We are pleased to announce the Fifth Annual NYU-CESS (New York University Center for Experimental Social Sciences) Conference on Experimental Political Science for Friday, March 2nd, 2012 and Saturday, March 3rd, 2012.
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 16 papers presented. We will also have two special panels — one on “Voluntary versus Compulsory Voting” and the other on “Women in Political Leadership”. And we will have a first ever poster session for graduate students. Below is a list of the papers which will be presented at the conference (in alphabetical order, the conference schedule will be announced shortly):
1. Adam Berinsky, MIT, “Separating the Shirkers from the Workers: Making Sure Respondents Pay Attention on Internet Surveys, coauthored with Michele Margolis, PhD Candidate, MIT and Michael W. Sances, PhD Candidate, MIT
2. Chetan Dave, NYU (Abu Dhabi), “Experimental Social Choice: The Impact of Nosy Preferences on Efficiency” coauthored with Stefan Dodds, University of Winnipeg, Rachel Croson, University of Texas at Dallas, and Sheryl Ball, Virginia Tech
3. Dominik Duell, New York University, “Social Identification and the Nature of Electoral Representation: A Laboratory Experiment,” coauthored with Dimitri Landa, NYU
4. Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University, “Anxious Politics: The Effect of Anxiety on Political Trust,” coauthored with Bethany Albertson, University of Texas
5. Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University, “The Priming Power of Spanish: Testing the External Validity of a Survey Experiment”
6. Laura Paler, Columbia University, “Keeping the Public Purse: An Experiment in Windfalls, Taxes, and the Incentives to Restrain Government”
7. Ragan Petrie, ICES, George Mason University, “What Persuades Voters? A Field Experiment on Political Campaigning,” coauthored with Jared Barton, ICES, George Mason University and Marco Castillo, ICES, George Mason University
8. Ernesto Reuben, Columbia University, “Tacit Quid-Pro-Quo Agreements: An Experimental Study,” coauthored with Jens Grosser (Florida State University) and Agnieszka Tymula (New York University)
9. Cyrus Samii, New York University, “Estimating Average Causal Effects Under General Interference” coauthored with Peter M. Aronow, Yale University
10. Jojanneke van der Toorn, Yale University, “My Country, Right or Wrong: Erasing the Liberal-Conservative Gap in Patriotism by Activating System Justification Concerns,” coauthored with Paul R. Nail (University of Central Arkansas), Ido Liviatan (Open University Israel), and John T. Jost (New York University)
Special Panel on Compulsory versus Voluntary Voting:
11. Sun Tak Kim, University of Pittsburgh, “Compulsory versus Voluntary Voting Mechanisms: An Experimental Study,” coauthored with Sourav Bhattacharya (University of Pittsburgh) and John Duffy (University of Pittsburgh)
12. Gianmarco Leon, UC Berkeley, “Turnout, Political Preferences and Information: Experimental Evidence from Peru”
13. Victoria Shineman, New York University, “Turnout and Information when Voting is Subsidized,”
Special Panel on Women in Political Leadership:
14. Richard Matland, Loyola University Chicago, “The Effects of Ethnicity and Sex on Voter’s Assessment of Political Leadership: Experimental Evidence from Four Russian Regions,” coauthored with Olga A Avdeyeva, Loyola University Chicago
15. Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University, “Gender and inequality in deliberating groups” coauthored with Chris Karpowitz, BYU
16. Jonathan Woon, University of Pittsburgh, “Women Don’t Run? Gender Differences in Candidate Entry,” coauthored with Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh
Organized by Eric Dickson, Rebecca Morton, and Joshua Tucker. For more information, contact caroline.madden@nyu.edu
Sponsored in part by Wilf Family Department of Politics