Center for American Political Studies

(CAPS)

Seminar Series – Spring 2001

Harvard University - Department of Government

* Friday February 2nd – "Over the Top: Politics and Lawsuits in the Cigarette Wars"

Martha Derthick, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

Co-sponsored with the Program on Constitutional Government

** Monday, February 26th – "Gender and American Citizenship After World War II"

Gretchen Ritter, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin and Fellow of Law and Government, Harvard Law School

Co-sponsored with the American Politics Research Workshop

Friday, March 2nd – "Reclaiming the City: Metropolitan Inequalities and Coalitions for Change"

Margaret Weir, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

*** Friday, March 16th – "Protection without Capture: Why Do Larger Firms Receive Quicker FDA Drug Approvals?"

Daniel Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Co-sponsored with the Harvard/MIT Seminar on Positive Political Economy

** Monday, April 9th – "The 2000 Presidential Election: Can Retrospective Voting be Saved?"

Morris Fiorina, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Co-sponsored with the American Politics Research Workshop



Friday, April 27th  - "Diversity, Inequality, and Social Capital in America: Some Perplexing New Evidence"
Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, and Director of the Saguaro Seminar:  Civic Engagement in America
This seminar will meet in Littauer Center, North Yard in M-16 from 4-6p.m.

CAPS seminars normally meet in Littauer M-16 from 4-6p.m.

* Faculty Club luncheon, sign up sheet in the graduate student lounge.

** These co-sponsored events will take place in Littauer M-17 from 4-6p.m.

*** This co-sponsored event will take place at the CBRSS, 34 Kirkland St. from 4-6pm

For further information, contact the CAPS office at 495-2724