Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS)

CONFERENCE ON
"MATHEMATICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS"
(co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy)

  Saturday, February 9, 2008
Social Science Plaza A, room 2112

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Speakers

James Fowler, Department of Political Science, UCSD
“Two Genes Predict Voter Turnout”

John G. Matsusaka, Marshall School of Business and Gould School of Law & Department of Political Science, USC
“Direct Democracy and Public Employees”

Dennis C. Mueller, Department of Economics, University of Vienna
“Democracy, Rationality and Morality”

Barry O'Neill, Department of Political Science, UCLA
“Sincere and Insincere Communication”

Donald G. Saari, Director of IMBS and Distinguished Professor of Mathemtics and Economics, UCI
“What Causes All Of Those Voting Paradoxes?”

Thomas Schwartz, Department of Political Science, UCLA
“One Dimensionality and Stability in Legislative Voting: Where is the Evidence?”