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Theme, Division and Related Group Panels the Following Groups Organize and Sponsor Panels, Roundtables and Plenaries at the APSA Annual Meeting Theme, Division and Related Group Panels The following groups organize and sponsor panels, roundtables and plenaries at the APSA Annual Meeting. Theme panels: Organized by Annual Meeting program chairs, focusing on broad topics related to the meeting theme or issues of wide interest to the Association. A “T” precedes the title of theme panels in this program. Division panels: Organized and overseen by Annual Meeting division chairs who also serve as members of the program committee. APSA organizes the annual meeting into 49 divisions, 41 of which align with APSA Organized Sections. APSA allocates panels to each division according to a formula based on prior year attendance and proposal submission rates. The following pages list division panels ordered by division number. Related group panels: Organized by independent professional groups, called “Related Groups,” and invited by APSA to organize scholarly panels during the annual meeting. Several Some related groups only meet at the APSA Annual Meeting (e.g. conference groups) and some are independent associations. Related groups must demonstrate to APSA that they have a persistent organizational structure and membership threshold to be eligible to host panels at the meeting. The following pages list related group panels ordered by related group name. Committee panels: Organized by APSA committees to address professional issues in the discipline and related to the committee’s responsibilities. See the “Committee Sponsored Panels Events” entry in the Table of Contents for the location of the committee panel listings. 190 Theme, Division and Related Group Panels Related Groups Association of Chinese Political Studies Chair: Dali L. Yang, University of Chicago African Politics Conference Group Panel 1 CHINA, THE UNITED STATES, AND Sat 8:00 am Chair: Peter A. VonDoepp, University of Vermont GLOBAL ORDER Susanna D. Wing, Haverford College Alice Kang, University of Wisconsin, Madison Panel 2 GLOBALIZATION AND THE Fri 2:00 pm Mi Yung Yoon, Hanover College CHINESE REGULATORY STATE Panel 1 DEMOCRATIZATION, STATE Sat 8:00 am STRENGTH AND ECONOMIC Association of Korean Political Studies in North America DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN Chair: Jae-Jung Suh, Johns Hopkins University AFRICA: NEW EMPIRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL HORIZONS Panel 1 IDENTIFYING KOREA, OTHERING Thu 10:15 am Co-sponsored by 12-40 NEIGHBORS Panel 2 AFRICAN LEADERSHIP ROLES AND Fri 10:15 am Panel 2 KOREA’S RESPONSES TO Fri 8:00 am THE ROLE OF THE CIVIC IN A GLOBALIZATION CONTEXT OF POLITICAL CHANGE Panel 3 CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACY IN Sat 4:15 pm Related Group Panels Panel 3 ETHNICITY, RELIGION AND Sat 2:00 pm SOUTH KOREA? TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IN AFRICAN POLITICS Co-sponsored by 12-52 Walter Bagehot Research Council on National Sovereignty Chair: Frank P. Le Veness, St. John’s University Matthew A. Pauley, Manhattanville College Aging Policy and Politics Group Joseph Prud’homme, Christopher Newport University Chair: Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institue of Technology Cynthia Massie Mara, Penn State Panel 1 CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF Sun 10:15 am THE PRESIDENCY: HISTORICAL Panel 1 CROSSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Thu 10:15 am AND THEORETICAL ON AGING POLITICS EXPLORATIONS American Public Philosophy Institute Brazilian Political Science Association Chair: Christopher Wolfe, Marquette University Chair: Fabiano Guilherme M. Santos, Rio de Janeiro Graduate Research Institute Panel 1 ROUNDTABLE: STANDING Thu 2:00 pm Amâncio Jorge Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo FREEDOM ON ITS HEAD: ‘EQUALITY’ AND Panel 1 EMERGING POWERS AND GLOBAL Sat 4:15 pm ‘NONDISCRIMINATION’ AND THE GOVERNANCE SUPPRESSION OF DEMOCRATIC LIBERTIES British Politics Group Chair: Mark P. Shephard, University of Strathclyde Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair: Kim Geron, California State University, East Bay Panel 1 ROUNDTABLE ON PRESSURE Thu 2:00 pm Natalie Masuoka, Tufts University GROUPS AND THE POLICY PROCESS Panel 1 ASIAN AMERICANS AND Fri 8:00 am IMMIGRANT POLITICAL Panel 2 POLITICS IN SCOTLAND AND Fri 10:15 am INCORPORATION QUEBEC Panel 3 MEASUREMENT AND ELECTORAL Sat 8:00 am Association for Israel Studies BEHAVIOUR IN THE UK Chair: Menachem Hofnung, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Panel 4 BRITISH POLITICS GROUP Fri 2:00 pm ROUNDTABLE- YEAR IN REVIEW Panel 1 ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL, 2009: Fri 2:00 pm CONTINUITY OR CHANGE Campaign Finance Research Group Chair: Michael J. Malbin, Campaign Finance Institute Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Diana Dwyre, California State University, Chico Chair: Albert Somit, Southern Illinois University Steven A. Peterson, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Panel 1 SMALL DONORS AND LARGE IN Thu 10:15 am U.S. FEDERAL AND STATE Panel 1 EVOLUTION AND POLITICS Thu 8:00 am ELECTIONS Association for the Study of Nationalities Chair: Lowell W. Barrington, Marquette University Panel 1 UKRAINE: LOOKING WEST ... AND Sun 8:00 am EAST 191 Theme, Division and Related Group Panels Cato Institute Panel 6 THE PLACE OF NOBILITY IN THE Sun 8:00 am THOUGHT OF ARISTOTLE, Chair: Christopher Preble, The Cato Institute ARISTOPHANES, AND XENOPHON John Samples, The Cato Institute Panel 7 LIBERTY AND HUMAN NATURE IN Sat 4:15 pm Panel 1 ROUNDTABLE: AMERICAN Sun 8:00 am MODERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOREIGN POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF FEAR: THREAT Panel 8 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE 200TH Fri 8:00 am INFLATION SINCE 9/11 ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH Panel 9 THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT Sun 10:15 am Center for the Study of Federalism AND THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. Chair: John Kincaid, Lafayette College Panel 10 LEO STRAUSS’S ‘WHAT IS Fri 10:15 am Panel 1 DO WE NEED A NEW ACIR: Fri 10:15 am POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY?’: 50TH REFLECTIONS ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. ACIR Co-sponsored by 28-9 Panel 11 THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS AND Sat 10:15 am FREE SPEECH Center for the Study of the Constitution Panel 12 THE RECENT TERM OF THE U.S. Sat 8:00 am Chair: Warner R. Winborne, Hampden-Sydney College SUPREME COURT Panel 13 THE NEW DEAL AND ITS LEGACY Thu 2:00 pm Panel 1 JUDICIAL RESTRAINT AND Fri 10:15 am POLITICAL CHANGE: FIERCE Panel 14 CICERO’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Fri 2:00 pm OPPONENTS OR FELLOW TRAVELERS? Panel 15 TOCQUEVILLE AFTER 150 YEARS: Sat 2:00 pm WHAT IS ALIVE AND WHAT IS DEAD IN THE POLITICAL Christians in Political Science PHILOSOPHY OF ALEXIS DE Chair: Kevin J. Cooney, Northwest University TOCQUEVILLE? Mark David Hall, George Fox University Committee for Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy Panel 1 EVANGELICAL POLITICAL Sat 8:00 am THOUGHT AND NATURAL LAW Chair: Jason Lyall, Princeton University Co-sponsored by 33-2 Panel 1 COERCION AND RECONCILIATION Fri 8:00 am Panel 2 THE DISAPPEARING GOD GAP? Thu 4:15 pm IN COUNTERINSURGENCY RELIGION IN THE 2008 OPERATIONS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Co-sponsored by 33-3 Committee on Political Sociology Panel 3 RELIGION AND GLOBAL POLITICS Fri 4:15 pm Chair: Florence Faucher-King, Sciences Po Piero Ignazi, University of Bologna The Churchill Centre Panel 1 PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND THE Fri 10:15 am Chair: James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage CHALLENGE OF “DEMOCRATIZATION” Panel 1 CHURCHILL AND CANADA Thu 2:00 pm Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Chair: Stephen L. Elkin, University of Maryland Political Philosophy Jeremy A. Janow, University of Maryland, College Park Chair: Thomas Karako, Kenyon College Ronald J. Pestritto, Jr., Hillsdale College Panel 1 AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: JAMES Fri 8:00 am FISHKIN, WHEN THE PEOPLE Panel 1 ROUNDTABLE: SAME-SEX Thu 8:00 am SPEAK: DELIBERATIVE ‘MARRIAGE’ IN THE U.S. AND DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC CANADA: LEGAL CONTROVERSIES CONSULTATION AND EVOLVING PARADIGMS Co-sponsored by 2-50 Panel 2 ROUNDTABLE: THE STATE OF Thu 10:15 am ACADEMIC FREE SPEECH IN Comparative Urban Politics CANADA AND THE U.S. Chair: Ronald K. Vogel, University of Louisville Panel 3 ROUNDTABLE: ISLAM AND THE Thu 2:00 pm WEST Panel 1 SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS Fri 8:00 am AND THE STIMULUS PACKAGES IN Panel 4 ROUNDTABLE: THE OBAMA Fri 4:15 pm THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA ADMINISTRATION: FIRST SEVEN Co-sponsored by 28-10 MONTHS Panel 2 DECENTRALIZED GOVERNANCE Fri 4:15 pm Panel 5 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE Thu 4:15 pm AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE Co-sponsored by 11-76 MOVEMENT 192 Theme, Division and Related Group Panels Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society Panel 9 THEORISTS, THEOLOGIANS, AND Sat 2:00 pm LITTÉRATEURS: EVIL AND Chair: Maurizio Carbone, University of Glasgow MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT Panel 1 ITALIAN POLITICS BETWEEN Thu 2:00 pm Panel 10 VOEGELIN IN TORONTO, THE DVD: Sat 4:15 pm REFORMS AND REVIVAL REFLECTIONS ON THE 1978 YORK UNIVERSITY “HERMENEUTICS AND Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law STRUCTURALISM” CONFERENCE Chair: David Fagelson, American University Panel 11 THE PRIMACY OF PERSONS IN Thu 4:15 pm POLITICS: EMPIRICISM AND Panel 1 ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE Thu 8:00 am THEORY ETHICS OF RESPONSIBILITY Panel 12 THE LANGUAGES OF POLITICAL Sun 8:00 am ORDER: EXPERIENCE AND Conference Group on Taiwan Studies SYMBOLIZATION IN NON-WESTERN Chair: Joseph Wong, University of Toronto MODES OF THOUGHT Panel 13 ROUNDTABLE: THE MODERN Fri 8:00 am Panel 1 GOVERNING TAIWAN Thu 4:15 pm PHILOSOPHICAL REVOLUTION: Panel 2 CHOICE AND DEMOCRACY IN Fri 2:00 pm THE LUMINOSITY OF EXISTENCE Related Group Panels TAIWAN Panel 3 TRANSNATIONALISM AND Sat 8:00 am European Consortium for Political Research TAIWAN’S ROLE IN THE WORLD Chair: Luciano Bardi, Università di Pisa Louise Hawkridge, European Consortium for Political Research Panel 4 RE-CONSIDERING THE Sun 10:15 am DEVELOPMENTAL STATE Panel 1 THE AMERICANISATION OF Fri 8:00 am EUROPEAN EXECUTIVES Conference Group on the Middle East Panel 2 ENERGY POLICY AND GLOBAL Sat 10:15 am Chair: Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University WARMING: AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN APPROACHES Panel 1 POLITICAL REFORM IN THE Fri 10:15 am MIDDLE EAST: CONTEXTS, Panel 3 TERRORS IN TRANSATLANTIA- Sat 4:15 pm DILEMMAS, CASES STILL? EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES FROM BUSH TO OBAMA Conference Group on Theory, Policy, and Society French Politics Group Chair: Frank Fischer, Rutgers University, Newark Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit Chair: Andrew M.
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