Center for American Political Studies
(CAPS)

Seminar Series - Fall 2001

Harvard University - Department of Government

Friday, September 28; 4-6 p.m., Littauer Center M-16
Authors Meet the Commentators

The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation
by

Nancy Burns,
Henry Simmons Frieze Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Kay Lehman Schlozman,
Chair and Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Sidney Verba,
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University

Commentators:

Jennifer Hochschild,
Professor of Government, Harvard University

Casey Klofstad,
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University

Monday, October 1; 4-6 p.m., Littauer Center M-17

"Distributive Politics and Legislative Bargaining Among Overlapping Generations of Politicians:
The Interesting Case of the U.S. Senate"

Ken Shepsle,
George D. Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the American Politics Research Workshop

Friday, October 12; 12-2 p.m., Third Floor Lounge of Littauer Center

"Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy"

Jean Bethke Elshtain,
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago
Co-sponsored with the Program on Constitutional Government and
the Department of Government Political Theory Colloquium

Monday, October 15; 4-6 p.m., Littauer Center M-17
"Why Parties in the U.S. and Elsewhere Don't Locate at the Median"

Bernard Grofman,
Professor of Political Science and Social Psychology,
University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored with the American Politics Research Workshop

Tuesday October 30; 12-2 p.m., Third Floor Lounge of Littauer Center
"Beating Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nominations, 1980 to 2000"

John Zaller,
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

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