MPSA

3:05 Economic Perceptions, Partisanship and Racial
Resentment
Darren Davis, University of Notre Dame
darren.davis@nd.edu
David C. Wilson, University of Delaware
dcwilson@udel.edu
3:15 Help Wanted: The Politicization of Job Loss in
High-Unemployment Contexts
Matthew Incantalupo, Haverford College
mincantalu@haverford.edu
3:26 Keeping up with the Jones and Smiths:
Benchmarked Inequality and Public Opinion
Mary A. Stegmaier, University of Missouri-
Columbia
stegmaierm@missouri.edu
Laron Williams, University of Missouri-Columbia
williamslaro@missouri.edu
3:37 Measuring the Independence of Foreign Affairs
Attitudes Against Social and Economic Attitudes
Spatially
David Claborn, Unaffiliated, as of now
dclaborn@olivet.edu
3:48 Economic Self-Interest and Tax Attitude: A State-
Level Study in the U.S.
Jian Sun, Fort Hays State University
jsun@fhsu.edu
3:59 Disc., thomas r. marshall, University of Texas-
Arlington
tmarshall@uta.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
37-4 Experimental Approaches Mini-Conference:
Proposal Workshop: Experiments with
Institutions and Elites (1 of 2) (Co-sponsored with
83. Working Groups, see 83-7)
Thu at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Elin Naurin, University of Gothenburg
elin.naurin@pol.gu.se
3:05 An Exploration of Experimental Approaches to
Understand and Improve Decision-Making in
Bureaucrats
Annabelle Wittels, University College London
annabelle.wittels@hotmail.com
3:15 The Role of Institutions in Bureaucratic Decision
Making: An Experimental Approach
Sean Patrick Webeck, Indiana University-
Bloomington
spwebeck@indiana.edu
3:26 The Deciding Factor: Physical Appearance, Name
and Party of Racially Ambiguous Candidates in
the United States and Canada
Mike Medeiros, McGill University
mike.medeiros@mail.mcgill.ca
3:37 Overcoming Obstacles Beyond Ideological
Disagreement
Daniel M. Butler, Washington University in St.
Louis
daniel.butler@gmail.com
Laurel Harbridge Yong, Northwestern University
l-harbridge@northwestern.edu
3:48 'Lobby Day' Visits and Legislative Attention to
Mental Health Issues
Geoffrey Lorenz, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
gmlorenz@umich.edu
3:59 Disc., Matthew Miles, Brigham Young University-
Idaho
milesma@byui.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
37-5 Experimental Approaches Mini-Conference:
Proposal Workshop: Experiments with
Institutions and Elites (2 of 2) (Co-sponsored with
83. Working Groups, see 83-9)
Thu at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Johanna Dunaway, Texas A & M University-
College Station
jdunaway@tamu.edu
3:05 Making Local Officials More Responsive
Adam Michael Dynes, Brigham Young University-
Provo
adamdynes@byu.edu
3:18 Better Together?: Examining the Effect of Civic
Education for Local Officials and Citizens in the
Philippines on Local Government Responsiveness
and Citizen Compliance
Nina Katherine Siegel McMurry, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
nmcmurry@mit.edu
Lily Tsai*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
l_tsai@mit.edu
3:31 Seeking the Personal Vote: How Legislators
Exploit the Party Mandate
Daniel Bischof, University of Zurich
db@danbischof.com
Florian Foos, King's College London
florian.foos@kcl.ac.uk
Patrick Michael Kuhn*, Princeton University
p.m.kuhn@durham.ac.uk
Neil Visalvanich*, Durham University
neil.visalvanich@durham.ac.uk
3:44 We Propose a Randomized Field Experiment on
the Members of the UK Parliament to Disentangle
Whether Party Mandates Condition how
Legislators Respond to Policy Requests by their
Constituents
Ekkehard Köhler, Walter Eucken Institut MD
koehler@eucken.de
John G. Matsusaka*, University of Southern
California
matsusak@usc.edu
3:57 Disc., Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University
kevin.arceneaux@temple.edu
Disc., Stuart Soroka, University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor
ssoroka@umich.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
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