PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES AT APSA 2012

Listing as at August 19, 2012. Please check online program at www.apsanet.org for lastest changes in times and locations.

46-1 Quantitative Qualitative Methods (co-sponsored by 8-10)

Saturday, Sep 1, 2012, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM

A Critical Review of Applications in QCA and Fuzzy-Set Analysis and a 'Toolbox' of Proven Solutions to Frequently Encountered Problems
Patrick A. Mello, Humboldt University Berlin, patrick.mello@tu-dresden.de

Qualitative Comparative Analysis As A Nested Approach to Inquiry
Nicholas D. Knowlton, University of Florida, ndk1@ufl.edu

A Quicksort Implementation for Qualitative Data for Recovering Latent Dimensions with Crowdsourced Human Computation: Measuring State Policies for Welfare Eligibility under TANF
James Honaker, Pennsylvania State University, jhonaker@iq.harvard.edu
Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University, exp12@psu.edu
Michael B. Berkman, Pennsylvania State University, mbb1@psu.edu
Christopher Ojeda, Pennsylvania State University, cjo136@psu.edu

Two or Three Approaches to Explanatory Case Study Research?
Markus Haverland, Eramus University Rotterdam, haverland@fsw.eur.nl
Joachim K. Blatter*, Universität Luzern, Joachim.Blatter@unilu.ch

Discussant: Kendra L. Koivu, Northwestern University, kendrakoivu2009@u.northwestern.edu

* not presenting

46-2 The Contributions of Qualitative Methods to Latin American Scholarship (co-sponsored by 12-24)

Saturday, Sep 1, 2012, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Chair: David Collier, University of California, Berkeley, dcollier@berkeley.edu

Social Movements and Universal Social Policies: The Bolivian Renta Dignidad
Santiago Anria, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, sanria@email.unc.edu
Sara Niedzwiecki , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, saran@email.unc.edu

Using Mechanisms to Unpack Concepts: Party Institutionalization and Its Impact on Latin American Left’s Policy Choices
Carlos L. Freytes Frey, Northwestern University, freytes@u.northwestern.edu

Theft or Inequality? Identifying the Causes of Land Conflict in 20th Century Latin America
Maria Paula Saffon, Columbia University, ms3769@columbia.edu

A Conceptual Typology of State Territorial Reach: Evidence from Latin America
Maria Agustina Giraudy, Harvard and American University, agustina.giraudy@gmail.com

Measuring "the Social": The Use of Focus Groups in Social Science Research
Jennifer Marie Cyr, Northwestern University, j-cyr@northwestern.edu

Discussant: James Mahoney
Northwestern University, James-Mahoney@northwestern.edu

46-3 Conceptualizing State Strength/Weakness: A Cross-Regional Perspective (co-sponsored by 44-24)

Friday, Aug 31, 2012, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Chair: Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin, cboone@mail.utexas.edu

Conceptualizing and Measuring State Weakness
Hillel David Soifer, Temple University, hsoifer@temple.edu

Geopolitical Scale and Politics in Africa: Elections, War, and Public Opinion
Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin, cboone@mail.utexas.edu

State Challengers in Contemporary Latin America: A Typology
Juan Pablo Luna, Universidad Católica de Chile, jlunaf@uc.cl

Discussant(s): Richard Snyder, Brown University, Richard_Snyder@brown.edu
Scott B. Radnitz, University of Washington, srad@u.washington.edu

46-4 Social Science Methods and the Real World

Thursday, Aug 30, 2012, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Chair: Evan S. Lieberman, Princeton University, esl@princeton.edu 

Validating and Verifying Validation and Verification: The Methodological Challenge of a Public Policy Imperative
Ian S. Lustick, University of Pennsylvania, ilustick@sas.upenn.edu 

Dr. Strange-Economist or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Financial Models
Matthew R. Tubin
University of Pennsylvania, mtubin@sas.upenn.edu

Within Case Analysis: How Non-Comparable Observations Contribute to Descriptive and Causal Inference
Colin Elman, Syracuse University, celman@maxwell.syr.edu

Discussant(s): Evan S. Lieberman, Princeton University, esl@princeton.edu

46-5 The Methods Cafe (co-sponsored by Interpretive Methodologies and Methods 3)

Thursday, Aug 30, 2012, 12:00 PM-2:00 PM

Chair: Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu

Archival Research
Emily Hauptmann, Western Michigan University, emily.hauptmann@wmich.edu
Jessie Kratz, National Archives, jessie.kratz@nara.gov

Critical-interpretive Policy Analysis
Ronald J. Schmidt, California State University, Long Beach, rschmidt@csulb.edu

Feminist Methods
Mary Hawkesworth
Rutgers University, mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu

Field Research
Dorian T. Warren, Columbia University, dorian.warren@sipa.columbia.edu
Katherine Cramer Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison, kwalsh@polisci.wisc.edu

Interpretive Research Design
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, University of Connecticut, cyrus.zirakzadeh@uconn.edu

Intersectionality Research
Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California, ahancock@usc.edu

Why Compare? Comparison and Concepts in Interpretive Research
Robert Kaufman Adcock, George Washington University, adcockr@gwu.edu

46-6 Dimensions of Time: Timing, Sequencing, Age, Tempo and Period

Friday, Aug 31, 2012, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM

Chair: Marcus Kreuzer, Villanova University, markus.kreuzer@villanova.edu

When Time is on My Side: Time Horizons and Institutional Reforms
André Kaiser, University of Cologne, ahw74@uni-koeln.de

Time as Age: On the Importance of Duration in Studying Politics
Marcus Kreuzer, Villanova University, markus.kreuzer@villanova.edu

The Time of Generations: A Temporal Unit of Analysis for the Study of Foreign Policy and International Politics
Tim Luecke, Ohio State University, luecke.7@osu.edu

Staggering and Democratic Timescapes
Klaus H. Goetz , University of Potsdam, khgoetz@uni-potsdam.de

Discussant: John Oates, Ohio State University, oates.35@osu.edu 

46-7 Field Research and Representing African Politics in the 21st Century

Saturday, Sep 1, 2012, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Chairs:
Parakh Hoon, Virginia Tech, hoon@vt.edu
Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University, Bloomington, macleanl@indiana.edu

Participant(s):
Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin, cboone@mail.utexas.edu
Leonard Wantchekon, New York University, lwantchekon@gmail.com
John W. Harbeson, Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, Jwharbeson@aol.com
Robert H. Bates, Harvard University, robert.bates.harvard.edu@gmail.com
Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University, Bloomington, macleanl@indiana.edu
Parakh Hoon, Virginia Tech, hoon@vt.edu  

46-8 Strategies of Case Selection

Friday, Aug 31, 2012, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Chair: Jason Seawright, Northwestern University, j-seawright@northwestern.edu

Case Selection Strategies in the Three Variants of Process Tracing Methods
Derek Beach, University of Aarhus, derek@ps.au.dk
Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Aarhus University, brun@ps.au.dk

Choosing and Combining Units in Political Science Research
Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University, giovanni.capoccia@politics.ox.ac.uk
Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley, stoker@socrates.berkeley.edu

Case Studies, Causal Mechanisms, and Selecting Cases: Most Similar Systems, Control Variables, and Matching
Gary Goertz, University of Arizona, ggoertz@u.arizona.edu

Selecting Cases that Travel: A Distributed Cognition Approach to Case-Study Research
Eric Grynaviski , George Washington University, ericgryn@gwu.edu

Discussant: Jason Seawright, Northwestern University, j-seawright@northwestern.edu

46-9 Causal Explanations and Causal Mechanisms

Sunday, Sep 2, 2012, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Chair: David Waldner, University of Virginia, daw4h@virginia.edu

Why Did You Do That?: The Methodology of Motive Attribution
Joseph O'Mahoney , George Washington University, omahoney@gwmail.gwu.edu

Paradox of Confirmation: Causation, Explanation, and Inference in IR
James F. Robinson, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, robinson@itam.mx

Are Causal Mechanisms Real?
Miles Townes, George Washington University, mdtownes@gwmail.gwu.edu

Discussant: David Waldner, University of Virginia, daw4h@virginia.edu 

46-10 Critical Concepts: Authoritarianism, Corruption, Representation

Thursday, Aug 30, 2012, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Co-sponsored by IPSA Research Committee 1 (Concepts and Methods)-1

Chair: Staffan I. Lindberg, Gothenburg University, sil@ufl.edu

An Interpretive Approach to Concept Formation in the Study of Authoritarianism: Abstraction, Historicism, and Ideal Types in Political Science
Daniel Neep, University of Exeter, d.neep@bi-amman.org.uk

Conceptual Advances in the Study of Electoral Authoritarianism – Disaggregating Competitiveness and Hegemony
Yonatan Morse, Georgetown University, ylm3@georgetown.edu

Varieties of Corruption and the Architecture of Public Trust
William E. English, Harvard University, wee@alumni.duke.edu

Glitches in the Matrix: Suturing the Conceptual Divide toward Explanations of Re-representation
Sayres S. Rudy, Hampshire College, sayres.rudy@gmail.com

Discussant: Wolfgang Muno, University of Mainz, muno@uni-mainz.de

46-11 Combining Large, Medium, and Small-N

Thursday, Aug 30, 2012, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM

Chair: James Mahoney, Northwestern University, James-Mahoney@northwestern.edu

Strikes and Leadership’s Ideology: A Critique of Rational Choice Theories of Union-Government Interactions with Evidence from Chile
Sebastian G. Guzmam, New School for Social Research, guzmas31@newschool.edu

Using In-Depth Case Studies to Evaluate the Plausibility of Ecological Inference in Large-N Research
Brian Palmer-Rubin, University of California, Berkeley, brianpr@berkeley.edu
Anne Meng, University of California, Berkeley, ameng@berkeley.edu  

‘And never the twain shall meet’? Can Process Tracing and QCA methods be combined? Lessons from a case study of representation in the EU.
Derek Beach, University of Aarhus, derek@ps.au.dk

Discussant: James Mahoney, Northwestern University, James-Mahoney@northwestern.edu

46-12 Types, Typologies, and Causal Explanations

Saturday, Sep 1, 2012, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Chair: David Waldner, University of Virginia, daw4h@virginia.edu

Assessing the Explanatory Power of Typological Theories
Svend-Erik Skaaning, Aarhus University, skaaning@ps.au.dk
Jørgen Møller, University of Aarhus, jm@ps.au.dk

Crisis, Shocks, and Threats: A Conceptual Typology of "Exogenous" Events
Amy H. Liu, University of Colorado, Boulder
Richard F. Doner, Emory University, rdoner@emory.edu

A New Type of Resource Curse? Effect of Natural Resource Pipelines on Economic and Human Development
Ruchan Kaya, University of Florida, rkaya@ufl.edu

Discussant: David Waldner, University of Virginia, daw4h@virginia.edu 

46-13 Process Tracing Corruption and the Provision of Public Goods

Thursday, Aug 30, 2012, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Chair: Gerard Alexander, University of Virginia, ga8h@virginia.edu

Process Tracing for Causal Explanation and Causal Inference: A Comparative Case Study of Welfare Legislation Patterns in South Korea and Japan
Jaemin Shim, University of Oxford, jaemin.shim@politics.ox.ac.uk

Is Corruption a Path Dependence Process? Focal point and Corrupt Behavior
Rodolfo Sarsfield, Queretaro State University, rodolfo.sarsfield@uaq.mx

Intrinsic Religiosity and Public Goods Provision: evidence from Catholicism and Islam
Carolyn M. Warner, Arizona State University, cwarner@asu.edu
Ramazan Kilinc, University of Nebraska, Omaha, rkilinc@unomaha.edu
Christopher Hale, Arizona State University, cwhale@asu.edu

Discussant: Gerard Alexander, University of Virginia, ga8h@virginia.edu

46-14 Innovations in Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis

Friday, Aug 31, 2012, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM


Chair: Will Lowe, University of Mannheim, will.lowe@uni-mannheim.de

Neo-liberal Discourse on an Edge : Communicating Political Economic Crisis in post-2007 Ireland
Brendan K. O'Rourke, Dublin Institute of Technology, Brendan.ORourke@dit.ie
John W. Hogan, Dublin Institute of Technology, john.hogan@dit.ie

The Surveyor, the Reporter, and the Detective: Three Models of the Qualitative Interview
Alexander Dunning Jakle, University of Michigan, ajakle@umich.edu

Are All Hypotheses Created Equally ? Using Footnotes to Replicate Theory Construction.
Marcus Kreuzer, Villanova University, markus.kreuzer@villanova.edu

Sequential, Multimethod Identity Research in Security Studies: The Promise of Combining Discourse Analysis and Survey Methods
Shivaji Kumar, Ohio State University, kumar.140@osu.edu

Discussant: Will Lowe, University of Mannheim, will.lowe@uni-mannheim.de