Program
We have a posted a preliminary version of the program (updated 05/20/2013). Links to papers submitted to us for posting are included in the program. Below is the broad outline to help with travel planning. We recommend arriving on Thursday evening and leaving on Sunday morning.
Thursday, May 23,
2013
6:00-9:00 pm
Welcome
Reception “A Taste of Iowa”
Old
Brick, Downtown Iowa City
Friday, May 24, 2013
7:30-8:25 am
Breakfast
and Conference Welcome
Iowa
Memorial
Union, Second Floor Ballroom
8:30-10:00 am
Panel
Session 1
Panel 1: Women in State Legislatures
Chair: Tracy Osborn, University of Iowa
Papers:
“Representing Women’s Interests at the
Intersections of Race, Gender and Ethnicity”
Beth Reingold, Emory University
Kerry Haynie, Duke University
“Predicting Latina
Political Office-Holding”
Christina Bejarano, University of Kansas
“When Women Are in
Charge: Gender Differences in Agenda Control”
Emily Schilling, University of Iowa
“Evaluating the Effect
of Professionalization on Gender and Race in State Legislative
Campaigns”
Laura Merrifield
Sojka, University
of Alabama
Discussants: Tracy
Osborn, University of Iowa
Janine
Parry,
University of Arkansas
Panel 2: Political Parties, Primaries and
Elections
Chair: Thad Kousser, University of California, San
Diego
Papers:
“Primary Voters versus Party Elites: Who Are
the Polarizers?”
Seth Masket, University of Denver
Boris Shor, University of Chicago
“The Lack of a Primary
Ideology Link: Fault of the Party?”
Hans Hassell, Cornell College
“Iowa and the 2012
Presidential Nomination Campaign”
David Redlawsk, Rutgers University
Caroline Tolbert, University of
Iowa
Todd Donovan, Western Washington
University
Discussants: Thad
Kousser, University of California, San Diego
Jason
Windett,
Saint Louis University
Panel 3: The Dynamics of Policy Making
Chair: Andrew Karch, University of Minnesota
Papers:
“Governors or
Legislators: Who Determines the Spending Priorities of State
Governments?”
Saundra Schneider, Michigan State
University
William Jacoby, Michigan State
University
Daniel C. Lewis, University of New
Orleans
“Networks of
Information Gathering: Who Do State Legislators Consult”
Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Wayne
State
University
Charles Elder, Wayne State
University
Lyke Thompson, Wayne State
University
Christopher Mooney, University of Illinois,
Springfield
“Policy Ambiguity in the States”
A. Lee Hannah, Pennsylvania State University
Discussants: Andrew
Karch, University of Minnesota
Margaret
Ferguson,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
10:00-10:15 am
Coffee
Break
10:15-11:45 am
Panel
Session 2
Panel 1: Legislative Committees
Chair: Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Wayne State
University
Papers:
“Evaluating the
Representativeness of State Legislative Committees: A Preliminary
Assessment of
the Contribution Connection”
Keith Hamm, Rice University
Ronald Hedlund, Northeastern
University
Nancy Mortorano Miller, University
of Dayton
“Getting the
Legislative Committee Seats You Want: State, Organizational, and
Personal Factors”
Ronald Hedlund, Northeastern
University
Claudia Larson, Northeastern
University
Rob DeLeo, Bentley University
“Majority
Party Change and Committee Jurisdictions
in State Legislatures”
Todd Makse, Susquehanna University
Discussants: Marjorie
Sarbaugh-Thompson, Wayne State University
Gary
Moncrief,
Boise State University
Panel 2: Race and Politics
Chair: Beth Reingold, Emory University
Papers:
“A Re-Updated Sullivan
Index”
Jim Battista, SUNY-Buffalo
Jesse Richman, Old Dominion
University
“Growing Up with Jim
Crow: The Lingering Effect of Racism on African-American Voter Turnout
in the
States”
Jon Winburn, University of
Mississippi
Jas Sullivan, Louisiana State
University
Michael Henderson, University of
Mississippi
“Shaping Young Minds:
Race, Gender and Symbolic Representation in American Schools”
Donald Haider-Markel, University
of Kansas
Lael Keiser, University of Missouri
“Diversity,
Information Sources and State Legislative Processes: Who Gets to Inform
State
Legislative Policy”
Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore Michigan State
University
Discussants: Beth
Reingold, Emory University
Christopher
Clark,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Panel 3: Policy Diffusion
Chair: Julie Pacheco, University of Iowa
Papers:
“Policy Diffusion and
the Pro-Innovation Bias”
Andrew Karch, University of
Minnesota
Ann Bowman, Texas A&M
University
Sean Nicholson-Crotty, University
of
Missouri
Neal Woods, University of South
Carolina
Michael Thom, University of
Southern
California
Steven Welliver, University of
Southern
California
“The Effect of
Ideological and Geographic Distance on State Adoption of Abortion
Policies”
Rebecca Kreitzer, University of Iowa
“State Adoption of
Climate Action Plans: Are States Learning from Each Other?”
Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo,
University of
Kentucky
J.S. Butler, University of Kentucky
Discussants: Julie
Pacheco, University of Iowa
Graeme
Boushey,
University of California, Irvine
11:45 am-1:00 pm Lunch
in the Iowa Memorial Union, Second Floor Ballroom
1:00-2:30 pm
Panel
Session 3
Panel 1: Methods in State Politics
Chair: Jeff Harden, University of Colorado
Papers:
“Modeling Misreports
in Self-Reported Gubernatorial and U.S. Senate Vote Choice Data”
Robert Jackson, Florida State
University
Carlisle Rainey, Florida State
University
“Party Power and the Causal Effects of
Endorsements”
Thad Kousser, University of
California, San
Diego
Seth Masket, University of Denver
Eric McGhee, Public Policy
Institute of
California
Dan Butler, Yale University
Thad Kousser, University of
California, San
Diego
“The Case for General Estimating Equations in
State-Level Analysis”
Tucker Staley, University of Minnesota,
Duluth
Discussants: Jeff
Harden, University of Colorado
Jamie
Monogan,
University of Georgia
Panel 2: Legislative Elections
Chair: Dick Winters, Dartmouth College
Papers:
“Voter Uncertainty, Political Institutions,
and Legislative Turnover”
Charles Shipan, University of
Michigan
Yanna Krupnikov, Northwestern
University
“Examining the Link between State Legislative
Campaign Money and Bill Sponsorship”
Greg Vonnahme, University of Missouri,
Kansas City
Jay Barth, Hendrix College
Craig Burnett, University of
North Carolina
at Wilmington
Janine Parry, University of Arkansas
Peverill Squire, University of Missouri
Discussants: Dick
Winters, Dartmouth College
Jim
Battista,
SUNY-Buffalo
Panel 3: Election and Voting Reform
Chair: Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa
Papers:
“Who Makes Voting
Convenient? Explaining the Adoption of Election Reform in the American
States”
Daniel Biggers, Yale University
Michael Hanmer, University of
Maryland
“Early Voting in
Florida in the Aftermath of House Bill 1355”
Dan Smith, University of Florida
Michael Herron, Dartmouth College
“The Political
Geography of Trade-Offs in Redistricting”
Justin Levitt. University of California,
San Diego
“Evolution of an
Issue: Voter ID Laws in the American States”
Seth McKee, University of South
Florida
Dan Smith, University of Florida
William Hicks, University of
Florida
Mitchell Sellers, University of
Florida
Discussants: Caroline
Tolbert, University of Iowa
Daniel
Bowen, The
College of New Jersey
2:30-2:45 pm
Coffee
Break
2:45-4:15 pm
Panel
Session 4
Plenary Panel: Spatial
and Network Methodology in State Politics
Iowa Memorial Union, Second Floor Ballroom
Chair: Seth Masket, University of Denver
Papers:
“Strategic Placement
of Air Polluters: An Application of Point Pattern Models”
Jamie Monogan, University of
Georgia
David Konisky, Georgetown
University
Neal Woods, University of South
Carolina
“Inferring Policy Diffusion Networks in the
American States”
Jeff Harden, University of Colorado
Bruce Desmarais, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Frederick Boehmke, University of
Iowa
“The Impact of Spatial
Exposure on Turnout in Ballot Elections”
Regina Branton, University of
North Texas
Frederick Boehmke, University of
Iowa
Richard Witmer, Creighton University
“Partisan Sorting in the U.S. States,
1972-2012”
Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz,
University of
Rhode Island
Corey Lang, University of Rhode
Island
Discussants: Seth
Masket, University of Denver
Rob
McGrath,
George Mason University
4:15-5:15 pm
State
Politics and Policy Section Business Meeting (IMU Ballroom)
6:30-9:00 pm
Reception
and Section Awards
Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA
Buses
leave from Sheraton Hotel starting at 6pm, running
about
every 20
minutes.
Saturday, May 25,
2013
7:30-8:25 am
Breakfast
in the Iowa Memorial Union, Second Floor Ballroom
8:30-10:00 am
Panel
Session 1
Panel 1: Immigration
Chair: Rene Rocha, University of Iowa
Papers:
“Industry Interests,
Anti-Immigrant
Sentiment, and the Adoption of State-Level Immigration Policies”
Adam Butz, Marshall University
Jason Kehrberg, University of
Kentucky
“The Politics of
Immigration: State and Regional Variation, 1930 versus 2010”
John McIver, University of Texas, Austin
“Immigration and State
Policy Responsiveness: The Red State Paradox”
Michael Rivera, University of California,
San Diego
“Guillermo Horton:
When Do Gubernatorial Candidates Go Nativist?”
Robert C. Turner, Skidmore College
Tyler Reny, The New American
Leaders Project
Discussants: Rene
Rocha, University of Iowa
Shanna
Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Rhode Island
Panel 2: Bureaucratic Politics in the States
Chair: Peverill Squire, University of Missouri
Papers:
“The Political and
Institutional Determinants of Rulemaking in the American States”
Graeme Boushey, University of California,
Irvine
“Education and
Balancing the Books: Women’s Role in the State Bureaucracies,
1910-2010”
Michael Pisapia, Wake Forest University
“Term Limits, State
Programs, and the State Bureaucracy”
Nelson Dometrius, Texas Tech University
“Administrative Reform
and the Shadows of the Future: Insulation and Politicization in the
U.S.
States”
Robert McGrath, George Mason University
Discussants: Peverill
Squire, University of Missouri
Saundra
Schneider,
Michigan State University
Panel 3: Representation and Responsiveness
Chair: Jon Winburn, University of Mississippi
Papers:
“District Preferences,
Legislator Preferences, and Legislators’ Votes”
Jim Battista, SUNY-Buffalo
Josh Dyck, University of
Massachusetts,
Lowell
Megan Gall, SUNY-Buffalo
“The Role of Ideology
in State Legislative Elections”
Nathaniel Birkhead, Kansas State University
“Why Are Politicians
Sometimes Unresponsive to Public Opinion? Experimental Evidence that
Public
Officials Discount the Opinions of Constituents”
Dan Butler, Yale University
“Small Is Still
Beautiful: Constituency Size and Citizen Attitudes about American State
Government”
Dan Bowen, The College of New Jersey
Discussants: Jon
Winburn, University of Mississippi
William
Franko;
Auburn University
10:00-10:15 am
Coffee
Break
10:15-11:45 am
Panel
Session 2
Plenary Panel: Redistributive Policies in Tough
State
Budget Times
Iowa Memorial Union, Second Floor Ballroom
Chair: Gerald Wright, Indiana University
Papers:
“Racial and Ethnic
Population Diversity and the State Politics of Medicaid Expansion”
Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State
University
“For Richer or Poorer:
The Politics of Redistribution in Bad Economic Times”
Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington
University
Megan Hatch, George Washington
University
“Measuring State TANF Policy
”
Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania
State
University
Erik Plutzer, Pennsylvania State
University
James Honaker, Harvard University
Christopher Ojeda, Pennsylvania
State University
“How Safe Are the
Safety Nets? An Examination of Change, Variation and Impact,
1994-2010”
Sarah Bruch, University of Iowa
Marcia Meyers, University of
Washington
Discussants: Gerald
Wright, Indiana University
Donald
Haider-Markel, University of Kansas
11:45 am-2:00 pm Lunch
and Poster Session (concurrent)
Iowa
Memorial
Union, Second Floor Ballroom
Posters (12:30-2:00pm):
“The States and
Undocumented Immigrant Populations: What State Characteristics Attract
and
Deter?”
Sylvia
Gonzalez-Gorman, Texas Tech
University
“Individual
Accountability in State Legislative Elections”
Steven Rogers,
Princeton University
“Elections
and Explanations: Judicial
Elections and the Readability of Judicial Opinions”
Michael Nelson,
Washington
University St. Louis
“The Structure of Success:
Determining Victory or Defeat from Contribution Diversity in State
Legislative
Races”
Kristen Coopie Allen,
University of
Pittsburgh
“When States Compete:
Distributive Politics and Institutional Capacity in the Race-to-the-Top
Program”
Eric Loepp, University
of
Pittsburgh
“Strategic Governors
and Executive Orders: Adoption of Gay and Transgender Protections”
Mitchell Sellers,
University of
Florida
“Varieties of Labor
Policy Coordination in Response to the 2007-2009 Economic Recession:
The Cases
of Michigan and Utah”
LaTasha Chaffin,
Western Michigan
University
“Consider the Context:
How State Policy Environments Shape Interest Group Advocacy”
Kathleen Marchetti,
Pennsylvania
State University
“Automated Legislative
Redistricting Based on Communities of Interest”
Brian Amos, University
of Florida
“Badges, Behavior and
Blogs: An Investigation of the Institutional Roots of
Participation”
Justin Nelson,
University of
California, Riverside
“Consequences of
Structural Holes in Political Party Networks: A Preliminary
Analysis”
Jaclyn J. Kettler,
Rice University
“The Politics of
Health Insurance Exchanges: The Rejection of State Discretion”
David K. Jones,
University of
Michigan
“Building a Better
Speed Trap: Measuring the Speed of Policy Innovation Diffusion”
Daniel J. Mallinson,
Pennsylvania
State University
“Evaluating State
Reform: What Can An Online Network Tell Us about How States Learn from
Each
Other?”
Diana Forster,
University of
Florida
“The Effect of
Institutional Procedures on Discretionary Appellate Review in State
Courts of
Last Resort”
Benjamin C. Soltoff,
Pennsylvania
State University
“The Role of
Geographical Constituency in State Legislative Politics: A Latent
Profile
Analysis Approach”
Adam S. Myers,
University of Texas
at Austin
“The Determinants of
State Voter ID Laws 1964-2012: A Test of Competing Theories”
Kellen Gracey, St.
Louis University
“Deterring Unwanted
Behavior: Preliminary Results Following the Upgrade to Primary
Enforcement of
Seat Belt Laws”
Alexander Jorgensen,
University of
Kansas
“The Social,
Political, and Economic Determinants of Discretionary Medicaid
Spending,
1997-2009”
Gilbert Gonzales,
University of
Minnesota
“Reassessing
Legislative Control of the Bureaucracy: State Agency Influence on
Medicaid
Legislation”
Katharine W.V.
Bradley, University
of Michigan
“A Random Walk or a
Dog off its Leash? Examining the Representative Nature of State Supreme
Courts”
Todd Curry,
Western Michigan University
Michael
Romano, Western Michigan University
“Crashing the Party:
How Institutional Rules and State Partisanship Affect the Composition
of the
Primary Electorate”
Matthew P. Thornburg, George
Mason University
2:00-3:30 pm
Panel
Session 3
Panel 1: Roundtable: State Implementation of
the
Affordable Care Act
Chair: Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State
University
Participant: Mark Rom, Georgetown University
Participant: Saundra Schneider, Michigan State
University
Participant: Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington
University
Participant: Peter Damiano, Director, University
of Iowa
Public Policy Center and Professor,
Preventive and
Community Dentistry
Panel 2: Measurement Issues in State Politics
Chair: Regina Branton, University of North Texas
Papers:
“A Test of Supervised
Text Modeling for State Interest Group Categorization”
John Cluverius, University of North
Carolina, Chapel
Hill
“How Should We
Estimate Sub-National Opinion Using MRP?”
Justin Phillips, Columbia
University
Jeffrey Lax, Columbia University
“Concepts and
Measurement: Using Archival Data to Study Campaigns and Elections”
Loren Collingwood, University of
California,
Riverside
“More Equal Than We
Thought? Using Vote Validation to Better Understand Participation
Inequality in
the States”
William Franko, Auburn University
Discussants: Regina
Branton, University of North Texas
Boris
Shor, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley
Panel 3: Initiatives
Chair: Dan Smith, University of Florida
Papers:
“Latino Attitudes toward Ballot Measures that
Target Immigrants”
Amy Stringer, University of Florida
“Direct Democracy, Conflict, and the
Acceleration of Cues”
Joshua Dyck, University of
Massachusetts,
Lowell
Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz,
University of Rhode
Island
“The Citizen
Initiative, Public Opinion, and Abortion Policy”
Michael New, University of Michigan,
Dearborn
“Pivotal Politics Meets the Progressive
Paradox”
Frederick J. Boehmke, University
of Iowa
Tracy L Osborn, University of Iowa
Emily Schilling, University of Iowa
Discussants: Dan
Smith, University of Florida
Daniel
Biggers,
Yale University
3:30-3:45 pm
Coffee
Break
3:45-5:15 pm
Panel
Session 4
Panel 1: The Battle over Morality Policy
Chair: Chris Mooney
Papers:
“Judicially Engaged:
How Civil Rights Judicial Decisions Mobilize Citizen Political
Participation”
Allison Harris, University of Chicago
“Ask Me, I Won’t Say
No: Advancing Same Sex Marriage through Institutions of Direct
Democracy”
Emily Shaw, Thomas College
Amy Fried, University of Maine
“Just Saying No to
Just Say No: The Politics of State Sexual Education”
Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University
“Does Policy Adoption
Change Norms and Opinions on Minority Rights?”
Rebecca Kreitzer, University of
Iowa
Allison Hamilton, University of
Iowa
Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa
Discussants: Chris
Mooney, University of Illinois, Springfield
Justin
Phillips,
Columbia University
Panel 2: Public Opinion
Chair: Bob Erikson, Columbia University
Papers:
“The Application of
Multi-level Regression with Post-Stratification to Cluster-Sampled
Polls:
Challenges and Suggestions”
Alissa Stollwerk, Columbia University
“Polling
Post-Superstorm Sandy: Understanding the Social and Political Aftermath
of the
Hurricane in New Jersey”
David Redlawsk, Rutgers University
Ashley Koning, Rutgers University
“Private
Public Partnerships and Public
Opinion”
Kimberly Karnes, Old Dominion University
Discussants: Bob
Erikson, Columbia University
Loren
Collingwood,
University of California, Riverside
Panel 3: Courts
Chair: Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University
Papers:
“Understanding the
Complexity of State Supreme Court Opinions”
Meghan Leonard, Illinois State
University
Joseph Ross, Florida Gulf Coast
University
“Does Judicial
Selection Method Affect Fairness? A Comparison of Impartiality Ratings
for
Elected and Appointed Illinois Trial Judges”
Thomas McClure, Illinois State University
“Issue Content on the
U.S. Supreme Court’s Agenda: A View from the States”
Alixandra Yanus, High Point
University
Virginia Gray, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Trial Courts in
Comparative Context: Predicting Winners, Losers and Awards across
Institutional
Structures”
Tao Dumas, Louisiana State University
“Judicial Selection and Representation in
State Supreme Courts”
Jason Windett, Saint Louis
University
Jeff Harden, University of
Colorado
Matthew Hall, Saint Louis University
Discussants: Melinda
Gann Hall, Michigan State University
Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University
Todd
Curry, Western Michigan University
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