March 29 2006, 9:30am - 4:00pm
Conference Suite, Harold Hankins Building

IPEG welcomes Professor Don Green, a pioneer of the use of the experimental method in politics, with his series of landmark experiments testing the impact of Get Out the Vote (GOTV) campaigns, as outlined in the book with Alan Gerber, Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout (2004). He will launch the seminar and the series with a lecture on the experimental method in political science. Professor Gerry Stoker will seek to summarise the experience central government has with experiments in a separate lecture. In the afternoon, Professor Peter John will summarise the results from a voting experiment from the 2005 General Election, where he ran a GOTV campaign. At the conclusion of the day, a round table, including the speakers will reflect on the proceedings of the day and their implications for policy and practice.

Professor Don Green

Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he has taught since 1989. Since 1996 he has served as director of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, an Interdisciplinary research centre that emphasises field experimentation. His research interests span a wide array of topics: voting behaviour, partisanship, campaign finance, rationality, research methodology, and hate crime.

Professor Peter John

Professor Peter John is the Hallsworth Chair of Governance at the University of Manchester . He is an expert on English local government, and was director of the University of Manchester Get Out the Vote campaign.

Programme

• 9:30 - 10:00 Welcome
  
  
• 10:00 - 11:15 Don Green - Reclaiming the Experimental Tradition in Political Science
  
  • Chair: Peter John
    
    
• 11:15 - 11:30 Tea / Coffee
  
  
• 11:30 - 12:30 Gerry Stoker & Paul McCafferty - The Experimental Agenda in UK Central Government
  
  
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
  
  
• 1:30 - 2:30 Peter John - The University of Manchester 2005 Get Out the Vote Experiment
  
  • Chair: Gerry Stoker
    
    
• 2:30 - 3:30 Round Table
  
  
  • Chair: Gerry Stoker
    
  • Don Green
  • Ed Fieldhouse
  • Peter John
  • Andrew Russell
  • David Cutts
    
    
• 3:30 - Refreshments & Close