Schedule

This program below is a reference guide to the conference proceedings. All times listed are in the Central Standard Time Zone.

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

Friday, May 24, 2024

All conference proceedings and presentations were held in Rooms 210, 211 and 340 the Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center.

  • 8:00-9:00 AM CST – Breakfast* in Anheuser-Busch Dining Room (3rd floor of the Knight Center)
  • 9:00-9:10 AM – Opening Remarks – Betsy Sinclair, Chair of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Room 210.
  • 9:15-10:45 AM – Session 1:
    • PANEL A (Room 210):
      • Allison Archer (University of Houston), “Evaluating the Effect of Wealthy Owners on Local News”
      • Adeline Lo (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “How increasing refugee visibility on TV news causes viewers to support refugees more, but like them less”
      • Discussant: Jacob Montgomery
    • PANEL B (Room 211):
      • Maggie Macdonald (University of Kentucky) “Testing the Interest Group Connection: Campaigns on Twitter”
      • Cassandra Tai (PSU) “A Window into Climate Change Debates Among Public Officials: Parsing Stances and Discourses of State Legislators on Facebook”
      • Discussant: Michael Olson  
    • PANEL C (Room 340):
      • Amy Catalinac (New York University), “Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan”
      • Sarah Hummel (Harvard – Researcher) “Falling in Line: Legislative Behavior in the Russian State Duma under Putin”
      • Discussant: Guillermo Rosas
  • 10:45-11:00 AM – Coffee Break outside of Room 210
  • 11:00-12:30 PM – Session 2:
    • PANEL A (Room 210):
      • Allyson Benton (University of Essex), “Taking Cross-Sectional Dependence Seriously”
      • Naijia Liu (Harvard University), “Synthetic Control Method with Pretreatment Outcomes Missing not at Random”
      • Discussant: Ted Enamorado
    • PANEL B (Room 211):
      • Yuree Noh (Rhode Island College), “Tax Morale in Rentier States: Evidence from a Survey Experiment”
      • Asli Cansunar (University of Washington), “Homogenizing the High Street: the Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination”
      • Discussant: Amy Pond
    • PANEL C (Room 340):
      • Roya Talibova (Vanderbilt) “#Stoprussia: Weaponizing Social Media for Foreign Support”
      • Nejla Asimovic (U Penn) “Bridging the Digital Divide: Data Access and Integration of Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia”
      • Lindsay Benstead (Portland State University) “Is Gender Diplomacy Effective? Quotas and International Perceptions of Democracy in Authoritarian Regimes”
      • Discussant: Matt Gabel
  • 12:30 – 1:30 PM – Lunch* in Anheuser-Busch Dining Room (3rd floor of the Knight Center)
  • 1:00 – 1:15 PM – Remarks– Andrew D. Martin, Chancellor of Washington University in St Louis in Anheuser-Busch Dining Room (3rd floor of the Knight Center)
  • 1:30-3:00 PM – Session 3:
    • PANEL A (Room 210):
      • Anna Wilke (New York University), “To Harmonize or Not? Research Design for Cross-Context Learning”
      • Mayya Komisarchik (University of Rochester), “Trading Agreement for Electability? Experimental Evidence from the 2020 Democratic Primary”
      • Discussant: Erin Hartman (Berkeley)
    • PANEL B (Room 211):
      • Rachel Blum (University of Oklahoma) “Cooperating Factions: A Network Analysis of Party Divisions in U.S. Presidential Nominations”
      • Rachel Porter (Notre Dame) “Candidate Positioning & Issue Polarization in Congressional Elections”
      • Discussant: Dan Butler
    • PANEL C (Room 340):
      • Sule Yaylaci (Georgetown) “Terrorism and Elections: A Detailed Account”
      • Elissa Berwick (McGill University)
      • Discussant: Carly Wayne
  • 3:00-3:10 PM – Coffee Break outside of Room 210
  • 3:15-4:45 PM – Session 4:
    • PANEL A (Room 210):
      • Lisa Argyle (BYU) “Evaluating LLMs”
      • Tessalia Rizzo (UC Merced) “Voting and the Built Environment: Understanding Why Polling Station Imagery Predicts Turnout Through Computer Vision”
      • Discussant: Christopher Lucas
    • PANEL B (Room 211):
      • NaLette Brodnax (Georgetown University), “Top-Down Discipline: Linking Political and Carceral Ideology in North Carolina Schools”
      • Olga Gasparyan (Florida State University), “The Visual Divide: Democrats and Republicans Look at Political Images Differently, Reflecting Their Attitude”
      • Discussant: Matthew Hayes
  • 4:45-5:00 PM – Coffee Break outside of Room 210
  • 5:00-6:00 PM- Poster Session (Room 340), details here.
  • 6:00 – 8:00 – Closing Remarks and Dinner in Anheuser-Busch Dining Room (3rd floor of the Knight Center)

*Please let us know if you have any food allergies/dietary restrictions or religious preferences.

Questions? Contact Brian Harting, Events Coordinator, at harting@wustl.edu.