The UW-Madison American Politics Workshop is a multidisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students that meets on select Mondays at noon in 422 North Hall to discuss new and ongoing research projects in American Politics. A typical workshop meeting will open with 10-15 minutes of comments by the paper author followed by an hour of discussion. Papers are posted online for reading one week prior to the meeting. Faculty and graduate students wishing to present at the workshop should send an email to Kathy Cramer Walsh at kwalsh2@wisc.edu.
Below is the academic year 2011-12 APW schedule. [But please consider this a working document because papers and new workshop dates will be added throughout the year.]
The American Politics Workshop is grateful for the generous support of the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Fund.
AY 2011-12 APW SCHEDULE
Spring 2012
• Jan 23 - No workshop this day
• Jan 30 - Sarah Niebler, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Substance in Presidential Nominating Contests: Negativity as the Dependent Variable"
• Feb 6- William Howell, the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics in the Harris School, co-director of the Program on Political Institutions, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, "Inter-Branch Bargaining over Policies with Multiple Outcomes" (co-authored with Saul P. Jackman)
• Feb 13 - No workshop this day
• Feb 17 - FRIDAY. APW participants are invited to attend the PS904 seminar with James Caesar, University of Virginia
• Feb 20 - No workshop this day
• Feb 24 - FRIDAY. APW participants are invited to attend the PS904 seminar with John Aldrich, the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University (1:20-3:15 in Ogg Room)
• Feb 27 - No workshop this day
• March 5- Traci Burch, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, "The Spatial Concentration of Imprisonment and Racial Political Inequality"
• March 12-Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia, Professor of Public Policy and Politics and Associate Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, "Doctor Knows Best: Physician Endorsements, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research" (co-authored with Alan S. Gerber, David Doherty, and Conor Dowling)
• March 19-No workshop this day
• March 26-Cara Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Political Science, "Bringing the Person Back In: Boundaries, Perceptions, and the Measurement of Racial Context" (co-authored with Jake Bowers, Tarah Williams, and Katherine Drake)
• March30-FRIDAY APW participants are invited to attend the PS904 seminar with Craig Gilbert, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
• April 2-SPRING BREAK
• April 9-Jacob Neiheisel, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Going the Distance: The Effect of Party Distancing on Candidate Placement, Vote Choice, and Turnout"
• April 16-James Sieja, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Bias, the Bar, and the Big Picture: Mass Political Change's Effort on the U.S. Courts of Appeals"
• April 24, TUESDAY, 10:30-11:45AM--Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, "The Trouble With Voters and Those Who Try to Fix Them"
• April 27, FRIDAY, 1:20-3:15PM-- APW participants are invited to attend the PS904 seminar with Raymond LaRaja, University of Massachusetts
• April 30-Ryan J. Owens, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Elevation Adaptation: How Circuit Court Judges Alter Their Behavior for Promotion to the Supreme Court" (co-authored with Ryan C. Black)
• May 4, FRIDAY, 1:20-3:15PM-- APW participants are invited to attend the PS904 seminar with Paul Sniderman, Stanford University
• May 7-Par Jason Engle, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "An Experimental Assessment of Extreme Response Style"
Fall 2011
• Sept 12 - Organizational Meeting
• Sept 19 - Christopher Zorn, the Liberal Arts Research Professor of Political Science, Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice (by courtesy), and Affiliate Professor of Law at Pennsylvania State University, will present: Gregory Caldeira and Christopher Zorn, "A Media-Based Measure of Presidential Candidate Ideology."
• Sept 26 - TBD
• Oct 3 - TBD
• Oct 10 - Leticia Bode, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Political Information 2.0: Learning Politics Through Social Media."
• Oct 17 - Dimitri Kelly, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Political Consequences of News Bias."
• Oct 24 - Brad Jones, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Mapping Morality: Congressional District-level Measures of the Moral Foundations."
• Oct 31 - Sara Dahill-Brown, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Racing to the Top: Changing the Way We Govern Schools."
• Nov 7 - Saemyi Park, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Asian American Politics Interests: Complexity and Distinctiveness."
• Nov 14 - Ruoxi Li, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Age at Immigration Matters: Explaining Immigrants' Political Participation from a Socialization Perspective," (co-authored with Brad Jones). PLEASE NOTE: APW will begin at 12:20pm on this day.
• Nov 21 - George Vanberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science, "Law as a Discovery Procedure: An Informational Rationale for Broad Judicial Decisions," (co-authored with Justin Fox). PLEASE NOTE: APW will begin at 12:05pm on this day.
• Nov 28 - No workshop this day
• Dec 5- Yujin Kim, UW-Madison Department of Political Science, "Empirical Evidence for Dynamic Party Issue Reputations."
• Dec 12 - No workshop this day
INFORMATION ON PREVIOUS APW WORKSHOPS
Spring 2011
• Jan 31 - Byron Shafer, UW Madison, and Richard Spady, Johns Hopkins University, Chapter Seven "Evolution of the Strategic Landscape (Text), and figures"
• Feb 7 - Dave Nelson, UW Madison, "How Do Interest Groups Set Their Lobbying Agendas?"
• Feb 21 - Jason Barabas and Jennifer Jerit, Florida State University, "Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment"
• Feb 28 - Jim Kuklinski, University of Illinois, "Experimental Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Treatments Prone to Self-Selection"
• Mar 7 - Luke Keele, Ohio State University, "African-American Turnout in Majority-Minority Districts"
• Mar 21 - Richard Matland and Ray Tatalovich, Loyola University, Chicago, "Voting Against Same-Sex Marriage: An Analysis of State Referenda"
• April 4 - Jennifer Williams, UW Madison, "The Effects of Divided Government on the Supreme Court: Support for the Strategic Model"
• April 8 (Friday at noon) – Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia, "Campaigns and the Activation of Electoral Fundamentals" (presentation, no paper)
• April 11 - Sean Theriault, UT-Austin, “The Gingrich Senators and Party Polarization in the U.S. Senate”
• April 18 - Ken Mayer and Amnon Cavari, UW Madison, "The Effect of Public Funding on Electoral Competition: Evidence from the 2008 and 2010 Cycles"
• April 29 (Friday at noon) - Paul Sniderman, Stanford University, "The Reputation Premium: A Theory of Party Identification and Spatial Reasoning" [Event Cancelled.]
Fall 2010
• Sept 13 - Organizational Meeting
• Sept 20 - David Lewis, Vanderbilt University, "Campaigning for a Job: Obama for America, Patronage, and Presidential Appointments"
• Oct 4 - Charles Franklin, UW-Madison
• Oct 11 - Leticia Bode, UW- Madison. Practice Job Talk, "Political Information 2.0: The Success of Opting Out?"
• Oct 18 - Meghan Condon, UW-Madison. Practice Job Talk, "Practice Makes Participants: How Skills Acquired in School Affect Political Engagement"
• Oct 25 - Valerie Hennings, UW-Madison. Practice Job Talk
• Nov 15 - On-Campus Speaker
• Nov 22 - On-Campus Speaker
• Dec 6 - Jacob Neiheisel and Barry Burden, UW-Madison, "The Impact of Election Day Registration on Voter Turnout and Election Outcomes"
• Dec 13 - Amnon Cavari, UW Madison. Practice Job Talk, "On Partisan Ears: The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric"
Spring 2010
• January 25: organizational meeting
• February 1, Amnon Cavari and Itay Gabay, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Foreign Affairs and the Local Newsroom: Local Television News Coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War" (note the date on the paper says January 25, but it is for the Feb 1 meeting).
• February 8, Stéphan Lavertu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Issue-Specific Conflict and Presidential Demand for Politically Exposed Agencies."
• February 22, Young Mie Kim, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Organized Interests' Collective Action in the New Information Environment."
• March 1, Susan Yackee and Dave Nelson,University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Lobbying Coalitions and Government Policy Change."
• March 8, Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota, "Gendered Partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives."
• March 15, Byron Shafer University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Richard Spady, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University and European University Institute, Social Cleavages and Political Opinions.
• March 22, Barry Burden, David Canon, Stéphan Lavertu, Ken Mayer, and Don Moynihan, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Comparing Elected and Appointed Election Officials:
The Impact of Selection Method on Policy Preferences and Administrative Outcomes".
• March 29 spring break
• April 5, Marc Ratkovic, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "What Exactly is Going on in the WiscAds Data: The Evolution of Campaign Ad Strategy Over the 2008 Campaign?"
• April 12, Sarah Niebler (Department of Political Science) and Carly Urban (Department of Economics), "Does Advertising Drive Contributions?", University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• April 19, Jennifer Victor (University of Pittsburgh), "Ted Kennedy, Orin Hatch, and Other Strange Bedfellows: A Network Explanation of Legislative Voting."
• April 26, Marc Stears (Oxford University), "Freedom is Everybody’s Job: Cold War Realism and American Stories of Peoplehood."
• May 3, Ruoxi Li, “Electoral Margin, Party Pressure and legislative votes: Marginality Theory Reconsidered,“ University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Fall 2009
• November 30. Michael Pisapia, practice job talk, "The States, Democracy, and Public Education in America," Ogg Room.
• November 16, Hans Noel, Georgetown University, "It's not Personal; It's Strictly Business: A Social Network Analysis of Presidential Endorsements, 1972-2008."
• November 2, Sara Dahill-Brown and Lesley Lavery,University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Implementing Federal Policy: Confronting State Capacity and Will."
• October 26: Kathy Cramer Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Rural Republicans? Conservative Democrats? Listening to the Content of Partisanship."
• October 19: Stéphane Lavertu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, practice job talk, "Political Conflict and Bureaucratic Politics"
• October 12: Amber Wichowsky, University of Wisconsin, Madison, practice job talk, "The Variable Effect of Congressional Competition on Incumbent Accountability: A Multilevel Model."
• September 28: Barry Burden, David Canon, Ken Mayer, and Don Moynihan, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Effects and Costs of Early Voting, Election Day Registration, and Same Day Registration in the 2008 Elections.”
• September 21: organizational meeting.
• September 14: Chris Achen, Princeton University, Department of Politics, Paper download: "It Feels Like We’re Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter and Electoral Democracy” Tables Download click here: (with Larry Bartels)
Spring 2009
• February 16: Amber Wichowsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "Throw the Bums Out: Competition & Accountability in Congressional Elections"
• February 23: Michael Tofias (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Political Science): "Passing the Bucks: The Congressional Contribution Network 1985-2006"
• March 2: Michael Franz (Bowdoin College, Government & Legal Studies): "The Effects of Advertising Content on Voter Evaluations and Choice"
• March 9: Barry Burden (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending"
• March 23: James Gimpel (University of Maryland, Government & Politics): "Rough Terrain Spatial Variation In Political Participation" (20+ MB)
• April 6: Amnon Cavari (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "The Interplay of Macropartisanship and Macrohandling"
• April 20: John Petrocik (University of Missouri, Political Science): "The 2008 Presidential Contest: Big Change? More of the Same?"
• May 4: Matt Holleque & Sarah Niebler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "Does Campaign Advertising Get Out the Vote?"
Fall 2008
• September 15: Heidi Swarts (Rutgers University-Newark, Political Science): "Forging Unity Across the Class Divide: The Techniques of Congregation-Based Community Organizing"
• September 29: Kathy Walsh (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "Connecting Economic Interests & Policy Preferences: The Role of Attitudes Toward Authority "
• October 13: Meghan Condon, Jason Engle, Amber Wichowsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science): "The Gender Gap in Ideology Revisited"
• October 22 : Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto (Northwestern University) & Jennifer L. Merolla (Claremont Graduate University): "Hitting the Mark? The Effect of Ethnically Targeted Campaigns in the 2000 Presidential Election"
• October 27: Tracy Sulkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science): "Campaign Appeals & Legislative Action"
• November 10: Elections Roundtable - Barry Burden, Charles Franklin and Byron Shafer
• November 24: No APW Meeting. Happy Thanksgiving!
• December 8: Mark Rom (Georgetown University, Political Science): "Laboratories of Democracy: State Electoral Processes"