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All
meetings are located in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies
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:
Discussants: Keith Darden, John Roemer
Break
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
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
Break
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
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
Break
Gary Cox: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Rational Choice
Analyses.”
Alan Ryan: “Problems and Methods.”
Chair: Kenneth Scheve
Discussants: Donald
Green, Anna Grzymala-Busse
William Connolly: “Metaphysics, Methods, and Faith.”
Elisabeth Ellis: “Provisionalism in the Study of Politics”
Chair: Steven Smith
Discussants: Alan Ryan, Seyla Benhabib
Break
Concluding Roundtable
Robert Dahl
Truman Bewley
Susanne Hoeber-Rudolph
John Mearsheimer
Chair: Ian Shapiro
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