2014 Posters
Bruno, Jonathan: Some Thoughts on Judicial Transparency
This poster examines the normative grounds for transparency and secrecy in the judiciary. It defends a rebuttable presumption in favor of practices that improve public access to information about, or promote public understanding of, the courts. It also...
Gruenbaum, Ben: The Senate Electoral Calendar and Minority Party Agenda Power
I use a novel methodology and data set to assess how the Senate's asymmetric electoral cycle effects agenda-setting. Specifically I estimate the effect that being sponsored by an "in-cycle'' Senator has on the probability that an amendment will reach...
Hankinson, Michael: Co-opting Frames or: How to Stop a Housing Development
Since 1970, the dispersion of housing prices in the US has not only increased, but increased disproportionately at the top end. These top-end cities host the greatest potential economic, educational, and health outcomes for their citizens. Consequently...
Hertel-Fernandez, Alexander and Kashin, Konstantin: Capturing Business Power Across the States with Text Reuse
Political scientists have long puzzled over questions of business power in capitalist democracies like the United States. Despite the importance of these issues, scholars have struggled to develop systematic methods of observing and classifying business’s...
Higgins, Dana: Disaggregating Battle Death Counts using Multiple Imputation
The rising popularity and availability of big data has created a push to advance statistical methods that handle very detailed and large quantities of data. Within conflict studies, however, the larger problem is not a lack of analytical tools but instead...
Huff, Connor and Kruszewska, Dominika: Whose Side Are You On? Government Repression, Political Protest, and Public Opinion
In this paper we use a survey experiment to analyze how government responses to protest---ranging from arrests to repression---affect public support for a protesting organization. We explore this dynamic further by varying protest organizations along...
Huff, Connor: Bargaining With Militant Non-State Actors: Is This a Group We Can Work With?
What explains variation in the willingness of militant non-state actors to accept last than their stated preferred institutional outcome---which ranges in scope from regime overthrow to territorial change---during bargaining with the government? I argue...
Lucas, Christopher and Moskowitz, Daniel: Partisan Cues and Opinion Formation about Immigration: Results from a Pilot Experiment
Immigration attitudes are of great interest to political scientists. Recent literature sheds light on the role of material self-interest and sociotropic considerations in the formation of opinions about immigration policy. However, surprisingly little is...
Page, Jennifer: Theorizing the Injustice of the State
Liberal democratic governments use a variety of institutional safeguards to preempt the abuse of political power. Yet state-sponsored injustice does take place in liberal democracies, which suggests that these safeguards are not always failsafe. State...
Phillips, Jonathan: Measuring State Self-Legibility in the Digital Age
Beyond seeking to make society 'legible', states also try to read and manage their own decentralized assets. Taking government databases of schools and health clinics as themselves the object of inquiry, I propose to measure legibility by comparing...
Prillaman, Soledad: Target in Motion: The Micro-Foundations of Non-Contributory Social Policy in Latin America
Social policy in Latin America has long been marked by a division between policy "insiders" and "outsiders", as defined by highly segmented labor markets. P rior to the late 1990's, social policy in Latin America was dominated by social insurance programs...
Schub, Robert: Are You Certain? Leaders, Overprecision, and War
Does greater certainty about an opponent's military characteristics cause peace? This paper argues that the relationship between certainty and war is conditional on certainty's sources. Consistent with bargaining models of war, certainty is pacifying when...
Strezhnev, Anton, Higgins, Dana, and Huff, Connor: Accounting for Coding Uncertainty in Political Science Data
Social scientists frequently make use of datasets where one or more variables are generated through human coding decisions (e.g. democracy scores, political party manifestos). But human-coded variables typically carry some amount of measurement error.
Superti, Chiara and Gidron, Noam: Social Inclusiveness or Political Alienation?The Two Faces of Military Service in Israel.
Political institutions may have diverse, even contrasting, effects on patterns of political behavior, as with the case of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). On the one hand, the IDF generates a sense of social cohesion and facilitates political integration...
Thaler, Kai: Strategic Pandering and Rebel Recruitment
Rebel groups in civil wars sometimes gain the support of individuals or groups that should, by all appearances, logically be opposed to them. This counterintuitive result is explained through a model of rebel recruitment that describes how rebel leaders...
White, Ariel: Political Impacts of Parental Incarceration
Interactions with the criminal justice system have large and demonstrated effects on the political behavior of those targeted for arrest, criminal charges, and criminal sentencing. This project attempts to quantify the further effects of criminal...
