Southern Political Science Association Preliminary Program 2018 Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA Version 1.0 2100 2100 Challenges and Opportunities for Mentoring Undergraduate Research: A Faculty-Student Roundtable Thursday Undergraduate Research and Training 8:00am-9:30am Participants Geoffrey Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Bruce Anderson, Associate Professor, Southern Florida College Zachary Baumann, Florida Southern College Chair Carol Strong, University of Arkansas - Monticello With faculty and former students from a variety of institutions, our roundtable explores the challenges and opportunities for mentoring undergraduate research. Faculty will discuss departmental and institutional initiatives to promote undergraduate research opportunities. The former students will talk about the benefits they received from the experience and how it has prepared them for graduate school and the workforce. The roundtable will examine best practices and lessons learned from mentoring undergraduate political science research. Furthermore, the roundtable will identify resources, such as the Council on Undergraduate Research, that are available to faculty who are novices or veterans at mentoring undergraduate research. Audience participation and feedback will be encouraged throughout the discussion. 2100 Environmental politcs Thursday International Politics: Global Issues and IPE 8:00am-9:30am Chair Clint Peinhardt, University of Texas at Dallas Participants An Unexpected Partnership: Explaining Why Firms and NGOs Collaborate in Private Environmental Governance James Heilman, University of Massachusetts Amherst Decolonizing concepts: Exploring the conceptualization of climate justice, women’s empowerment, and happiness Chesney McOmber, University of Florida Karla Mundim, University of Florida Saskia A van Wees, University of Florida Examination of process on changing norms and actors in global environmental governance: A Japan's case Masatoshi Yokota, Tokyo University of Science Understanding China’s Evolving Role in Global Environmental Governance Saskia A van Wees, University of Florida The Impact of Women’s Participation on Sustainable Development Efforts in the Liberian Agriculture Industry Teaway Zehyoue Collins, Southern University and A&M College Discussant Clint Peinhardt, University of Texas at Dallas 2100 2100 Deliberation and Democratic Theory Thursday Democratic Participation & Civic Engagement 8:00am-9:30am Chair Phil Parvin, Loughborough university Participants Democracy without participation: A new politics for a disengaged era Phil Parvin, Loughborough university Talking to the Misinformed: How Politicians Communicate with Constituents who Lack Accurate Information D.J. Flynn, Dartmouth College The Politics of Language: Changing the Discourse during the Trump Presidency Mehnaaz Momen, Texas A&M International University Transforming Social Theory with Dereification and Reflective Practice David V. Edwards, University of Texas at Austin Foundations of Distrust: The State of Political Trust in The Federalist Stephanie Ahrens, University of Chicago Discussant Se-Hyoung Yi, University of Houston-Clear Lake 2100 Comparative Politics, Courts, and Democratization Thursday Judicial Politics 8:00am-9:30am Chair Vanessa Baird, Professor Participants Civil Courts and Authoritarian Stability Margaret Hanson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Perception of Procedural Justice and Judicial Legitimacy in China Dong Erico Yu, University of Iowa When can transitional justice be implemented in democratic governments? : Focusing on the process of democratization in South Korea In sul Park, Kyungpook National University Daeweon Seo, Kyungpook National University Discussant William M Myers, University of Tampa 2100 2100 Taxation and Economic Policy in the States Thursday State Politics 8:00am-9:30am Chair Shawn J Donahue, Binghamton University (SUNY) Participants Do Economic Measures at the State Level Drive Terrorism within the United States? Jeffrey Payne, University of Central Florida Kansas and California: A Contemporary Investigation into Reaganomics Alexander Myles Freedman, Tulane University Responding to an Economic Crisis: Gubernatorial Budgetary Authority and Social Assistance Spending Jeffrey V Swanson, Florida State University The Political Economy of Taxes that Governors Propose and Legislatures Dispose Richard Winters, Dartmouth College Carlisle Rainey, Texas A&M Kevin Stout, Univ of New York at Buffalo Discussant Seth C. McKee, Texas Tech University 2100 Middle East Policy Thursday International Politics: Conflict and Security 8:00am-9:30am Chair Albert Wolf, American University of Afghanistan Participants Iraqi Foreign Policy and Iran: Bandwagoning or Balancing? Clifton W Sherrill, Troy University The Iraq War and the Republican Party’s Traditional Foreign Policy: Accord or Discord? Bobby Lint, University of West Florida The misperception of Iranian foreign policy by both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama Clinton Lamar Ervin, American Military University Who Lost Iraq?: Competing Narratives for U.S. Foreign Policy Failure Kelly McHugh, Florida Southern College Discussant Albert Wolf, American University of Afghanistan 2100 2100 Political Inequality: Who Gets Represented? Thursday Class and Inequality 8:00am-9:30am Participants Economic Segregation and Unequal Policy Responsiveness Patrick Flavin, Baylor University William W. Franko, West Virginia University (Un)equal Representation in Low Inequality Contexts? Mads Andreas Elkjaer, University of Southern Denmark Are the Rich Always Better Represented than the Poor? Income- and Party-Stratified Policy Representation in the U.S. Senate Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University Cory Maks-Solomon, George Washington University Discussants Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University John Kuk, Washington University in St Louis 2100 Parties without Borders: Examining Comparative Party Competition Thursday Political Parties 8:00am-9:30am Chair Matthew Wagner, University of South Carolina Participants Statistical Nightmare of Causal Feedback: How Spatial Econometric Improves Empirical Evaluations of Party Competition Brandon Beomseob PARK, University of Missouri Laron K. Williams, University of Missouri Ed Goldring, University of Missouri Social Cleavages in New Democracies: An Application of the Lipset-Rokkan Paradigm Matthew Wagner, University of South Carolina The Death of the Catch-All Party? Rethinking Party Strategy in the 21st Century John Ishiyama, University of North Texas Christopher Williams, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Parties, platforms and populism: Party organization in an era of online-decision making Alberto Lioy, University of Oregon Democracy and Caste Politics in India: A Study in Andhra Pradesh Dr. SATRI VEERA KESALU, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD Discussants Christopher Williams, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Alberto Lioy, University of Oregon 2100 2100 CW11 Emergency Management: Theories and Evidence Thursday Conference Within A Conference 8:00am-9:30am Participants Policy Entrepreneurs and Disaster Policy: Testing the Influence of Entrepreneurs on Lawmakers Sarah Anderson, University of California Santa Barbara Robert DeLeo, Bentley University Kristin O'Donovan, Wayne State University Partial Couplings, Issue Linkage, and Multiple Partial Couplings Dana Archer Dolan, George Mason University Exploring the applicability of the Multiple Streams Framework to a non-democracy: Legal change in China after SARS and A(H7N9) avian influenza Annemieke van den Dool, University of Amsterdam Demographic Drivers of the Spread of Tornado Warning Information Scott Robinson, University of Oklahoma Jason Pudlo, University of Oklahoma Wesley Wehde, University of Oklahoma Narratives in the Policy Process: Hurricane Katrina as a Condensation Symbol Meg Warnement, North Carolina State University The 2018 mini-conference builds on the success of 2017’s CWC on hazards governance and growing scholarly attention to disasters, first responders, emergency management, and politics. We aim to showcase outstanding scholarship on emergency management, disasters, and politics, providing a venue for scholars to present their research, strengthen their network, and shape future hazards and disaster politics research across the social sciences via theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous empirical work. We hope this and subsequent conferences will motivate scholars of emergency management, hazards, and disaster politics to advance theoretical insights, work with generalizable theories, and use innovative and illuminating empirical methods and data. 2100 Latina/os in 2016: The Politics of Threat Thursday Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 8:00am-9:30am Chair Eric Juenke, Michigan State University Participants Assessing survey measures of Latino Racial Resentment Mark D Ramirez, Arizona State University Dave A.M. Peterson, Iowa State University Back in the Shadows, Back in the Streets Melissa R Michelson, Menlo College Jessica L Lavariega Monforti, California Lutheran University Exploring Public Attitudes Towards Sanctuary Cities Jason Casellas, University of Houston Sophia Jordan Wallace, Universiyt of Washington Latinos por Trump: Colorblind Latinos and racial appeals Rudy Alamillo, University of California, Riverside Media Coverage from the States: How the Tone of Media Reporting Changes as Demographics Shift Raul Madrid Jr., Claremont Graduate University Discussants Eric Juenke, Michigan State University Johanna Dunaway, Texas A&M University 2100 2100 Executive