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2/10/2012 - Congratulations to Kathy Walsh, who has been named a Vilas Associate for 2012-14 by UW Madison - Graduate School
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2/08/2012 - Congratulations to John Witte, Recipient of 2011-12 Hilldale Award - UW Madison for the Social Studies
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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 Straus, Romnes Faculty Fellow, UW Madison Graduate School
1/23/2012 - Congratulations to David Weimer, WARF Named Professorship, UW Madison Graduate School
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2/24/2012 - Visiting Speaker
1:20 PM Ogg Room
2/28/2012 - International Relations Colloquium
12:00 PM Ogg Room
3/2/2012 - Political Theory Workshop
12:00 PM Ogg Room
3/5/2012 - American Politics Workshop
12:00 PM Ogg Room
3/30/2012 - Visiting Speaker
1:20 PM Ogg Room
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David Weimer, Stéphane Lavertu, Daniel Walters. "Scientific Expertise and the Balance of Political Interests: MEDCAC and Medicare Coverage Decisions." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 22, 1 (2012): 55–81.   
David Weimer. “The Universal and the Particular in Policy Analysis and Training.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 14, 1 (2012):  1–8   
Kyle Marquardt. "Stabilization and Symbolism: Language and Regional Politics in the Chuvash Republic." 2012. Nationalities Papers 40(1):127-147.   
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)   
Brett J. Kyle and Andrew G. Reiter. "Dictating Justice: Military Courts and Human Rights in Latin America." Armed Forces & Society 38, 1 (2012): 27-48.
http://afs.sagepub.com/content/38/1/27.abstract  
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  
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.