READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 25: John Joseph Wallis, "Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption: American States and Constitutional Change, 1842-1852." NBER Working Paper 10451, April 2004.

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 4:  Karen Clay and Gavin Wright, "Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush."  June 2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL  27:  John V.C. Nye, "Killing Private Ryan: An Institutional Analysis of Military Decision Making in World War II." 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL  20:  Simon Jackman, "What Do We Learn from Graduate Admissions Committees?: A Multiple-Rater, Latent Variable Model, with Incomplete Discrete and Continuous Indicators." February 18, 2004

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL  13:  John McMillan and Pablo Zoido, "How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru," March 24, 2004

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL  6:  Daniel Treisman, "Stabilization Tactics in Latin America: Menem, Cardoso, and the Politics of Low Inflation." April 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 30:  Adi Brender and Allan Drazen, "Where Does the Political Budget Cycle Really Come From?" July 2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 16:  J.T. Toman, "The Papal Conclave: How do Cardinals Divine the Will of God?."  January 2004

READING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 9: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, "Ideology, Party and Interests in the British Parliament of 1841-47." British Journal of Political Science 33, 4 (October 2003)

READING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 2: Eli Berman and David D. Laitin, "Rational Martyrs vs. Hard Targets: Evidence on the Tactical Use of Suicide Attacks." 2004.

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24:  Paul Pierson, "Increasing Returns , Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics," American Political Science Review 94, 2 (June 2000).

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10:  Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini, "Bureaucrats or Politicians?" NBER Working Paper 10241, January 2004

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3:  Edward Glaeser, Simon Johnson, and Andrei Shleifer, "Coase versus the Coasians," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, 3 (2001): 853-99.

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 27:  Karla Hoff  and Joseph Stiglitz, "The Transition Process in Post-Communist Societies: Towards a Political Economy of Property Rights," August 2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 20: Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, "A Normal Country."  Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Discussion Paper Number 2019, October 2003.

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 13: David Stasavage, "Credible Commitment in Early Modern Europe: North and Weingast Revisited." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, DEC 9, 2003: Isabela Mares, "Social Protection around the World: External Insecurity, State Capacity and Domestic Political Cleavages."  2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, DEC 2, 2003: Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh, "Constitutions and Commitment: Evidence on the Relation between Institutions and the Cost of Capital."  August 2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOV 25, 2003: Kenneth Scheve and Matthew Slaughter, "Public Opinion, International Economic Integration, and the Welfare State," March 2003.

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOV 18, 2003: Beth A. Simmons, "Trade and Territorial Conflict: International Borders as Institutions," September 2003.

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOV 4, 2003: Herschel Grossman, “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” NBER Working Paper 9635, April 2003.

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 21, 2003: Zoltan Hajnal and Paul Lewis, "Municipal Institutions and Voter Turnout in Local Elections." Urban Affairs Review 38, 5 (May 2003).

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 14, 2003:Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth, "The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Household Bargaining, Divorce, and the Gender Voting Gap," August 2003. 

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 7: Michael Hiscox and Brian Burgoon, "The Mysterious Case of Female Protectionism: Gender Bias in Attitudes Toward International Trade," August 2003. 

READING FOR TUESDAY, SEP 30: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, and Andrei Shleifer, "The New Comparative Economics." NBER Working Paper 9608 (April 2003).

AY 2002-2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 10: Thomas Nechyba, "School Finance, Spatial Income Segregation and the Nature of Communities." Duke Economics Working Paper #02-17. 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 3: Lena Edlund and Rohini Pande, "Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage,"  (October 2001).

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 20: Stanley Engermann and Kenneth Sokoloff, "Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics." NBER Working Paper 9259 (October 2002).

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 6: Timothy Besley and Anne Case, "Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States," Journal of Economic Literature, March 2003.

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 29: Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizza, "The Mystery of Original Sin." March 2003.

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 22: Kenneth Scheve, "Public Inflation Aversion and the Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policymaking." December 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 15 is: Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, "The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century."  July 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 8 is: Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer, "History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India." June 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 1 is: Philip Keefer, "Clientelism, Credibility and Democracy." November  2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAR 18: Adam Przeworski, "Institutions Matter?" March 2003

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAR 11:  Stephen Ansolabehere, John M. de Figueiredo, and James M. Snyder, "Why is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics?" NBER Working Paper 9409, December 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAR 4:  M. Steven Fish, "Islam and Authoritarianism," World Politics 55 (Oct 2002).

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEB 25: Lee J. Alston and Andrés Gallo, "The Erosion of Checks and Balances in Argentina, 1930-1947: An Explanation of Argentina's Economic Slide from the Top 10." July 11, 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEB 18: Jeffrey Williamson, "Winners and Losers over Two Centuries of Globalization." NBER Working Paper 9161, September 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEB 11: Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer, "The Curley Effect," NBER Working Paper No. 8942 (May 2002).

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEB 4: Samuel Bowles and Jung-Kyoo Choi, "The First Property Rights Revolution." October 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, JAN 28:  Adam Przeworski, et al, "Political Regimes and Economic Growth." (Chapter Three) in Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

READING FOR TUESDAY, JAN 21:  Avner Greif and David D. Laitin, "How Do Self-Enforcing Institutions Endogenously Change? Institutional Reinforcement and Quasi-Parameters." 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, JAN 14:  Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian, and Francesco Trebbi, "Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development." NBER Working Paper No. 9305, October 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, DEC 17:   Laurence R. Iannaccone, "Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives." Journal of Political Economy 100, 2 (April 1992).

READING FOR TUESDAY, DEC 10:   Rose McDermott, "Recent Advances in Neuroscience and their Implications for Political Science: Toward a Theory of Emotional Rationality." (2002).

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOV 19:   Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, "What Can Economists Learn From Happiness Research?" Journal of Economic Literature 40, 2 (June 2002).

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOV 12:   Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, et al. "Fiscal Decentralization, Legislative Institutions, and Particularistic Spending." October 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOV 5: Jeffrey Herbst, "The Determinants and Ramifications of the Internal Structures of States."  October 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 29: David Galenson, "The Life Cycles of Modern Artists." NBER Working paper No. 8779. February 2002.  Also from Galenson's palette: "Masterpieces and Markets: Why the Most Famous Modern Paintings are not by American Artists."   NBER Working Paper 8549, October 2001.  ***Read the second paper if you only have time for one***

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 22: Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Malecková, "Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?"  July 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 15: Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin, "Doing It Now or Later." American Economic Review (March 1999).

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 8: George Akerlof, "Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior." American Economic Review (June 2002).

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCT 1: Leonard Wantchekon, "Clientelism and Voting Behavior: A Field Experiment in Benin."  See also a recent NY Times article on Leonard's experiment.  [NOTE: The paper posted here until Sep 23 was missing all the tables.  This version is complete].

AY 2001-2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 11: C. Peter Timmer, "The Role of Foreign Assistance in the Economic Growth of Developing Countries." 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 28: Oriana Bandiera, "Private States and the Enforcement of Property Rights: Theory and Evidence on the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia." January 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 21: Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn, "Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War." NBER Working Paper No. 8627 (December 2001).

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 14: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, et al, "'Economic Man' in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies." 2002.

READING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 7:  Alastair Smith and Allan Stam, "Bargaining and the Nature of War." January 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 30:  Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, "Aid, Policy, and Peace."  August 17, 2000.

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 23: William Easterly and Ross Levine, "Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development." March 2002.

READINGS FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 16: Richard Auty and Alan H. Gleb, "Political Economy of Resource Abundant States." May 2000, and  Alberto Dalmazzo and Guido de Blasio, "Resources and Incentives to Reform: A Model and Some Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa."  IMF Working Paper June 2001

READING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 9: Kishore Gawande and Pravin Krishna, "The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Empirical Approaches." Forthcoming, Handbook of International Trade 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 12: Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra, "Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation." January 2002

READING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 5: Donald R. Davis and Daniel E. Weinstein, "What Role for Empirics in International Trade?" NBER Working Paper No. 8543  October 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26: Nolan McCarty, "Presidential Vetoes in the Early Republic." Fall 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12: Fiona McGillivray, "Government Hand-Outs, Political Institutions, and Stock Price Dispersion."  November 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5: Mark Hallerberg and Patrik Marier, “Executive Authority, the Personal Vote, and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries.”  November 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 29: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson,  "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation."  American Economic Review, December, 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 22: David Dollar and Aart Kraay, "Trade, Growth, and Poverty."  March 2001.  For a summary version of the paper, see http://www.foreignaffairs.org/articles/Dollar0102.html     

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 15: Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser, "Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Consumer Power: Price-Level Evidence from the OECD." October 2001.  

READING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2002: Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote, "Why Doesn't the U.S. Have a European-Style Welfare System?" NBER Working Paper 8524, October 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18: Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole, "The Non-Monetary Nature of Gifts." European Economic Review 45 (2001)

READING FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11: Timur Kuran, "The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of the Delay in the Middle East's Economic Modernization."  March 2001

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20: Norman Schofield, "The Republic of Virtue and the Empire of Liberty."  September, 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13: Francesco Caselli and Massimo Morelli, "Bad Politicians." NBER Working Paper No. 8532 (October 2001).

READING FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Ahmer Tarar, "International Bargaining with Two-Sided Domestic Constraints." Journal of Conflict Resolution (June 2001).

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23: James Fearon, "Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others?" May 2001.

READING FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16: Todd Sandler, John Tschirhart, and Jon Cauley, "A Theoretical Analysis of Transnational Terrorism." American Political Science Review (1983).

Background information

The Tuesday Political Economy Lunch Group is open to faculty members at UCSD and surrounding universities.  Visiting faculty are also welcome.  The Lunch Group is designed to encourage interdisciplinary connections among social scientists with shared substantive and methodological  interests.  Each Tuesday, we enjoy a causal lunch and discuss a recent paper of general interest (suggestions encouraged).  We keep track of developments in political economy, socialize, and chat about events  in our various departments and disciplines. Readings cover a variety of topics and approaches but share a grounding in the "economic approach" to social phenomena.

Participants receive the paper title and download location via email about one week in advance. We recognize that participants will not be able to attend every meeting or read all papers as carefully as they might like. Please come when you can. The benefits, in terms of gains from exchange, are likely to be significant.

Contact Lawrence Broz with questions or comments concerning meeting time/place, directions, paper distribution, additions to the mailing list, paper suggestions, etc.

Directions

From campus locations:

Use the interactive map at http://www.ucsd.edu/map/ to find the Social Science Building (SSB) - the five story gray building across from IRPS and next to Super Computer Center.  The Political Science Department is on the third floor, room 301 (across from the staircase).  The Lunch Group meets in Room 333.   

From Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Downtown San Diego (SOUTH of UCSD)

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