Organizers:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Session Chairs:

Peter Coughlin, University of Maryland

Papers:

"Probabilistic and Spatial Models of Voting"
Peter Coughlin, University of Maryland (Contact Author)

"Scoring Rule Lotteries with Multiple Winners"
Frederick Chen, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)
Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

"Evaluating Voting Rules by Their Probability of Success: An Empirical Analysis"
T. Nicolaus Tideman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Florenz Plassmann, State University of New York at Binghamton

"Uniformly Bounded Information and Social Choice"
Donald E. Campbell, The College of William and Mary
Jerry S. Kelly, Syracuse University

Discussants:

Lingfang (Ivy) Li, University of Louisville
Bryan McCannon, Wake Forest University
Helena Poon, Georgetown University
Yong J. Yoon, George Mason University

Session Chairs:

Sebastian Miller, University of Maryland

Papers:

"Simple Policy Positions"
Micah Pollak, University of Illinois (Contact Author)

"Competing Informed Principals and Representative Democracy"
Helena Poon, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Political Baggage and Electoral Competition"
Jooyong Jun, University of Michigan (Contact Author)

"Flip-Flopping: Ideological Adjustment Costs in the United States Senate"
Jason DeBacker, The University of Georgia (Contact Author)

"A Three Class Model of Elections: The Effects of Income Distribution on Electoral Outcomes"
Sebastian Miller, University of Maryland (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Andrew Bacher-Hicks, The College of William and Mary
James E. Foster, Vanderbilt University
Jason DeBacker, The University of Georgia
Deborah Fletcher, Miami University
Micah Pollak, University of Illinois