We are happy to announce that the 2023 Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop is open for registration.
The TPBW will run on Sept 29 and 30 at the Munk School. Registration fees are low and partially refunded on attendance. We provide a venue for lively academic exchange. Food is provided on both days.
We especially encourage graduate students and junior scholars to attend and make active efforts to connect them with attending senior scholars.
Registration is here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-toronto-political-behaviour-workshop-tickets-659268528917?aff=oddtdtcreator
The 2023 TPBW is made possible by the generous support of the Consortium on Electoral Democracyhttps://c-dem.ca/and Abacus Datahttps://abacusdata.ca/. The workshop sessions take place in the Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7
A full list of papers and posters is below. We hope to see you in Toronto.
Peter, Daniel, and Caitlin
Papers
Alexander Kustov and Michelangelo Landgrave. "Immigration is Difficult?! The Effects of Informing Voters about U.S. Immigration Policy."
Amanda Friesen and Erin Heerey. "Social Signals: What happens during interpersonal political talk?"
António Valentim. "Information, Political Messaging and Climate Preferences."
Daniel Hopkins and Frederik Hjorth. "The Nationalization of [American] Voting Behavior in Comparative Perspective."
Eunji Kim and Taylor Carlson. "An Era of Minimal Exposure but Not-So-Minimal Effects? The Case of Fox News."
Jack Lucas, Lior Sheffer, Peter Loewen, and Stefaan Walgrave. "Ideological Disagreement and Elite Theories of Democracy: Evidence from Politicians in 13 Countries."
Konstantinos Matakos, Sevinc Bermek, and Asli Unan. "Victim-blaming Norms and Gender-based Violence: Self-interest or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?"
Leah Rosenzweig. "Convenience over (social) costs: Doubling vaccination rates in Kenya with community outreach."
Noam Lupu. Supportive Political Participation: "The Effects of Serving as a Poll Worker."
Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Matthew Winters. "Running After the State: Patterns of Welfare Pursuit in Brazil."
Posters
Alex Tolkin. "Watching Zero-sum Sports Causes People to see Group Relationships as Zero-sum Competitions."
Alvaro J. Pereira. "Partisanship and Party's Appeals in Canadian Elections."
Daniel Rojas. "How Do Business Elites Respond to Social Protests?"
Gustavo Diaz, Ines Fynn, Veronica Perez Bentancur and Lucia Tiscornia. "Combining List Experiments and the Network Scale-Up Method to Improve Prevalence Estimates of Sensitive Attitudes and Behaviors."
Lazare Kovo. "Electoral Incentives and Capture of Local Institutions: Evidence of No-Confidence Votes on Local Governments."
Lewis Krashinsky. "Across the Detroit River: The Electoral Divergence of the North American White Working Class."
Mark Williamson. "A national reckoning: How dominant groups react to learning about historical injustices."
Nathan Barron. "Weighting-Induced Bias in Survey Experiments."
Seyoung Jung, Cara Wong and Younghyun Lee. "The Effects of Citizenship vs Socialization on Political Participation."
Thomas Bergeron. "Choosing to Feel: The Political Costs of Empathy."
Veronica Hurtado Lozada. "Correcting Misinformation in Low-Partisan Contexts: Effects on Voters' Attitudes Towards Political Candidates in the 2021 Peruvian Presidential Election."