CONFERENCE ON
“SPATIAL VOTING: CHOICE OVER MULTIDIMENSIONAL ISSUES ”
DECEMBER 9-11, 2005
Sponsored by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and the Center for the Study of Democracy

Social Science Plaza A 2112

Friday, December 9

1:00-1:15
Opening Comments by Donald Saari
 
1:15-2:00
JOSEPH GODFREY
WinSet Group, LLC
2:00-2:15
Guillermo Owen, Discussant
 
2:15-3:00
 NICHOLAS MILLER
Univ. of Maryland, Political Science
3:00-3:15
Guillermo Owen, Discussant
  
3:15-3:30
BREAK
  
3:30-4:15
CRAIG TOVEY
Georgia Tech, Indus. & Systems Engineering
4:15-4:30
Jim Adams, Discussant
 
4:30-5:15
ELIZABETH PENN
Harvard, Department of Government
"The Legislative Calendar"
5:15-5:30
Jim Adams, Discussant
 

Saturday, December 10

9:00-9:45
TIM GROSECLOSE
UCLA, Dept. of Political Science

"Gatekeeping"

9:45-10:00
Sam Merrill, Discussant
 
10:00-10:45 DONALD CAMPBELL
Department of Economics, William & Mary 		"A Strategy-proofness characaterization of Generalized Weighted Voting"
10:45-11:00
Sam Merrill, Discussant
 
11:00-11:15 BREAK  
11:15-12:00

SCOTT FELD , Department of Sociology, Purdue
BERNARD GROFMAN, Department of Political Science, UCI

"Implications of Issue Salience for Political Competition"

12:00-12:15 Tommy Ratliff, Discussant  
12:15-1:30 LUNCH  
1:30-2:15 CHARLES PLOTT
Caltech, Humanities & Social Science 		"Committee Processes as Information Aggregation Mechanisms: Experimental Results"
2:15-2:30 Tommy Ratliff, Discussant  
2:30-3:15 DONALD SAARI
Director, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences; Departments of Mathematics and Economics 		"Finessing the core: A new solution concept"
3:15-3:30 John Patty, Discussant  
3:30-3:45 BREAK  
3:45-4:30 ITAI SENED
Washington University, Dept. of Political Science 		"Uncovering Minority Power Under Majority Rule"
4:30-4:45 John Patty, Discussant  

Sunday, December 11

9:00-11:00
DISCUSSION SESSION