Program

The following is the current program for the 2001 summer meeting. In keeping with recent tradition, there will be single panel sessions on Thursday and Saturday, and "split" sessions on Friday. The graduate student poster session will be held Friday evening before dinner.

Thursday, July 19

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. : Breakfast Special Topics Lecture: "Missing Data". Gary King, James Honaker, Anne Joseph, and Kenneth Scheve (Harvard University).
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. : Opening Remarks.
9:30 - 10:45 p.m. : Analyzing the Dynamics of International Mediation Processes - Philip Schrodt (University of Kansas). Discussant: John Freeman (University of Minnesota).
11:15 - 12:30 p.m. : A Seemingly Unrelated Regression Model for Multiparty Elections - John E. Jackson (University of Michigan). Discussant: Jason Wittenberg (University of Wisconsin).
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. : Lunch.
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. : Analyzing Time Series-Cross-sectional Data when Different Covariates are Available in each Cross-sectional Unit - Federico Girosi and Gary King (Harvard University). Discussant: Andrew Martin (Washington University).
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. : Mixed Logit Models in Political Science - Garrett Glasgow (UC-Santa Barbara). Discussant: Barry Burden (Harvard University).
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. : Dinner - Southern Barbeque, Woodruff Residential Center.

Friday, July 20

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. : First Panel Sessions.
- Section A: Random Coefficient Models in the Time-Series Cross-Section Context - Nathaniel Beck (UC-San Diego) and Jonathan Katz (CalTech). Discussant: Robert Franzese (University of Michigan).
- Section B: Detection of Multinomial Voting Irregularities - Walter R. Mebane, Jr. (Cornell University), Jasjeet S. Sekhon (Harvard University), Jonathan N. Wand (Cornell University). Discussant: Dan Wood (Texas A&M University).
10:15 - 11:30 a.m. : Second Panel Sessions.
- Section A: Pre-election Polls in Nation and State: A Dynamic Bayesian Hierarchical Model - Charles H. Franklin (University of Wisconsin - Madison). Discussant: Jeff Gill (University of Florida).
- Section B: An Estimator for Some Binary-Outcome Selection Models without Exclusion Restrictions - Anne E. Sartori (Princeton University). Discussant: John Brehm (University of Chicago).
11:30 - 1:00 p.m. : Lunch.
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. : Third Panel Sessions.
- Section A: Practical Maximum Likelihood Estimation - Micah Altman and Michael McDonald (Harvard University). Discussant: Phil Paolino (University of Texas).
- Section B: Implementing Lag Structures for Time Series Cross Sectional Data: The Case of State Failure - Nathaniel Beck (UC-San Diego), David Epstein (Columbia University), Simon Jackman (Stanford University) and Sharyn O'Halloran (Columbia University). Discussant: Kevin Quinn (University of Washington).
2:45 - 4:00 p.m. : Fourth Panel Sessions.
- Section A: Is All Politics and Economics Local?: National Elections and Local Economic Conditions - Charles Himmelberg and Gregory Wawro (Columbia University). Discussant: Suzie DeBoeuf (Penn State University).
- Section B: Using Auxiliary Data to Estimate Selection Models - Frederick J. Boehmke (University of Iowa). Discussant: Richard Timpone (Ohio State University).
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. : Reception and Graduate Student Poster Sessions - Cox Hall.
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. : Dinner, Cox Hall Ballroom.

Saturday, July 21

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. : Breakfast Special Topics Lecture: "Scaling". Bill Jacoby (University of South Carolina).
9:00 - 10:15 p.m. : Fission and Fusion in a Party System - Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver (Trinity College). Discussant: Simon Jackman (Stanford University).
10:45 - 12:00 p.m. : Bayesian Learning about the Ideal Points of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1953-1999 - Andrew Martin (Washington University) and Kevin Quinn (University of Washington). Discussant: Michael Bailey (Georgetown University).
12:00 - 1:45 p.m. : Lunch.
1:45 - 3:00 p.m. : How Factual is Your Counterfactual? - Gary King (Harvard University) and Langche Zeng (George Washington University). Discussant: Charles Cameron (Columbia University).
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. : Section Business Meeting.
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. : Reception, Michael C. Carlos Museum Ballroom.
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. : Dinner, Michael C. Carlos Museum Ballroom.