BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Faculty and doctoral students from the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs will be busy during the Midwest Political Science Association 2024 Conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago April 4-7.
O’Neill researchers will be involved in a host of panel discussions at the event, and Amanda Rutherford, an associate professor at the O’Neill School, will assume the role of president of the Midwest Public Administration Caucus, a section of MPSA. Rutherford has a long history with MPSA, including establishing an award honoring her dissertation advisor Ken Meier (2015); serving as chair of the bureaucratic politics section (2017); and being a member of the MPSA presidential selection committee (2017), the Kenneth J. Meier award committee (2018, 2019), and the MPAC Herbert Simon Award Committee (2022).
“I consider MPSA one of the best conference opportunities for students and faculty in political science and public administration to receive valuable feedback on their research and increase their professional network,” Rutherford said. “It is an honor to now serve MPSA as the MPAC president. My responsibilities include appointing a program director and members of multiple committees as well as communicating with MPAC members throughout the year. Importantly, these activities foster a healthy and proactive academic community and facilitate the exchange of ideas that can inform research and practice.”
O’Neill Faculty and Doctoral Student MPSA Presentations
All times CDT
Thursday, April 4
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- Participatory budgeting and loss aversion: experimental evidence from China – Xiaochun Zhu, Paolo Belardinelli, Temirlan Moldogaziev
- What motivates public employees to engage with co-production? Experimental evidence on urban planning – Jongmin Lee, Paolo Belardinelli
1:15-2:45 p.m.
- Delegating to Deflect? Exploring Political Decoupling and Public Attention in Water Utility Governance – Jesse Barnes, Elizabeth Koebele, Aaron Deslatte
3-4:30 p.m.
- Gender Representation in Job Recruiting – Luis Garcia, Claudia Avellaneda
Friday, April 5
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Heterogeneous Effects of Burden: Disentangling the Impact of Information, Compliance, and Psychological Costs on Student Financial Aid Preferences – Emily Mee
- Resistance or Tolerance? How Cultural Theory Worldview Type Predicts Perceptions of Administrative Burdens – Tom Rabovsky, Emily Mee, Paolo Belardinelli, Xiaochun Zhu
1:15-2:45 p.m.
- Do Kenyan Citizens Care about Climate Change?: Political Support and Resistance towards the Green Energy Transition – Lauren Maclean, Jennifer Brass, Alesha Porisky, Christopher Gore, Liz Baldwin
1:15-2:45 p.m.
- Nonprofit Help with Administrative Burden: Managing Bureaucratic Percipience of Gender Variance – Shaun Khurana
Saturday, April 6
8-9:30 a.m.
- Active Representation and the Legislative Bureaucracy: Studying the Effects of Congressional Staff – Amanda Rutherford, Jiaen Wu
9:45-11:15 a.m.
- Channeling the Chaos of Climate Change: Integrating Green Infrastructure Planning and Capabilities in Constrained Cities – Aaron Deslatte, Juwon Chung
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
- The Succession Solution: Examining Active vs. Symbolic Representation in Executive Turnover – Breck Wightman, Travis Ruddle, Karl Santiago
1:15 a.m.-2:45 p.m.
- Polarization and Local Government Finance: The Case of Texas Nonpartisan Bond Elections – Marc Plooster, Mary Adams