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All meetings are located in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies

 

Friday, December 6, 2002

 

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: “The Methodical Study of Politics.”

Rudra Sil: “Problems Chasing Methods? Or Methods Chasing Problems? Trade-Offs, Research Communities, and the Role of Eclecticism.”

Chair: Rogers Smith

Discussants: Keith Darden, John Roemer

 

3:30 – 3:45 PM

Break

 

3:45 – 5:15 PM

Anne Norton: “Political Science as Vocation.”

Frances Fox Piven: “The Politics of Policy Science.”

Chair: Victoria Hattam

Discussants: Pauline Jones-Luong, Margaret Levi

 

5:45 – 7:00 PM

Welcoming Reception

Brewster Hall

124 Prospect Street

 

Saturday, December 7, 2002

 

9:00 – 10:30 AM

Donald Green: “The Illusion of Learning from Observational Research.”

John Ferejohn: “External and Internal Explanation.”

Chair: Gregory Huber

Discussants: Gary Cox, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

 

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Break

 

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Lisa Wedeen: “Concepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy.”

Margaret Levi: “Modeling Complex Historical Processes with Analytic Narratives.”

Chair: Frances Rosenbluth

Discussants: Arjun Appadurai, James Scott

 

2:00 – 3:30 PM

Adolph Reed: “The Study of Black Politics and the Practice of Black Politics: Their Historical Relation and Evolution.”

Rogers Smith: “Identities, Interests, and the Task of Political Science in the 21st Century.”

Chair: Jennifer Pitts

Discussants: Elisabeth Ellis, John McCormick

 

3:30 – 3:45 PM

Break

 

3:45 – 5:15 PM

Gary Cox: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Rational Choice Analyses.”

Alan Ryan: “Problems and Methods.”

Chair: Kenneth Scheve

Discussants: Donald Green, Anna Grzymala-Busse

 

Sunday, December 8, 2002

 

9:00 – 10:30 AM

William Connolly: “Metaphysics, Methods, and Faith.”

Elisabeth Ellis: “Provisionalism in the Study of Politics”

Chair: Steven Smith

Discussants: Alan Ryan, Seyla Benhabib

 

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Break

 

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Concluding Roundtable

Robert Dahl

Truman Bewley

Susanne Hoeber-Rudolph

John Mearsheimer

 

Chair: Ian Shapiro

 

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