Center for New Institutional Social Sciences


CNISS Seminars Home \| People \| Programs \| Courses \|Workshops \| Conferences and Events \|Minor \| Undergraduate Honors Theses \| Instructors \| Certificate Program Students \| Certificate Program CNISS Ph.D. Research Seminar Participants in the group present papers based on their own research and provide feedback on the papers and presentations of fellow group members. Because of the interactive nature of the seminar, presenters are requested to submit their papers in advance and participants are expected to read the papers prior to the group meeting. For the Spring semester 2007 the seminar meets from 12 noon-1:30 p.m on Tuesdays, unless otherwise noted. In addition to guidance by Professor Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate, Professor Margaret Brown (Anthropology) is helping to facilitate the group seminar for the academic year 2007, and has done so for the past two years 2008 Academic Year Listing of Presenters test March 27, 2008 Margaret Levi, University of Washington Leadership, Performance, and Legitimacy: In Organizations and Governments Publications and Papers March 25, 2008 Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan The Role of Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change March 18, 2008 Mike Fitzhugh, CNISS Fellow Historians and the New Institutional Social Sciences March 4, 2008 Marsala Dauti, CNISS Fellow Summary Ideas on overuse and destruction of natural resources of Albania Related Materials on Agrarian Change in Albania Related Materials on Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems February 25, 2008 Kristen Wagner, CNISS Fellow The Earned Tax Credit (EITC) Related Materials February 19, 2008 Ravit Hananel, Harvard University "Ideological Changes in Public Land Policy" "Zionism and Agricultural Land" February 12, 2008 Ian Ostrander, CNISS Fellow "Public Opinion and Presidential Appointment Success" Related Materials February 4, 2008 Carlos Costa, CNISS Fellow "Multitiered Government and Swing Voter Theory" Related Materials January 29, 2008 Mario Small, University of Chicago "Racial Differences in Networks: Do Neighborhood Conditions Matter?" "Lost in Translation: How Not to Make Qualitative Research More Scientific" 2007 Academic Year Listing of Presenters November 27, 2007 Margaret Humphreys, Duke University "Racial Disparities in Diabetes a Century Ago: Evidence from US Civil War Veterans" November 13, 2007 Yang Yao, Peking University "Grassroots Democracy and Income Distribution: Evidence from Village Elections in China" November 7, 2007 CNISS Roundtable Series Douglass North, Nobel Laureate in Economics "A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Human History " April 24, 2007 Lyle Scruggs, University of Connecticut "Research on Globalization and the Welfare State: Do We Know What We Think We Know?" April 10, 2007 Carolyn Lesorogol, George Warren Brown School of Social Work "Understanding Institutional Emergence: Land Inheritance among Samburu pastoralists in Kenya" March 20, 2007 Professor Susan Cutter, Director, Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography University of South Carolina Race, Class, and Catastrophe: Social Vulnerability and the Preparedness Divide "Moral Hazard, Social Catastrophe: The Changing Face of Vulnerability along the Hurricane Coasts" "The Long Road Home: Race, Class, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina" February 6, 2007 David Speetzen, CNISS Certificate Program Fellow A Human Right to Democracy January 23, 2007 William Elliott, CNISS Certificate Program Fellow Examining Minority and Poor Youth's College Aspirations and Expectations: The Potential Role of College Savings 2006 Academic Year Listing of Presenters December 8, 2006 Priya Mathew, CNISS Undergraduate Minor Student The Effects of Microfinance Program Participation on Income and Income Inequality: Evidence from Ghana November 28, 2006 Douglass North, Nobel Laureate, Washington University in St. Louis A New Approach to Economic Development October 31, 2006 Dr. Murray Weidenbaum, Washington University in St. Louis Public Policy Think Tanks: Advocates or Oracles? April 19, 2006 Mary Beth Combs, Fordham University "A Measure of Legal Independence":The 1870 Married Women's Propert Act and the Portfolio Allocations of British Wives April 12, 2006 James Butikofer, CNISS Fellow The Affect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Health Care Utilization April 5, 2006 Lesley Sharp, Barnard College Commodified Kin: Death, Mourning, and Competing Claims on the Bodies of Organ Donors in the United States March 29, 2006 Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University The Mechanization of Trust: Credit Rating in 19th-c America March 1, 2006 Guido Cataife, CNISS Fellow Political Discomfort and Ouster February 15, 2006 Amy Wilson, CNISS Fellow Just War Theory and Civil War: The Challenges of Adapting an Interstate Theory to an Intrastate Problem February 1, 2006 David Speetzen, CNISS Fellow Just War and Forcible Democratization 2005-6 Academic Year Listing of Presenters December 7, 2005 James Butikofer, CNISS Fellow Health Affects of the Children's Health Insurance Program November 9, 2005 Catrina Adams, CNISS Fellow Dissertation Improvement Grant: Paleoethnobotanical Study of Economic Change (c.AD 900-1400) at Quoygrew Farm, Orkney, Scotland Click here for abstract Click here for bibliography October 12, 2005 Jeremy Meiners, CNISS Fellow Was Lil' Johnny Left Behind? Differences in Primary School Educational Attainment Due to Reliance on Local Funding, 1935-1955 October 5,2005 Art Carden, CNISS Fellow Inputs and Institutions as Conservative Elements Under revision. Can correspond with the author at cardena@rhodes.edu. September 7, 2005 Art Carden, CNISS Fellow Trial by Fury: Productivity and Southern Institutions For anyone who would like information on this paper, please send email to cardena@rhodes.edu May 2, 2005 Marc M. Treutler, Visiting Scholar, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany The Order of the Senses: A Summary April 27, 2005 René Lindstädt, CNISS Fellow Dissertation Draft Chapter: A Multilevel Model of New Deal Spending Paper not available at this time April 20, 2005 Gonzalo Caballero, Visiting Scholar, University of Vigo, Spain The Industrial Organization of the Spanish Congress: Property Rights, Transactions, and Hierarchies April 13, 2005 Art Carden, CNISS Certificate Program Fellow Institutions and Southern Development: The Strange Career of Judge Lynch For anyone who would like information on this paper, please send email to cardena@rhodes.edu April 6, 2005 Jeremy Meiners, CNISS Certificate Program Fellow Bypassing Holdup: Transaction Costs and Investment Decisions of Midwestern Drainage Districts, 1920-1950 2004 Listing of Presenters April 15, 2004 Larry White, Hayek Chair in Economic History at University of Missouri-St.Louis Can we rank slavery against free labor in terms of economic efficiency? April 22, 2004 Gonzalo Caballero, University of Vigo Institutional Change and Economic Development: From the Self- Destructing Predatory Francoism Toward the Self-Reinforcing Contractual Democracy in Spain April 29, 2004 Eric Rovie On the Failed Analogy Between Perfect Freindship and Loyalty in Business May 6, 2004 Ryan Compton Revolutions, Institutions, and Economic Growth September 15, 2004 Christopher Kingston, Amherst College Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720-1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis September 27, 2004 Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate, Washington University in St. Louis Understanding the Process of Economic Change October 18, 2004 Marc M. Treutler Media Economics: A Media Theoretical Approach October 25, 2004 James A. Butikofer Does Cost-sharing Effect Take-up Rates for the Children's Health Insurance Program? November 1, 2004 Gonzalo Caballero Institutions and Credible Commitment in the European Union Institutions: The "Stability and Growth Pact" November 8, 2004 Andreas Reichart Corruption, the Rule of Law and Prosperity Paper not available at current time November 29, 2004 Santiago Amaya F-Twists December 13, 2004 Catrina Adams Broadening Horizons: Effects of Expanding Trade Networks on Economic Decision-Making at the Viking/Medieval Farm of Quoygrew, Orkney, Scotland 2003 Listing of Presenters September 17, 2003 Douglass North Understanding the Process of Economic Change September 24, 2003 Art Carden Technical Efficiency and Development: the US South For anyone who would like information on this paper, please send email to cardena@rhodes.edu October 1, 2003 Tim Hsu The Relationship between Social Norms and the Law-from the Perspective of Economic Cost October 8, 2003 Eliana Balla Development Assistance and Domestic Investment in Recipient Countries: Investigating Recipients' Institutions as an Intermediary Paper available by contacting author at balla@wueconc.wustl.edu October 15, 2003 Itai Sened Institutional Structures as Institutional Matrices or The Distribution of and Access to Property Rights in Developing Countries October 22, 2003 Raul Andrade Formal Institutions, Informal Institutions, and Female Labor Force Participation Paper available by contacting author at andrade@wueconc.wustl.edu October 29, 2003 Rene Olate Local Institutions, Social Capital and Capabilities: Challenges for Development and Social Intervention in Latin America November 5, 2003 Kevin Shaver Strategic Moral Hazard: Raising Competitor Costs through Pricing in the Insurance Industry Paper available by contacting author at caerula@yahoo.com November 12, 2003 Ryan Compton On the Evolution of Financial Development and Economic Growth Paper available by contacting author at rcompton@wueconc.wustl.edu November 19, 2003 Gina Reinhardt The Organizational Structure of US Bilateral Foreign Aid and its Recipients Paper available by contacting author at gmyreinh@artsci.wustl.edu December 3, 2003 Janice Compton Time Preference and Relationship Stability Paper available by contacting author at jcompton@wueconc.wustl.edu December 17, 2003 Eliana Balla and Gina Reinhardt Estimating Strategic Determinants of Aid Allocation for Multiple Donors: Old Questions, New Empirics Paper available by contacting authors at gmyreinh@artsci.wustl.edu or *balla@wueconc.wustl.edu* April 9, 2003 Gina Marie Yannitell Reinhardt How Do Agencies Compete in the Aid Business? A Signaling Game between Donors and Recipients April 16, 2003 Eliana Balla Institutions and Investment: What is the role of development assistance? Paper not yet available April 23, 2003 Noel Johnson Banking on Bureaucrats: The Company of General Farms, Sovereign Debt, and the Coming of the Revolution in France April 30, 2003 Art Carden How the Heavens Go: Economic and Institutional Change For anyone who would like information on this paper, please send email to cardena@rhodes.edu May 7, 2003 Raul Francisco Andrade 2002 Listing of Presenters September 4, 2002 Noel Johnson Banking on the King: The Evolution of The Royal Revenue Farms in Old Regime France September 11, 2002 Marc Law The Origins of State Pure Food Regulation September 18, 2002 Douglass C. North Cliometrics, the New Institutional Economics, and the Future of Economic History September 25, 2002 Eliana Balla Fiscal Policy Constrained by Religious Conversion: The Case of the Balkans in the Ottoman Empire Paper not available at this time October 2, 2002 Meg Rincker Policy Decentralization: Motivations and Outcomes In the Case of Polish Health Care Policy -- A Research Proposal October 9, 2002 Janice Compton Property Right Assignment and Investment in Children: The British Child Emigration Programme Paper not available at this time October 16, 2002 Currency Crises in Emergent Markets and Minsky Financial Fragility Theory: Is There a Link? Jose Ricardo da Costa e Silva October 23, 2002 Art Carden Northern Black Codes: Were They Effective? For anyone who would like information on this paper, please send email to cardena@rhodes.edu October 30, 2002 A Microeconomic Explanation for Stalins "Great Terror" Vahe Lskavyan November 6, 2002 Globalization and Corruption Vitaly Bigdai November 13, 2002 Constraint or Enabler? The Inflation-Indexed Bond and Inflation Those interested in obtaining a copy of this paper can send an email to rcompton@wueconc.wustl.edu Ryan Compton November 20, 2002 Interest-group building bureaucracy-style: Bureaucratic agencies and the organization of unorganized interests René Lindstädt Paper not available at this time December 4, 2002 Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Funding Accountability, Promoting Autonomy Prema Thirupathy December 11, 2002 Foreign Aid and Capital Markets in Development Eliana Balla Paper not available at this time