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Midwest Political Science Association 63rd Annual National Conference April 7-10, 2005 Thursday, April 7 – 8:30 am – 10:15 am Paper Political Support across the World – Do Institutions Matter for Political Support? 1-105 ROUNDTABLE: JOURNAL PUBLISHING IN Wonbin Cho, Michigan State University POLITICAL SCIENCE Overview: Political institutions mediate the relationship Room TBA, Thur 8:30 between citizens’ political status (majority or minority) and Panelist Steven Smith, Washington University, St Louis their satisfaction with the way democracy works in the country. Nolan McCarty, Princeton University Paper Duty, Empowerment and Patronage: Patterns of Political John Londregan, Princeton University Participation in India Overview: TBA Amit Ahuja, University of Michigan Pradeep Chibber, University of California, Berkeley 2-1 VOTER BEHAVIOR IN COMPARATIVE Overview: We argue, the motivations of citizens to vote vary PERSPECTIVE with socio-economic status. In addition to providing empirical evidence that questions the generalizability of current theories Room TBA, Thur 8:30 of participation, we also develop an explanation for why this Chair Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester happens. Paper Scandalous! The Impact of Valence Issues on Political Paper Is Democracy the Only Game in Town? Testing Linz's Parties' Electoral Fortunes: A Pooled Analysis of Nine Notion of Democratic Consolidation in East Asia Western European Democracies, 1976-1998 Jason M. Wells, University of Missouri Michael Clark, University of California, Santa Barbara Doh C. Shin, University of Missouri Overview: Using a pooled analysis of Nine Western European Overview: This paper investigates democratic consolidation in Democracies, 1976-1998, I examine whether valence issues East Asia using recently collected survey data. We adversely affect the voteshares of political parties. conceptualize consolidation as a mass-level phenomenon and Paper Symbolic Politics: A British Case measure consolidation by asking if citizens accept democracy as Kwang-Il Yoon, University of Michigan the only game in town. Overview: The minimal effects of self-interest on individual’s Disc. Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State University political attitudes have been explained by symbolic politics in general and American individualism in particular. This paper assesses the validity of these claims by using the British survey 3-4 DEMOCRATIZATION: PRECONDITIONS data. AND PROBLEMS Paper The Electoral Effects of Western European Parties’ Policy Room TBA, Thur 8:30 Shifts, 1976-1998: Policy Expectations Matter Chair Suzanne R. Soule, Center for Civic Education James Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara Paper After the Party's Over: Disenchantment and Critical Michael Clark, University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara Citizenship in Post-Transition Mexico Lawrence Ezrow, UC Santa Barbara David Crow, University of Texas, Austin Garrett Glasgow, University of California, Santa Barbara Overview: Four years after Mexico culminated its democratic Overview: We explore whether aggregate-level voting patterns transition, elation has turned to disenchantment. A two-wave in Western Europe support policy expectations theory. poll is used to explore the causes and consequences of malaise. Paper Promises, Policies, and Voter Responses Dissatisfaction with may not reduce commitment to democracy. Guy D. Whitten, Texas A&M Paper The 2004 Social Security Reform in Mexico: Finishing Off Overview: This paper examines the impact of party promises on the Social Pact? policy-making activities and economic outcomes and the Jean F. Mayer, Concordia University subsequent impact of these factors on the electoral fortunes of Patrik Marier, Concordia University incumbents. Overview: This paper seeks to identify and analyze the political Disc. Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester factors that have led to the 2004 reform of the Mexican social Susumu Shikano, University of Mannheim security system, which has extended the privatization of Mexico’s pension system begun in 1997. 3-1 CITIZENS, PARTIES AND SOCIO- Paper Indigenous Autonomy in Southern Mexico: Good for ECONOMIC STRATIFICATION Democracy? Good for Indigenous People? Matthew R. Cleary, Princeton & Syracuse Universities Room TBA, Thur 8:30 Overview: This paper offers a discussion of three questions Chair Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State University central to the practice of indigenous autonomy in southern Paper Economic Inequality and the Vote for Distributive Parties Mexico. Why did the federal government grant it? Is it Guillermo Rosas, Washington University in St. Louis consistent with liberal democratic principles? Does it benefit Overview: I test whether concerns about income inequality indigenous Mexicans? drive support for Mexico’s PRD. I use procedures robust to the Paper Development and Life Satisfaction: An Empirical Analysis aggregation fallacy and incorporate information about Mark Bean, University of Utah inequality at the municipal and state levels within a Bayesian Overview: Using World Values Survey data and bivariate and hierarchical model. multiple regression analysis, paper examines effect of materialist and non-materialist variables on life satisfaction, Updated 03-01-05 1 supporting comprehensive approach to assessing political and Paper Democracy Trends in Muslim Countries: The Problem of economic development. Sustainability Paper Destabilizing Politics through Active Student Involvementin Ferit M. Ozkaleli, University of Colorado, Boulder Emerging Democracies- A Case of Bangladesh Umut Ozkaleli, TBA Abu T. R. Rahman, Baruch College, CUNY Overview: Democracy gap, Muslim countries, democracy Overview: Students actively involved in achieving trends, Arab world, former communist states, democratization, independence in many coutries. Gradually such involvement political culture, institutions extended over time, thereby destabilizing politics and causing Paper Democracy and the Arab World: Explaining Attitudes serous disruption in education which hindered national Toward Governance and Political Islam development. Mark Tessler, University of Michigan Disc. Krister P. Andersson, Indiana University Eleanor Gao, TBA Suzanne R. Soule, Center for Civic Education Overview: This paper uses original public opinion data from 3 Middle Eastern nations to examine the nature and determinants 4-1 DEFINING AND DEFENDING HUMAN of attitudes toward governance. Hypotheses assess the RIGHTS explanatory power of cultural orientations and political and economic judgments. Room TBA, Thur 8:30 Paper An Analysis of a New Trend: Muslumism Versus Islamism: Chair Roberto A. Ventresca, King's University College A Comparative Study of Algeria and Turkey Paper Cultural and Social Determinants of Political and Civil Neslihan K. Cevik, Arizona State University Human Rights Status (A Cross-National Study) Overview: This study explains a new trend among Muslims Woo Paik, TBA through comparing Algeria and Turkey.This comparison reveals Overview: This paper explains a much less pursued subject: that there is no one unified Islam.Instead Muslims re-construct cultural (religion/colonial experience) and social influence Islam in different forms which can be fundamental as well as (corruption/education) on Political & Civil Human Rights, a moderate fundament and proxy of democratization, with statistical cross- Disc. Mohamed A. Berween, Texas A&M International University national method. Paper Comparing the Attitudes of Victims and the General Public towards South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation 5-1 INCENTIVES BEHIND INTEGRATION: Commission Process REDEFINING STATE INTERESTS David Backer, University of Michigan Room TBA, Thur 8:30 Overview: This paper compares attitudes in relation to South Chair Warren L. Mason, Miami University Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission process, using Paper European Union: Challenge of Unbalanced Economic original data from a survey of victims I conducted in Cape Development Among Member States Town and data from a general population survey conducted by Bede Eke, Miami University Gibson & Gouws. Overview: This paper examines the issue of unbalanced Paper Hanging Moods economic development among the EU members against the Arlie P. Tagayuna, University of Hawaii backdrop of ‘neo-realists’ theoretical proposition on state Overview: Capital Punishment in the Philippines concerns about “relative achievement of gains” as a possible Paper Human Rights and Political Repression: A Cross-Country obstacle to cooperation. Analysis Paper Business as Usual: State Autonomy and International Matthew M. Carlson, Norwegian University of Science & Organizations Technology Ed Petronzio, Miami University Ola Listhaug, NTNU Overview: The paper attempts to answer the question: To what Overview: TBA extent, if any, has the WTO and more specifically, the WTO Paper Transitional Justice after Democratization: A Global Cross- Dispute Settlement Body reduced state autonomy? National Study Covering 1970-2000 Paper Catching the EU Train: The Pros and Cons of the Hunjoon Kim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Enlargement or Why the Central and Eastern European Overview: This cross-national study seeks to explain following States that Share the Soviet Legacy (Czech Republic, question: why do some states seek to address past gross and Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia) joined the EU? systemic human rights violations committed by the former Irina G. Aervitz, Miami University regime in a certain way while others not in the period between Overview: The paper explores the relative
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