Dates: June 11-12, 2014
Location: University of Maryland, College Park
Organizers: Frances Lee and David Karol
Hans Noel (Georgetown University), “Separating Ideology from Party in Roll Call Data: Why NOMINATE Doesn’t Measure Ideology But Can Be Used to Measure Polarization”
Devin Caughey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Eric Schickler (University of California–Berkeley), “Structure and Change in Congressional Ideology: NOMINATE and its Alternatives”
Josh Clinton (Vanderbilt University), and John Lapinski (University of Pennsylvania), “A House Divided?: Policy Differences and Polarization”
Robert Saldin (University of Montana), “When Only Bad Policy Stands a Chance: Perverse Incentives in America’s New Policymaking System”
Bruce Oppenheimer (Vanderbilt University), “ANWR and CAFE: Frustrating Energy Production and Conservation Initiatives over Three Decades”
Ruth Bloch Rubin (University of California-Berkeley) “Securing the Solid South: Intraparty Organization and the Development of the Southern Caucus and Southern Delegation”
Matthew Green (The Catholic University of America), “Explaining Changes to Resilient Rules: The Struggle to Tame Quorum Calls in the U.S. House”
Jamie L. Carson (University of Georgia) & Joel Sievert (University of Georgia), “Electoral Accountability in an Era of Party Ballots”
Jeff Jenkins (University of Virginia), Andrew Clarke (University of Virginia) and Kenny Lowande (University of Virginia), “Testing Speaker Cannon’s Theory of Elections: Tariff Revision and Party Control of the U.S. House”
Kristina Miler (University of Maryland, College Park), “Representing the Poor: Poverty, Geography, and the U.S. House, 1980-2010”
Jason Roberts (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill), “The Politics of Congressional Apportionment”