MPSA

1:41 Who Votes in Primaries?
Bradley Spahn, Stanford University
bspahn@stanford.edu
1:52 Look Who Is Disillusioned Now: Political
Disaffection and Polarization in the U.S.
Christina Farhart, University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities
farh0013@umn.edu
2:03 Affective Dissonance, Leader Evaluations and
Voter Turnout
Samuel Baltz, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
sbaltz@umich.edu
Neil Nevitte, University of Toronto
n.nevitte@utoronto.ca
2:14 Disc., Daron Shaw, University of Texas-Austin
dshaw@austin.utexas.edu
Disc., Jack Reilly, New College of Florida
jreilly@ncf.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
33-13 Representation and Electoral Systems
Sat at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Michael Becher, Institute for Advanced
Studies
michael.becher@tse-fre.eu
1:20 Doomed To Discord? Electoral Institutions'
Effects on Political Divisiveness
Florence So*, Aarhus University
fso@ps.au.dk
1:33 The Political Geography of Representation in
Germany’s Mixed-Member Electoral System
Malte Pehl*, College of Charleston
pehlm@cofc.edu
1:46 Voters’ Strategy: Electoral Choice in Different
Systems
Clau Dermont, University of Bern
clau.dermont@ipw.unibe.ch
1:59 Who Should Vote and How Should They Pay?:
Analyzing the Choice of Electoral System in the
Birth of a Democracy
Martin Ejnar Hansen, Brunel University London
martin.hansen@brunel.ac.uk
2:12 Disc., Michael Becher, Institute for Advanced
Studies
michael.becher@tse-fre.eu
Disc., Thomas Zittel, Goethe University Frankfurt
zittel@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
2:25 Audience Discussion
34-12 The Role of Information and Emotion in Voter
Decision Making
Sat at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Daniel Biggers, University of California-
Riverside
daniel.biggers@ucr.edu
1:20 Policy versus Personality: Correct Voting in the
2014 Toronto Municipal Election
Michael McGregor, Ryerson University
mmcgregor@ryerson.ca
346
Laura B. Stephenson, University of Western
Ontario,
lstephe8@uwo.ca
1:30 The Eff ect of Anger and Salience on Political
Behavior
Steven Webster, Emory University
swwebst@emory.edu
1:41 The Budgetary Contraints of Voters and its
Impact on Ballot Completion
Matthew Lamb, Rice University
gml6@rice.edu
Robert M. Stein, Rice University
STEIN@RICE.EDU
1:52 Through the Polling Curtain: A Visual
Experiment on Voters' Emotions Inside the
Polling Booth
Michael Bruter*, London School of Economics and
Political Science
m.bruter@lse.ac.uk
Sarah Harrison*, London School of Economics and
Political Science
S.L.Harrison@lse.ac.uk
2:03 Vote Choice in Low Information Environments at
the Local Level
Jose Luis Saldana*, University of Maryland-College
Park
jsaldana@umd.edu
Jorge L Saldana*, University of Houston
jlsaldana@uh.edu
2:14 Disc., Daniel Biggers, University of California-
Riverside
daniel.biggers@ucr.edu
Disc., Heiko Giebler, WZB Berlin
heiko.giebler@wzb.eu
2:25 Audience Discussion
36-14 Predispositions and Core Values
Sat at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Richard Elliott Chard, SSA
Richard.Chard@gmail.com
1:20 Solving the Puzzle of People with Conservative
Values But Liberal Policy Preferences: A Values-
Instrumentality Model
David Brichoux, University of Missouri-Kansas City
brichouxd@umkc.edu
Mark R. Joslyn*, University of Kansas
mjoz@ku.edu
1:33 Understanding Populism Through Gaps in the
American Creed in the 2016 Election
Scott J LaCombe, University of Iowa
scott-lacombe@uiowa.edu
1:46 Where Have All the Heroes Gone?: Minding the
Gap Between Elite and Public Conceptions of
American Heroism
Bruce Peabody, Fairleigh Dickinson University-
College at Florham
bpeabody@fdu.edu