2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-12:45 pm
5-7 INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF TAXING AND
SPENDING
Room UEH 409 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Paper Party System Nationalization and Public Goods Production
In this paper we examine the extent to which party system
nationalization covaries (or does not covary) with the delivery of
public benefits (specifically health benefits) by governments.
Ken Kollman, University of Michigan
kkollman@umich.edu
Allen Hicken, University of Michigan
ahicken@umich.edu
Joel Simmons, SUNY, Stony Brook University
joel.simmons@gmail.com
Paper Presidential Influence over Distributional Consequences
This essay focuses on how political factors affect the patterns of
allocating selective benefits to selected geographical regions in a
presidential regime, utilizing the panel of all the municipalities in
Korea from 1990 to 2005.
Kuniaki Nemoto, University of California, San Diego
knemoto@ucsd.edu
Paper Multiparty Government, Welfare Spending, and Policy
Responsiveness
This study examines the question of whether policymaking in
multiparty parliamentary democracies, particularly on welfare
spending, is responsive to shifts in public opinion throughout the
government’s term in office.
Lanny W. Martin, Rice University
lmartin@rice.edu
Paper Party System Institutionalization and Government Spending
Despite the voluminous work on government spending, few works
have considered the impact party system institutionalization has on
this area of policymaking.
Joseph W. Robbins, Texas Tech University
joseph.w.robbins@ttu.edu
Disc. Alexander Kuo, Stanford University
agkuo@stanford.edu
5-14 PARTY SYSTEMS
Room Suite 11-150 on the 11th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair Benjamin Nyblade, University of British Columbia
bnyblade@politics.ubc.ca
Paper Party System Change and Ideological Congruence
This paper examines the changing party systems in Western
democracies,1950 through 2000. Interactions between the party
systems, especially their polarization, and the election rules shape
the degree of ideological congruence.
G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester
gb.powell@rochester.edu
Paper Legislative Parties Effect on the Number of Presidential
Candidates
I argue that the degree of fragmentation in the pool of legislative
parties has an impact on the number of viable candidates who enter
the presidential race. This impact functions simultaneously with the
opposite influence.
Jason Eichorst, Rice University
jaeichorst@rice.edu
Paper Legislative Process and Party System Change in Western
European Democracies
Using the dataset for 18 Western European democracies between
1960 and 2002, we find that the emergence of a new party is
influenced by the potential opportunity for influence perceived by
political elites from rules and procedures in parliament.
Sang-Jung Han, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
hansj@umich.edu
Woo-Jin Kang, York College of Pennsylvania
nomadwj@gmail.com
Disc.
Benjamin Nyblade, University of British Columbia
bnyblade@politics.ubc.ca
Nathan F. Batto, University of the Pacific
nbatto@pacific.edu
6-10 CORRUPTION IN POLITICS
Room UEH 408 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair Yuliya Tverdova, University of California, Irvine
tverdova@uci.edu
Paper Explaining Corruption Perceptions: A Cross-National Analysis
of 30 Countries
This paper presents a cross-national analysis of the determination
of individual-level corruption perceptions by social status, trust,
bribery experience and other factos across 30 countries participating
in the 2006 ISSP Role of Government Survey
Michael Lee Smith, New School for Social Research
smitm272@newschool.edu
Paper Corruption and Trust in Mexico
The paper explores the relationship between perceptions of
corruption and two dimensions of trust, interpersonal trust and trust
in fundamental government institutions using Mexico as the case
study.
Stephen D. Morris, University of South Alabama
smorris@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Joseph L. Klesner, Kenyon College
klesner@kenyon.edu
Paper Corruption and Presidential Approval in Mexico
Corruption has been a serious illness in Mexico; however, we do
not know if people’s perceptions about the President’s ability to
address corruption affect approval. This study sheds light about the
relationship between approval and corruption.
Ricardo Roman Gomez-Vilchis, University of California, San
Diego
rgomezvilchis@ucsd.edu
Disc. Nickolas Jorgensen, University of Idaho
nickjorg@uidaho.edu
Yuliya Tverdova, University of California, Irvine
tverdova@uci.edu
7-11 LEGAL INTEGRATION IN EUROPE
Room Suite 9-150 on the 9th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair Brooke Luetgert, University of Mannheim
brooke.luetgert@uni-mannheim.de
Paper Pre-Accession Influence of the ECJ: Do Constitutional Courts
Use the ECJ
This paper assesses the influence of the ECJ on the Constitutional
Courts of pre-access Romania and Bulgaria arguing that the ECJ’s
influence varies with society’s opinion on EU integration and
proximity to accession decisions.
Kathleen R. Barrett, Georgia State University
kathiebarrett@earthlink.net
Paper Greatly Exaggerated Reports: Legal Integration in the
European Union
This article applies constitutional economics to regional integration
in the area of legal integration and tests its predictions against data
on citation rates in Irish, British, and German courts.
Nathan D. Griffith, Belmont University
griffithn@mail.belmont.edu
Paper Exit Through the Backdoor: Differentiated Integration in EU
Secondary Law
This paper presents original data on the use of a mechanism for
differentiated application of European legislation. It further explores
the effect of such diversity accommodating procedures on EU
integration.
Vessela Hristova, Harvard University
vhristov@fas.harvard.edu
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