American Politics Graduate Research Seminar

Faculty Leader: A ndrew Guess
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays 12:00-1:20 PM
Location: Zoom

Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

2020-2021 Schedule of Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic	Discussant	Year of Study/Purpose
8/31/2020	Professor Julia Payson (NYU/CSDP)	"Running Government Like a Business? How Management Practices Shape City Policy Priorities"
9/7/2020	David Ribar	"How Concerns Over Prestige Drive Americans’ Foreign Policy Preferences"		Practice Job Talk
9/14/2020	Michael Kistner	"Fighting for Majorities? Explaining the Development of Caucus Fundraising in American Legislatures" Supplemental Materials for "Fighting for Majorities? Explaining the Development of Caucus Fundraising in American Legislatures"		Practice Job Talk
9/21/2020	Nicole Kliewer	The Corporal as Congressional Candidate		Practice Job Talk
9/28/2020	Leah Rosenstiel	Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants		Practice Job Talk
10/5/2020	Daniel Gibbs	Individual Accountability, Collective Decision-making Appendix		Practice Job Talk
10/19/2020	Will Smith	Issues and Valence in Elections		Practice Job Talk
10/26/2020	Nathan Gibson	Centralization, Politicization, and the Modern Presidency		Practice Job Talk
11/2/2020	John Chambers	Multidimensional Bargaining and the Case of Nuclear Energy		Dissertation Chapter
11/9/2020	No seminar
11/16/2020	Claire Willeck	Active Civics: How Civic Education Shapes Political Engagement	Derek Wakefield	Draft Prospectus
11/23/2020	Will Schulz	Speaking Out: The Nature and Origins of Political Expression	Claire Willeck	Draft Prospectus
12/7/2020	Sonya Chen	Whose Side Are We On?: Relational Understandings of Race in Asian American Politics	Danny Daneri	Draft Prospectus
12/14/2020	Danny Daneri	Governing the Workplace: Corporate influence on Labor and Employment Politics in the United States	Will Schulz	Draft Prospectus
2/8/2021	Michael Pomirchy	A Theory of Intra-Party Factions in the U.S. Congress	Ben Hammond	Chapter
2/15/2021	Naijia Liu	Latent Factor Approach to Missing not at Random - An application on Observational Causal Inference	Leah Rosenstiel	Chapter
2/22/2021	Anthony Taboni / Alina Dunlap	Rulemaking with Legal Uncertainty Accountability in the Stewardship of State Government: The Political Costs of Budget Delay	Roel Bos / Rob Oldham	2nd Year 591 Project
3/1/2021	R oel Bos / Rob Oldham	Strategic Legislative Staff Investment: A Model The Impact of Supermajoritarian Rules on Lawmaking: Evidence from the American States	Anthony Taboni / Alina Dunlap	2nd Year 591 Project
3/8/2021	E phraim Shimko	Costly Cover-ups		Chapter
3/22/2021	J ulian Dean	How state Attorneys General use litigation against the federal government to seek re-election		Chapter
3/30/2021	Ben Hammond, Claire Willeck, Stephanie Chan			Recruitment Panel
4/5/2021	Gabriel Borelli	Conservatism and Ideology in the Age of Donald Trump	Eric Manning	Dissertation Chapter
4/12/2021	Sebastian Saling	It was crime at the time but the laws have changed - Estimating local popular demand for punitivity	Tom Donnelly	Chapter
4/19/2021	S tephanie Chan	Creative Citizenship: Immigrant’s Political Incorporation	Ryan Bell	Chapter
4/26/2021	Ryan Bell	Little Acts of Rebellion: Understandings of Power, Politics, and Contesting Heteronormativity	Stephanie Chan	Chapter
5/3/2021	Tom Donnelly	From Lincoln’s Justices to the Fuller Court Revolution: Race, Class, and the Rise of the Modern Supreme Court	Sebastian Saling	Chapter
5/10/21	Ben Hammond	Interbranch Bargaining and Discretionary Appropriations		Chapter
5/17/2021	E ric Manning	“Can You Spare a Dime?” Donor Demographics and Behavior in the (Online) Campaign Ecosystem	Michael Kistner	Chapter
5/24/2021	Derek Wakefield	How Latinx Political Diversity Affects Responses to Partisan Campaign Appeals	Sonya Chen	Dissertation Chapter
5/31/2021	Andrew Mack	Incentives for Learning in Repeated Elections	Michael Pomirchy	Chapter

2019-2020

2019-2020 Schedule of Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic	Discussant	Year of Study/Purpose
9/16/2019	Prof. Patricia Kirkland	Introduction & Abbreviated Research Presentation	N/A	Introduction to Seminar
9/23/2019	Korhan Kocak	Provoking the Opposition	N/A	Practice Job Talk
9/30/2019	Svetlana Kosterina	Multilateral Bargaining with Collective Proposal Control	N/A	Practice Job Talk
10/7/2019	Ephraim Shimko	Overlapping Jurisdictions in the Executive Branch: An Informational Rationale	Dan Gibbs	3rd year draft prospectus
10/14/2019	Chaya Crowder	Intersectional Solidarity: The Political Consequences of a Consciousness of Race, Gender and Sexuality	N/A	Practice Job Talk
10/21/2019	Tom Donnelly	The Reconstruction Justices: The Supreme Court, the Republican Party, and the Dynamics of Constitutional Change	Derek Wakefield	3rd year draft prospectus
11/04/2019	Stephanie Chan	Creative Citizenship: Immigrants' Incorporation into the Racial Hierarchy and Political Participation Appendix	Ryan Bell	3rd year draft prospectus
11/11/2019	Derek Wakefield	Evaluating Campaign and Advocacy Group Efforts to Mobilize Latino Voters	Will Schulz	3rd year draft prospectus
11/18/2019	Gabe Borelli	Conservatism and Ideology in the Age of Donald Trump	Michael Pomirchy	3rd year draft prospectus
11/25/2019	Ryan Bell	Power and Participation	Sonya Chen	3rd year draft prospectus
12/2/2019	Eric Manning	Small Donors in American Politics: An Agenda for Examining Prevalence, Preferences, and Effects on Elite Behavior	Will Smith	3rd year draft prospectus
12/9/2019	Sebastian Saling	Three Research Proposals on Law and Politics	Julian Dean	3rd year draft prospectus
1/13/2020	David Ribar	How Concerns Over Prestige Influence Americans' Foreign Policy Preferences	Nicole Kliewer	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
2/3/2020	Will Schulz	A Spiral of Partisanship? Social Influence & Political Expression	Danny Daneri	2nd year 591 paper
2/10/2020	Sonya Chen	From Remedial Justice to Diversity: The Pillars of Support for Affirmative Action	Stephanie Chan	2nd year 591 paper
2/17/2020	Danny Daneri	Climate Change and American Political Behavior: How Scale, Place, and Identity Affect Americans’ Attitudes toward Climate Policy and Action	Michael Pomirchy	2nd year 591 paper
2/24/2020	Julian Dean	Litigation and the Politics of Approval Regulation in the United States	Sebastian Saling	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
3/2/2020	Dan Gibbs	Individual Accountability, Collective Decision-making	Andrew Mack	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
3/9/2020	Leah Rosenstiel	Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants	Nathan Gibson	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
3/23/2020	Naijia Liu	A Latent Factor Approach to Missing Not at Random	Svetlana Kosterina	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
3/31/2020	Nathan Gibson, Michael Kistner, Leah Rosenstiel, William Schulz	Presidential Centralization with Politicization. Fighting for Majorities? Explaining the Development of Caucus Fundraising in American Legislatures. Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants. What Goes With What?	N/A	PhD Visit Research Presentation
4/6/2020	Will Smith	Issues and Valence in Elections	Eric Manning	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
4/13/2020	Nathan Gibson	Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization	Leah Rosenstiel	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
4/20/2020	Nicole Kliewer	The Paradox of Veteran Participation in Congressional Campaigns	David Ribar	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
4/27/2020	Michael Kistner	Legislating or Electioneering? Electoral Demands and Policy Productivity in the American States	Ben Hammond	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
5/4/2020	Michael Pomirchy	A Theory of Intra-Party Factions in the U.S. Congress	Gabe Borelli	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
5/11/2020	Ben Hammond	Information and Budgeting	Michael Kistner	4th/5th year dissertation chapter
5/18/2020	Andrew Mack	Incentives for Learning in Repeated Elections	Ephraim Shimko	4th/5th year dissertation chapter

2018-2019

2018-2019 Schedule of Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic	Discussant	Year of Study/Purpose
9/17/2018	Jacob Grumbach, CSDP Fellow	Interest Group Activists, Party Insiders, and the Polarization of State Legislatures	N/A	Guest Speaker
9/24/2018	Alexander Kustov	Borders of Compassion: Immigration and the Politics of Parochial Altruism	N/A	Practice Job Talk
10/1/2018	Asya Magazinnik	Elective Enforcement: The Politics of Local Immigration Policing	N/A	Practice Job Talk
10/8/2018	Sepehr Shahshahani	The Fact-Law Distinction	N/A	Practice Job Talk
10/15/2018	Andrew Mack	Realignments in Legislative Elections	Svetlana Kosterina	3rd year draft prospectus
10/22/2018	Andrew Proctor	Coming Out to Vote	N/A	3rd year draft prospectus
11/5/2018	David Ribar	The Origins and Impacts of Foreign Policy Preferences	Nicole Kliewer	3rd year draft prospectus
11/12/2018	Julian Dean	Interest Groups and the Judicial Veto Over Regulations	Sebastian Saling	3rd year draft prospectus
11/26/2018	Michael Pomirchy	Conditional Responsiveness of State Legislators	Will Smith	3rd year draft prospectus
12/3/2018	Naijia Liu	Honest Inference with Missing Data	Leah Rosenstiel	3rd year draft prospectus
12/10/2018	Leah Rosenstiel	Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants	Asya Magazinnik	3rd year draft prospectus
1/21/2019	Ben Hammond	Information and Budgeting	Nathan Gibson	3rd year draft prospectus
2/11/2019	Stephanie Chan Derek Wakefield	Racialized Immigrants: Analyzing the Persistent Participation Gap The Impact of Social Identity and Issue Positions on Latino Candidate Preference	Tanika Raychaudhuri	2nd year 591 paper
2/18/2019	Sebastian Saling Tom Donnelly	A Bridge Too Far? Closing Large Temporal Gaps in Ideal Point Estimates of the Supreme Court The Reconstruction Justices: The Supreme Court, The Republican Party, and the Dynamics of Constitutional Change	Julian Dean	2nd year 591 paper
2/25/2019	Ryan Bell Gabriel Borelli	Beyond Participation: Political Efficacy and Voting Behavior Misinformation in an Era of Fake News	Naijia Liu	2nd year 591 paper
3/4/2019	Ephraim Shimko Eric Manning	Bureaucratic Design and Information Extraction Campaign E-mail Lists: Small-Donor Fundraising as a Representational Constraint?	Michael (Eric) Kistner	2nd year 591 paper
3/11/2019	Tanika Raychaudhuri	Socializing Democrats: Examining Asian American Vote Choice with National Surveys	Chaya Crowder	4/5th year dissertation chapter
3/26/2019	Andrew Proctor Tanika Raychaudhuri Leah Rosenstiel and Ben Hammond Michael Kistner Susanne Schwarz	Politics Ph.D. Visit Presentations	N/A	N/A
4/1/2019	Michael Kistner	Does Fundraising Impede Legislative Productivity	Eric Manning	4/5th year dissertation chapter
4/8/2019	Svetlana Kosterina	Multilateral Bargaining with Collective Proposal Control	Andrew Mack	4/5th year dissertation chapter
4/15/2019	Will Smith	The Role of Ideology, Messaging, and Valence in Congressional Elections	Michael Pomirchy	4/5th year dissertation chapter
4/22/2019	Nathan Gibson	Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization	Ben Hammond	4/5th year dissertation chapter
4/29/2019	Nicole Kliewer	The Corporal as Congressional Candidate	David Ribar	4/5th year dissertation chapter
5/6/2019	Dan Gibbs	Accountability and Pandering in Groups	Korhan Kocak	4/5th year dissertation chapter
5/13/2019	Chaya Crowder	Measuring Intersectional Solidarity: The Political Consequences of a Consciousness of Race, Gender and Sexuality	Susanne Schwarz	4/5th year dissertation chapter
5/20/2019	John Chambers	Food Safety Regulation Model	Andrew Proctor	4/5th year dissertation chapter
5/27/2019	Korhan Kocak	Provoking the Opposition	Dan Gibbs	4/5th year dissertation chapter