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 | ||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Why do security agents repress? Enforcement in hierarchical organizations
Gabriel Leon-Ablan, KCL |
Ideology, Electability, and Valence
Korhan Korcak, NYU Abu Dhabi |
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| Measuring Preferences over Redistribution Julia de Romémont, UCL |
Ethnic Minority British Election Study – feasibility pilot
Nicole Martin, University of Manchester |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Abdullah Yasir Atalan, American University |
Understanding Ideological Scales: Research Practices and Knowledge Accumulation in American Public Opinion Research
Philip Warncke, UNC Chapel Hill |
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| 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.
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)