Thursday, March 22nd
- 7:00 PM - Dinner and cocktails for those arriving on Thursday at Alexa McDonald's Home.
Directions available at Hotel, and on request by e-mail.
Friday, March 23
- 8:30 AM - Continental Breakfast in Chambers Room
- 9:00 AM - Introductory remarks
- 9:30 AM - Valence, Cost of Governing, and Dynamic Positions of Policy-Seeking Parties
Moderator: Christopher Way, Cornell University
Presenters: James Adams, University of California - Davis
- "Policy-Seeking Parties in a Parliamentary Democracy
with Proportional Representation: A Valence-Uncertainty
Model" Coauthor, Samuel Merrill III [PDF]
Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of California - Davis
- “Party Policy Strategies and Valence Issues: An
Empirical Study of Ten Post-Communist European
Party Systems”. [PDF]
- 11:00 AM - Break
- 11:30 AM - A Spatial Model of Voting in Application to Government Formation and Elections
Moderator: Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester
Presenters: Norman Schofield, Washington University in St. Louis
- Spatial Model of Voting "Chapter 6" [PDF]
Guido Cataife, Washington University in St. Louis
- "A model of political competition with activists
applied to the elections of 1989 and 1995
in Argentina" Coauthor Norman Schofield [PDF]
- 1:00 PM - Lunch in Royale Room
- 2:00 PM - Structure in Party Positions from Strategies of Activist Donors
Moderator: Christopher J. Anderson, Cornell University
Presenters: Jacob Montgomery & Michael Munger, Duke University
- "Before the Primary: Internal and External Dynamics of
Party Competition" [PDF]
- 3:30 PM - Break
- 4:00 PM - Initializing a Quest for Candidate Equilibrium without Convergence
Moderator: Jonathan Krasno, Binghamton University
Presenter: Robert Erikson, Columbia University
- "Uncertain Candidates, Voters with Valence, and the
Dynamics of Candidate Position-Taking" Coauthors, Michael
Bruter and Aaron Strauss [PDF]
- 7:00 PM - Dinner at the home of Olga Shvetsova and Mikhail Filippov
Saturday, March 24
- 8:30 AM - Continental Breakfast in Chambers Room
- 9:00 AM - Representation, Entry as an Outlet, and Volatility in Fact or in Error
Moderator: Michael D. McDonald, Binghamton University
Presenters: Michael D. McDonald, Binghamton University
- "In Search of Limits to Democratic Representation
with Divergent Parties" Coauthors, Aida Paskeviciute, Robin
Best, and Rachel Cremona [PDF]
Robin Best, Syracuse University
- "The Consequences of Neglecting the Median:
Major Party Vote Shares and New Party Entries in
Seven Western Democracies" [Abstract DOC; Presentation PPT]
Kenneth Benoit & Slava Mikhaylov, Trinity College, Dublin
- "Mapping Policy Preferences with Uncertainty: Measuring and
Correcting Error in Comparative Manifesto Project Estimates"
Coauthor Michael Laver [PDF]
- 10:30 AM - Break
- 11:00 AM - Computational Modeling of Party Position Dynamics
Moderator: Mikhail Filippov, Binghamton University
Presenters: Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti , New York University
"Characterizing Outputs of Computational Dynamic Models
of Party Competition" [PDF]
- 12:30 PM - Lunch in Royale Room
- 1:30 PM - Adjourn to a pub for an organizational meeting
