CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

"New Developments in the Study of Political Persuasion"

Sponsored by the University of California, Irvine Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy and the Jack W. Peltason Chair of Democracy Studies

Bernard Grofman, Conference Organizer
Friday-Saturday, January 9-10, 2016
Laguna Room
Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach California

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9

8.30 am - 8.45 am      Welcome - Bernard Grofman (UC Irvine)

8.45 am - 10.45 am    PANEL 1:  Political Campaigns

Chair: Michael Tesler (UC Irvine)

• Cheryl Boudreau (UC Davis), “The Persuasion Effects of Political Endorsements”
• Sunshine Hillygus (Duke, with Victoria Dounoucos), "Political Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns"
• Lynn Vavreck (UCLA), "A Dynamic Equilibrium: Why it’s Hard to Move People in Presidential Campaigns"

Discussants: Michael Tesler (UC Irvine) and Hank Zucker (Survey Systems)

 

10:45 am - 11:00 am   COFFEE BREAK

11:00 am - 1:00 pm     PANEL 2: Persuasion Processes Outside the U.S.

Chair: Shaun Bowler (UC Riverside)

• Diana Mutz (U. Pennsylvania), “Cross-national Persuasion”
• Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (London School of Economics), “Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Non-verbal Communication in Parliamentary Oversight Committee Hearings”
• Alex Trechsel (European University Institute) and Diego Garzia (European University Institute), "Voter Advice Applications: Self-Persuasion Online"

Discussants: Diego Garzia (European University Institute) and Paul Sniderman (Stanford)

 

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm      LUNCH

 

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm     PANEL 3: Identifying Causal Processes in Persuasion

Chair: Graeme Boushey (UC Irvine)

• Matthew Baum (Harvard), "Discerning the Causes and Effects of Partisan Media Choice in a Polarized Environment"
• Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson), "Field Experiments on Political Persuasion.”
• Elizabeth Suhay (American), "Political Conformity: Evidence and Mechanisms"

Discussants: Seth Hill (UC San Diego) and Davin Phoenix (UC Irvine)

 

4:00 pm     sunset     ON YOUR OWN

A Wuffle’s advice is to adjourn to the Hotel’s sundeck café/restaurant to watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean;

sunset will be around 5 pm, but it is best to come earlier, to watch the changing colors as the sun goes down.

 

6:00 pm     DINNER FOR INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Details to be announced, but location will be within walking distance of the hotel.

 

 SUNDAY, JANUARY 10

9:00 am - 11:30 am     PANEL 4: Models of Persuasion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Chair: Sierra Powell

• Reid Hastie (University of Chicago Business School), "Information-Pooling and Wisdom of Crowds Judgments"
• Benjamin Hermalin (UC Berkeley, Dept. of Economics) “An Economics Approach to How Leaders Persuade Followers”
• Michael Regenwetter (U. Illinois, Dept. of Psychology), “Stochastic Process Models of Preference Change”
• Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine, Dept. of Economics, with Samarth Vaidya), "Persuasion Functions and Areas of Application"

Discussants: Scott Feld (Purdue, Dept. of Sociology) and Roger Congleton (Western Virginia U., Dept. of Economics)

 

11:30 am - 12:00 pm    DISCUSSION OF PUBLICATION PROSPECTS

This discussion will focus on the conference volume, but also include discussion of possible future co-operation on a potential Oxford Handbook of Political Persuasion.

 

 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm     LUNCH (in the meeting room)