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Monday Schedule of Speakers (Spring 2010)

Date	Speaker	Paper Title
Jan 25 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Philip Keefer, Lead Research Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC webpage Research Group webpage Co-Sponsor: Political Economy of Democratic Sustainability (PEDS)	The Ethnicity Distraction? Political Credibility and Partisan Preferences in Africa
Feb 1 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Professor Barbara Cherry, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University Bloomington webpage	Deregulatory Policies and Technological Acceleration: At the Brink of a New Phase Transition in Policymaking Systems
Feb 8 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Richard Shiffrin, Luther Dana Waterman Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington webpage	Toward a General "Rational" Solution for Multi-Player Sequential Games
Feb 15 12:00-1:30	Professor Richard Wilk CANCELED (rescheduled, see Mar 22)
Feb 22 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Anas Malik, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio webpage	Polycentricity and Political Islam: The Minarchist Approach
Mar 1 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Professor Amos Sawyer, Research Scholar, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; and Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC	Transitional Justice and Poverty Reduction in Liberia: Issues and Challenges
Mar 8 12:00-1:30	Dr. Paulette Lloyd CANCELED (rescheduled, see Apr 5)
Mar 15	Spring Break
Mar 22 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Professor Richard Wilk, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington webpage	Land Rights Cases in Belize: "Common" Versus "Private" Land
Mar 29 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Marius Busemeyer, Research Associate Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany, and Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Harvard webpage Max Planck webpage	The Changing Role of the State in Coordinated Capitalism: The Case of Germany
Apr 5 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Paulette Lloyd, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington webpage	Combating Transnational Crime: The Role of Learning and Norm Diffusion in the Current Rule of Law Wave
Apr 12 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Professor Eric Rasmusen, Dan R. and Catherine M. Dalton Professor, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington webpage	Sharing the State's Monopoly on Violence: Self-Help, Vigilantism, and the Roeder Case
Apr 19 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Karla Hoff, The World Bank, Washington, DC webpage	Can an Extreme Social Structure Shape Preferences Detrimental to Development? Theory and Evidence from Simple Games in Rural India
April 26 12:00-1:30 Tocqueville Room	Dr. Rubiana Chamarbagwala, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington webpage	Sub-Caste Identity and Offspring Sex-Selection in India