10/13 SeLAB – 1st Annual Mini-Conference
Time: Friday, October 13, 2017
Location: Troy Moore Library, 25 Park Place, Suite 2343
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302
Schedule:
| Time | Activity | Title | Authors | Discussant |
| 8:30-9:00am | Registration, Coffee & Refreshments, Format | Welcome Reception | ||
| 9:00-9:45am | Paper | Predicting Resource Extraction Protests in Latin America | Moises Arce (MIZZOU) & Marc Polizzi (Murray St.) | Todd Eisenstadt (American U) |
| 9:50-10:35am | Paper | Stacking the Deck: Political Participation in Dominant Party Regimes | Jon Hiskey (VU) & Mason Moseley (WVU) | Agustina Giraudy (American U) |
| 10:35-10:50am | Coffee & Refreshments | |||
| 10:50-11:35am | Paper | The Legacy of Civil War in Guatemala: Intergenerational Effects among the Ixil | Noam Lupu (VU) & Leonid Peisakhin (NYU – Abu Dhabi) | Carrie Manning (GSU) |
| 11:35am-1:50pm | Lunch | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | ||
| 1:50-2:35pm | Paper | When Do Multiparty Local Governments Perform Better? An Examination of Municipal Councilors’ Political Behavior in the Latin American Context | Abby Cordova (UK) & Ana Espana-Najera (CSU Fresno) | Virginia Oliveros (Tulane) |
| 2:40-3:25pm | Paper | Political Agency, Election Quality, and Corruption | Miguel Rueda (Emory) & Nelson Ruiz (LSE) | Guillermo Rosas (WUSTL) |
| 3:25-3:40pm | Coffee & Refreshments | |||
| 3:40-4:25pm | Paper | Class and Unequal Representation in Latin America: Linking Descriptive and Symbolic Representation | Tiffany Barnes & Gregory Saxton (UK) | Jana Morgan (UT-K) |
| 4:30-5:15pm | Paper | Perceptions of Corruption and the Approval Ratings of Female Incumbents | Frederico Batista Pereira (UNCC) | Matthew Singer (UCONN) |
| 5:15-6:30pm | Poster Session & Reception | Graduate Student Poster Presentations | ||
| Poster | Peace and Its Discontents | Juan Tellez (Duke) | ||
| Poster | Evaluating Students and Politicians:Test Scores and Electoral Accountability in Brazil | Taylor Boas (BU), Daniel Hidalgo (MIT), & Guillermo Torcal (MIT) | ||
| Poster | Creating Mass Support: New Political Parties and Societal Linkages in Latin America | Mathias Poertner (UC Berkeley) | ||
| Poster | Mosquito Politics: The Zika Epidemic and Abortion Attitudes in Latin America | Mollile J. Cohen & Claire Q. Evans (VU) | ||
| Poster | Behind the Gender Gap: A Survey Experiment on Gender Labor Inequality and Differences in Economic Attitudes | Analia Gomez Vidal (UMD) | ||
| Poster | Distributive Unfairness and Satisfaction with Democracy: Linking Inequality, Fairness Perceptions, and Political Support in Latin America | Gregory W. Saxton (UK) | ||
| Poster | Electoral Competition and the Prevalence of Clientelism | Neil Williams & Tomas Okal (UGA) | ||
| Poster | Party Identification and Economic Perceptions: Unveiling the “Blindfolded” in Latin America | Jose M. Cabezs (UMD) | ||
| Poster | Political Elites in the Colombian Caribbean:Meanings of Democracy and Institutional Trust, the Case of Barranquilla | Karol Solis Menco (FIU) | ||
| Poster | The Politics of Polarization under Chavismo: Why has Venezuela Experienced Political and Societal Division? | Claudio Sandoval (GSU) | ||
| Poster | The Role of Political Parties as Policymakers: Health Reform and Programmatic Commitments in Latin America | Zoila Ponce de Leon (UNC-Chapel Hill) | ||
| Poster | Extraction, Institutions, & Security in the Heart of Narco-land | Clark DeMas (GSU) | ||
| Poster | Electoral Reforms and Their Impact on Voter Turnout: The Effects of Increasing Multipartism and the Creation of Material Incentives on 20 Parliamentary Elections in Colombia | Pablo Duran S. (FIU) | ||
