The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop
Together with Peter Loewen (University of Toronto), I founded and continue to organize the annual Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop. We have been running these workshops since 2013, bringing together social scientists working on political behaviour, political economy and related topics. The idea is to provide a forum for cutting edge work to be discussed in more detail than the normal conference format allows. We spend about an hour each paper and try to provide lots of opportunity to discuss and socialize outside of paper sessions and we host a reception and graduate student poster session.
9th TPBW - September 29-30, 2023
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
The 2023 TPBW is made possible by the generous support of the Consortium on Electoral Democracy and Abacus Data. The workshop sessions take place in the Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7
Program
Friday, September 29
9.00-9.30 Coffee, breakfast
9.30-9.35 Welcome, Peter Loewen, Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Daniel Rubenson
9.35-10.20, Eunji Kim and Taylor Carlson. "An Era of Minimal Exposure but Not-So-Minimal Effects? The Case of Fox News."
Chair: Caitlin Andrews-Lee
10.25-11.10, Alexander Kustov and Michelangelo Landgrave. "Immigration is Difficult?! The Effects of Informing Voters about U.S. Immigration Policy."
Chair: Stuart Soroka
11.10-11.40, Break
11.40-12.25, Daniel Hopkins and Frederik Hjorth. "The Nationalization of [American] Voting Behavior in Comparative Perspective."
Chair: Peter Loewen
12.30-1.15, Jack Lucas, Lior Sheffer, Peter Loewen, Stefaan Walgrave et al. "Do Politicians and Citizens Have Different Theories of Elections and Voting?"
Chair: Daniel Rubenson
1.20-2.50, Lunch
2.50-3.35, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Matthew Winters. "Who Persists? Explaining the Pursuit of Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil."
Chair: Peter Loewen
3.40-4.25, Konstantinos Matakos, Sevinc Bermek, and Asli Unan. "Victim-blaming Norms and Gender-based Violence: Self-interest or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?"
Chair: Caitlin Andrews-Lee
4.30-6.30, Poster session and happy hour
Saturday, September 30
9.30-9.50, Coffee, breakfast
9.50-10.40, Noam Lupu, "Supportive Political Participation: The Effects of Serving as a Poll Worker."
Chair: Laura Stephenson
10.45-11.30, António Valentim, "Information, Political Messaging and Climate Preferences."
Chair: Daniel Rubenson
11.30-11.45, Break
11.45-12.30, Amanda Friesen and Erin Heerey et al. "The Effects of Gender and Extraversion in Face-to-Face Political Conversations."
Chair: Peter Loewen
12.30, Lunch
Posters
Alex Tolkin. "Watching Zero-sum Sports Causes People to see Group Relationships as Zero-sum Competitions."
Alvaro J. Pereira. "Partisanship and Party's Appeals in Canadian Elections."
Alessio Albarello. "Trading Agreement for Electability? Experimental Evidence from the 2020 Democratic Primary."
Dietlind Stolle, Liron Lavi and Elisabeth Gidengil. "Democratic Backsliding in Israel? How Israelis React to the Coalition’s Attempt to Overhaul the Judicial System."
Daniel Rojas. "How Do Business Elites Respond to Social Protests?"
Elle Pfeffer. "Women and the Political Economy of Punishment."
Gustavo Diaz, Ines Fynn, Veronica Perez Bentancur and Lucia Tiscornia. "Combining List Experiments and the Network Scale-Up Method to Improve Prevalence Estimates of Sensitive Attitudes and Behaviors."
Lazare Kovo. "Electoral Incentives and Capture of Local Institutions: Evidence of No-Confidence Votes on Local Governments."
Lewis Krashinsky. "Across the Detroit River: The Electoral Divergence of the North American White Working Class."
Mariana V. Ramírez Bustamante. "Electoral Support for Candidates Involved in Drug Trafficking: Experimental Evidence from Peru."
Mark Williamson. "A national reckoning: How dominant groups react to learning about historical injustices."
Nathan Barron. "Weighting-Induced Bias in Survey Experiments."
Noah Vanderhoeven. "Does the Local Presence of Migrant Footballers Affect Voting Patterns in the 2016 Brexit Referendum?"
Seyoung Jung, Cara Wong and Younghyun Lee. "The Effects of Citizenship vs Socialization on Political Participation."
Thomas Bergeron. "Choosing to Feel: The Political Costs of Empathy."
Veronica Hurtado Lozada. "Correcting Misinformation in Low-Partisan Contexts: Effects on Voters' Attitudes Towards Political Candidates in the 2021 Peruvian Presidential Election."
8th TPBW - November 3-4, 2022
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Papers
Chagai Weiss, Shira Ran, and Eran Halperin. "Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Field Experiments in Israel Show that Education Programs that Broach Sensitive Topics Can Reduce Prejudice."
Daniel Smith, Masataka Harada, and Gaku Ito. "Using Cell-phone Mobility Data to Study Voter Turnout."
Michelle Dion and Guillem Riambau. "The Importance of Being Private: How Presence of Others can Bias Survey Responses."
Natalia Bueno, Frederico Batista Pereira, Felipe Nunes, Nara Pavão, João Pedro Oliveira and Valerie Wirstchafter. "Political Elites, Misinformation, and Mobilization: Evidence from Brazil."
Jeremy Bowles, John Marshall, and Pia Raffler. "Social Media Access and Support for Dominant Incumbents: Natural and Field Experimental Evidence From Uganda."
Ruth Dassonneville, Rune Stubager, and Mads Thau. "The Effectiveness of Group Appeals: Identity Strength and Perceptions of Deservingness."
Trevor Incerti. "Countering Capture in Local Politics: Evidence From Eight Field Experiments."
Dietlind Stolle, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Oliver Bergeron-Boutin. "Affective Polarization and the Willingness to Accept Executive Aggrandizement."
Mark Pickup, Eric Groenendyk, Erik Kimbrough, and Antoine Banks. "What Counts as Racism?American Norms, Partisan Norms, and Personal Beliefs About Racism."
Jacob Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Vincent Pons and Martin Koenen. "How Neighborhoods Shape Political Identity and Behavior: Evidence from Young Movers."
Posters
Alessio Albarello. "Personal or Party Politics? Voting Behavi or Patterns in Western Democracies 1960s-2010s."
Alex Dyzenhaus. "Justice Delayed: Policy Feedback in South African Land Restitution"
Alexandra Jabbour. "Housing Prices and Perceived Economic Standing: Evidence from Two Survey Experiments."
Anam Kuraishi. "The effect of post-truth discourse on citizen’s political position."
Clareta Treger. "The Determinants of Public Support for Government Paternalism: Evidence from the US and Israel."
Colombe Ladreit. "Automation and Public Policy Preferences."
Gustavo Diaz. "Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design."
Ioanna Gkoutna. "How Far Does the ‘Anti-Dictator Bias’ Stretch? Attitudinal Legacies and the Case of the 1967-1974 Greek Junta"
Ivonne Montes. "The role of race and gender in attituted toward immigrants."
Jeremy Siow. "Bilingual Education Reduces Ethnic Outgroup Discrimination Through Perspective-Taking."
Ka Ming Chan. "Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right party voting in times of pandemic."
Lewis Krashinsky. "Advice Not Taken: Canadian Citizen Assemblies and Their Subsequent Referendums."
Lindsay Katz. "Digitization of the Australian Parliamentary Debates (1901-2021)."
Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Shape Attitudes at Home?"
Michael Freedman. "Analyzing Text and Images in Digital Communication: The Case of Securitization in American Radical Right Online Discourse."
Michael Wong. "Follow the Money: Donations to Provincial and Federal Political Parties, 1993-2022."
Philip Moniz. "Preferential Concern? The Downstream Effects of Identity Similarity on Problem Perception and Policy Attitudes."
Philip Warncke. "Understanding Ideological Scales: Research Practices and Knowledge Accumulation in American Public Opinion Research."
Sara Morell. "Developing the Pipeline: How Women's Organizations Support Women Candidates."
Sophie Borwein. "Gender’s effect on attitudes towards automation."
Tatjana Jungkunz. "An (im)perfect match: Experiment on the effects of contradictory infromation on the evaluation of politicians."
Udi Sommer. "Trump’s African Americans? Racial Resentment and Black Support for Trump in the 2020 Elections."
Xuan Li. "Voter's Cognitive Bias and Strategic Candidate Entry."
7th TPBW - November 8-9, 2019
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Arturas Rozenas (New York University), Denis Stukal (New York University) and Georgiy Syunyaev (Columbia University). "Persuasion Through State-Controlled Media: Experimental Evidence from Russia"
Christopher Dawes (New York University) and Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson University). "For Club or Country: An Experiment Testing Group Identity Using Football Supporter Data"
Dietlind Stolle (McGill) and Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill). "How Strong is the Commitment to Democracy and When Does it Falter? A Conjoint Experiment on Democratic Backsliding in the US and Canada"
Eline de Rooij (Simon Fraser University), Florian Foos (London School of Economics) and Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno (King's College London). "Nag Him, Nag Her: Is Voter Mobilization Within Households Gendered?"
Jonathan Nagler (New York University), Greg Eady (New York University), Jan Zilinsky (New York University) and Joshua Tucker (New York University). "Voter Information and Learning in the US 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Panel Survey Combined with Direct Observation of Social Media Activity"
Joshua Kalla (Yale University) and David Broockman (Stanford University). "Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes Through Interpersonal Conversation"
Kyle Peyton (Yale University), Michael Sierra-Arévalo (Rutgers) and David Rand (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Community Policing and Police Legitimacy: A Field Experiment"
Leah Rosenzweig (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse). "Social Voting in Semi-Authoritarian Systems"
Quinn Albaugh (Princeton University). "The Blue and the Orange: The Orange Order and Protestant-Conservative Connection, 1899-1917"
Scott Abramson (University of Rochester), Korhan Koçak (Princeton University) and Asya Magazinnik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences From Conjoint Experiments?"
Valérie-Anne Mahéo (Université de Montréal). "How a Get-Out-The-Children-Vote Campaign Impacts Political Socialization and Electoral Participation of Family Members: Evidence from a Large Scale Randomized Field Experiment"
Yaoyao Dai (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Alexander Kustov (Princeton University). "When Do (and Don’t) Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Mobilization Gamble"
6th TPBW - September 21-22, 2018
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Alexandra Cirone (Cornell University), "Political Dynasties in the European Union"
André Blais (Université de Montréal), Damien Bol (King's College London), Maxime Coulombe (Université de Montréal) and Jean François Laslier (Paris School of Economics), "What is People’s Favorite Electoral Rule Behind the Veil of Ignorance? A Laboratory Experiment"
Andrew Guess (Princeton University), Brendan Nyhan (University of Michigan) and Jason Reifler (University of Exeter), "Who Wants to Read a Fact Check? Selective Exposure to Corrective Information During the 2016 U.S. Election Campaign"
Cesi Cruz (University of British Columbia), Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford) and Francesco Trebbi (University of British Columbia), "Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises"
Daniel Smith (Harvard University), Shiro Kuriwaki (Harvard University) and Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College), "Are Voters' Decisions Consistent With Their Policy Preferences? A Conjoint Design-Based Approach"
Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich and London School of Economics), Dalston Ward (EYH Zurich), Lukas Schmid (University of Lucerne) and Stefan Boes (University of Lucerne), "The Long-Term Effect of University Education on Political Participation"
Kevin Munger (Pennsylvania State University and Princeton University), Mario Luka (Sciences Po), Jonathan Nagler (New York University) and Joshua Tucker (New York University), "The Effect of Clickbait"
Lior Sheffer (University of Toronto), "The Day After: How Election Outcomes Affect Partisan-Motivated Generousity"
Pamela Ban (University of California, San Diego) Justin Grimmer (Stanford University), Jaclyn Kaslovsky (Harvard University) and Emily West (University of Pittsburgh), "Speaking Up, Speaking More? Gender Dynamics in Committee Hearings"
Patrick Egan (New York University), "Identity as Dependent Variable: How Americans Shift Their Identities to Better Align With Their Politics"
Ted Hsuan Yun Chen (Pennsylvania State University) and Chris Fariss (University of Michigan), "The Effect of Disaster-induced Displacement on Social Behaviour: The Case of Hurricane Harvey"
Victoria Shineman (University of Pittsburgh), "Restoring Rights, Restoring Trust: Evidence that Reversing Felon Disenfranchisement Penalties Increases Both Trust and Cooperation with Government"
5th TPBW - November 10-11, 2017
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Alexander Coppock, Yale University and Don Green, Columbia University, "Do Belief Systems Exhibit Dynamic Constraint?"
David Broockman, Stanford University and Evan J. Soltas, University of Oxford, "A Natural Experiment on Taste-Based Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Elections"
Gemma Dipoppa, University of Pennsylvania and Gianmarco Daniele, University of Barcelona, "Mafia, Elections and Violence Against Politicians"
Jonathan Woon, University of Pittsburgh, "Political Lie Detection"
Konstantinos Matakos, King's College London, Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics, Elias Dinas, University of Oxford, Moritz Marbach, University of Zurich and Dimitrios Xefteris, University of Cyprus, "The Impact of the Refugee Crisis on Attitudes, Policy Preferences, and Political Engagement of Natives"
Laura Stephenson, University of Western Ontario, Sona Golder, Penn State, Karine Van Der Straeten, Toulouse School of Economics and Kostanca Dhima, Texas A&M, "Affinity Voting Across Electoral Systems"
Noam Gidron, Princeton University and Ryan Enos, Harvard University, "Exclusion and Cooperation in Diverse Societies: Experimental Evidence from Israel"
Ruth Dassonneville Université de Montréal and Ian McAllister, Australian National University, "Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term Socialization"
Ricardo Pique, Ryerson University, Fernando Aragon, Simon Fraser University and Alexey Makarin, Northwestern University, "The Effect of Party Geographic Scope on Government Outcomes: Evidence from Peruvian Municipalities"
Ryan Moore, American University and Brian Hamel, UCLA, "Information Seeking and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Search Data"
Vincent Pons, Harvard Business School and Clémence Tricaud, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, "Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates"
Volha Charnysh, Princeton University, "Diversity, Institutions, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland"
4th TPBW - November 11-12, 2016
School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
Aimee Bourassa, Brown University, "Sore Winners? Democratic Attitudes, Institutional Fragmentation, and Support for Executive Authority in Latin America"
Anjali Bohlken, Georgia Tech, "Targeting Ordinary Voters or Political Elites?: Why Pork is Distributed Along Partisan Lines"
Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin and Michael DeCrescenzo, University of Wisconsin, "Mobilization, Persuasion, and the Partisan Fallout of the Gender Gap in U.S. Voting"
Christopher Dawes, New York University and Woo Chang Kang, Yale University, "The Electoral Effect of Stop-and-Frisk"
Christian Grose, University of Southern California, Pamela Lopez, American University, Sara Sadhwani, University of Southern California and Antoine Yoshinaka, Buffalo, "Social Lobbying"
Costas Panagopoulos, Fordham University, Donald P Green, Columbia University, Jonathan Krasno, Binghamton University, Michael Schwam-Baird, Columbia University, Eric Moore, Binghamton University and Kyle Endres, Fordham University "Risky Business: Does Corporate Political Spending Affect Consumer Behavior?"
Daniel Smith, Harvard University, Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth College and Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Identifying Voter Preferences for Politicians' Personal Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment in Japan"
Henning Finseraas, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Jeremy Ferwerda, Dartmouth College and Johannes Bergh, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, "Voting Rights and Immigrant Incorporation: Evidence from Norway"
Mark Pickup, Simon Fraser University, Erik Kimbrough, Simon Fraser University and Eline de Rooij, Simon Fraser University, "Experimental Evidence on the Role of Identity and Interest in Voting Behavior"
Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara, Sara Bush, Temple University, Ryan Jablonski, London School of Economics, Daniel Nielsen, Brigham Young University and Paula Pickering, College of William & Mary, "Governance as an Information Problem: The Causal Effects of Budget Disclosures by SMS on Vote Choice in Uganda"
Michelle Dion, McMaster University and Jordi Díez, University of Guelph, "Social desirability bias and question framing effects: Evidence from a combined list and framing experiment on same-sex marriage support in Argentina"
Mikael Persson, University of Gothenburg, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Uppsala University and Sven Oskarsson, Uppsala University, "Can Increased Education Help Reduce the Socio-Economic Voting Gap?"
3rd TPBW - November 6-7, 2015
Student Learning Centre, Ryerson University
Austin Hart, American University, "Do Voters in Emerging democracies Hold Candidates to a Higher Standard?" (Discussant: Marc André Bodet, Université Laval)
Cecila Mo, Vanderbilt University, "Aspirations and the Role of Social Protection: Evidence from Economic Shocks in Rural Pakistan" (Discussant: Michelle Dion, McMaster University)
David Fortunato, UC Merced and Randy Stevenson, Rice University, "Party Government and the Shape of American Political Knowledge" (Discussant: John McAndrews, University of British Columbia)
Dominik Duell, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, "Division and Alienation: The Dual Effect of Social Identity Appeals in Electoral Competition" (Discussant: André Blais, Université de Montréal)
Elizabeth Carlson, Penn State University, "The Relevance of Relative Provision: An Experiment in Uganda" (Discussant: Peter Loewen, University of Toronto)
Fabian Neuner, University of Michigan, Stuart Soroka, University of Michigan and Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin, "The Clues in the News: Unpacking Thermostatic Responsiveness to Policy" (Discussant: Christopher Cochrane, University of Toronto)
Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania, "Security or Symbolism: Territorial Conflict and Public Opinion" (Discussant: Jaime Settle, William and Mary)
Laura Stephenson and Cameron Anderson, Western University, "Personality and Heterogeneity in the Effects of Social Network Disagreement" (Discussant: Christopher Dawes, New York University)
Mona Morgan-Collins, London School of Economics, "Votes For and By Women: How Did Women Vote After the 19th Amendment?" (Discussant: Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Queen's University)
Nico Ravanilla, University of Michigan, "Nudging Good Politicians: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines" (Discussant: Lior Sheffer, University of Toronto)
Pablo Barbera, New York University, "How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization: Evidence from Germany, Spain, and the U.S." (Discussant: Ludovic Rheault, University of Toronto)
Spencer Piston, Syracuse University and Logan Struther, Syracuse University, "Divided by Skin Color: The Partisan Preferences of Latinos Vary by Skin Tone" (Discussant: Randy Besco, University of Toronto)
Tiberiu Dragu, New York University and Xiaochen Fan, New York University, "An Agenda-Setting Theory of Electoral Competition" (Discussant: Antoine Yoshinaka, SUNY Buffalo)
Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University and Adam Seth Levine, Cornell University, "Why More Information Makes People Less Concerned About Inequality" (Discussant: Ryan Moore, American University)
2nd TPBW - November 7-8, 2014
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Andrew Owen (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia) and Paul Quirk (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia). "Climate Change, Political Appeals and Motivated Reasoning," discussant: J. Scott Matthews (Memorial University)
Arthur Spirling (Department of Government, Harvard University) and Erin Baggott (Department of Government, Harvard University), "Text-as-Data Methods in Political Science"
David E. Broockman (Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley) and Daniel M. Butler (Department of Political Science, Washington University in Saint Louis). "Testing Theories of Elite Influence On Public Opinion: Randomized Field Experiments With Elite Communication," discussant: Richard Johnston (University of British Columbia)
Eric Guntermann (Département de sciences politiques, Université de Montréal) and André Blais (Département de sciences politiques, Université de Montréal). "Does the Composition of Government Better Reflect the Party Preferences of Citizens Who are Better Off, More Educated and More Informed?," discussant: Eline de Rooij (Simon Fraser University)
Gaurav Sood (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) and Shanto Iyengar (Department of Political Science, Stanford University). "All in the Eye of the Beholder: Partisan Affect and Ideological Accountability," discussant: Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Queen's University)
Miquel Pellicer (German Insitute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg University), Patrizio Piraino (School of Economics, University of Cape Town) and Eva Wegner (German Insitute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg University). "The Role of Information and Mobilization for Redistributive Preferences: A Survey Experiment in South Africa," discussant: Kanta Murali (University of Toronto)
Ryan T. Moore (Department of Political Science, American University) and Andrew Reeves (Department of Political Science, Washington University in Saint Louis). "Milieu: Defining Political Context with Geolocation Data," discussant: Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan)
Saad Gulzar (Department of Politics, New York University). "Ruling Parties, Patronage and Bureaucratic Performance in Democracies: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan," discussant: Greg Distelhorst (University of Toronto)
Sean Gailmard (Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley) and John Patty (Department of Political Science and Center for New Institutional Social Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis). "Preventing Prevention," discussant: Hanil Chang (University of Toronto)
1st TPBW - November 9-10, 2013
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Dietlind Stolle (McGill) and Yale Hertzman (UofT), "The Limits of Moral Licensing"; Discussant Melanee Thomas (Calgary)
Guillem Riambau (Yale-NUS College), Simon Hix (LSE) and Rafael Hortala-Vallve (LSE), "The Effects of District Magnitude on Voting Behaviour"; Discussant André Blais (UdeM)
John McAndrews (UBC), "The Purpose of Legislative Deliberation in Parliamentary Systems"; Discussant Marc André Bodet (Laval)
Karen Long Jusko (Stanford), "Electoral Geography, Strategic Mobilization, and Implications for Voter Turnout"; Discussant Kanta Murali (UofT)
Richard Johnston (UBC), "The Canadian Party System: An Analytic History"; Discussants Pradeep Chhibber (Berkeley), Christopher Cochrane (UofT), Karen Long Jusko (Stanford) and Scott Matthews (MUN)
Ryan Moore (WUSTL), "Causal Inference With Synthetic Control"
Steven Weldon (SFU), "Intraparty Power and Political Positioning: A Theory of Dominant Factions"; Discussant Carolina de Miguel Moyer (UofT)
Stuart Soroka (McGill), Lilach Nir (Hebrew U) and Patrick Fournier (UdeM), "Negativity Biases in Reactions to Network News: A Cross-National, Psychophysiological Pilot Study"; Discussant Joseph Fletcher (UofT)