MPSA

10:13 Riots and Repercussions: Vernacular Language
Media and Coverage of the 2002 Violence in
Gujarat
Vasabjit Banerjee, Mississippi State University
vasabjit@gmail.com
Carolyn Ethel Holmes, Mississippi State University
ceh679@msstate.edu
10:27 International Crimes Tribunal and Politics of
Societal Security: A Constructivist Reading of the
Secular/Islamist Divide in Bangladesh
Tahmina Rahman*, Georgia State University
trahman1@student.gsu.edu
10:41 Disc., Tevfik Murat Yildirim, University of
Missouri-Columbia
tmypqf@mail.missouri.edu
10:55 Audience Discussion
7-10 Questions of Democracy in Turkey
Sat at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Bilgen Sutcuoglu, Yeditepe University
bilgen.sutcuoglu@gmail.com
9:50 Back to Square One: The Problem of Coup Trap
in Turkey
Ezgi Elçi*, PhD Student and Research Assistant
eelci14@ku.edu.tr
10:03 EU as a Democracy Promoter?: Analyzing the
Democratization Demand and Supply in Turkey-
EU Relations
Çiğdem Üstün*, NA
cigdem.ustun@gmail.com
10:16 Emergence of Populist Authoritarianism in
Turkey
Ertug Hasan Tombus, The New School
tombush@wcsu.edu
10:29 The Role of Self-Coups in Competitive
Authoritarian Regimes: Peru under Fujimori and
Turkey under Erdogan
Orcun Selcuk, Florida International University
oselc001@fiu.edu
Astrid Arraras*, Florida International University
arrarasa@fiu.edu
10:42 Disc., Mert Moral, SUNY at Binghamton
mmoral17@binghamton.edu
Disc., Osman Sahin, Sabanci University/ Nisantasi
University
osmansahin@sabanciuniv.edu
10:55 Audience Discussion
9-13 Cross-Ethnic Voting and Campaigning in
Comparative Perspective
Sat at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Elizabeth Sperber, University of Denver
elizabeth.sperber@gmail.com
9:50 No Uncommitted Voters on the Other Side?:
Cross-Ethnic Appeals in Plural Democracies
Madhavi Devasher, University of New Hampshire-
Main Campus
madhavi.devasher@unh.edu
Elena Gadjanova, Max Planck Institute
gadjanova@mmg.mpg.de
10:03 Ethnic and Non-Ethnic in Competition: Party
Branding and Voter Support in Bosnia-
Herzegovina
Benjamin McClelland, Columbia University in the
City of New York
bpm2117@columbia.edu
10:16 He is Now One of Us: Co-Ethnicity by
Endorsement and the Symbolic Conferral of
Leadership in Africa’s Plural Societies
Elena Gadjanova, Max Planck Institute
gadjanova@mmg.mpg.de
10:29 Horowitz and Lijphart in the Alps: The Impact of
the Electoral System on Cross-Ethnic Voting in
Two Swiss Cantons
Nenad Stojanovic, Princeton University
Nenad.Stojanovic@unilu.ch
Oliver Strijbis*, Auniversidad Carlos III de Madrid
oliverstefan.strijbis@uc3m.es
10:42 Disc., Madhavi Devasher, University of New
Hampshire-Main Campus
madhavi.devasher@unh.edu
Disc., Elizabeth Sperber, University of Denver
elizabeth.sperber@gmail.com
10:55 Audience Discussion
10-13 The Changing Face of Party Competition in
Europe
Sat at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Zachary David Greene, University of
Strathclyde
zacgreene@gmail.com
9:50 Is It Only You and Me?: Explaining Party
Competition in Western Europe Since 1995
Nicola Martocchia Diodati*, Scuola Normale
Superiore, Italy
nicola.martocchiadiodati@sns.it
10:03 Party Crashers: When Left Parties Move to the
Center
Christopher Way, Cornell University
crw12@cornell.edu
Steffen Blings*, Cornell University
sb632@cornell.edu
Stephen Nelson, Northwestern University
stephen-nelson@northwestern.edu
10:16 The Ground Beneath Their Feet: The Changing
Landscape of Party Families in Europe
James Richard Martin, Creighton University
JimMartin@creighton.edu
10:29 Partisan Dynamics in Euroland
Bruno JEROME*, University of Paris II Pantheon
Assas
bruno.jerome@gmail.com
Richard Nadeau*, University of Montreal
richard.nadeau@umontreal.ca
Veronique Jerome*, University of Paris Sud Saclay
veronique.jerome@gmail.com
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