2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-4:45 pm
Paper
Disc.
Judicial War on Terror: Striking a Fair Balance Between
National Security and Human Rights Safeguard in Recent Case
Law of European Courts
An interdisciplinary approach to the examination of judicial
techniques balancing human rights and national security issues in
the case-law of European Courts after September 11, using both indepth
qualitative and quantitative methodology.
Carmen Draghici, University of East London
carmen.draghici@gmail.com
Diana Draghici, Gothenburg University
ddraghici@berkeley.edu
David Marrani, University of Essex
dmarrani@essex.ac.uk
45-15 ISSUES IN REPRESENTATION
Room Suite 8-150 on the 8th Floor, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Richard F. Winters, Dartmouth College
rfw@dartmouth.edu
Paper Explaining Political Participation in State Politics
We consider why people decide to participate in politics at the state
level, considering explanations connected to both individual citizen
differences as well as variations across state political environments
and institutions.
Andrea McAtee, University of South Carolina
mcateea@gwm.sc.edu
Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado
wolakj@colorado.edu
Paper Citizen Monitoring and Capitol Bureau Coverage
We ask whether individuals served by newspapers with standing
state capitol bureaus are more likely than others to consider the
actions of officials when evaluating government, given their greater
access to information about state politics and policy.
Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside
martin.johnson@ucr.edu
Paper Wide Left or Wide Right Latino Voter and Legislator Political
Preferences
We test the extent to which legislative preferences converge with
minority group constituencies across the states. Using data from
twenty state legislatures and corresponding exit polling data we
estimate distance between voter and elite preferences.
Sylvia Manzano, Texas A&M University
smanzano@politics.tamu.edu
Eric J. Juenke, University of Colorado, Boulder
eric.juenke@colorado.edu
Robert Preuhs, Metropolitan State College, Denver
rpreuhs@mscd.edu
Paper Electoral Volatility and Minor Party Candidacies in
Gubernatorial Elections
We examine the effects of electoral volatility on the number of
minor party candidacies in gubernatorial elections.
Robin E. Best, Leiden University
rbest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Steve B. Lem, Kent State University
slem@kent.edu
Paper State Ideology, Senate Roll-Calls, and Heterogeneity in
Representation
We examine heterogeneity in state public opinion and U.S. Senator
roll call voting to test an expanded spatial theory of representation
using the newly available CCES survey of 36,000 respondents.
Jeffrey J. Harden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
jjharden@unc.edu
Thomas M. Carsey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
carsey@unc.edu
Disc. Jonathan Winburn, University of Mississippi
jwinburn@olemiss.edu
46-13 WHO GOVERNS: POWER AND POLICY MAKING
Room UEH 402 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Michael C. Craw, Michigan State University
craw@msu.edu
Paper Democracy versus Capitalism: The Case of Local Government
and Wal-Mart
This paper will explore the government/business nexus, highlighting
the conflict between communities and the Wal-Mart Corporation,
with a particular focus on the role of municipal and county
governments in mediating this conflict.
Carrie Blanchard, Florida State University
carrieblanchard@hotmail.com
Paper Rifles, Revolvers and Rover: Gun Laws and Breed Specific
Legislation
This paper explores municipal gun laws and breed specific
legislation in 150 American cities to analyze what factors led to
the development of these laws and what effect the laws had on the
problems they were designed to address.
Peter William Brusoe, American University
PBrusoe@alumni.albany.edu
Paper The Rule of Boundaries: Political Fragmentation in Cities
The paper uses the processes of urban preservation to explore the
structure of political power in cities and the effect different types
of jurisdictional fragmentation in the urban arena have on decision
making and state-society relations.
Yue Zhang, Princeton University
yuezhang@princeton.edu
Paper The Governance of Social Service Provision: Public Sector
Actors' Viewpoints on Third Sector and Business Involvement
Paper presents emerging patterns of local governance in Israeli
municipalities within the domain of personal welfare service
provision. Institutional and interpretative analyses are applied and
implications for social outcomes are discussed.
Rona Stein, Tel-Aviv University
rona.stein@gmail.com
Gila Menahem, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
gilam@post.tau.ac.il
Disc. Michael C. Craw, Michigan State University
craw@msu.edu
46-14 INTERLOCAL COOPERATION: CAUSES AND
CONSEQUENCES
Room Suite 12-250 on the 12th Floor, Sat at 4:45 pm
Chair Juliet F. Gainsborough, Bentley College
jgainsborough@bentley.edu
Paper Inter-local Cooperation in Public Goods Supply: A Multiplex
Analysis
This study analyzes cooperative behavior of local units engaged
in multiple service relations and argues that reciprocity would be
more probable in a multiplex service setting which is likely to be
obscured in a single service (simplex) analysis.
Manoj K. Shrestha, Florida State University
ms03h@fsu.edu
Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University
rfeiock@fsu.edu
Paper Regional Organizations and Interlocal Agreements in Florida
Metropolitan Areas
This paper investigates the role of regional organizations as a
solution to problems of fragmented authority by focusing on
interlocal agreements initiated in 2006 in Florida Metropolitan
areas.
Sung-Wook Kwon, Florida State University
sk04f@fsu.edu
In-Sung Kang, Korea Researach Institute for Local Administration
iik3411@krila.re.kr
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