APSA 2026 · Boston · 3–6 September

Yale at APSA 2026

35Faculty
38Graduate students
11Postdocs
7Lecturers
1Fellow
82Papers
4Books
9Roundtables
5Other

Index of Yale participants

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Thursday3 September20 events

Room · TimeSession
Marriott, Arlington8:00–9:30am

Panel

Political Competition and Favoritism in Public Goods Allocations

Elite Strategic Behavior and the Political Economy of Governance in Africa

  • Jamie Hintson
Westin, North Star Room8:00–9:30am

Panel

A Market for Local Taxes: Decentralization and Uncertainty

Fiscal Federalism and Local Capacity

  • Charles T. McClean
  • Anna Yorozuya
Marriott, Provincetown8:00–9:30am

Panel

Corporate Responses to the Threat of Public Shaming

International Political Economy of Firms

  • Raphaelle Soffe
  • and coauthor
Hynes, 10310:00–11:30am

Panel

How Mainstream Parties Fight Back against Extremists

Defending Democracy: Political Parties, Institutions, and Society

  • Isabela Mares
Marriott, Tremont10:00–11:30am

Panel

Political Decision-Making and the Ethics of Shortcuts

Good Citizenship: Duties, Dispositions, and Responsibilities

  • Kevin J. Elliott
  • Jeffrey A. Lenowitz Brandeis University
Hynes, 210 (Cafés)10:00–11:30am

Café

IR Theory Café

  • Soyoung Lee
Westin, Adams Room10:00–11:30am

Panel

Racial Outgroup Dehumanization and Political Identity

Prejudice, Dehumanization, and Intergroup Hostility

  • Philip Moniz
  • Costas Panagopoulos Northeastern University
Hynes, Hall A (Exhibit Hall, iPosters)10:30–11:00am

Poster

(iPoster) Judicializing Electoral Politics: Candidate Strategy for Post-Election Protest

Poster Session: Democracy and Autocracy I

  • Jessica Hickle
Hynes, 30512:00–1:30pm

Panel

Optimal Media Bias for Political Accountability

Media and Accountability in Democratic Politics

  • Kevin DeLuca
Hynes, 11112:00–1:30pm

Panel

Bagehot’s Two English Constitutions: Responsible Government vs Double Government

Self-Government vs. Responsible Government

  • Jialin Liang
Marriott, Salon A2:00–3:30pm

Panel

Cutting Costs, Cutting Votes: How DOGE Hurt the GOP

American Institutions in Turbulent Times

  • Luca Bellodi
  • Kyuwon Lee University of Southern California
Hynes, 2092:00–3:30pm

Panel

Foreign Influencer Operations: How TikTok Shapes American Perceptions of China

China in the Feed: Attention, Influence, and Persuasion

  • Jonathan Elkobi
  • Daniel Mattingly
  • and coauthor
Hynes, 1052:00–3:30pm

Panel

Who Speaks? A New Method to Large-Scale Audio Analysis of Political Participation

Hearing Politics: Audio Data, Political Behavior, and Measurement beyond Text

  • Sophia Wang
  • Menglin Liu University of California Davis
Sheraton, Fairfax B4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Reframing Performance: Political Communication in the Time of Economic Downturns

Adaptive Authoritarian Governance: Managing Pressure and Changes

  • Jennifer Gandhi
  • Handi Li University College London
Hynes, 2034:00–5:30pm

Panel

Governing through Ambiguity: Command Language and Violence in Cambodia

Civil-Military Dynamics and Wartime Control

  • William M. Kwok
Hynes, 1024:00–5:30pm

Panel

Protest Leaders as Careerists? Evidence from Ghana’s Fourth Republic

Collective Action and Protest Politics

  • Katharine A. Baldwin
Marriott, Salon E4:00–5:30pm

Roundtable

Formal Theory Frontiers II: Open Questions in Authoritarian Politics

  • Milan Svolik
Hynes, 1104:00–5:30pm

Panel

Romantic and Reactionary Critics of Sovereignty

Modern Theories of Sovereignty and the State

  • Dimitrios Ioannis Halikias
Marriott, Salon C4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Intergenerational Transmission of Political Behavior

Political Socialization and Partisan Transmission

  • Sahil Chinoy
  • Enrico Cantoni University of Bologna
  • Ryan D. Enos Harvard University
  • Martin Koenen
  • Vincent Pons Harvard Business School
Marriott, Yarmouth4:00–5:30pm

Panel

New vs. Old Left? Interest Group Legislative Divergence in the Democratic Party

Voice, Exit, and Competition inside Political Parties

  • Fiona Kniaz
  • Jacob S. Hacker
  • Paul Pierson University of California, Berkeley
  • Amelia Malpas Harvard University

Friday4 September41 events

Room · TimeSession
Hynes, 3048:00–9:30am

Roundtable

Beyond the Cold War Canon: Mapping Next Generation Arms Control Scholarship

  • Alexandre Debs
Marriott, Yarmouth8:00–9:30am

Panel

Regulatory Advocacy before the Courts

Governance through Rulemaking and Oversight

  • Alexander Love
Marriott, Tufts8:00–9:30am

Panel

Self-Interest, Fairness Considerations, and Attitudes toward the OBBBA

Mass Opinion and Behavior in the American Political Economy

  • Patrick Sullivan
  • Jacob S. Hacker
Hynes, 2048:00–9:30am

Panel

Shlomo Avineri’s Hegel

Philosophy, Democracy, Zionism: A Panel in Honor of Professor Shlomo Avineri

  • Steven B. Smith
Sheraton, Riverway8:00–9:30am

Panel

Mobilizing Voters or Building the Party? Service Provision and Islamist Survival

Political Control in Autocratic Regimes

  • Saumyaa Gupta
  • Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
Sheraton, Riverway8:00–9:30am

Panel

Promotion and Party Service in Autocratic Ruling Parties: Evidence from Cambodia

Political Control in Autocratic Regimes

  • Lucille E Right
Sheraton, Riverway8:00–9:30am

Panel

Who Stays Loyal? Security Personnel Support in a Dominant-Party Regime

Political Control in Autocratic Regimes

  • Matthew Koo
Sheraton, Back Bay Ballroom D8:00–9:30am

Roundtable

Political Science on the Front Lines: Presenting Evidence of Democratic Backsliding in Courts

  • Sonia Mittal
Hynes, 3118:00–9:30am

Panel

From Popular Sovereignty to Judicial Supremacy

Popular Constitutionalism and Its Institutional Infrastructures

  • Caleb Yong
  • Jeffrey A. Lenowitz Brandeis University
Hynes, 302 (Plenaries / Main Stage)10:00–11:30am

Roundtable

Breaking News Panel: "The State of the World: Democracy, Power, and Uncertainty in the Face of Simultaneous Crises" (Livestream)

  • Ian Shapiro
Hynes, 30910:00–11:30am

Panel

Policing Iraq: State Expansion and the Differentiation of the Coercive Apparatus

Empire and Coercion

  • Samuel Edward Rolfe Dunham
Hynes, 300 (Plenary)10:00–11:30am

Roundtable

Placing People Back at the Center of American Politics

  • Dara Z. Strolovitch
Hynes, 20510:00–11:30am

Panel

Tracing the Political Sorting and Civic Participation of 10,000 Cheeseheads

Political Behavior and Elections in Local Politics

  • Eric Scheuch
  • Jacob S. Hacker
  • Patrick Sullivan
  • Lucas Kreuzer University of California, Berkeley
Hynes, 30610:00–11:30am

Panel

Eugene Debs and Coercion, Contract, and Administration in the 19th Century

Radical Pedagogies and Political Mobilization

  • Zainab Firdausi
Marriott, Dartmouth10:00–11:30am

Panel

Cheaper by the Cluster? The Politics of Firm Decarbonization Collaboration

The Political Economy of Corporate Climate Politics

  • Ryan Pike
Hynes, 31110:00–11:30am

Panel

New States, New Science: The Problem of the Postcolonial State

The Postcolonial State: Between Democracy and Development

  • Nazmul S. Sultan
Hynes, 10210:00–11:30am

Panel

The Orders of Genocide and Cumulative Radicalization in Cambodia

Violence, Extremism, and Coercive State Authority

  • William M. Kwok
Hynes, Hall A (Exhibit Hall, iPosters)11:30am–12:00pm

Poster

(iPoster) Illegitimate Parents

Poster Session: Law and Courts

  • Chetana Sabnis
Hynes, 10212:00–1:30pm

Roundtable

Democratic Theory: Dispatches from the Field

  • Daniel HoSang
Westin, Parliament12:00–1:30pm

Panel

Pluralists, Technocrats, and Friends and Enemies: A Trimodal Theory of Politics

Imagining Politics: Science, Cultural Innovation, Activism, and Utopia

  • Kevin J. Elliott
Hynes, 20412:00–1:30pm

Panel

A Double Machine Learning Approach to Causal Inference with Spatio-Temporal Data

Inference on the Map: Methods for Spatiotemporal Data

  • Luke Sanford
  • Licheng Liu University of Michigan
  • Yiqing Xu Stanford University
Hynes, 3042:00–3:30pm

Author Meets Critics

Author Meets Critics: "Sodomy's Solicitations: A Right to Queerness"

  • Joseph Fischel
Marriott, Vineyard2:00–3:30pm

Panel

The Political Origins of Inferior Administration

Executive Politics in Historical Context

  • Christina M. Kinane
  • Jin Park
Hynes, 210 (Cafés)2:00–3:30pm

Café

Methods Café 2026

  • Dara Z. Strolovitch
Marriott, Orleans2:00–3:30pm

Panel

Putting Theory to the Test: Conjoint Experiments and Models of Spatial Competition

Models of Political Behavior

  • Milan Svolik
  • Daniel A. N. Goldstein University of Oslo
Westin, Newbury Room2:00–3:30pm

Panel

Self-Persuasion in Politics: A Compare-and-Argue Method

Persuasion

  • Gary Leung
Hynes, 3032:00–3:30pm

Panel

Does Private Education Erode the Social Contract? Evidence from Peru

Schools, Citizenship, and the Social Contract

  • Ana Lorena De La O Torres
  • Cecilia Rossel Universidad Católica del Uruguay
  • Pilar Manzi Gari University of Chicago
Hynes, 3032:00–3:30pm

Panel

Legacies of State versus Church Schools for Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Schools, Citizenship, and the Social Contract

  • Eran Rubinstein
  • Katharine A. Baldwin
Marriott, Tufts2:00–3:30pm

Panel

Designing Fragmentation: Interest Groups and Federal-State Welfare Programs

Social Welfare and the American Political Economy

  • Fiona Kniaz
Marriott, Tufts2:00–3:30pm

Panel

How Non-Profits Leverage Specialized Expertise for Favorable Policy

Social Welfare and the American Political Economy

  • Nicholas Ottone
Hynes, 300 (Plenary)4:00–5:30pm

Roundtable

Feminist Methods, Political Science and the Current Moment

  • Elisabeth Jean Wood
Marriott, Salon C4:00–5:30pm

Panel

A Political Economy of Fact-Checking

Formal Models of Elections and Democratic Accountability

  • Lorenzo De Rosa
Marriott, Salon D4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Party Building and Its Consequences: Guy Vander Jagt, the NRCC, and the Republican Revolution

Majority and Minority Parties in the Age of Insecure Majorities

  • Justin Greenman
Hynes, 1024:00–5:30pm

Panel

How Bias and Selective Mobilization Shape Vacancies in India’s Village Councils

Migration, Belonging, and Political Incorporation

  • Pratik Mahajan
  • Alyssa Heinze University of California, Berkeley
Marriott, Vineyard4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Emotions and Prefigurative Nonviolence in the US Disarmament Movement

Navigating Electoral Landscapes: Violence, Emotion, and Coalition Dynamics

  • Carolina Marques de Mesquita
Hynes, 1044:00–5:30pm

Panel

From Locke to Pufendorf: Liberalism, Natural Law, and Political Power

New Lessons on Freedom and Domination from Early Modern Sources

  • Loren Reinoso
Sheraton, Fairfax A4:00–5:30pm

Panel

How and Why Neighborhood Composition Shapes Political Behavior?

Political Opinion and Behavior in Local Contexts

  • Alan Gerber
  • Gregory Huber
  • Mackenzie Lockhart
  • Itamar Yakir
Marriott, Salon A4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Civic Education as Democratic Practice

Political Theory and K-12 Education

  • Stephanie Almeida Nevin
Hynes, 3034:00–5:30pm

Panel

Racial Justice, Institutional Pessimism, and the Limits of Policy Engagement

Resisting the Color Line: Social Movements in the U.S. Racialized Polity

  • Micah English
Marriott, Provincetown4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Global Value Chains and the Electoral Effects of Liberalization

Trade Liberalization and Institutional Change in Developing Economies

  • Zagreb Mukerjee
Marriott, Salon J4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Turning Out for Democratic Principles?

Voters and Democratic Norms

  • Milan Svolik
  • Matthew H. Graham Temple University

Saturday5 September27 events

Room · TimeSession
Hynes, 1118:00–9:30am

Panel

The Role of Confounders and Linearity in Ecological Inference: A Reassessment

Advances in Survey Accuracy and Ecological Inference

  • Shiro Kuriwaki
  • Cory McCartan Pennsylvania State University
Sheraton, Back Bay Ballroom A8:00–9:30am

Panel

The Origins of Representative Institutions in China

Elite Governance and State Strategies in Imperial and Socialist China

  • Qixuan Yang
Marriott, Salon B8:00–9:30am

Panel

State Building and Meritocracy in Great Britain

Historical Political Economy of Bureaucracy, State Personnel, and Coercion

  • Didac Queralt
  • Peng Peng Washington University in St Louis
Westin, Newbury Room8:00–9:30am

Panel

The Political Effects of Youth Enfranchisement: Evidence from the Italian Senate

Populism, Meritocracy, and the Future of Italian Politics

  • Lorenzo De Rosa
  • and coauthor
Hynes, 2068:00–9:30am

Panel

The Social Production of Violence: Variation in Colombian Paramilitary Violence

The Social Dimensions of War and Post-Conflict Transitions

  • Elisabeth Jean Wood
  • Francisco Gutierrez Sanin IEPRI-Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Hynes, Hall A (Exhibit Hall, iPosters)9:30–10:00am

Poster

(iPoster) Mass Warfare and Political Extremism: The German Experience of WWI

Poster Session: Politics and History

  • Eran Rubinstein
Hynes, 30510:00–11:30am

Author Meets Critics

Author Meets Critics: Hélène Landemore (Yale), "Politics without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule"

  • Helene E. Landemore
Marriott, Orleans10:00–11:30am

Panel

Crisis Bargaining as a Dynamic Screening Process

Models of Information in International Relations

  • Noam Reich
Sheraton, Public Garden10:00–11:30am

Panel

Perception and the Uneven Regulation of Embodied Labor: Evidence from France

Reading Politics and Gender through Arts, Entertainment, and Athletics

  • Isabelle Mireille Aboaf
Marriott, Provincetown10:00–11:30am

Panel

Public Credit and Autocratic Rule

The Politics of Sovereign Finance and Central Banking

  • Didac Queralt
Sheraton, Back Bay Ballroom A11:30am–1:00pm

Panel

The Logic of Ideological Work in Autocracies

Cadre Control and Central-Local Politics

  • Jonathan Elkobi
Hynes, 30112:00–1:30pm

Author Meets Critics

Author Meets Critics: Gregory M. Collins, "Early Black Political Thought on American Civil Society"

  • Gregory Collins
Marriott, Salon B12:00–1:30pm

Roundtable

Crises of the Republic: Hannah Arendt and the Unfinished American Revolution

  • Seyla Benhabib
Marriott, Harvard12:00–1:30pm

Panel

The Political Economy of Local Journalism in India

From Local Voices to Political Beliefs in South Asia and Beyond

  • Adam Michael Auerbach
  • Sumitra Badrinathan American University
Hynes, 300 (Plenary)12:00–1:30pm

Panel

How Judicial Autonomy Facilitated the Autocratic Turn in Georgia

Law, Courts, and Autocratization in Global Perspective

  • Egor Lazarev
Westin, Adams Room12:00–1:30pm

Panel

Clarifying the Links between Nationalism, Patriotism, and Status Dissatisfaction

Nationalism and Compliance

  • Alexandra Mathieu
Sheraton, Fairfax A12:00–1:30pm

Panel

Political Conformity in America

Regime Consolidation and Durability

  • Bonnie Weir
  • Milan Svolik
Sheraton, Fairfax B12:00–1:30pm

Panel

Post-Roe Abortion Policy and Public Opinion in the U.S. State

Studying State Level Public Opinion

  • Natalie Ines Hernandez
Hynes, 1042:00–3:30pm

Panel

The Aesthetic Foundation for Philosophy and Politics in Plato's "Republic"

Judgment in Greek Political Thought

  • Serena Cho
Hynes, 1042:00–3:30pm

Panel

The Problem of the Rule of Law in Aeschylus’ "Oresteia"

Judgment in Greek Political Thought

  • Daniel Schillinger
Marriott, Salon A2:00–3:30pm

Panel

Procedural Politics in the U.S. Senate

Legislative Organization, Procedure, and Institutional Design

  • Kimberly Moxley
Westin, Baltic Room4:00–5:30pm

Roundtable

Archives and Political Science: An Underutilized Resource?

  • Emily A. Sellars
Hynes, 2024:00–5:30pm

Author Meets Critics

Author Meets Critics: Religion, Education, and Democracy in Africa – A Critical Dialogue on Two Books

  • Katharine A. Baldwin
Hynes, 1114:00–5:30pm

Panel

The Risks of Political Anxiety: Montesquieu on the Psychology of Freedom

Politics and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century

  • Skyler Goldberg
Westin, North Star Room4:00–5:30pm

Panel

The New Working Man’s Party? Populism and Redistribution in Mature Democracies

Responsiveness and the Shape of the Welfare State

  • Itay Machtei
  • Ayelen Vanegas Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Sheraton, Republic Ballroom A4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Unmaking the State: How Succession Conflicts Shaped State Building and Long-Run Political Development in Eurasia (1000-1800)

State Formation across Time and Space

  • Daniel Lowery
Marriott, Salon B4:00–5:30pm

Panel

Mission Command as a Theory of Bureaucracy

The Role of the Military in Modern Democracy

  • Victor C. Wu
  • Abraham A. Singer Loyola University Chicago

Sunday6 September12 events

Room · TimeSession
Marriott, Salon B8:00–9:30am

Panel

You're Fired: University Policies on Faculty Tenure and Termination

Academic Freedom as a Responsibility and a Right

  • Keith E. Whittington
  • Jocelyn Wilson Princeton University
Marriott, Nantucket8:00–9:30am

Panel

Gerrymandering and Geographic Polarization Have Reduced Electoral Competition

Drawing Electoral Maps: Consequences for Representation

  • Taran Samarth
  • Ethan Jasny University of Cambridge
  • Christopher Kenny Princeton University
  • Cory McCartan Pennsylvania State University
  • Tyler Simko University of Michigan
  • Michael Zhao Harvard University
  • Emma Ebowe College of William & Mary
  • Kosuke Imai Harvard University
Marriott, Salon J8:00–9:30am

Panel

Rival Donor: The Logic of Soviet Aid Allocation

Foreign Economic Policy

  • Yulia Kuzmina
Marriott, Simmons8:00–9:30am

Panel

Demobilization through Inaction: Bureaucratic Delay and Collective Action

Historical Political Economy of Democracy and Autocracy

  • Emily A. Sellars
  • and coauthor
Marriott, Salon A8:00–9:30am

Panel

The House Advantage: Institutional Design and Unequal Representation in Congress

Representation: Descriptive, Substantive, and Institutional

  • Jacob S. Hacker
  • Mackenzie Lockhart
  • George Agustin Markarain Loyola University, Chicago
  • Zoltan L. Hajnal University of California, San Diego
Hynes, 302 (Plenaries / Main Stage)8:00–9:30am

Panel

(Re)tethering the Administrative State to Democratic Practice

The Missing Pieces of Contemporary Democratic Theory

  • Zainab Firdausi
Hynes, 302 (Plenaries / Main Stage)8:00–9:30am

Panel

The Institutional Micro-Foundations of Political Ethics in Democracies

The Missing Pieces of Contemporary Democratic Theory

  • Niccolò Gismondi
Sheraton, Hampton8:00–9:30am

Panel

China’s Military Industrial Complex

The Return of the Military in Politics?

  • Daniel Mattingly
  • Natasha Rachman
Sheraton, Back Bay Ballroom A10:00–11:30am

Panel

School History Education and Attitudes toward Foreign Countries

Domestic Politics and International Security in Contemporary Asia

  • Soyoung Lee
  • Jeongmin Park Princeton University
Hynes, 20310:00–11:30am

Panel

Nationalism under Economic Adversity

Economic Drivers of Conflict and Political Instability

  • Maria Jose Hierro
  • Alberto Stefanelli
Marriott, Salon C10:00–11:30am

Panel

Office of Management and Budget Subunits and Presidential Administration

Executive-Legislative Relations

  • Gabriel T. Batista
Sheraton, Republic Ballroom A10:00–11:30am

Panel

Retrospective Voting and Blackouts in Italy

Populism

  • Lara Janelle Briggs

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