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7-13 Timing and Trends in Transitions to Democracy<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 Chair, Ellen M. Lust, University of Gothenburg<br />
ellen.lust@gu.se<br />
8:05 From De-jure to De-facto: Mapping Dimensions<br />
and Sequences of Accountability<br />
Valeriya Mechkova, University of Gothenburg<br />
valeriya.mechkova@v-dem.net<br />
Anna Lührmann*, University of Gothenburg/V-<br />
Dem Institute<br />
anna.luehrmann@v-dem.net<br />
Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Gothenburg<br />
xlista@gu.se<br />
8:21 How Does the Timing of Constitution-Making<br />
Affect its Content?<br />
Aylin Aydin Cakir*, Yeditepe University-Turkey<br />
aylinaydin80@gmail.com<br />
8:37 Long-Term Trends of the Democracy-Autocracy<br />
Balance in the World: An Application of Markov<br />
Chains to Freedom House Data<br />
Anna Nikolaevna Gregg, Austin Peay State<br />
University<br />
gregga@apsu.edu<br />
David Ralph Grimmett, Austin Peay State<br />
University<br />
grimmettd@apsu.edu<br />
8:53 Disc., Amanda B Edgell, University of Florida<br />
abedgell@ufl.edu<br />
9:10 Audience Discussion<br />
9-18 Strategic Behavior by Parties<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 Chair, Nick Lin, University of Mannheim<br />
nicklin@uni-mannheim.de<br />
8:05 Converging to Victory? Candidate Issue<br />
Positioning in the 2015 General Election<br />
Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson, University College<br />
London<br />
jennifer.hudson@ucl.ac.uk<br />
Caitlin Milazzo*, University of Nottingham<br />
caitlin.milazzo@nottingham.ac.uk<br />
8:18 Ideological Congruence, Voter Polarisation and<br />
Electoral Participation<br />
Philipp Dreyer, London School of Economics and<br />
Political Science<br />
p.dreyer@lse.ac.uk<br />
8:31 Informing the Public: Party and Candidate<br />
Communication Compared across Platforms<br />
Sebastian Adrian Popa, University of Mannheim<br />
Sebastian.Popa@mzes.uni-mannheim.de<br />
Daniela Braun*, LMU-Munich<br />
Daniela.Braun@gsi.uni-muenchen.de<br />
8:44 Party Representation in Plural Societies: Why Do<br />
Mainstream Parties (Not) Represent Minority<br />
Interests?<br />
Miriam Hänni, University of Konstanz<br />
miriam.haenni@uni-konstanz.de<br />
8:57 Disc., Nick Lin, University of Mannheim<br />
nicklin@uni-mannheim.de<br />
392<br />
Disc., Peter Söderlund, Åbo Akademi University<br />
peter.soderlund@abo.fi<br />
9:10 Audience Discussion<br />
10-17 Understanding the Links: Public Opinion, Parties<br />
and Elections<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 Chair, Christian B. Jensen, University of Nevada-<br />
Las Vegas<br />
Christian.Jensen@unlv.edu<br />
8:05 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Effects of<br />
Coalition Membership on Junior Partner<br />
Electoral Outcomes<br />
William Blake Smith, University of Georgia<br />
wbsmith@uga.edu<br />
8:15 Manifestos, Experts and the Public: Building<br />
Better Measures of European Party Positions<br />
Ryan Bakker, University of Georgia<br />
rbakker@uga.edu<br />
Seth Jolly, Syracuse University<br />
skjolly@maxwell.syr.edu<br />
Jonathan Polk*, University of Gothenburg<br />
jonathan.polk@gu.se<br />
8:26 More Competitors, More Ambiguity: The<br />
Incentives for Party Policy Ambiguity in<br />
Multiparty Systems<br />
Christine Michelle Cahill*, University of<br />
California-Davis<br />
ccahill@ucdavis.edu<br />
8:37 Understanding Electoral Accountability: Why<br />
Corrupt Parties are Sometimes Rewarded and<br />
Sometimes Punished<br />
Andreas BSgenholm, Department of Political<br />
Science University of Gothenburg, Sweden<br />
andreas.bagenholm@pol.gu.se<br />
8:48 Populism and Cosmopolitanism: Two Sides of<br />
Different Coins<br />
Matthew Edward Bergman, University of<br />
California-San Diego<br />
MeBergman@ucsd.edu<br />
8:59 Disc., Christian B. Jensen, University of Nevada-<br />
Las Vegas<br />
Christian.Jensen@unlv.edu<br />
9:10 Audience Discussion<br />
11-201 Table 2: JSS: The State's Capacity for Reform,<br />
Rule of Law, and Engagement<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 Land Enclosure and Communal Violence:<br />
Evidence from Mexico<br />
Carlos A. Schmidt-Padilla*, University of<br />
California-Berkeley<br />
cschmidtpadilla@gmail.com