Research In Progress
Which Voters are Persuadable?
by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS
October 15, 2007
In a recent New York Times Book Review piece, the writer Jonathan Rauch assessed one of the broad splits in the conservative movement this way: "Libertarians and traditionalists disagree on the relative importance of liberty and virtue; many neocons care not a fig about abortion, while religious conservatives often seem to care about little else."
Charting Creativity
by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS
May 7, 2007
What's an inventor?
In pop culture' he is often as not toiling away in his garage to come up with a time machine' or is resurrecting human flesh in an Eastern European castle.
Most real inventors present a somewhat less indelible image. They usually work in the labs or offices of a corporation or university.
Senior Moments
by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS
March 7, 2007
"It's all up there on the door." That' along with a casual gesture' is Ken Shepsle's response to "what have you been up to lately?" The George D. Markham Professor of Government points to his closet door which is covered in the whiteboardwallpaper that seems to be ubiquitous here at IQSS. Listed in dry-erase marker are Shepsle's works in progress' three books and 11 articles in various states of completion.
Settling New Accounts
by Elizabeth Gehrman, Special to the Harvard News Office
September 15, 2006
Simplifying anything - from an office filing system to a walk-in closet- is hard work. Now take the attention to detail required of those small-scale projects and apply it to the U. S. economy, and you'll begin to understand the patience and persistence Dale Jorgenson's work requires.
Whiteboard and Endless Statistics
by Elizabeth Gehrman, Special to the Harvard News Office
September 15, 2006
The whiteboard that covers hundreds of feet of the curved hallway at IQSS is not always covered with equations - but lately, it usually is. And most of them are in the haphazard hand of James M. Robins, M.D., a faculty associate at IQSS and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the School of Public Health. "I'm not the most organized person in the world," says Robins, his chair rolling over a splash of papers that spill out of his briefcase and onto the floor of his office. "So the equations usually sit there for a while before I type them into my computer."