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53-12 The Vice Presidency and Vice Presidential<br />
Selection<br />
Sun at 11:30 am<br />
11:30 Chair, David A. Schultz, Hamline University<br />
dschultz@hamline.edu<br />
11:35 Vice Presidential Selection, Party Asymmetry, and<br />
the 2016 Cycle<br />
William D. Adler, Northeastern Illinois University<br />
williamadler@gmail.com<br />
Julia Azari*, Marquette University<br />
julia.azari@marquette.edu<br />
11:51 Vice President Who?: Media Coverage and Public<br />
Opinion in the 2016 Election<br />
Stacy Gwenn Ulbig, Sam Houston State University<br />
ulbig@shsu.edu<br />
12:07 Running Together, Running Apart: Where<br />
Presidential Versus Vice Presidential Candidates<br />
Campaigned in 2016<br />
Christopher J. Devine, University of Dayton<br />
cdevine1@udayton.edu<br />
Kyle Casimir Kopko*, Elizabethtown College<br />
kopkok@etown.edu<br />
12:23 Disc., David A. Schultz, Hamline University<br />
dschultz@hamline.edu<br />
Disc., William D. Adler, Northeastern Illinois<br />
University<br />
williamadler@gmail.com<br />
12:40 Audience Discussion<br />
54-26 The Connection between Legislative Actions and<br />
Elections<br />
Sun at 11:30 am<br />
11:30 Chair, Adam Cayton, The University of West<br />
Florida<br />
acayton@uwf.edu<br />
11:35 Legislative Productivity and the Electoral Security<br />
of Lawmakers<br />
Patrick T. Hickey*, West Virginia University<br />
patrick.hickey@gmail.com<br />
Jason A. MacDonald, West Virginia University<br />
Jason.MacDonald@mail.wvu.edu<br />
11:45 Preying on the Electorally Vulnerable: Strategic<br />
Partisan Manipulation of the Floor Agenda<br />
Scott Guenther, Princeton University<br />
guenther.scott@gmail.com<br />
11:56 Returns to Office as a Purposive Legislative Goal<br />
Kevin Thomas Fahey, Florida State University<br />
kf12d@my.fsu.edu<br />
12:07 Time Dependent Legislative Behavior and<br />
Electoral Punishment<br />
Lauren M. Rowlands, Temple University<br />
tuf75820@temple.edu<br />
Ryan J. Vander Wielen, Temple University<br />
rvwielen@temple.edu<br />
12:18 The Party Agenda in the United States, 1948-<br />
2012: Do Party Platforms Set the Next Year's<br />
Agenda?<br />
Ej Fagan, The University of Texas at Austin<br />
ejfagan@utexas.edu<br />
12:29 Disc., Hans C. Noel, Georgetown University<br />
hcn4@georgetown.edu<br />
12:40 Audience Discussion<br />
57-21 U.S. Supreme Court, Interest Groups, and<br />
Decision Making<br />
Sun at 11:30 am<br />
11:30 Chair, Christine L. Nemacheck, College of William<br />
and Mary<br />
clnema@wm.edu<br />
11:35 Are Some Friends More Helpful Than Others?:<br />
Evaluating Amicus Brief Influence in Highly<br />
Technical Cases<br />
Catherine Gayle Thrash, The University of<br />
Alabama<br />
cgthash@crimson.ua.edu<br />
11:45 Patterns of Organized Interest Competition in<br />
Amicus Curiae Briefs, 1999-2012<br />
Richard A. Almeida, Francis Marion University<br />
ralmeida@fmarion.edu<br />
11:56 Quality Over Quantity: State Amicus Curiae<br />
Success on the Merits in the United States<br />
Supreme Court<br />
Kayla Canelo, University of California-Merced<br />
kcanelo2@ucmerced.edu<br />
12:07 State Advocacy and Representation at the U.S.<br />
Supreme Court<br />
Thomas G. Hansford, University of California-<br />
Merced<br />
thansford@ucmerced.edu<br />
Sarah Depaoli*, University of California-Merced<br />
sdepaoli@ucmerced.edu<br />
Kayla Canelo, University of California-Merced<br />
kcanelo2@ucmerced.edu<br />
12:18 Sequential Voting and Agenda Selection in the<br />
Court<br />
Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma, Yale University<br />
glmoctezuma@gmail.com<br />
12:29 Disc., Ryan James Owens, University of Wisconsin-<br />
Madison<br />
rjowens@wisc.edu<br />
Disc., Robert Reif Robinson, California State<br />
University-Fullerton<br />
rorobinson@fullerton.edu<br />
12:40 Audience Discussion<br />
61-12 School Choice and Public Education<br />
Sun at 11:30 am<br />
11:30 Chair, Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago<br />
azarychta@uchicago.edu<br />
11:35 Bridging Divides or Building New Walls?:<br />
Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between School<br />
Choice and Segregation<br />
Katharine E Destler*, Western Washington<br />
University<br />
kate.destler@wwu.edu<br />
John D Selby*<br />
jdselby@asu.edu<br />
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