2023 Program

PolNet 2023 is an in-person pre-conference "short course" through APSA titled Innovations in Political Networks. PolNet 2023 will be held on August 30th from 9am-5pm at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Room 511B. Pre-registration online is required and will be part of your registration for APSA this year. Registration is open to all APSA Annual Meeting attendees and the cost of registration is $25. You do not need to present in order to attend! More information on registration can be found below.

As many are aware UNITE HERE Local 11 is in the midst of a strike action at LA hotels including the J. W. Marriot. The PolNet pre-conference is being held at the LA Convention Center which is not the target of any strike actions and so presenters and attendees will not cross a picket line to attend the pre-conference. For those looking to change their hotel registrations we suggest using FairHotel.org as recommended by UNITE HERE. There is additional information on the APSA website as well as UNITE HERE Local 11's website.

Morning Panel 1: Networks in International Relations (9 am - 10 am) 

Chair: Jennifer Victor

• Michael Coppedge “Democracy Levels, Upturns, and Downturns Are Contagious” 

• Yuke Li “Network Games: Strategic Reasoning in International Relations (with Applications in Chinese Foreign Policy)” 

Break (10 am - 10:30 am) 

Morning Panel 2: Elite Networks and Party Politics (10:30 am to 11:30 am) 

Chair: Elizabeth Menninga

• Jennifer Victor “Emergent Congressional Trust” 

• Stephanie Chan “Connected Citizenship: Networks and Interracial Differences in Immigrants’ Political Participation” 

Break (11:30 am - 11:45 am) 

Lightning Talks (11:45 am to 12:30 pm)

Chair: Elizabeth Menninga

• Dana Stuster  "Conceptualizing Norm Diffusion: Network Structure and Social Pressure"

• Giuseppe Peressotti "Digital Provision Clustering in Trade Policy: Are Economic Factors Drivers of Digital Regionalism?" 

• Sonja Savolainen "The Effect of Celebrity Climate Activism: Evidence from Greta Thunberg's Visit to Canada" with Ted Hsuan Yun Chen

Lunch (12:30 pm to 2 pm)

Afternoon Panel 1: Diffusion of Idea and Information (2 pm to 4 pm)

Chairs: Elizabeth Menninga & Johan Dornschneider-Elkink 

• Johan Dornschneider-Elkink “Diffusion of expert opinion and the risk of echo chambers” with Artur Baranov, Meadhbh Costello, Rachel Deák, Franziska B. Keller, Daniel Kelly, and Hans H. Tung

• Caterina Chiopris “Polarization through Connections: The Diffusion of Ideas in Dense Networks and the Local Clustering of Preferences” 

• Jenny Kim “A Theory of `The Loop': Policy-making and Information Aggregation through Networks” with John Patty

• Arttu Malkamäki “Complex Coalitions: Political Alliances across Relational Contexts” with Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Antti Gronow, Mikko Kivelä, Juho Vesa, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila

Discussion & Networking (4 pm - 5 pm) 

Registration

To register for PolNet 2023 register for APSA and select "Innovations in Political Networks" in the "Full Day Courses" section. If you have already registered for APSA then contact meeting@apsanet.org and they will be able to help you.