For many faculty members, particularly those at research
institutions, presenting a paper more than once at a conference has
long been taboo. Peers evaluating tenure requirements or merit
rankings may credit a second presentation less, or not at all. On
the other hand, norms in the discipline vary dramatically across
institution types. We argue that at universities with considerable
teaching loads and substantial service expectations, duplicate
research presentations can be an effective way to maintain an active
research agenda, absent other institutional incentives to do so. We
currently teach international relations and comparative politics
courses at an institution where the incentives to research remain
modest, and the incentives to teach and spend a considerable amount
of time in service related activities are substantial. Our comments
are particularly geared toward this environment. We begin by
defining what we mean by duplicate research presentations. Next, we
outline how the incentive structure at a teaching institution
creates different priorities, allowing different norms to develop.
We then examine how duplicate research presentations can be an
effective tool for overcoming traps common to untenured faculty. We
end with an unabashed defense of the increasingly common practice of
duplicate research presentations, particularly at teaching and
service oriented universities.