American Government Speaker’s Series Fall 2009 Friday October 2 in Car Barn 427 at 10:30 am (TIME CHANGE) Jennifer Lawless, American University “If Only They'd Ask: Gender, Recruitment, and Political Ambition” Speaker website Friday October 23 at noon in ICC 662 (joint with GPPI) Doug Reed, Georgetown University “Desegregation, Massive Resistance and Intercurrence : Judicial Capacity and School Vouchers in Alexandria, Virginia” Speaker website [Late addition!] Friday October 30 at noon in ICC 305E Michael Murakami, Georgetown University “Elite Polarization, Ideo-Partisan Alienation, and the Motivational Bases of Turnout in US Presidential Elections” Monday November 2 in Car Barn 427 at 3:30 (joint with GPPI) Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University “A Theory of Government Regulation and Self-Regulation with the Specter of Nonmarket Threats” Speaker website Friday November 20 at noon in ICC 662 Michael Bailey, Georgetown University “The Constrained Court” Speaker website Friday December 11 at noon in ICC 662 Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University “Reverse Electoral Business Cycles” Speaker website Spring 2010 Friday March 26 Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University Speaker website Friday April 9 Hans Noel, Georgetown University Friday April 16 at noon in ICC 662 Eric Oliver, University of Chicago Speaker website