Faculty Leader

LaFleur Stephens-Dougan

Meeting Day/Time

Mondays 12:00-1:20 PM

Location

127 Corwin

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.

2024-2025 Schedule of Presentations

Fall 2024

Date Presenter Title/Paper Discussant(s)

9/09/2024

Introduction Meeting

 

 

9/16/2024

Anthony Taboni

The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Cases of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

 

9/23/2024

Alex Gazmararian

The Source of Partisan Change: Evidence from the Shale Gas Shock in American Coal Country

 

9/30/2024

Ephraim Shimko

Cheap (Talk) Shots: Discrediting the Media to Stay in Office

 

10/07/2024

Dahyun Choi

 

 

10/21/2024

Rob Oldham

Congress in Crisis: Lawmaking under Pressure

 

11/04/2024

Reilly Steel

The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022

Haodi Dong
11/18/2024 Roel Bos Interest Groups Influence on Policy Proposals and Passage Joshua Limpert
12/09/2024

William Wen (9:30am-10:50am)

&

Sam Simon (12pm-1:20pm)

 Modeling Campaign and Media Effects at the Individual Level

&

The Logic of Congressional Constitutionalism

Lucas Ophoff

&

Amy Jeon

 

SPRING 2025

 

Date Presenter Title/Paper Discussant(s)

1/27/2025

Haodi Dong

Judicial Review of Agency Policymaking

Reilly Steel

2/03/2025

 Yun Choi

Measuring Partisan Bias in News Images: A Case Study of U.S. Protests

William Wen

2/10/2025

Ayse Eldes

Congressional Investigations of Firms: How Congress Selects Companies to Investigate in Public Hearings

Renold Mueller

2/17/2025

Ke Liang

Institutional Trust and Law Abidingness

Isaiah Johnson

2/24/2025

Kodiak Sauer

The Experts I Listen To: An Investigation into the Determinants of Climate Policy Support and Trust in Science

Adrian Pietrzak

3/03/2025

Lucas Ophoff

Political Behavior Across Social Media

Ke Liang

3/18/2025

*Date & Location Change: Tuesday in 201 Whig Hall

Adrian Pietrzak, Ismail White, Hye Young You

 

 

3/24/2025

Amy Jeon

Battling the EPA: Evidence on Interest Group Challenges

Sam Simon

3/31/2025

Josh Limpert

Introspection 

Kodiak Sauer

4/07/2025

Isaiah Johnson

The Political Economy of Multiracial Candidates

Jeron Fenton

4/14/2025

Kaiyla Dartey

Chapter 1: Electoral Landscape & Strategic Navigation of Black Women Candidates

Ayse Eldes

4/21/2025

Jeron Fenton

Divided by Devotion? An Analysis of Black Worship Across Church Lines

Jasante Howard
4/28/2025 Ren Mueller The career concerns of state legislators and the effects of institutional design. Roel Bos
5/5/2025 Adrian Pietrzak City of Yes? Do Citywide Housing Reforms Overcome Localized Opposition? Kaiyla Dartey

5/12/2025

Jasante Howard

The Limits of Police Reform: A Case Study of Problem Oriented Policing in Newport News, VA (Chapter?)

Yun Choi