2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-10:00 am
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Regime Type and Repression: A Disaggregated Institutional
Approach
This paper focuses on the interaction between political participation
and executive constraints, arguing that the specific institutional
makeup of a mixed regime will impact its propensity toward
repressive behavior.
Alyssa K. Prorok, University of Maryland
aprorok@gvpt.umd.edu
The Effect of International Conflict on Domestic Repression,
1977-2001
A quantitative investigation into domestic human rights abuse
during international conflict. The results suggest that democracies
increase repression during conflict, while autocracies decrease
repression during conflict.
Thorin M. Wright, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
twright4@uiuc.edu
The Effects of Foreign Aid on Recipients' Use of Repressive
Policies
This paper analyzes the relationship between a country's level
of dependence on foreign aid and the government's recourse to
political repression.
Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University
tbhasin@kennesaw.edu
Raechelle Mascarenhas, Whitman College
mascarr@whitman.edu
Susan Hannah Allen, Texas Tech University
susan.allen@ttu.edu
18-4 IDENTITY, IDEOLOGY, AND FOREIGN POLICY
ORIENTATION
Room UEH 413 on the 4th Floor, Fri at 10:00 am
Chair Bradley R. Gitz, Lyon College
bgitz@lyon.edu
Paper Escaping India: An Explanation of Pakistan's Middle East
Orientation
The Middle Eastern orientation of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy is a
reflection of an attempt to escape and redefine its shared heritage
with India.
Aparna Pande, Boston University
apande@bu.edu
Paper National Identity and National Security in Norway and the U.S.
The author argues that despite their different position in the
international system, “national identity” is a useful analytical
concept when examining the policies of Norway and the U.S.
toward international security institutions.
Hilde Eliassen Restad, University of Virginia
her4a@virginia.edu
Paper What We Do or What We Are
The paper surveys the scholarly literature that has developed on the
subject of radical Islam since 9/11 and explores the assumptions and
policy implications of the two leading schools of thought.
Bradley R. Gitz, Lyon College
bgitz@lyon.edu
Disc. Bradley R. Gitz, Lyon College
bgitz@lyon.edu
19-7 COMMITTING TO PEACE
Room Suite 12-150 on the 12th Floor, Fri at 10:00 am
Chair Carmela Lutmar, Princeton University
clutmar@princeton.edu
Paper UN Peacekeeping as Military Interventionsf: Why Contribute
This study considers the changes in post-Cold War geographic
distribution and size of troop contributions to UN peacekeeping
operations to investigate the possibility of the emergence of a broad
based norm of international security responsibility.
Cosmina Menghes, University of Notre Dame
cmenghes@nd.edu
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Committing to Peace: The Consequences of Direct and Indirect
State Learning
This paper argues that traumatic experiences of war (direct learning)
and state reputations of violating peace agreements (indirect
learning) have a tendency to prolong interstate wars and shorten the
peace by creating commitment problems.
Bo Ram Kwon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
brkwon@email.unc.edu
Postcolonialism and Multilateral Security
We ask how different past colonial experiences have affected
contemporary multilateral security, using an events history model
to analyze ratification sequences and rates of all major multilateral
treaties on non-proliferation and arms regulation.
Isabella Alcaniz, University of Houston
ialcaniz@uh.edu
Katherine Howard Barillas, University of Houston
katstar@fqstudio.net
Veronica Caro Gonzalez, University of Houston
verowally@hotmail.com
Alliance Durability Beyond Abrogating Defection
Most of the time, when alliances are violated they are terminated
immediately. However, this is not always the case. This research
uses institutional explanations to answer why some alliances are
durable despite being violated.
Vanessa Ann Lefler, University of Iowa
vanessa-lavigne@uiowa.edu
Carmela Lutmar, Princeton University
clutmar@princeton.edu
Lina Maria Lovisa Svedin, University of Utah
lina.svedin@poli-sci.utah.edu
21-15 SOCIAL GROUPS
Room Suite 10-150 on the 10th Floor, Fri at 10:00 am
Chair Stephen P. Nickolson, University of California, Merced
snicholson@ucmerced.edu
Paper Building Bridges (rhetorically that is): Tying Abortion to Social
Groups
Social groups are understood to influence individual opinion;
however, little work has examined how the impact of social group
attachment on opinion varies as a function of change in political
discourse which connects said groups to political issues.
Carl L. Palmer, University of California, Davis
clpalmer@ucdavis.edu
Paper The Impact of Perceived Group-Based Social Costs on Attitude
Expression
This study determines how perceived social costs, brought on by
people’s need to identify themselves with their favored in-group,
impact respondents’ attitude expression concerning a political issue
or candidate.
Allyson F. Shortle, Ohio State University
shortle.1@polisci.osu.edu
Paper Testing Three Dimensions of Social Identity Among
Republicans and Democrats
I test a three-factor model of Social Identity to (a) examine its fit
in party identification, (b) test for differences between Republcians
and Democrats, and (c) compare the explanatory power of Ingroup
Affect, Ingroup Ties, and Centrality.
Francis Neely, San Francisco State University
fneely@sfsu.edu
Disc. Stephen P. Nickolson, University of California, Merced
snicholson@ucmerced.edu
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