Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Program Schedule

Thursday, February 28

7:00 - 9:00 PM	Welcome Reception and Dinner at the residence of John Geer, 5037 High Valley Drive, Brentwood, TN 37027 Hotel guests meet shuttle at drive through in front of Embassy Suites at Vanderbilt Hotel at 6:30 PM

Friday, March 1

9:00-9:15 AM	Welcome and Introductions - Flynn Auditorium - Vanderbilt Law School
9:15-10:30 AM	"The Beginnings of Representation in America: The Relationship between Representatives and Constituents in the Colonial Era" Peverill Squire (Missouri) Discussant: Wendy Schiller (Brown)

Break

10:45-12:00 PM	"Women Don't Run? Gender Differences in Candidate Entry" Jonathan Woon (Pittsburgh) & Kris Kanthak (Pittsburgh) Discussant: Yanna Krupnikov (Northwestern)

Lunch

12:00 PM	"From Lost to Found: The Miller-Stokes Book Manuscript and its Implications for Democratic Theory" Christopher Achen (Princeton)
2:00-3:15 PM	"The Legislative Median and Policymaking in Multiparty Governments" Lanny Martin (Rice) & Georg Vanberg (North Carolina—Chapel Hill) Discussant: Karen Jusko (Stanford)

Break

3:30-5:00 PM	"Representation in Context: Election Laws and Ideological Congruence between Citizens and Governments" (APSA Presidential Address) G. Bingham Powell (Rochester)

Dinner

5:45 PM	Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosts dinner at the Vanderbilt University Residence - Cocktails 6:30 p.m. with dinner following at 7:00 p.m. Shuttles required. Pick up will be at the Embassy Suites at Vanderbilt Hotel and Kirkland Hall at 5:45 p.m.

Saturday, March 2

9:00-10:15 AM	"Has Joint Scaling Solved the Achen Objection to Miller and Stokes?" Jeffrey Lewis & Chris Tausanovitch (UCLA) Discussant: Joshua Clinton (Vanderbilt)
10:15-11:30 AM	"Rewarding Effort, Not Results: How Parties Own Issues Because of Their Priorities, Not Their Performance" Patrick Egan (New York University) Discussant: Gregory Koger (Miami)
11:45-1:00 PM	"On the Representativeness of Primary Electorates" John Sides (George Washington University) & Lynn Vavreck (UCLA) Discussant: Shigeo Hirano (Columbia)

Lunch

2:00-3:15 PM	"Candidates' Perception of Constituent Opinion: Evidence From the National Candidate Study" David Broockman (California—Berkeley) & Christopher Skovron (Michigan) Discussant: Nicholas Carnes (Duke)

Break

3:30-5:00 PM	Roundtable on Studying Representation Robert Erikson (Columbia) Jane Mansbridge (Harvard) Bruce Oppenheimer (Vanderbilt) Susan Stokes (Yale) John Zaller (UCLA)

Dinner

6:45 PM	The Southern Steak And Oyster Shuttles leave Embassy Suites at Vanderbilt Hotel and return at 9:15 PM

Miller & Stokes

Latest Research

2023 - Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - "County-Level Segregation and Racial Diasparities in COVID-19 Outcomes," has been released. The article was co-authored by Jessica Trounstine and Sidra Goldman-Mellor

2023 - Journal of Experimental Political Science - "Ranking Candidates in Local Elections: Neither Catastrophe or Panacea," has been released. The article was co-authored by Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Gadarian and Jessica Trounstine.

2023 - Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory - "Do Vacancies Hurt Federal Agency Performance?" has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Christopher Piper

2023 - Cornell Law Review - "The Independent Agency Myth," has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Neal Devins

2023- American Political Science Review- "Presidential Investment in the Administrative State," has been released. The artcle was co-authored by Nicholas Bednar and David Lewis

2023 - Political Research Quarterly - "The Conditional Lawmaking Benefits of Party Faction Membership in Congress" has been released. The article was co-authored by Andrew J. Clarke, Craig Volden and Alan Wisemen.

2023 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - "House Republicans Were Rewarded for Supporitng Donald Trump's 'Stop the Steal' Efforts" has been released. The article was co-authored by Larry Bartels and Nick Carnes

2023 - Journal of Politics - "Babies and Ballots: Timing of Childbirth on Voter Turnout" has been published. The article was co-authored by Cindy Kam, Sara Kirshbaum and Lauren Chojnacki

2022 - American Political Science Review - "The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections" has been published. The article was co-authored by John Sides, Lynn Vaverick and Christopher Warshaw

1/6/2021 - Science Advances - "Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19" has been published. The article was co-authored by J. Clinton, J Cohen, J. Lapinski and M. Trussler

12/2/2020 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints, Ideological Conflict, and the Timing of Executive Unilateralism" has been published. The article was co-authored by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower

11/13/2020- University of Chicago Pres Journals, "Partisanship, Policy, and Elections: How Medicaid Expansion Affected Public Opinion Toward the Affordable Care Act" has been published. It was co-authored by Josh Clinton and Michael Sances

9/24/2020 CSDI Working Paper - 4 - 2020 titled"Democracy Erodes From the Top Public Opinion and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe" has been released. The paper was authored by Larry Bartels

9/15/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Ethnic Antagonism Erodes Republicans' Commitment to Democracy" has been published. The article was authored by Larry Bartels

9/8/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, "The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic" has been published. The article was co-authoreed by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd

8/20/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, "The Effect of Big-City News on Rural America During the Covid -19 Pandemic" has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd

7/20/2020 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2020 titled "Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes toward Refugees and Immigrant Outgroups: Evidence from Kenya" has been released. The co-authors are Nicole Audette, Jeremy Horowitz and Kristin Michelitch

6/20/2020 - Election Law Journal, "The Politics of Locating Polling Places: Race and Partisanship in North Carolina Election Administration, 2008–2016" has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Nick Eubank, Adrienne Fresh and Michael Shepherd

5/1/2020 CSDI Working Paper 3 - 2020 titled "Work Welfare and Partisan Change" has been released. the co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer

4/15/2020 CSDI Working Paper 2 -2020 titled "Conceptions of Good Citizenship in the Class of 1965" has been released. The co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer

3/10/2020 - Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, "Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Power Bills" has been published. The paper was authored by Sharece Thrower

10/20/2019 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism In Separation of Powers Systems" was released. The co-authors are Michael Barber, Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower

8/8/19 CSDI Working Paper 2 - 2019 titled "Candidate Coethnicity, Rural Dwelling, and Partisanship in Africa" has been released. The paper was co-authored by Robin Harding and Kristin Michelitch.

8/16/2019 - Public Choice - "The effect of majority party agenda setting on roll calls" has been published. The paper was authored by Josh Clinton

7/30/19 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2019 titled "Bridge over Troubled Water: Same Gender Substantive Representation in 49 Subnational Ugandan Governments." has been released. The paper is co-authored by SangEun Kim and Kristin Michelitch.

4/19 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, "Executive Control and Turnover in the Senor Executive Service." has been published. The article was co-authored by Kathleen Doherty, David Lewis and Scott Limbocker.

Media Spotlight

Washington Post - Op-Ed 3/26/2020 - Co-Director John Sides - "Surprisingly few voters think Trump cares about ‘people like me’

Washington Post - Op-Ed 4/8/2020 - Co-Director John Sides - "Negative Views of Asian People have risen in both parties."

Washington Post - Op-Ed 10/28/2020 - Co -Director John Sides - "TV ads still win elections. And Democrats are buying alot more of them."

New York Times - Op-Ed - 6/25/2019 - Co Director Larry Bartels - "A lot of Candidates May Make it Seem Like Democracy is Working, But it is Not."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 6/24/19 - Co -Director David E. Lewis - Here's Why Trump is Threatening Federal Layoffs if Congress Won't Shut This Agency Down."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 5/21/18 - SVS Alex Theodoridis and graduate affiliate James Martherus - "Trump isn't the only one who calls opponents 'animals.' Democrats and Republicans do it to each other."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 5/14/18 - Co-Director Larry Bartels - "White People get more conservative when they move up - not down - economically. Here's the evidence."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 4/15/18 - Co-Director Larry Bartles - "How Paul Ryan Lost the Republican Party."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 2/21/18 - Co Director Larry Bartels - "Here's how little Americans have learned about Donald Trump."