GSSEPS International & Interdisciplinary Seminar
Prof. James Snyder (MIT) Massachusset Institute of Technology MIT - Political Science Department -
Wealth Accumulation by Politicians in the U.S., 1850-1870
Wednesday 23rd June 2010, h: 14.30 Room A via Pace 10
Prof. Jennifer Hunt (McGill University, Canada) Department of Economics
Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Friday 4th June 2010, h: 14.30 Room A via Pace 10
Click here to download the suggested reading:
W15853 "Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?" NBER Working Paper, March 2010
Daniele Caramani (University of St. Gallen - Institute of Political Science)
"From Nationalisation to Europeanisation: The Integration of Electorates and Party Systems in Europe"
Friday 14th May 2010, h: 14.30 Room A via PAce 10
Ezra N. Suleiman (Princeton University)
"Bureaucracy and Democracy"
Friday 16th April 2010, h: 14.30 Room A via Pace 10
Suggested reading are:
1. Max Weber, "Politics as a Vocation"
2. Max Weber, "Science as a Vocation". Both essays can be found in, H.H.Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds. Essays In Sociology.
3. C. Pollitt and G. Bouckaert, Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis.
Evelyne Huber and John D. Sthephens (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Politics, Policy, Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Friday 5th March 2010, h: 14.30 Room A via Pace 10
Background Readings are:
E. Huber, F. Nielsen, J. Priebble, J.D. Stephens "Politics and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean" in American Sociological Review, 2006, Vol. 71 (December: 943-963)
E. Huber, T. Mustillo, J.D. Stephens "Politics and Social Spending in Latin America" in The Journal of Politics, Vol. 70, No 2, April 2008, pp 420-436
E. Huber, J.D. Stephens, J. Priebble "Politics and Poverty in Latin America" in Comparative Politics, 41: 4, July 2009: 387-407
The readings are available at the GSSEPS Secretariat upon request.
Éric Verdier (Cnrs, Laboratoire d'économie et de sociologie du travail)
"European lifelong learning strategy and diversity of national devices: an interpretation in terms of public policy regimes"
Friday, December 4th, 2009
h: 14.30 - 16.30
Room A via Pace 10
Click here to download the leaflet
Click here to download the paper
Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences International and Interdisciplinary Seminars &
Department of Economics, Business and Statistics DEAS
Gary King (Professor of Government Harvard University and Director Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences)
"Quantitative Discovery from Qualitative Information: A General-Purpose Document Clustering Methodology"
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
h: 12.30
DEAS Seminar Room
via Conservatorio 7 (2nd Floor)
Abstract
Many people attempt to discover useful information by reading large quantities of unstructured text, but because of known human limitations even experts are ill-suited to succeed at this task.This difficulty has inspired the creation of numerous automated cluster analysis methods to aid discovery. We address two problems that plague this literature. First, the optimal use of any one of these methods requires that it be applied only to a specific substantive area, but the best area for each method is rarely discussed and usually unknowable ex ante. We tackle this problem with mathematical, statistical, and visualization tools that define a search space built from the solutions to all previously proposed cluster analysis methods (and any qualitative approaches one has time to include) and enable a user to explore it and quickly identify useful information. Second, in part because of the nature of unsupervised learning problems, cluster analysis methods are not routinely evaluated in ways that make them vulnerable to being proven suboptimal or less than useful in specific data types. We therefore propose new experimental designs for evaluating these methods. With such evaluation designs, we demonstrate that our computer-assisted approach facilitates more efficient and insightful discovery of useful information than either expert human coders using qualitative or quantitative approaches or existing automated methods. We (will) make available an easy-to-use software package that implements all our suggestions.
Paper available here: http://gking.harvard.edu/files/abs/discov-abs.shtml
Presentation available here: http://gking.harvard.edu/talks/discov-milan.pdf
Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici
Jacques Ziller - Università di Pavia presenta
NEL LABIRINTO DELL'EUROPA Il Politico n. 219
Dopo il voto irlandese, le riforme istituzionali disegnate nel Trattato di Lisbona sono più vicine. L'Unione che ne potrebbe derivare sarà più forte? I nuovi strumenti miglioreranno la sua capacità di dare risposta ai problemi nazionali?
Discutono
Massimo Florio Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche DEAS
Fabio Franchino Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici
Tuesday 27th October 2009 h: 2.30pm
DEAS Seminar Room, via Conservatorio 7 (2nd Floor)
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