2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-12:45 pm
47-8 ENTREPRENEURS AND PUBLIC OPINION IN
DRUG POLICY
Room UEH 403 on the 4th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Michael J. Licari, University of Northern Iowa
michael.licari@uni.edu
Paper Police Instructors are Integral Part of School-Based Prevention
Programming But Little is Known about Students’ Attitudes
Toward Them. This Study Examines Differences in Students'
Perceptions of DARE Officers Across 6 Metropolitan Areas in
the U.S.
This study provides an examination of differences in students'
perceptions of DARE officers across six metropolitan areas in the
United States.
Augustine Hammond, Augusta State University
ahammon3@aug.edu
Paper Do Czars Matter An Assessment of Effectiveness of Drug
Czars
Czars are being named to lead in a variety of complex policy
areas, from intelligence to AIDS. The Drug Czars show that to be
successful, czars must be persuasive, have presidential support, and
have goals that coincide with those of Congress.
Catherine Moses, Georgia College and State University
cati.moses@gcsu.edu
Paper Alternatives to Prison
This is an evaluative study of a community mental health center’s
intensive, multi-disciplinary outpatient mental health and substance
abuse treatment program (M-COIT) for parolees who are mentally
ill and/or have substance disorders.
Pamela Joan Walsh, Eastern Michigan University
pwalsh@emich.edu
Paper Philanthropy and Policy: Soros, the DPA, and the Rockefellar
Drug Laws
This paper seeks to determine whether the 2004 reforms of the
Rockefeller drug laws in New York can be attributed to the DPA,
a reform/activist organization, or to the efforts of philanthropist
George Soros independently of this organization.
April Dawn Henning, City University of New York
ahenning@gc.cuny.edu
Disc. Megan Elizabeth Osterbur, University of New Orleans
mosterbu@uno.edu
Michael J. Licari, University of Northern Iowa
michael.licari@uni.edu
47-25 IMMIGRATION POLICY IN COMPARATIVE
PERSPECTIVE (Co-sponsored with Comparative
Politics: Industrialized Countries, European Politics,
and Legislative Politics: Institutions, see 2-18, 7-19 and
40-28)
Room UEH 411 on the 4th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan
annlin@umich.edu
Paper A Comparative Study of Immigration in Politics: The UK,
1968-1983 and the U.S., 1982-1996
Because of its divisiveness, rational political leaders should
suppress immigration as a political issue. The normally do. When,
why, and how does this suppression fail
Stuart Matthew Tendler, University of Texas, Austin
stendler@mail.utexas.edu
Paper America's Great Debate and the History of U.S. Immigration
Policy
This paper develops a three-dimensional model of punctuated
equilibrium in immigration policymaking, reviews the history of
immn policy, and analyzes the 2005-07 debate over comprehensive
immigration reform in this context.
Marc R. Rosenblum, University of New Orleans
mrosenbl@uno.edu
Paper
Paper
Disc.
About-Face, or Bump in the Road Great Britain’s 2004 Open
Border Immigration Policy in Historical Perspective
This paper seeks to understand Great Britain's liberal immigration
policy with regard to the 2004 European Union accession countries
within the broader context of its historically restrcitive border
controls.
Michael K. Busch, City University of New York
mbusch@gc.cuny.edu
Utku Sezgin, Graduate Center, SUNY
usezgin@gc.cuny.edu
Exploring the Contextual Determinants of Individual Attitudes
Toward Immigrants and Criminal Activity and Their Spillover
Policy Implications
This paper asks how individual attributes in addition to the racial
contextual environment where people live influence their belief
that immigrants cause higher crime rates. Immigration attitudes are
shown to impact punitive crime policy preferences
Garrick L. Percival, University of Minnesota, Duluth
percival@d.umn.edu
Mary Currin-Percival, University of Minnesota, Duluth
mcurrinp@d.umn.edu
Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan
annlin@umich.edu
48-2 ECONOMIC OUTCOMES AND POLITICAL
CHOICES
Room Suite 9-150 on the 9th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Peter M. Frank, Wingate University
pfrank@wingate.edu
Paper Parties, Congress, and the Stock Market
This paper develops a theoretical framework to understand why
the ideological leanings of the incumbent and the degree of
concentration of powers in the polity interact in ways that affect
stock market performance.
Matthias Ederer, Goldman Sachs
Matthias.Ederer@gs.com
Jose Fernandez-Albertos, IBEI, Barcelona
jfernandez@ibei.org
Victor Lapuente, Göteborg University
victor.lapuente@pol.gu.se
Paper The Effect on Work Effort of Combined Marginal Tax Rates on
the Working Poor
This paper uses data from the Survey of Income and Program
Participation to analyze the effect of the sumultaneous phase-out of
multiple assistance programs over the same income range.
Paul D. Trampe, George Mason University
ptrampe@gmu.edu
Paper The Effect of Income Distribution on Party Identification and
Voting
In this paper I use the 2000 and 2004 National Annenberg Election
Surveys to examine the relationship between income polarization
and political behavior at the level of congressional districts, based
on the arguments in "Polarized America" (2007).
Alexander Herzog, New York University
alexander.herzog@nyu.edu
Disc. Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University
jhp2121@columbia.edu
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