This is an archived version of the Formal Theory Virtual Workshop sessions that took place in 2021.
Friday, February 26
Politics and Policy
- Peter Buisseret (with Richard Van Weelden), “Polarization, Valence, and Policy Competition”
- Arthur Silve (with Jeff Frieden), “The Political Reception of Innovations”
Friday, March 5
Man in the Mirror
- Dan McGee, “Legitimizing Myths and Inequality”
- Raghul Venkatesh, “Identity Politics and Majoritarianism: An Economic Rationale”
Friday, March 12
I Get Around
- Amedeo Piolatto, “Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism”
- Clement Minaudier, “Doors and Perceptions: Motivations, Beliefs, and the Returns to Canvassing“
Friday, March 19
Video Killed the Radio Star
- Ken Shotts (Anqi Li and Davin Raiha), “Propaganda, Alternative Media, and Accountability in Fragile Democracies“
- Teresa Esteban-Casanelles, “The Effects of Exposure to Advertising: Evidence from Spain” (slides)
Friday, March 26
Gold Digger
- Federico Trombetta (with Matteo Gamalerio), “Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Italy”
- Mehmet Ismail (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap), “Liberalism, Rationality, and Pareto optimality“
Friday, April 2
We Are the Champions
- Emiel Awad (with Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra and Larry Rothenberg), “Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Battle for Credit”
- Federico Vaccari, “Competition in Signaling”
Friday, April 9
Crazy Over You
- Scott Tyson, “Foreign Influence through Constituency Cultivation”
- Scott Gehlbach (with Zhaotian Luo, Anton Shirikov and Dmitriy Vorobyev), “A Model of Censorship and Propaganda”
Friday, April 16
Mambo Italiano
- Massimo Morelli (with Antonio Nicolò and Paolo Roberti), “Populism as Commitment“
Friday, April 23
Chain of Fools
- Valerio Dotti, “No Country For Young People? The Rise of Anti-immigration Populism in Ageing Societies”
- Christian Fong (with Josh McCrain), “The Congressional Leadership Tournament”
Friday, April 30
Roll of the Dice
- Arjada Bardhi, “Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics”
- Benjamin Blumenthal, “Political Agency and Legislative Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring“
Friday, May 7
Lake Shore Drive
- Monika Nalepa and Konstantin Sonin, “On Blackmail”
Friday, May 14
Another One Bites the Dust
- Martin Castillo Quintana, “Violence and Peace in Illicit Drug Markets”
- Nikitas Konstantinidis, “Military Conscription and Regime Politics: Professional Soldiers, Conscripts, and Insurgents”
Friday, July 16
- Andrew Little, “Directional Motives and Different Priors Are Observationally Equivalent”
- Anna Denisenko, “Hybrid Electoral Systems: Strategic Replacements and Popular Support”
Friday, July 23
- Jieun Kim, “At Your Own Risk: A Model of Delegation with Ambiguous Guidelines”
- Germán Gieczewski, “Collective Enforcement: Fairness and Deterrence in the Justice System”
Friday, July 30
- Jess Sun, “Commensurability and Assignment in Quasi-Experimental Designs”
- Gaétan Tchakounte Nandong, “Endogeneous Mobilization and Dictators Tactics”
Friday, August 6
- Tara Slough, “External Validity and Comparability in Meta-Studies”
- Jason Davis, “War as an Internal Information Problem”
Friday, August 13
- Yu Mei, “Autocratic Politics and International Sanctions”
- Daniel Goldstein, “Reversals of State Capacity: Political Disruption and the Erosion of Mission-Driven Norms”