Mark your calendars for April 25, 2025!
The conference program is listed below. If you would like to attend and/or present a poster, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/7rP9SEW1cFRPFvMT9. We look forward to seeing you at University of Kentucky in Lexington on April 25th!
Hosts: Maggie Macdonald and Ada Johnson-Kanu
Program Committee: Maggie Macdonald, Ada Johnson-Kanu, Natalia Bueno, Guilherme Fasolin, and Joe Young
SoWEPS-8
Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science
University of Kentucky, April 25, 2025
Patterson Office Tower 1645
Lexington, KY 40506
11:00 am to 11:30 am: Intro, pastries and coffee
11:30 am to 12:25 pm: Paper Session 1
Paper: “Domesticating Politics: How Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women in India”
Author: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville
Discussant: Natalia Bueno, Emory University
Chair: Ada Johnson-Kanu, University of Kentucky
12:30 pm to 1:25 pm: Lunch & Paper Session 2
Paper: “When Public Goods Go Bad: Criminal Actors and Negative Security Externalities of Welfare Projects”
Author: Lucas Borba, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Isabel Laterzo-Tingley, UT-Austin
Chair: Maggie Macdonald, University of Kentucky
1:45 pm to 2:40 pm: Paper Session 3
Paper: "Capacity in the Time of Inconsistency"
Author: Fred Gui, Louisiana State University
Discussant: Taha Hameduddin, University of Kentucky
Chair: Charles Zug, University of Missouri
3:00 pm to 3:55 pm: Paper Session 4
Paper: "How Correcting Misperceptions of Welfare Effort-Signaling Policy Features Increases Support for Welfare and Improves Perceptions of Recipients: Evidence from Nine American States"
Author: Lucia Lopez, University of Houston
Discussant: Kirsten Widner, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Chair: Michael Zilis, University of Kentucky
4:00 pm to 4:55 pm: Paper Session 5
Paper: "Polling Places: Place Identity, Proximity to Cities, & Individuals’ Trust in Electoral Institutions"
Author: Braeden McNulty, Florida State University
Discussant: Bridgett King, University of Kentucky
Chair: Marcy Shieh, Miami University
5:00 pm to 5:15 pm: wrap up, feedback, SoWEPS-9
5:15 pm to 6:15 pm: happy hour + poster session
Poster presenters:
Giovanny Alvarez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Federico Lombisano, Vanderbilt University
Preeti Nambiar, Vanderbilt University
Alexander Smith, University of Kentucky
Alexander Tripp, Vanderbilt University
7:00pm to 8:30pm: dinner (by invitation)