7:00am – 8:00am

Breakfast (individually packaged)

8:00am – 9:30am

Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Bernard Grofman

Session Chair: Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer: Bonnie Wilson

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Implications of Soundness-Dependent Effects for Interventions in the Replication Crisis
Presenter: Aydin Mohseni
Discussant: Marek Kaminski

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Primacy effects in proportional representation and single-member district elections
Presenter: Marek Kaminski
Discussant: Aydin Mohseni

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Redistricting: Squaring the Circle of Seemingly Incompatible Legal Standards
Presenter: Bernard Grofman

Virginia Political Economy II: Institutional Processes

Session Chair: Richard Wagner
Session Organizer: Richard Wagner

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Foregone and Superfluous Innovation
Presenter: Marta Podemska-Mikluch
Discussant: Alexander Taylor

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Public Opinion: An Entangled Reconstruction
Presenter: Alexander Taylor
Discussant: Marta Podemska-Mikluch

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The Vitality of Animal Spirits for Market Economies
Presenter: Sarah Moore
Discussant: Meg Patrick Tuszynski

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"Beyond Markets and Governments: Fitting the Third Sector into the Entangled Political Economy Framework"
Presenter: Meg Patrick Tuszynski
Discussant: Sarah Moore

Subnational Economic Development

Session Chair: Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer: Daniel Bennett

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Immigration and Economic Freedom of the US States: Does Time in the US Matter?
Presenter: Alexandre Padilla
Co-Author(s): Nicolás Cachanosky; Dean Stansel; Meg Tuszynski
Discussant: Gary Wagner

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The Political Economy of State Economic Development Incentives
Presenter: Gary Wagner
Co-Author(s): Russell S. Sobel; Peter T. Calcagno
Discussant: Alexandre Padilla

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Do Perceived Obstacles Deter Innovation Efforts of Firms? Micro-Evidence from India
Presenter: Nabamita Dutta
Co-Author(s): Hamid Beladi; Saibal Kar
Discussant: Daniel Bennett

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Regional Innovation Networks & High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Gary Wagner
Discussant: Nabamita Dutta

State Capacity

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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The foundation of English state capacity and economic growth: King Alfred and the Vikings
Presenter: Nathaniel Smith
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Vasyl Kvartiuk

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Institutional quality and liberal land reforms acceptance: The case of Ukrainian land reform
Presenter: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Co-Author(s): Deininger, Klaus
Discussant: Clemens Buchen

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Institutional reform paths
Presenter: Clemens Buchen
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nathaniel Smith

Voting

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Strategic voting and strategic abstention in iterative multi-candidate elections
Presenter: Fabricio Vasselai
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Dmitriy Vorobyev

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Participation Quorum when Voting is Costly
Presenter: Dmitriy Vorobyev
Co-Author(s): Matveenko, Andrei; Valei, Azamat
Discussant: Fabricio Vasselai

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Iterative Calculus of Voting under Plurality
Presenter: Fabricio Vasselai
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman

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A Rational Way to Shrink a Set of Candidates to Any Specified Size
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Fabricio Vasselai

Social Order

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Similes cum Similibus: How Shared Characteristics Shape Election and Policy Outcomes
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): Bromo, Francesco
Discussant: Mats Ekman

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Why Matriliny?
Presenter: Mats Ekman
Co-Author(s): Ekman, Mats (sole author)
Discussant: FREDERIC KELLOGG

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De Gustibus et Conflictu Socialis: Fixed Preferences and Social Conflict
Presenter: FREDERIC KELLOGG
Co-Author(s): Dr. Brian E. Butler
Discussant: Jhonatan Saldana Diaz

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Do we need prospect theory to explain politics and conflict?
Presenter: Jhonatan Saldana Diaz
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden

Corruption

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Corruption accusations and bureaucratic performance: Evidence from Pakistan
Presenter: Ummad Mazhar
Co-Author(s): Iftikhar, Komal
Discussant: Slade Mendenhall

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Scandal
Presenter: Slade Mendenhall
Co-Author(s): Joshua Ingber
Discussant: Julien Hanoteau

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Does e-procurement reduce firm corruption to secure public contracts?
Presenter: Julien Hanoteau
Co-Author(s): Barkemeyer Ralf; Jimenez Alfredo
Discussant: Van Ha Le

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Unreported income by government employees in Vietnam: Estimation and Verification
Presenter: Van Ha Le
Co-Author(s): I am the single author
Discussant: Ummad Mazhar

War and War Gaming

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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The Continuing Debate on Military Conscription
Presenter: Mark Crain
Co-Author(s): Nicole Crain
Discussant: Edwar Escalante

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When Women fight Wars
Presenter: Edwar Escalante
Co-Author(s): Escalante, Edwar
Discussant: Yahya Alshamy

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Defense and Governance in Stateless Pre-Islamic Mecca
Presenter: Yahya Alshamy
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Garrett Wood

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The Robust Political Economy of Wargaming
Presenter: Garrett Wood
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Mark Crain

10:00am – 11:20am

Plenary Session: Bart J. Wilson "The Property Species"

Session Chair: William Shughart
Session Organizer: William Shughart

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Plenary Talk: Bart J. Wilson "The Property Species"
Presenter: Bart Wilson

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Roundtable on Shared Mental Models: Kyklos Symposium in Honor of Douglass C. North

Session Chair: Ravi Roy
Session Organizer: Arthur Denzau

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Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
Presenter: William Shughart
Discussant: Michael Munger

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Shared Belief Systems, The “Basic Space,” and the Constrained Nature of Rationality in Judging Institutions
Presenter: Michael Munger
Discussant: Ronil Hira

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Outsourcing: A case of Shared Mental Models in conflict
Presenter: Ronil Hira
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: William Shughart

Rent Seeking and Rent Creation

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Estimating the Impact of Rent-Seeking on Income Distribution
Presenter: Stephen Miller
Co-Author(s): Melo, Vitor
Discussant: Kaori Hasegawa

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IIdentity Loss and Rent-Seeking in Gender Categories in Japan
Presenter: Kaori Hasegawa
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Mohammad Qadam Shah

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The Politics of Budgetary Capture in Fragile States: Who Gets What When and How in Afghanistan
Presenter: Mohammad Qadam Shah
Co-Author(s): Qadam Shah, Mohammad
Discussant: Peter Hazlett

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Bureaucratic Rent Creation: The Case of Price Discrimination in the Market for Postsecondary Education
Presenter: Peter Hazlett
Co-Author(s): Chandler Reilly
Discussant: Stephen Miller

Russia

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Russian Merger Control: in Favor of Foreign Companies?
Presenter: Anastasiia Redkina
Co-Author(s): Jardon, Carlos; Molodchik, Mariia
Discussant: Vasyl Kvartiuk

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Does it pay to be a regional MP in Russia? Regulatory capture in Russian agricultural subsidization
Presenter: Vasyl Kvartiuk
Co-Author(s): Herzfeld, Thomas
Discussant: Justin Callais

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Is Putin’s Russia Really a Normal Country? A Synthetic Control Approach
Presenter: Justin Callais
Co-Author(s): Martin, Adam
Discussant: Scott King

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An Economic Theory of Personality Cults
Presenter: Scott King
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Anastasiia Redkina

Regulation and Health

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Condoning More Codones: Florida's Opioid Trafficking Law and Opioid Mortality
Presenter: Eunsik Chang
Co-Author(s): solo authored
Discussant: Arijit Ray

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Is providing contraceptives without doctor's prescription effective in reducing foster care admission?
Presenter: Arijit Ray
Co-Author(s): Ray, Arijit.
Discussant: Audrey Redford

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The Impact of Drug-Induced Homicide Laws on Unintentional Drug Overdose Rates
Presenter: Audrey Redford
Co-Author(s): Angela K. Dills; Kathleen M. Sheehan
Discussant: Moiz Bhai

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The Effects of Occupational Licensing Reform on Children's Health
Presenter: Moiz Bhai
Co-Author(s): Mitch Mitchell
Discussant: Eunsik Chang

Past Presidents

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Political Preferences and Public Policy
Presenter: Randall Holcombe
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Roger Congleton

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Assessing the Impacts of Publications: Readership and Citations as Alternative Measures of Impact
Presenter: Roger Congleton
Co-Author(s): Alex Marsella (WVU) and Alexander J Cardazzi (WVU)
Discussant: Edward Lopez

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Feuding, Credible Commitments, and the Blessings of an Independent Judiciary: The Diet of Worms and the Creation of the Imperial Chamber Court
Presenter: Georg Vanberg
Co-Author(s): Broman, Benjamin
Discussant: Randall Holcombe

Regulation in the Large

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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A 50 State Review of Regulatory Procedures
Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Baugus, Brian; Broughel, James
Discussant: Robert Loveland

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Deregulation, Listing and Delisting
Presenter: Robert Loveland
Co-Author(s): Mulherin, J. Harold; Okoeguale, Kevin
Discussant: Donghyuk Kim

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Economic Spillovers and Political Payoffs in Government Competition for Firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War
Presenter: Donghyuk Kim
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Bruno Buscariolli

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Firm-level Impacts of Pro-Market Reforms: Latin America as a Laboratory
Presenter: Bruno Buscariolli
Co-Author(s): Carneiro, Jorge; Dau, Luis; Moore, Elizabeth
Discussant: Sean Mulholland

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Don't TREAD on anyone
Presenter: Sean Mulholland
Co-Author(s): Mulholland, Sean
Discussant: Feler Bose

2:40pm – 4:10pm

Political Capitalism

Session Chair: Mehrdad Vahabi
Session Organizer: Mehrdad Vahabi

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Political capitalism under the Islamic Republic of Iran
Presenter: Mehrdad Vahabi
Discussant: Miklos Rosta

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Political capitalism in the French heath system: the welfare state against the citizens' health
Presenter: Philippe Batifoulier
Co-Author(s): Nicolas Da Silva
Discussant: Judit Kalman

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Predatory capitalism. Understanding property rights in hybrid regimes
Presenter: Miklos Rosta
Discussant: Mehrdad Vahabi

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Unemployment Policy as Predation - Public Works Program in Hungary
Presenter: Judit Kalman
Discussant: Nicolas Da Silva

Political Economy and Development

Session Chair: Justin Callais
Session Organizer: Kevin Grier

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Lies, Damned Lies, and (Corrupt) Statistics: Corruption and Statistical Quality
Presenter: Justin Callais
Discussant: Israt Jahan

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Do Longer Constitutions Corrupt?
Presenter: Israt Jahan
Co-Author(s): Jamie Bologna
Discussant: Linan Peng

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Did the Northeast Area Revitalization Plan Work? A Multiple Synthetic Control Analysis
Presenter: Linan Peng

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Freedom and Growth Hand in Hand? Evidence from Bangladesh
Presenter: Towhid Mahmood
Discussant: Justin Callais

Occupational Licensing

Session Chair: Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer: Bonnie Wilson

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Scope of Practice Effects on the Prescription of Opioids by Nurse Practitioners Serving Medicare Beneficiaries
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons

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Is licensing disproportionally impeding veteran entrepreneurship?
Presenter: Sriparna Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Connor Norris
Discussant: Alicia Plemmons

Polycentricity

Session Chair: Marianne Johnson
Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Polycentric Defense in the Civil Rights Movement
Presenter: Nathan Goodman
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Alexander Schaefer

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The Problem of Complexity and the Emergence of Polycentric Political Order
Presenter: Alexander Schaefer
Co-Author(s): Daems, Dries
Discussant: Thomas Choate

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Policy conflict and the distribution of government capacity
Presenter: Thomas Choate
Co-Author(s): n/a
Discussant: Marianne Johnson

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Elinor Ostrom on Working Together
Presenter: Marianne Johnson
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nathan Goodman

Parliaments and Judges

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Informativeness vs. Responsiveness: An Endogenous Legislative Trade-off
Presenter: Benjamin Ogden
Co-Author(s): n/a
Discussant: Adrian Lucardi

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Resignation as Promotion? Assessing Patterns of Early Departure in the Argentine Congress, 1983-2017
Presenter: Adrian Lucardi
Co-Author(s): Micozzi, Juan Pablo; Skigin, Natan
Discussant: Gabriel Benzecry

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The representatives of the people? Collective action in Brazil’s Constituent Assembly
Presenter: Gabriel Benzecry
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Seana Sugrue

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Is It Time to Reconsider Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices?
Presenter: Seana Sugrue
Co-Author(s): none
Discussant: Benjamin Ogden

New Books - Author Talks

Session Chair: Edward Lopez
Session Organizer: Edward Lopez

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Author Remarks on "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make you Rich"
Presenter: Art Carden
Co-Author(s): Deirdre McCloskey

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Author Remarks on "Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions"
Presenter: Benjamin Powell
Co-Author(s): Alex Nowrasteh

4:20pm – 5:50pm

Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Steven Brams

Session Chair: Marek Kaminski
Session Organizer: Bonnie Wilson

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Strategic games and hidden incentives in Formula 1 racing
Presenter: Brian Kaiser
Discussant: Ugurcan Evci

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Comparing plurality rule against Borda count on the basis of their majoritarian axioms
Presenter: Jac Heckelman
Discussant: Brian Kaiser

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Reflections on Political Paradoxes
Presenter: Steven Brams

Institutions & Entrepreneurship

Session Chair: Daniel Bennett
Session Organizer: Daniel Bennett

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The Burden of Occupational Licensing at the Local Level
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Co-Author(s): Sriparna Ghosh; Dean Stansel

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Legitimate Ink: Licensing and Entry in the Tattooing Industry
Presenter: Fabian Diaz
Co-Author(s): Maria Minniti
Discussant: Alicia Plemmons

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When does entrepreneurship create lasting firms?
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Co-Author(s): Nikolai Foss; Chloe Xu
Discussant: Daniel Bennett

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Institutions and Entrepreneurial Action: The Mediating Role of Socio-Cognitive Traits
Presenter: Daniel Bennett
Co-Author(s): Christopher Boudreaux; David Lucas; Boris Nikolaev
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov

Macroeconomic Policies

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Chinese Development Lending & the Amplification Effect
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Pierre Mandon

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Has the Literature Highlighted Evidence that Chinese Official Financing Benefited Recipient Countries? Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
Presenter: Pierre Mandon
Co-Author(s): Woldemichael, Martha Tesfaye
Discussant: Toshihiro Ihori

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Environmental quality, dirty consumption and abatement attempts in an inequality economy
Presenter: Toshihiro Ihori
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Ernesto del Castillo

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The Sustainability of Mexican Municipalities Debt
Presenter: Ernesto del Castillo
Co-Author(s): René Cabral Torres; Eduardo Saucedo de la Fuente
Discussant: Greg Caskey

How Should Ranked-Choice Votes be Counted?

Session Organizer: Nicolaus Tideman

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Is Dodgson's Proposal the Answer to Residual Strategic Vulnerability under Condorcet-Hare?
Presenter: James Green-Armytage

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Can Public Officials Understand and Accept the Ranked Pairs Rule?
Presenter: Tyler Caraza-Harter
Discussant: John Moser

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What Happens When a Candidate Knocks on Doors Advocating the Ranked Pairs Rule?
Presenter: John Moser

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A Report from the Field: The Case for an Open Primary and a Top Five IRV Run-Off
Presenter: Katherine Gehl

Meta Public Choice

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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Tacit collusion in politics
Presenter: Anders Kärnä
Co-Author(s): Christian Johansson; Jaakko Meriläinen
Discussant: Pierre Rafih

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The Impact of Welfare Chauvinism on the Results of Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany after the Refugee Crisis
Presenter: Pierre Rafih
Co-Author(s): Bartholomae, Florian; Nam, Chang Woon
Discussant: Rick Raddatz

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Meta Public Choice: a Five-Economy Model of Society
Presenter: Rick Raddatz
Co-Author(s): Single-author paper
Discussant: Martin Paldam

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The Democratic Transition – the Story of the Long Run
Presenter: Martin Paldam
Co-Author(s): none
Discussant: Anders Kärnä

Immigration, Trade and Slavery

Session Organizer: Public Choice Society President

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When Fievel Can’t Go West: Immigration Restrictions and Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Joshua Bedi
Co-Author(s): Jia, Shaomeng
Discussant: Jon Murphy

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Rethinking the National Defense Exception to Free Trade: An Analysis using the Jones Act and Defense Production Act
Presenter: Jon Murphy
Co-Author(s): Goodman, Nathan
Discussant: Phil Magness

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The Economics of Slavery: A Tullockian Assessment
Presenter: Phil Magness
Co-Author(s): Art Carden; Ilia Murtazashvili
Discussant: Matteo Pazzona

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Migrants’ Diversity and Team’s Performance
Presenter: Matteo Pazzona
Co-Author(s): Addesa, Francesco; Rossi, Giambattista
Discussant: Joshua Bedi

The Political Economy of Cultural Assimilation

Session Chair: Greg Caskey
Session Organizer: Greg Caskey

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Ethnogenesis and Statelessness
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Vincent Geloso
Discussant: Greg Caskey

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State Capacity and Predation: The Case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Presenter: Greg Caskey
Co-Author(s): Murtazashvili, Ilia
Discussant: Ilia Murtazashvili

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Trail of Tears: The Political Economy of Cultural Assimilation
Presenter: Ilia Murtazashvili
Co-Author(s): Gregory W. Caskey
Discussant: Linan Peng

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Did the Policies in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Lead to Higher Development and Social Compliance? A Synthetic Control Analysis
Presenter: Linan Peng
Co-Author(s): Justin Callais
Discussant: Louis Rouanet

5:00pm – 9:00pm

Cocktail Reception