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The eleventh meeting of the Visions in Methodology conference was November 11 to November 13 at Claremont Graduate University, with presentations delivered both live and online from leading scholars advancing research in political methodology.
Presentations addressed measurement, causal inference, and the application of advanced statistical methods to substantive research questions in political science from graduate students and faculty.
Conducted in a workshop format with concurrent presentations in two meeting rooms, the event advanced research knowledge and practice while providing opportunities for networking and mentoring in the political methodology community.
Hosts: Melissa Rogers (CGU), Rena Salayeva (CGU)
Location: Burkle 14 and Burkle 16, Claremont Graduate University
Zoom links: expired
VIM Flyer (General Information)
VIM Flyer (Undergraduate Session)
2021 VIM Conference Program (pdf)
Schedule:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11
6 pm – 8 pm
Pre-conference dinner (VIM participants)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
8 am – 9 am
Breakfast, Burkle
8:30 am – 9 am
CGU Check-in, COVID protocol. Bring a digital copy of your vax card.
9 am – 9:15 am
Welcome Remarks by Patricia Easton, CGU Provost, Burkle 16
9:15 am – 10:45 am Friday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Nicole Martin (Manchester, Zoom) – Is This Really About Immigration? Testing The Domain-Specificity of Immigration Preferences
Danielle Lupton (Colgate, Zoom) – Tired of Playing the HITs? Cognitive Overburdening in Amazon Mechanical Turk Experiments
Discussant: Nick Weller (UC Riverside, in person)
Burkle 16
Katherine McKiernan (Tulane, in person) – Measuring Local-Level Patronage: A Mixed-Membership Approach
Abby Wood (USC, in person) and Zoe Nemerever (Texas Tech, in person) – Outside Campaign Donations in Rural Congressional Districts
Discussant: Jonathan Katz (Caltech, in person)
15 min
Coffee Break
11 am – 12:30 pm Friday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Emma Rodman (Princeton, Zoom) and Nora Webb Williams (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Zoom) – Transcending Training from Scratch: The Possibilities of Transfer Learning
Sarah Dreier (New Mexico, in person) – Troubles in Text: Finetuning NLP to Recognize Government Rationalizations for Rights Abuses
Discussant: Ines Levin
(UC Irvine, in person)
Burkle 16
NaLette Brodnax (Georgetown, in person) – State Policies and the US Election Franchise: A Multistage Approach
Luwei Ying (Washington University in St. Louis, Zoom) – The Unified Strategy of Religious Extremists: Military Power and Ideological Appeals
Discussant: Kevin Esterling
(UC Riverside, in person)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch Break. Professional Development: Balancing Life and Career.
Session Leader: Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa). Burkle/Jenkins Courtyard
Materials: Dion, Michelle L., Jane L. Sumner, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. 2018. “Gendered Citation Patterns Across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields.” Political Analysis 26(3): 312-327.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Friday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Nadiya Kostyuk (Georgia Institute of Technology, Zoom) – Diffusion of State Military Cybercapacity: Learning from Allies
Bomi Lee (Kentucky, in person) – Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration
Discussant: Steven Liao
(UC Riverside, in person)
Burkle 16
Debra Leiter (Missouri-Kansas City, in person) – The Crowding of Social Isolation: How Social Context Affects COVID-19 Attitudes and Behaviors
Elaine Denny (UC Merced, in person) – Mental Wellness Promotion, Anxiety, and Civic Engagement
Discussant: Carlos Algara
(CGU, in person)
15 min
Coffee Break
3:15 pm – 4 pm Friday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Isabel Williams (Arizona, Zoom) – How Frames Shape Attitudes Towards Refugee Restrictions: A Study of Christian and Muslim Americans
Discussant: Tyler Reny (CGU, in person)
Burkle 16
Ashley Blum (UCLA, in person) – Choosing Propaganda: Measuring Audiences News Preferences with Evidence from Russia
Discussant: Sarah Shugars (NYU, Zoom)
5 min
Break
4:05 pm – 4:45 pm
2021 Andrew Carnegie Scholar Caroline Tolbert (University of Iowa) “Election Reforms, Election Administration and Voter Turnout in 2020 (Catalist Data),” Burkle 16
5 min
Break
4:50 pm – 5:30 pm
Featured Senior Scholar Jennifer Merolla (UC Riverside): “A Shared Experience: Academic Discipline, Gender and Other Challenges,” Burkle 16
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Break
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Dinner. All attendees are welcome to join.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
8 am – 9 am
Breakfast, Burkle
9am – 10:30am Saturday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Beyza Han Tuncez (UC Riverside, Zoom) – Guns and Ballots: Ethnic Voting in the Times of Ethnic Conflict
Soha Hammam (CGU, in person) – A Multimethod Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcome
Discussant: Kerstin Fisk (Loyola Marymount, in person)
Burkle 16
Aila Matanock (UC Berkeley, Zoom) – Experiments in Post-Conflict Contexts
Francesca Parente (Christopher Newport, in person) – From “It is Identified” to “How Much Confounding Would It Take”: The Sensitivity-Based Approach to Observational Research
Discussants: Tanu Kumar (William and Mary, in person) and Alma Bezares Calderon (Whittier, in person)
15 min
Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm Saturday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Hannah Paul (Colorado Boulder, in person) – What Goes up Must Come Down: Theory and Model Specification of Non-Linear Dynamics
Boyoon Lee (Penn State, in person) – The Impact of Education on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
Discussant: Javier Rodriguez
(CGU, Zoom)
Burkle 16
Sherry Zaks (USC, in person) – Do we know it when we see it? Re-Conceptualizing Rebel-to-Party Transition
Elissa Berwick (McGill, in person) – Multidimensional Latent Ideology in Spanish Regions
Discussant: Diogo Ferrari
(UC Riverside, in person)
15 min
Break
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch Break. Professional Development for Undergraduates: Power Up Your Political Science
Session Leader: Melissa Rogers (CGU)
Location: Tent on the Tenth Street, a big white tent outside the Honnold Mudd Library (northern entrance).
15 min
Break
2 pm – 3:30 pm Saturday
Presentation Panels concurrent sessions
Burkle 14
Kostanca Dhima (Texas A&M, in person) – Women’s Legislative Representation: Supply, Demand, and Institutions
Hanzhang Liu (Pitzer, in person) – State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China
Discussant: Betsy Sinclair (Washington University in St. Louis, Zoom)
Burkle 16
Michelle Io-Low (Stony Brook, in person) – The Influence of Attitudes Towards Undocumented Immigrants on Economic Preferences
Yesola Kweon (Utah State, in person) – Age and Trade Policy Preferences in an Aging Society: Evidence from Japan
Discussants: Tanu Kumar (William and Mary, in person) and Alma Bezares Calderon (Whittier, in person)
3:30 pm – 3:35 pm
Closing Remarks by Melissa Rogers
3:35 pm – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Wine and Cheese Happy Hour
Harper Courtyard, next to the Provost’s Office
6 pm – 8 pm
Dinner (VIM participants)
About: VIM addresses the broad goal of supporting women who study political methodology. VIM began as an implementation of recommendations for improved networking and systematic mentoring from the recent National Academy of Sciences report, the APSA Workshop on the Advancement of Women in Academic Political Science, and the 2006 Political Methodology Long Range Strategic Planning Committee Report.
VIM is committed to supporting all individuals who have identified and continue to identify as women (including cisgender and trans women), intersex individuals who do not identify as male, individuals assigned female at birth who have not taken medical or legal steps to identify as male, and individuals assigned female at birth who do not identify within the gender binary.
Please visit the VIM website for more details and previous conferences: http://visionsinmethodology.org/
Any in-person participant will need to comply with CGU rules about campus access, showing proof of vaccination. For more information, visit CGU Campus visitor policy and Campus visit procedures.
For questions and more information, contact iprc@cgu.edu or rena.salayeva@cgu.edu