Program and Speakers

A PDF of the full program is now available here.

Conference Program Day 1
Conference Program Days 2 and 3

Keynote speakers:

Headshot of Kaushik Basu

Kaushik Basu, The Grammar of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management
Professor, Department of Economics
Cornell University

Headshot of Diana Mutz

Diana Mutz, The Implosion of the Public Sphere

Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication
Director, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics
University of Pennsylvania

Panels:

  • “Democratic Norms and Backsliding in Developing Democracies”
    • Diego Aycinena, University of Pennsylvania
    • Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester
    • Horacio Larreguy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
    • Michael Sweigart, Democracy International
  • “Polarization in Europe and the US”
    • Ryan Muldoon, University at Buffalo
    • Ryan Enos, Harvard University
    • Sahar Fard, The Ohio State University
    • Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University

Research Presentations:

  • Christoph Abels, University of Potsdam: “Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioral science to arrest democratic backsliding”
  • Seongjoon Ahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Mapping the Spectrum of Democratic Conceptions in the United States”
  • Chelsey Clark, Princeton University: “Politically polarized effects of US Supreme Court rulings to restrict abortion rights and ban affirmative action”
  • Loreto Cox, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: “Easier Said than Done: Citizens’ Stated and Revealed Democratic Commitment in Latin America”
  • Eric Groenendyk, Stony Brook University: “Democratic Norms and Belief Systems: An Examination of Support for Democracy in Canada”
  • Horacio Larreguy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México: “Polarization and Exposure to Counter-Attitudinal Media in a Non Democracy”
  • Giulia Maimone, University of California, Los Angeles: “Whoever is Not With Me is Against Me: The ‘Moderate as Out-Group’ Effect”
  • Nikos Nikiforakis, NYU Abu Dhabi: “Eliciting thresholds for collective behavior”
  • Karine Nyborg, University of Oslo: “Image preferences as a driver of normative polarization”
  • Folco Panizza, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca: “Measuring Norm Pluralism and Perceived Polarization in U.S. Politics”
  • Rebecca Saxe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “How rational inference about authority debunking can curtail, sustain or spread belief polarization”
  • Cesar Vargas Nunez, Stanford University: “The Role of Shared Political Ideology on Immigrant Attitudes”
  • Jan Voelkel, Cornell University: “Megastudy identifying effective treatments to strengthen Americans’ democratic attitudes”

Poster Presentations:

  • Lara Deniz Alper, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: “Dynamic Persuasion and Polarization”
  • Jordana Composto, Princeton University: “Leveraging GPT-4 to investigate the pervasiveness of norm information in news media”
  • Samuel Frederick, Columbia University: “Intra-Party Norms and Affective Polarization”
  • Chang Ge, University of Michigan: “Escalation and Polarization Spillovers”
  • Shaye-Ann Hopkins, Duke University: “Politricks: Teaching Political Tricks through Active and Passive Learning to Build Discernment”
  • Yujin Julia Jung, Mount St. Mary’s University: “Democratic Norm Violation in New Democracies: Political Punitivism in South Korea”
  • Jeremy Levy, University of California, Berkeley: “Ignorant, Hypocritical, and Selfish: Party Animosity and the Ideological Empathy Gap”
  • Bryce Morsky, Florida State University: “The Role of Scaling Laws in Democratic Societies: Impacts on Voting Outcomes and Policy Implications”
  • Brenda Ogutu, Busara Center for Behavioural Economics: “Understanding the Influence of Morally Framed Narratives on Civic Engagement in Kenya”
  • Paula Páez, DAI: “Promoting a Cultural Change for Integrity to Increase Trust in the Colombian State”
  • Lucy Page, University of Pittsburgh: “Reaching Across the Aisle: Does Affective Polarization Hinder Grassroots Climate Mobilization?”
  • Claire Robertson, New York University & University of Toronto: “The Overabundance of Extremity in the Online World: How Social Media Distorts Perceptions of Normative Political Opinions”
  • Christian Stindt, Hamburg University of Technology: “Strengthening Public Governance in Democracies: The Influence of Norm Sensitivities on Public Institutions’ Resilience to Financial Statement Fraud”
  • Lucas Woodley, Harvard University: “Restoring Electoral Confidence Among Republicans: Different Cues for Strong and Weak Partisans”
  • Federico Zimmerman, Harvard University: “Attraction to Politically Extreme Users on Social Media”