Representation and Electoral Systems

Newsletters Posted

2011-10-03T07:29:00.001-05:00

The April and October 2011 Newsletters are available. Please access the links below.

APSA Business Meeting Notes

2011-09-07T06:26:00.007-05:00

From left: Alan Renwick, Shaun Bowler, Anthony Downs, Josep Colomer

At this year's APSA business meeting, the section honored its award winners, selected a new chair, and continued the term of service for its Executive Committee. The section membership extends its gratitude to Shaun Bowler for his hard work and extensive accomplishments for the section, and welcomes Matt Golder as the new chair.

In addition to the traditional three awards for papers, articles, and books, the section added a dissertation award for 2012. This year's award winners were:

Weaver Award (tie):
Wendy Tam Cho (Illinois), James Gimpel (Maryland), and Iris Hui (UCLA/Cal-Berkeley). "Migration and Party Switching in the American Electorate."

Ian McAllister (Australian National University). "The Personalization of Election Campaigning within a Compulsory Voting System."

Longley Award:
David Sastavage (NYU). "When Distance Mattered: Geographic Scale and the Development of European Representative Assemblies." American Political Science Review 104 (4):625-643.

Hallett Award:
Anthony Downs. Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper, 1957.

We were privileged to have Professor Downs as a guest at our meeting. The text of Josep Colomer's remarks announcing the award are below.

An Economic Theory of Democracy is a seminal work. It is among the handful of most widely cited books in the entire field of political science and its impact continues to grow. This book has been immensely influential in the study of party strategies, voter choice, voter turnout, electoral system effects, and the role of information in politics. Many of its key ideas: ‘spatial’ party competition, two party convergence, the attraction of the median voter’s preference, rational ignorance, cues as information shortcuts, coalitions of intense minorities, have become part of the common stock of knowledge in the study of politics. Anthony Downs has achieved perhaps the highest accolade any academic can hope for; he has become an adjective. Even some questioned aspects of the ‘Downsian’ approach have sparked important theoretical inquiries and empirical investigations, as, for example, crucial individual decisions, such as whether to vote, for whom to vote, or which policy to choose, can be understood as strategic interactions depending on what other individuals are expected to do. Other extensions have spawned large literatures on topics such as multiparty competition, voting and elections over a multidimensional set of issues, agenda-setting, inter-institutional relations and, more generally, interactions among actors whose positions can be located within some policy ‘space’. Thousands of scholars over more than five decades have drawn inspiration from this book.

Thanks to Josep Colomer for the text and image. The Section also thanks the Georgetown University BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and the University of California Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) for sponsoring the APSA 2011 Hallet Award Lecture.

Big APSA Event

2011-08-18T06:21:00.003-05:00

The Section Business Meeting will take place on Friday, September 2 from 6:15 pm-7:15 pm in the Convention Center Room 603. In addition to the regular agenda, we will be honoring Anthony Downs as this year's recipient of the Hallett Award. Please join us - and invite your colleagues (non members are welcome, too) - to meet and congratulate a seminal figure in our discipline.

New Section Bibliographer

2011-06-27T07:31:00.002-05:00

Kathy S. Javian has been appointed Section Bibliographer. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Temple University. Her research includes work on elections and voting behavior, public opinion and responsiveness. Kathy's bibliographies will appear in the section's newsletter - please forward relevant publication information to her at ksjavian [at] temple.edu.

IPSA Research Committee on Elections, Citizens, and Parties

2011-05-14T06:42:00.005-05:00

From Pippa Norris and Donley Studlar:

May 13, 2011
Announcing the new IPSA Research Committee 23 on Elections, Citizens and Parties (IPSA-ECP)We are delighted to announce that the International Political Science Association has just approved the establishment of a new Research Committee 23 on Elections, Citizens and Parties (IPSA-ECP).

This will replace IPSA's former RC 34 (Comparative Representation and Electoral Systems). As described in the attached note, IPSA-ECP is designed to cover the interests of the old committee, as well as broadening and updating the focus.

The new network will be launched at a special one-day pre-IPSA Workshop on the Challenges of Electoral Integrity in Madrid on 7th July 2012. We will also organize two regular general panels covering any topics about elections, citizens and parties at the IPSA Congress in Madrid from 8th-10th July 2012. The Call for Papers is attached, proposals are warmly welcomed, and the deadline for submissions is 1st July 2011.

We are also asking for your support to expand membership. There are no costs to joining for the first year and after July 2012 there will be a modest subscription fee, to subsidize activities. It would be greatly appreciated if you could go to www.ipsa-ecp.com to add your contact details to join and if you could spread the word and encourage membership among your research networks.

Please also forward the Call for Papers to colleagues and advanced graduate students. In a world rapidly moving towards elections as the main channel of political legitimacy for regimes worldwide, where the study of elections and parties is now truly global, the aim to is make sure that IPSA is at the forefront of scholarly research and scientific inquiry on elections, citizens and parties.

Longley Award Solicitation

2011-05-05T15:41:00.000-05:00

An awards committee has been put together to find the best article published in 2010 dealing with issues of representation and electoral systems. The awards committee is chaired by Matt Golder (Penn State University), and includes Leslie Schwindt-Bayer (Missouri) and Garrett Glasgow (UCSB). The awards committee is looking for nominations; self nominations are welcome. If you have a paper to nominate, please email Matt Golder at mgolder@psu.edu. A short paragraph explaining why the nominated article is a good candidate for this award is appreciated. The deadline for nominations is May 15.

Call for Papers - EPOP 2011

2011-04-15T08:07:00.002-05:00

[From POLMETH] EPOP 2011 - CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS We would like to invite proposals of complete panels or individual papers for the 2011 meeting of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) section of the of the Political Studies Association, to be held at the University of Exeter (9-11 September 2011). We are interested in receiving proposals relating to any aspect of the fields of public opinion, elections and parties research, on the UK or with a comparative perspective. Our main interest is to feature quality, rigorous research regardless of methodological approach. Panel and Paper proposals should be submitted using the forms at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/epop2011/ . Please be sure to fill in all boxes. Incomplete proposals will not be accepted. If you are proposing a full panel please note that all proposed panels should have a minimum of three papers and a maximum of four. All panel proposals should be completed using the online form, including an abstract for each paper. If you are proposing a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words using the online form. Please visit http://www.exeter.ac.uk/epop2011/ for more details and to submit a paper proposal. EPOP is the largest specialist group of the Political Studies Association of the UK, bringing together people interested in the study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations, and the Centre for Elections, Media and Parties at the University of Exeter. DEADLINE: Friday, 20 May 2011 EPOP 2011 Academic Conveners: Susan Banducci, Dan Stevens, Jack Vowles Department of Politics and International Relations University of Exeter email: epop2011@exeter.ac.uk

Section Panels and Posters at APSA 2011

2011-04-08T08:07:00.004-05:00

Panels for the upcoming annual meeting in Seattle have been posted.

Newsletters Updated

2011-04-08T07:55:00.002-05:00

Newsletters from 2010 have been added to the archive. The most recent newsletter is being released soon, but is available only to section members.

Section Award Deadlines

2011-03-08T07:49:00.003-06:00

Please submit nominations for section awards to the committee chairs by April 1, 2011. Winners will be announced at APSA's annual conference in Seattle during the section's business meeting.

APSA Panels

2010-04-01T08:23:00.005-05:00

The section is sponsoring eight panels at the annual APSA meeting to be held in Washington, DC this September.

Panel 1: Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan (Co-sponsored with Japan Political Studies Group)
Panel chair: Daniela Giannetti
Panel discussants: Bernard N. Grofman and Steven R. Reed
Panel Participants
ldo Di Virgilio (University of Bologna) and Junko Kato (University of Tokyo). “Party Competition under New Electoral Rules in Italy and Japan 1994-2009.”
Naoko Taniguchi and Daniela Giannetti (University of Bologna). “The Changing Bases of Party Support in Italy and Japan: Similarities and Differences.”
Kay Shimizu (Columbia University) “Changing Central-Local Relations under New Electoral Rules.”
Ellis S. Krauss (University of California, San Diego) and Robert Pekkanen (University of Washington).“The LDP in Time.”
Filippo Tronconi (Università di Bologna) “Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan: Unanticipated Outcomes?”

Panel 2: Special Topics in Electoral Research
Panel chair: Athanassios Roussias
Panel discussant: Athanassios Roussias
Panel Participants
Robert Thomson (Trinity College, Dublin), Elin Naurin (Göteborg University), and Terry Royed (University of Alabama). "The Program-to-Policy Linkage: A Comparative Study of Election Pledges and Government Policies.”
Andrew C. Eggers (Harvard University), “Opposition Representation and Policy Moderation: Evidence from French Municipalities.”
Boris Shor (University of Chicago) “Assessing the Spatial Model: Constituents and Congressional Candidates on a Common Ideological Scale.”
Donald P. Moynihan (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Barry Burden (University of Wisconsin, Madison), David Canon (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Stephane Lavertu (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Kenneth Mayer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “The Consequences of Electing Election Officials: Separating the Effects of Partisanship and Selection on Turnout.”

Panel 3: Electoral Institutions: Cause and Effect
Panel chair: Sona Golder
Panel discussants: Jonathan Rodden and Sona N. Golder
Panel Participants
Frances M. Rosenbluth (Yale University) “Electoral Adaptation: Party Strategy after Electoral Rule Change in Japan.”
Andy Baker (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Are Democracies Cheaper? Regime Type, Electoral System, and Consumer Price Levels>
Burt L. Monroe (Pennsylvania State University) “Legislative Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation.”
Dr. Erik M. Wibbels (Duke University) “Geographic Bargains: Distributive Conflicts and Representation in Federations.”

Panel 4: Electoral Congruence: Voters, Parties and Governments
Panel chair: Jay K. Dow
Panel discussants Jay K. Dow and Matthew Lebo
Panel Particpants
Paul V. Warwick (Simon Fraser University), “Voters, Parties and Declared Government Policy.”
Matt Golder (Florida State University) and David Siegel (Florida State University),
“Electoral Institutions, Government Formation, and Ideological Congruence.”
Dr. Lawrence Ezrow (University of Essex), Hugh Ward (University of Essex), and Han Dorussen (University of Essex), “Globalization, Party Positions, and the Median Voter: How the Median Voter Conditions the Effects of Globalization on Parties’ Policy Positions.”
Antonio Rodriguez-Zepeda (University of Pittsburgh) and Patricia Otero (Universidad de Salamanca), “Measuring Political Representation in Latin America: A Study of the Ideological Congruence between Parties and Voters in the Region.”

Panel 5: Party Systems
Panel Chair: Kenneth W. Kollman
Panel Discussant: Kenneth W. Kollman
Panel Participants
Jay K. Dow (University of Missouri), “The Bimodality Hypothesis and Electoral Information in Contemporary Democratic Elections.”
Indridi Haukur Indridason (University of California, Riverside), “Expressive Motives, Third-Party Candidates, & Voter Welfare.”
Nasos Roussias (Juan March Institute) “How Do New Party Systems Consolidate? Learning and Strategic Entry in New Democracies.”
Heather Stoll (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Social Heterogeneity and the Number of Presidential Candidates.”

Panel 6: Voters and Candidates: Special Interests, Diverse Interests, and Pork
Panel Chair: Adam W. Ziegfeld
Panel Discussants: Adam W. Ziegfeld and Daniela Giannetti
Panel Participants
Kenichi Ariga (University of Michigan), “When Do Political Parties Benefit from Incumbents' Personal Vote? Comparative Analysis Across Different Electoral Systems.”
Andrew Kirkpatrick (Emory University),“Shooting Fish in a Pork Barrel: Electoral Systems and Provision of Favors to Special Interests.”
Lindsay Joy Benstead (Portland State University), “Legislative Connections: Why Diverse Patterns of Parliamentary Clientelism Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes in Morocco and Algeria and the Arab World.”
Steven J. Brams (New York University) and Marc Kilgour (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Satisfaction Approval Voting.”

Panel 7: Personalized Politics in Comparative Perspective: How Personalized Are Constituency Campaigns, And Does It Matter?
Panel Chair: Thomas Zittel
Panel Discussant: Gideon Rahat
Panel Participants:
Ian McAllister (Australian National University), “The Personalization of Election Campaigning within a Compulsory Voting System.”
William Cross (Carleton University) and Lisa Young (University of Calgary), “Constituency Campaigning in Canada.”
Michael Marsh (Trinity College, Dublin), “Personalized Campaigning under STV: Evidence from Irish Candidates.”
Georg Lutz (University of Lausanne) and Peter Selb (University of Zurich), “Personal Vote Seeking and District Magnitude in Open List PR Systems: Evidence from Switzerland.”
Nikolaus Eder (University of Vienna), Marcelo Jenny (University of Vienna), and Wolfgang Mueller (University of Manheim), “Winning Over Voters or Fighting Party Comrades? Individualized Constituency Campaigning in the 2006 Austrian Elections.”

Panel 8: Electoral Geography (co-sponsored with Elections and Voting Behavior)
Panel Chair: Pablo Beramendi
Panel Discussant: Joel Selway
Panel Participants
Jowei Chen (University of Michigan) and Jonathan Rodden (Stanford University), “The Political Geography of Electoral Bias in the U.S. States.”
Iris Hui (University of California, Berkeley) and James Gimpel (University of Maryland, College Park), “Migration and Party Switching in the American Electorate.”
Joel Selway (Brigham Young University), “District-Level Social Structure and the Number of Parties.”
Erik M. Wibbels (Duke University), “Geographic Bargains, Distributive Conflicts, and Representation in Federations.”
Andrew Reeves (Boston University) and John Gasper (University of Pennsylvania), “November Rain: The Electoral Calculus of Gubernatorial Disaster Requests."

Open Discussion - Section Activities

2009-10-01T07:02:00.001-05:00

At the section's business meeting in Toronto, we discussed the possibility of pursuing new member services. Among the items we discussed were:

Offering a journal subscription along with section membership (with an increased membership fee);
Developing a section journal;
Adopting new online services offered through APSA, including social networking features;
Developing a listserv to discuss ongoing elections (as a complement to other resources, such as section member Matt Shugart's Fruits and Votes);
Organizing an annual reception at APSA (independently, or in collaboration with another group).

Feel free to add comments on these services, or others that you would like to have the section offer. Comments are moderated, so please be patient if there is a lag between your comment's submission and its publication.

New Chair and Executive Committee

2009-09-10T08:13:00.000-05:00

At the section's business meeting in Toronto, Andre Blais announced the Nominating Committee's recommendations for the new chair and executive committee. The proposed slate was approved at the meeting. The section's chair for 2009-2011 is Shaun Bowler (University of California - Riverside), and the executive committee includes Kathy Bawn (UCLA), Sarah Birch (University of Essex), Kenneth Carty (University of British Columbia), Matt Golder (Florida State University), Erik Herron (University of Kansas), Iain McLean (University of Oxford), and Jack Vowles (University of Exeter). The section thanks Andre Blais and the outgoing members of the executive committee for their many years of hard work on behalf of the section.

Business Meeting at APSA

2009-07-24T11:11:00.001-05:00

The Representation and Electoral Systems section will hold its annual business meeting on Friday, September 4 at 12:15 p.m. (location TBA). All members and those interested in the section are invited to attend.

APSA Preliminary Program

2009-06-15T07:17:00.000-05:00

APSA's preliminary program for the 2009 convention is online. The section's panels include:


	34-1 The Impact of Gender Quotas: Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation
	34-2 Turnout and Electoral Institutions
	34-3 The Complexity of Electoral System Change: The Role of Values
	34-4 Minority and Descriptive Representation
	34-5 Comparing the Representative Outcomes of Institutional Differences
	34-6 Beyond the Ballot Box: Institutions, Participation and Representation
	34-7 Theme Panel: Citizens' Assemblies and Deliberative Democracy
	34-8 Representation and Legislative Behavior
	34-9 The Best Women for the Job: Comparative Perspectives on Female Politicians’ Pathways to Power
	34-10 Party Linkage and Party Government in Contemporary Democracies
	34-11 Bias and Responsiveness in Electoral Systems

April 2009 Newsletter

2009-04-28T07:43:00.000-05:00

The April newsletter is available to all members. The newsletter includes information about the section, updates on the study of representation and electoral systems around the world, and a bibliography of recently published books and articles.

To become a member, please visit the APSA website. Back issues are available on this website (see the sidebar).

Longley Award Winners

2009-04-01T09:11:00.010-05:00

2011: David Sastavage. "When Distance Mattered: Geographic Scale and the Development of European Representative Assemblies." American Political Science Review 104 (4):625-643.

2010: Adam Przeworski. "Conquered or Granted: A History of Suffrage Extensions." British Journal of Political Science. 39 (2):291-321.

2009: Christopher Carman, James Mitchell, and Robert Johns. “The Unfortunate Natural Experiment in Ballot Design: The Scottish Parliamentary Elections of 2007,” Electoral Studies 27: 442-59.

2008: Eric Chang and Miriam Golden. “Electoral Systems: District Magnitude, and Corruption,” British Journal of Political Science 37 (2007): 115-37.

2007: Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, and Jeffrey A. Karp. "Why Politicians Like Electoral Institutions: Self-Interest, Values, or Ideology?," Journal of Politics 68: 434-446.

2006: Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell, "Manufactured Responsiveness: The Impact of State Electoral Laws on the Unified Party Control of the Presidency and House of Representatives, 1840-1940," American Journal of Political Science 49 (3): 531-549.

2005: Simon Hix, "Electoral Institutions and Legislative Behavior: Explaining Voting Defection in European Parliament," World Politics 56 (1): 194-223.

2004: Grigorii V. Golosov, "Electoral Systems and Party Formation in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 36 (8): 912-935.

2003: Rein Taagepera, "Nationwide Threshold of Representation," Electoral Studies 21 (3): 383-401.

Weaver Award Winners

2009-04-01T09:05:00.010-05:00

2011 (tie): Wendy Tam Cho (University of Illinois), James Gimpel (University of Maryland), and Iris Hui (UCLA/University of California-Berkeley). "Migration and Party Switching in the American Electorate."

Ian McAllister (Australian National University). "The Personalization of Election Campaigning within a Compulsory Voting System."

2010: No award.

2009: Christian B. Jensen and Jae Jae Spoon (University of Iowa), “The Institutional Effects of Compulsory Voting.”

2008: James Adams and Zeynep Somer (University of California, Davis), “Moderate Now, Win Votes Later: The Electoral Consequences of Parties’ Policy Shifts in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies.”

2007: Jean-Benoit Pilet (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), "Why Do Big Parties Oppose Majority Systems Satisfaction and Electoral Reform in Belgium."

2006: Martin Edwards and Frank Thames (Texas Tech University), "Personal Votes and Public Expenditures."

2005: Mona Lyne (University of South Carolina), "Endogenous Institutions: Electoral Law and Internal Party Dynamics in Brazil."

2004: Josep M. Colomer (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas), "It's Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (or Duverger's laws Upside Down)."

2003: Raymond Christensen (Brigham Young University), "Redistricting in Japan."

2002: Aubrey W. Jewett (University of Central Florida), "Explaining Variation in Ballot Invalidation Among Florida Counties in the 2000 Election."

2001: G Bingham Powell (University of Rochester), "Election Laws and Representation: Beyond Seats and Votes."

2000: Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr., and Jonathan Woon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise Themselves."

1999: Matthew Shugart, "Efficiency and Reform."

1998: Micah Altman (Harvard University), "Do Traditional District Principles Still Matter?"

1997: John Gibson and Anna Cielacka, "The Polish Electoral System: An Unrepresentative Outlier?"

1996: Thomas Cavanagh (Yale University), "Voting Rights in a New Key."

1995: Peter Siavelis (Georgetown University), "Electoral Reform and Democratic Stability in Chile."

1994: Burt L. Monroe (Indiana University at the time, now Michigan State University), "Fully Proportional Representation."

1993: J. Paul Johnston (University of Alberta), "The Single Transferable Vote in Alberta Provincial Elections."

1992: Glenn W. Richardson and Ross E. Burkhart, "Close Races and Blowsouts:' All Senate Races are Not Created Equal."

Hallett Award Winners

2009-04-01T08:56:00.006-05:00

2011: Anthony Downs. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper, 1957.

2010: Arend Lijphart. Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

2009: Sidney Verba, Norman H. Nie, and Jae On Kim. Participation and Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

2008: Michel Balinski and H. Peyton Young. Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One-Man One-Vote. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

2007: Gary Cox, Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

2006: Seymour M. Lipset and Stein Rokkan, Party Systems and Voter Alignments. New York:Free Press, 1967.

2005: V.O. Key, Jr. Southern Politics. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.

2004: Douglas J. Amy, Real Choices/New Voices. New York: Columbia University Press,
1993.

2003: Gary W. Cox, The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

2002: David E. Butler and Donald E. Stokes, Political Change in Britain. New York: Palgrave, 1976.

2001: Bernard Grofman and Arend Lijphart, Choosing an Electoral System: Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences. Agathon, 1986.

2000: G. Bingham Powell, Contemporary Democracies. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1984.

1999: Rein Taagepera and Matthew Shugart, Seats and Votes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

1998: Richard Katz, A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

1997: Harold Gosnell, Why Europe Votes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930.

1996: Roy Pierce and Philip Converse, Political Representation in France. New York: Belknap Press, 1986.

1995: Arend Lijphart, Democracies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

1994: W.J.M. McKenzie, Free Elections. London: Allen and Unwin, 1958.

1993: Enid Lakeman, How Democracies Vote. London: Faber and Faber, 1970.

1992: Robert G. Dixon, Democratic Reapportionment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

1991: Hannah F. Pitkin, The Concept of Representation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

1990: Maurice Duverger, Political Parties. John Wiley & Son, 1954. Originally published by Armand Coplin under the title Les Partis Politiques.

1989: Douglas Rae, Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1967.

EPOP 2009 Conference

2009-02-03T08:01:00.000-06:00

From the Polmeth list, a conference that may be of interest to members:

EPOP 2009 - CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS

We would like to request proposals of either complete panels or individual papers for the 2009 meeting of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) section of the of the Political Studies Association, to be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (28-30 August 2009).

As with all EPOP conferences, we are interested in receiving proposals relating to any aspect of the fields of public opinion, elections and parties research, whether focused on the UK or a broader comparative perspective. Our main interest is to feature quality, rigorous research regardless of methodological approach.

Panel and Paper proposals should be submitted using the online forms at http://www.epop09.com. Please be sure to fill in all boxes. Incomplete proposals will not be accepted.

If you are proposing a full panel please note that all proposed panels should have a minimum of three papers and a maximum of four. All panel proposals should be completed using the online form, including an abstract for each paper. (A panel on survey methodology would be particularly welcomed.)

If you are proposing a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words using the online form.

Please visit http://www.epop09.com for more details and to submit a paper proposal.

DEADLINE: Friday, 8 May 2009

EPOP 2009 Academic Conveners:
Christopher Carman
Robert Johns

Department of Government
University of Strathclyde

email: epop2009@gmail.com

Reminder - APSA 2009 Proposals Due

2008-12-09T10:32:00.000-06:00

Don't forget to submit proposals for the annual conference by December 15, 2008.

SPSA Conference, January 8-10, 2009

2008-11-28T07:22:00.000-06:00

The Southern Political Science Association Conference, January 8-10, 2009 in New Orleans, features several panels that are potentially of interest to section members. The panel information below is from SPSA's preliminary program and is subject to change.

Scheduled Time: Thu, Jan 8 - 8:00am - 9:30am Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / La Salle Ballroom C
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Election Rules and Consequences
Session Participants: Chair: Kevin Unter (University of Louisiana, Monroe)
Barriers to Participation? Factors Associated with State Selection of Primary and Caucus Processes - Shauna F Reilly (Georgia State University), Brian M Webb (Georgia State University)
Election Technologies in Florida: Voter Error and Disenfranchisement - Javed Khan (University of Central Florida)
The Decline and Fall of Tammany Hall: Impact of Voting Regulations on the Political Machine - Vanessa Perez (Columbia University)
The Impact of the Australian Ballot on Quality Challenger Entry Decisions - Brent M Will (Temple University), Ryan J. Vander Wielen (Washington University in St. Louis)
Who's on First? Frontloading Through the Lens of Policy Diffusion - Joshua Tyler Putnam (University of Georgia)
Discussant: Jennifer Ogg Anderson (Vanderbilt University)

Scheduled Time: Thu, Jan 8 - 11:30am - 1:00pm Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / La Salle Ballroom C
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Elections Around the World
Session Participants: Chair: Ryan Carlin (Georgia State University); Discussant: Ryan Carlin (Georgia State University)
Beyond Nigeria's 2007 Elections : Demystifying the Fallacy of Electoralism - Solomon Oladele Akinboye (University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria)
Business People and Presidential Elections in Indonesia, 2004-2009 -Ludiro Madu (Department of International Relations. Universitas Pembangunan Nasional "Veteran" Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Democratic Authoritarianism and Communist Democracy: A Study of Communist Politics in West Bengal during Emergency - Ritwika Biswas (Calcutta University)
Patterns of Split-ticket Voting in the 2008 Korean General Election for the National Assembly - Chan Wook Park (Seoul National University), Jaesung Ryu (Seoul National University)
The Rise and Fall of a Political Maverick: Ken Livingstone and the London Mayoral Elections of 2000 and 2008 -Brian William Smith (St. Edwards University), Thomas John Beech (Bemidji State University)

Scheduled Time: Thu, Jan 8 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / La Salle Ballroom C
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Elite Behavior in Elections
Session Participants: Chair: William P. McLean (Arkansas State University); Discussant: William P. McLean (Arkansas State University)
Candidate Background and Issue Agendas - Brian K. Arbour (John Jay College, City University of New York)
Congressional Candidate Background, Party, and Perceptions of Issue Competence: An Experimental Study with Television Ads - Jeremy Teigen (Ramapo College)
Do candidates' psychological traits influence election outcomes? Optimistic non-rumination and the 2008 presidential primaries - James Cleith Phillips (Brigham Young University)
Elite Polarization, Partisan Ambivalence, and Voting Behavior - Judd R. Thornton (Michigan State University)
Pork, Principles, and Personal Votes: Legislator Behavior and Voter Response under Conditions of Electoral Vulnerability - Aaron J. Abbarno (University of Pittsburgh), Brent M. Dupay (University of Pittsburgh)

Scheduled Time: Thu, Jan 8 - 3:45pm - 5:15pm Building/Room: Executive Conference Center / Pontalba
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Minority Representation in American Political Institutions
Session Participants: Chair: Matthew Bartholomew Platt (Harvard University)
Latinos and the Deliberative Process: Examing the Role of Ethnicity on Committee Participation - Stella M. Rouse (University of Maryland)
Dynamic Representation in Black and White - Christopher L Anderson (Texas A&M University)
The “Other” White American: Examining the Partisan Identifications of Arab Americans - Dino Bozonelos (University of California, Riverside), Jillian Medeiros (University of Southern California)
Does the Political Environment Matter?: Arab-American Representation and September 11th - Nadia Aziz (Clemson University), Jeffrey A. Fine (Clemson University)
Discussant: Matthew Bartholomew Platt (Harvard University)

Scheduled Time: Fri, Jan 9 - 11:30am - 1:00pm Building/Room: Pan American Life / Lafitte
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Elections and Accountability in Latin America
Session Participants: Chair: Claudia N. Avellaneda (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
All by Myself: The Role of Parties in Securing Mayoral Elections in Latin America - Claudia N. Avellaneda (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Maria Escobar-Lemmon (Texas A&M University)
Explaining Voter Turnout in Colombia: A Subnational Approach - Brian Matthew Faughnan (Vanderbilt University)
Party System Institutionalization and Democratization - Charles D. Kenney (University of Oklahoma)
Running and Winning: Candidate Quality in Mexico and Chile - Gregory Love (University of Mississippi)
Discussant: Eduardo Aleman (University of Houston)

Scheduled Time: Fri, Jan 9 - 11:30am - 1:00pm Building/Room: Pan American Life / Mardi Gras I
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Session Participants: Chair: Michael Gerald Huelshoff (University of New Orleans)
Comparison of Central European Party Systems: Formation and Stabilization - Peter Csányi (Alexander Dubek University, Trenín (Slovakia))
Institutional Approaches to Party System Size in East-Central Europe - Magda Mihaela Giurcanu (University of Florida)
Euroscepticism and Political Corruption in Central and East Europe: A Match Made in Heaven? - Galina Zapryanova (University of Pittsburgh)
Discussant: Michael Gerald Huelshoff (University of New Orleans)

Scheduled Time: Fri, Jan 9 - 3:45pm - 5:15pm Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / Acadian I
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Women's Participation and Representation in a Comparative Context
Session Participants: Chair: Kate Bratton (Louisiana State University)
Political Representation of Women – Indian Context - Chavva Sheela Reddy (Sri Venkateswara University, India)
Politics of Rural Women in India: A Case Study - Vijoy Shankar Sahay (University of Allahabad, India)
An Experimental Test of Tolerance for Women Candidates in a Democracy with a Muslim Majority Population - Richard E. Matland (Loyola University Chicago)
Women and Politics in Nigeria: Towards Participatory Democracy in Ogun State,Southwestern Nigeria -Oluyemi Oyenike Fayomi (Covenant University)
Discussant: Amy L. Atchison (University of Tennessee)

Scheduled Time: Fri, Jan 9 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm Building/Room: Pan American Life / Mardi Gras I

Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Parties and Representation
Session Participants: Chair: Claudia N. Avellaneda (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Party Quotas and Theories of Substantive Representation - Walter Casey (University of Texas at Dallas)
The Influence of Individual and Party Characteristics on the Marginalization of Minority Legislators in Latin America and Africa - Roseanna Michelle Heath (Texas A&M University)
Selecting Legislative Candidates in a New Democracy: the Rules and Their Consequences - Anna Beata Mikulska (University of Houston), Susan E. Scarrow (University of Houston)
Discussant: Claudia N. Avellaneda (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Scheduled Time: Sat, Jan 10 - 2:30pm - 4:00pm Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / La Salle Ballroom C
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Voters Abroad
Session Participants: Chair: Gregory Love (University of Mississippi); Discussant: Gregory Love (University of Mississippi)
Electoral Regimes and Party Switching Patterns: The "Scramble to Defect" in South Africa's Local Legislatures - Eric McLaughlin (University of Redlands)
Multi-level Elections and Citizen Satisfaction: A Micro Evaluation of Decentralization - Attasit Pankaew (Georgia State University)
Party and Leader Cues in a Hypothetical British Referendum - Walt Borges (Grinnell College), Harold D. Clarke (University of Texas at Dallas)
The Nature of Electoral Behavior: A Cross-National Examination of Proximity Voting - Shane Paul Singh (Michigan State University)

Scheduled Time: Sat, Jan 10 - 2:30pm - 4:00pm Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / Pelican Room II
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Voting Technology, Ballots, and Election Administration
Session Participants: Chair: Paul Herrnson (University of Maryland, College Park)
The Impact of Ballot Type on Voter Errors - Paul Herrnson (University of Maryland, College Park), Richard G. Niemi (University of Rochester), Michael J. Hanmer (Universiity of Maryland)
Ballot Formats, Voter Priming, and Undervotes: Evidence from the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida - Michael C. Herron (Dartmouth College)
Machine Errors and Undervotes in Florida 2006 Revisited - Walter R. Mebane (University of Michigan)
Political Norms and the Private Act of Voting: Results from a Field Experiment - Chris Karpowitz (Brigham Young University), Quin Monson (Brigham Young University), Lindsay Nielson (UC San Diego), Kelly D. Patterson (Brigham Young University), Steve Snell (Princeton)
Discussant: Robert Crew (Florida State University)

Scheduled Time: Sat, Jan 10 - 4:15pm - 5:45pm Building/Room: Hotel InterContinental / Pelican Room I
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Trends and Patterns in Party Competition
Participant: Joseph Aistrup (Kansas State University)
Participant: John Bruce (University of Mississippi)
Participant: Charles Barrilleaux (Florida State University)
Participant: Belinda Davis (Louisiana State University)
Participant: Seth Charles McKee (University of South Florida St. Petersburg)
Chair: Joseph Aistrup (Kansas State University)

APSA Proposals Due on December 15, 2008

2008-11-24T14:53:00.000-06:00

Call for Proposals - Section 34 - Representation and Electoral Systems
Submit your proposal by December 15, 2008.

This division welcomes paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on any aspect of representation and electoral systems that reflect the full range of the field's empirical, theoretical, and methodological diversity. In keeping with the 2009 conference theme, proposals exploring how global change and increasing social complexity present new challenges to forms of representation and electoral systems will be welcomed, particularly if they have relevance for policy, and/or can bring to bear innovations and new approaches in political science, both theoretical and methodological. The increasing use of forms of democratic deliberation to complement traditional forms of representative democracy might be one theme to be developed. In what senses are citizens' assemblies and citizens' juries 'representative', given various issues associated with their selection and the process in which they are engaged? Does it matter that they are not 'elected'? Can we have representation without election? While proposals focusing on established democracies are welcome, particular consideration will also be given to proposals addressing elections, electoral systems, and representation in new or emerging democracies.

Jack Vowles, University of Exeter
APSA 2009 Program Chair for Representation and Electoral Systems