2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-12:45 pm
Paper
Disc.
The Politics of Administrative Law Judge Decision-Making:
1991 - 2006
Using original data collected under an NSF grant, I model over
4,000 initial decisions by 92 administrative law judges (ALJs)
between 1991 and 2006 as a function of the political party of the
judge, case characteristics, and economic influences.
Cole Taratoot, Georgia State University
cole@taratoot.com
Michael Herron, Dartmouth College
michael.herron@dartmouth.edu
Paper
Paper
The Public Control of Corporate Power: The 1909 Corporate
Tax, the Sixteenth Amendment, and the Legal Foundations of
the Modern Fiscal State
This paper explores the historical and legal context of the adoption
of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which
permitted a federal income tax.
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University
amehrotr@indiana.edu
State Formation and Market Formation in Historical
Perspective
Explains the establishment of institutionalized capital markets in
the United States and the development thereof in the context of late
eighteenth century to nineteenth century state formation.
Abhishek Chatterjee, University of Virginia
ac7y@virginia.edu
Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University
dcarpenter@gov.harvard.edu
50-15 PERSONNEL: OPINIONS OF GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES
Room PDR 16 on the 5th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Chair Carolyn J. Bourdeaux, Georgia State University
padcb@langate.gsu.edu
Disc.
Paper Shaping the State: The Development of Street-Level
Bureaucrats
This paper examines how two sets of street-level bureaucrats -
welfare workers and police officers - develop the identities and
views that shape their behavior during their first two years on the
job.
Zachary Warren Oberfield, University of Wisconsin, Madison
oberfield@polisci.wisc.edu
54-14
Room
Chair
Paper
CLERGY AND POLITICAL ACTION
UEH 410 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
Matthew Kristopher DeSantis, University of Texas, El Paso
mkdesantis@utep.edu
Dialogue Across Traditions: Lessons from ECT and the Joint
Declaration
Paper In Search of the Best: Character Traits of Police Officers in
Minnesota
This paper examines the perceptions of police executives and
communities in Minnesota regarding the character traits of police
applicants and officers and the strategies to recruit and hire qualified
applicants.
This paper explores the dialogues that led to the ECT statement
and the Joint Declaration on Justification. What lessons learned
from those dialogues might be applicable to political dialogue in
religiously and philosophically diverse society
Amy L. Cavender, Saint Mary's College
acavende@saintmarys.edu
MaCherie M. Placide,
placidemp@yahoo.com
Paper The Sociopolitical Activism of Warren S. Banfield
This paper examines the contributions of a Seventh-Day Adventist
Paper How Does Agency Goal Affect Employee Attitude Toward Pay
for Performance
This research asks an important question how agency mission
or policy goal influences employees' attitudes toward pay for
performance in the U.S. federal government. For this study, 2006
minister to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It also
discusses the denominational opposition he encountered due to his
sociopolitical activism.
Samuel Gene London, Jr., University of Bridgeport
slondon@bridgeport.edu
Federal Human Capital Survey data are analyzed.
Yoonho Kim, Southern Illinois University
yoonho@siu.edu
Paper A Typology and Analysis of Clerical Political and Social Action
This paper reviews the political and social action of clergy from
twenty American denominations, creates a typology of such actions,
Paper The Reciprocal Causations Between Work Satisfactions and
Work Performances: The Comparisons Among Public Sector
This research employs GSS data with three-stage least squares
and seemingly unrelated regression which to estimate this puzzle
and explains why clergy choose particular modes of political and
social involvement.
James L. Guth, Furman University
jim.guth@furman.edu
causation between satisfaction and performance in comparisons
with public sectors, private sectors and non-profit sectors.
Jun-Yi Hsieh, Florida State University
Disc. Matthew Kristopher DeSantis, University of Texas, El Paso
mkdesantis@utep.edu
Disc.
jh04e@fsu.edu
57-302 POSTER SESSSION: UNDERGRADUATES II
Rex L. Facer, Brigham Young University
Room Grand on the 4th Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
rfacer@byu.edu
Poster 1 Environmental Security and Ethnic Conflict in Eastern Burma
A human-centered environmental security approach explains deeper
51-7 CORPORATE POWER AND THE MODERN FISCAL
STATE
motives of ethnic conflict in Eastern Burma by linking resource
exploitation, militarization, and environmental degradation to
Room Salon 8 on the 3rd Floor, Sat at 12:45 pm
conflict propagation.
Chair Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University
Claire M. Balani, Austin College
dcarpenter@gov.harvard.edu
cmbalani@gmail.com
Paper Explaining the Institutional Form of the FRB, the Supreme
Court of Finance
This paper explains why the Democrats in the 1910s could persuade
the nation to adopt the Federal Reserve System with its rather
peculiar form, in face of the opposition from banking experts, by
utilizing the notion of organizational isomorphism.
Hiroshi Okayama, Keio University
okayama@law.keio.ac.jp
Poster 2 Mystery of Human Capital
This paper seeks to eliminate the differences between the nature
of property and human capital, thus making a parallel between
untapped capital in the Third World (as explained in Hernanado de
Soto's book The Mystery of Capital), and untapped labor resour
Sarah Friederich, Belmont University
friederichs@pop.belmont.edu
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