MPSA

Michael S. Lewis-Beck*, University of Iowa
michael-lewis-beck@uiowa.edu
10:42 Disc., Zachary David Greene, University of
Strathclyde
zacgreene@gmail.com
10:55 Audience Discussion
11-7 Parties, Politics, and Institutions in Latin America
Sat at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Jason Eichorst, University of Mannheim
eichorst@uni-mannheim.de
9:50 Do Voters Affect Policies?: Within-Coalition
Competition in the Chilean Electoral System
Pablo Argote*, New York University
pa955@nyu.edu
Patricio D. Navia, New York University
pdn200@nyu.edu
10:00 Dynamic Careerism: Progressive Ambition in the
Chilean Congress (1990-2016)
Juan Pablo Micozzi, Instituto Tecnológico
Autónomo de México
juan.micozzi@itam.mx
Eduardo Aleman, University of Houston
ealeman2@uh.edu
Margarita Maria Ramirez*, University of Houston
mmramirezrubio@uh.edu
10:11 Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside: PRI-
PVEM Candidate Selection
Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh
Campus
spoonj@pitt.edu
Amalia Pulido, University of North Texas
amaliapulido@my.unt.edu
10:22 In Between Two Masters: The Balance between
Clientelistic and Programmatic Outcomes in
Subnational Bureaucracies
Laura Flamand Gomez, El Colegio de Mexico
laura.flamand@gmail.com
Lorena Moscovich*, Universidad de San Andrés
lmoscovich@udesa.edu.ar
10:33 Are Ethnic Parties Different?: A Unified Theory
of Ethnic Party Behavior
Karleen Jones West, SUNY College at Geneseo
kwest@geneseo.edu
10:44 Disc., Jason Eichorst, University of Mannheim
eichorst@uni-mannheim.de
Disc., Georgios Xezonakis, University of
Gothenburg
georgios.xezonakis@gu.se
10:55 Audience Discussion
14-18 Making Authoritarianism Work in China: Policy
Activism, Anti-Corruption, and Representation
Sat at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Steven J. Balla, George Washington
University
sballa@gwu.edu
9:50 Explaining Policy Activism in an Authoritarian
Assembly: Evidence from the 11th Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference (2008-
2012)
Bin Yu, Xavier University
yub@xavier.edu
Yang Zhang*, University of Iowa
zhang.yang@wustl.edu
10:00 The Role of Focusing Events in Lawmaking:
China’s 2008 Melamine Milk Powder Incident
Annemieke van den Dool, N.A.
a.vandendool@uva.nl
10:11 Advocacy Groups’ Strategies in China: Seeking
Access or Going Public?
Emina Popovic, Freie Universitaet Berlin
emina.popovic@fu-berlin.de
10:22 Anti-corruption Politics: Anti-corruption
Campaign, Corruption Perceptions and Political
Trust
Chengyuan Ji, Harvard University
ji.cy@foxmail.com
Tianguang Meng*, Tsinghua University
maxmeng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
10:33 Political Representation of the Local People's
Congress in Contemporary China
Diqing Lou, Wuhan University, China
dlou@whu.edu.cn
Hui Yang, Wuhan University
2015201150046@whu.edu.cn
Xiaoxiao Tian, Wuhan University
2015201150034@whu.edu.cn
10:44 Disc., Steven J. Balla, George Washington
University
sballa@gwu.edu
Disc., Iza Ding, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh
Campus
iza.yue.ding@pitt.edu
10:55 Audience Discussion
16-8 Local Governance in the Middle East
Sat at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Kristen Elaine Kao, University of
Gothenburg
kristenkao@gmail.com
9:50 Making Winners (and Losers): Urban Policy and
Political Transformation in Turkey
Seda Demiralp, Işık University
seda.demiralp@isikun.edu.tr
10:00 Suspended Decentralization in Tunisia: A Lens
for Understanding the Challenges to
Democratization in the MENA Region
Aytug Sasmaz, Harvard University
sasmaz@g.harvard.edu
10:11 The Politics of Service Provision in Weak States:
Evidence from Iraq
Christiana M Parreira, Stanford University
cparreira@stanford.edu
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