“Southern California Law and Social Sciences Forum 2016”

This will be another SOCLASS dynamite program:

Southern California Law and Social Sciences Forum 2016

Are We Entering an Era of Dysfunction in American Government?

If So, Can It Be Stopped?

 

Friday, March 18, 2016

University of California, San Diego

Co-Sponsored by UCSD’s Center for Tomorrow’s California

and The Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research

Location: Room 15A, The Village at Torrey Pines

 

 

9:00-9:15. Welcome Remarks, Thad Kousser

 

9:15-10:45. The State of Union: Performance of National Political Institutions

Chair: Lane Kenworthy (UCSD)

Discussant: Mona Vakilifathi (UCSD)

 

Charles Shipan (Michigan), with Richard J. Anderson and David Cottrell, “The Power to Appoint: Presidential Nominations and Change on the Supreme Court”

 

Betsy Sinclair (Washington University St. Louis), “Dynamic Congressional Approval: An ALT-ernative Approach”

 

Pamela McCann (USC Price), “House and Senate Negotiations and Policy Choice”

 

Jordan Peterson (USC), “The Outer Limits of Bureaucratic Neutrality: Private Financial Interests and Decision Making on the National Labor Relations Board”

 

 

11:00-12:30. Politics in an Age of Societal Division

Chair: Isaac Martin (UCSD)

Discussant: Amanda Hollis-Brusky (Pomona)

 

Ken Miller (Claremont-McKenna), “Polarization and the Administrative State”

 

Sarah Anderson (UC Santa Barbara), “Voters, Partisanship, and Legislative Compromise”

 

Don Dripps (USD Law), “Race and Crime in the 21st Century”

 

Rachel VanSickle-Ward (Pitzer), “Religion, Women and Health: Gender and Issue Framing in Hobby Lobby

 

1:00pm. Keynote Address and Discussion

Nate Persily (Stanford Law), “Political Polarization:  Sociological Causes and Institutional Solutions”

 

 

1:45-3:15pm. Laboratories for Reform: Will Changing Institutions Change Behavior?

Chair: Michael Ramsey (USD)

Discussant: Neil Malhotra (Stanford)

 

Abby Wood (USC Law) and Christian Grose (USC), “Campaign Finance Transparency Improves Legislative Candidate Performance at the Polls”

 

Seth Hill (UCSD), “Institution of Nomination and the Policy Ideology of Primary Electorates”

 

Andy Sinclair (NYU), “Tradeoffs in California’s Top-Two Primary”

 

Eric McGhee (Public Policy Institute of California), “Has the Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?”

 

 

3:30-5:00pm. Governing Diversity: Challenges and Solutions

Chair and Discussant: Marisa Abrajano (UCSD)

Discussant: Graeme Boushey (UCI)

 

Mila Sohoni (USD Law), “Crackdowns”

 

Jean Schroedel, Lily Rowen, and Roger Chin (Claremont Graduate University), “Whose Lives Matter? The Media’s Failure to Cover Police Shootings of Native Americans”

 

Allan Cobern (UC Riverside), “Immigrant Inclusion and Subfederal Citizenship in the United States”

 

  1. Morgan Kousser (Caltech), “Joaquin Avila’s Noble Dream:  The CVRA and the Integration of Local Government in California”

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