PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES AT APSA 2019

Thursday, August 29

Applying Process Tracing in Practice

Thu, August 29, 8:00 to 9:30am, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Ingo Rohlfing, Universität zu Köln

How careful Thinking about Activities Improves Evidence using Process Tracing.- Derek Beach, University of Aarhus
Applying Bayesian Process Tracing in Evaluation Case Studies-
Johannes Schmitt, German institute for Development Evaluation/Magdalena Orth/Gunnar Gotz, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)
Letting Evidence Speak for Itself: How to Measure Confidence in Mechanisms - Barbara Befani

Political Ethnography and Fieldwork in the Study of Contemporary Populism

Thu, August 29, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Biko Koenig, Franklin & Marshall College

Mobilization on Whose Margins? Anti-Racist Action in the US and Canada - Kanisha Bond, University of Maryland, College Park
Feminist Politics and Left-Populist Parties. An Ethnographic Study of Podemos - Paloma Caravantes-Gonzalez
White Victimhood Gone Viral: South African Farm Violence Activists - Carolyn Ethel Holmes, Mississippi State University
Populism, Nationalism, and Conceptual Stretching - Jaime Gerardo Lluch, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Advances in Mixed Methodology

Thu, August 29, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Seth Pipkin, University of California, Irvine

Bringing Events Back In: Aspirations, Slack and Institutional Change - Seth Pipkin, University of California, Irvine/ Alberto Jose Fuentes
Machine Learning and the Deliberative Quality Index in Canada’s Territories - Eleonore Fournier-Tombs, McGill University/Michael Kenneth MacKenzie, University of Pittsburgh
Trust but Verify – Mechanistic Heterogeneity and Multi-method Research - Derek Beach, University of Aarhus/ Markus Bjoern Siewert, TU Munich

Poster Session: Qualitative and Multi-Method Research

Thu, August 29, 2:00 to 2:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Does Anyone Care; Inclusion in the INGO-NGO Sector, Evidence from Pakistan - Laila Farooq, Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Quantitative Content Analysis in Political Analysis - Michael Bartee, U.S. Department of Defense
Modeling Subnational Risk of Acute Malnutrition in Conflict-Affected Settings - Ravi Bhavnani, The Graduate Institute, Geneva/Karsten Donnay, University of Konstanz/Mirko Reul, Graduate Institute Geneva
Transformation of the Global Intellectual Property Regime - Nazan Bedirhanoglu, Binghamton University

Gender, Institutions, and Intersections and Beyond

Thu, August 29, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Liza Mugge, University of Amsterdam

Presenters:

Christina Xydias, Clarkson University
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami
Angelika von Wahl, Lafayette College
Erica Townsend-Bell, Oklahoma State University
Fiona C. Barker, Victoria University of Wellington
Merike Blofield, University of Miami
Wendy G. Smooth, The Ohio State University

Transparent Qualitative Research: Evaluating Annotation for Transparent Inquiry

Thu, August 29, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University

Presenters:

Rachel Maureen Myrick, Stanford University
Markus Bjoern Siewert, TU Munich
Lindsay Rose Mayka, Colby College
Theo Milonopoulos, Columbia University
Paul Musgrave, University of Massachusetts
Sebastian Karcher, Syracuse University

Friday, August 30

"Bringing Fieldwork Back In-" To Political Science Research

Fri, August 30, 8:00 to 9:30am, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Gale A. Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy

"Analytic Iteration in Field Research" - Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University/Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University, Bloomington/Benjamin L. Read, University of California, Santa Cruz
Quick Immersions: Fieldwork in Authoritarian Conflict Zones - Deborah L. Wheeler, U.S. Naval Academy
The Power of Ethnography: What Micro-Level Observation Reveals - Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory University
The Relevance of Fieldwork: from the United States to Nepal - Susan L Ostermann, University of Notre Dame

Discussants:

Roselyn Hsueh, Temple University
Rebecca Bill Chavez, United States Naval Academy

Dealing with the Replication Crisis

Fri, August 30, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Megan Becker, University of Southern California

Ethics and Openness in Qualitative Research - Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University/Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University
Replicating the Resource Curse: Ross (2004) and Qualitative Replication - Megan Becker, University of Southern California/Jonathan Markowitz, University of Southern California
Reliability of Inference: Analogs of Replication in Qualitative Research - Tasha A. Fairfield, London School of Economics/Andrew Charman, University of California, Berkeley
Robustness in Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Ingo Rohlfing, Universität zu Köln/Ayjeren Rozyjumayeva/Jan Schwalbach, University of Cologne

Discussants:

James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Cassandra Emmons, Princeton University

Community Resilience

Fri, August 30, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Brianna White, Northwestern University

Communities of Refugees - Jennifer M. Larson, Vanderbilt University
Locked In: How Incarceration Impacts Political Development - Brianna White, Northwestern University

Discussants:

Tommaso Pavone, Princeton University

Critical Junctures: Juxtaposing Methods, Triangulating among Divergent Findings

Fri, August 30, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Washington Hilton, TBA

Chair: Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Quantification and Critical Junctures: Evaluating New Quantitative Studies - Gerardo L. Munck, University of Southern California
A New Critical Juncture? Party System Transformation in South American Politics - Samuel Handlin, Swarthmore College
Do Types of Regime Transitions Matter? Enduring Legacies of Paths to Democracy - Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III University, Madrid

Discussants

Taylor C. Boas, Boston University
Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University

Qualitative Field Research, Research Quality & Research Transparency

Fri, August 30, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University

Shadowing as a Tool for Studying Elites - Jennifer L. Bussell, University of California, Berkeley
How to Report Interviews? Substantiating Claims with Interview Data - Andres Vargas, Yale University/ Juan Masullo, University of Oxford
Interviewing for Process Tracing - Juan Masullo, University of Oxford/Ezequiel Alejo Gonzalez Ocantos, University of Oxford
Problems of Attributing Civil War Violence: Evaluating Data Quality - Rachel Sweet, University of Notre Dame

Discussants:

Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University

Saturday, August 31

Innovations in Case Study Methods

Sat, August 31, 8:00 to 9:30am, Omni Shoreham, TBA

Chair: Ingo Rohlfing, Universität zu Köln

Assessing the Value Added of Set-Theoretic Methods - James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Testing Your Rivals: A Case Selection Framework for Testing Competing Hypotheses- Sherry Zaks, Stanford University – CISAC/Melissa Anne Carlson, University of California, Berkeley
Bayesian Nested Analysis - Ingo Rohlfing, Universität zu Köln/Lion Behrens, University of Mannheim
Spatial Mixed Methods: From Case Study to Model - Matthew C. Ingram, University at Albany, SUNY/Imke Harbers, University of Amsterdam

Discussants:

Eleanor Knott, London School of Economics

People in Politics

Sat, August 31, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Omni Shoreham, TBA

Chair: Nicole Kliewer, Princeton University

Direct Election, Bureaucratic Appointment, and Responsiveness in Taiwan - Sara A. Newland, Smith College
The Values and Vices of Veteran Voices - Nicole Kliewer, Princeton University
Patterns of Islamist Mobilization and the Limits of Partisan Participation - Justin Glenn Curtis, University of Arizona

Discussant:

Stephanie Schwartz, University of Southern California

Positionality and Reflexivity in Political Science I: The Domestic Context

Sat, August 31, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Timothy Pachirat, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Cosponsor: Interpretive Methodologies and Methods

Mapping Movements: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Violence in Academia - Natasha Behl, Arizona State University, West Campus
Mapping Judicialization: On the Politics of Methodological Pluralism - Leila Kawar, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ambiguities of Belonging: Challenging the Insider/Outsider Divide in Ethnography - Ramon Garibaldo Valdez, Yale University
The Muslim in Muslim Politics - Hajer Al-Faham, University of Pennsylvania Discussants:
Michelle Day Weitzel, The New School for Social Research

Positionality and Reflexivity in Political Science II: The International Context

Sat, August 31, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Aarie Glas, Northern Illinois University

Cosponsor: Interpretive Methodologies and Methods

Homecoming with a New Identity: Returning “Home” for Field Research - Yi-Chun Chien, University of Ottawa
Power, Positionality, and Positions of Power: Reflexivity in Elite Interviewing - Aarie Glas, Northern Illinois University
Positionality and the (In)visible Labor of Research Assistants - Syahar Banu, Human Rights Watch/Jessica Soedirgo, University of Toronto
The World at the Door: Problematizing the Local/International Dichotomy - Eleanor Knott, London School of Economics/ Audrey Alejandro, London School of Economic.

Discussants:

Dvora Yanow, Wageningen University
Nicholas Rush Smith, CUNY-City College

Sunday, September 1

Multi-Epistemological Research: An Integrative Approach

Sun, September 1, 8:00 to 9:30am, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Benjamin Smith, University of Florida

Nations on Exhibit: Divergent Nation-Building Trajectories in Tanzania and Kenya - Mary Victoria Gorham
Everyday Ethics in Disasters: How Local Communities Shape Crisis Politics - Sarah E. Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University/Valerie de Koeijer, Johns Hopkins University
Interpretivist Black Feminism: Understanding the Social Significance of Respect - Lahoma Thomas, University of Toronto
National Identity and Restrictions on LGBT Reproductive Rights - Anna Weissman

Discussant:

Erica S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Pathways to Peace

Sun, September 1, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott Wardman Park, TBA

Chair: Julia Leib, Goethe University

Against All Odds: The Mechanisms Behind Different Pathways to Sustainable Peace - Julia Leib, Goethe University
Explaining NATO and the European Union’s Responses to Peacebuilding - Ivan Dinev Ivanov, University of Cincinnati / Igor Kovac, University of Cincinnati
Words as Weapons: Military Missions, Autonomy, and Contestation in Brazil - Edward Littlefield, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Douglas Block, University of Pittsburgh