2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Thursday, April 3-8:00 am
49-1 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY CHANGES: LOCAL TO
GLOBAL
Room UEH 402 on the 4th Floor, Thur at 8:00 am
Chair Deserai Anderson Crow, Duke University
deserai@comcast.net
Paper Processes of Environmental Policy Change in Communities:
The Case of Recreational Water Rights in Colorado
This research examines the process of policy change at the
community-level in environmental policy. Influences in this
process of change include entrepreneurs, policy knowledge, and a
combination of resource dependency and threats to the resource.
Deserai Anderson Crow, Duke University
deserai@comcast.net
Paper Responding to Policy Shocks: The Case of Flood Control
Mitigation
Major flooding events in the U.S. continue to increase both in
numbers and severity. This paper uses a punctuated equilibrium
model of policy change in order to understand when, if at all, major
flood events lead to substantive policy change.
Robert A. Holahan, Indiana University
raholaha@indiana.edu
Brian C. Steed, Indiana University
bcsteed@indiana.edu
Paper Contextualizing the Adirondack Wind Energy Park Debate:
Incorporating Environmental History into Environmental
Policy-Making
This project was completed as part of my American Studies
Master's thesis research at Purdue University in the Spring of 2007.
Erica Alexandria Morin, Purdue University
eamorin@purdue.edu
Disc. Deserai Anderson Crow, Duke University
deserai@comcast.net
50-10 INTERGOVERNMENTAL
Room Salon 5 on the 3rd Floor, Thur at 8:00 am
Chair Scott E. Robinson, Texas A&M University
srobinson@bushschool.tamu.edu
Paper Does Governance Matter: New Regionalism and Collaborative
Economic Development
The question of how governance influence on economic
developement is a very important, yet remains unanwered. This
study provides an integrative governance theory. Empirical study on
the relationship between governance and collaboration is followed.
Joo Hun Lee, University of Pittsburgh
jules529@gmail.com
Paper Interlocal Collaboration in the Supply of Public Goods in U.S.
Metropolitan Regions: A Pooled Analysis
This paper examines interlocal collaboration in MSA regions in the
United States.
Changhoon Jung, Auburn University
jungcha@auburn.edu
M. J. Moon, Yonsei University
mjmoon@yonsei.ac.kr
Chul-Young Roh, East Tennessee State University
roh@etsu.edu
Paper The Cost of Compliance: Preparedness and the Target
Capabilities List
The TCL contains “standards” that, if pursued by sub-national
governments, will distort budgets. Critical analysis of the TCL
will provide a clear view of the costs and impact of compliance on
revenues and expenditures below the national level.
Samuel Harvey Clovis, Morningside College
clovis@morningside.edu
Paper
Disc.
Interlocal Cooperation and Perceptions of Policy, Neighbors,
and the State
Using data from the Indiana Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, this paper examines how local
officials' perceptions of community conditions, vertical, and
horizontal intergovernmental relations predict interlocal
cooperation.
Eric Zeemering, San Francisco State University
zeem@sfsu.edu
Scott E. Robinson, Texas A&M University
srobinson@bushschool.tamu.edu
51-2 INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES OF SLAVERY AND
JIM CROW
Room UEH 407 on the 4th Floor, Thur at 8:00 am
Chair Charles M. Lamb, University at Buffalo, SUNY
clamb@buffalo.edu
Paper Civil Rights and the Logic of Political Change
Under what conditions do organized benefit-seekers succeed in
winning concessions from political actors To answer this question,
I combine political science research on public policy with the
sociological literature on social movement outcome.
Joseph Luders, Yeshiva University
luders@yu.edu
Paper Reconstructing Citizenship and Civil Society in Postbellum
America
This paper will analyze the creation of constitutional citizenship
during Reconstruction and the efforts of African Americans
to reconstruct citizenship and civil society on the ground from
1865-1920.
James W. Fox, Stetson University
fox@law.stetson.edu
Paper The People's Party: The Birth of a New Democracy in
Postbellum Kansas
This paper will examine the emergence of the Democratic Party in
southeast Kansas as the leaders of this nascent movement drew on
the anti-slavery rhetoric of pre-Civil War republicanism to construct
a new identity for the party in the 1870s.
John Mack, Labette Community College
johnm@labette.edu
Paper The Harassment of Black Elected Officials: A Congressional
Case Study
This paper explores black Congresspeople's allegations of
government "harassment" over the course of the past seventy years.
George Derek Musgrove, Carnegie Mellon University
derek.musgrove@gmail.com
Disc. Stephen Pimpare, Yeshiva University
pimpare@yu.edu
53-1 SPACE, SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE (Cosponsored
with Political Anthropology, see 55-4)
Room Suite 8-150 on the 8th Floor, Thur at 8:00 am
Chair Jan Kubik, Rutgers University
kubik@rci.rutgers.edu
Paper Justice and the City
An attempt to situate the justice question as a central one of urban
life. The paper aims at (1) a reinvigorated concept of the public
sphere as a site of justice, (2) a citizen politics of architecture, and
(3) a refined phenomenology of place.
Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto
mark.kingwell@utoronto.ca
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