Legislative Leviathan 30th Anniversary Conference
USC Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California
Thursday, August 31, 2023
All paper presentations will be in 308 Lewis Hall.
9:00 am to 10 am: Light Breakfast
10:00 am to 11:00 am: Paper 1
“Information and Party Influence in the U.S. Congress,” Pamela Ban (UCSD)
Discussant: Nicholas Napolio (UC-Riverside)
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Paper 2
“Entrenched Leviathans,” Christian Fong (Michigan)
Discussant: Pamela McCann (USC Price)
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 to 2:15 pm: Paper 3
“Paved with Partisan Intentions: The Impressive and Disheartening Validity of Cox and McCubbins’s Legislative Leviathan.” Benjamin Kinnard (Emory) and John Patty (Emory)
Discussant: Nathan Monroe (UC-Merced)
2:15 to 3:15 pm: Paper 4
“Party and Policy in Lineland: A Theory of Conditional Party Cartels,” John Aldrich (Duke), Gary Cox (Stanford), Mathew McCubbins (Duke; deceased), and David Rohde (Duke; emeritus)
Discussant: Chris Den Hartog (Calpoly)
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm: Paper 5
“The Electoral Costs of Legislative Action: Dynamic Partisanship and Agenda Control in the U.S. Congress,” Carlos Algara (Claremont Graduate U) and Joshua Ryan (Utah State)
Discussant: Boris Heersink (Fordham)
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Paper 6
“Comparing Leviathans: Agenda Influence in State Legislatures, 2011 to 2023,” Boris Shor (Houston) and Michael Kistner (Houston)
Discussant: Sarah Anderson (UC-Santa Barbara)