CISAC Events

Casual Explanation in Social Science

Social Science Seminar

Date and Time
May 23, 2002
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Availability
Open to the Public

Speaker
Henry Brady - Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC Berkeley, and Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences

Reading available in the IIS Library, 5th floor, Encina Hall.

Location
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room
Encina Hall
616 Serra St., 2nd floor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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FSI Contact
Joelle Mehner

Parent Research Projects

International Security and Social Science Research Seminars
Series

Events of interest

Science, Social Science, and Security
Paul Ehrlich
Straight Thinking about Biological Metaphors in Social Science: Punctuated Equilbrium, Path Dependence, etc.
Jessica J. Hellmann, Ron Hassner
God Gave Physics the Easy Problems: Adapting Social Science to an Unpredictable World
R. Ned Lebow
Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975
Kelly Moore, Rebecca Slayton

Publications of interest

Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Success
John W. Lewis, Litai Xue
China Quarterly vol. 176 (2003)
Why is Informality a Useful Analytical Category for Understanding Social Networks and Institutions?
Ragui Assaad, Yu Zhou, Omar Razzaz
The MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation (1997)
Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia
Jeremy M. Weinstein, James D. Fearon, Macartan Humphreys
American Economic Review vol. 99, 2 (2009)
Talking Across Disciplines in the Study of Peace and Security: Epistemology and Pragmatics as Source of Division in the Social Sciences
David Dessler
CISAC (1996)

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