Political Science

2020 APSA awards and annual conference presentations

Congratulations to our Faculty and Graduate Student Presenters at the 2020 American Political Science Association Conference on 'Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization'.

APSA Award to Margaret Weir who received the Norton Long Career Achievement Award from the Urban and Local Politics section of the American Political Science Association. The award is presented annually to a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to the study of urban politics over the course of a career through scholarly publication, the mentoring of students, and public service. 

Juliet Hooker, Roundtable Participant
Panel: Author Meets Critics: Inés Valdez's, "Transnational Cosmopolitanism"

Rehan Jamil, Presenter
Panel: The Politics of Social Welfare in Electoral Democracies in the Global South
Paper: Being Seen by the State: Cash Transfers and Women's Political Participation in Pakistan

Rob Blair, Presenter
Panel: Central and Local Actors in Conflict and Peace Processes
Paper: After Rebel Governance: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia (with Manuel Moscoso, Andrés Vargas and Michael Weintraub)

Tyler Jost, Presenter
Panel: The Politics of Cyber Threat
Paper: How Militarized Cyber Technology Affects Interstate Bargaining

Hannah Baron, Presenter
Panel: The Politics of Control and Resistance in Violent Contexts
Paper: Moral reasoning and punishment preferences under violence: Evidence from semi-structured interviews in Michoacán, Mexico (with Jorge Camarillo, Omar García-Ponce, Lauren Young, and Thomas Zeitzoff)

Michelle Rose, Presenter
Panel: Black Political Thought and the Price of Change
Paper: Polarization and Improvisation: Locke and Toomer on "Contemporary Unrest"

Susan Moffitt, Roundtable Participant
Panel: Comparative Public Policy in an Age of Populism
Time: 12:00pm

Eric Patashnik, Presenter
Panel: Legislative Representation and Responsiveness
Paper: Credit Claiming, Policy Performance and Democratic Accountability
Time: 12:00pm

Susan Moffitt, Discussant
Panel: Homeland Security Policy and Politics
Time: 2:00pm

Hannah Baron, Participant
Panel: Extrajudicial Violence and the Rule of Law
Paper: When Deliberation Fails: A Field Experiment on Criminal Justice Preferences in Michoacán (with Omar García-Ponce, Lauren Young, and Thomas Zeitzoff)

Gauri Wagle, Presenter
Panel: Poster Session: Foundations of Political Theory I
Paper: Political Imagination: Making Discipline Personal

James Morone, Presenter
Panel: Health Care and the 2020 Election: Policy and Politics

Tyler Jost, Presenter
Panel: Extrajudicial Violence and the Rule of Law
Paper: Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in Chinese Foreign Policy

Margaret Weir, Chair
Panel: Difference, Solidarity and Redistribution in Twenty-First Century America

Ashu Varshney, Presenter
Panel: Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia

Kaustav Chakrabarti, Presenter
Panel: iPoster Presentation. Division 12: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
Paper: Underground Justice: Dispute Resolution by Armed Groups in India's Northeast

Erik Peinart, Presenter
Panel: Approaches to Historical Causation
Papeer: Conceptualization and Research Design for Endogenous Institutional Change

Reid Pauly, Presenter
Panel: Wargaming and Behavioral Research in IR
Paper: Wargaming for Political Science Research

Jared Loggins, Presenter
Panel: Du Bois's Political Thought
Paper: "Black All-Mother of Men": Du Bois and the Religiosity of Black Feminine Care

Richard Snyder, Presenter
Panel: Democracy at Work: Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Presenter
Panel: Political Knowledge and Information Processing in Developing Democracies
Paper: Knowledge of Social Rights as Political Knowledge (with Matthew S. Winters)

Prerna Singh, Chair
Panel: Comparative Politics Section Business Meeting

Ashu Varshney, Discussant
Panel: From the Origins to the Changes and Consequences of Nationalism

Prerna Singh, Presenter
Panel: From the Origins to the Changes and Consequences of Nationalism
Paper: Inclusive Nationalism and the Diversity Deficit: State Institutions, Religious Fractionalization, and Development

Daniel Schulte, Presenter
Panel: From the Origins to the Changes and Consequences of Nationalism
Paper: Inclusive Nationalism and the Diversity Deficit: State Institutions, Religious Fractionalization, and Development

Margaret Weir, Presenter
Panel: Race and Political Boundaries in American Democracy
Paper: Democracy, Redistribution and Local Political Boundaries

Sanne Verschuren, Presenter
Panel: The Conduct of Warfare: Perceptions and Beyond
Paper: Imagining the Unimaginable: War, Weapons and Procurement Politics

Tyler Jost, Presenter
Panel: New Research Methods in Security Studies
Paper: Aggregation of Hawkishness in Foreign Policy Decision-Making Groups

Margaret Weir, Roundtable Participant
Panel: Mettler-Lieberman: Four Threats the Recurring Crises of American Politics

James Morone, Presenter
Panel: How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development

Rose McDermott, Chair
Panel: Experimental Research on Leaders and International Relations

Juliet Hooker, Participant
Panel: Black Lives, Black Deaths, and Black Protest: Political Scientists Respond (Anew) to a Persistent Challenge: Political Science and the Movement for Black Lives

Prerna Singh and Cyril Bennouna, Presenters
Panel: National Identity and its Consequences in Comparative Perspective

Rose McDermott, Chair
Panel: Race and Gender in International Relations

Juliet Hooker, Discussant
Panel: The Politics of Ugly Feelings

Noga Rotem, Presenter
Panel: The Politics of Ugly Feelings
Paper: Scholarly in Technique: Richard Hofstadter and the Style of Paranoia

Ashu Varshney, Presenter
Panel: Democracy, Difference, & Destabilization: Making Sense of Recent Global Protests