Yale Department of Political Science: “Mini-APSA, 2015”

Event time: 
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Rosenkranz Hall See map
115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

Concurrent panels will run from 12:45 to 5:00 with 15-minute breaks between panels.

Lunch, 12:00 pm, RKZ 005

Panel Session I, 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Room:  RKZ 102

  • Alicia Steinmetz, “Public Judgment and the Production of Space.” (Advisor: Andrew March)
  • Clara Picker, “Hannah Arendt, Anti-Semitism, and the Problem of Thinking.” (Advisor: Seyla Benhabib)
  • Rebecca Traber, “Constructing a Concrete Self: The Reciprocity of the Self/Other Relation.” (Advisor: Seyla Benhabib)

Room:  RKZ 202

  • Anand Gupta, “Depressing Political Participation: Theory and Descriptive Findings.” (Advisor: John Henderson)
  • Baobao Zhang, “Effects of Medicare on Seniors’ Political Attitudes and Behavior.” (Advisor: Jacob Hacker)
  • Kassandra Birchler, “Crime Victimization and Party Identification.” (Advisor: Peter Aronow)

Panel Session II, 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Room:  RKZ 102

  • Nicholas Anderson, “Do Democracies Form More Lasting Alliances? Regime Type and Alliance Duration, 1815- 2012.” (Advisor: Nuno Monteiro)
  • Jonathon Baron, “Do North Korean News Releases Predict Provocations?” (Advisor: Peter Aronow)
  • Christopher Price, “Great Power Counter-Insurgency: Selection Effects.” (Advisor: Jason Lyall)
  • Lauren Pinson, “Externally Building Capacity? An Issue Study on Export Controls.” (Advisor: Margaret Peters)

Room:  RKZ 202

  • Melis Laebens, “Governance and the Conditional Resource Curse: Evidence from Gold Mining in Colombia.” (Advisor: Frances Rosenbluth)
  • Gautam Nair. “The View from the Top: Misperceptions of Relative Income and Preferences for International Redistribution in the United States.” (Advisor: Alexandre Debbs)
  • Matthew Cebul, “An Unwelcome Audience? The Effect of Authoritarian Militaries on International Crisis Bargaining.” (Advisor: Adria Lawrence)
  • William Kwok, “The War Path to Genocide: A Study of Genocide as a Response to Conflict Generated Security Dilemmas.” (Advisor: Stathis Kalyvas)

Panel Session III, 3:45 pm- 5:00 pm
Room:  RKZ 102

  • Maximilian Krahé, “What We Don’t Owe Each Other: Contract, Freedom, and Bankruptcy.” (Advisor: David Grewal)
  • Hari Ramesh, “Toward a Democratic Theory of Contemporary Development.” (Advisor: Karuna Mantena)
  • Graedon Zorzi, “Democracy Versus Capitalism? Tocqueville and the Political Significance of Commerce.” (Advisor: Steven Smith)

Room:  RKZ 202

  • John Dearborn, “Representation Through Unilateral Action? The Use of Executive Orders to Fulfill Presidential Campaign Promises.” (Advisor: Steven Skowronek)
  • Ian Crichton, “Strategic Use of Overlapping Doctrine by the U.S. Court of Appeals.” (Advisor: Deborah Beim)
  • Benjamin Miller, “Do Economic Conditions Affect Racial Animus? Evidence Using Google Search Data.” (Advisor Peter Aronow)
Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
Yale Community Only