1600 Early Registration Wednesday 3:00pm-6:00pm La Salle A (Exhibit Hall) 1800 President's Appreciation Dinner Wednesday 6:30pm-9:00pm Honoring Le Salon Kim Quaile Hill, Texas A&M University 2900 2900 Thursday Registration Thursday 7:00am-5:30pm La Salle A (Registration) 2100 Democratic Theory Thursday Political Theory 8:00am-9:30am Acadian I Chair Simon Stacey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Participants Distributive Justice and the Modern Welfare State David Ramsey, University of West Florida Reflective Partisanship Joshua Preston Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Democratizing Disability: Grounding Equality in our Shared Vulnerability Amber Knight, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discussant Simon Stacey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2100 Public Opinion: Context Matters Thursday Public Opinion 8:00am-9:30am Acadian II Chair Carole J. Wilson, Southern Methodist University Participants How Political Context Influences the Way Citizens Respond To Political Dissatisfaction? Seonghui Lee, Rice University The Defense Variable: Personal and Contextual Connections to Defense Spending Preferences Melinda Rae Tarsi, University of Massachusetts Amherst Connecting Both Ends of the Chain: Perceptions of American Economic Foreign Policy in the United States and Abroad Daniel Doran Partin, University of Kentucky Political Participation and Policy Feedback in Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program Matthew L Layton, Vanderbilt University Differences Across the Pond: Explaining Differences in Attitudes Toward International Organization in Europe and the United States Nick Clark, Indiana University Nathaniel Birkhead, Indiana University 2100 Nuclear Weapons and International Politics Thursday International Politics: Conflict and Security 8:00am-9:30am Bayou 1 Participants Competing Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy: Pakistan and India Michael Tkacik, Stephen F. Austin State University Nuclear Weapons and War: A Quantitative Investigation Todd Clayton Robinson, University of Illinois Paying to Proliferate? Examining the Effects of Latent Nuclear Capabilities on U.S. Aid Distribution Amber Aubone, St. Mary's University Roger Tavira, St. Mary's University Security Governance at Regional Level: The Case of Nuclear Proliferation Nursin Guney, Yildiz Technical University Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: Iran vs. the Major Powers Jihyun Kim, University of South Carolina Discussant Steve Garrison, Midwestern State University 2100 Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Legislative Politics Thursday Women and Politics 8:00am-9:30am Bayou 2 Chair Kathleen Bratton, Louisiana State University Participants Gauging the Impact of Ethnicity on the Expression of Gender By Congresswomen in the 111th & 112th Congresses Adam Kress, Rockefeller College, University At Albany--SUNY Gendered Presentations of Self in Congressional Elections Lia Rohr, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Membership Diversity and the Collective Representation of Women and Minority Interests in Congress Michael Minta, University of Missouri-Columbia Brooke Thomas Allen, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Nadia Brown, St. Louis University The Maternalist Legacy of Women‟s Political Leadership and Its Impact on Welfare State Spending Ashley English, University of Minnesota Discussants Linda Kay Mancillas, Georgia Gwinnett College Kathleen Bratton, Louisiana State University 2100 Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations Thursday Program Chair's Panels 8:00am-9:30am Bayou 3 Participants Rethinking Challenges in the US-Japan Alliance Chika Yamamoto, University of Missouri The Role of Congress in the Making of the United States Foreign Policy Toward North Korea Sang Wan Lee, Seoul National University Cooperatives and Human Security Joe W Huseby, Washington State University Stories and Violence: When Competitive Authoritarian Regimes Use Ethnic Conflict as a Pretense for Crackdowns Heather Lynn Bosak, Temple University 2100 2100 Congressional-Executive Interaction Thursday Legislative Politics 8:00am-9:30am Bayou 4 Chair Wendy Ginsberg, Congressional Research Service Participants Congressional Responses to the State of the Union Address: New and Old Joseph Francis Wysocki, Belmont Abbey College Explaining Policy Decentralization in the United States: Evidence from a New Measure Sara Chatfield, UC Berkeley Phil Rocco, UC Berkeley The Increasing Effect of Presidential Approval in the Vanishing Marginals Andrew Garner, University of Wyoming A.J. Barghothi, University of Wyoming The Use of Presidential Statements of Administration Policy Brandon O'Neill, University of Tennessee Discussant Wendy Ginsberg, Congressional Research Service 2100 Justice in Ancient Thought Thursday Political Theory 8:00am-9:30am Fulton Chair Christopher Colmo, Dominican University Participants Justice and Commerce in Republic, Book I Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University Rethinking the Quarrel Anew: Wisdom, Art and Justice in Aristophanes's Clouds Jeremy John Mhire, Louisiana Tech University Justice and Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics James Guest, University of Dallas Justice in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Kathleen Arnn, Claremont Graduate University Discussant Christopher Colmo, Dominican University 2100 2100 Cultural Explanations of Media Content and Meaning Thursday Media and Politics 8:00am-9:30am Jazz Chair Victoria Leigh Bemker LaPoe, LSU Participants Peace Journalism of International Media: Reporting of CNN on Sudan Genocide Sookyung Koo, Grad student, Georgetown University Pop Culture and Nuclear Energy Perceptions Denise DeGarmo, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville John Hanson, Eastern Illinois University Tea Party Trickster Resonates the 2010 Midterm Elections: Newspapers' Crafting of the Palin Myth Ben LaPoe, Louisiana State University Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State University Discussant Rosanne Scholl, LSU 2100 Perspectives on Money in Politics Thursday Elections and Voting 8:00am-9:30am La Salle B Participants More Money, More Problems?: The Relationship Between Campaign Spending/Contributions and Feelings of Trust and Political Efficacy Michael Cobb, North Carolina State University James Zink, North Carolina State University Patterns of Failure: Why Campaign Finance Laws and Regulations Undermine Disclosure and Transparency Roger Austin, University of Florida The Role of Campaign Spending in Runoff Elections Richard N. Engstrom, Kennesaw State University Matthew Jennings, University of Georgia How Plain Language Affects Candidate Understanding of Campaign Finance Regulations Mary Jo Shepherd, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Discussant Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner College 2100 2100 Effects of Electoral Rules on Campaigns and Policy Thursday Comparative Politics of Industrial Nations 8:00am-9:30am La Salle C Chair Aimee Arias, Florida Atlantic University Participants When Do Open List Electoral Systems Promote Political Corruption? Joel Johnson, Colorado State University - Pueblo Electoral Rules and their Effects on Elite Recruitment Murat Altuglu, Florida International University Electoral Systems and Welfare State Types: Evaluating Causal Mechanisms Nina Simeonova Barzachka, University of Virginia Discussant Rachael Karen Cremona, Flagler College 2100 Party Leadership, Party Government, and Party Ideology in Parliamentary Democracies Thursday Political Parties 8:00am-9:30am Lafitte Chair Gregory Shufeldt, University of Notre Dame Participants Ethnoregional Parties and Ideological Change in Western Europe Sarah Clayman, American University How Intra-Cabinet Variation Conditions Perceptions of Government Parties David Fortunato, Rice University James Adams, University of California, Davis Party Leadership Selection in Parliamentary Democracies Florence So, University of California, Los Angeles Who Survives?: Electoral System, Dominant Party System, and Ministerial Turnover in Italy between 1948 and 1992 Atsushi Osaki, Waseda University Discussants Carolyn Forestiere, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Cas Mudde, DePauw University 2100 2100 Authority in Global Governance Thursday International Politics: Global Issues, IPE, and Human Rights 8:00am-9:30am Mardi Gras I Chair Dale L. Smith, Florida State University Participants States Behaving Badly: European Monetary Union, Deficit Compliance and the Two-Level Game William Thomas Daniel, University of Pittsburgh The Hidden Power of the Borrower: IMF Lending in Financial Crises Unislawa Williams, Spelman College When Clashes Spur Rules: Domestic Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds Institutionalization Di Wang, Texas A&M University Mapping the Delegation Process to the IAEA on Establishing Nuclear Power Safety Regulations Aja Jacqueline Binette, Temple University Discussant Dale L. Smith, Florida State University 2100 Gendered Perceptions: Attitudes about Women and Politics Thursday Race Ethnicity, and Gender 8:00am-9:30am Mardi Gras II Participants Contextual Determinants of Attitudes About Gender Among Adolescents J Celeste Lay, Tulane University Caroline Allen, Tulane University Elizabeth Brusseau, Tulane University Melissa Barwick, Tulane University Gender and Perceptions of State Legislators Alicia Reyes-Barriéntez, Duke University Gloria Ayee, Duke University Ushering In A New Era of Oppression: American Policy and Its Impact on Women Internationally Heather Jene Wellman, Nova Southeastern University 2100 Racial Influences in Lobbying Issues, Framing, and Mobilization Thursday Interest Groups, Advocacy and Political Mobilization