Schedule
8:45– 9:30 AM: Breakfast
9:30 – 10:15 AM: Session 1 | “Bypassing Bureaucrats: Policy Outsourcing & Private Sector Contractors”
- Presenter: Rachel Potter (University of Virginia)
- Discussant: Hye Young You (Princeton University)
10:20 – 11:05 AM: Session 2 | “Revolvers in the Corporate Elite”
- Presenter: Benjamin Egerod (Copenhagen Business School)
- Discussant: Connor Phillips (Princeton University)
11:05 – 11:20 AM: Break
11:20 – 12:05 AM: Session 3 | “Political Threads in Legal Tapestry: A Computational Analysis of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation, 1934–2022”
- Presenter: Reilly Steel (Princeton University)
- Discussant: John de Figueiredo (Duke University)
12:05– 1:20 PM: Lunch
1:20 – 2:05 PM: Session 4 | “Navigating Enforcement: How Firms Use Politics to Counter Environmental Agencies”
- Presenters: Kyuwon Lee and Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)
- Discussant: Frances Lee (Princeton University)
2:10 – 2:55 PM: Session 5 | “Corporate Influence through Campaign Contributions: Evidence from the U.S. House, 1990 - 2020”
- Presenter: Lawrence Rothenberg (University of Rochester)
- Discussant: Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)
2:55 – 3:10 PM: Break
3:10 – 3:55 PM: Session 6 | “Efficacy of Congressional Oversight”
- Presenter: Pamela Ban (University of California, San Diego)
- Discussant: Nolan McCarty (Princeton University)
4:00 – 4:45 PM: Session 7 | “The Policymaking President”
- Presenter: Jennifer Nou (Chicago Law School)
- Discussant: Gleason Judd (Princeton University)