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1/25/2010 - Ken Goldstein and Charles Franklin discuss the Mass. Senate race
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12/08/2009 - Office Hours TV show featured in The Capital Times
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12/01/2009 - Latest Badger Poll to be released
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11/24/2009 - Professor Byron Shafer speaks alongside Senator Russ Feingold & Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at Oxford University
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11/17/2009 - Research shows early voting option can decrease turnout
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2/10/2010 - Comparative Politics Colloquium
1:30 PM Ogg Room
2/10/2010 - Political Science Major Career Panel
5:00 PM 4151 Grainger Hall
2/12/2010 - Political Philosophy Colloquium
12:00 PM Ogg Room
2/17/2010 - Comparative Politics Colloquium
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2/18/2010 - Political Economy Colloquium
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Marc T. Ratkovic and Kevin H. Eng. 2010. "Finding Jumps in Otherwise Smooth Curves: Identifying Critical Events in Political Processes." Political Analysis 18:57-77   
Scott Gehlbach, John S. Earle. 2010. “Did Mass Privatisation Really Increase Post-Communist Mortality?” The Lancet 375 (9712).   
Andrew Kydd, Barbara F. Walter. "By Focusing on Planes, Terrorists Take a Calculated Risk."  Los Angeles Times.  Reprinted in The Press of Atlantic City, Sunday, February 7, 2010. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-walter24-2010jan24,0,7221756.story  
Evgeny Finkel. "In Search of Lost Genocide: Historical Policy and International Politics in Post-1989 Eastern Europe." 2010. Global Society 24, 1 (January): 51-7.   
Aseema Sinha, Jon P. Dorschner. 2010. “India: Rising Power or a Mere Revolution of Rising Expectations?” Polity 42, 1 (January): 74-99.   
Barry Burden, Christopher R. Berry and William G. Howell. 2010. "After Enactment: The Lives and Deaths of Federal Programs." American Journal of Political Science 54:1-14.   
Leigh Payne, Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter. 2009. “Does Transitional Justice Work? Latin America in Comparative Perspective.” Global Studies Review 5:3 (Fall/Winter)
http://www.globality-gmu.net/archives/1789   
Aseema Sinha. "Rethinking the Developmental State Model: Divided Leviathan and Subnational Comparisons in India," in Subrata K. Mitra, ed., Politics of Modern South Asia, Vol. 1-5  (London, New York: Routledge). 2009   
Barry Burden. "The Dynamic Effects of Education on Voter Turnout."  Electoral Studies 28:540-9.   
Aseema Sinha, Lawrence Saez. Political Cycles, Political Institutions and Public Expenditure in India, 1980–2000 British Journal of Political Science, doi:10.1017/S0007123409990226, Published Online by Cambridge University Press, 17 Nov 2009
http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/sinha/publications/Sinha and Saez BJPS.pdf  
Nils Ringe Who Decides, and How? Preferences, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice in the European Parliament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009   
Kathryn Hendley. "‘Telephone Law’ and the ‘Rule of Law’: The Russian Case.” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 1, 2 (2009: 241-64)