Summer Methods Meeting Posters
2007
- Faculty
- William Berry (Florida State University) "The Value of Nonparametric Regression for Political Scientists."
- David Carter and Curt Signorino (University of Rochester) "A Bayesian Solution to Complete and Quasi-Complete Separation."
- Rachel Croson (University of Texas at Dallas), Carole Wilson (University of Texas at Dallas), and J. Matthew Wilson (Southern Methodist University) "Social Information in Political Fundraising: Field Experiments."
- Robert Franzese (University of Michigan) and Jude Hayes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Models of Spatial Interdependence in Qualitative Dependent Variables."
- Jens Großer (Princeton University) and Thorsten Giertz (emeneo consulting, Shanghai) "Candidates, Voters, and Endogenous Group Formation: An Experimental Study."
- Christopher Lawrence (Tulane University) "Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns: Incorporating Uncertainty in Second-Stage Estimation."
- Ying Lu (University of Colorado) "Revealing Partisan Effects via Hierarchical Ideal Point Estimation."
- David Nickerson (University of Notre Dame) "An Evaluation of Regression Discontinuity Techniques using Experiments as a Benchmark."
- Hans Noel (Georgetown University) "Multinomial Ideal Point Estimation: When the Decision to Speak is as Important as What You Say."
- Won-Ho Park (University of Florida) and Michael Hanmer (University of Maryland) "Ecological Inference under Extreme Conditions: Straight and Split-Ticket Voting in Diverse Settings and in Small Samples."
- Jeff Stonecash (Syracuse University) "Gelman and King's Estimation of the Incumbency Effect: A Case of Mistaken Identity."
- Graduate Students
- Kenichi Ariga (University of Michigan) "Extending a Statistical Model of Multiparty Election for Comparative Analysis."
- Delia Bailey (Caltech) "Modeling Voter Turnout with Multilevel Structural Equations."
- Bernd Beber and Alexandra Scacco (Columbia University) "Identifying Manipulation in Electoral Results: A Novel Series of Tests and New Data from Nigeria."
- Daniel Corstange (University of Michigan) "Ethnic Politics and Surveys: How Do We Measure What We Want to Measure?"
- Justin Esarey (Florida State University), Will H. Moore (Florida State University), and Bumba Mukherjee (University of Notre Dame) "A Fixed-Effects Bayesian Quantal Response Estimator for Incomplete Information Games."
- Jeremiah Garretson (Vanderbilt University) "Ideological Change, Moving Medians, and the Structure of Party Polarization in the U.S. House: 1982-2000."
- John Gasper (Carnegie Mellon) "Reexamining Media Bias."
- Hannah Goble (University of Wisconsin at Madison) "The Dynamics of Party Trust on National Security Issues, 2002-2006: Issue Ownership and the Vote in the Wake of 9/11 and the Iraq War."
- Melanie Goodrich (New York University) "Priorities and Partisanship."
- Daniel Hopkins (Harvard University) "Flooded Communities: Using the Post-Katrina Migration as a Quasi-Experiment."
- Kyle Joyce (Penn State University) "An Agent-Based Model and Empirical Test of War Expansion."
- Aya Kachi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "The Empirical Implications of a Theoretical Model on Coalition Bargaining and Government Survival."
- Ryan Kennedy (Ohio State University) "Political Institutions and Executive Survival: Empirical Weaknesses and Theoretical Revisions of Selectorate Theory in the Non-Democratic Context."
- Holger Kern (Cornell University) "Opium for the Masses: How Free Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes."
- Hunjoon Kim (University of Minnesota) "The Global Expansion of Trials and Truth Commissions after Transition: Its Causes and Impact."
- Benjamin Lauderdale (Princeton University) "Proxmire and the Golden Fleece: Searching for Maverick Legislators in Spatial Voting Errors."
- Amy Lerman (University of California at Berkeley) "The Politics Prisons Make: Effects of Incarceration on Social and Political Attitudes."
- Jenna Lukasik (Vanderbilt University) "Measuring Judicial Ideology Through Revealed Preferences in State Supreme Courts."
- Jamie Monogan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Robustness of Quantal Response Models with Omitted Variables."
- Jacob Montgomery and Brendan Nyhan (Duke University) "Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications."
- James Melton, Stephen Meserve, and Daniel Pemstein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Democratic Compromise: A Latent Variable Analysis of Eight Measures of Regime Type."
- Alejandro Quiroz Flores (New York University) "Copula Functions and Bivariate Distributions: Applications to Issues of Political Interdependence."
- Julia Rabinovich (Northwestern University) "Public Opinion and Administrative Policy Responsiveness: Federal Telecommunications and Equal Employment Opportunity."
- Daniel Schneider (Stanford University) "Political Cognition and Connectionism: Modeling Political Reasoning."
- Arthur Spirling (University of Rochester) "The Analysis of Power in Political Science: A New Method with Application to the Senate."
- Piero Stanig (Columbia University) "Estimating the "Chilling Effect" of Defamation Law: An Empirical Study of the Press in Mexico."
- Aaron Strauss (Princeton University) "In-cycle Election Forecasting: Wiener Processes with Informative Priors."
