C-SoDA Conference – New Faces in Political Methodology IV

New Faces in Political Methodology IV was held on April 30, 2011, and featured:

Nicole Asmussen (University of Rochester).

"Anchors Away: A New Approach to Estimating Ideal Points across Time and Chambers," coauthored with Jinhee Jo. This paper was published in Political Analysis.

Nicole received her PhD in 2011 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oakland University.

Matthew Blackwell (Harvard University).

"A Framework for Dynamic Causal Inference in Political Science." This paper was published in the American Journal of Political Science.

Matt received his PhD in 2012 and is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University.

Allison Sovey Carnegie (Yale University [Political Science and Economics]).

"Beyond LATE: A Simple Method for Recovering Sample Average Treatment Effects," coauthored with Peter Aronow. This paper was published in Political Analysis.

Allison received her PhD in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

Devin Caughey (University of California - Berkeley).

"Regression Discontinuity Designs and Popular Elections: Implications of Pro-Incumbent Bias in Close U.S. House Races," co-authored with Jasjeet Sekhon. This paper was published in Political Analysis and was awarded the 2012 Warren Miller Prize.

Devin received his PhD in 2012 and is the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT.

Daniel Hill (Florida State University).

"Strategic Incentives and Modeling Bias in Ordinal Data: The Zero-Inflated Ordered Probit Model in Political Science," co-authored with Benjamin Bagozzi, Will Moore, and Bumba Mukherjee. This paper was published (as "Modeling Two Types of Peace: The Zero-inflated Ordered Probit (ZiOP) Model in Conflict Research") in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Danny is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

Kentaro Hirose (University of Chicago).

"Markov Regime-Switching Panel Models: An Application to Militarized Interstate Disputes."

Kentaro received his PhD in 2013 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study.

Justin Kirkland (University of North Carolina).

"Measuring Uncertainty in Community Detection for Weighted Networks." This paper was published (as "Hypothesis Testing for Group Structure in Legislative Networks") in State Politics & Policy Quarterly.

Justin received his PhD in 2012 and is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Eleonora Mattiacci (Ohio State University).

"The Fog of Peace: Uncertainty, War and the Resumption of International Crises," co-authored with Bear Braumoeller.

Eleonora received her PhD in 2014. She is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.

Kelly Rader (Columbia University).

"Randomization Tests and Inference with Grouped Data."

Kelly received her PhD in 2012 and is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Jaime Settle (University of California, San Diego).

"Genes, Negative Affectivity and Turnout: A Mobilization Field Experiment," co-authored with Christopher Dawes, Peter Loewen, and Costas Panagopoulos. This paper was published (as "Negative Affectivity, Political Contention, and Turnout: A Genopolitics Field Experiment") in Political Psychology.

Jaime received her PhD in 2012 and is Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary.

David Sparks (Duke University).

"Ideological Extremity and the Primary Sources of Polarization," co-authored with Aaron King and Frank Orlando. This paper was published (as "Ideological Extremity and Success in Primary Elections: Drawing Inferences from the Twitter Network") in Social Science Computer Review.

David received his PhD in 2012 and is currently the Director of Basketball Analytics for the Boston Celtics.

Eitan Tzelgov (Pennsylvania State University).

"A Model of Legislative Heresthetic with an Application to the Israeli Knesset."  This paper was published (as "Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: Rhetorical Heresthetic in the Israeli Knesset") in Party Politics, and was included in his dissertation, "Words as Weapons: Opposition Rhetoric and Partisan Strategy" which won the 2014 Carl Albert Award for Best Dissertation in Legislative Studies from the American Political Science Association.

Eitan received his PhD in 2013 and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the University of Gothenburg. He is currently Lecturer with Permanancy (Assistant Professor) in Politics in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia.