MPSA

3:35 Examining the Effect of Linked Fate,
Discrimination, and Political Engagement on
Voter Turnout
Omar Jamil Safir, Louisiana State University and
Agricultural & Mechanical College
osafir1@lsu.edu
3:46 Inequality and Voter Turnout in American
Elections
Michele Fenzl, University of Essex
mfenzl@essex.ac.uk
3:58 Disc., Gayle Alberda, Fairfield University
galberda@fairfield.edu
Disc., Claudio A. Holzner, University of Utah
c.holzner@utah.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
32-200 Table 4: JSS: Congressional Candidates, Split-
Ticket Voting, and Campaign Strategies
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Comparing Candidate Quality and Competition in
Congressional Elections
Matthew James Geras, University of Oklahoma-
Norman Campus
mgeras@ou.edu
3:11 Hometown Heroes: An Exploration of
Geographical Candidate Emergence at Different
Levels of the United States Government
Nathaniel S Ropski, University of Pittsburgh-
Pittsburgh Campus
nsr15@pitt.edu
3:23 How Ideology Relates to Primary Election
Incumbency Advantage: Examining Spatial
Voting in the 2014 House Primaries
Alexander R Podkul, Georgetown University
arp52@georgetown.edu
3:35 Partisan Splitters and Independent Loyalists:
How Partisanship Can Promote Divided Ballots
Jack Edelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
edelson@wisc.edu
3:46 Swimming Against the Tides: Economic
Influences on Senate Campaign Strategy
Shawn Patterson, University of California-Los
Angeles
shawnpattersonjr@gmail.com
3:58 Disc., Sean A. Cain, Loyola University New Orleans
scain@loyno.edu
Disc., Matthew G. Jarvis, California State
University-Fullerton
mjarvis@fullerton.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
33-200 Table 5: JSS: Individual Incentives and
Representation
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Costly Updating, Cognitive Closure, and
Democratic Institutions
Jacob Roundtree, Harvard University
jjroundt@gmail.com
Benjamin G. Ogden, Texas A & M University-
College Station
bgogden@tamu.edu
3:11 Individual-level Determinants of Most Important
Problems: Socioeconomic Status vs. Ideological
Screening
Daniela Beyer, University of Konstanz
daniela.beyer@uni-konstanz.de
Christian Breunig*, University of Konstanz
christian.breunig@uni-konstanz.de
3:23 Reaching Out: Leadership Election Changes and
Effects on Electoral Regionalization
Brett N. Odom*, University of Georgia
bodom2@uga.edu
3:35 Who Becomes a Politician?
Johanna Karin Rickne, Stockholm University
johanna.rickne@ifn.se
3:46 Women’s Political Participation and
Representation in Nigeria’s General Election,
2015.
Modupe Bosede Ake*, Landmark University
akemodupe@gmail.com
3:58 Disc., Clifford Waters Brown, Union College-
Schenectady
brownc@union.edu
Disc., Richard Johnston, University of British
Columbia
richard.johnston@ubc.ca
4:10 Audience Discussion
34-7 Models and Theories of Economic Voting
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Helmut Norpoth, Stony Brook University
helmut.norpoth@stonybrook.edu
3:05 Expanding the Economic Vote: Foreign Aid and
Electoral Performance
Aaron Coates, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
dcoat04@aol.com
Rafael Oganesyan, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Oganesya@unlv.nevada.edu
3:21 Perspectives on the Economy: Competence Signals
and Economic Voting in EP Elections
Guido Tiemann, Institute for Advanced Studies,
Vienna, Austria
tiemann@ihs.ac.at
Peter Grand, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna
grand@ihs.ac.at
3:37 Does Government Advertising Compensate for
Economic Underperformance?: An Analysis at the
Subnational Level in Brazil
Bruno Hoepers*, University of Pittsburgh-
Pittsburgh Campus
brh63@pitt.edu
3:53 Disc., Helmut Norpoth, Stony Brook University
helmut.norpoth@stonybrook.edu
Disc., Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University
achen@princeton.edu
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