Schedule
Papers and posters from the 2024 edition of the workshop can be downloaded from this Google Drive Folder.
Workshop program
September 27th
9-9.50am Alexander Coppock (Yale University), “How group cue effects vary across issues, identities, groups, and contexts: a meta-reanalysis of hundreds of group cue treatments”
9.50-10.40am Marko Klasnja (Georgetown University), “Like them Rich? Public Perceptions and Opinions of Politicians’ Wealth”
Coffee break
11.10-12pm Bilyana Petrova (Texas Tech University), “Quality of Government Perceptions and Preferences for Economic Redistribution”
12-12.50pm Paula Rettl (Harvard Business School), “Turning Away From the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil”
Lunch
1.50-2.40pm Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth College), “Feedback eliminates the perverse effects of media literacy interventions on belief in accurate information”
2.40-3.30pm Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan), “Campaigning Against Populism: Emotions and Information in Real Election Campaigns”
Coffee break
4-4.50pm Hanno Hilbig (University of California, Davis), “The Energy Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines”
4.50-5.40pm Giorgio Malet (ETH Zürich), “The Electoral Consequences of Conditional Agricultural Subsidies: Evidence from France”
5.45-7.15pm Posters and reception
September 28th
9-9.50am Paige Bollen (Ohio State University), “The Spatial Ties that Bind: Spatial Capital and Collective Action in Urban Ghana”
9.50-10.40 Carly Wayne (Washington University in St. Louis), “Can Social Networks Counter Support for Political Violence? Evidence from a Network Dyad Experiment”
Coffee break
11.10-12pm Leonie Huddy (SUNY Stony Brook), “Immigration Support: Does Immigrant Skill-Level Override the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Prejudice?”
12-12.50pm Rahsaan Maxwell (New York University), “The public appetite for a pro-immigration political agenda in Western Europe”
Lunch
1.50-2.40pm Mark Williamson (Toronto Metropolitan University), “Historical Injustices and Beliefs in Systemic Racism”
The End
Poster presentations
Scott Abramson & Dot Sawler (Rochester University), “Dislike and Distrust”
Avi Ahuja (New York University), “The Effects of Learning about New Electoral Rules: Experimental Evidence from a Switch to Closed-List PR in Sierra Leone”
Maxwell Allamong (Duke University), “Uncivil Digital Democracy: A Dynamic Newsfeed Experiment”
Marco Avina (Harvard University), “Meta-Reanalysis of Conjoint Experiments on Immigration”
Cristina Bodea and Andrew Kerner (Michigan State University), “Female role models, policy credibility and public opinion about leadership in global central banks”
Danielle Bohonos (University of Toronto), “‘We Didn’t Start the Fire, It was Always Burning’: Wildfires, Political Consequences, and Climate Preferences in Canada”
Mitchell Bosley (University of Toronto), “Can AI be used to reduce prejudice at scale?”
Semih Cakir (University of Vienna), “Multidimensional Party Competition and Out-Partisan Hostility”
Benjamin Guinaudeau (New York University), “Online competition between unequals: What drives the price paid by parties to place advertisement on social media platforms?”
Sekou Jabateh (University of California, Berkeley), “The Political Nature of Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia and Senegal”
Sarah Lachance (University of Toronto), “Moral Reasoning and Support for Redistribution: Policy Design and Cost Information Frames”
Mathieu Lavigne (Dartmouth College), “(Mis)information Flows and Public Beliefs about Voter Fraud in the 2020 and 2022 U.S. Elections”
Blake Lee-Whiting (University of Toronto), “Perceiving Politics: Considering the Political Categorization of Faces”
Baowen Liang (Université de Montréal), “Understanding the Electoral Participation Gap: A Study of Racialized Minorities in Canada”
Jeanne Marlier (University of Vienna), “The causal effect of independent candidacies on electoral participation: the French case”
Catherine Moez (Royal Holloway, University of London), “‘All the Same’? Assessing the Politically Disaffected’s Responses to Political Persuasion”
Noah Schouela (University of Chicago), “Nested Urban Democracy: Balancing Partisan and Candidate Information in Lima, Peru”
Muhammad Bilal Shakir (McGill University), “Explaining Islam’s Electoral Disadvantage: Islamist Political Parties and Electoral Mobilization in Pakistan (1947-2023)”
Daniel Smith (University of Pennsylvania), “Chasing the Many or the Few: Electoral Incentives and Constituency-Building Efforts in Campaign Spending and Legislative Activities”
Daniel Tavana (Pennsylvania State University), “Ideology, constraint, and support for authoritarian rule”
Clareta Treger (University of Toronto), “What do politicians think about government paternalism?”
Benjamin Tremblay-Auger (Stanford GSB), “Institutions and Rapid Religious Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada”
Sebastián Vallejo Vera (University of Western Ontario), “Gendered Speech in Gendered Institutions”
Andreea Zota (Université de Montréal), “Increasing Support for Reconciliation”