PolMeth Europe 2023

19/20 June 2023, King's College London, London


About

The PolMeth Europe takes place on 19-20 June 2023 at King's College London. It brings together junior and senior scholars interested in innovative research methods and their applications. The conference follows the well-established PolMeth format: Faculty and postdocs have the opportunity to present papers and receive in-depth feedback. PhD students present their research in poster format, with abundant opportunity for input from more senior colleagues. The conference will be held as an in-person event. After two successful events with in online and hybrid mode we will finally all meet in person in London. We want to enable in-person networking among data-driven political scientists on the old continent to strengthen the community of like-minded scholars.

Registration

Registration is now closed. The registration deadline for presenters of papers/posters was at Midnight (BST) on 31 May 2023. The registration deadline for all other participants was at Midnight (BST) on 11 June 2023. The registration fee for senior scholars, who are non-PolMeth members is £90. Registration for PolMeth members is £20. PhD students and early career scholars can register for free.

To register, navigate to the KCL eStore and choose the appropriate category to effectuate your payment.

Programme

Timetable



Monday, 19 June 2023


Time Description
10:00 - 11:00 Registration
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 1: Optimal multi-action treatment allocation: A two-phase field experiment to boost immigrant naturalization
Speaker: Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich)
Location: Bush House (NE) 0.01 - Lecture Theatre 3 (Level 0)
12:00 - 13:30 Poster Session 1 (Lunch available from 12:30)
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
13:30 - 15:45 Parallel Sessions A1 and B1
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) / Bush House (NE) 1.04 (The Exchange)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
16:15 - 18:30 Parallel Sessions A2 and B2
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) / Bush House (NE) 1.04 (The Exchange)
18:30 - 21:00 Drinks reception and conference buffet dinner (from 19:00)
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)



Tuesday, 20 June 2023


Time Description
09:30 - 11:45 Parallel Sessions A3 and B3
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) / Bush House (NE) 1.04 (The Exchange)
11:45 - 12:15 Coffee break
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
12:15 - 13:45 Poster Session 2 (Lunch available from 12:30)
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
13:45 - 14:45 Keynote 2: The Perils of Fixed Effects
Speaker: Vera Troeger (University of Hamburg)
Location: Bush House (NE) 0.01 - Lecture Theatre 3 (Level 0)
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee break
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
15:15 - 17:30 Parallel Sessions A4 and B4
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) / Bush House (NE) 1.04 (The Exchange)
17:30 - 17:45 Closing remarks
Location: Main Exhibition Space (The Exchange)
18:00 - 20:00 Informal drinks



Detailed Conference Programme

Keynote Speakers


Dominik Hangartner, ETH Zürich
Vera Troeger, University of Hamburg




Monday, 19 June 2023 - Panel Sessions

Parallel A Parallel B
Session 1 (13:30-15:45) Session 1 (13:30-15:45)
Advances in Measurement Methods Advances in Political Methodology
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) Location: Bush House (NE) 1.04 (the Exchange)
Chair: Ruben Ruiz-Rufino Chair: Sebastian Koehler
Taking Cross-Sectional Dependence Seriously
Allyson Benton, University of Essex
SyGNet: Synthetic Data for the Social Sciences using Deep Learning
Thomas Robinson, LSE
Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies
Robert Kubinec, NYU Abu Dhabi

A Local Projections Approach to Difference-in-Differences Event Studies

Daniele Girardi, KCL and UMass Amherst
A new Bayesian scaling approach to party position and issue salience
Chendi Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Regularization Methods: Prediction versus Theory in Practice
Jeff Gill, American University
Measuring Corruption using Randomise Response Theory
Felipe Torres Raposo, University College London
Semiparametric Neural Networks for Time-Series Cross-Section Data
Kilian Seng, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
Session 2 (16:15-18:30) Session 2 (16:15-18:30)
Migration and Discrimination Methods for Speech and Emotions Analysis
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) Location: Bush House (NE) 1.04 (the Exchange)
Chair: Tugba Bozcaga Chair: Sebastian Koehler
Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration
Gloria Gennaro, UCL
Is it all cheap talk? The effects of international climate agreements on domestic political debates
Christine Sylvester, University of Strathclyde
Internal Migration and the Spatial Distribution of Political Preferences
Moritz Marbach, UCL
Speech is Silver, Silence is Gold: Trade-offs Between Local and Collective Representation
Oda Nedregard, BI Norwegian Business School
Mobilising migrants: how effective are social media campaigns in increasing political participation among mobile EU citizens?
Katharina Lawall, Royal Holloway
Can emotions explain how threat rhetoric shapes preferences for freedom versus security?
Sandra Morgenstern, University of Mannheim
Shielding Voters? How Partisanship Shapes the Placement of Refugee Housing Facilities
Sascha Riaz, Oxford University
Elite Cues and Mass Non-compliance
Zachary Dickson, LSE




Tuesday, 20 June 2023 - Panel Sessions

Parallel A Parallel B
Session 1 (09:30-11:45) Session 1 (09:30-11:45)
Methods for understanding conflict and competition Gender and Representation
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) Location: Bush House (NE) 1.04 (the Exchange)
Chair: Gabriel Leon-Ablan Chair: Mona Morgan-Collins
According to Whom? A Comparison of Conflict Data Across Time and Space
Nicholas Haas, University of Aarhus
Are Female Politicians Attacked More than Males, and Why? Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
Massimo Pulejo, University of Milan and CLEAN
Salience strategies in a formal model of party competition
Anna-Sophie Kurella, University of Mannheim
Leading by Example: How Suffragists Facilitated the Mobilization of Women into Politics
Mona Morgan-Collins, KCL
Why do security agents repress? Enforcement in hierarchical organizations
Gabriel Leon-Ablan, KCL
Ideology, Electability, and Valence
Korhan Korcak, NYU Abu Dhabi
Measuring Preferences over Redistribution
Julia de Romémont, UCL
Ethnic Minority British Election Study – feasibility pilot
Nicole Martin, University of Manchester
Session 2 (15:15-17:30) Session 2 (15:15-17:30)
Elections and Causal Inference Advances in Experimental Methods
Location: Bush House (NE) 1.02 (the Exchange) Location: Bush House (NE) 1.04 (the Exchange)
Chair: Damien Bol Chair: Sebastian Koehler
Malapportionment at play: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Ignacio Lago, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Visual Conjoint: A New Solution for Social Desirability Bias
Rachel Bernhard, University of Oxford
Berlinguer I Love You (Still): the Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting
Riccardo di Leo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Detecting Preference Cycles in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments
Scott Abramson, University of Rochester
Cross-country comparison of Incumbency Advantage: the need for bounds and evidence from 19 countries
Leandro de Magalhaes, University of Bristol
Implausible Profiles in Conjoint Experiments: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and Recommendations for Applied Research
Franziska Quoß, ETH Zürich
Can political fiscal cycles be stopped? Evidence from a public spending ban near elections
Nelson Ruiz, University of Essex
PDF2DATA: A Tool For Extracting Information from PDF Documents
Laurence Brandenberger, ETH Zurich



Poster Sessions

Session 1 - 19 June 2023, 12:00-13:30 Session 2 - 20 June 2023, 12:15-13:45
Estimating Politically Expressive Preference with Context-Aware Named Entities
David (Yen-Chieh) Liao, Aarhus University
Vertical vs Horizontal Polarisation: Untangling Feelings Towards Elites and Voters
João Areal, University of Mannheim
Ideological Polarization, Political Donations and Twitter: Evidence from North Carolina
Alberto Parmigiani, LSE
The Formation of Political Attitudes: Causal Evidence From an Early Childhood Intervention
Julian Heid, LMU Munich
Information about corruption and voting behaviour: Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany
Julian Voss, University of Osnabrück
All Shades of Green: Chromatic Variation and Political Alignment in European Green Parties
Dafni Kalatzi Pantera, University of Essex

Abdullah Yasir Atalan, American University
Understanding Ideological Scales: Research Practices and Knowledge Accumulation in American Public Opinion Research
Philip Warncke, UNC Chapel Hill
Using Generative Language Models for Out-of-Domain Text Classification in Political Science
Maksim Zubok, Oxford University
The Passion vs. Content Trade-Off in Political Speech: A Computational Analysis of Video Recordings of Parliamentary Debates
Oliver Rittmann, University of Mannheim

Location

The conference will be held in the heart of London in the North East Wing of Bush House on the Strand Campus of King's College London. The Strand Campus of King's is conveniently located roughly in the middle between the Holborn tube station in the North (Central and Piccadilly Lines) and Temple tube station (Circle and District Lines) in the South.

Many of London's most famous places and tourist attraction are in walking distance from the campus.


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Getting to King's

From the airports


Airport
Heathrow Take the Picadilly Line to Holborn Station.
Gatwick Take the train to London Blackfriars Station (BFR) and either walk from there or ride one stop on the District/Circle Line until Temple Station.
City Airport Take the DLR to Bank. From there, take the District/Circle Line until Temple station.
Luton Take the train from Luton Airport Parkway until London Blackfriars Station (BFR). Walk from there or ride one stop on the Disctrict/Circle Line to Temple station.
Stansted Take the train to London Liverpool Street station. From there, take the Central Line until Holborn station.



From the train stations


Station
King's Cross/St. Pancras Take the Picadilly Line to Holborn station.
Waterloo Station Walk across Waterloo Bridge or take the Northern/Bakerloo line to Embankment and change there for the Disctrict/Circle Line to Temple station.
Victoria Station Take the Circle or District Line to Temple Station.
Liverpool Street Station Take the Circle Line to Holborn Station.
Euston Take the Northern Line to Embankment and change there to the Circle or District Line to Temple station.
Paddington Take the Circle Line to Temple station.



London Tube Map




Accommodation

Call for Papers

Call for Papers/Posters: PolMeth Europe Meeting 2023

Date: 19 - 20 June 2023
Location: King's College London, London, UK
Deadline for proposals: 07th March 2023 (extended!)
Notification of acceptance: 07th April 2023 (date changed due to extension of submission deadline)

Please submit your abstract and join us in London in June 2023 for the 3rd PolMeth Europe meeting.

For the first time, the PolMeth Europe Conference will be held in person.

PolMeth Europe brings together junior and senior scholars interested in innovative research methods and their applications. The conference follows the well-established PolMeth format: Faculty and postdocs have the opportunity to present papers and receive in-depth feedback. PhD students present their research in poster format, with abundant opportunity for input from more senior colleagues. We welcome proposals that focus on methodological innovations as well as work that applies cutting-edge empirical methods to substantive questions from all subfields. We particularly encourage submissions that reflect the diversity of the profession in terms of backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Please submit your paper and poster proposals including a title and an extended abstract (max. 500 words) until February 28th 2023 using the following form.

If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers at polmeth-europe@protonmail.com . You can find more information about the event, the venue, and the programme here.

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions.

Participation for early career (within 3 years of PhD) and PhD members of the Society for Political Methodology  will be free of charge. All other participants will be charged a EUR 100.00 participation fee. Limited travel bursaries will be made available (priority will be given to early career scholars and non-tenured faculty). 

KCL

King's College London is one of the top 35 universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2022) and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 29,600 students (of whom nearly 11,700 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,000 staff.


King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) King’s was ranked 6th in the UK, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.


King’s College London was founded in 1829 and became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836. King’s has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.King's College London is one of the top 35 universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2022) and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 29,600 students (of whom nearly 11,700 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,000 staff.

Read more about King's at the website of the University of London or the KCL website.

Organizing Committee

Konstantinos Matakos (KCL)
Raluca Pahontu (KCL)
Hanna Kleider (KCL)
Francesca Vantaggiato (KCL)
Damien Bol (KCL)
Sebastian Koehler (KCL)
Rubén Ruiz-Rufino (KCL)
Matia Vannoni (KCL)
Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Sofia Vasilopoulou (KCL)
Mona Morgan-Collins (KCL)
Gabriel Leon-Ablan (KCL)
Christel Koop (KCL)
Barbara Piotrowska (KCL)