MPSA

8:48 Popular Music and the Perception of U.S.
Presidential Candidates
Mark A. Harvey, University of Saint Mary
mark.harvey@stmary.edu
8:59 Disc., Adam Gregory Hughes, Pew Research
Center
ahughes@virginia.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
43-13 Gender Differences in Partisanship and Voting
Behavior
Sat at 8:00 am
8:00 Chair, Allison Harell, Université du Québec à
Montréal
harell.allison@uqam.ca
8:05 Social Identities and Dynamic Partisanship: How
Race, Ethnicity, and Sex Intersect to Shape
Partisan Attachments between1950 and 2012
Heather Louise Ondercin, University of Mississippi
ondercin@olemiss.edu
8:15 What Reversed the Gender Voting Gap?: The
Effect of Employment on Female Vote Choice
Chitralekha Basu*, University of Rochester
cbasu@ur.rochester.edu
Christopher P. Donnelly, University of California-
Davis
cpdonnelly@ucdavis.edu
8:26 Women-Friendly Districts in the States: A Look at
the Gap Between Female Democrats and
Republicans
Samantha Lynn Pettey, Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts
s.pettey@mcla.edu
8:37 The Gender Gap, Hillary Clinton, and Southern
Distinctiveness
Todd G. Shields, University of Arkansas
tshield@uark.edu
Angie Maxwell, University of Arkansas
amax@uark.edu
8:48 Liberal Transformations and Conservative
Amplifications: Implicit Gender Bias and Party
Membership in German and Polish Political
Parties
Agata Maria Kraj, BAGSS / University of Bamberg
agata.kraj@uni-bamberg.de
8:59 Disc., Allison Harell, Université du Québec à
Montréal
harell.allison@uqam.ca
Disc., Heather E. Yates, University of Central
Arkansas
hyates@uca.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
44-13 Race in Higher Education
Sat at 8:00 am
8:00 Chair, Matthew J. Hayes, Indiana University-
Bloomington
mh34@indiana.edu
8:05 Affluent Campuses: The Racial Dynamics of
Political Participation
Brianna White*, Northwestern University
briannawhite2020@u.northwestern.edu
8:21 Beyond the Incident: Institutional Predictors of
Student Collective Action
Dominique Baker*, Southern Methodist University
djbaker@smu.edu
Richard S. L. Blissett, Vanderbilt University
richard.s.blissett@vanderbilt.edu
8:37 The Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Public Opinion,
and the Debate over Paying College Athletes
Tatishe Mavovosi Nteta, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
nteta@polsci.umass.edu
Kevin Wallsten, California State University-Long
Beach
kevin.wallsten@csulb.edu
Lauren McCarthy*, University of Massachusetts-
Amherst
mccarthy@legal.umass.edu
8:53 Disc., Matthew J. Hayes, Indiana University-
Bloomington
mh34@indiana.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
45-12 Politics, Language and Time in Rousseau
Sat at 8:00 am
8:00 Chair, David Lay Williams, DePaul University
dwill105@depaul.edu
8:05 A New Language of Politics in Rousseau’s Social
Contract
Wesley Dan Nishiyama*, SUNY at Albany
wn8492@albany.edu
8:15 The Arts, Science and History in Rousseau and
Kant
Sid Simpson, University of Notre Dame
ssimpso2@nd.edu
8:26 The Bonds of Speech and Life: Language, Society,
and the Wisdom of Human Relations in
Rousseau’s Reception of Cicero
Megan K. Dyer, Texas A & M University-College
Station
mkdyer@tamu.edu
8:37 The Geography of Political Speech in Rousseau’s
Origin of Languages
Scott McVoy Dodds, University of Toronto
scott.dodds@mail.utoronto.ca
8:48 An Institution Well Constructed: Public Opinion
and the Limits of Law in Rousseau’s Letter to M.
d’Alembert
Elliot Thomas Montagano, University of North
Texas
elliotmontagano@my.unt.edu
8:59 Disc., David Lay Williams, DePaul University
dwill105@depaul.edu
9:10 Audience Discussion
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