MPSA

38-16 Moral Politics
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Timothy J. Ryan, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
tjr@email.unc.edu
3:05 Information Processing on Moralized and
Unmoralized Issues
David J. Ciuk, Franklin and Marshall College
dciuk@fandm.edu
Berwood Yost*, Franklin and Marshall College
berwood.yost@fandm.edu
3:15 Beyond "Not Deaf Enough": Diffusion of
Strategic Cynicism and Culture Wars during the
2006 "Unity for Gallaudet" Protests
Brendan Stern, Gallaudet University
brendan.stern@gallaudet.edu
3:26 First Do No Harm?: Attitudes towards Harm and
Life or Death Political Decisions
Stephen M. Utych, Boise State University
stephenutych@boisestate.edu
3:37 The Extent of Principled Support for the Right to
Life among Lay Catholics:
David O. Sears, University of California-Los
Angeles
sears@issr.ucla.edu
Hovannes Abramyan, Reason Foundation
hovannes.abramyan@reason.org
Lauren Goldstein, University of California-Los
Angeles
lmgoldst@g.ucla.edu
3:48 The Politics of Moralizing Public Opinion
Nicholas Philip Nicoletti, Missouri Southern State
University
Nicoletti-n@mssu.edu
William Kirby Delehanty, Missouri Southern State
University
delehanty-w@mssu.edu
3:59 Disc., Timothy J. Ryan, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
tjr@email.unc.edu
Disc., Scott Clifford, University of Houston
saclifford@uh.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
39-9 The Sources of Political Attitudes
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, D.J. Flynn, Dartmouth College
d.j.flynn@dartmouth.edu
3:05 Argument Based Opinion Formation Revisited:
Investigating Voting Behavior with Experimental
Methods
Clau Dermont, University of Bern
clau.dermont@ipw.unibe.ch
Lorenz Kammermann*, University of Bern
lorenz.kammermann@ipw.unibe.ch
3:18 Compassion, Perceptions of Control, and
Immigration Policy Preferences
Meri Long, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh
Campus
meridith.t.long@vanderbilt.edu
3:31 Talking Back: Policy Justfications and Counter-
Justfications
Konstantin Vossing, Humboldt University, Berlin
vossing.1@osu.edu
3:44 What’s More Important – Disagreeing or Being
Disagreeable?: Examining the Relative Effects of
Elite Incivility and Ideological Polarization on
Mass Level Attitudes
Rasmus Skytte, Aarhus University
raks@ps.au.dk
3:57 Disc., D.J. Flynn, Dartmouth College
d.j.flynn@dartmouth.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
41-3 Comparative Media Systems
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Ethan Porter, George Washington University
evporter@gwu.edu
3:05 A Comparative Study: Media Framing of the
Syrian Refugee Crisis
Aviva R Shwayder, Middlebury College
aviva.shwayder@gmail.com
Orion A. Lewis, Middlebury College
olewis@middlebury.edu
3:18 Back in the USSR?: U.S. Media Coverage of
Russia’s Interventions in the Near Abroad
Heather L. Tafel, Grand Valley State University
tafelh@gvsu.edu
Erika G. King, Grand Valley State University
Kinge@gvsu.edu
3:31 Explaining Variation in International Media
Framing of Mass Protests
Ruoxi Du, University of Iowa
ruoxi-du@uiowa.edu
3:44 Does Television Broadcasting Affect Voting
Behaviour? Evidence From Quasi-Experimental
Design In Turkey
Yasin Acar, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University
yasin.acar@bilecik.edu.tr
3:57 Disc., Ethan Porter, George Washington University
evporter@gwu.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
42-12 Fragmentation, Selectivity and Polarization
Fri at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University
and Agricultural & Mechanical College
ksearles@lsu.edu
3:05 Internet Effects in the Study of Political
Polarization
Anderson Milton Starling, The University of
Tennessee-Martin
astarlin@utm.edu
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