Program Political Methodology Summer Meeting Florida State University July 28-31, 1993

Program
Political Methodology Summer Meeting
Florida State University
July 28-31, 1993
Wednesday, July 28
Throughout the afternoon and evening, vans transport participants from Tallahassee Airport to Wakulla
Springs for lodging.
Invited participants eat dinner in transit, or at Wakulla Springs.
9:00 PM
Reception for participants and FSU faculty in Wakulla Springs Terrace
Thursday, July 29
7:45 AM
Vans leave Wakulla Springs for FSU Conference Center
8:20 AM
Continental Breakfast, FSU Conference Center
9:00 AM – Noon Panel 1: Cross-National Analysis
“Using Panel Data in Cross-National Political Economy Research”
Neal Beck and Jonathan Katz, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Brian Loynd, Duke University
“Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research”
Simon Jackman, Princeton University
Bruce Western, UCLA
Discussant: Sharyn O’Halloran, Columbia University
Noon
Lunch in Dining Room, FSU Conference Center
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Invited Talk (followed by general discussion)
2:00 – 5:30 PM
“Observations on the State of Political Methodology”
Larry Bartels, Princeton University
Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 2: Heterogeneity
“Sophistication and the Stability of Partisan and Ideological Sentiment”
Robert Erikson and Kathleen Knight, University of Houston
Discussants: John Jackson, University of Michigan
Herb Weisberg, Ohio State University
“When Do Campaigns Matter? Informed Votes, the Heteroscedastic Logit and the
Responsiveness of Electoral Outcomes”
Elizabeth Gerber, Caltech
Skip Lupia, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Doug Rivers, Stanford University
5:30 PM
Free time (Lounge at FSU Conference Center available) & On-Site Registration
6:00 PM
Vans leave FSU Conference Center for Dinner at Chez Pierre or Bamboo House
8:15 PM
Reception at Fran and Bill Berry’s house
Friday, July 30
8:00 AM
Vans leave Wakulla Springs for FSU Conference Center
8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast, FSU Conference Center
9:15 – 12:45 PM Panel 3: Aggregation
“Within-Constituency Distributional Assumptions in Ecological Inference Research”
Chris Achen, University of Michigan
Discussant: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, University of Texas & Ohio State University
“The Aggregate Consequences of Nonlinear Information Diffusion”
Renee M. Smith, University of Rochester
Discussant: Gary King, Harvard University
12:45 PM
Lunch in Dining Room, FSU Conference Center
1:45 PM
Vans leave FSU Conference Center for Wakulla Springs
2:15 PM
Swimming or Free Time at Wakulla Springs
3:45 – 5:15 PM
Panel 4: Specification Uncertainty
“The Searchers I: Specification Uncertainty in the Study of Macropolitics”
John Freeman, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Robert Durr, Washington University, St. Louis
5:15 – 5:35 PM
Business Meeting (if needed)
6:00 PM
Vans leave Wakulla Springs for Dinner at Angelo’s Restaurant in Panacea, FL
8:45 PM - ??
Informal presentations by graduate students
Saturday, July 31
7:15 – 8:15 AM Nature Walk
7:30 – 9:20 AM Breakfast at Wakulla Springs Dining Room (Please arrive by no later than 8:40)
9:30 – 12:30 PM Panel 5: Dynamic Models
“Empircally Discriminating Between Chaotic and Stochastic Time Series”
John Williams and Robert Huckfeldt, Indiana University
Discussant: Mel Hinich, University of Texas
“Modeling Latent Dependent Variables with Dynamics: The Kalman Filter DYMIMIC
Setup”
Jim Stimson, University of Minnesota
Michael MacKuen, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Robert Erikson, University of Houston
Paul Kellstedt, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley
12:30 PM
Lunch at Wakulla Springs Dining Room
1:30 – 4:15 PM
Panel 6: Nonrandom Response Bias
“Information and Pollution Reduction”
John Brehm and Jay Hamilton, Duke University
Discussant: Walter Mebane, Cornell University
“Measurement Error and the Structure of Attitudes: Are Positive and Negative Judgments
Opposites?”
Don Green, Yale University
Jack Citrin, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: To Be Announced
4:30 PM
Reception in Wakulla Springs Terrace
6:00 PM
Boat Ride, Swimming and/or Free time
8:00 PM
Dinner at Wakulla Springs Dining Room
Sunday, August 1
7:15 – 8:20 AM Breakfast at Wakulla Springs Dining Room (Please arrive as soon after 7:15 as possible)
8:30 – 10:00 AM Panel 7: Categorical Variables
“Choice Models for Multi-Candidate Elections”
R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech
Jonathan Nagler, University of California, Riverside
Discussant: Larry Bartels, Princeton University
Vans transport participants from Wakulla Springs to Tallahassee Airport throughout morning
Participants
1993 Political Methodology Meeting
Florida State University
Achen, Chris – University of Michigan
Adams, Greg – University of Iowa
Alvarez, R. Michael – Caltech
Baker, Regina – University of Michigan
Bartels, Larry – Princeton University
Beck, Neal – University of California, San Diego
Berry, Frances Stokes – Florida State University
Berry, William – Florida State University
Box-Steffensmeier, Janet – U. of Texas & OSU
Brady, Henry – University of California, Berkeley
Brehm, John – Duke University
Chackerian, Richard – Florida State University
Cnudde, Chuck – Florida State University
Davis, Wartyna – Florida State University
Durr, Robert – Washington University, St. Louis
Epstein, David – Columbia University
Erickson, Robert – University of Houston
Fey, Mark – Caltech
Fording, Richard – Florida State University
Freeman, John – University of Minnesota
Gerber, Elizabeth – Caltech
Glen, Carol – Florida State University
Glick, Henry – Florida State University
Green, Don – Yale University
Hinich, Mel – University of Texas
Hodget, Brian – Florida State University
Hojnacki, Marie – Ohio State University
Jackman, Simon – Princeton University
Jackson, John – University of Michigan
James, Patrick – Florida State University
Jewett, Aubrey – Florida State University
Jones, Bradford – SUNY, Stony Brooke
Katz, Jonathan – U. of California, San Diego
Kellstedt, Paul – University of Minnesota
Kemp, Kathleen – Florida State University
Kim, Heemin – Florida State University
King, Gary – Harvard University
Knight, Kathleen – University of Houston
Krishman, Ram – Florida State University
Loynd, Brian – Duke University
Lupia, Skip – University of California, San Diego
MacKuen, Michael – U. of Missouri, St. Louis
Mebane, Walter – Cornell University
Mitchell, Glenn – Florida State University
Nagler, Jonathan – U. of California, Riverside
Nixon, David – Washington University, St. Louis
O’Halloran, Sharyn – Columbia University
Ray, James – Florida State University
Rivers, Doug – Stanford University
Schickler, Eric – Yale University
Smith, Don – Florida State University
Smith, Renee M. – University of Rochester
Squier, John – University of Michigan
Stevenson, Randy – University of Rochester
Stimson, Jim – University of Minnesota
Stream, Chris – Florida State University
Wang, Kevin – Florida State University
Wanke, Jurgen – Florida State University
Wawro, Greg – Cornell University
Weisberg, Herb – Ohio State University
Whitten, Guy – Princeton University
Williams, John – Indiana University
Wood, B. Dan – Texas A&M University