MPSA

8:05 Timely Participation in Front-loaded Presidential
Nominations
Caitlin Elizabeth Jewitt, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University
cjewitt@vt.edu
8:15 Independents in Presidential Primaries: Party
Crashers or Partisans in Disguise?
Dante J. Scala, University of New Hampshire-Main
Campus
dante.scala@unh.edu
8:26 Open Field or is the Fix In?: A Prediction Model
for the New Hampshire Primary
Andrew E. Smith, University of New Hampshire-
Main Campus
andrew.smith@unh.edu
8:37 The 2016 Republican Nomination: The
Opportunistic Outsider and the Populist Revolve
Wayne P. Steger, DePaul University
wsteger@depaul.edu
8:48 Presidential Primary Debates and Internal Party
Democracy
Seth E. Masket, University of Denver
smasket@du.edu
Julia Azari*, Marquette University
julia.azari@marquette.edu
8:59 Disc., David Redlawsk, Rutgers University-New
Brunswick
redlawsk@udel.edu
Disc., Costas Panagopoulos*, Fordham University
costas@post.harvard.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
54-8 Legislative Procedures
Fri at 8:00 am
8:00 A Bill Markup Approach to Studying Legislative
Institutions and Behavior
John Wilkerson, University of Washington-Seattle
Campus
jwilker@uw.edu
Andreu Casas, University of Washington-Seattle
Campus
acasas2@uw.edu
Matthew J. Denny, Pennsylvania State University-
Main Campus
mzd5530@psu.edu
8:14 Creative Rules for Multiple Measures: Coalition
Building and Message Management through the
House Rules Committee
Scott R. Meinke, Bucknell University
smeinke@bucknell.edu
8:28 Leadership-led Policmaking and Self-executing
Rules in the House of Representatives
James Curry, University of Utah
james.curry@utah.edu
8:42 Open Amending in House Appropriations
Peter Hanson, Grinnell College
hansonpe@grinnell.edu
Lee Drutman*, Sunlight Foundation
ldrutman@sunlightfoundation.com
8:56 The Case of the Vanishing Discharge Reform:
Divisions Within and Across Parties and Leader
Shadows in the 1920s U.S. House
Gisela Sin, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
gsin@illinois.edu
Brian J. Gaines*, University of Illinois-Urbana-
Champaign
bjgaines@illinois.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
55-200 Table 2: JSS: Law and Society
Fri at 8:00 am
8:00 Hedging Against Transparency: The Impact of
Alternative Investments on Public Pension Fund
Governance
Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, University of
Washington-Seattle Campus
riddhimn@uw.edu
8:14 It’s Still the ILO’s World: Indigenous Rights in
Contemporary International
Danielle Delaney*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
dadelaney2@wisc.edu
8:28 Naming, Blaming, Quantifying: Estimating
Perceived Discrimination with Multilevel
Modeling
Bethany Nicole Nanamaker, Emory University
Bethany.Nanamaker@gmail.com
8:42 Politics of Repatriation: Indigenous Cultural
Property Rights as a Global Human Rights
Concern
Ashleigh Breske, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University
aslilly@vt.edu
8:56 Disc., Joe Mello, DePaul University
jmello1@depaul.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
56-2 Contemporary Theories of Law and
Jurisprudence
Fri at 8:00 am
8:00 Chair, Lillian M. Spiess, Touro College
lspiess@tourolaw.edu
8:05 Are “Liberty Interests” Greater Than Substantive
Due Process?: On “Liberty,” “Interests,” and
“Liberty Interests” in Supreme Court
Jurisprudence
Cary Federman, Montclair State University
federmanc@mail.montclair.edu
8:21 Institutions vs. Discourse: Whither the
Constitution?
Connor Maxwell Ewing, University of Virginia-
Main Campus
connor.m.ewing@gmail.com
8:37 Is There a Constitutional Crisis?
Carl M. Dibble*, Ampolthot, Inc.
cmdibble@comcast.net
8:53 Disc., Lillian M. Spiess, Touro College
lspiess@tourolaw.edu
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