Center For the Study of Democracy Organized Research Unit (ORU) University of California, Irvine Fall 2012 J. Dennis Hastert, Former Speaker of Princeton Professor Kim Lane the House, Offers Reflections on the Scheppele Discusses the “Past, Present, and Future” of “International State of Emergency” On October 19, 2011, CSD faculty, graduate Washington On February 23, 2012, the UCI campus community students, undergraduates in professor Wayne Sandholtz's International Relations course, and other was honored with a visit from J. Dennis Hastert, former members of the UCI community gathered to hear Speaker of the House of Representatives. Hastert spent a Kim Lane Scheppele deliver the 2011 Eckstein busy day on the UCI campus, having breakfast and lunch with faculty and graduate students, delivering the annual Lecture. The annual Eckstein lecture is a very special one for the CSD community, since it honors Peltason Lecture to Professor Matt Beckmann’s “Introduction to American Politics” undergraduate the late Harry Eckstein who was one of the founding students, and giving an evening talk and book signing at directors of CSD as well a respected figure in the the University Club. Hastert’s active presence on campus study of democracy more generally. CSD was enabled a diverse audience to listen to his reflections on especially honored to have Harry Eckstein's wife, politics and to ask questions of this respected politician. Marlene, in attendance at this year's lecture. Professor Beckmann’s undergraduate students took a Kim Lane Scheppele focused her talk on what particularly central role in the Peltason lecture by working she calls the “international state of emergency,” or in advance to research Hastert’s career and to develop the spread of “states of emergency” around the world. Scheppele argued that terrorist attacks induce questions to guide his talk. Hastert discussed the a general fear among domestic populations that importance of mentorship to his political career, an idea which he traced back to his early career as a teacher and pressures officials to act via the “state of emergency.” Though many have argued that wrestling coach in Illinois. He also candidly discussed his own rise to power in the House of Representatives, emergencies are temporary, lawless situations, crediting the trust he cultivated as the essential ingredient Scheppele contends the opposite – that instead they thatCenter brought for him The to power.Study of Democracy Vol. XII operate through more permanent instances 1of law. Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 11 UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy 2011-2012 2011-2012 CSD Graduate Fellows Katelyn Finley and Anna Tan CSD National and International Visiting Researchers Laurie Beaudonnet, European University Institute, Florence Italy, September 1, 2011 – January 31, 2012 Professor Stephen Burgard, Northeastern University, Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 2012 Rashedur Chowdhury, University of Cambridge Judge Business School, April 4, 2012 - June 30, 2012 Timm Fulge, University of Bremen, Germany, September 15, 2011 – December 15, 2011 Sarah John, Flinders University, Law School, Adelaide, Australia, April 2, 2012 – December 31, 2012 Daiane Menezes, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, January 13, 2012 – December 31, 2012 Professor Woojin Moon, Anjou University, South Korea, January 31, 2011 – January 31, 2012 Michael Neuber, Humboldt University of Berlin, December 1, 2011 – May 31, 2012 Dr. Kevin O’Leary, July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012 Mario Quaranta, Istituto Italiano Di Scienze Umane, Italy, October 19, 2011 – March 15, 2012 Daniel Schmuecking, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, March 5, 2012 – April 9, 2012 Professor Doh C. Shin, Professor Emeritus, Korea Foundation Chair and the Middlebush Chair at the University of Missouri, Columbia, January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012 Center for The Study of Democracy Vol. XII 2 UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy 2011-2012 Calendar of Events 2011-2012 February 7, 2012 March 21, 2012 October 18, 2011 November 17, 2011 "Inequalities, Welfare States "Does Partisan Gerrymandering "Confronting the "The Possibilities and Perils and Political Protest in Violate Individual Rights? Varieties of Islam" with of the Arab Awakening"" Western Europe" Mario Social Science and Vieth v Hedieh Mirahmadi, J.D., with Roger Cohen, New York Quaranta, CSD Visitor, Jubilirer" Tony McGann, President, World Times Columnist. Co- Democracy & Conflict Professor, UC Irvine. Law & Organization for sponsored by ISPF. Latte Resource Development February 9, 2012 and Education November 22, 2011 "Europe & America - March 22, 2012 "Meet with the Visitors." Converging or Diverging?” "Institutional Context and October 19, 2011 With Laurie Beaudonnet Sir Eldon Griffiths, Former Representational Strain in "Eckstein Lecture, (European University Member of Parliament and Party-Voter Agreement in “International State of Institute), Timm Fulge Minister in the British Western and Eastern Europe” Emergency" with Kim (University of Bremen), Government Professor Robert Lane Scheppele, Professor Woojin Moon Rohrschneider, University of Professor of Sociology (Anjou University), and February 16, 2012 Kansas. and Public Affairs, Mario Quaranta (Istituto "Do Constitutions Matter?" Director of the Program Italiano Di Scienze). Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz April 6, 2012 in Law and Public Professor of International The Robin Williams Lecture. Affairs at Princeton December 2, 2011 Law and Professor of “The Future of Violence: What University "Women, Property Rights Political Science, University Is High Tech Doing to Violent and Islam" with Assistant of Chicago, The Law School. Conflict?” Randall Collins, October 26, 2011 Professor Feryal Cherif, Co-sponsor with ISPF Dorothy Swaine Thomas "Insights about the 2012 Loyola Marymount Professor of Sociology, Presidential Election"" University. Co-sponsored by Feb. 17, 2012 University of Pennsylvania with Associate Professor the UCI Department of 8th Annual Japan-Irvine Matthew Beckmann, UC Political Science. Conference on Public Policy, May 3, 2012 Irvine Amihai Glazer, Professor, "Meet the Visitors.” With January 19, 2012 Economics, UC Irvine Rashedur Chowdhury November 9, 2011 Willie Brown, Former Mayor (University of Cambridge "Reflection on the 'Arab of San Francisco and Speaker February 23, 2012 Judge Business School), Sarah Spring' and the Role of of the California Assembly, “A Conversation with Former John (Flinders University), Cyber-Dissent in speaker for the Martin Luther Speaker J. Dennis Hastert: Daiane Menezes, (Catholic Democratizing in the King, Jr. Symposium, co- Reflections on Washington University of Rio Grande do Middle East with Dr. sponsor Cross Cultural Past, Present, and Future” J. Sul), Michael Neuber Asiay Daud, co- Center Dennis Hastert, Former (Humboldt University). sponsored with Cross Speaker of the U.S. House of Cultural Center February 6, 2012 Representatives May 12, 2012 “Can Justice Be Bought?" Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, 8th Annual Graduate Student November 21, 2011 March 14, 2012 Conference. “Empirical "Beyond Citizens UCI School of Law, "Constitutions and Treaty Democratic Theory” Guest United: Campaign Professor James Sample, Commitments" Wayne Speaker Ben Hubbard, Chair Finance Law and the Hofstra University, Professor Richard Hasen. Co- Sandholtz, Associate Emeritus, Comparative Roberts Court"" with Professor of Political Science, Religion at CSU Fullerton Professor Rick Hasen, sponsored by the UCI School of Law. UC Irvine. Law & Latte UCI School of Law Center for The Study of Democracy Vol. XII 3 UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy 2011-2012 Willie Brown, Former Mayor of San CSD Sponsors the Eighth Annual Francisco, Offers Reflections on Justice Graduate Student Conference. and Liberation to Commemorate Martin The Eight Annual Center for the Study of Democracy Graduate Student Conference was on Luther King, Jr. Day May 12, 2012. Centering on a conference theme of On January 19, 2012, UCI students, faculty, staff, and “Democracy and Its Development,” the conference visitors attended the Dr. Joseph L. White lecture given by featured graduate students from UC Irvine who Willie Brown, an accomplished California public servant and presented empirical research papers on a variety of st politician most well-known for serving as the 41 Mayor of topics related to the conference theme. Each panel San Francisco. Brown’s delivered the keynote address, entitled featured multiple CSD-affiliated faculty members “The Struggle for Justice and Liberation”, as part of the larger who served as discussants, providing feedback and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium held to commemorate suggestions for the further development of each Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. paper as well as thoughtful reflections on the Brown took the stage after introductions from Dr. Joseph themes of each panel. L. White and UCI’s Chancellor, Michael Drake, and delivered The morning session featured a panel called a frank but hopeful message about the state of racial and ethnic “Institutional Design and Participation in relations in the contemporary United States. Brown spoke to a Transitions,” which featured a lively group of diverse audience of students, faculty, staff, and interested papers on topics such as pension privatization ad community members and centered his talk around the question: nationalization in Argentina; the legacy of “What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say if he were giving this competitive authoritarianism in new democracies;