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Friday, February 5, 2021

[9:25AM - 9:30AM]
opening remarks
  Jac C. Heckelman (Wake Forest University, USA)

[9:30AM - 10:30AM]
Keynote Address

  Political Engineering: Reflections of a Reformer
   Steven Brams (New York University, USA)

[10:45AM - 12:30PM]
Probabilistic Social Choice abstracts
Chair: Keith L. Dougherty (University of Georgia, USA)

[12:30PM - 1:00PM]
break

[1:00PM - 2:30PM]
Comparing Voting Rules  abstracts
Chair: Florenz Plassmann (Ohio University, USA)

  Primacy Effects in Proportional Representation and Single-member District Elections: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Polish Local Elections  abstract
  Jarosław Flis (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and Marek Kaminski (University of California - Irvine, USA)
  Discussant: Royce Carroll (University of Essex, England)

  Relative Efficiency of Plurality and Borda for Majoritarian Principals  abstract
  Jac C. Heckelman (Wake Forest University, USA) and Robi Ragan (Mercer University, USA)
  Discussant: James Green-Armytage (New Jersey State Treasury, USA)

  Two-Stage Majoritarian Choice abstract
  Sean Horan (University of Montreal, Canada) and Yves Sprumont (Deakin University, Australia)
  Discussant: Ashley Piggins (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)

[2:45PM - 4:15PM]
Presidential Elections   abstracts
Chair: Sean Horan (University of Montreal, Canada)

  The 2016 Election Inversion in Historical and Theoretical Perspective  abstract
  Nicholas R. Miller (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
  Discussant: Michael Geruso (University of Texas, USA)

  Identifying Voter Preferences Through Two-Stage Multivoting Elections: Experiments in the Preface of the 2020 Democratic Primaries  abstract
  Emilia J. Suggs (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
  Discussant: Andrew Brownback (University of Arkansas, USA)

  Modelling the Influence of Campaign Contributions and Advertising on Presidential Elections  abstract
  Maria Gallego (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
  Discussant: John McLaren (University of Virginia, USA)

Saturday, February 6

[8:45AM - 10:30AM]
Strategy and Uncertainty in Social Choice   abstracts
Chair: Mostapha Diss (University of Franche-Comté, France)

  Chicken Games in Approval Voting   abstract
  James Green-Armytage (New Jersey State Treasury, USA)
  Discussant: Keith L. Dougherty (University of Georgia, USA)

  To What Extent Does the Model of Processing Incomplete Rankings Affect the Likelihood of the Truncation Paradox?   abstract
  Eric Kamwa (University of Antilles, France)
  Discussant: Sébastien Courtin (University of Caen Normandie, France)

  Comparing the Manipulability of Approval, Evaluative and Plurality Voting with Trichotomous Preferences   abstract
  Abdelhalim El Ouafdi (University of Lyon Saint-Etienne, France), Dominique Lepelley (University of La Réunion, France), and Hatem Smaoui (University of La Réunion, France)
  Discussant: Elizabeth Maggie Penn (Emory University, USA)

  Belief-Averaging and Relative Utilitarianism: Savage Meets Arrow   abstract
  Florian Brandl (Princeton University, USA)
  Discussant: Marcus Pivato (CY Cergy Paris Université, France)

[10:45AM - 12:30PM]
Social Welfare Functions and Social Choice Correspondences   abstracts
Chair: Elizabeth Maggie Penn (Emory University, USA)

  Critical-level Sufficientarianism   abstract
  Walter Bossert (University of Montreal, Canada), Susumu Cato (University of Tokyo, Japan), and Kohei Kamaga (Sophia University, Japan)
  Discussant: Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University, USA)

  How to Compare Rulers  abstract
  Emre Ergin (Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey)
  Discussant: Duk Gyoo Kim (University of Mannheim, Germany)

  Maxmin Fixed Agenda Choice Correspondence  abstract
  Somdeb Lahiri (Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India)
  Discussant: Alexander Karpov (National Research University, Russia)

  Aggregation Without Interpersonal Comparisons? abstract
  Jake Nebel (University of Southern California, USA)
  Discussant: Matthew Adler (Duke University, USA)

[12:30PM - 1:15PM]
break

[1:15PM - 3:00PM]
Deliberation and Cooperation  abstracts
Chair: Jake Nebel (University of Southern California, USA)

  Group-Managed Real Options: Voting, Polarization, and Investment Dynamics  abstract
  Lorenzo Garlappi (University of British Columbia, Canada), Ron Giammarino (University of British Columbia, Canada), Ali Lazrak (University of British Columbia, Canada)
  Discussant: Tridib Sharma (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico)

  Deliberation and Epistemic Democracy abstract
  Huihui Ding (CY Cergy Paris Université, France) and Marcus Pivato (CY Cergy Paris Université, France)
  Discussant: Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland, USA)

  Centralized Refugee Matching Mechanisms with Hierarchical Priority Classes  abstract
  Dilek Sayedahmed (Concordia University, Canada)
  Discussant: Samson Alva (University of Texas - San Antonio, USA)

  Envy Free Fair Division of Tangled Cakes and Envy Free Division of Graphs up to k Items  abstract
  Ayumi Igarashi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) and William S. Zwicker (Union College, USA)
  Discussant: Yair Zick (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA)

[3:00PM - 4:00PM] Virtual cocktail hour and open discussion time

(Program organized by Jac Heckelman)