2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-4:45 pm
Saturday, April 5-4:45 pm
3-15 PARTIES, PARTY SYSTEMS AND VOTERS
Room UEH 412 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
cmg@email.unc.edu
Paper Party Realignments in Latin America: Typology and Agenda
Why have some Latin American political parties succeeded in
responding to voters where others have not This paper presents a
new typology of party realignments and avenues for new theories to
explain this variation.
Noam Lupu, Princeton University
nlupu@princeton.edu
Paper Electoral Volatility in New Democracies: District and National
Level Data
How does electoral volatility fluctuate in the early elections of new
democracies Does it have an effect on the institutionalization of
the party system This paper addresses this issue using district and
national-level data.
Nasos Roussias, Yale University
roussias@yale.edu
Paper Elites and Democracy: Is There a Wealthy Median Voter in
Latin America
The purpose of this study is to explain what is the political
mechanism in place that explains elite-biased policies in the public
provision of health care and education in Latin America.
Christian Ponce de Leon, University of Chicago
chponce@uchicago.edu
Paper Harbingers of Change Challenges to the South African
Dominant Party System
What situations produce challengers in dominant party systems
Using South African municipal election data, I assess what
motivates candidates to defy the status quo.
Danielle Langfield, Ohio State University
langfield.1@osu.edu
4-15 DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH ASIA
Room Salon 9 on the 3rd Floor, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University
mahendra.lawoti@wmich.edu
Paper Divergent Democracies: Roots of Regime Endurance in India
and Pakistan
Why did democracy consolidate in India and falter in Pakistan This
paper argues that patterns of class incorporation in their respective
independence movements had early and enduring consequences for
their respective regime outcomes.
Maya Jessica Tudor, Princeton University
mtudor@princeton.edu
Paper Judiciary and Democratic Transition: The Cases of Pakistan
and Nepal
The paper examines the recent role of Supreme Courts in Pakistan
and Nepal in terms of their impact on the the independence of
judiciary as well as on democratic transition process.
Pramod K. Kantha, Wright State University, Dayton
pramod.kantha@wright.edu
Paper Democratization in Pakistan: The 2007 Elections
Next elections will be held for a non-sovereign parliament under
a partisan caretaker set-up. Yet, it will portray the constitutional
nature of the state, procedural democracy, army's role, Islamic
ascendancy and low salience of issues and policies.
Mohammad Waseem, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Lahore
waseem1007@hotmail.com
Disc. Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University
mahendra.lawoti@wmich.edu
4-18 DOMESTIC CAUSES OF DEMOCRATIZATION
Room Suite 9-150 on the 9th Floor, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Alejandra Rios-Cazares, University of California, San Diego
arioscaz@weber.ucsd.edu
Paper Huntington's Third Wave: Cresting, Crashing, or Chimerical
What influences democratization more- the international climate, or
domestic factors I empirically examine the third and fourth waves
of democratization to determine the relative impact of domestic and
international factors on transitions.
Jerome Felix Venteicher, University of Missouri
JFVenteicher@mizzou.edu
Paper The Variation in the Political Effect of Economic Development
With different extent of state involvement in economy, the effect of
development on democracy is different. This paper is to empirically
show that development does not always promote or inhibit
democracy across all types of countries as assumed.
Min Tang, Purdue University
nankaitom@hotmail.com
Dwayne Woods, Purdue University
dwoods2@purdue.edu
Paper No Taxation, No Democracy Democracy, Taxation, and Income
Inequality
It is widely accepted that taxation tends to promote the emergence
of representative institutions. My hypothesis is that the effects of
taxation on democracy tend to vary, depending on the levels of
income inequality.
Dae Jin Yi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
dyi@email.unc.edu
Paper What Explains Respect for the Rule of Law: Evidence from a
Cross-national Analysis of Structural Conditions
This paper present the results from a cross-national analysis of
structural propositions suggested to explain the level of rule of law.
The model accounts well for the variation in the newly created
index measuring respect for rule of law
Svend-Erik Skaaning, Aarhus University
skaaning@ps.au.dk
Disc. Alejandra Rios-Cazares, University of California, San Diego
arioscaz@weber.ucsd.edu
4-26 IDEAS, MEMORY, AND HISTORY IN POLITICS
Room Honore on the Lobby Level, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Jason Royce Lindsey, St. Cloud State University
jrlindsey@stcloudstate.edu
Paper The Impact of Memory and Territorial Conflict on
Democratization
Focusing on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia this paper proposes
that post-Soviet era democratization is compounded by a collective
memory of victimization and protracted territorial conflict resulting
in the persistence of authoritarian governance.
Jenna Lea, University of Alabama
lea002@bama.ua.edu
Paper Senegalese Exceptionalism: History, Agency and African
Political Development
Senegal's slow and steady path to democratization has proved a
notable exception to the norm of African political turbulence. This
paper argues that factors stemming from history and agency have
led to the unique Senegalese political experience.
Andrew William Bramsen, University of Notre Dame
abramsen@nd.edu
Paper Action in Context: The State and the International in South
Africa’s Neoliberal Transition
This paper analysis South Africa's neoliberal transition through
an analysis of the domestic and international context in which
negotiations took place. It proposes a theoretical analysis of the state
and the international in shaping policy debate.
Derick A. Becker, University of Connecticut
derick.becker@uconn.edu
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