2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-12:45 pm
Friday, April 4-12:45 pm
1-105 ROUNDTABLE: ELECTORAL COLLEGE
PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, AND REFORMS (Cosponsored
with Representation and Electoral Systems,
see 24-101)
Room Empire on the Lobby Level, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Paul Sracic, Youngstown State University
pasracic@ysu.edu
This panel brings together scholars from various disciplines
(political science, law, and mathematics) who have studied and
written about the potential problems inherent in our electoral college
system.
Panelist John Fortier, American Enterprise Institute
JFortier@AEI.org
Robert Bennett, Northwestern University
r-bennett@law.northwestern.edu
Nathan Ritchey, Youngstown State University
npritchey@ysu.edu
Daniel Lowenstein, University of California, Los Angeles
lowenstein@law.ucla.edu
2-6 COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY (Co-sponsored with
Public Policy, see 47-29)
Room PDR 6 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Alexandra Hennessy, University of Rochester
hennessy@bu.edu
Paper Welfare vs. Health Care Capitalism: Explaining Anomalies in
Welfare Theory
This paper examines the disconnect between "models of welfarecapitalism"
and national health care systems. Explores the unique
political economy of health care and how it alters traditional
patterns of welfare state evolution and development.
Jason E. Jordan, Florida State University
jjordan@fsu.edu
Paper Dual Response: Declining Birth Rate and Policy Response in
Germany and Japan
The paper examines Japan’s and Germany’s policy responses to a
low birth rate and aging population and analyzes how distributional
conflicts between the elderly and young have played out since 1990.
Nicole Richardt, University of Utah
nicole.richardt@poli-sci.utah.edu
Akiko Kurata, University of Utah
cafeholic@hotmail.com
Paper The Politics of Health Promotion: Analyzing Healthy Public
Policy's Impact on Tobacco Control in United States and South
Africa
This public health policy, comparative public policy, and
international organization research looks at the impact of health
promotion on tobacco control in the United States and South Africa
from the Canadian Lalonde report of 1974 to 2004.
Frederick Appah, University of Wisconsin, Rock County
frederick.appah@uwc.edu
Paper The Influence of Culture on Home Health Care Policy
Implementation
This paper is a comparative study of Indiana and Puerto Rico. It
examines the influence of culture on the implementation of home
health care programs formulated within an American culture, but
implemented in places with different cultural traditions.
Minerva Cruz, Purdue University
mcruz@purdue.edu
Disc. Oleg Kodolov, Eastern Illinois University
okodolov@eiu.edu
Alexandra Hennessy, University of Rochester
hennessy@bu.edu
3-8 WELFARE IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES
Room Suite 10-250 on the 10th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Christina Schatzman, Arizona State University
Schatzman@asu.edu
Paper The Politics of Tripartite Cooperation in New Democracies: A
Cross-national Analysis
This paper introduces an original dataset of labor agreements in new
democracies. Using Boolean analysis, it shows that protective labor
market institutions and practices, not left governments, explain most
instances of cooperation.
Jose A. Aleman, Fordham University
aleman@fordham.edu
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No Democracy, No Weekend: Political Determinants of Hours
Worked in Developing and Developed Countries
An analysis of data from dozens of developing countries previously
not investigated reveals that regime type is a greater determinant
of weekly hours worked than median income or inequality, the two
causes touted most by work hours scholars.
Jeffrey Peter Crean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
jpcrean2@uiuc.edu
Welfare State Development and Consolidation Amongst
Developing Countries
This paper takes the Hicks’ model of welfare state consolidation
and extends it to 80 developing countries. To complement work
done on the welfare state in developing countries, welfare states are
evaluated in terms of policy provisions.
Craig A. Shockley, Marquette University
craig.shockley@mu.edu
Marching Toward a Harmonious Society: Happiness and Local
Government Performance in Urban China
Happiness of citizenry receives increasing attention of Chinese
government and media, and citizens' happiness is used to gauge
local government performance . This study aims to discover
happiness in China and model factors that affect the happiness.
Diqing Lou, Texas A&M University
stella@polisci.tamu.edu
Hadii M. Mamudu, University of California, San Francisco
hadii.mamudu@ucsf.edu
Abhishek Chatterjee, University of Virginia
ac7y@virginia.edu
4-21 TRANSITION POLITICS IN AFRICA II
Room Salon 6 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Rita Kiki Nkiru Edozie, Michigan State University
rkedozie@msu.edu
Paper Political Participation in Africa: Evidence from Experimental
Research
We analyze data from the Afrobarameter and a structured
experiment on university students in Senegal. We find that although
many Africans do not vote, they are politically active, and poor
economic conditions positively affect participation.
Kris Inman, University of California, Davis
inman.kris@gmail.com
Josephine T. Andrews, University of California, Davis
jtandrews@ucdavis.edu
Paper Learning Democracy in Africa: The Alternation Effect
Using a multilevel model, this study examines whether the number
of alternations in power mediates the relationship between citizens’
partisan status as part of the political minority or majority and their
support for the political system.
Wonbin Cho, University of Kentucky
wonbin.cho@uke.edu
Carolyn Logan, Michigan State University
clogan@msu.edu
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