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Political Networks 2016
9th Annual Political Networks Workshops & Conference
June 23-25, 2016
Charles F. Knight Center
Washington University in Saint Louis
The poster award committee selected two posters for awards for methodological contributions to the networks subfield. The committee also recognizes a third poster for honorable mention for its contribution.
- Winner: "Endogenous Coalition Formation in Policy Debates" Philip Leifeld -- University of Glasgow (Co-author: Laurence Brandenberger)
- Winner: "Detecting Changes in Network Time Series using Bayesian Inference" Yunkyu Sohn -- UC San Diego (Co-author: Jong Hee Park)
- Honorable Mention: "Interpretation of geometrically-weighted statistics in ERGMs" Michael Levy -- UC Davis, Env. Science & Policy
The poster award committee selected one poster for an award for its substantive contribution to the networks subfield. The committee also recognizes a second poster for honorable mention for its contribution.
- Winner: "Collaboration, influence, and cross-level linkages in an ecology of climate change adaptation policy games" Matt Hamilton -- UC Davis, Env. Science & Policy (Co-author: Mark Lubell)
- Honorable Mention: "Networks and Foreign Policy Analysis: Relations, Position, and Structure within the Clinton State Department" David Endicott -- Indiana University (Co-authors: Alexander Antony, Ryan Dawe)
Conference Program -- available as PDF here.
Thursday, June 23
8:30-11:30 AM Training Session I
11:30-12:30 PM Lunch
12:30-3:30 PM Training Session II
4-5:30 PM BYOD: Bring Your Own Data!
5:30-6 PM Poster set up period
6:00-8:00 PM Welcome reception and poster session
Poster Presentations:
Poster Award Committee: Jennifer Larson, New York University, Jon Rogowski, Washington University, Meredith Rolfe, UMass Amherst, and Stefan Wojcik, the Lazer Lab
“Interest Group Composition and Dissensus on the U.S. Supreme Court”
Sahar Abi-Hassan – Boston University, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Dino P. Christenson, Janet Box-Steffensmeier)
“Development, Transition, and Crisis in the International System 1870-2009”
Heather Ba – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Political Science
“Network Pressures Towards Democracy”
Benjamin Campbell – Ohio State University, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Skyler J. Cranmer, Bruce A. Desmarais)
“International Status and Its Influence on Voting Outcomes in the UN General Assembly”
SeulAh Choi – Boston University, Political Science
“A Theoretically-Informed Model of Unobserved Network Dependencies: Application to Transitivity”
Olga Chyzh – Iowa State University, Political Science & Statistics
“Diffusion of collective action in authoritarian regimes: The June 1953 East German uprising”
Charles Crabtree – Pennsylvania State University, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Holger L. Kern, Steven Pfaff)
“The Importance of Generative Models for Assessing Network Structure”
Matthew Denny – Pennsylvania State University, Political Science
“Networks and Foreign Policy Analysis: Relations, Position, and Structure within the Clinton State Department”
David Endicott – Indiana University, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Alexander Antony, Ryan Dawe)
“Partners in crime? A theory of corruption as a criminal network: evidence from a lab experiment”
Romain Ferrali – Princeton University, Politics
“The Financial Value of Partisan Networks: How Lobbying Firms Leverage their Network Positions”
Alexander Furnas – University of Michigan, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Michael T. Heaney, Tim LaPira)
“Environmental Justice and Citizen Response to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development”
Madeline Gottlieb – UC Davis (Ecology Graduate Group), Environmental Science and Policy
“Collaboration, influence, and cross-level linkages in an ecology of climate change adaptation policy games”
Matthew Hamilton – UC Davis, Environmental Science and Policy
(Co-author(s): Mark Lubell)
“Inference on the Effects of Observed Features in Latent Space Models for Networks”
Zachary Jones – Pennsylvania State University, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Matthew Denny, Bruce Desmarais, Hannah Wallach)
“Oil’s Crude Impact on Peace: A Contribution to the Economic Interdependence and International Conflict Debate”
Samantha Lange – University of Iowa, Political Science
“Preferenciating Free Trade: Coevolving Network Models of Free Trade Negotiation”
Hsuan-Wei Lee – UNC Chapel Hill, Mathematics
(Co-author(s): Huan-Kai Tseng)
“Endogenous Coalition Formation in Policy Debates”
Philip Leifeld – Eawag, Environmental Social Sciences
(Co-author(s): Laurence Brandenberger)
“Interpretation of geometrically-weighted statistics in exponential random graph models”
Michael Levy – University of California, Davis, Environmental Science and Policy
(Co-author(s): Mark Lubell)
“The International Human Trafficking Network: A Temporal Analysis”
John McCoy – Creighton University, Political Science and International Relations
(Co-author(s): Crysta Price, Terry Clark)
“Connecting the Mayors: The Network Effect of Local Government Performance in El Salvador”
Taishi Muraoka – Washington University in St. Louis, Political Science
“Advocating Justice: How INGOs Influence Transitional Justice Implementation”
Marc Polizzi – University of Missouri, Political Science
“Social Influence on Politics: Depicting the Process and Testing the Mechanisms”
Lauren Ratliff Santoro – Ohio State University, Political Science
“Network Structures among Climate Change and Agriculture Support Organizations in East Africa”
Jessica Rudnick – University of California, Davis, Environmental Science and Policy
(Co-author(s): Meredith Niles, Mark Lubell)
“The Internet’s Political Impact among Rural Chinese: A Field Experiment”
Wenwen Shi – Wayne State University, Political Science
“Authoritarianism and Church Influence on Ideology and Behavior”
Amy Erica Smith – Iowa State University, Political Science
“Detecting Changes in Network Time Series using Bayesian Inference: Applications to Historical Voting and Text Datasets”
Yunkyu Sohn – University of California, San Diego, Political Science
(Co-author(s): Jong Hee Park)
“Friends with Money: A Network Analysis of State High Court Elections”
Allison Trochesset – University of Georgia, Political Science
“Are Political Networks Really Polarized?”
Oren Tsur – Harvard & Northeastern University, Network Science Institute
(Co-author(s): David Lazer)
“‘Live Experiments’: Experimenting with a Womanist Bible Study Seminar”
Dilara Uskup -- University of Chicago, Political Science
“Network Interventions in Interlocking Directorates”
Micha Zdziarski – University of Warsaw, Management Faculty
(Co-author(s): Justyna Światowiec-Szczepańska, Łukasz Małys)
“The Social Network Logic in Chinese Leadership Turnover”
Yang Zhang – University of Iowa, Political Science
Thursday, June 23 local activity: Dinner at Mission Taco or Pi (Delmar Loop Locations) followed by drinks at Cielo (view of Arch) or the Moonrise Hotel
Panel Schedule: Panel presenters should prepare to present their research for 10 to 15 minutes, which will be immediately followed by the discussant’s 5 to 10 minute presentation. The first presenter on every panel will serve as the panel coordinator, keeping time for all presentations and Q&A portions. Q&A may take place after each paper or at the end of the panel – at the panel coordinator’s discretion.
Friday, June 24
Breakfast available starting at 6:30 AM
Friday, June 24, 8:30-10
1. Statistical analysis of networks
• Link-tracing studies of hidden networks in epidemiology and public health
Presenter: Forrest Crawford, Yale University
Co-author(s): Peter M. Aronow, Li Zeng, Jiacheng Wu, Jianghong Li, Robert Heimer
Discussant: James Wilson
• Generalized Exponential Random Graph Models: Statistical Inference for Weighted Graphs
Presenters: James Wilson, University of San Francisco
Co-author(s): Matthew J. Denny, Skyler J. Cranmer, Bruce Desmarais, Shankar Bhamidi
Discussant: Oren Tsur
• The Interpretability of ERGM models for Thresholded Networks
Presenter: Oren Tsur, Harvard & Northeastern University
Co-author(s): David Lazer
Discussant: Forrest Crawford
2. Policy networks
• The Consensus-building Effects of Congressional Caucuses on Policy Areas in the U.S. Congress
Presenter: Jennifer Victor, George Mason University
Discussant: Sarah Reckhow
• Bipartisanship and Idea Brokerage in Education Policy Networks
Presenter: Sarah Reckhow, Michigan State University
Co-author(s): Sarah Galey, Joseph Ferrare
Discussant: Michael Heaney
• Lobbying Credibility in a Policy Network
Presenter: Michael Heaney, University of Michigan
Discussant: Jennifer Victor
3. The causes and effects of discussion network structure
• Political Discussion Networks and Motivated Reasoning: How Agreement Encourages Directional Thinking
Presenter: Carey Stapleton, University of Colorado, Boulder
Co-author(s): Anand Sokhey
Discussant: Taylor Feenstra
• Explaining Political Discussion Network Homogeneity with Physiology and Personality
Presenter: Taylor Feenstra, University of California, San Diego
Co-author(s): Charles T. McClean, Jaime E. Settle
Discussant: Jennifer Larson
• Ethnic Networks
Presenter: Jennifer Larson, New York University
Co-author(s): Janet Lewis
Discussant: Carey Stapleton
Friday, June 24, 10:30-noon
1. Paths and resilience in networks
• Analyzing structural resilience in resource governance networks
Presenter: Jacob Hileman, University of California, Davis
Co-author(s): Marco Bastos, Mark Lubell
Discussant: Benjamin Schneer
• Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition Canvassing
Presenter: Benjamin Schneer, Harvard University
Co-author(s): Clayton Nall, Daniel Carpenter
Discussant: Dean Knox
• A Random-Path Model
Presenter: Dean Knox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Jacob Hileman
2. Legal networks
• The Diffusion of Precedent
Presenter: Abigail Rury, University of Iowa
Discussant: Amy Semet
• The Role of Political Networks in State Courts
Presenter: Amy Semet, Princeton University
Discussant: John Patty
• Network Analysis of the US Code and Federal Regulations
Presenter: John Patty, University of Chicago
Discussant: Abigail Rury
3. Networks in civil conflict and civil war
• Dynamic Networks of Violence: People Power and the Mexican Criminal Conflict
Presenter: Cassy Dorff, University of Denver
Co-author(s): Shahryar Minhas
Discussant: Laila Wahedi
• From Partners in Crime to Criminal Networks: Militant Network Evolution
Presenter: Laila Wahedi, Georgetown University
Discussant: Sam Glaser
• How Revolting? Strategic Network Formation and the Emergence of the American Revolutionary Movement
Presenter: Sam Glaser, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Cassy Dorff
Lunch noon-1:30 PM
Friday, June 24, 1:30-3
1. Twitter networks
• A Networked Reaction to Terrorist Attacks in Ankara and Paris in the Turkish Twittersphere
Presenter: Aysenur Dal, Ohio State University
Co-author(s): Robert M. Bond, Emad Khazraee, Erik C. Nisbet
Discussant: Jennifer Larson
• Communities of Protest
Presenter: Jennifer Larson, New York University
Co-author(s): Rich Bonneau, John T. Jost, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker
Discussant: Justin Gross
• Connected by Comments: Network Dynamics of 'Going Negative' in the GOP 2016 Presidential Primaries
Presenter: Justin Gross, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Co-author(s): Kaylee T. Johnson
Discussant: Aysenur Dal
2. Influence in legislative networks
• Do Birds of a Feather Vote Together, or is it Peer Influence?
Presenter: Stefan Wojcik, Harvard and Northeastern
Discussant: Alison Craig
• Audience Appeals through Strategic Collaboration in the U.S. House of Representatives
Presenter: Alison Craig, Ohio State University
Discussant: William Massengill
• Socializing as Lobbying during the Jeffersonian Era
Presenter: William Massengill, Ohio State University
Co-author(s): Gregory Caldeira, William Minozzi
Discussant: Stefan Wojcik
3. Networks, language, and discussion
• Campaign Conversations on Instagram and the Closure of Access to Social Media Data
Presenter: Warren Allen, Florida State University
Discussant: Hyunjin Song
• “Who discuss politics, why, and how? The social supply of political discussants, endogenous structuring processes, and their implications”
Presenter: Hyunjin Song, University of Vienna
Co-author(s): William Minozzi, David Lazer, Michael Neblo, Katherine Ognyanova
Discussant: Jacob Reidhead
• Anticipating a Network Theory of Political Discourse Analysis
Presenter: Jacob Reidhead, Stanford University
Discussant: Warren Allen
Friday, June 24, 3:30-5
1. Measuring and explaining discussion networks
• The Content and Consequences of Everyday Deliberation: Networks, Issues, and Political Conviction
Presenter: Anand Sokhey, University of Colorado, Boulder
Co-author(s): Jeffrey Lyons
Discussant: William Eveland
• Scratching Below the Core Network Surface: Capturing Hidden Exposure to Political Disagreement and Difference
Presenter: William Eveland, Ohio State University
Co-author(s): Osei Appiah, Paul A. Beck
Discussant: Meredith Rolfe
• Measuring Political Networks on Election Surveys: Name Generators and Beyond
Presenter: Meredith Rolfe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Discussant: Anand Sokhey
2. Legislative networks
• Pen Pals: Legislator Characteristics and Collaboration in Congressional Letter-Marking Networks
Presenter: Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Bowling Green State University
Co-author(s): Russell Mills
Discussant: David Darmofal
• Roll-Call Voting Under Random Seating Assignment
Presenter: David Darmofal, University of South Carolina
Co-author(s): Charles J. Finocchiaro, Indridi Indridason
Discussant: Jacob Montgomery
• The Effects of Congressional Staff Networks in the U.S. House of Representatives
Presenter: Jacob Montgomery, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-author(s): Brendan Nyhan
Discussant: Nicole Kalaf-Hughes
3. Local government networks
• Latino Representation in California: A Social Network Analysis
Presenter: Lisa Pringle, Claremont Graduate University
Discussant: Philip Leifeld
• The Personal Touch: Effect of Official Turnover on Local Government Networks
Presenter: Matthew Howell, Eastern Kentucky University
Discussant: Lisa Pringle
• Analyzing Policy Instrument Preferences with Two-Mode Networks
Presenter: Philip Leifeld, Eawag
Co-author(s): Florence Metz, Karin Ingold
Discussant: Matthew Howell
Friday, June 24 local activity: City Museum
Saturday, June 25
Breakfast available starting at 6:30 AM
Saturday, June 25, 8:30-10
1. Lab experiments on discussion networks
• Information, Diffusion Dynamics, and the Management of Public Health Crises
Presenter: Elias Assaf, Ohio State University
Co-author(s): Skyler J. Cranmer, Robert Bond, Eloise Kaizar, David J. Sivakoff, Susumu Shikano
Discussant: Christina Ladam
• Re-examining Disagreement in Small Group Deliberations
Presenter: Christina Ladam, University of Colorado, Boulder
Co-author(s): Anand Sokhey, Andrew Therriault
Discussant: Matthew Pietryka
• Deliberation and Motivated Reasoning in Informal Discussion Networks
Presenter: Matthew Pietryka, Florida State University
Discussant: Elias Assaf
2. Contribution networks
• Political Ideology in the Contributor-Candidate Matrix
Presenter: Jason Jones, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Co-author(s): Jennifer A. Heerwig
Discussant: Michael Kowal
• Corporate Politicking, Together: Ties, Lobbying and Giving in A Polarized and Connected World
Presenter: Michael Kowal, Bowdoin College
Discussant: Navid Dianati
• From money to speech and back: surveying the ideological landscape of the US Congress through networks of money and text.
Presenter: Navid Dianati, Northeastern University
Co-author(s): Oren Tsur, David Lazer
Discussant: Jason Jones
Saturday, June 25, 10:30-noon
1. Spillovers in networks
• Mobilization for Political Action: Spillover Across Real-World Social Networks
Presenter: Alex Hughes, University of California, Berkeley
Co-author(s): Derek Stafford
Discussant: Sayali Phadke
• Testing for Network Effects in Field Experiments: Examples from Legislative Studies
Presenter: Sayali Phadke, Pennsylvania State University
Co-author(s): Bruce A. Desmarais
Discussant: Betsy Sinclair
• Two Votes for the Price of One
Presenter: Betsy Sinclair, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant: Alex Hughes
2. Networks and international conflict
• A Three-Degree Horizon for the Peace Making Ability of Defensive Alliances
Presenters: Aisha Bradshaw & Caitlin Clary, Ohio State University
Co-author(s): Weihua Li, Skyler J. Cranmer
Discussant: Cesi Cruz
• Military Alliance Networks and State Formation
Presenter: Cesi Cruz, University of British Columbia
Co-author(s): Mark Dincecco, Massimiliano Onorato
Discussant: Jeff Carnegie
• Network Effects in International Conflict, and their Changes over Time
Presenter: Jeff Carnegie, New York University
Discussant: Aisha Bradshaw & Caitlin Clary
Lunch and the end of the meeting (announce poster winners at lunch)
Saturday, June 25 local activity: St Louis Zoo