anthony Madonna are working on, entitled: "Generating a Record: Assessing Congress's Decision to Record Votes." A version of the paper is available here.

May 1, 2009
10:30, Baldwin 302
William "Bill" Keech, Carnegie Mellon University professor emeritus
and research professor at the Department of Political Science at Duke
University will be presenting "A Scientifically Superior Conception of
Democracy" as part of the GPEG series. Professor Keech is currently working on the manuscript for his latest book Economic Politics in Latin America: Rethinking Democracy and Dictatorship.

April 17, 2009
3:30, Baldwin 302
Michael Franz, Bowdoin College, will present as part of the Political Science speaker series. Topic will be: Advertising in the 2008 presidential election.

April 16, 2009
3:30, UGA Chapel
Valerie E. Caproni (JD ‘79), General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will give a lecture “Current Challenges for the FBI - View from the General Counsel." This lecture is named after our late colleague, Susette M. Talarico who served with great distinction as the Albert Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law, and as Director of the Criminal Justice Studies Program. A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public and will be streamed live on www.uga.edu.. Find more information here.

April 15, 2009_- Parthemos Lecture
3:30-5:00, Miller Learning Center 348
Larry Bartels, the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, will give a lecture, "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age," based on the subject of his recently published book of the same name. The Parthemos Lecture is named after George Steven Parthemos, who served with great distinction as a professor and administrator at the University of Georgia from 1953 until his death in 1984. The lecture is free and open to the public.

March 27, 2009
3:30, Baldwin 302
David Williams, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, will be presenting a paper titled, "Plato's Noble Lie" at the Ethics in Political Philosophy Workshop.

March 6, 2009
2:00, Baldwin 302
Jeff Jenkins, University of Virginia, sponsored by the ADP working group. The title of the paper is "Presidential Vote Buying in Congress."

February 27
Patrick Warren will be presenting to GPEG at noon on in Baldwin 302. The paper he is presenting, "Allies and Adversaries..." is available on the "Drafts" page of his website.

February 27, 2009
3:30-5:00, 302 Baldwin Hall
Samuel Freeman , Avalon Professor in the Humanities and Steven F. Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Pennsylvania. "The Social Bases of Distributive Justice."

February 6, 2009
3:30, 302 Baldwin Hall
Eric Godwin, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M, will present "Policy Gridlock: Congress and the Second Face of Power in Bureaucratic Control."

January 30, 2009
3:30, 302 Baldwin
Brandon Turner, visiting assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University, will present "Adam Ferguson and the Nature of the Liberal Virtues."

November 14, 2008
3:00-5:00. Room 326 Baldwin
Talk by Professor Patrick Riley, Harvard University, “Leibniz’s Theory of Justice as the Charity for the Wise.”

November 7, 2008
Friday, 3:30pm in Baldwin 202, Scott Ainsworth, "Appeals Court Reactions to the Political Control of Bureaucracies: Who Sues the EPA and Who Wins?"

October 17, 2008
Friday, 9:30, Baldwin 302 (Breakfast at 9:00)
Ken Goldstein from the University of Wisconson-Madison (sponsored by Pearson), "Looking for Separation: Television Advertising in Presidential Elections"

October 3, 2008
Friday, 3:30pm in Baldwin 202, Tony Bertelli, "Political Ideology and
Distributive Public Policy." No paper to distribute as this is a
working extension of a recently published piece that appears here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1267288

September 10, 2008
Wednesday, 1:30, Baldwin 302
Douglas Hibbs will talk about the presidential election focusing on his predictive "Bread and Peace" model. Hibbs has made seminal contributions in political economy. Recently retired from Goeteborg University in Sweden, he has taught at MIT and Harvard. All students and faculty are welcome.

April 17, 2008_- Parthemos Lecture
Thursday, 3:30-5:00, SLC 214
John Zaller, UCLA

March 7, 2008
Friday, 12:15-1:15, Baldwin 302
Charles Finocchiaro, University of South Carolina
"Credit Claiming, Party Politics, and the Rise of Legislative
Entrepreneurship in the Postbellum Congress"

November 15, 2007
Thursday
David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science at Duke University will be presenting a paper on the U.S. Congress. The title of his presentation will be "Conditional Party Government after 15 Years."

October 12, 2007
Friday, 1:30 in Baldwin 302
Randy Strahan, Emory University, will discuss his paper "Causal Process Analysis and the Agency of Leaders in the U.S.
House." The paper is available on-line at the bottom of this page:
http://www.polls.uga.edu/APD/APD.htm.

September 28, 2007
Friday, 2-3:00pm in Baldwin 302
Laura Moyer will give a jobtalk on "Decision Making under Conditions of Complexity on the U.S. Courts of Appeals."

September 7, 2007
Friday, 12:30 in Baldwin 302
Peter Hoffer of the UGA History Department will discuss a chapter from his book The Treason of Aaron Burr.

August 27, 2007
Monday, 11:00am in Baldwin 302
Peter John of the University of Manchester
Discussion of the paper "The Value of Choice in Public Policy"

August 8, 2007
Wednesday, 3:30pm
Forrest Maltzman - George Washington University
"Preferences, Politics, or the Law: Decision-making on the U.S.
Supreme Court"

June 19, 2007
Tuesday, 10:30am
Jeffrey Staton - Florida State University
"Substitutable Protections: Socioeconomic Insulation and Credible Commitment Devices."

May 4, 2007
Friday, 3:30-5:00 in 302 Baldwin
Chris Zorn- University of South Carolina
"Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making."

April 18, 2007 - Parthemos Lecture
Wednesday, 3:30-5:00 SLC 148
John Roemer- Yale University
"Racism & Distribution in United States: An Explanation of 'American Exceptionalism.'"

April 6, 2007 - APD Working Group
Friday, 2:00 Baldwin 302
Daniel Reed
"Why the Methods Matter: The Effectiveness of Party
Contacting Tactics since the 1950's."

March 23, 2007
Friday at 2 pm in Baldwin 302
Bill Chittick
"The Unity of Politics: Public Attitudes Toward Domestic and International Affairs."

February 23, 2007 from 12:20 - 1:10 Dr. Robert (Bob) Howard, Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University will speak in Dr. Teena Wilhelm's Honors Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties class in Baldwin 301.

February 15, 2007
Jeremy Pope- Brigham Young University
"Dynamics of Party Reputation: Sources and Consequences."

February 8, 2007 - Parthemos Lecture
Jürg Steiner - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Potential for Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies."

February 2, 2007
Wendy Schiller - Brown University
Party Conflict, Factionalism, and Extended Balloting in U.S. Senate Elections before the Adoption of the 17th Amendment."