April 30-May 2, 2008
A small discussion meeting to focus on comparing societies without state governments or before the rise of state governments to societies with state governments. Will also discuss whether historical societies with states were like modern societies with states.
Agenda
Wednesday, April 3
Session 1: 9am-12pm
The Human Life Cycle: Childhood and Old Age
Barry Hewlett (University of Washington) and Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah
May 2-3, 2008
Objective: To bring together econometricians, social statisticians and social network analysts to improve research on the relationship between social interactions and healthy. Additionally, it is expected that meetings will be useful in developing methodology for empirical study of many social interactions, such as the interactions of researchers in producing new scientific discoveries or inventions.
Agenda
Friday, May 2
9am: Opening Remarks, Charles Manski, Northwestern University
May 9, 2008
New technologies have changed the way people communicate with each other, and they present new challenges and new opportunities for researchers. This conference will focus on the challenges as well as the opportunities of these new technologies for survey research.
June 14-15, 2008
To bring together a group of scholars in two categories: (1) law professors with advanced graduate training in political science who study public law, and (2) political science professors whose research focuses on issues related to public law, public bureaucracy, separation-of-powers, and judicial decision-making. The purpose of the conference is to discuss cutting edge work on the political economy of public law, and more generally to build stronger connections between young scholars in law schools and political science departments who work on related issues.
December 6, 2008
October 3-4, 2007
The program offers scholars an extended, intensive seminar with the authors of new, path breaking scholarly works. Professors Douglass North (Washington University), John Wallis (University of Maryland) and Barry Weingast (Stanford University) will conduct meetings that feature a mix of lecture and discussion components.
December 1, 2007
These invitation-only conferences are sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the The Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Over the past 25 years, two separate strands of research in political economy have developed. The first is the rigorous analysis of the impact of political institutions on political behavior and political outcomes. The second is the analysis of the making of economic policy, which has tried to develop theoretically consistent and empirically grounded explanations of economic policy outcomes.
December 7, 2007
The development of enormous computational power and the capacity to collect enormous amounts of data has proven transformational in a number of scientific fields. The emergence of a computational social science has been slower than in the sciences. However, the combination of the still exponentially increasing computational power with a massive increase in the capturing of data about human behavior makes the emergence of a field of computational social science desirable, but not inevitable.
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