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8:14 Leveraging Subnational Fragmentation to Assess<br />
Decentralization’s Effect on the Municipal<br />
Provision of Primary Education in Brazil<br />
Kelly Norell Senters, University of Illinois-Urbana-<br />
Champaign<br />
senters2@illinois.edu<br />
8:28 Modeling Institutionalization and State Capacity<br />
in Latin America: Theoretical Inquiries<br />
Ted D. Ellis, University of Southern Mississippi<br />
ted.ellis@usm.edu<br />
8:42 The Politics of Participation: How Political and<br />
Societal Incentives can Shape the Trajectory of<br />
Participatory Budgeting in the Brazilian Context<br />
Maggie Shum, University of Notre Dame<br />
mshum@nd.edu<br />
8:56 Disc., Allyson L. Benton, CIDE (Centro de<br />
Investigacion y Docencia Economicas)<br />
allyson.benton@cide.edu<br />
Disc., Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Vanderbilt<br />
University<br />
liz.zechmeister@vanderbilt.edu<br />
9:10 Audience Discussion<br />
14-24 Protest and Contentious Politics in China<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 Chair, Kerry Ratigan, Amherst College<br />
kratigan@amherst.edu<br />
8:05 Rally ’Round the Red Flag?: Revisiting Public<br />
Opinion in China During International Crises<br />
Jiahua Yue, Yale University<br />
jiahua.yue@yale.edu<br />
8:18 Procedural Injustice and Contentious Politics:<br />
How Does the State Shape Individual’s Resistance<br />
Preference<br />
Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University<br />
zhuxufeng@gmail.com<br />
Yan Wang, The London School of Economics and<br />
Political Science<br />
april.w.1224@gmail.com<br />
8:31 Protesting for Environment?: Evidence from<br />
Rural China<br />
Narisong Huhe, University of Strathclyde<br />
huhe.narisong@gmail.com<br />
Chen Chia*, University of Texas-Arlington<br />
chia0723@hotmail.com<br />
8:44 Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 2142:<br />
Political Characteristics of Tibetan New Year in<br />
China<br />
Allison L. Quatrini, George Washington University<br />
quatrini@gwmail.gwu.edu<br />
8:57 Disc., Kerry Ratigan, Amherst College<br />
kratigan@amherst.edu<br />
Disc., Siu Yau Lee, Department of Asian and Policy<br />
Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong<br />
siuylee@eduhk.hk<br />
9:10 Audience Discussion<br />
15-17 Violence and Elections in Africa<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 National Vote, Local Conflict: The Isolated<br />
Violence of Cameroon's 1992 Election<br />
Paul Thissen, University of California-Berkeley<br />
pthissen@berkeley.edu<br />
8:17 The Africanization of Democracy: Elections and<br />
Conflict Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa<br />
José Pascal da Rocha, Columbia University in the<br />
City of New York<br />
p.darocha@columbia.edu<br />
8:35 The Double-Edged Sword of Election-Related<br />
Intervention: The Case of the African Union,<br />
ECOWAS and Côte d’Ivoire<br />
Peter H. Penar, Michigan State University<br />
phpenar@gmail.com<br />
8:52 The False Promise of Judicial Independence in<br />
Reducing Election Violence among African States<br />
Meshack Barasa Simati, Georgia State University<br />
msimati1@student.gsu.edu<br />
9:10 Audience Discussion<br />
17-11 The Politics of Post-Soviet States<br />
Sun at 8:00 am<br />
8:00 Chair, Donna Bahry, Pennsylvania State<br />
University-Main Campus<br />
dbahry@psu.edu<br />
8:05 Explaining Gender Variation in Ukrainian Local<br />
Elections<br />
Stephen Rhyne Bloom, Southern Illinois University-<br />
Carbondale<br />
bloom@siu.edu<br />
8:15 Manufacturing Majorities: The Management of<br />
Proxy Voting in Ukraine<br />
Erik S. Herron, West Virginia University<br />
erik.s.herron@gmail.com<br />
Brian William Fitzpatrick, West Virginia<br />
University<br />
bwfitzpatrick@mix.wvu.edu<br />
Maksym Palamarenko*, Ivan Franko National<br />
University of Lviv<br />
Palamarenko@gmail.com<br />
8:26 Elite Cohesion in Putin’s Russia<br />
Ora John Reuter*, University of Wisconsin-<br />
Milwaukee<br />
reutero@uwm.edu<br />
8:37 Examining the infrastructure of Electoral<br />
Authoritarianism in Russia: Signaling &<br />
Candidate Emergence in Regional & Municipal<br />
Executive Elections<br />
Daniel J Epstein, Texas Tech University<br />
danieljepsteinphd@gmail.com<br />
8:48 Eurasian Experimentation with Electoral<br />
Systems: Exceptional or Generalizable?<br />
Bryon J. Moraski*, University of Florida<br />
bmoraski@ufl.edu<br />
Anna Kapambwe Mwaba, University of Florida<br />
amwaba2010@ufl.edu<br />
8:59 Disc., Donna Bahry, Pennsylvania State University-<br />
Main Campus<br />
dbahry@psu.edu<br />
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