MPSA

11:47 Parties and Institutions: How do Executives get
Control of Institutions
Aykut Ozturk*, Syracuse University
aozturk@syr.edu
12:05 Accountability without Term Limits?: Tenure and
Economic Performance in Chilean Subnational
Elections
Gustavo Díaz, University of Illinois-Urbana-
Champaign
diazdia2@illinois.edu
12:22 Disc., Luis Felipe Mantilla, University of South
Florida-St.Petersburg
luis.f.mantilla@gmail.com
12:40 Audience Discussion
6-201 Table 2: JSS: The State and Local Political Forces
in Developing Countries
Thu at 11:30 am
11:30 Community Driven Development Programs,
Political Participation, and Incumbent Voting:
Evidence from the Philippines
Felix Hartmann, University of Gothenburg
felix.hartmann@gu.se
11:44 Modalities of State Intervention in Ghana and
Kenya
Charles Themba Tuthill, Syracuse University
cttuthil@syr.edu
11:58 Devolved Revenue Practices: A Case Study of
Machakos and Nakuru
June S. Nkwenge*, University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities
nkwen004@umn.edu
12:12 When Do Politicians Care?: Electoral Cycle of
Enforcement
Tugba Bozcaga, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
bozcaga@mit.edu
12:26 Disc., Hye-Sung Kim, Northern Illinois University
kim.hyesung@gmail.com
12:40 Audience Discussion
7-2 Authoritarian Strategies
Thu at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Matthew Charles Wilson, West Virginia
University
mhwilson1@mail.wvu.edu
Chair, Mai Hassan, University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor
mhass@umich.edu
11:35 Autocratic Screening: How Factionalism can
Explain the Association between Cooptation and
Repression in Non-Democracies
Jakob Willisch, University of Mannheim
jakob.willisch@gess.uni-mannheim.de
11:51 Elite Networks, Offshore Assets, and Constraints
on Dictators’ Predation: Evidence from the
Panama Papers
George Derpanopoulos, University of California-
Los Angeles
gderpa@ucla.edu
12:07 I See Right Through You: The Logic and
Consequences of Spurious Criminal Charges
Yuna Blajer, University of Chicago
yunablajer@uchicago.edu
Milena Ang*, University of Chicago
milenaang@uchicago.edu
12:23 Ruling Society: Elite Strategies of Civic
Repression in Russia and Belarus
Leah E. Gilbert, Lewis & Clark College
gilbertl@lclark.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
8-200 Table 3: JSS: Dictatorship and Democracy
Thu at 11:30 am
11:30 The Political Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy
Felix Dwinger, University of Gothenburg, V-Dem
Institute
Felix.Dwinger@gu.se
12:05 Disc., Terence K Teo, Seton Hall University
teokwokc@shu.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
9-2 Assessing Party Positions
Thu at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Gregory S. Schober, University of Texas-El
Paso
gschober@utep.edu
11:35 The Long-term Effects of State Repression on
Political Attitudes: Evidence from South Korea
and Taiwan
matthew david jenkins, University of California-
Santa Barbara
mdjenkins@umail.ucsb.edu
11:51 Bias the Biased: How Policy Clarity and
Incumbency Mitigate Voters' Misperceptions of
Party Positions
Roni Lehrer*, University of Mannheim
rlehrer@mail.uni-mannheim.de
Nick Lin, University of Mannheim
nicklin@uni-mannheim.de
12:07 Do Voters Distinguish between Parties on the
Other End of the Ideological Spectrum?
Maayan Mor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
maajanmor@gmail.com
12:23 Disc., Gregory S. Schober, University of Texas-El
Paso
gschober@utep.edu
Disc., Francois Petry, Laval University
francois.petry@pol.ulaval.ca
12:40 Audience Discussion
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