Please join us on Nov. 8 for the following talk with Sean Gailmard, Prof. of Political Science, UC Berkeley.
"Imperial Politics, English Law, and the Strategic Foundations of Judicial Review in America"
Abstract: In the colonial period of American history, the royal Privy Council evaluated acts of colonial assemblies on grounds of both policy and higher law. Assembly acts were sometimes nullified...
The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Philip Kennicott, "The Artist as Citizen: How could anyone quibble with that?"
Philip Kennicott, is the chief Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post. Kennicott won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Philip Kennicott: “In the past half century, the United States...
The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Stan Veuger, "Health Care and Tax Reform in 115th Congress."
Stan Veuger is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his research is in political economy and public finance. He is also the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives. Veuger has been a visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard University, and is a fellow at the Center...
October 2017 Harvard CAPS - Harris Poll looks at public opinion on the state of the Republican and Democratic Parties, Iran Nuclear Deal, Tax Reform, and Hollywood.
The poll also includes a deep-dive on the Supreme Court, which will be released later this Fall.
The ninth Harvard CAPS – Harris poll, released on Monday, October 23, shows sustained confidence in the American economy despite declining sentiments on the direction of the country, the major parties, and the Trump administration.
The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Diana Schaub, "Lincoln on Discoveries and Inventions."
Diana Schaub is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland. Schaub received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and American political thought. She is the co-editor...
"Do Survey Measures of Racial Prejudice Predict Racial Discrimination? Experimental Evidence on Anti-Black Discrimination in Resource Allocations" - Gregory Huber, Professor in the Department of Political Science, Yale University.
Abstract: Scholars regularly measure whites’ racial attitudes using symbolic racism (racial resentment) and, more rarely, overt prejudice batteries. Symbolic racism is a strong predictor of race-related policy attitudes and...
The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Paul Hollander, "Dictators, Intellectuals, and the Spiritual Problems of Modernity."
Paul Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Born in Hungary, he fled to...
The Program on Constitutional Government (PCG) is pleased to present a seminar talk with Jill Lepore, "Re-reading Federalist No. 1."
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of many award-winning books and is currently writing a history of...
Please join us for the following talk by Chryl Laird, Assistant Professor of Government, Bowdoin College.
"Missing the Mark? An Exploration of Targeted Campaign Advertising’s Effect on Black Political Engagement"
Abstract:
The use of targeted campaign advertising has increased with the hopes of mobilizing black Americans. Past scholarship tends to focus on the effectiveness of targeted appeals for Latinxs, women, and religious...
