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SoWEPS-9

Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science

Tulane University, November 7, 2025

Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Room 430

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11:00 am to 11:15am: Intro, pastries and coffee

11:15 am to 12:15 pm: Paper Session 1 

• Paper: "Party Cues or Group Sympathy? How Perceived Group Support Shapes Policy Beliefs"

• Author: Austin Cutler (Florida State University) 

• Discussant: Lexi Palmer (Tulane University)

• Chair: Rajeshwari Majumdar (George Washington University)

12:30 pm to 1:30pm: Lunch & Paper Session 2

• Paper: “How NGOs Reshape the State: Evidence from Municipal Spending and Employment in Brazil”

• Author Alexander Dean (Vanderbilt University) 

• Discussant: Josephine Lechartre (Tulane University)

• Chair: Virginia Oliveros (Tulane University)

 1:35pm to 2:35pm: Paper Session 3 

• Paper: The Lady and the Military: Critical Discourse Analysis of Civilian Narratives of Myanmar’s Military

• Author: Prajakta Gupte (University of Florida)

• Discussant: Jangai Jap (University of Georgia)

• Chair: Changwook Ju (Tulane University)

2:45pm to 3:45 pm: Paper Session 4 

• Paper: “Judicial Checks and Public Support for Democratic Backsliding”

• Author: Martín Gandur (Florida State University)

• Discussant: Jeff Staton (Emory University) 

• Chair: Hannah Baron (Xavier University) 

3:45- 4:15 pm Coffee break 

4:15pm to 5:15pm: Paper Session 5 

• Paper: “Territorial Competition, Civilian Protests and Displacement in Civil Wars”

• Author: Thao- Nguyen Ha (Vanderbilt University) 

• Discussant: Rachel Schoner (Tulane University)

• Chair: Joe Clare (Louisiana State University)

5:30pm to 6:30pm: Graduate Student Poster Session

Poster presenters:

• Jain Choi, University of Florida

• Shiladitya Kumar, University of Houston

• Renzo Aurazo Diaz, Tulane University

• Jaime Lindh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Yuge Wang, University of Georgia

7:00pm to 8:30pm: dinner (by invitation)