Mathew McCubbins Memorial Conference
University of California, San Diego
June 24 - 25, 2022
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Friday June 24, 2022
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm: Introductions
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Panel 1: Chair Tim Groeling, UCLA
Craig Burnett (Hofstra University) and Vlad Kogan (Ohio State University), “‘Democratic Dilemma’ When Perception of Knowledge and Interests is Endogenous.”
Discussant: Tim Groeling
Cheryl Boudreau (UC Davis), “Ballot Box Representation: Spatial Voting and the Effects of Information in Direct Democracy Elections”
Discussant: Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan
2:10 pm - 3:10 pm Panel 2: Chair Marisa Abrajano, UC San Diego
Ellen Seljan (Lewis & Clark), “The Partisan Costs of Automatic Voter Registration”
Discussant: Marisa Abrajano, UC San Diego
Sebastian Saiegh (UC San Diego), “Partisan Polarization and Political Risk”
Discussant: Gary Jacobson, UC San Diego
3:20pm - 4:20pm Panel 3: Chair Rod Kiewiet, Caltech
Darin DeWitt (CSU Long Beach), Tom Schwartz (UCLA), “Congress, Constituents, and Compromise in Antebellum America”
Discussant: Rod Kiewiet, Caltech
Rod Kiewiet (Caltech), “The Promotion of Public Education in the New Republic: The First Great Devolution”
Discussant: Thad Kousser, UC San Diego
4:30pm - 5:30pm Panel 4: Chair Mackenzie (Mac) Lockhart, UC San Deigo
John Aldrich (Duke), Gary Cox (Stanford), Mathew McCubbins (Duke), and David Rohde,(Duke) “The Politics of Lineland”
Discussant: Mackenzie (Mac) Lockhart, UC San Deigo
Patrick Ramjug (Duke), “Cross-Pressure in the U.S. House of Representatives: A Comprehensive Examination of the Modern Motion to Recommit”
Discussant: Nate Monroe, UC Merced
Dinner, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Canceled
Saturday June 25, 2022
8:50 am - 9:50 am Panel 5 Chair: John Aldrich, Duke
Gary Cox (Stanford), “Comparing “responsible party government” in the US and the UK”
Discussant: John Aldrich, Duke
Eric Magar (Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology), “Slippage among the Experts? Agency Costs in Partisan Election Regulation”
Discussant: Sebastian Saiegh, UC San Diego
9:55 am - 10:55 am Panel 6 Chair: John Ferejohn, NYU
Roger Noll (Stanford), Dan Rodriguez (Northwestern Law School), and Barry Weingast (Stanford), "Statutory Interpretation, Pragmatism, and Expertise"
Discussant: John Ferejohn, NYU
Bernard Black (Northwestern), Parth Lalkiya, and Josh Lerner (University of Chicago), “The Trouble with Coarsened Exact Matching”
Discussant: Jonathan Katz, Caltech
11:05 am - 12:05 pm Panel 7 Chair: Roger Noll, Stanford
Austin Bussing (UNC Chapel Hill), Josh Lerner, (University of Chicago), and Gregory Spell (Duke), “Using Deep and Active Learning Classiers to Identify Congressional Delegation to Administrative Agencies”
Discussant: Roger Noll, Stanford
Colin McCubbins (Google), “Computational Environments as Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control”
Discussant: Josh Lerner, University of Chicago
12:10pm - 1:10pm Panel 8 Chair: Ziwen (Gary) Zu, UC San Diego
Shitong Qiao (Duke), “Workload, Legal Doctrines, and Judicial Protection of Property Rights: Administrative Litigation of Expropriation Disputes in China”
Discussant: Ziwen (Gary) Zu, UC San Diego
Ana María Montoya (Duke), “The Politics of Compliance with Judicial Decisions Protecting Property Rights in Colombia (2011-2021)”
Discussant: Dan Rodriguez, Northwestern
Lunch, 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm - Great Hall
Roundtable
2:10 pm - 3:00pm Roundtable with Mat’s colleagues and students
Nate Monroe, Skip Lupia, Gary Cox , Cheryl Boudreau, Ellen Seljan
Celebration of Life - Great Hall
3:10 pm - 5:00 pm. A celebration of Mat’s life, open to the public, in which Mat’s many friends, colleagues, and students are welcome to share their memories and reminiscences of Mat.
Reception, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Great Hall
A special thanks to the sponsors of this conference, including UC San Diego Political Science, Center for Analytic Political Engagement (CAPE) at UC Merced, Duke Law School, Duke Political Science Department.
