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      • Survey of the New American Electorate Workshop
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      • Interest Groups, Policy Outcomes, and Representation in U.S. Politics Workshop
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      • 2018 PRINCETON CONFERENCE ON IDENTITY AND INEQUALITY >
        • Papers 2018 Identity and Inequality conference
      • Workshop on Candidates and Competition in American Elections
      • Workshop on Democracy in the US States
      • Politics and YouTube: The Next Big Social Network
      • Workshop on Lobbying and Institutional Performance
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      • Workshop on Wealth, Inequality, and Representation May 18, 2015
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      • MONEY IN POLITIC$ Conference May 16, 2014
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      • Identifying and Addressing Challenges in Survey Research May 1-2, 2014


CSDP Virtual Workshop
Interest Groups, Policy Outcomes,
​and Representation

in U.S. Politics
​

May 14, 2020
by invitation only
Zoom meeting details included in email invitation


​CO-ORGANIZERS:
Chuck Cameron, Jesse Crosson, and Gleason Judd


Times are Eastern Daylight Time

Papers are works-in-progress and are not for citation or distribution
​without authors' permission



11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panel 1: Campaign Contributions, Roll Call Voting, and Policy Outcomes                                                                                              
Keith Schnakenberg (Washington University in St. Louis) and Ian Turner (Yale University), "Transparency of Campaign Contributions"
discussant: Zhao Li (Princeton University)

Brandice Canes-Wrone (Princeton University) and Kenneth Miller (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), "Individual Donors and Legislative Voting in the U.S. House"
discussant: Peter Bils (Princeton University)


**Lunch Break**


1:00 p.m. — 2:15 p.m.
Panel 2: Interest Group Polarization and the Effects of Lobbying on Policymaking


Greg Sasso (Bocconi University) and Dan Alexander (University of Rochester), "Campaign Spending and Lobbying"
discussant: Sebastian Thieme (Princeton University)

Jesse Crosson (Princeton/CSDP and Trinity University), Alexander Furnas (University of Michigan), and Geoffrey Lorenz (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), "Polarized Pluralism in Historical Perspective"
discussant: Nolan McCarty (Princeton University)


**Coffee Break**


2:30 p.m. — 3:45 p.m.
Panel 3: Voter Accountability versus Interest Pressure in Legislatures


Peter Bils (Princeton), John Duggan (University of Rochester), and Gleason Judd (Princeton University), "Lobbying and Policy Extremism in Repeated Elections"
discussant: Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburgh)


Hye Young You (New York University), "Dynamic Lobbying"
discussant: Chuck Cameron (Princeton University)



Break: Ready your coffee or Happy Hour drink!


4:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Roundtable and Virtual Happy Hour

Theory and Data in Future Studies of Money and Policymaking
Participants: John de Figueiredo (Duke University), Richard Hall (University of Michigan), and Beth Leech (Rutgers University)
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