Preliminary Program SPSA Annual Meeting San Juan, Puerto Rico v. 3.0 (11/23/2019) 1100 Registration Wednesday Wednesday Meetings 8:00am-6:00pm 1200 WSSR Workshop: Conducting Semi-structured Interviews Wednesday President's Special Panels 9:30am-1:50pm Chair Diana Gustafson, Memorial University 1200 WSSR Workshop: Defining and Working with Concepts in the Social Sciences Wednesday President's Special Panels 9:30am-1:50pm Chair Frederic Schaffer, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1600 WSSR Workshop: Conducting Semi-structured Interviews II Wednesday President's Special Panels 3:30pm-6:20pm Chair Diana Gustafson, Memorial University 2100 Causes and Consequences of Authoritarianism Thursday Public Opinion 8:00am-9:20am Participants Authoritarian Frames, Policy Preferences, and Vote Choice Katelyn Stauffer, University of South Carolina Lee Patrick Ellis, University of South Carolina Authoritarianism, Symbolic Racism, and Attitudes on the Colin Kaepernick Protests Kyla Stepp, Central Michigan University Jeremy Castle, Central Michigan University Explaining Support and Attributions for State Violence: Authoritarianism and Gunownership Patrick Gauding, University of Kansas Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas Hovering at the Polls: The relationship between helicopter behavior and political attitudes (and everything else). Christian Lindke, University of California, Riverside Daniel Oppenheimer, Carnegie Mellon University Discussant Lorenzo D'Hooge, Tilburg University 2100 Indigeneity as a Political Concept Thursday Political Theory 8:00am-9:20am Chair Christopher M Brown, Georgia Southern University Participants Indigeneity as Social Construct and Political Tool Benjamin Gregg, University of Texas at Austin Policing the African State: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Self-Determination Hayley Elszasz, University of Virginia Discussant S. Mohsin Hashim, Muhlenberg College 2100 Historical Legacies of Race in Politics Thursday Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 8:00am-9:20am Chair Guillermo Caballero, Purdue University Participants Race and Southern Prohibition Movements Teresa Cosby, Furman University Brittany Arsiniega, Furman University Unintended Consequences?: The Politics of Marijuana Legalization in the United States and its Implications on Race Revathi Hines, Southern University and A&M College No Hablo Español: An Examination of Public Support of Increased Access to Medical Interpreters Kellee Kirkpatrick, Idaho State University James W Stoutenborough, Idaho State University Megan Kathryn Warnement, Idaho State University Andrew Joseph Wrobel, Idaho State University Superfluity and Symbolic Violence: Revisiting Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question in the Era of Mass Incarceration Gabriel Anderson, University of California, Irvine Weaponizing Culture and Women’s Rights: Indigenous Women’s Indian Status in Canada Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia Discussant Andra Gillespie, Emory University The papers on this panel invite readers to reconsider several pieces of past legislation and their effects on our understanding of political movements and contemporary policy issues. 2100 How? Papers about electoral rules Thursday Electoral Politics 8:00am-9:20am Chair Jacob Brown, Harvard University Participants Electoral Reforms and Discrimination in Elections James Szewczyk, Emory University Measuring District Partisanship: A New Approach Michael D McDonald, Binghamton University Joshua N Zingher, Old Dominion University Re-thinking Electoral Bias Michael D McDonald, Binghamton University Shot in the Foot: Unintended Political Consequences of Electoral Engineering in the Turkish Parliamentary Elections in 2018 Ugurcan Evci, University of California, Irvine Marek Kaminski, University of California, Irvine Discussants Erica Frazier, FairVote Eric Loepp, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater 2100 Public Administration in the Context of Disasters, Emergencies, and Crises Thursday Public Administration 8:00am-9:20am Chair Jongsoo Park, Korea University Participants Building Community Resilience: Best Practices of Harvey 2017 Brian D Williams, Lamar University Does Diversity Management Pay Off? Performance and Health Disparities in Emergency Medical Services Austin McCrea, American University Ling Zhu, University of Houston Rescuing 911:Facilitating Data Driven Bureaucratic Decision Making Through Academic-Practitioner Partnerships William Curtis Ellis, Oral Roberts University Jason Pudlo, Oral Roberts University Jamie M Cole, Oral Roberts University The Summer from Hell: Historical Trauma, Social Equity in Baton Rouge Leslie Grover, Southern University and A&M College Trust and Communication in Cross-Border Security Networks Cali Ellis, Evergreen State College Discussants Jason McConnell, University of Wyoming Jonathan Rauh, College of Charleston 2100 Diplomats and Politics Thursday International Politics: Global Issues and IPE 8:00am-9:20am Chair Audrye Wong, Harvard University Participants Conflict, Cooperation, and Delegated DIplomacy: Evidence from the Natural Experiment of US Ambassadorial Rotation Matt Malis, New York University Diplomacy and Trade: Evidence from US ambassadors Faisal Z. Ahmed, Princeton University Alexander Slaski, Tulane University Putting Your Mouth Where the Money Is: Political Donations and China’s Influence in Australia Audrye Wong, Harvard University Evan Jones, University of Maryland, College Park Trust and mistrust in global governance for sustainability: A case of Japan's diplomacy and policy response to the global environment Masatoshi Yokota, Tokyo University of Science Discussants Tyson Chatagnier, University of Houston Brendan Cooley, Princeton University 2100 New Contexts, New Approaches: Reevaluating the Rise of Economic Inequality Thursday Class and Inequality 8:00am-9:20am Chair La Della L. Levy, College of Southern Nevada Participants Explaining Income Inequality in Florida, 2000-2016 Alyson Johnson, University of Central Florida Aubrey Jewett, University of Central Florida Indebted: American Personal Debt and its Political Consequences Giancarlo A Gonzalez, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Inequality, Corruption, and Satisfaction with Democracy: Experimental Evidence from Argentina and Mexico Gregory W Saxton, Texas Tech University Microdata and Regional-Level Variables: Inequality, Income, and Redistributive Preferences Will Horne, Princeton University Alexander Kerchner, Princeton University Power Distribution, Public Policy, and Market income Inequality in East Asia Yu Yan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Discussant La Della L. Levy, College of Southern Nevada This panel brings together papers focused on the phenomenon of growing economic inequality across various political contexts. Using new measures of inequality to investigate growing income and wealth disparities in new places, these papers establish trajectories for future research in the politics of class and inequality. 2100 Challenges to Party Systems in Europe Thursday Comparative Politics: Industrial Nations 8:00am-9:20am Chair Christopher Way, Cornell University Participants Voter Attachment, Room-to-Maneuver, and the Demise of Social Democracy Mona Krewel, Victoria University of Wellington Christian Martin, New York University Support for Hopeless Parties in Established Democracies: Preferences, Protest, and Information Robin Best, Binghamton University Who belongs now? Far-right success and mainstream migration attitudes in Germany Hannah Alarian, University of Florida Discussants Christopher Way, Cornell University Robin Best, Binghamton University In recent years, mainstream parties have come under pressure from newly emerging parties on both the left and the right. This panel the role of party strategies and positioning, vote choice, and emerging challenges such as the refugee crisis in explaining the declining vote share of long-dominant mainstream parties. 2100 Comparative Courts Thursday Judicial Politics 8:00am-9:20am Chair Lee Walker, University of North Texas Participants Death of Viceroyalty? How Inequality in Mexico's Supreme Court Undermines Indigenous Rights Alan Cardenas, University of Texas at El Paso Judicial Activism and the High Court of Australia Rhonda Evans, University of Texas at Austin The Supreme Court of Canada and Majority Opinion Authorship John Szmer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Susan Johnson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Robert Christensen, Brigham Young University Legislators in Robes: Estimating Judges' Political Preferences in a Quasi-Political Nomination Process Maoz Rosenthal, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Do citizens learn to love their courts? Causal Evidence from Germany Sivaram Cheruvu, Emory University Discussant Jeffrey Staton, Emory University 2100 New Directions in Historical Political Economy: From Economic Change to Preferences Thursday Comparative Politics: Developing Areas 8:00am-9:20am Chair Jan Pierskalla, The Ohio State University Participants Does Technology Disrupt Politics? Irrigation Technology and the Conservative Turn in Rural America Aditya Dasgupta, University of California, Merced Industrial Revolution and Political Change: Evidence from the British Isles Adriane Fresh, Duke University Statebuilding at the Grassroots: Agra district, 1871-2011 Alexander Lee, University of Rochester When State Building Backfires: Elite Divisions and Collective Action in Rebellion Francisco Garfias, University of California, San Diego Emily Sellers, Yale University Discussant Jan Pierskalla, The Ohio State University The past decades have seen a vast