MPSA

5-9 Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes I
Fri at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, Holger Lutz Kern, Florida State University
hkern@fsu.edu
4:50 Democratization through Failed Coup Attempts?
Amy Yunyu Chiang, University of Pittsburgh-
Pittsburgh Campus
yuc79@pitt.edu
5:06 Making Bad Things Worse: The Role of External
Constraints and Political Trade-Offs in
Accounting for Coup Attempts and Civil Conflict
Onsets
Petra Hendrickson, Michigan State University
hendricksonpetra@gmail.com
5:22 Take It from My Cold, Dead Hands: Inequality,
Veto Players, and Violent Regime Transition
Jaerin Kim, Michigan State University
jr.kim496@gmail.com
5:38 Disc., Holger Lutz Kern, Florida State University
hkern@fsu.edu
5:55 Audience Discussion
6-13 Political Accountability and Corruption in New
Democracies
Fri at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, Elizabeth Kaknes, University of Michigan-
Ann Arbor
kaknes@umich.edu
4:50 Barriers to Performance-Based Voting in Africa:
Anchoring Metrics, Tradeoffs, and Timing
Nicole Bonoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
nicole.bonoff@gmail.com
5:03 Information, Accountability, and the Governance
of Fiscal Federalism in Brazil: evidence from a
natural experiment
Flávio C. Rezende*, Federal University,
Pernambuco
rezzende2005@gmail.com
Mariana Batista, Federal University of Pernambuco
mariana.bsilva@gmail.com
5:16 When the Volume and Value of Remittances
Drops: International Risk-Sharing and the Perils
for Political Support
Hector Solaz*, University of Essex
h.solaz@bham.ac.uk
Katerina Tertytchnaya*, Columbia University in
the City of New York
katerina.tertytchnaya@politics.ox.ac.uk
Catherine Eunice de Vries, University of Essex
catherine.devries@essex.ac.uk
5:29 Women’s Political Networks and Public Goods
Provision
Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Harvard University
soledadartiz@fas.harvard.edu
5:42 Disc., Elizabeth Kaknes, University of Michigan-
Ann Arbor
kaknes@umich.edu
Disc., Daniel Phillip Berliner, Arizona State
University, Tempe
danberliner@gmail.com
5:55 Audience Discussion
7-8 Memory and Imagination in Democratic
Transitions
Fri at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, Gretchen G. Casper, Pennsylvania State
University-Main Campus
gcasper@psu.edu
4:50 Negotiating Political Violence and Historical
Memory in the Spanish Transition to Democracy
William Subach, DePaul University
wsubach@yahoo.com
5:03 The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina A Field Study of Memories
Rosa Aloisi, Trinity University
raloisi@trinity.edu
Maria Protic, Trinity University
mprotic@trinity.edu
5:16 When Lenin becomes Lennon: Decommunization,
Street Renaming, and the Politics of Memory in
Ukraine
Max Kovalov, College of Charleston
kovalovm@cofc.edu
5:29 A Methodological Approach to the Study of
Collective Memory: Narratives of Armed Forces
of Colombia
Roberto Garcia*, Pontificia Universidad, Javeriana
garcia.roberto@javeriana.edu.co
5:42 Disc., Richard W. Chadwick, University of Hawaii
at Manoa
chadwick@hawaii.edu
5:55 Audience Discussion
8-8 Legislative Strategy
Fri at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, Matthew J. Gabel, Washington University in
St Louis
mgabel@artsci.wustl.edu
4:50 Overrepresentation and Legislative Coalitions in
Multi-Member Electoral Districts: The Impact of
Malapportionment on Fiscal Transfers in Brazil
Jose Antonio Cheibub, Texas A & M University-
College Station
cheibub@tamu.edu
Samira Kauchakje*, Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Paraná
skauchakje@gmail.com
5:06 Going Institutional to Overcome Obstruction:
Explaining the Suppression of Minority Rights in
Western European Parliaments, 1945-2010
Ulrich Sieberer, University of Bamberg
ulrich.sieberer@uni-bamberg.de
Julia F. Keh*, University of Konstanz
julia.keh@uni-konstanz.de
Peter Meißner*, University of Konstanz
retep.meissner@gmail.com
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