2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-12:45 pm
49-8 INSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
Room Salon 1 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Tanya Heikkila, Columbia University
th2063@columbia.edu
Paper Resolving River Basin Conflicts: The Role of Conflict Types and
Forums
This paper analyzes how the resolution of common pool resource
conflicts is related to conflict type and institutional venues. Data
comes from a study of over 200 water resource conflicts in 14
interstate river basins in the western U.S.
Tanya Heikkila, Columbia University
th2063@columbia.edu
Edella Schlager, University of Arizona
eschlager@eller.arizona.edu
Paper Bureaucratic Mobility and the Adoption of Water Conservation
Rates
Executive leadership is an important driver of water conservation
rates. Analysis of U.S. water utilities shows that agencies with
professionally active, mobile executives (who arrive from other
governments) are likely to adopt conservation rates.
Manny Teodoro, Colgate University
mteodoro@mail.colgate.edu
Paper Politics, Institutions and Local Government Provision of
Environmental Public Goods
We employ a political market framework to investigate the impacts
of political institutions, administrative structures, and interest group
demands on local efforts to restrict land use and acquire land for
conservation purposes in Florida.
Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University
rfeiock@fsu.edu
Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis
mnlubell@ucdavis.edu
Se Jin Lee, Florida State University
s106r@fsu.edu
Disc. Debra Holzhauer, Southeast Missouri State University
dholzhauer@semo.edu
49-10 SOCIAL IDEOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICIES
Room PDR 4 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Ramiro Berardo, University of Arizona
berardo@email.arizona.edu
Paper Environmental Rights vs. Individual Rights: The Case of
Argentina
This study explores the conflict between environmental and
individual rights. Specifically this paper examines the effects of
tourism on Argentina, its environment, and its people.
Jeffrey L. Roberg, Carthage College
jroberg@carthage.edu
Paper Evangelical Evironmentalism: A Return of the Social Gospel
This paper seeks to explore the impact of Evangelical Christians on
contemporary environmental politics while comparing it with the
older Social Gospel movement. This leads to some examination of
party politics, and specific policy repercussions.
Christopher Lee Cronin, Eastern Connecticut State University
christopherleecronin@gmail.com
Paper The Environmental and Economic Dimensions in Swedish
Politics
This paper shows that Swedish citizens view the environmental
and the economic left-right dimensions as relatively distinct.
The analysis relies on exploratory factor analysis and covariance
structure modeling.
Jacob Sohlberg, Stony Brook University
jacobsohlberg@gmail.com
50-8 GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE
Room PDR 18 on the 5th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Donald Racheter, Public Interest Institute
racheter@limitedgovernment.org
Paper Management of Greenways: Applying the IAD Framework
The study explores applicability of IAD framework in existing
models of greenway management. It uses a meta analysis method to
identify important actors in the decision-making equation. Findings
are expected to inform management of greenways.
Kamna Lal, University of Illinois, Chicago
klal2@uic.edu
Eric Welch, University of Illinois, Chicago
ewwelch@uic.edu
Paper Uncovering Political Institutions: The Government and
Governance of Ohio
This paper conceptually advances notions of democratic governance
in Ohio by melding Braybrooke and Lindblom’s partisan disjointed
incrementalism with the institutional categories of March and Olsen.
Vera Vogelsang-Coombs, Cleveland State University
vera@urban.csuohio.edu
Lawrence F. Keller, Cleveland State University
larry@urban.csuohio.edu
Paper Subsidiarity Portfolios and Separation Compacts to Enhance
the Governance of State-Owned Banks
State-owned banks in Latin America and Asia are ridden by lack of
accountability, transparency and corruption. The paper provides a
new approach to foster their governance.
Rodolfo Apreda, University of Cema
ra@cema.edu.ar
Paper Organizing Attention: Responses of the Bureaucracy to Agenda
Disruption
This research addresses how bureaucracies respond to policy
disruptions – shifts in signals about policy priorities – in developing
notions about organizational attention and the consequences of the
limits to it.
Peter J. May, University of Washington
pmay@u.washington.edu
Samuel Workman, University of Washington
sworkman@u.washington.edu
Bryan D. Jones, University of Washington
bdjones@u.washington.edu
Disc. George William Dougherty, University of Pittsburgh
gwdjr@pitt.edu
50-13 PERSONNEL - GENDER AND RACE
Room PDR 9 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Holly T. Goerdel, University of Kansas
hgoerdel@ku.edu
Paper The Missing Link: Gender and State Performance
This paper examines the link between passive representativeness,
active representation, and representative results using state level
analysis linking proportions of women in state government to
difference in state government performance.
Cynthia J. Bowling, Auburn University
bowlicj@auburn.edu
Christine Kelleher, Villanova University
christine.kelleher@villanova.edu
Deil S. Wright, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
dswright@mindspring.com
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