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Invitation to the International Symposium:

The Second International Symposium of "Experimental Social Sciences"
---Experimental Political Science---
By
"Experimental Social Sciences" Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
and
Comparative Law and Politics Symposium,
Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law & Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo

Date: October 9, 2009 (Friday)
Place: Conference room, 8th Floor, Law Number 4 Building, University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus), Japan

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to announce that the Second International Symposium of Experimental Social
Sciences: Experimental Political Science will be held at University of Tokyo on October 9 (Fri.).

Our research project "Experimental Social Sciences"
aims at the collaboration of social scientists from various academic disciplines who share experiments as their common research method so as to improve the explanatory power of social sciences regarding human behaviors, social phenomena and policies. Through this symposium, we would like to understand the frontier of experimental research in political science and discuss the future of experimental research not only in political science but also in social sciences.

Program
9:00 Opening Remark
9:05 Donald Green (Yale University)
"Field Experimentation in Political Science: Past, Present, and Future"
9:55 Rebecca Morton (New York University)
"The Formal Theory Approach to Causality and Experiments on Voting"
10:45 Coffee Break
10:55 Junko Kato (University of Tokyo)
"Neuropolitical Experiments Will Advance Our Understanding of Political
Behavior: fMRI Experiments Using the 1992 US Presidential Campaign Videos"
11:45 Eric Dickson (New York University)
"Measuring Beliefs in Politically Relevant Games"
12:35 Lunch Break
13:45 Kosuke Imai (Princeton University)
"Experimental Identification of Causal Mechanisms"
14:35 Yoichi Hizen (Hokkaido University)
"Duverger's Law in the Laboratory"
15:25 Coffee Break
15:35 Etsuhiro Nakamura (Ehime University), Kenta
Konishi（Kansai University),
and Tadahiko Murata（Kansai University)
"A Simulation Approach for Party Formation"
16:25 Naoko Taniguchi (Toyo University) and Masahiko Aida (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner)
"How can we combine survey and experiment? "
17:15 Closing Remark
18:00 Symposium Party (at Matsumotoro)

Registration
If you participate in our symposium, please send an e-mail to Yoichi Hizen (Hokkaido University)
(e-mail address: hizen[atx]econ.hokudai.ac.jp) by October
4, 2009 with the following information: your name, institution, email address, and whether to participate in our party after the symposium (participate or not: fee \2,000).