11th Annual Experimental Political Science Conference

We are pleased to announce the Eleventh Annual Conference on Experimental Political Science on Friday, February 9th and Saturday, February 10th, 2018.

The Conference is an annual event that we hope will bring together researchers interested in experimental methodology in political science broadly.  We welcome the participation of scholars who work in the field and those who work in the lab as well as the participation of political psychologists and political economists.  Furthermore, we welcome the participation of scholars who are not experimentalists themselves but are interested in learning and discussing experimental methods as well as those interested in the relationship between the experimental method and analyzing observational data in political science.

The Conference will be a two-day event with various papers presented. We will also have poster sessions for graduate students.

 

Paper Presentations

Vivekinan Ashok, Yale University,“Do Means of Program Delivery and Distributional Consequences Affect Policy Support? Experimental Evidence about the Sources of Citizens’ Policy Opinions”co-authored by Greg Huber (Yale University)

Michael Bechtel, Washington University in St. Louis,“Inequality and Redistribution Behavior in a Give-or-Take Game”co-authored by Roman Liesch (University of St.Gallen) and Kenneth F. Scheve (Stanford University)

Rob Blair, Brown University, “China and the Legitimacy of African States: Cross-National and Sub-National Evidence from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games”co-authored by Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary)

Robert Erikson, Columbia University, “Appellate Court Assignments as a Natural Experiment: Gender Panel Effects in Sex-Discrimination Cases”

Romain Ferrali, Princeton University,“Bad apples in a Barrel.  Field Evidence about Corruption in Organizations”

Boris Ginzburg, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “When Collective Ignorance Is Bliss: Theory and Experiment on Voting for Learning” co-authored by Jose-Alberto Guerra (Universidad de los Andes)

Jose-Alberto Guerra, Universidad de los Andes, “When Collective Ignorance Is Bliss: Theory and Experiment on Voting for Learning”co-authored by Boris Ginzburg (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

David Hagmann, Carnegie Mellon University, “Persuasion With Motivated Beliefs”co-authored by George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)

Yphtach Lelkes, University of Pennsylvania, “An Expressive Utility Account of Partisan Cue Receptivity: Cognitive Resources in the Service of Identity Expression”co-authored by Sean Westwood (Dartmouth University) and Solomon Messing (Pew Research Center)

John Marshall, Columbia University, “Learning Accountability: Can Formal Education Help Politicians to Account?”co-authored by Abhit Bhandari (Columbia) and Horacio Larreguy (Harvard)

Clayton Nall, Stanford University, “Where Interests Trump Ideology: The Persistent Influence of Homeownership in Local Development Politics”co-authored by William Marble (Stanford University)

Mark Pickup, Simon Fraser University, “The Self-Reinforcing Effects of Political Identity Based Norms”co-authored by Erik Kimbrough (Chapman University); Eline de Rooij (Simon Fraser University)

Melissa Sands, UC Merced, “Using Public Video Feeds to Understand Intergroup Exposure” co-authored by Bryce Dietrich (University of Iowa)

Moses Shayo, Hebrew University, “How do Markets Shape Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment” co-authored by Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv University)

Chloe Tergiman, Penn State University, “Preferences for Power”co-authored by Elena Pikulina (University of British Columbia)

Justin Valasek, WZB Berlin, “The Value of Consensus: Information Aggregation in Committees with Vote-Contingent Payoffs”co-authored by Yves Breitmoser (Humboldt University)

 

Poster Presentations

Link here.

 

Friday Schedule

Link here.

 

Saturday Schedule

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Details for Presenters

Paper presenters should plan on speaking for approximately 20-25 minutes at most, discussants should plan on 10 minutes, leaving some time for general discussion with the audience.  We will of course have computer projection equipment and a laptop available for presentations.

The poster session for graduate students is scheduled during the reception on Friday from 5:40-7:00 p.m.  You will be able to put up your poster anytime during the last break at 2:50pm.  We will provide you with an easel, 30×40 inch white poster board, push pins, and tape. You may arrange the poster board either horizontally or vertically. For some advice on preparing and designing a poster, see the advice on the Polmeth website: http://imai.princeton.edu/teaching/files/HowToPoster.pdf

 

Location

Silver Center for Arts and Science
Hemmerdinger Hall & Jurow Lecture Hall – Silverstein Lounge
Entrance at 31 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003

 

Hotel

All conference attendees and participants are responsible for their hotel expenses. A limited number of rooms are available at a reduced price for the nights of February 8th, 9th and 10th at:

Washington Square Hotel
103 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10011
Ph: (212) 777-9515

When making online reservations use this link to connect to the conference’s special rate page where a direct booking button is featured.
Your Special Rate Page

If you prefer you can call the hotel or use the email address reservations@wshotel to make your reservation, using the group code 5512

Other hotel options in the neighborhood include:

Hilton Garden Inn New York Tribeca

Hyatt Union Square

The Soho Grand

The Standard East Village

Walker Hotel