08:30 - 17:00
Room: Floor 1, Main Entrance Reception Area
Registration / Help Desk
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Kevin Pollack
Adrian Shin - The Minority Card: Outgroup Scapegoating as Minority Outreach
Cameron Anderson - Economic Inequality in Canada: Sources and Effects of (Mis)perceptions
Xiaodong Zhang - Thank you, President: Explaining Sycophantic Behavior towards Trump by Republican Lawmakers
Kevin Pollack - Silent Youth: The Socioeconomic and Cultural Roots of Japan’s Low Youth Voter Turnout
Mingyuan Li - Do Economic Downturns Polarize Nationalist Sentiments? A Comparative Perspective
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Julia Ebner
Discussant - Yu Mei

Marco Bocchese - Guns and Governance: Legal and Political Dimensions of Arms Trafficking in Central Africa
Enze Han, Haozhe Zhang - The Making of Us: The “Global South” and China’s Pursuit of Global Leadership
Julia Ebner, Harvey Whitehouse - When Despots Become Deadly: Can the language of authoritarian leaders be used to assess the risk of state-led mass violence?
Haozhe Zhang - Honey Tastes Bitter: When China's Development Projects Overseas Backfire on Its Political Influence
Alex Chienwu Hsueh - European States’ Hedging Behavior amid the Strategic Competition between the United States and China, 2005-2024
Yu Mei - Deterrence Through Reassurance
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Bunyamin Esen
Tomoko Matsumoto - Political Trust and Preferences for Redistribution: Wasteful Spending and Plutocratic Influence
Bunyamin Esen - The Transformation of the Welfare State in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Adaption Strategies for Redistribution and Institutional Capacity
Eric Arias - Revisiting the Relationship between Access to Credit and Support for Redistribution
Sébastien Cuenot - Nation over Class? How patriotism boosts redistributive preferences and alters the income-based cleavage in Southeast Asia
 
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Ju Yeon Park
Erik Chi - Comparing Designs and Diagnostics in Time and Space
Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz - Listening to Public Housing Residents: Lessons from Collecting Surveys to Inform Redevelopment and Management Decisions
Adam Glynn - Estimating Bounds on Selection Bias with Outcomes Measured on the Selected
Thomas Plümper, Eric Neumayer - Tweaking Empirical Results of Causal Analyses: The Case of Regression Discontinuity Designs
Ju Yeon Park - From Reddit to Congressional Hearings: Measuring Representation at the Argument-level
11:00 - 11:20
Break
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Luis Bartiloti Matos
Javier Osorio - Revamping ConfliBERT. A pre-trained Language Model for Political Conflict and Violence
Johanna Burger, Matthias Künzler - News desertification and potential risks for the Swiss democracy
Luis Bartiloti Matos, Tanguy Balcon - More Than Words. How Discursive Strategies aim to Influence MFF Political Negotiations.
Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass - Vicarious Identification and Foreign Fighters in the Russia-Ukraine War
Paulo Ferracioli - Artificial intelligence as a weapon against political disinformation: a comparative analysis
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Sedef Turper
Luzmarina Garcia - Under Pressure: Case Allocation in Immigration Courts
Cristina Chueca Del Cerro - Modelling Social Bots on Social Media Platforms: An Agent-Based Approach and Its Impact on Data Quality
Jakub Szabó - Effects of Foreign Criticism on the Acceptance of Democratic Transgressions
Christian Mueller - Partisanship and Misinformation Sharing on WhatsApp
Sedef Turper - Settled for Good or Just for Now? Experimental Insights on (Im)mobility Aspirations of Forced Migrants
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Joseph Klaver
Joseph Coll, Sean Freeder, Enrijeta Shino - In the Eye of the Beholder: Race, Resentment, and Electoral Perceptions
Joseph Klaver - Comparative Election Dispute Resolution: Institutional Variation and the Role of Accessibility and Partisanship
Amy Basu - Paying Voters: Electoral Handouts and Client Commitment
S. Tolga Er - Unseating Mayors: Voting Under the Threat of Electoral Non-Compliance
13:00 - 13:50
13:50 - 15:30
Room: Club B
Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University 
Raymond Duch, University of Oxford
13:50 - 15:30
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Jascha Dräger
Discussant - Filippo Bignami 

Jascha Dräger - Long-term effects of civic education on political participation in East Germany
Yusuf Wara Abubakar - The Convergence and Divergence of Digital Democratic Engagement: A Comparative Panel Analysis of Online Civic Participation in Europe
Jeffery Jenkins - Disfranchisement and the Populist Threat: The Historical Political Economy of the American South
David Hendry - Bilingual Ballots and Political Choice: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
13:50 - 15:30
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Christian Wilhelm Haerpfer
Discussant - Jakub Charvát

Christian Haerpfer - National Elections in Europe and Northern America, 2020 - 2025 (TRUEDEM)
Elisabeth Donat - Attitude Clusters and Polarization Risks in Europe: Linking Climate Change Awareness and Attitudes toward Non-Heteronormative Lifestyles TRUEDEM
Petr Bláha - Between Us and Them: The Polarising Effects of Social and Political Boundaries (TRUEDEM)
Kseniya Kizilova - The Polarizing Effects of Information Environment and Media Use for Political Trust (TRUEDEM)
 
13:50 - 15:30
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Hoon Lee
Hung Chun Liu, Hsin Chih Chen - War Yet Unfought, Order Already Fractured?Reconsidering Variations and Rupture Points in International Institutions through Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Initiative
Pavlos Koktsidis - Rearranging the Puzzle of Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Exploring the Emergence of New Blocs of Power
Hoon Lee - The Glue of Peace: Economic Interdependence, Peace, and Rivalry Termination
Robert Person - Russian Information War in the Baltic States
Robert Brathwaite, Cameron Thies - Buying Hearts and Changing Minds: Impact of BRI on Information Environments
13:50 - 15:30
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Jonathan Phillips
Francis Adjei - Legislating under Opposition Leadership in Parliament: Evidence from Ghana
Francis Adjei - Campaigning Through Governing Speech: How Electoral Incentives Shape Presidential Rhetoric in Ghana
Jonathan Phillips - Who is Invisible to the State? Legibility and Vaccination in Northern Nigeria
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Clark Banack
Jain Choi - Sexual Minorites’ Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe
Yuto Ota - Energy Vulnerability and Public Attitude Toward Climate Mitigation: Evidence from Cross-National Survey Experiment
Clark Banack - Understanding Political Attitudes and Populism in Rural Canada and Beyond via Ethnography
Christophe Leveque - Heterogeneous Local Responses to Exogenous Spending Shocks: Insights from French Foster Care (ASE)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Caique Melo
Hyunwoo Kim - Inflation Crises and Political Parties’ Convergence on Macroeconomic Conservatism
Caique Melo - Why Don't You Get a Job? Evidence from Campaign Spending Limits
Isaac Shih-hao Huang - Electoral Incentives and the MPs’ Preferences for Economic and Industrial Policies in an Authoritarian Developmental State: Experience from Taiwan
Dmitrii Semichev, Ruslan Guseinov - Economic equality dividend of popular and elite-driven democratic transitions
Justin Wikkerink - Hinge Moments in International Political Economy: From NAFTA to the 2025 Tariff Crisis
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Shay Yoos
Dennis Kolcava - Austerity Pass-Through, Ageing Infrastructure, and the Public Policy of Local Service Closure Evidence from Public Swimming Pools in England
Ju Yeon Park - Scientists in Congress: Congressional Treatment of Expertise
Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, John Mctague - For God and Party: Religion, Party Alignment, and the US Senate
Shay Yoos - The Day After: Tracing the Political and Emotional Evolution of Survivors of the October 7 Massacre
Johanna Seppälä - Engineering Democracy? An Empirical Analysis of Power-Sharing Institutions in 155 Countries from 1975 to 2015
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Magdalena Żakowska
Ho Ting Hung - The Political Economy of Big Tech: Strategic Triangularization of Lobbying as Tech Giants' 'Trump' Card
Eric Arias - Impartiality and US influence in International Courts: Evidence from the WTO Appellate Body
Michał Pawiński - Cracks in the Security Architecture of the Caribbean: Towards Collective Security
Magdalena Żakowska - Small nation and a trickster. Disinformation as a „fear factor“ in Austian relations with Russia since 2022
Hannah Aeterna Borne - Multi-Actor Governance of Visual Evidence in International Conflict