Preliminary Program, PRE CONFERENCE Southern Political Science Association 2017 Annual Meeting version 4.0 January 9, 2017 2908 2908 Office - Thursday Thursday Meetings 7:00am-6:30pm Boardroom 2911 Registration - Thursday Thursday Meetings 7:00am-6:00pm 2101 2101 Executive Council I Meeting Thursday Meetings 8:00am-11:00am 2101 Political Philosophy for the Many Thursday Political Theory 8:00am-9:30am Participants Jarrett Carty, Concordia University David D Corey, Baylor University Bryan-Paul Frost, UL-Lafayette Daniel DiLeo, Penn State Altoona According to contemporary commentators, political philosophy came into being as a reaction to democracy (Ober) or as a cure for the tyrannic impulses of the most ambitious, capable, and privileged (Bloom). In neither account was it intended for a mass audience. And in fact, in Plato’s Republic, Socrates warned against exposing all but those few fully possessed of mature virtue to penetrating examination of conventional presuppositions. Today’s teachers of political philosophy take advantage of political philosophy’s power to challenge students to examine what they have accepted on faith. If they are bereft of such faith, they may take political philosophy’s challenge to convention as a call to destructive iconoclasm or license to indulge immoderate desires. The problem is that we cannot vouch for the mature virtue of our students. The teacher of political philosophy is therefore confronted with profound ethical questions. Should she or he keep the radically zetetic essence of political philosophy under wraps, saving it for those who have built a record of serious study over a number of courses and have come to be known through informal conversations? One cost of doing so is to make initial studies less exciting or more ideological than they should be. Or is it best to introduce students to radical inquiry from the start, perhaps relying on the sad assumption that its impact will be only superficial and temporary. The purpose of this panel is to explore these questions. 2102 2102 Thinking About Aristotle Thursday Political Theory 8:00am-9:30am Chair Shane Gassaway, Tulane University Participants Taming the Philosopher John Boersma, Louisiana State University The Rhetoric of Anger: Anger, Achilles, and the Problem of One’s Own Christine J. Basil, Baylor University The Role of Trust and Friendship in Aristotle's Account of the Intellectual Virtues Rachel Alexander, Baylor University Aristotle’s Introduction to Friendship: Knowledge, Truth and Love in Book VII of the Ethics Stephen Block, Baylor University Patrick Cain, Lakehead University Discussant John Timothy Collins, University of North Alabama 2103 International Political Economy: The Asian Context Thursday International Politics: Global Issues, IPE, and Human Rights 8:00am-9:30am Chair Jonathon Patrick Whooley, San Francisco State University Participants Beijing’s Winning Hand: Russia, the West, and the Competition over Eastern Europe G Doug Davis, Troy University Michael Slobodchikoff, Troy University Business actors in global environmental policy process: A case of Japan's response Masatoshi Yokota, Tokyo University of Science Evolving ASEAN – The Institute of Institutions Needed not the Regional Organization Desired ADNAN RASOOL, Georgia State University Infrastructure facilities development of scheduled tribe in India-A study of Khammam district of Telangana state harishankar banothu, kakatiya university Rational Design of the Allocation of Confucius Institutes Jun Xiang, Rutgers University Wei-hao Huang, Rutgers University Discussant Jonathon Patrick Whooley, San Francisco State University 2104 2104 Power and Influence in Agencies Thursday Bureaucratic Politics 8:00am-9:30am Chair Michelle Belco, University of Houston Participants Agency Amassed: The Capacity of the Early Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Jennifer Woodward, Middle Tennessee State University Campaign Contributions: Another way to capture the Food and Drug Administration Sophiya Das, University of Houston Does Army Engagement with Congress Affect Budgets? A Qualified 'Yes' Heidi Demarest, US Military Academy Which Agencies are Powerful? Eric Rosenthal, Williams College Mark D Richardson, Vanderbilt University David E Lewis, Vanderbilt University Discussant Joshua Kennedy, Georgia Southern University 2105 Does the Public Get what the Public Wants? Public Opinion and Representation Thursday Public Opinion 8:00am-9:30am Chair Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado Participants Identity sorting and political compromise Nicholas T. Davis, Louisiana State University Mysterious Pork: The Lack of Citizen Awareness of Earmarks Travis Braidwood, Texas A&M University--Kingsville Perceptions of Effectiveness: How Legislators' Performance Influence Public Opinion on Effectiveness Angela McCarthy, LSU Public Demand for Legislative Compromise Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado Discussants Anne Cizmar, Eastern Kentucky University Kirby Goidel, Texas A&M These papers examine the correspondence between public policy and public opinion. 2106 2106 Comparative Political Economy: Intermestic Issues Thursday Comparative Politics: Developing Areas 8:00am-9:30am Chair Daewoo Lee, Columbus State University Participants EU and Turkey: Is application as rewarding as actual membership? Betul Dicle, Research by the Numbers, LLC Mehmet Dicle, Loyola University New Orleans Road Rage: How Infrastructure Programs Bring Out the Worst in Nation-States Margaret Annette Evans, University of Southern Mississippi Understanding the Implications the Participation of Lesser-Developed Nations in Global Climate Agreements. Ryan M. Yonk, Utah State University Joshua T. Smith, Utah State University Arthur Wardle, Utah State University Landon Stevens, Strata Policy Discussant Recha Reid, Georgia State University/Georgia Institute of Technology 2107 Legislative Institutions and Their (Unintended) Consequences Thursday Legislative Politics: Institutions 8:00am-9:30am Chair Matthew Lebo, Stony Brook University Participants Partisan Confirmation Politics and Filibuster Reform: Examining the Senate's Response to Procedural Change Michael S. Lynch, UGA Laine Shay, UGA Filling the Amendment Tree: How Procedures Harm Electoral Prospects Neilan S Chaturvedi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Legislative Capacity and Credit Risk David Fortunato, Texas A&M University Ian R. Turner, Texas A&M University Willful Ignorance?: The Impact of Campaign Disclosure Thresholds on Midwestern Legislative Elections Nicholas Bauroth, North Dakota State University Discussant Matthew Lebo, Stony Brook University 2108 2108 Elections and Political Institutions Thursday Elections and Voting 8:00am-9:30am Chair Beth Ginsberg, University of Connecticut Participants Flunking the Electoral College? Comparing Normative Critiques with Empirical Analysis of Alternative Presidential Election Models, 1952-2016 Richard S. Conley, University of Florida Charles G. Shields, University of Florida Party Loyalty, Presidential Endorsements, and Committee Assignments: Inter-Branch Influence within the House of Representatives Lindsay Rose Russell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The Effects of Judicial Electoral Systems: Nonpartisan and Retention Elections for State Judges James W. Endersby, University of Missouri Myunghee Lee, University of Missouri Discussants Beth Ginsberg, University of Connecticut Lyn Ragsdale, Rice University 2109 Law and Constitutionalism Thursday History and Politics 8:00am-9:30am Chair Billy Monroe, Prairie View A&M University Participants Informal Judicial Rules and American Constitutionalism Roger Paul Abshire, University of Houston Strong Men and Institutional Order: The Struggle for Power in the Federal Reserve Nicolas Wayne Thompson, University of South Florida The Puritans’ Covenant, the Declaration of Independence, and the State Constitutions Alin Fumurescu, University of Houston, Department of Political Science Understanding the Mechanisms Driving the Evolution of Obscenity Law in Five Common Law Countries Michael Fix, Georgia State University Discussant Nancy Maveety, Tulane University 2109 2109 AV and Storage - Thursday Thursday Meetings 8:00am-6:30pm Boardroom 2110 Classroom Engagement and Learning Assessment Thursday Teaching Political Science 8:00am-9:30am Chair Joel Olufowote, McMurry University Participants Audience, Purpose, and Civic Engagement: a Principled Approach to Writing Instruction in Political Science Ian G Anson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Curriculum Mapping: Strategies for Mapping Information Literacy Threshold Concepts to Course Objectives in Political Science Mohamed Berray, Florida State University Do Green Lives Matter? A Survey of Environmental Awareness Among First-Year Students Elizabeth Wheat, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Evan Miller, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Virtual Classrooms: Analyzing student learning and instructor online collaborative teaching experiences Anita Chadha, University of Houston, Downtown Discussant Joel Olufowote, McMurry University 2111 2111 Exploring Judicial Legitimacy Thursday Judicial Politics 8:00am-9:30am Chair Michael Nelson, Pennsylvania State Univeristy Participants Are Foreign Citations a Threat to Courts? Judicial Globalization and its Effects on Court Legitimacy. Elli Menounou, University of Southern California Explaining the Educational Gradient in Opposition to the Legal System. The Role of Economic Resources, Institutional Knowledge, and Cultural Affinity in the United States, 2014 Jeroen van der Waal, Erasmus