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Public Choice Society, 2009
Annual
Meeting, March 5-8, 2009
Final Program [updated
02/25/09]
The
program posted above will be the basis for the printed Program booklet
distributed at the meeting.
In the printed program, full names of
all authors and coauthors will be given, typos will be eliminated, etc.
Any
remaining questions or
problems concerning the schedule should be directed to me
(nmiller@umbc.edu) instead of to Jo Ann Burgess.
Presenter names are in CAPS if (to the best of my
knowledge) the presenter is NOT the first listed or corresponding
author.
Because of the way the underlying file is organized, a
presenter/paper title sometimes appears twice in the panel listing.
08 =
8:15-10:00 AM
10 = 10:15-12:00 Noon
20 = 1:45-3:30 PM
40 = 3:45-5:30 PM
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Changes in the Printed Program
This
sheet will be distrubuted with the Program at registration
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We will
not be able to post papers to the PCS website prior to the meeting (nor
to this website). Therefore paper
presenters should email copies
of their papers to their fellow panelists (and discussants, in
particular) as soon as possible. Participants' email
addresses
are posted just below.
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Email
addresses of participants:
List Distributed by Email
on 02/19/09
The
list below includes additional names, updated addresses for Ansgar
Belke and Frederick Oerther,
a corrected address for Konstantin Yanovskiy, and names that are out of
alpbetical order in the list above:
Additional Email Addresses
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT/REMINDER
It is prohibitively expensive to rent
PC projectors to be placed in each panel meeting room in each time
slot.
Therefore, participants who wish
to use PowerPoint or similar slides in their presentations should put them on
transparencies
before coming to the meeting.
There will be overhead projectors
for transparencies in each panel room.
Individual participants may of course bring PC projectors with them,
and some may be willing to share their projectors with others;
so, even if you do not bring your own projector, it may be worthwhile
also to put your slides on a jump drive.
Note: we do provide PC projectors for plenary speakers.
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Plenary
Sessions
There
will be three plenary sessions.
The first two will demonstrate visualizations of political
phenomena.
The third session will be devoted to the present financial crisis.
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Plenary Session I
(Friday 5:45-7:00)
Joseph
Godfrey
(WinSet Group)
Computational Public Choice
Joe Godfrey’s presentation will
first provide a brief review of several computational applications and
then will focus on his own CyberSenate
software. It will include both screenshots and live
demonstrations. His examples will include computations using
NOMINATE scores derived by Poole and Rosenthal from Congressional roll
call data. In this way, his presentation will tie in directly
with
Plenary Session II.
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Plenary Session II
(Saturday 5:45-7:00)
Keith T. Poole
(UC San Diego)
The Polarization of American Politics
Keith Poole’s
presentation will include a QuickTime Movie of the latest DW-NOMINATE
coordinates for 1789 - 2008 and will show how the political-economic
evolution of the U.S. is reflected in these spatial maps.
Professor Poole was last year’s winner of the Society’s Duncan Black
Prize for the best article written by a senior scholar in Public Choice during the preceding
year (“Changing Minds? Not in Congress,” June 2007).
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Plenary Session III
(Sunday 10:15-12:00)
Stimulus or Porkulus: Public Choice
Perspectives on the Economic Crisis
Michael Munger (Duke
University)
Geoffrey Brennan (Duke University and Australian National University)
Kevin Grier (University of Oklahoma)
Friedrich Schneider (Johannes Kepler University)
Note: there will also be regular
panels pertaing to the financial crisis on Saturday afternoon and
earlier Sunday morning
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In addition, Warren
D. Smith will make a special presentation on Range Voting. This
will not be a plenary session, but an entire panel on Saturday
afternoon will be devoted to his presentation followed by comments from
Steven Brams and Jack Nagel and general discussion.
For more information, see RangeVoting.Org
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Announcement of Interest to Public
Choice Society
Members and Particpants
I am Professor of Political Science at UMBC. I have been a member of the UMBC
faculty since 1971 and served as
Chairman of the Political
Science Department from 1985 to 1991.
Education
I graduated in government from Harvard
in 1963 and did my graduate work in political science at the University
of California at Berkeley,
receiving my Ph.D. in 1973.
Teaching and Courses
Research
My principal research, some of which has been supported by the National
Science
Foundation, lies in the area of formal political theory and public
choice; it deals with collective decision making and, in particular,
formal theories of voting processes. I have written articles on
logrolling and vote trading, majority voting, coalition formation,
power, social choice, information pooling, agenda control, and spatial
voting models, which have appeared in such journals as American
Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science,
Public Choice, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Theory
and Decision, and Journal of Theoretical Politics, as well
as in a number of edited books. I have written a monograph on Committees,
Agendas, and Voting (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995).
Current
work on the Electoral College
Current
Work on A Priori Voting
Power
Other Working Papers, Notes, and Unpublished Research
Recent and Representative Publications
Principal UMBC Service
I was Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee from 1980 to 1983,
Chair
of the Political Science
Department from 1985 to 1991, Chair of the Undergraduate
Council from 1994
to 1997, and Chair of the University Faculty Review Committee in 2003.
Professional Activities
I was a member of the Editorial Board of The
Journal of Politics
from 1976 through 1981. From December 1995 through January 2002,
I served as the receiving editor for the Journal
of
Theoretical
Politics and I remain on the journal's Editorial
Board. I am now the editor of the “eJournal” Games
and
Political Behavior (which includes public choice topics) in
the new PSN
(Political Science Network) division of SSRN
(Social Science Research
Network).
I am a member of the American
Political
Science
Association and of the Public
Choice
Society, and I am the current President of the
latter. From 1997 through 2001, I served as UMBC's Official
Representative to the Interuniversity
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Resources
for Political Science Research on Voting and Elections
Diana Miller's website (School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University)
Information concerning my grandfather, Alec Miller (click on Decorative Carvings - Thomas Library to see second page, then click on the photo on the top of the second page) Also see this and this
Tour the entire
California coast