Preliminary Program

SPSA 2020 Annual Meeting
San Juan, Puerto Rico

v. 1.0 (10/21/19)

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Indigeneity as a Political Concept Chair
Thursday Political Theory

8:00am-9:20am
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

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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.

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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

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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

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Thursday International Politics: Global Issues and IPE

8:00am-9:20am

Diplomats and Politics 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
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

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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

Discussants

Taylor Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis Lorenzo D'Hooge, Tilburg University

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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 expansion of work applying classic political economy models and techniques of analysis to historical events. This panel includes a set of cutting edge papers from this literature, drawn from a wide variety of chronological and geographical settings. Directly or indirectly, all the papers examine the effects of economic changes (technological change, trade expansion, drought, the overall expansion of the 20th century Indian economy) on political preferences. All use original, often quite extensive projects of data collection. Dasgupta’s paper examines why rural voters support conservative parties despite low income levels that should dictate support for redistribution. Drawing on a historical natural experiment in the American great plains, it traces the “conservative turn” in rural America to a mid-20th century technological revolution in agriculture: the introduction of new irrigation technologies, notably center-pivot-irrigation, which made it much easier to profitably irrigate crops on a large scale with groundwater. It provides evidence that counties with aquifers became systematically more conservative in elections following the introduction of the new irrigation technology, due to the consolidation of large-scale farms based on water-intensive crops. In these areas, the rise of concentrated agribusiness interests played a critical role in tilting elections in a conservative direction. The findings highlight how biased technological change, by activating special interests, can play a disruptive role in politics. Fresh’s paper considers the political consequences of the dramatic expansion of British overseas trade beginning in the late 16th century brought about by the discovery of new ocean shipping routes to Asia and the Americas. Using an original individual-level dataset on the characteristics of Members of Parliament in England and Wales spanning two centuries (1550-1750), it examines the differential effect of an aggregate trend in expanding trade for constituencies more (as compared to less) directly connected to the expanding commercial economy. It finds that trade increased electoral contests and may have led the commercial interest to be more represented in parliament, but little evidence that expanding trade fundamentally empowered new societal groups on other dimensions --- dynastic and aristocratic MPs, two markers of the traditional elite, were unaffected by the change. Together these findings suggest conditions under which economic change produces a transformation in the political elite. Lee’s paper takes a critical approach to the historical political economy literature. This literature is frequently characterized by highly aggregated units of analysis, a tight focus on a single intervention and a elision of events and conditions between the intervention and the measurement of the outcome. This paper analyses variation in the incidence of a wide variety of historical institutions and economic trends—colonial, precolonial, and postcolonial—at the village level within a single Indian district, using a complete panel dataset of villagelevel public goods provision over the 1871-2011 period, and additional data on precolonial and colonial landholding and land tenure arrangements and contemporary voting. While it finds that there are many correlations between historical institutions, the land tenure system, and contemporary voting and public goods, the historical interventions are so correlated with each other as to make causal inference difficult. The results indicate the obstacles to modeling the outcomes of complicated and interdependent historical processes. Sellers and Garfias. examine the complementary roles of state weakness, elite divisions, and popular grievances on rebellion. They argue that state-building efforts increase division between local and national elites, which undermines provincial peacekeeping efforts and provides an opening for popular rebellion. For a given level of grievance, revolts from below are therefore more likely to be attempted and more likely to spread in areas where local elites harbor grievances over earlier state-building efforts. They provide support for the theory using subnational data on rebellion, tax centralization, and drought from the late 17th-century to the Mexican War of Independence. We show that droughts led to peasant uprisings throughout the late colonial period, but it was not until the weakening of national institutions following the fall of the Bourbon dynasty in 1808 that these uprisings grew into a large-scale insurgency. Insurgent mobilization during the Independence War was more likely in drought-affected areas that had higher exposure to the Bourbon centralization of tax collection, which reduced the rents available to the local

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New Contexts, New Approaches: Reevaluating the Rise of Economic Inequality
Thursday Class and Inequality

8:00am-9:20am

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

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.

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Challenges to Party Systems in Europe
Thursday Comparative Politics: Industrial Nations

8:00am-9:20am

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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.

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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

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Thursday International Politics: Conflict and Security

8:00am-9:20am

Military Buildups and Expenditures Chair

Ethan Spangler, Independent Scholar

Participants

Arming Costs Humanity More Than War
Andrew Coe, Vanderbilt University Taylor Dalton, University of Southern California
Arming for Respect: Status Motivations and Arms Buildups
Aaron Shreve, Randolph College
Communities of Outlaws: Intellectual Property Protection and Arms Transfers
Robert Farley, University of Kentucky Charles Dainoff, University of Idaho Erik Fay, University of Kentucky
Of Mountains, Rivers, and Oceans: Geographic Effects on Military Expenditures, 1961-2012
Matthew Christopher Millard, University of California, San Diego

Discussants

Jared Oestman, Rice University Ethan Spangler, Independent Scholar

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Civil War and Counterinsurgency
Thursday International Politics: Conflict and Security

8:00am-9:20am

Chair

Donald Beaudette, Oxford College of Emory University

Participants

Cutting the Ties That Bind: Communal Punishment and Counterinsurgency
Donald Beaudette, Oxford College of Emory University MK Healy, Emory University
Legitimacy in the Courts: Incumbent Justice and Rebel Criminal Activity During Civil War
Justin Conrad, University of Georgia Liana Eustacia Reyes, Rice University
#MeToo goes to War: The Role of Peacetime Gender Norms on Sexual Violence during Conflict
Kanika Varma, American University
Testing the Effects of Airstrikes on Insurgent Initiated Violence
Joshua Allen, Georgia State University
Troops or Tanks? Rethinking Mechanization in Iraq
Ryan Van Wie, University of Michigan Jacob Walden, University of Michigan

Discussants

Benjamin Laughlin, New York University Abu Dhabi Rachel Harmon, Emory University

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Careers and Characteristics of State Government Officials
Thursday State Politics

8:00am-9:20am

Chair

David R. Jones, Baruch College

Participants

Influence in State Legislatures
Hannah Wilson, University of Notre Dame
In the Interests of Millennials? Exploring Generational Representation in U.S. State Legislatures
Stella Rouse, University of Maryland, College Park Jay Barth, Hendrix College Charles Hunt, Boise State University Timothy Grant Dinehart, Independent Scholar
The Relative Importance of State Attorneys General Over Time
Thomas Gray, University of Texas at Dallas
Understanding the Dynamics of State Legislative Careers
Zachary Baumann, Florida Southern College

Discussants

Jason Harold Windett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Jonathan Winburn, University of Mississippi

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Barriers to Political Participation
Thursday Democratic Participation & Civic Engagement

8:00am-9:20am

Chair

Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh

Participants

Felony disenfranchisement and neighborhood spillover effects in New York City
Kevin Morris, Brennan Center for Justice
From Talk to Action: Examining Felon Disenfranchisement in Florida
Morgan Higman, Florida State University
How Previous Election Experiences Influence Individuals' Decisions to Participate in Future Elections
Nadine Suzanne Gibson, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation
Dongkyu Kim, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Mi-Son Kim, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Sang-jic Lee, Seoul National University
Is Political Representation Even Possible Today?
David V. Edwards, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh

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Executive Council I Participants
Thursday Meetings

8:00am-11:00am
Daniel Lewis, Siena College Jeff Gill, American University Cherie Maestas, Purdue University Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin Marc Hetherington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Haire, University of Georgia Angela K. Lewis, University of Alabama at Birmingham Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida Robert M Howard, Southern Political Science Association, Inc. Jeffery Jenkins, University of Southern California Keith Gaddie, University of Oklahoma Dan Gillion, University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Maggie Penn, University of Chicago Martha Kropf, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Santiago Olivella, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alixandra B. Yanus, High Point University Richard G Forgette, University of Mississippi Marvin Overby, University of Missouri Richard Pacelle, Jr, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Rich Engstrom, Southern Political Science Association, Inc.

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CWC#12 Panel 1: Water Services and Public Engagement/Participation
Thursday Conference Within A Conference

8:00am-9:20am

Chair

Evelyn Trammell, Florida International University

Participants

Patterns of Participation in Urban Environmental Management: A Supply-Side Theory of Coproduction
Manuel P Teodoro, Texas A&M University Robin Rose Saywitz, Texas A&M University
The influence of power asymmetries in the formation of local groundwater agencies in California
Linda Estelí Méndez-Barrientos, University of California, Davis Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis
There’s Something in the Water: People vs. Newark
Diana P. Negron, Rutgers University - Newark
The importance of local communities’ climate in determining public perception regarding appropriate uses of reclaimed water Lachezar Anguelov, Evergreen State College

The papers on this panel consider the role of political institutions in structuring public engagement and perceptions of urban water management.

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CWC#1 Panel 1: Influences on Elite Actions
Thursday Conference Within A Conference

8:00am-9:20am

Chair

Christian Grose, University of Southern California

Participants

Why do Politicians Misperceive Voter Preferences? Observational and Experimental Evidence
Miguel Pereira, Washington University in St. Louis
Policy Congruence for All or Negative Partisanship for the Base? How Political Elites View
Representation in an Age of Affective Polarization Mia Costa, Dartmouth College
Public hearings vs. survey data: How different forms of public opinion influence local officials
Adam Dynes, Brigham Young University Chris Karpowtiz, Brigham Young University Quin Monson, Brigham Young University
To Ban or not to Ban: Explaining Support for a Ban on Religious Symbols among Political Candidates
Mike Medeiros, University of Amsterdam Colin Scott, McGill University
Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies: Evidence from Latin American Countries
Umberto Mignozzetti, Fundação Getúlio Vargas David Skarbek, Brown University Danilo Freire, Brown University
Interest Groups, Policy Representation and the Legitimacy of Governance
Anne Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, Leiden University & University of Bergen Stefanie Reher, University of Strathclyde

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CWC#14 Behaviors and Institutions in Authoritarian Politics (1): Information, Participation, and Regime Resilience
Thursday Conference Within A Conference

8:00am-9:20am

Chair

Hiroki Takeuchi, Southern Methodist University

Participants

Authoritarian Resilience and the Chinese State: Thou Doth Protest Too Much
Carrie Liu Currier, Texas Christian University
Information, Concessions and Reneging in Authoritarian Regimes
Sasha de Vogel, University of Michigan
Internal Journalism and the Building of an Information State in the People's Republic of China in
Comparative Perspective Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University
Protest and Crisis of Democracy: A Comparative Study in Latin America
Yuko Sato, University of Missouri