2023  Annual Conference Organizing Committee

Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University), chair

Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

Timur Kuran (Duke University)

April 7, 2023

8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast

8:30-10:00 Elections

Chair: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)

Feyaad Allie (Stanford University)
“The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India”

Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Stanford University)
“Between Electoral Cooptation and Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections”

10:00-10:15 BREAK

10:15-12:30 Public Goods

Chair: Avital Livny (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Hüseyin Emre Ceyhun (Princeton University), Amaney Jamal (Princeton University), and Kristin Fabbe (Harvard University)
“Education as a Contentious Public Good: Evidence from Religious Schooling in Turkey”

Christopher Dann (Stanford University) and Lutfi Sun (University of Texas at Austin)
“Redistributive Consequences of Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from the Turkish Mass Housing Administration”

Giulia Buccione (Brown University)
“Religious Leaders and Collective Adaptation to Water Scarcity: Evidence from Jordan”

12:30-2:00 LUNCH