Christopher Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton University, gives the 2013 Miller Converse Lecture.

The Miller Converse Lecture celebrates the contributions the first and second directors of the Center for Political Studies at U-M -- Warren Miller and Phil Converse -- have made to the Center, to the Institute for Social Research, to the University, and to the community of social science scholars. The lecture, now in its seventeenth year, highlights theoretical contributions to the study of democratic politics, and is a major recognition of scholarly achievement in the social sciences.