Organizers:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University

Session Chairs:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University

Papers:

"Is Pork-Barrel Spending a Common Resource? A Search for the Tragedy of the Commons in Pork-Barrel Legislation"
J. Zachary Klingensmith, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Economic Institutions and Global Poverty"
Joseph Connors, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)

"Is Sequestration the (Wicked) Step-Mother of Invention? Expanding Budgets via Strategic Use of Leasing"
William McAndrew, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Paul Speaker, West Virginia University

"A Spatial Analysis of Growth and Institutional Quality Across the United States: Evidence from Metropolitan Areas"
Jamie Bologna, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Andrew T. Young, West Virginia University
Donald J. Lacombe, West Virginia University

Discussants:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University
Amanda Ross, West Virginia University
Joseph Connors, Wake Forest University
Gregory M. Randolph, Southern New Hampshire University

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Organizers:

Darren Grant, Sam Houston State University

Moderators:

Arthur L. Zillante, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panelists:

Darren Grant, Sam Houston State University

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Courtney Collins, Rhodes College

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Organizers:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Session Chairs:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Papers:

"Centripetal and Centrifugal Electoral Incentives in Multidimensional Policy Space"
Robi Ragan, San Jose State University (Contact Author)

"A Model of Two-Party Representative Democracy: Endogenous Party Formation"
Hideo Konishi, Boston College (Contact Author)

"Median Voter Theorem for an Economy with Public and Monopolistically Competitive Private Schools"
Muharrem Yesilirmak, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (Contact Author)

"State Bloc Versus Individual Delegate Voting at the Constitutional Convention: Did It Make a Difference?"
Paul D. Carlsen, South Carolina Department of Commerce
Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Discussants:

Andrei Gomberg, CIE-ITAM
Robi Ragan, San Jose State University
Bryan C. McCannon, Saint Bonaventure University
T. Nicolaus Tideman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Organizers:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Session Chairs:

Robi Ragan, San Jose State University

Papers:

"Proportional Lotteries"
Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)

"Revealed Votes"
Andrei Gomberg, CIE-ITAM (Contact Author)

"Quasi-Empirical Evaluation of Voting Rules"
T. Nicolaus Tideman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
James Green-Armytage, Virginia Tech
Rafael Cosman, Stanford

"Development of a Probabilistic Model of Cumulative Voting"
Duane Cooper, Morehouse College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Duane Cooper, Morehouse College
Hideo Konishi, Boston College
Muharrem Yesilirmak, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
Robi Ragan, San Jose State University

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