Poster Session

We recommend that poster presenters bring their printed poster with them to the conference.

Presentation Details

The poster session for graduate students is scheduled for Friday, July 22 at 5:30 pm. The graduate student poster session will include a reception with food and drinks. Presenters should stay near their posters to take questions and comments and talk with other members of the Society. The poster session for faculty posters is scheduled for Thursday, July 21 at 4:30 pm.

Posters accepted for presentation will be archived on the PolMeth website. We also encourage you to submit the associated paper to the Society’s working paper archive.

Faculty / AEROPuP Poster Session Participants

  1. Nick Beauchamp, A Generative Model of Competitive Political Debate
  2. Amy Semet, Appellate Court Decision-Making in NLRB Cases
  3. Jeffrey Arnold, Bayesian Change Points and Linear Filtering with Shrinkage Priors
  4. Albert Fang and Andrew Guess, Bayesian Estimation of Principal Causal Effects under Partial Compliance
  5. Iris Hui, Collaborative Network, Policy Response and Environmental Decision Making Process
  6. Ngoc Phan, Construct Validity of Discrimination Measures in Survey Research
  7. Mark Nieman, Containing Our Confidence: Controlling Explosive Confidence Intervals when using Long Run Multipliers
  8. Joel Middleton, Design‐based Inference for Complicated Designs
  9. Dorothy Kronick, Estimating Choice Models with Aggregate Data
  10. Michael Higgins, Finding Common Support Using Adjacency Graphs
  11. Michael Alvarez and Christina Ramirez, Fuzzy forests and heterogeneity in survey responses
  12. Pablo Barberá, Less is more? How demographic sample weights can improve public opinion estimates based on Twitter data
  13. Drew Dimmery, Monotonicity and Limited Dependent Variables: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Logit
  14. Amy Erica Smith, Looks Like Me, Thinks Like Me? Descriptive Representation and Opinion Congruence in Brazil
  15. Huan-Kai Tseng, Partner Switching in Models of Coevolving Networks: Evidences from Preferential Trade Agreements
  16. Florian Hollenbach, Timm Betz and Scott Cook, Random? As if — The Consequences of Spatial Dependence in Instrument Selection
  17. Brian Hamel, AEROPuP Poster: Using Electoral Loss to Understand Contribution Motivation
  18. Adam Miller, AEROPuP Poster
  19. James Murray, AEROPuP Poster
  20. David Nield, AEROPuP Poster: The Misperceiving Voter
  21. Ashley Reid, AEROPuP Poster
  22. John Ahlquist and Arturas Rozenas, Inferring Latent Preferences from Network Data

Graduate Student Poster Session Participants

  1. Yuki Shiraito, A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Causal Heterogeneity
    Discussant: Adam Bonica
  2. Diogo Ferrari, A Logit-Binomial Mixture Model for Fraud Detection in Elections
    Discussant: Adam Bonica
  3. Jonathan Homola, A Measure of Survey Mode Differences
    Discussant: Betsy Sinclair
  4. Zach Warner, A New Measure of Congruence: The Earth Mover’s Distance
    Discussant: Betsy Sinclair
  5. Dean Knox, A New Model for Analyzing Paths: Determinants and Effects of U.S. Interstate Routes
    Discussant: Brandon Stewart
  6. William Hobbs, A Redistricting Method Based on Interregional Mobility and Social Interaction
    Discussant: Brandon Stewart
  7. Sinh Nguyen, After Ratification: A Causal Mediation Analysis of International Human Rights Treaties
    Discussant: Cassy Dorff
  8. Soenke Ehret, Ambiguous Discrimination and Equal Opportunity: Evidence from Laboratory and Online Synchronous Experiments
    Discussant: Cassy Dorff
  9. Pamela Ban, Measuring Partisanship and Participation in Congressional Committee and Floor Speeches
    Discussant: Emily Beaulieu
  10. Anton Strezhnev, Automated Sentiment Analysis for Citations in Legal Texts
    Discussant: Emily Beaulieu
  11. Bradley Spahn, Better Hypothesis Testing using Beta Mixtures
    Discussant: Frederick Boehmke
  12. Naoki Egami, Causal Inference with Multilevel Interference
    Discussant: Frederick Boehmke
  13. Michael Dougal, Changing the Story: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Issue Advocacy on Media Coverage
    Discussant: Jacob Montgomery
  14. Casey Crisman-Cox, Civil Wars of Attrition: Bargaining, Reputation, and Civil War Duration
    Discussant: Jacob Montgomery
  15. Kirk Bansak, Comparative Causal Mediation: Relaxing the Assumption of No Mediator-Outcome Confounding
    Discussant: Philip Schrodt
  16. Alisha Kim, All possible outcomes: A complete counterfactual of river basin treaty formation
    Discussant: Philip Schrodt
  17. Stephen Goggin, Constructing political knowledge batteries: Scaling and best practices in online surveys and experiments
    Discussant: Jamie Monogan
  18. Maxim Ananyev, Estimating Fiscal Effectiveness of States Using Firm-Level Financial Statements: a Bayesian Approach
    Discussant: Jamie Monogan
  19. Dana Higgins, Disaggregating Data using Multiple Imputation: Battle-related Deaths
    Discussant: Jeff Harden
  20. George Williford, Discrete Time Cure Models for Duration Data: Modeling Lasting Cease Fires
    Discussant: Jeff Harden
  21. Irena Schneider, Does Corruption Reduce Political Trust? Testing Moderating Effects in Diverse Regime Types
    Discussant: Justin Kirkland
  22. Patrick Kraft, Don’t Just Ask Me for Facts! Measuring Political Sophistication with Open-Ended Responses
    Discussant: Justin Kirkland
  23. Sarah Bouchat, Engaging Experts: Dealing with Divergent Elicited Priors in Political Science
    Discussant: Justin Grimmer
  24. Stephen Pettigrew, The Downstream Consequences of Long Waits: How Lines at the Precinct Depress Future Turnout
    Discussant: Justin Grimmer
  25. Michael Gibilisco, Estimating Signaling Games with Multiple Equilibria
    Discussant: In Song Kim
  26. Karin Kitchens, Exit or Invest: How does residential segregation impact public investment in education?
    Discussant: In Song Kim
  27. Elena Labzina, Explaining support for ISIS in cyberspace
    Discussant: Jeffrey Arnold
  28. Laurence Brandenberger, Goodness-of-fit measures for temporal event network models
    Discussant: Jeffrey Arnold
  29. Ted Enamorado, Handling Missing Data in Record Linkage Models
    Discussant: Santiago Olivella
  30. Kevin Munger, Homophily For Thee, But Not For Me: Real and Perceived Twitter Network Diversity
    Discussant: Santiago Olivella
  31. Christopher Lucas, Identifying and Using Public Secret Data
    Discussant: Kimberly Twist
  32. Yunkyu Sohn, Identifying the Dimensions of Politics using Variable-Rank Item Response Theory Model
    Discussant: Kimberly Twist
  33. Zachary Jones, Inference on the Effects of Observed Features in Latent Space Models for Networks
    Discussant: Stephen Jessee
  34. Lisa Pringle, Latino Representation in California: A Social Network Analysis
    Discussant: Stephen Jessee
  35. Adeline Lo, Making good predictions: a theoretical framework
    Discussant: Scott Cook
  36. Michelle Torres, Dealing with panel attrition: an application of marginal structural models for the estimation of joint treatment effects
    Discussant: Scott Cook
  37. Robert Shaffer, Measuring Similarity Between Long and Complex Documents
    Discussant: Mark Nieman
  38. Eric Dunford, MELTT: Matching Event Data by Location, Time and Type
    Discussant: Mark Nieman
  39. Kelsey Shoub, Modeling Dynamic Issue Frames Through Supervised Text Mining of Newspapers
    Discussant: Drew Dimmery
  40. David Carlson, Modeling Related Processes with an Excess of Zeros
    Discussant: Drew Dimmery
  41. Alexander Branham, Modeling Spending Preferences & Public Policy
    Discussant: Neal Beck
  42. Ahra Wu, A Bayesian Multiple Equation Model of Alliance Formation and Interstate Conflicts
    Discussant: Neal Beck
  43. Lucas Nunez, Local Cohorts Estimator for Synthetic Panels from Repeated Cross Sectional Data
    Discussant: Justin Esarey
  44. Taeyong Park, Taking Model Uncertainty Seriously: Modeling Autoregressive Distributed Lags via the Bayesian Adaptive Lasso
    Discussant: Randy Stevenson
  45. Nazita Lajevardi, Muslim-American Portrayals in the Media and Effects on Mass Attitudes
    Discussant: Randy Stevenson
  46. Mert Moral and Andrei Zhirnov, On the Substantive and Statistical Significance of the Constitutive Variables in Non-Linear Models with Interaction Terms
    Discussant: Justin Esarey
  47. Saad Gulzar, Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Candidacy
    Discussant: Mirya Holman
  48. Alejandra Nunez-Aguilar, Research on the use of emergency resources pursuing a political gain
    Discussant: Mirya Holman
  49. Brittnee Carter, Responding to Terrorism: A Vector Autoregressive Analysis of the U.S. Military and Terrorism
    Discussant: Paul Kellstedt
  50. Paula Ganga, Simpson’s Paradox and Social Science Research: The Effect of Aid on Infant Mortality
    Discussant: Paul Kellstedt
  51. Asya Magazinnik and Sepehr Shahshahani, Strategic Abstention, Missing Data, and Ideal Point Estimation
    Discussant: Lanny Martin
  52. Yu Wang, Tactics and Tallies: Inferring Voter Preferences in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Using Sparse Learning
    Discussant: Lanny Martin
  53. Fridolin Linder, Text as Policy: Measuring Policy Similarity through Bill Text Reuse
    Discussant: Rick Wilson
  54. Mona Vakilifathi, Setting Off the Fire Alarm: The Effect of Interest Group Strength on Regulatory Discretion
    Discussant: Rick Wilson
  55. Carly Potz-Nielsen, Measuring Information Effects in Human Rights Reports: Applying Machine-Coding and Latent Semantic Analytic Techniques to Develop Measures of Information over Time
    Discussant: Erin Hartman
  56. Anna Pechenina, Treatment and Modeling of Unbalanced Multi-Level Data – Case of Russian Fiscal Federalism
    Discussant: Erin Hartman
  57. Andrew Bertoli, United We Fight: Democratic Unity and State Aggression
    Discussant: Michelle Dion
  58. Christopher Boylan, Using Deep Learning to Forecast Political Instability
    Discussant: Michelle Dion
  59. Joshua Lerner, Using Ideas as My Maps: Tracing the Flow of Ideas Through the Legislative Process
    Discussant: Margaret Roberts
  60. Carolina Ferrerosa Young, Using Text Analysis to Measure Interest Group Influence and U.S. Legislative Responsiveness
    Discussant: Margaret Roberts
  61. Abigail Rury, The Diffusion of Precedent Across State Supreme Courts
    Discussant: Emily Schilling
  62. Jane Sumner, Citation Patterns and Diversity in Methodology: A Comparative Analysis of Gender in Social Science Methods Journals
    Discussant: Emily Schilling

Format

We will provide you with space on panel walls to hang the poster, as well as push pins and tape. The poster can be landscape or portrait. Spaces are directly adjacent to each other, so anything wider than a landscape A0 size (46.8 by 33.1 inch) is too large. Tips on preparing and designing your poster are given below.

Guidelines and Tips

What should you present?

For students far along on their dissertation, this is an opportunity to get members of the methods section to review your thesis work. For others, this is a chance to get an enormous amount of feedback on future conference, working, or late-stage papers. Given that the topic has already been submitted as part of your application and approved by the program committee, the question is really what part of this research will prove to be the most useful as a poster in this setting. In general, the audience will be interested in your application of methodologies (broadly defined) to some data-analytic problem. No matter what is presented, don’t be afraid to highlight areas that are not totally worked out, since this is exactly where you might get the most benefit from feedback.

What makes a good poster?

In general, you can think of your poster as a set of presentation slides. As such, tables and figures should play an essential role, and bullet points should be used to highlight main points. You will be verbally explaining your research to others rather than having them read every sentence on your poster. Keep it simple, but make sure your poster gets your research across in a brief and effective manner.

How should one make a poster?

A good poster is seldom constructed from filling the poster board with standard 8.5 by 11 inch printouts. We strongly suggest designing and producing the poster as a poster. The following provides helpful advice about structuring and organizing a good poster:

There are a variety of software packages that can be used to design posters including Microsoft Power Point, LaTeX, and Adobe Illustrator. Below are some links to get you started:

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