Preliminary Program SPSA 2020 Annual Meeting San Juan, Puerto Rico v. 1.0 (10/21/19) 2100 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 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 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 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 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 2100 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 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 village- level 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