2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-12:45 pm
Disc.
Brooke Luetgert, University of Mannheim
brooke.luetgert@uni-mannheim.de
Tracy H. Slagter, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
slagtert@uwosh.edu
8-13 LATIN AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Room UEH 412 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Paper Scandals, Media Exposure, and the 2006 Brazilian
Congressional Election
Are corrupt politicians in Brazil punished at the ballot box To
answer this question this research will take a look at the 2006
Brazilian congressional elections and use the results to compare it to
previous research on U.S. congressional elections.
Pedro Gomes dos Santos, University of Kansas
dos@ku.edu
Paper Tourism and Economic Growth in Costa Rica
This paper looks at the effect of tourism on economic growth and
the extent to which different types of investment in the economy
lead to different levels of economic growth.
Andrew P. Miller, Wilkes University
andrew.miller1@wilkes.edu
Paper Central Bank Independence in Developing Countries: The
President Matters
A multiple-principal model with agents constraining the agenda
explains the level of de jure central bank independence in
presidential systems. A refinement accounting for low quality
bureaucracies explains outcomes in developing countries.
Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Pittsburgh
acg11@pitt.edu
9-15 TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN EAST ASIA
Room Salon 12 on the 3rd Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair Alexander C. Tan, University of Canterbury
alex.tan@canterbury.ac.nz
Paper China’s Foreign Trade Reform and its Expected Declining
Trade Surpluses
China’s double-digit annual growth rate may be decelerating due
to the 2006 reforms. Trade surpluses may narrow. This paper will
analyze the likely consequences of these reforms.
Victoria L. Mantzopoulos, University of Detroit, Mercy
armstrov@udmercy.edu
Raphel Shen, University of Detroit, Mercy
shenrs@udmercy.edu
Paper Why the Rush to Bilateral Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-
Pacific
What are the principal factors behind the sudden interest in bilateral
FTAs in Asia We focus on general welfare considerations and
the salience of domestic political constraints as important factors
affecting the formation of bilateral FTAs.
Soo Yeon Kim, University of Maryland
skim@gvpt.umd.edu
Scott Kastner, University of Maryland
skastner@gvpt.umd.edu
Paper The State and Innovation Clusters: Contrasting Evidence from
China and Korea
This paper examines the institutional factors affecting conditions for
successful development of innovation clusters in China and Korea.
Special attention is paid to how regions in two countries engage in a
strategic coupling with global networks.
Youngmin Jo, Indiana University
yojo@indiana.edu
Paper The Political Economy of FTAs Politics in South Korea
This article clarifies the dynamics of South Korea’s decisionmaking
process regarding its signing of FTAs by investigating
differing outcomes of international negotiation.
Jung In Jo, Lee University
jjo@leeuniversity.edu
Disc.
Jihyun Kim, University of South Carolina
kim64@mailbox.sc.edu
12-5 CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY
Room Suite 8-150 on the 8th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair David Campbell Docherty, Wilfrid Laurier University
ddocherty@wlu.ca
Paper Does Benchmarking Lead to Convergence Lessons from
Canada's National Child Benefit
This study compares changes to the provincial components of
Canada's National Child Benefit since its 1997 inception, considers
whether these initiatives have converged over the last ten years, and
identifies the factors responsible for convergence.
Julie M. Simmons, University of Guelph
simmonsj@uoguelph.ca
Paper Impacts of Policy Coherence and Federalism on Aboriginal
Health Conditions
By using the principle of coherence in a federal context, this
proposal will show that Aboriginal health condition improvements
in Canada are slowed down by a double fragmentation of the
Aboriginal health policy domain.
Jean-François Savard, École nationale d'administration publique
Jean-Francois.Savard@enap.ca
Daphné Lamontagne, École nationale d'administration publique
daphne.lamontagne@gmail.com
Paper Fiscal Policies in Canadian Provinces: Convergence or
Divergence
Fiscal policy; Canadian provincial governments; equalization;
government ideology.
Oleg Kodolov, Eastern Illinois University
okodolov@eiu.edu
Paper Determinants of Public Revenues in Canadian Provinces: An
Empirical Study
Our study investigates a number of hypotheses about provincial
public revenues growth (personal and corporate income taxes and
consumption taxes). Our analysis covers the 1965-2003 period for
the ten Canadian provinces.
Geneviève Tellier, University of Ottawa
tellier@telfer.uottawa.ca
Paper State-Business Relations in Canada: Network Governance of
Industrial Policy()
This paper seeks to identify and analyze the institutional properties
and processes through which industrial policy, specifically, food
processing, is formulated and implemented in Canada over the past
fifteen years.
Charles Conteh, Lakehead University
contehcz@gmail.com
Disc. David Campbell Docherty, Wilfrid Laurier University
ddocherty@wlu.ca
Kelly Lynne Saunders, Brandon University
saundersk@brandonu.ca
13-12 ELECTIONS IN POST-COMMUNIST AND
COMMUNIST STATES
Room UEH 401 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair Frank C. Thames, Texas Tech University
frank.thames@ttu.edu
Paper 2nd Order Elections and the Perils of PR: Local and National
Voting in Serbia
Despite vast variation in the policy stakes facing national and local
governments, Serbian voting behavior exhibits very little variation
between 1st and 2nd order elections. These results present a major
challenge to the 2nd order election thesis.
Andrew Konitzer, Samford University
ackonitz@samford.edu
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