Harvard Political Networks Conference

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - Friday, June 12, 2009

Description

This 3-day conference will take place in the Tsai Auditorium (1730 Cambridge Street Room S010), Belfer Case Study Rooom(1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020) and Room S250, also at 1730 Cambridge Street.

To Register, please go to:

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/colloquia_HPNC2009.htm

8:00am – 9:00am
Continental Breakfast and Registration
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9:00am – 12:15pm
Workshops
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Presentations
“Workshop for Beginners”
abstract
“Advanced Workshops”
abstract
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
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1:30pm – 4:45pm
Workshops Continued
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4:45pm – 5:00pm
Break
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5:00pm – 6:30pm
Welcome Reception, Opening Remarks, and a Special Presentation
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Presentations
“TBA”
8:00am – 9:00am
Continental Breakfast and Registration
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Presentations
“Welcome”
9:00am – 10:30am
Panel 1
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Presentations
“Healing the Rift? SOcial Networks and Reconciliation between Obama and Clinton Convention Delegates in 2008”
“It's Not Personal; It's Strictly Business: A social Networks Analysis of Internal Party Cleavages, 1972-2008”
9:00am – 10:30am
Panel 2
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Presentations
“Social Networks and the Mass Media”
“Spcoal Politics: The Contagion of Political Behavior”
9:00am – 10:30am
Panel 3
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Presentations
“Disagreeing About Disagreement”
“Political Influence Dynamics in 14 Incipient and Immersive Social Networks”
10:30am – 10:45am
Break
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10:45am – 12:15pm
Panel 1
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“Unsolved at Any Speed: The Role of Information Flow in Problem-Solving and Innovation”
“Expertise and Bias in Political Communication”
10:45am – 12:15pm
Panel 2
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Presentations
“Lethal Connections: What explains why some terrorist organizations are highly networked while others are unconnected?”
“Reveolving Doors and Foreign Policy Collective Decision-Making: A Network Analysis”
10:45am – 12:15pm
Panel 3
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Presentations
“Social NetworkAnalysis in Program Evaluation: Measuring the Impact of the State Health Leadership Initiative on the Creation of Social Capital”
“Network Structure and Social Capital”
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
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1:30pm – 3:00pm
Panel 1
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Presentations
“Political Discussion Networks and the Structure of Deliberation”
“Surge and Decline in Facebook Support: The 2008 Congressional Election Cycle”
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Panel 2
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Presentations
“The Effect of Social Networks on the Quality of Thinking About Policies”
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Panel 3
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“The m-STAR Model of Dynamic, Endogenous Interdependence and Network-Behavior Coevaluation in Comparative & International Political Economy”
“Rules and Relations in Comparative Politics: Connecting the dots between formal and informal institutions”
3:00pm – 3:15pm
Break
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3:15pm – 5:15pm
Panel 1
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Presentations
“A Social Network Analysis of American Tax Jurisprudence”
“The Development of Community Structure in the Supreme Court's Network of Citations”
“Legal Precedents, Judicial Discretion, & Diffusion of the Strict Liability Rule for Manufacturing Defects, 1962-87”
3:15pm – 5:15pm
Panel 2
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“The Implications of Political Networks on the Career Decisions of State Legislators”
“All Politics is (NOt) Local: The Structure of Lobbying in North Carolina”
“The Beltway Network: A Network Analysis of Lobbyists' Donations to Members of Congress”
3:15pm – 5:15pm
Panel 3
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Presentations
“Qualitative Computational Research: An Example from Southern Thailand”
“Do Self-Organizing Communities Garner More Success?”
“Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage and Family in Florence, 1282-1494”
5:15pm – 5:30pm
Set up Posters
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5:30pm – 7:30pm
Happy Hour/Poster Session
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7:30pm – 8:30pm
Keynote Address
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“Outstanding Scientific Impact: Formation and Performance Patterns of Scientists' Collaboration Networks”