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
- Nick Beauchamp, A Generative Model of Competitive Political Debate
- Amy Semet, Appellate Court Decision-Making in NLRB Cases
- Jeffrey Arnold, Bayesian Change Points and Linear Filtering with Shrinkage Priors
- Albert Fang and Andrew Guess, Bayesian Estimation of Principal Causal Effects under Partial Compliance
- Iris Hui, Collaborative Network, Policy Response and Environmental Decision Making Process
- Ngoc Phan, Construct Validity of Discrimination Measures in Survey Research
- Mark Nieman, Containing Our Confidence: Controlling Explosive Confidence Intervals when using Long Run Multipliers
- Joel Middleton, Design‐based Inference for Complicated Designs
- Dorothy Kronick, Estimating Choice Models with Aggregate Data
- Michael Higgins, Finding Common Support Using Adjacency Graphs
- Michael Alvarez and Christina Ramirez, Fuzzy forests and heterogeneity in survey responses
- Pablo Barberá, Less is more? How demographic sample weights can improve public opinion estimates based on Twitter data
- Drew Dimmery, Monotonicity and Limited Dependent Variables: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Logit
- Amy Erica Smith, Looks Like Me, Thinks Like Me? Descriptive Representation and Opinion Congruence in Brazil
- Huan-Kai Tseng, Partner Switching in Models of Coevolving Networks: Evidences from Preferential Trade Agreements
- Florian Hollenbach, Timm Betz and Scott Cook, Random? As if — The Consequences of Spatial Dependence in Instrument Selection
- Brian Hamel, AEROPuP Poster: Using Electoral Loss to Understand Contribution Motivation
- Adam Miller, AEROPuP Poster
- James Murray, AEROPuP Poster
- David Nield, AEROPuP Poster: The Misperceiving Voter
- Ashley Reid, AEROPuP Poster
- John Ahlquist and Arturas Rozenas, Inferring Latent Preferences from Network Data
Graduate Student Poster Session Participants
- Yuki Shiraito, A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Causal Heterogeneity
Discussant: Adam Bonica - Diogo Ferrari, A Logit-Binomial Mixture Model for Fraud Detection in Elections
Discussant: Adam Bonica - Jonathan Homola, A Measure of Survey Mode Differences
Discussant: Betsy Sinclair - Zach Warner, A New Measure of Congruence: The Earth Mover’s Distance
Discussant: Betsy Sinclair - Dean Knox, A New Model for Analyzing Paths: Determinants and Effects of U.S. Interstate Routes
Discussant: Brandon Stewart - William Hobbs, A Redistricting Method Based on Interregional Mobility and Social Interaction
Discussant: Brandon Stewart - Sinh Nguyen, After Ratification: A Causal Mediation Analysis of International Human Rights Treaties
Discussant: Cassy Dorff - Soenke Ehret, Ambiguous Discrimination and Equal Opportunity: Evidence from Laboratory and Online Synchronous Experiments
Discussant: Cassy Dorff - Pamela Ban, Measuring Partisanship and Participation in Congressional Committee and Floor Speeches
Discussant: Emily Beaulieu - Anton Strezhnev, Automated Sentiment Analysis for Citations in Legal Texts
Discussant: Emily Beaulieu - Bradley Spahn, Better Hypothesis Testing using Beta Mixtures
Discussant: Frederick Boehmke - Naoki Egami, Causal Inference with Multilevel Interference
Discussant: Frederick Boehmke - Michael Dougal, Changing the Story: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Issue Advocacy on Media Coverage
Discussant: Jacob Montgomery - Casey Crisman-Cox, Civil Wars of Attrition: Bargaining, Reputation, and Civil War Duration
Discussant: Jacob Montgomery - Kirk Bansak, Comparative Causal Mediation: Relaxing the Assumption of No Mediator-Outcome Confounding
Discussant: Philip Schrodt - Alisha Kim, All possible outcomes: A complete counterfactual of river basin treaty formation
Discussant: Philip Schrodt - Stephen Goggin, Constructing political knowledge batteries: Scaling and best practices in online surveys and experiments
Discussant: Jamie Monogan - Maxim Ananyev, Estimating Fiscal Effectiveness of States Using Firm-Level Financial Statements: a Bayesian Approach
Discussant: Jamie Monogan - Dana Higgins, Disaggregating Data using Multiple Imputation: Battle-related Deaths
Discussant: Jeff Harden - George Williford, Discrete Time Cure Models for Duration Data: Modeling Lasting Cease Fires
Discussant: Jeff Harden - Irena Schneider, Does Corruption Reduce Political Trust? Testing Moderating Effects in Diverse Regime Types
Discussant: Justin Kirkland - Patrick Kraft, Don’t Just Ask Me for Facts! Measuring Political Sophistication with Open-Ended Responses
Discussant: Justin Kirkland - Sarah Bouchat, Engaging Experts: Dealing with Divergent Elicited Priors in Political Science
Discussant: Justin Grimmer - Stephen Pettigrew, The Downstream Consequences of Long Waits: How Lines at the Precinct Depress Future Turnout
Discussant: Justin Grimmer - Michael Gibilisco, Estimating Signaling Games with Multiple Equilibria
Discussant: In Song Kim - Karin Kitchens, Exit or Invest: How does residential segregation impact public investment in education?
Discussant: In Song Kim - Elena Labzina, Explaining support for ISIS in cyberspace
Discussant: Jeffrey Arnold - Laurence Brandenberger, Goodness-of-fit measures for temporal event network models
Discussant: Jeffrey Arnold - Ted Enamorado, Handling Missing Data in Record Linkage Models
Discussant: Santiago Olivella - Kevin Munger, Homophily For Thee, But Not For Me: Real and Perceived Twitter Network Diversity
Discussant: Santiago Olivella - Christopher Lucas, Identifying and Using Public Secret Data
Discussant: Kimberly Twist - Yunkyu Sohn, Identifying the Dimensions of Politics using Variable-Rank Item Response Theory Model
Discussant: Kimberly Twist - Zachary Jones, Inference on the Effects of Observed Features in Latent Space Models for Networks
Discussant: Stephen Jessee - Lisa Pringle, Latino Representation in California: A Social Network Analysis
Discussant: Stephen Jessee - Adeline Lo, Making good predictions: a theoretical framework
Discussant: Scott Cook - Michelle Torres, Dealing with panel attrition: an application of marginal structural models for the estimation of joint treatment effects
Discussant: Scott Cook - Robert Shaffer, Measuring Similarity Between Long and Complex Documents
Discussant: Mark Nieman - Eric Dunford, MELTT: Matching Event Data by Location, Time and Type
Discussant: Mark Nieman - Kelsey Shoub, Modeling Dynamic Issue Frames Through Supervised Text Mining of Newspapers
Discussant: Drew Dimmery - David Carlson, Modeling Related Processes with an Excess of Zeros
Discussant: Drew Dimmery - Alexander Branham, Modeling Spending Preferences & Public Policy
Discussant: Neal Beck - Ahra Wu, A Bayesian Multiple Equation Model of Alliance Formation and Interstate Conflicts
Discussant: Neal Beck - Lucas Nunez, Local Cohorts Estimator for Synthetic Panels from Repeated Cross Sectional Data
Discussant: Justin Esarey - Taeyong Park, Taking Model Uncertainty Seriously: Modeling Autoregressive Distributed Lags via the Bayesian Adaptive Lasso
Discussant: Randy Stevenson - Nazita Lajevardi, Muslim-American Portrayals in the Media and Effects on Mass Attitudes
Discussant: Randy Stevenson - 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 - Saad Gulzar, Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Candidacy
Discussant: Mirya Holman - Alejandra Nunez-Aguilar, Research on the use of emergency resources pursuing a political gain
Discussant: Mirya Holman - Brittnee Carter, Responding to Terrorism: A Vector Autoregressive Analysis of the U.S. Military and Terrorism
Discussant: Paul Kellstedt - Paula Ganga, Simpson’s Paradox and Social Science Research: The Effect of Aid on Infant Mortality
Discussant: Paul Kellstedt - Asya Magazinnik and Sepehr Shahshahani, Strategic Abstention, Missing Data, and Ideal Point Estimation
Discussant: Lanny Martin - Yu Wang, Tactics and Tallies: Inferring Voter Preferences in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Using Sparse Learning
Discussant: Lanny Martin - Fridolin Linder, Text as Policy: Measuring Policy Similarity through Bill Text Reuse
Discussant: Rick Wilson - Mona Vakilifathi, Setting Off the Fire Alarm: The Effect of Interest Group Strength on Regulatory Discretion
Discussant: Rick Wilson - 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 - Anna Pechenina, Treatment and Modeling of Unbalanced Multi-Level Data – Case of Russian Fiscal Federalism
Discussant: Erin Hartman - Andrew Bertoli, United We Fight: Democratic Unity and State Aggression
Discussant: Michelle Dion - Christopher Boylan, Using Deep Learning to Forecast Political Instability
Discussant: Michelle Dion - Joshua Lerner, Using Ideas as My Maps: Tracing the Flow of Ideas Through the Legislative Process
Discussant: Margaret Roberts - Carolina Ferrerosa Young, Using Text Analysis to Measure Interest Group Influence and U.S. Legislative Responsiveness
Discussant: Margaret Roberts - Abigail Rury, The Diffusion of Precedent Across State Supreme Courts
Discussant: Emily Schilling - 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:
- Designing Effective Posters: Jeff Radel at the University of Kansas
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: