MPSA

2:03 Who Decides, and Why?: Assessing Delegate
Choices During the Republican Presidential
Nominating Process
Matthew J. Dickinson, Middlebury College
dickinso@middlebury.edu
2:14 Disc., Robert G. Boatright, Clark University
rboatright@clarku.edu
Disc., Seth E. Masket, University of Denver
smasket@du.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
31-7 Information and Competence
Fri at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Ryan T. Moore, American University
rtm@american.edu
1:20 The Competence of Others: How Perceptions of
Others’ Civic Abilities Inhibits Democratic
Innovation
Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
kathy.cramer@wisc.edu
1:30 How do Voters Respond to Information on Elite
Behaviour?: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
Experiment in Tanzania
Ivar Kolstad, Chr. Michelsen Institute
ivar.kolstad@cmi.no
1:41 Information Seeking and Political Behavior:
Evidence from Search Data
Brian Hamel, University of California-Los Angeles
bhamel@ucla.edu
Ryan T. Moore, American University
rtm@american.edu
1:52 When Do Uninformed Voters Decide to Vote?:
Testing Rational Implications of Uninformed
Participation
Gento Kato, University of California-Davis
gento.badger@gmail.com
2:03 Social Networks and Political Participation by
Americans Living Abroad: The Role of
Procedural Information
Sidney Turner, Fors Marsh Group LLC
sturner1@forsmarshgroup.com
Krysha Gregorowicz, Fors Marsh Group LLC
kgregorowicz@forsmarshgroup.com
2:14 Disc., Ryan T. Moore, American University
rtm@american.edu
Disc., Lindsay Nielson, Bucknell University
ln009@bucknell.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
32-4 Linking Congressional Elections to Institutional
Politics (Co-sponsored with 54. Legislative
Institutions, see 54-10)
Fri at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Gary C. Jacobson, University of California-
San Diego
gjacobson@ucsd.edu
1:20 (Sympathy for) The Devil You Know: Openness,
Risk Aversion, and the Incumbency Advantage
Gary Edward Hollibaugh, University of Notre
Dame
gholliba@nd.edu
Adam Joseph Ramey*, New York University
adam.ramey@nyu.edu
Jonathan Klingler, Vanderbilt University
jonathan.d.klingler@vanderbilt.edu
1:30 Life Cycle Effects in the Tone and Content of
Congressional Campaigns
Eristeo J Perez, University of Illinois-Urbana-
Champaign
ejperez2@illinois.edu
1:41 The Electoral Consequences of Congressional
Voting Behavior
Patrick T. Hickey*, West Virginia University
patrick.hickey@gmail.com
1:52 The Individual Cost of Party Legislative
Obstruction in the U.S. Senate
Carlos Andres Algara, University of California-
Davis
calgara@ucdavis.edu
Joe Colin Zamadics, University of Colorado-
Boulder
joseph.zamadics@colorado.edu
2:03 The Nationalization of Congressional Elections
Jamie L. Carson, University of Georgia
carson@uga.edu
Jason M. Roberts, University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill
jroberts@unc.edu
Rachel Surminsky, University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill
rachsur@live.unc.edu
2:14 Disc., Gary C. Jacobson, University of California-
San Diego
gjacobson@ucsd.edu
Disc., Travis Johnston, University of
Massachusetts-Boston
travismjohnston@gmail.com
2:25 Audience Discussion
33-6 Measuring Representation
Fri at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Michael A. Bailey, Georgetown University
baileyma@georgetown.edu
1:20 A Direct Measure of Congressional
Representation
Stephen Ansolabehere*, Harvard University
sda@gov.harvard.edu
Shiro Kuriwaki, Harvard University
shirokuriwaki@gmail.com
1:33 Measuring Voter Preferences
Christopher Tausanovitch, University of
California-Los Angeles
ctausanovitch@ucla.edu
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