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1/26/2012 - Byron Shafer delivered the Ruth K. & Shepard Broad Lecture at Florida International University
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1/23/2012 - Congratulations to Scott Strauss, Romnes Faculty Fellow, UW Madison Graduate School
1/23/2012 - Congratulations to David Weimer, WARF Named Professorship, UW Madison Graduate School
1/23/2012 - Congratulations to Ellen Anevicius, Awarded James A. Williams Scholarship and Membership in National Military Intelligence Association, National Military Intelligence Foundation
1/23/2012 - Congratulations to John Witte, 2012 Edu-Scholar Public Presence, Education Week
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1/30/2012 - American Politics Workshop
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2/6/2012 - American Politics Workshop
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2/17/2012 - Visiting Speaker
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2/24/2012 - Visiting Speaker
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3/5/2012 - American Politics Workshop
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John Ahlquist forthcoming (2013). "Who Sits at the Table in the House of Labor? rank-and-file citizenship and unravelling in confederal organizations." Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
http://jleo.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/25/jleo.ewr027.abstract?keytype=ref&ijkey=2EpvZvRAwh1zzHY  
Aili Tripp. "Do Arab Women Need Electoral Quotas?" Foreign Policy: The Middle East Channel, January 19, 2012. 
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/19/do_arab_women_need_electoral_quotas  
John Ahlquist, Erik Wibbels forthcoming (2012). "Riding the wave: world trade and factor-based models of democratization." American Journal of Political Science.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00572.x/abstract  
Donald Downs. Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students (Cambridge University Press, 2012)   
Barry Burden. "Polarization, Obstruction, and Governing in the Senate." The Forum 9, 4 (2011).   
Donald Downs. “The Pendulum Swings: The Fall and Return of ROTC to Elite Campuses, and Why It Matters,” The Forum, Vol. 9, no. 3 (2011).
http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol9/iss3/art6/  
John Coleman, Kenneth Goldstein, William Howell. Cause and Consequence in American Politics. New York: Pearson/Penguin Academics.   
Christina Ewig, Stephen J. Kay. "Postretrenchment Politics: Policy Feedback in Chile's Health and Pension Reforms." Latin American Politics and Society 53, 4 (2011): 67-99.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2011.00134.x/abstract  
Donald Downs “Watching Out for Number One,” Wisconsin Interest, December 2011   
Ryan Owens, Ryan Black , Anthony Madonna. “Obstructing Agenda-Setting: Examining Blue Slip Behavior in the Senate.” The Forum 9, 4 (2011).   
Evgeny Finkel. Yitzhak Brudny and Evgeny Finkel, "Why Ukraine Is Not Russia: Hegemonic National Identity and Democracy in Russia and Ukraine." East European Politics and Societies 25, 4 (2011): 813-833   
Ryan Owens, Ryan C. Black. “Solicitor General Influence and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Political Research Quarterly 64, 4 (2011): 765-78