2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-12:45 pm
20-5 THEORIZING ETHNIC IDENTITY AND
NATIONALISM
Room UEH 406 on the 4th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Jeff William Justice, Truman State University
jjustice@truman.edu
Paper Liberal Nationalism Plus Civic-Ethnic Typology: Revisiting the
Oxymoron
While liberal nationalism revealed the empirical and normative
significance of national identity it ignored factors causing illiberal
nationalism. I argue that national identity type is consequential both
for fiduciary trust and democratic attitudes
Arus Harutyunyan, Western Michigan University
arus.harutyunyan@wmich.edu
Paper A Self-Betrayal in Taming Nationalism
My paper challenges “taming nationalism” arguments which
mistakenly view nationalism and liberal democracy as opposites.
It is nationalism's encounter with liberal democracy that has
transformed nationalism into a strong and even dangerous ideology.
Jinmin Lee, Brandeis University
jinmin@brandeis.edu
Paper Kicking the Nation: Spanish and Catalan Identity in the
Football Stadium
An ethnographic analysis of the manifestations of Catalan and
Spanish identity as expressed through football. One of the main
contemporary European public spaces, the football stadium serves
as a forum to produce, contrast and express identities.
Elga Castro, New School for Social Research
caste712@newschool.edu
Paper Identity: Psycholinguistics, Physics and Politics
Racial, ethnic and other group identity formation can be explained
as a consequence of psycholingustic processes. These identities can
be abused by forcing "winner-take-all" network formations to take
place.
Gail Ann Corrado, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
gcorrado@email.unc.edu
Disc. Jeff William Justice, Truman State University
jjustice@truman.edu
Eileen P. Sullivan, Rutgers University
epsulliv@andromeda.rutgers.edu
21-4 RACE AND IDENTITY
Room Salon 3 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Pia A. Knigge, Auburn University, Montgomery
pknigge@mail.aum.edu
Paper Slavery Reparations, Affirmative Action, and Implicit Feelings
of Closeness towards African-Americans
A representative phone survey and an online reaction time study
find that explicit and implicit feelings of closeness toward Blacks
predict support for slavery reparations and affirmative action
regardless of a respondent's own racial background.
Thomas Craemer, University of Connecticut
thomas.craemer@uconn.edu
Paper Social Desirability and Racial Framing of Barack Obama
This research explores the extent to which support for Barack
Obama and a hypothetical black candidate is tainted by socially
desirable responses.
Darren W. Davis, University of Notre Dame
darren.davis@nd.edu
David C. Wilson, University of Delaware
dcwilson@udel.edu
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As the Twig is Bent
We propose and test our theory of cultural continuity in partisan
realignment, updating with data from the 2004 National Election
Study. Our thesis is that racial attitudes continue to powerfully
structure partisan allegiences in the South.
David O. Sears, University of California, Los Angeles
sears@issr.ucla.edu
Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Texas, Austin
nvalenti@austin.utexas.edu
Effect of Phenotypic Prejudice on Voters' Evaluation of
Electoral Candidates Among Mexican and Mexican-Americans
In this paper I use experimental methods to analyze the effect of
both voters and electoral candidates' phenotypic appearance on the
voters' evaluation of electoral candidates, in contexts where race
isn't a clear line of political/social conflict.
Rosario Aguilar-Pariente, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
rosarioa@umich.edu
Fred Slocum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
frederick.slocum@mnsu.edu
22-9 IT'S THE ECONOMY.....OR IS IT
Room Salon 8 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Brad Lockerbie, East Carolina University
lockerbieb@ecu.edu
Paper Disagreement About Policy-- as Well as Party -- in the 2006
Election
This paper discusses the apparent influence of policy-related
conflicts on evaluations of President Bush and vote choice, at
four conceptual levels, based on a comprehensive national survey
conducted before and after the 2006 election.
Merrill Shanks, University of California, Berkeley
jms@csm.berkeley.edu
Matthew D. Wright, University of Texas, Austin
mwright@gov.utexas.edu
Loan Le, University of California, Berkeley
lkle@berkeley.edu
Douglas Strand, University of California, Berkeley
dstrand@csm.berkeley.edu
Edward Carmines, Indiana University, Bloomington
carmines@indiana.edu
Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley
hbrady@berkeley.edu
Paper State Economic Conditions and the Election of ‘Minority Party’
Governors
In an earlier paper, we found that ‘minority party’ governors are
more likely to be elected when the economy is strong. Here, we
expand on this line of analysis by looking at a wider range of
elections and exploring why this empirical pattern exists.
Stacey Pelika, College of William & Mary
spelika@wm.edu
Hannah Goble, University of Wisconsin, Madison
hbgoble@wisc.edu
Paper Political-Economic Cycles: The Case of Teacher Hiring in
Germany
This paper uses panel data on the employment of public school
teachers in the 16 German States (1992-2004) to examine whether
state education policy is subject to competence signaling politicaleconomic
cycles.
Markus Stephan Tepe, Free University, Berlin
markus.tepe@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de
Pieter Vanhuysse, University of Haifa
pieterv@construct.haifa.ac.il
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