MPSA

5:44 Disc., Andreas BSgenholm, Department of Political
Science University of Gothenburg, Sweden
andreas.bagenholm@pol.gu.se
5:55 Audience Discussion
14-23 Preferences, Attitudes, and Regime Support in
China
Sat at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, Chung-Li Wu, Institute of Political Science,
Academia Sinica
polclw@gate.sinica.edu.tw
4:50 Social Cleavages and Preferences for
Redistribution in China: A Multilevel Analysis
Xian Huang, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
xian.huang@rutgers.edu
5:00 Identifying Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on
Political Attitudes in China
Jason Yuyan Wu, University of California-San
Diego
jasonwu@ucsd.edu
Tianguang Meng*, Tsinghua University
maxmeng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
5:11 Millenials vs. Non-Millenials: Impacts of Internet
on Democratic Attitudes in China
Robert Harmel*, Texas A & M University-College
Station
r-harmel@pols.tamu.edu
Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St Thomas-Houston
yehy@stthom.edu
5:22 Outsourcing Work, Shirking Accountability:
Assessing Public Opinions of Authoritarian
Responsiveness in China
Huirong Chen*, Harvard University
Huirong_Chen@hks.harvard.edu
Bo Zhao*, Oregon State University
zhao2@oregonstate.edu
5:33 Critical Vanguards? Explaining the Gap between
Village Leaders' and Villagers’ Views of the State
in China
Kerry Ratigan, Amherst College
kratigan@amherst.edu
5:44 Disc., Yuhua Wang, Harvard University
yuhuawang@fas.harvard.edu
Disc., Dan Chen, Elizabethtown College
chend@etown.edu
5:55 Audience Discussion
15-16 The Military in Africa
Sat at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chad's Army, Its Unwritten Institutions, and Its
Roles in Military Interventions in Mali and
Nigeria
Paul Thissen, University of California-Berkeley
pthissen@berkeley.edu
5:20 Military Strength, State Capacity, and Foreign
Aid: An Exploration of Outlier Cases in Africa
jahara W. matisek, Northwestern University
jaharamatisek2018@u.northwestern.edu
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5:55 Audience Discussion
16-10 The Limits of Electoral Politics in the Middle East
Sat at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, A.Kadir Yildirim, Rice University
ay18@rice.edu
4:50 Jordan’s Transition to Parliamentary Democracy:
Prospects and Overlooked Dynamics
Abdalla M. Battah, Minnesota State University-
Mankato
abattah@mnsu.edu
5:03 Political Instability: Survival Strategies, and
Legislative Development in Jordan
Michael Makara, University of Central Missouri
makara@ucmo.edu
5:16 Voting in Transition: Evidence from Egypt's 2012
Presidential Election
Caroline Said Abadeer, Stanford University
cabadeer@stanford.edu
Alexandra Domike Blackman*, Stanford University
adblackm@stanford.edu
Scott Williamson, Stanford University
scottrw630@gmail.com
5:29 Partisans without Parties: Electoral Mobilization
in the 2016 Iranian Parliamentary Elections
Daniel Lee Tavana, Princeton University
dtavana@princeton.edu
5:42 Disc., A.Kadir Yildirim, Rice University
ay18@rice.edu
5:55 Audience Discussion
17-10 Social Policy, Health Policy and Energy Policy in
Post-Socialist Countries
Sat at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, Brittany Leigh Holom, Princeton University
bholom@princeton.edu
4:50 Actors in Croatian Heath Policy-making
Dagmar Radin, University of Zagreb
dagmar.radin@fpzg.hr
5:03 Social Policy and Legitimacy of Public Service
Marketization: The Effects of Pension Pilot
Scheme in Authoritarian China
Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University
zhuxufeng@gmail.com
Yan Wang, The London School of Economics and
Political Science
april.w.1224@gmail.com
5:16 Strike While the Iron is Hot: Post-Soviet
Healthcare Reforms and the Critical Juncture of
the 1990s
Brittany Leigh Holom, Princeton University
bholom@princeton.edu
5:29 Comparative Fracking Policies in Central and
Eastern Europe
Andreea Maierean, Wilkes University
andreea.maierean@wilkes.edu
5:42 Disc., Andreea Maierean, Wilkes University
andreea.maierean@wilkes.edu
5:55 Audience Discussion