Visions in Methodology 2016
Hosted by UC Davis and UC Merced
May 16 – 18, 2016
Program Committee:
Amber Boydstun (UC Davis)
Courtenay Conrad (UC Merced)
Emily Ritter (UC Merced)
The 2016 meeting was sponsored by:
- National Science Foundation
- UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences
- UC Davis Department of Political Science
- UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
- UC Merced Political Science Unit
- UC Merced Tony Coehlo Endowed Chair of Public Policy
- UC Merced Graduate Division
- UC Merced Academic Personnel Office
Resources:
- Amy Cuddy’s TED talk on power poses
- Radio show, “I’m Sorry, But May We Discuss Tentative Speech?”
- Just Not Sorry (Gmail plug-in to flag tentative language)
- WomenAlsoKnowStuff
- Jane Lawrence Sumner’s Gender- and Race-Balance Syllabi Tool
- Don’t Be Part of the Problem Blog
- Hanna Wallach’s
- Article: Has Contemporary Academia Outgrown the Carl Sagan Effect?
- Blog post by Michael Alvarez, Tiffany Barnes, Brett Ashley Leeds, and Leslie Schwindt-Bayer: The Importance of Mentoring (based on the 2014 APSA panel Meg Shannon organized)
VIM 2016 Full Program:
Monday, May 16, 2016
4:30pm Registration (UC Davis Alumni Center)
5:00pm Drinks & Dinner
6:15pm Welcome and Introductions: Amber Boydstun (UC Davis)
6:30pm Featured Autobiographies:
- Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan)
- Ashley Leeds (Rice University)
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
9:00-9:30am Registration & Coffee/Tea (Putah Creek Lodge)
9:30-10:10am Presentation: Lisa Bryant (Cal State, Fresno) and Julia Marin Hellwege (University of New Mexico), “Working Moms Represent: Fighting for Family-Friendly Policies in Congress”
Discussant: Nichole Bauer (University of Alabama)
10:10-10:25am Break
10:25-11:05am Presentation: Alison Craig (Ohio State University), “Crafting a Broad Appeal: Audiences and Collaborators in the U.S. House of Representatives”
Discussant: Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan)
11:05-11:20am Break
11:20-11:50am Senior scholar presentation: Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research), “Bayesian Poisson Tucker Decomposition for International Relations”
11:50am-1:50pm Women participants only: Lunch and Professionalization Roundtable 1: “The Perpetuation of Implicit Biases Through Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication”
Moderator: Courtenay Conrad (UC Merced)
Featured speakers:
- Nicholas Palomeres (UC Davis)
- Ryan Louis (Ottawa University)
- Kim Shauman (UC Davis)
- Video postcard from Emily Beaulieu (University of Kentucky)
1:50-2:30pm Presentation: Laurel Eckhouse (UC Berkeley), “Making the Law by Measuring its Enforcers: Quantitative Management in Policing”
Discussant: Courtenay Conrad (UC Merced)
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:25pm Presentation: Sharece Thrower (University of Pittsburgh), “The Constraining Power of the Purse: Executive Discretion and Legislative Appropriations” (coauthored with Alexander Bolton)
Discussant: Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University)
3:25-4:00pm Walk in arboretum
4:00-4:40pm Presentation: Sarah Bush (Temple University), “An Experiment on the Use of Electronic Devices to Collect Survey Data” (coauthored with Lauren Prather)
Discussant: Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa)
5:30pm Drinks & Dinner (John Scott’s home)
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
9:00-9:30am Coffee/Tea (Putah Creek Lodge)
9:30-10:10am Presentation: Baobao Zhang (Yale University), “Methodology for Regression Discontinuity Design Using Survey Data”
Discussant: Vera E. Troeger (University of Warwick)
10:10-10:25am Break
10:25-11:05am Presentation: Sofia B. Vera Rojas (University of Pittsburgh), “The Heterogeneous Effect of Corruption: Experimental Evidence from Peru”
Discussant: Lisa García Bedolla (UC Berkeley)
11:05-11:20am Break
11:20-11:50am Senior scholar presentation: Vera E. Troeger (University of Warwick), “Bridging the Gap Between Strength and Validity: How to increase the efficiency of weak continuous instruments”
11:50am-1:50pm For both men and women: Lunch and Professionalization Roundtable 2: “Increasing Women’s Visibility in Political Methodology: Evidence and Advice for Both Women and Men”
Moderator: Emily Ritter (UC Merced)
Featured speakers:
- Jeff Colgan (Brown University)
- John Sides (George Washington University)
- Amber Boydstun (UC Davis) & Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University)
1:50-2:30pm Presentation: Georgia Kernell (UCLA), “Party Organizations and Voter-Candidate Congruence”
Discussant: Ellie Powell (University of Wisconsin)
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:25pm Presentation: Tess Wise (Harvard University), “The Limits of Causal Inference”
Discussant: Jennifer Pan (Stanford University)
3:25-4:00pm Walk in arboretum
4:00-4:30pm Senior scholar presentation: Monika Nalepa (University of Chicago) and Milena Ang (University of Chicago), “Transitional Justice and the Quality of Representation”
4:30pm VIM 2017: Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University)
4:40pm Closing discussion: Amber Boydstun (UC Davis)
5:00pm Women participants only: Drinks & Dinner (Putah Creek Lodge)
VIM 2016 Participants:
- Milena Ang (University of Chicago)
- Melissa Baker (UC Merced)
- Nichole Bauer (University of Alabama)
- Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan)
- Cory Belden (UC Davis)
- Amber Boydstun (UC Davis)
- Lisa Bryant (Cal State, Fresno)
- Sarah Bush (Temple University)
- Christy Cahill (UC Davis)
- Kayla Canelo (UC Merced)
- Chelsea Coe (UC Merced)
- Courtenay R. Conrad (UC Merced)
- Alison Craig (Ohio State University)
- Hannah Dillman (UC Davis)
- Laurel Eckhouse (UC Berkeley)
- Heather Elko McKibben (UC Davis)
- Lisa García Bedolla (UC Berkeley)
- Emily Hencken Ritter (UC Merced)
- Adrienne Hosek (UC Davis)
- Jaime Jackson (UC Davis)
- Danielle Joesten Martin (Sacramento State)
- Emily Kalah Gade (University of Washington)
- Georgia Kernell (UCLA)
- Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University)
- Ashley Leeds (Rice University)
- Debra Leiter (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
- Julia Marin Hellwege (University of New Mexico)
- Shawna Metzger (National University of Singapore)
- Monika Nalepa (University of Chicago)
- Annerose Nisser (University of Konstanz)
- Jen Pan (Stanford University)
- Lauren Peritz (UC Davis)
- Ellie Powell (University of Wisconsin)
- Tessa Provins (UC Merced)
- Tesalia Rizzo (MIT)
- Mari Rodriguez (UC Davis)
- Annelise Russell (University of Texas-Austin)
- Melissa Sands (Harvard University)
- Katherine Sawyer (University of Maryland)
- Kelsey Shoub (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Tricia Sullivan (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Sharece Thrower (University of Pittsburgh)
- Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa)
- Vera E. Troeger (University of Warwick)
- Mona Vakilifathi (UCSD)
- Sofia B. Vera Rojas (University of Pittsburgh)
- Kau Vue (UC Merced)
- Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)
- Emily West (NYU)
- Tess Wise (Harvard University)
- Ashley Woo (UC Merced)
- Baobao Zhang (Yale University)