2020 Harvard American Politics Conference
Harvard Department of Government
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Panel 1: Federalism
Wednesday August 5, 10 - 11:30am
Chair: Liz Thom and Hunter Rendleman
Discussant: Jamila Michener
Sarah James (G7)
Re-opening by the Numbers: State-level Policymaking and Public Health Data
Meredith Dost (G5)
The Political Implications of Administrative Burden: Medicaid Across the States
Brian Highsmith (G1)
The HQ2 Problem: Addressing the Antitrust Implications of Corporate Location Megadeals
Panel 2: Political Geography
Thursday August 6, 1 - 2:30pm
Chair: Jake Brown
Discussant Justin de Benedictis Kessner
Michael Zoorob (G5)
How Does Police Brutality Impact Calling the Police to Report Crime?
Jake Brown (G5)
Does Partisan Segregation Activate Partisanship?
Kirsten Walters (G2) and Uma Ilavarasan (G2)
9/11 and the Public Good(s): The Effect of an Inter-Group Relations Shock on Local-Level Expenditures
Panel 3: Public Opinion
Friday August 7, 1- 2:30pm
Chair: Shiro Kuriwaki and Soichiro Yamauchi
Discussant: David Shor
Andrew Stone (G6)
Politicizing the Courts in the Public’s Eye: Elite Rhetoric and Public Attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court
Soichiro Yamauchi (G5)
Methods for Small Area Estimation
Chris Kenny (G2)
Assessing Redistricting Fairness with Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP)
How to Participate
Each panel will have its own Zoom link, which has been circulated to the Gov grads list and the APRW list. If you are a Cambridge/Boston area faculty or student and would like to attend, please enter your email here and we will send you the zoom link the day before the session.
Contacts
For general questions, please contact Shiro Kuriwaki. For questions about the panels, please contact the chairs directly.
Chairs
Hunter Rendleman (hrendleman@g.harvard.edu)
Elizabeth Thom (ethom@g.harvard.edu)
Jacob Brown (jrbrown@g.harvard.edu)
Soichiro Yamauchi (syamauchi@g.harvard.edu)
Conveners*
Gwen Calais-Haase (gcalaishaase@g.harvard.edu)
Mitchell Kilborn (mkilborn@g.harvard.edu)
Shiro Kuriwaki (kuriwaki@g.harvard.edu)
Connor Phillips (connorphillips@g.harvard.edu)
Jon Rogowski (rogowski@fas.harvard.edu)
* Past and Present APRW and APSS coordinators