Event Archive
2023 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award Lecture
Governor Tom Wolf PhD '81: Collective Action: The Essence of Politics
March 21, 2023 5:00PM Samberg Conference Center, Building E52
Sourcing and Perceptions of Foreign Affairs News
Ashley Blum, MIT Postdoctoral Associate and Adam Berinsky, MIT Faculty
March 20, 2023 1:00PM E53-482
Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University
March 15, 2023 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
"What I learned in my year as an investigator on the House January 6 committee
David Weinberg (co-sponsored by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab)
Project Democracy
March 9, 2023 5:00PM
March 9, 2023
5:00PM
Beijing’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence from Patents Production
Yuen Yuen Ang, Johns Hopkins University (co-hosted with Security Studies Program)
March 8, 2023 12:00PM E40-496 The Pye Room
"Just Asking Questions: Uncertainty-based Misinformation Frames" and "What Effect do Audits Have on Voter Confidence?"
Brian Guay, Ashley Blum, Adam Berinsky and David Rand (first talk) and Jacob Jaffe, Joe Loffredo, Alex Flores and Samuel Baltz (second talk)
March 6, 2023 1:00PM E53-482 plus Zoom option
Privatizing Personnel: Presidents, Politics and Bureaucratic Outsourcing
Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia
March 3, 2023 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Local Knowledge Economies, Mobility Perceptions and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Case of Germany
Marius R. Busemeyer
Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz
February 24, 2023 1:30PM
February 24, 2023
1:30PM
Nita Rudra, Georgetown University
February 24, 2023 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Donghyun Danny Choi, Brown University
February 15, 2023 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Innovating within Government Bureaucracies in Nigeria and Sierra Leone
Andre Arruda and Federico Vaz, MIT GOV/LAB’s inaugural Designer-Researchers
December 14, 2022 12:00PM MIT iHQ-5th floor training room, 292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Bonnie Honig, Brown University
December 9, 2022 3:30AM E53-482 Millikan Room
Ali Cirone, Cornell University
December 7, 2022 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Political Obstacles in the U.S.-China Nuclear Relationship
Tong Zhao
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 7, 2022 12:00PM
December 7, 2022
12:00PM
You Can't Get There from Here: On the Gap Between Realist Theory and "Realist" Foreign Policy
Andrew Kydd
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 30, 2022 12:00PM
November 30, 2022
12:00PM
The Protest Song and Political Participation
Esteban Manuel Fernandez
November 30, 2022 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Is the Medium Still the Message? Measuring the Persistence of Political Persuasion Across Communication Modalities
Chloe Wittenberg
November 21, 2022 3:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
"Robots, Foreigners, and Foreign Robots: Policy Responses to Automation and Trade"
Stephen Chaudoin
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
November 18, 2022 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship
Bryan Pitts
UCLA
November 16, 2022 12:00PM Hybrid Event: Millikan room E53-482
Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship
Bryan Pitts
UCLA
November 16, 2022 12:00PM Hybrid Event: Millikan room E53-482
Authoritarians at the Cutting Edge: China, innovation, and the global balance of power
Jennifer Lind
Dartmouth University
November 16, 2022 12:00PM
November 16, 2022
12:00PM
The Cost of Increasing Confidence in the Electoral Process
Alex Flores and Joe Loffredo
November 14, 2022 3:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
The Rise of Public-Sector Unions in the 21st Century: A Mixed-Methods Approach with Evidence from Argentina
Sebastián Etchemendy
Torcuato Di Tella University/Visiting Professor Harvard University
November 10, 2022 12:00PM Hybrid Event: Millikan room E53-438
Job Talk: Matias Giannoni, “Frustrated Expectations: Firm-based Origins of Anti-System Politics.”
November 10, 2022 11:00AM
November 10, 2022
11:00AM