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Speaker Series -- Erik Snowberg, Accountability with Strong Parties
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2009-10-26 12:30
2009-10-26 14:00
10-26-2009 from 12:30 to 14:00 |
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The Public Lectures Committee for the UCLA Department of Political Science
Invites you to the 2009-10 Speaker Series
Presenting
Erik Snowberg
Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science
California Institute of Technology
"Accountability with Strong Parties." (with Gerard Padro-i-Miguel)
We examine the accountability of politicians to their parties when parties are able to discipline incumbents by dismissing them at no cost. The fundamental tension between parties and their politicians is that while parties want politicians who will implement the party's agenda, they also need politicians who can win elections. Therefore parties might not be prepared to dismiss a politician that is charismatic, even if he deviates from the party line. We characterize politician and party behavior as the politicians' ability to win elections (personal valence) and the value of winning the election to the party (polarization) vary.
Monday, October 26, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
4357 Bunche Hall
For more information visit:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/ljohns/public_lecture_speaker.html