We are pleased to announce the Third Annual NYU-CESS (New York University Center for Experimental Social Sciences) Conference on Experimental Political Science for Friday, February 5th, 2010 and Saturday, February 6th, 2010.

The Conference is an annual event that we hope will bring together researchers interested in experimental methodology in political science broadly. That is, 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 13 papers presented. We also plan to host a discussion on the possibility of forming a Section of the American Political Science Association on Experimental Methods. We have confirmed the following authors as paper presenters for the Third Annual Conference:

• Marina Agranov (New York University), "Flip-flopping: The Contrasting Effects of Media Scrutiny in Primaries and General Elections"

• Sheheryar Banuri (University of Texas - Dallas), "Does Nepotism Pay?", coauthored with Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson

• Daniel Butler (Yale University), "Who Helps DeShawn Register to Vote? A Field Experiment on State Legislators", coauthored with David Broockman

• Luca Corazzini (University of Padua and ISLA), "Elections and Deceptions: Theory and Experimental Evidence", coauthored with Sebstian Kube and Michel André Maréchal, and Antonio Nicolo

• Torun Dewan (London School of Economics), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University), and Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson University), "The Impact of Leaders and the Messages They Convey: Evidence From a Field Experiment in British Columbia"

• Raymond Duch (University of Oxford), "Inequity Aversion, Policy Preferences and the Vote: A Cross-National Internet Experiment"

• Donald Green (Yale University), Margaret McConnell (Harvard University), and Betsy Sinclair (University of Chicago), "Detecting Social Networks: Design and Analysis of Multilevel Experiments"

• Christian Robert Grose (Vanderbilt University), "Priming Rationality: A Theory and Field Experiment of Participation in Legislatures"

• John Hamman (Florida State University) and Jonathan Woon (University of Pittsburgh), "An Experimental Investigation of Delegation, Voting, and the Provision of Public Goods", coauthored with Roberto Weber

• Christopher Karpowitz (Brigham Young University) and Tali Mendelberg (Princeton University), "Deliberation, Gender and Speaking Behavior", coauthored with Steve Howell

• Kristin Michelitch (New York University) "Do Elections Manipulate Patterns of Inter-ethnic or Inter-partisan Discrimination? A Field Experiment on Market Price Bargaining in Africa"

• Tomomi Tanaka (Arizona State University) "Measuring Norms of Redistributive Transfers: Trust Experiments and Survey Data from Vietnam", coauthored with Colin Camerer and Quang Nguyen

• Michael Tomz (Stanford University) and Robert Van Houweling (University of California, Berkeley), "Candidate Repositioning"

Organized by Eric Dickson and Rebecca Morton. For more information, contact Rajeev Advani.