AsianPolmeth VIII & ASQPS IX is a virtual conference taking place between January 13 and January 15, 2012. Schedule is in Japan Standard Time (UTC + 9).
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A Bayesian Strategic Statistical Estimator for Analyzing US-China Competitive Vote Alignment Formation in UNGA
Luwei Ying (Washington University in St. Louis) with Xun Pang
A Latent Factor Approach to Missing not at Random
Naijia Liu (Princeton University)
Public Support for Democracy, Regime Change, and the Importance of Incorporating Measurement Uncertainty
Yuehong Cassandra Tai (University of Iowa) with Yue Hu and Frederick Solt
Curses or Blessings: How Low Asset Mobility Helps Foreign Firms Gain Government Support
Haosen Ge (Princeton University)
Agents of State Control? Neighbourhood Organisations and Authoritarian Rule
Haoyu Zhai (European University Institute)
Legislators’ Sentiment Analysis Supervised by Legislators
Kentaro Fukumoto (Gakushuin University) with Akitaka Matsuo
Racial Discrimination Against Blacks in the United States
Charles Crabtree (Dartmouth College) with John B. Holbein and Quin Monson
Don’t judge a book by its cover: The role of intergroup contact in reducing prejudice in conflict settings
Russell Smyth (Monash University) with Surya Nath Maiti, Debayan Pakrashi, and Sarani Saha
Avoiding Measurement Error Bias in Conjoint Analysis
Katherine Clayton (Stanford University) with Yusaku Horiuchi, Aaron Kaufman, Gary King, and Mayya Komisarchik
The Small L Problem in Conjoint Experiment: Estimating the Complier Average Causal Effect from Small L Attributes in Conjoint Experiment
Inbok Rhee (KDI School of Public Policy and Management) with Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Joon Seok Yang
The Effects of Government Ideological Turnovers on Civil War Peace Agreements: Evidence from Democratic Countries
Anurug Chakma (Australian National University)
Identity-Based Cleavage Matters: Success and Failure of International Mediation in Civil War
Tianhong Yin (The University of Iowa)
How Do Member States Evaluate The UN Collective Security System?
Qing Meng (Tsinghua University)
UN Peacekeeping Contribution and Status Enhancement
Shenghao Zhang (University of Essex)
Paragraph-citation Topic Models for Corpora with Citation Networks
Saki Kuzushima (University of Michigan) with ByungKoo Kim and Yuki Shiraito
Beyond LATE: Identification of ATEs of Always-Takers and Never-Takers
Zeyang Yu (The University of Chicago) with Robert Gulotty
Recovering Dimensional Information using L1 Norm Based Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Method
Johan Lim (Seoul National University), with Sooahn Shin and Jong Hee Park
Matching with Networks: How to Measure the Causal Effects of Regional Trade Agreements
Hoesung Jung (Seoul National University)
No Session
Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity: A Causal Forest Approach
Weiwen Yin (Columbia University) with Li Zheng
Causal Inference under Temporal and Spatial Interference
Ye Wang (New York University)
Government Data Manipulation and Public Support: Evidence from A Survey Experiment in China
Handi Li (Emory University) with Jennifer Gandhi
Evo Morales and Electoral Fraud in Bolivia: A Natural Experiment and Discontinuity Evidence
Diego Escobari (The University of Texas RGV) with Gary A. Hoover
Electoral Systems and the Substantive Representation of Marginalized Groups: Evidence from Women's Issue Bills in South Korea
Yesola Kweon (Utah State University) with Josh Ryan
Unraveling Diversionary Tactics: Diversionary Utility and the Use of Verbal Aggression
Yeon Joo Kim (University of Kansas) with Benjamin Rogers
Using Causal Mediation Analysis for Policy Evaluation: Detecting, Estimating, and Comparing Direct and Indirect Effects
Tao Lin (University of Washington) with Amy Chai and Chao-yo Cheng
Double regression with post-stratification (DRP) for analyzing high-dimensional survey data
Eli Ben-Michael (UC Berkeley) with Avi Feller and Erin Hartman
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data
Yiqing Xu (Stanford University) with Licheng Liu and Ye Wang
The Effects of Land Tenure Security on Agricultural and Environmental Outcomes in Benin: New Evidence from Satellite Data
Luke Sanford (University of California, San Diego)
Cause, Not Effect: Partisan Identification and Voter Turnout
Eli Rau (Yale University)
Variance of Average Marginal Effect in Conjoint Analysis: VMCE
Kyungtae Park (Seoul National University)
People Write Like their Friends: Improving Neural Text Classification with Author Node Embeddings
Etienne Gagnon (University of Tokyo)
Indonesian Settler Colonialism in West Papua
Lachlan McNamee (UCLA)
Is Islam Incompatible with Democracy? A Disaggregated Study Based on Survey Data
Xiuyu Li (Tsinghua University) with Gangzheng She
Image Clustering: An Unsupervised Approach to Categorize Visual Data in Social Science Research
Han Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) with Yilang Peng (University of Georgia)
Factionalism and Red Guards under the Cultural Revolution: Ideal Point Estimation Using Text-as-Data Scaling Method
Yen-Chieh Liao (University of Essex) with Yi-Nung Tsai and Dechun Zhang
Understanding Hong Kong Nationalism with Topic Network
Justin Chun-ting Ho (Sciences Po)
Building Longitudinal Google Trends to Measure Dynamic Local-Level Issue Attention
Taeyong Park (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar) with Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An
Magnified Coercion: the Effect of Sanctions on Nuclear States’ Crisis Outcomes
Yueyi Li (Duke University)
"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — What Do Italian Environmental Policy Elites Discuss and Why? Automated Text Analysis of Italian Environmental Executives’ Speeches
Sanja Hajdinjak (LMU Munich)
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis
Guoer Liu (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) with Yuki Shiraito
Disfavor or Favor? Assessing the Valence of White Americans' Racial Attitudes
Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College) with Alexander Agadjanian, John Carey, and Timothy Ryan
Beyond Factions and Guanxi: Mapping the Information Network of Chinese Cadres
Chao-yo Cheng (London School of Economics)
Tailored Information in the Process of Personalization: Evidence from South Korean News Reports
JunHyeok Jang (University of California, Merced)
From Political Reform to Governance Reform: how do local governments innovate and why?
Yuhao Wang (Harvard University)
Recover Unobserved Heterogeneity in Measurement with Application to Patronage Network in China
Junlong Zhou (New York University)
Diffusion of State Military Cybercapacity: The Theory of Complementarity In Alliances
Nadiya Kostyuk (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Why and when do sovereign states accept international agreements for labor rights?
Dongwook Kim (Australian National University) with Chonghyun Choi
The Electoral Authoritarian Advantage in Access to Credit: Historical Mechanisms in Modern Dictatorships
Austin M. Mitchell (Texas A&M University at Qatar)
Bricks, Molotov Cocktails and Engaged Bystanders: Why Violence Becomes Sustained in Popular Protests
Brian Leung (University of Washington) with Samson Yuen and Gary Tang
Women Use More Positive Language than Men in Political Campaigns
Yoshikuni Ono (Waseda University) with Akitaka Matsuo
Measuring Democracy Discretely
Shawn Treier (Australian National University)
Show Opponents the Money: Targeted Co-optation in Electoral Authoritarianism
Xingchen Lan (Stanford University) with Wenting Xu)
Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization
Eik Swee (University of Melbourne) with Hui-Pei Cheng
Identification of Joint Probabilities of Potential Outcomes using Instrumental Variable Method with a Proxy Variable
Yuta Kawakami (Yokohama National University) with Manabu Kuroki
Bayesian Analysis of List Experiments: Using Informative Priors to Improve the Study of Sensitive Questions
Xiao Lu (University of Mannheim) with Richard Traunmueller
No Session
Post-materialism across Generations in China: Economic Prosperity and Economic Inequality
Yu Yan (Tsinghua University)
A Matter of Trust: How Americans and Australians Diverged in Trust and Media Use during a Global Pandemic
Andrea Carson (La Trobe University) with Shaun Ratcliff and Leah Ruppanner