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Political Sciences Job Market Seminars 2009
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Job Openings 2008/2009
Political Sciences

On March 30 and 31, IMT will sponsor seminars series featuring job market candidates for Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow positions in the area of Political Science.

Short-listed candidates come to us as the culmination of a competitive selection process that started with an initial application pool of almost 135 and continued with over 20 interviews conducted in Lucca or through teleconference.
Candidates will present recent research papers.

Please find below the Agenda of the research seminars open to students and IMT faculty and to all who would like to attend.

All presentations will take place in the Conference Room of the IMT main building, Piazza San Ponziano, 6

Please click on the paper title to open up the paper PDF and on candidate's name to open related web page.

First Day: March 30, 2009
Time Title of Seminar Candidate Name Institution
13.30 The New Regionalism and Policy Interdependence Leonardo Baccini The University of Dublin - Trinity College
14.40 Understanding the Effect of Alienation and Indifference on Voter Turnout through the Lens of Habitual Voting James Melton University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
15.50 QCA and Fuzzy Sets. A New Approach to Social Science Questions or Old Wine in New Bottles? Claudius Wagemann European University Institute (EUI)
17.00 Europarties and Party Development in EU-Candidate States: The Case of Bulgaria Maria Spirova University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
18.10 Margaret Thatcher and the new Political Culture in the United Kingdom Antonio Masala Università di Pisa
20.30 Dinner with Candidates at "Gli Orti di Via Elisa"
Second Day: March 31, 2009
9.00 The Spanish European integration: the first steps of a long journey (1975-1979) Maria Elena Cavallaro Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
10.10 Welfare State Retrenchment, Redistribution Strategies, and Credible Commitments Tim Hicks University of Oxford
11.20 Donation by Association: Scheduling for Greater Campaign Contributions Morgan Llewellyn California Institute of Technology
12.20 Karl Popper’s Philosophical Breakthrough Stefano Gattei Bristol University





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