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“James Madison and the
Natural History of the Democratic Party,” presented at the September, 2004
meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago
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“Madison’s Opponents and
Constitutional Design,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association
meetings, Chicago, April 16, 2004
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"Sovereignty
against Management: Policy Authority in the U.S. Constitution,"
presented at the 2003 American Political Science Association meetings, August
29, 2003, Philadelphia
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“Sherman against Madison in the Design of the U.S. Constitution,” presented at the conference of the
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Society of the History of
the Early Republic, July 25, 2003, Columbus, Ohio
- “American Regulatory Policies and
Federalism," presented at a conference on “Evolving Federalisms: The
Intergovernmental Balance of Power in America and Europe," April 11, 2003, at
the Maxwell School, Syracuse University
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“Constitution
and Counteragenda: Policy Agency In American Constitutional Design,” presented
At The 2002 Social Science History Association meetings, St. Louis, October
24-27, 2002
- "Political Science and the Politics of the Return to History," presented
at a conference on "Historicizing the Political," September 26-28, 2002, University of California -- Berkeley
- "Madison against Opportunistic Federalism," presented at a conference on "True Principles": James Madison's Political Science, University of California-San Diego, March 16-17, 2001
- "Political Science Returns to History," Presented at the Social Science History Association, October 23-26, 2000, Pittsburgh
- "Madison's Failure: The Virginia Plan, Comparative State Advantage, and the Governance of the American Political Economy,"
presented at the 1999 Western Political Science Association meetings, Seattle, March 25, 1999
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“American Labor and the Welfare State in the Progressive
Era,” Presented at the International Conference on Socio-Economics, Montreal,
Canada, July 5-6, 1997
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“American Labor Market Policy in Comparative Context,”
at a conference on Models of Capitalism in Latin American Development,
Chapel Hill, NC, May 23-24, 1997.
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“Loss of Confidence: The Changing Path of American
Public Policy in the 1970s,” to be presented at a conference on Loss of
Confidence: American Public Policy in the 1970s, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, June 12, 1997
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“Strategic Choices in the Battle for American Labor
Markets, 1900-1932,” at a symposium on “Labor and the Welfare State in
the Twentieth Century” at the George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring,
MD, November 17-18, 1996.
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"Business, the States, and American Labor Market Policy,"
presented at the Western Political Science Association meetings, Pasadena,
March 18-20, 1993
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"Why Can't the United States Steer?" presented at the
European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 15, 1992.
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"The Politics of Policy Borrowing," coauthored with
Jerold Waltman, presented at the American Political
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Science Association Meetings, Chicago, September 4,
1992.
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"The Structure of Labor Restraint," presented at the
American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, August
30, 1990.
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"The Politics of Policy Borrowing," coauthored with
Jerold Waltman, presented at a conference on U.S. and U.K Education and
Training Policy in Comparative Perspective, University of Warwick, United
Kingdom, June 1990.
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"A Formal Theory of Elvis," coauthored with Carol Kohfeld,
presented at the Southern Political Science Association meetings, Memphis,
November 3, 1989.
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"The Welfare States: Partial Diffusion of Labor and
Welfare Policies in the United States," presented at the American Political
Science Association Meetings, Washington, August, 1988.
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"Planned Incapacity to Succeed? Creative Liberalism
and American Social Policy," presented at the American Political Science
Association Meetings (Conference Group on Political Economy), Chicago,
September 3-6, 1987.
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"Lord Beveridge and John R. Commons As Policy Middlemen,"
presented at the Western Conference on British Studies, Denver, October
10-11, 1986.
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"Urban Revitalization in the United States: Prisoner
of the Federal System," presented at the Fulbright Colloquium, 1986: "Regenerating
the Cities: The UK Crisis and the American Experience," Liverpool, England,
September 28-30, 1986. Coauthored with Dennis Judd.
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"Federalism and the American Welfare State: The Trickle-Through
Effect," delivered at the Western Political Science Association Meetings,
Eugene, Oregon, March 20-22, 1986.
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"Mrs. Thatcher's Employment Remedy," presented at the
Western Conference British Studies, San Antonio, October 25, 26, 1985.
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"Comparing Conservative Strategies: Thatcher, Reagan,
and Labor Market Governance," delivered at the American Political Science
Association Meetings (Conference Group on Political Economy), New Orleans,
August 29-September 1, 1985.
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"Designing Shared Policy in Employment Policy: The Case
of the Job Training Partnership Act" prepared for the 1984 Humphrey Conference
on Shared Power, Minneapolis, May 9-11, 1984.
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"America's Business-Centered Labor Market Strategies,"
prepared for the American Political Science Association Meetings (Conference
Group on Political Economy), Washington, August 30-September 2, 1984.·
"Issue Networks in American Labor Market Policy," prepared for the Southwest
Social Science Association Meetings, Houston, March 6, 1983.
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"The Premises and Characteristics of Program Design,"
prepared for the American Political Science Association Meetings, Denver,
September 2-5, 1982.
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“Principles into Policy: John R. Commons and the Design
of American Labor Market Policy," prepared for the Midwest Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago, April 29, 1982.