Research and Methods Symposium

Introduction

Vita

Teaching

Research

Methods Symposium

WSU Political Science

The Research and Methods Symposium is a venue for faculty and graduate students to present their research, with a particular focus on methodological issues, both quantitative and qualitative.

Spring Semester 2014

March 5 : "Using Amazon's MTurk ," Sanne Rijkhoff, 1 p.m., 8th Floor conference room.

Spring Semester 2013

February 19: "NOMINATE scores," Howard Rosenthal, New York University, 9:30 a.m., 8th Floor conference room.

January 16: "The Strategic Landscape: How to Find It, How to Read It, What It Reveals," Byron Shafer, University of Wisconsin, 9 a.m., 8th Floor conference room.

Fall Semester 2012

December 4: "Gendering Policy through Expertise: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Gender Expert Policy Success," Season Hoard, 12 p.m., 8th Floor conference room.

Fall Semester 2011

October 12 : "Success and Failure of Third Party Interventions in Civil Wars: Cote d’Ivoire and Libya as Case Studies," Audrey Mattoon and Renee Edwards, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor conference room.

October 11 : "Internal and External Influences on U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges in Administrative Agency Cases," Kim Rice, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor conference room.

Scholars have generally found evidence of deference to administrative agencies in the federal courts; however, the degree of deference and the circumstances under which deference is granted varies between levels of the courts and between different agency types. Given this variation, I examine agency cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals in light of strategic theory, which posits that decisionmaking in the courts may be influenced by both intra-branch relationships (i.e. brethren on the court) and inter-branch politics (i.e. preferences of Congress and the executive) as well as more generally by public opinion. Using data on agency cases from four circuits across multiple years, I find that decisionmaking in the U.S. Courts of Appeals in agency cases is a mixture of both internal and external strategy, including considerations of overall circuit preferences as well as strategic considerations based on the ideological congruence or incongruence between the court and other branches.

Spring Semester 2010

April 21: "Integrating Two Cultures in Mixed-Methods Research: A Tale of the State Feminism Project," Amy Mazur, 12 noon, 8th Floor conference room.

Paper

January 28: "The Genetic Heritability of Social and Political Traits: Introduction to Twin Studies," Levi Littvay, Central European University, 2 p.m., 8th Floor conference room.

Supplemental Readings: Alford, Medland

Fall Semester 2009

September 16: "This One Time...At Methods Camp," Season Hoard and Katie Searles, 12 noon, 8th Floor conference room.

October 9: "Assessing the Generalizability of the Near Repeat Phenomenon," Matt Nobles, 12 noon, 8th Floor Conference Room

December 4: "NGO-s and Civil Society: Examining Women's Movements in Post-Communist Europe," Ingrid Bego, 12 noon, 8th Floor Conference Room.

Spring Semester 2009

January 27: "Latest Developments in Qualitative Comparative Methods," Benoit Rihoux, Université catholique de Louvain, 12 noon, CUE 203.

March 12: "It's My Campaign I'll Cry if I Want to: How and When Campaigns Use Emotional Appeals," Katie Searles and Title TBA, Ellen Rogers, 12 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Outline (Emotional Appeals)

Paper (Emotional Appeals)

Fall Semester 2008

October 30: "Approaches to the Study of the Courts," Ericka Christensen, Jacob Day and Simon Zschirnt, 12 noon, 8th Floor Conference Room.

November 14 : Title TBA, Glen Smith, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Spring Semester 2008

January 28 : "Sharing Data Through the WSU Dataverse," Travis Ridout, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

March 24: "Saving Nature and Growing Crops in Uzbekistan: Applying QCA to Explain Policy Outcomes," Claire Metelits and Ed Weber, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Fall Semester 2007

November 13: "Doin' Time: Applying ARIMA Time-Series Models to the Social Sciences," Katie Searles, 1:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Slides

September 25 : "The Comparative Agendas Project," Sylvain Brouard, 12 noon, 8th Floor Conference Room.

Outline

Spring Semester 2007

January 26th: "Goodbye Welfare Queens, Hello Working Moms," Carly Hayden Foster, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

Slides

March 23rd : "A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research," Gary Goertz, University of Arizona, 4 p.m., CUE 518.

Article

Fall Semester 2006

October 9th: "Innovations in Survey Research: The Case of the British Elections Survey," Harold Clarke and Marianne Stewart, University of Texas-Dallas, 12 noon, CUE 518.

Spring Semester 2006

March 10th: "Developing Computer Code for Content Analysis of Documents," Robbie Stone, 11 a.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

March 31st: "Fight the Future: Methods and Problems of Forecasting Correctional Populations," Jeff Rosky, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Fall Semester 2005

September 23rd: "A Multilevel Analysis of the Vulnerability, Disorder, and Social Integration Models Across Multiple Dimensions of Fear of Crime." Noelle Fearn, Travis Franklin, and Cortney Franklin, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Talk Outline

October 12th : "Doing Cross-National Survey Research: The SAGE Project." Travis Ridout and Andrew Appleton, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.

November 9th : Title TBA, Nick Lovrich, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Spring Semester 2005

January 28th: "Measures Matter: Assessing Measures of Campaign Tone," Travis Ridout, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides

February 25th : TBA, Travis Pratt, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

April 1st : "Differences in the Measurement of the Dependent Variable: Does the Specificity of Type of Incarceration Really Matter?," Noelle Fearn, 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Talk Outline

April 22nd: "Quandaries of Mixed Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Using Mixed Archival and Statistical Methods to Decipher Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion," Brandon Rottinghaus (U Idaho), 2 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides

Fall Semester 2004

September 17th: "Assessing Indirect Effects: The Case of IQ and Delinquency," Travis Pratt, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

October 1st: "Executive Popularity in France: The Promise and Pitfalls of Time Series Data," Andrew Appleton, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides

November 5th: "Pubertal Development, Choice of Friends, and Smoking Initiation among Adolescent Males," Laurie Drapela, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Tables, Figure, Slides

December 3rd : "Approaches to Small 'n' Research: Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to the Women's Policy Office Project," Amy Mazur, 1 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Slides, Sources

Spring Semester 2004

January 21st: "It's Ruining My Christmas! Measuring Exposure to Political Ads on Television," Travis Ridout, 12:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

February 18th: "Racial Profiling; Methodological Concerns, Analytical Choices, Normative Implications," Mitch Pickerill, 12:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

March 10th: "Quantifying the Study of the British Prime Minister: Beyond the Maggie's Handbag Paradigm," Stephen Dyson, 12:30 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room

Fall Semester 2003

December 4th: "Maternal Cigarette Smoking and Criminal/Deviant Behavior: A Meta-Analysis," Travis Pratt, 4 p.m., 8th Floor Conference Room.