APSA Organized Section Awards

APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research Best Paper Award

We are now soliciting nominations for the Award for Best Paper Presented at the Previous Year's APSA featuring experimental analyses. As we did not have an organized section this year, the criteria for being nominated is simply that (a) the paper was presented at APSA and (b) that it features experimental analysis. Chairs and discussants are especially encouraged to nominate papers, but nominations from anyone who saw an interesting paper (as well as self-nominations) are welcome as well.

Please email a copy of the paper in .pdf format along with a brief sentence or two about why you are nominating the paper to all four members of the committee at the following email addresses: Joshua Tucker, Chair ( joshua.tucker@nyu.edu ); Rose McDermott (Rose_McDermott@brown.edu ); James Gibson ( jgibson@wustl.edu ) and Eric Dickson ( eric.dickson@nyu.edu ). Please include "APSA Experiments Best Paper Nomination" in the subject heading of your email. Nominations will be accepted through May 1, 2011.


APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research Best Dissertation Award

The APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research invites nominations for the 2010 Best Dissertation prize (selection committee: Sean Gailmard (chair), Bethany Albertson, Shana Gadarian, Nick Valentino). Eligible nominees will have completed a dissertation in the 2010 calendar year that utilizes experimental methods on substantive political science research, or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods. Nominations should come from faculty members but they need not be on the student‚s dissertation committee. Nominations are due April 1, 2011 and should be emailed to Sean Gailmard, gailmard@berkeley.edu .


APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research Best Book Award

For the best book published in 2010 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics. A copy of the book should be sent to each member of the selection committee at the addresses provided below no later than April 1, 2011.

Ted Brader (chair)
Center for Political Studies
University of Michigan
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Macartan Humphreys
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
728 IAB Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027

Susan Hyde
Department of Political Science
Yale University
PO Box 208301
77 Prospect Street, C120
New Haven, CT 06520-8301

Ismail White
Department of Political Science
The Ohio State University
2018 Derby Hall
154 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

Stanford University Summer Institue in Political Psychology

THE 2011 SUMMER INSTITUTE IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Stanford University from July 10 – July 29, 2011

Applications are being accepted now for the 19th Annual Summer Institute in Political Psychology, to be held at Stanford University July 10-29, 2011. The SIPP program takes up to 60 participants and is filling up, and there are still some spots available.

The Summer Institute offers 3 weeks of intensive training in political psychology. Political psychology is an exciting and thriving field that explores the origins of political behavior and the causes of political events, with a special focus on the psychological mechanisms at work.

Research findings in political psychology advance basic theories of politics and are an important basis for political decision-making in practice.

SIPP was founded in 1991 at Ohio State University, and Stanford has hosted SIPP since 2005, with support from Stanford University and from the National Science Foundation. Hundreds of participants have attended SIPP during these years.

The 2011 SIPP curriculum is designed to (1) provide broad exposure to theories, empirical findings, and research traditions; (2) illustrate successful cross-disciplinary research and integration; (3) enhance methodological pluralism; and (4) strengthen networks among scholars from around the world.

SIPP activities will include lectures by world-class faculty, discussion groups, research/interest group meetings, group projects, and an array of social activities.

Some of the topics covered in past SIPP programs include race relations, conflict and dispute resolution, voting and elections, international conflict, decision-making by political elites, moral disengagement and violence, social networks, activism and social protest, political socialization, and justice.

In 2011, SIPP will accept up to 60 participants, including graduate students, faculty, professionals, and advanced undergraduates.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/sipp

Applicants are accepted on a rolling basis until all slots are filled, so applying soon maximizes chances of acceptance.

2008 National Annenberg Election Survey Online Data Now Available on APPC web site

The National Annenberg Election Survey 2008 Online Edition (NAES08-Online) is now available to academic scholars on the Annenberg Public Policy web site. NAES08-Online is a is a 5-wave large-scale public opinion panel survey conducted via the Internet and designed to track the dynamics of political attitudes, perceptions, and behavior over the 2008 US primary and general presidential election campaigns. It is a companion to the National Annenberg Election Survey 2008 Phone Edition (NAES08-Phone), a telephone-based survey that was conducted during an overlapping field period and asked many of the same or comparable questions.

NAES08-Online consists of interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 28,985 respondents, covering a range of topics about the presidential campaign and politics generally, including candidates and political figures, current policy issues, media use, campaign discourse, political participation, and voting behavior. A section of questions about social groups focused on perceptions of race and gender in US society.

The main set of interviewing was conducted from October 2007 through January 2009, and the majority of respondents were interviewed multiple times during this period. Interviewing was segmented into five multi-month waves, corresponding to the major divisions of the campaign: pre-primary, primary election, spring and summer, general election, and post-election. All participants in a wave were invited to be reinterviewed for all subsequent waves; among the 28,985 NAES08-Online respondents, 23,033 participated in at least two NAES waves, and 10,472 participated in all five NAES waves.

Respondents also participated in up to two profile waves to provide demographic and other background information.

If you are affiliated with an academic institution you are eligible to download the NAES data. To access these important and relevant data, go to the Annenberg Public Policy Center web site, www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org register, and click on “Data Sets†onthe left-hand side of the home page.

64th Annual WAPOR Conference--Call for Papers

Dear WAPOR Members,

We are happy to announce that plans are underway for the 64th Annual WAPOR Conference being held 21-23 September 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The topic of the conference is "Public Opinion and the Internet." The Call for Papers for the conference, including topics of research and submission details, can be found here:

http://wapor.unl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/WAPOR2011CFP.pdf


Abstract deadline: 1 March 2011


Please note that this year organizers are accepting both regular paper proposals as well as panel proposals. The call for papers provides further information. We would ask that you disseminate the call to colleagues or listservs that might have interest in the conference. We hope to see you in Amsterdam!



Warm regards,

Renae

WAPOR



Renae Reis, MPA
Executive Coordinator
WAPOR
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