The 70Th Annual Meeting

The 70th Annual Meeting Pennsylvania Political Science Association (PPSA)

“Faith, Politics, Culture: American Mixtures” Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association (MAASA)

March 27-28, 2009

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

Conference Registration

10:30-4:00 PPSA Registration Hoover Center for Business, First Floor

4:00-7:00 MAASA Registration Hoover Center for Business, First Floor

Board Meetings

11:00-12:00 PPSA Executive Council Meeting and Luncheon Brossman Commons 200 (Tower Room)

3:00-4:00 MAASA Executive Board Meeting Hoover Center 113

12:30-2:00 Panel Sessions I

A: Political Theory: Individual and Collective Nicarry Hall 125

Chair: Donald Tannenbaum, Gettysburg College

Papers: Hugh Henry Brackenridge: Western Pennsylvania’s Founding Era Democratic Theorist Bruce Caswell, Rowan University

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT The Internal Division of the Modern Individual Sebastien Viguier, Princeton University

A Capable Theory of Equality and Opportunity Joshua Broady Preiss, Bucknell University

Discussant: W. Wesley McDonald, Elizabethtown College

B: Public Policy Nicarry Hall 127

Chair: Kiku Huckle, Villanova University

Papers: The State against its Own Citizens? Comparing German-, Japanese-, and Muslim-American Experiences in Moments of National Crises in the United States Rumela Sen, Villanova University Robert Langran, Villanova University

DebateWatch or Not? Examining the Effectiveness of Campus-Wide Initiatives Promoting Political Engagement on College Campuses James Vike, Widener University Karen Rose, Widener University

Discussant: Kiku Huckle, Villanova University

C: Comparative Politics I Nicarry Hall 129

Chair: Andrew Musila, Lock Haven University

Papers: Fiscal Policies in Canadian Provinces: Convergence or Divergence? Oleg Kodolov, Kent State University

Collaboration of NGOs and Local Governments in coping with Urban Poverty in Turkey Kemal Ozden, Fatih University, Turkey

A Radical Change in Turkish Identity? Sammas Salur, Fatih University, Turkey

Discussants: Andrew Musila, Lock Haven University Oya Ozkanca, Elizabethtown College

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT D. Undergraduate Research I: Campaigns and Elections I Nicarry Hall 201

Chair: Jean Wahl Harris, University of Scranton

Papers: Gapology Revisited: The Case of the 2008 Election David R Antonini, Slippery Rock University Brian C Mueller, Slippery Rock University Seth T. Sykora-Bodie, Slippery Rock University

Third Parties and their Role in American Presidential Politics Ryan McGregor, Slippery Rock University

American Elections Alexandra Pugliese, Villanova Unversity

Discussant: Jean Wahl Harris, University of Scranton

2:00-2:15 Break Hoover Center 1st Floor

Sponsored by Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs

2:15-3:45 Panel Sessions II

E: State and Local Politics Nicarry Hall 125

Chair: John Kennedy, West Chester University

Papers: Four Factors Limiting the Potential of City-County Consolidation and Cooperation in York, Pennsylvania Joshua D. Ambrosius, University of Louisville

Obstacles Faced by Young Candidates for State Legislative Seats Matt Miller, Slippery Rock University

The Disenfranchisement of Black Pennsylvanians in the 1838 State Constitution: Racism, Politics, or Economics

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT David Latzko, Penn State-York

The PA Dilemma: More Demands and Less Dollars David P. Sosar, King's College

Discussant: Paula Holoviak, Kutztown University

F. Law and Judicial Politics 1: Constitutional Law Nicarry Hall 127

Chair: Gerard J. Fitzpatrick, Ursinus College

Papers: Faith-Based Initiatives and First Amendment Jurisprudence Max Guirguis, Shepherd University

Are Pennsylvania Electors Violating the PA State Constitution? Heather Frederick, Slippery Rock University with Tyler Heckathorn, Alex McNeill, and Ryan McGregor, Slippery Rock University

Discussant: Gerard J. Fitzpatrick, Ursinus College

G. Undergraduate Research II: Comparative Politics Nicarry Hall 129

Chair: E. Brooke Harlowe, Lock Haven University

Local Government Finance: A Comparative Analysis of Tax Structure in Europe Brian Gilbert, Susquehanna University

Putin Julie Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania

The Ethnic Origin of Democracy George Yin, Swarthmore College

The Effect of Agents of Political Socialization on the Political Attitudes of Chinese and American Students Sarah Yarger, Elizabethtown College

Discussant: E. Brooke Harlowe, Lock Haven University

H. Undergraduate Research VII: Campaigns and Elections II Nicarry Hall 201

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT Chair: Stanley P. Berard, Lock Haven University

Papers: Political Campaigns and Strategic Human Management Alicia Gardus, Lebanon Valley College

Contract With Each Other: Nationalization as an Effective Strategy in the 1994 Congressional Election Alison Flukes, Villanova University

The Last Democrat on Earth: A Ground View of the Obama Campaign in Central Pennsylvania Marty Santalucia, Penn State Harrisburg

Discussant: Stanley P. Berard, Lock Haven University

3:45-4:00 Break Hoover Center 1st Floor

Sponsored by Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs

4:00-5:30 PPSA Plenary Roundtable: Race and Religion in the 2008 Elections Cosponsored by PPSA Section on Gender, Sexual Orientation, Race, and Ethnicity Hoover Center 212

Presenter: Scott Casper, Director, Office of Demographic Analysis, Democratic Caucus, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Panelists: Michael Cassidy, Office of the Democratic Caucus Chairman, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Jean Harris, University of Scranton and Chair PPSA Section on Gender, Sexual Orientation, Race, and Ethnicity John Kennedy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

5:30-5:45 PPSA Membership Business Meeting Hoover Center 212

6:00-7:00 PPSA/MAASA Reception Hosted by Elizabethtown College

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT Susquehanna Room, Myer Residence Hall

Remarks: Todd Eachus, Majority Leader, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

7:00-8:30 PPSA/MAASA Dinner Susquehanna Room, Myer Residence Hall

Welcome: Dr. Theodore E. Long, President, Elizabethtown College

Keynote address:

Culture Clash: Amish Conflicts with the State Donald B. Kraybill, Senior Fellow, Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College

9:00 After Dinner Happy Hours Holiday Inn Express –Rheems Exit Rt 283 & Cloverleaf Road

Directions from Elizabethtown College: take Rt 230 East to left on Cloverleaf Road, Holiday Inn Express is on left just before the Rt 283 interchange

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT SATURDAY, MARCH 28

8:00-11:00 MAASA and PPSA Registration Hoover Center for Business, First Floor

8:00-11:00 Continental Breakfast/Coffee Hoover Center 110

Sponsored by TRIAD Strategies

8:30-10:00 Panel Sessions III/MAASA Session I

I. American Government 1 Nicarry Hall 127

Chair: Rob McMonagle, Neumann College

Papers: Deliberative Polling: Fostering an Engaged and Informed Public Melanie, Blumberg, California University of Pennsylvania David Argent, California University of Pennsylvania Susan Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Jones, California University of Pennsylvania Mary O'Connor, California University of Pennsylvania

The Vanishing Pennsylvania Republican Voter: Examining the Decline in GOP Registration in the Commonwealth Christopher Borick, Muhlenberg College Elisa Zaehringer, Lehigh University

Explaining Aggregate Voter Turnout Rates – and Interest – in U.S. Presidential Elections Alyssa Mowitz, Franklin and Marshall College Stephen K. Medvic, Franklin and Marshall College

Discussant: Samuel B. Hoff, Delaware State University

J. Comparative Politics II Nicarry Hall 129

Chair: Andrew Miller, Wilkes University

Papers: Islam in Kenya’s 2007 Elections Andrew Musila, Lock Haven University

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT Causes of Philippine Muslim Unrest Justin de Leon, University of Central Florida

Is There a Freedom Process? Jason S. Belcher, University of Oklahoma

Discussant: Andrew Miller, Wilkes University

K. Undergraduate Student Research III: Constitutional Law and the Courts Nicarry Hall 125

Chair: Kyle Kreider, Wilkes University

Papers: Supreme Court Decision Making: District of Columbia v Heller Meghan Engstrom, Elizabethtown College

Gonzalez vs. Carhart: Inconsistency in the Commerce Clause Timothy Kissinger, Lebanon Valley College

A Comparison between Socrates’ and Jesus’ Political Teachings Jessica Cooper, Bowie State University

Discussant: Kyle Kreider, Wilkes University

L. Undergraduate Student Research IV: Presidency Hoover Center 114

Chair: E. Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College

Papers: Neo-conservatism in the Bush Administration Charles McElwee, Lebanon Valley College

Unilateral Actions and the Emerging Postmodern Presidency Bennett Grubbs, LeMoyne College

The First Ladies: Their Roles and How They are Interpreted Kendra E Mundell, Slippery Rock University

Gotcha! How Sex and Policy Scandals have affected the American Presidency and the Views of the Public Christopher Klimowitz, Lebanon Valley College

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT Discussant: E. Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College

MAASA Panel 1. Exploring the Christian Right Hoover Center 211

Papers: Presidential Election 2008: Why and How the Democrats Court the Religious Vote Diana DePasquale, Rutgers University

“A Continuing Survey of the Farce”: The New Pantagruel and the Carnivalesque Prophetic Tradition Matthew Stewart, University of Wyoming

Exposing the “Christian Nation”: The Christian Right and the Metaphor of Fascism in Contemporary Reportage Chris R. Vials, SUNY Buffalo State College

Moderator: Michael Barton, Penn State Harrisburg

MAASA Panel 2. Race and Gender in Politics and Faith Hoover Center 213

Papers: Religion and Politics in Native American Fiction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Louise Barnett, Rutgers University

Betwixt and Between: The Ambiguous Space of Protestant Missionary Wives, 1820-1860 Melanie Steimle, Penn State Harrisburg

God Damn America: A Prophet’s Plea Christopher House, University of Pittsburgh

Southern Graces: Women, Faith, and the Quest for Social Justice in Jim Crow Memphis Ann Youngblood Mulhearn, University of Tennessee-Martin

Moderator: Yvonne Sims, Penn State Harrisburg

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT MAASA Panel 3. Religious Controversy! Hoover Center 214 Papers: Westboro Baptist Church versus American Media: What Public Response to Snyder v. Phelps Reveals about America’s Heteronationalism Rebecca Barrett-Fox, University of Kansas

Red and Yellow, Black and White, Are They Precious in His Sight?: Biblical Justifications for Slavery Sylvia Kurtz, Huntingdon Area School District

Scientology vs. Psychiatry in the Museum Jonathan Hansen, University of Iowa

“Are you Gonna Come and Kill Me?”: Death and Deception at Mount Carmel Jenifer Bianchi, University of Delaware

Moderator: Craig Haas, Penn State Harrisburg

MAASA Panel 4. Politics and Faith in Early America Hoover Center 215

Papers: American Political Dynasties: The Unintended Child of American Democracy Megan McGee, Penn State Harrisburg

“In an illegal, unprecedented manner”: The Persecution of the Quaker Community during the American Occupation of Revolutionary Philadelphia Stephanie Gilbert. Dickinson College

The Pursuit of Faith and Government: William Penn and His Colonial System Christopher Fritsch. University of Oxford

Moderator: John Haddad, Penn State Harrisburg

10:00-10:30 Break Hoover Center 110

Sponsored by Pennsylvania Legislative Office for Research Liaison (LORL)

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT 10:30-12:00 Panel Session IV/MAASA Session II

M. New Tools for Teaching, Research, and Analysis: US, Comparative, Pennsylvania, and Metropolitan Databases Hoover Center 212

Chair: G. Terry Madonna, Franklin and Marshall College

Presenters: Policy Agendas Frank R. Baumgartner, Penn State University

Comparative Agendas Frank R. Baumgartner, Penn State University

Pennsylvania Policy Database Project Joseph P. McLaughlin, Temple University

Pennsylvania Votes (live tracking of Pa. legislation and roll calls) Joe Sterns, Commonwealth Foundation

Innovation Clinic Database (innovations in U.S. metropolitan governance) David Y. Miller, University of Pittsburgh

MAASA Panel 5. Undergraduate Roundtable Hoover Center 211

Papers: Adult Children of Alcoholics…Who Cares? Elizabeth Ann Halgash, Rutgers University

Abstinence Makes the Kids Rock Harder: The Jonas Brothers and Virginity Pledges Meghan Milligan, Temple University

Birth Control and the Reshaping of Sexuality and the Traditional American Family, 1960 to 2000 Nicole Polisano, La Salle University

Appalachian Culture and Industrial Exploitation in the Gilded Age Ben Hoover, Penn State Harrisburg

Moderator: Francis J. Ryan, La Salle University

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT MAASA Panel 6. Preserving German Culture by means of Religion in New Jersey Hoover Center 213

“Fellowship Deaconry, Liberty Corner, New Jersey.” (Panel includes a screening of the film followed by discussion) Angus Gillespie, Rutgers University

Moderator: Angus Gillespie, Rutgers University

MAASA Panel 7. War, Pacifism, and Religion Hoover Center 214

Papers: Gender & Pacifism in an Anabaptist Context Beth Graybill, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society in Pennsylvania

“A Sure Storm Will Follow Fine Weather and Vice Versa”: Mormon Soldiers in the Civil War Brant Ellsworth, Penn State Harrisburg

Doves of a Different Feather. Mennonites and the Antiwar Movementk During Vietnam Holly Scott, American University

Moderator: Charles Kupfer, Penn State Harrisburg

MAASA Panel 8. Religious Contexts and their Consequences Hoover Center 215

Papers: More Human than Human: Battlestar Galactica’s Religious and Political Fields of Cultural Production James E. Siburt, Lancaster Theological Seminary

Horace Mann and the Shadow of Calvinist Patriarchalism Matthew Backes, Rutgers University

Presidential Church Membership and the President’s View of the Political/religious Nexus: Some Case Studies and Suggestions Jared Lobdell, Harrisburg Area Community College

Sikhism and Sikhs in the United States Gurjit Singh and Harpreet Songh, Baba Banda Bahadur Engineering College

Moderator: Carolyn Kitch, Temple University

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT 12:00-1:30 MAASA/PPSA Luncheon Hoover Center 110

Remarks: Angus Gillespie, Rutgers University President, Middle Atlantic American Studies Association

1:30-3:00 Panel Sessions V

N. American Government II Hoover Center 211

Chair: James Benze, Washington and Jefferson College

Papers: Establishing a Sustainable Defense: The Defense Challenge of the Obama Administration Jeffrey A. Weber, East Stroudsburg University

Bush, Obama and the March of Political Time E. Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College

Is Negativity Increasing as Time Goes By? Candidate Advertisements in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Presidential General Election Campaigns Sharon Sykora, Slippery Rock University

Discussant: Daniel J. Mallinson, Villanova University

O. Law and Judicial Politics II: Courts Hoover Center 213

Chair: Jean Wahl Harris, University of Scranton

Papers: Supreme Semiotics: Reading Race at the U.S. Supreme Court Paul Henry Hawkins, Union Institute and University

Antitrust Legislation and Market Definition in the Healthcare Industry: Case Study Pittsburgh Daniel Inzinga and Jacquelyn Cully, Duquesne University

Discussant: Jean Wahl Harris, University of Scranton

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT P. Undergraduate Student Research V: The Policy Making Process Hoover Center 214

Chair: Stanley P. Berard, Lock Haven University

Papers: Earmarks: Political Power or Liability? Brian Wharton, Lebanon Valley College

Claiming Expertise and Authority: Think Tanks, Policy Space and American Political Development in the Twentieth Century Philip Rocco, University of Pennsylvania

The Progressive Generation: Will Young Americans Support Universal Healthcare? Ashley Sweeney, Elizabethtown College

Discussant: Stanley P. Berard, Lock Haven University

Q. Undergraduate Student Research VI: International Relations and Human Rights Hoover Center 215

Chair: Victoria Williams, Alvernia University

Papers: The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Darfur: How Effective is the United Nations? Jennifer Zielinski, Elizabethtown College

Ukraine on the Edge: An Examination of Ukraine in the Ideological Division Between Russia and the West Lauren E Wilhelm, Slippery Rock University

Theorizing Global Stability: An Analysis of International Structure Maurice P. Rapp, Elizabethtown College

Discussant: Victoria Williams, Alvernia University

PPSA 2009 Preliminary Program--3/20/09 8:00 a.m. EDT