2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Sunday, April 6-8:00 am
Sunday, April 6-8:00 am
1-6 CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT
(Co-sponsored with Conflict Processes and Ethnicity and
Room
Chair
Paper
Nationalism, see 17-17 and 20-14)
Red Lacquer on the 4th Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Samuel S. Stanton, Jr., Grove City College
ssstanton@gcc.edu
REsCape: An Agent-Based Framework for Modeling
Resources, Ethnicity, and Conflict
The onset of civil war is a prime example of a complex
adaptive system. This paper describes REsCape: an agent-based
computational framework for studying such complexities focusing
on the relationship between resources, ethnicity, and civil war.
Ravi Bhavnani, Michigan State University
bhavnani@msu.edu
Dan Miodownik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
miodownik@mscc.huji.ac.il
Paper Ethnic Rebellion, State Repression, and Civil War, 1976-2000
This paper presents and tests a unified model of the escalation
of ethnic rebellions to civil wars by integrating the role of state
repression.
Susumu Suzuki, Wayne State University
susumu@wayne.edu
Volker Krause, Eastern Michigan University
vkrause@emich.edu
Paper Conflict and Individual Identity Formation
We argue that conflict causes identity formation. Individuals are
likely to self-identify with their nation when the state is confronted
with external conflict. When conflict is internal, individuals selfidentify
with their ethnic group.
Doug Gibler, University of Alabama
dmgibler@bama.ua.edu
Marc Hutchison, University of Rhode Island
mlhutch@gmail.com
Steve Miller, University of Alabama
svmiller@ua.edu
Paper The Track Record of Centripetalism in Deeply Divided Places
This paper questions whether centripetalism promotes peace
and stability in deeply divided places. Its track record suggests
otherwise as the model's institutions do not match its logic. An
outline for an institutional reformulation is given.
Allison McCulloch, Laurentian University
ax_mcculloch@laurentian.ca
Paper Running Amok in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Ethnic Riots During
Democratization
Using a game model based on field evidence, I develop a model
that explains temporal and spatial variation in ethnic riots during
democratic transitions. This argument is tested on a database of
54,000 villages in Indonesia in 2001 and 2004.
Yuhki Tajima, Harvard University
yuhkitajima@gmail.com
Disc. Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University
tbhasin@emory.edu
2-9 DIMENSIONS OF SPATIAL COMPETITION I
Room Salon 12 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Kenneth Benoit, Trinity College, Dublin
kbenoit@tcd.ie
Paper Purposes, Ways, and Means of Identifying Party Left-Right
Positions
We seek to establish that the reason for scholarly reliance on
left-right party positioning, as a first but not a last step when
investigating the representational process in a democracy.
Steve B. Lem, Kent State University
sblem1@gmail.com
Michael D. McDonald, Binghamton University
mdmcd@binghamton.edu
Paper
Paper
Paper
Disc.
Timely Decisions on the Most Salient Dimension
Past election results and rival parties affect party position taking
conditional upon time elapsed since the last elections.
Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of California, Davis
zsomer@ucdavis.edu
Why Unidimensionality How Parties Create the Policy Space
in Multiparty Systems
Party systems need to (and do) reduce very complex problems to
a one dimensional (or almost one dimensional) choice. This paper
uses an agent based model to explore how party competition can do
this.
Anthony McGann, University of Essex
amccgann@essex.ac.uk
Dimensionality, Party Cohesion and Size
We provide a spatial map of the Italian Second Republic in the XIII
(1996-2001) and XIV legislatures (2001-2006). We find that the
XIII legislature has two dimensions, but the XIV legislature has
one.
Massimililiano Landi, Singapore Management University
landim@smu.edu.sg
Riccardo Pelizzo, Griffith University
r.pelizzo@griffith.edu.au
Jay Kent Dow, University of Missouri
dow@missouri.edu
Jane Elizabeth Green, University of Manchester
jance.green@manchester.ac.uk
3-16 GLOBALIZATION, INTEGRATION AND
DEVELOPMENT
Room Suite 14-150 on the 14th Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Teng Fu, Catholic University of America
74fu@cua.edu
Paper Political Determinants of FDI Policy Liberalization in Low-
Income Countries
Political and economic determinants determinants of FDI policy
liberalization are analyzed for 116 developing countries from
1992-2001. Political variables considered include domestic
determinants, such as party ID and democracy, and international.
Tyson Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles
tyson.roberts@ucla.edu
Paper What Determines the Success of Transnational Redress
Global society has increasingly paid attention to the redress of past
injustices by requesting the perpetrator countries to take proper
responsibility for them. I explore what factors have significant effect
on the success of transnational redress.
Jin Myoung Lee, University at Buffalo, SUNY
jl222@buffalo.edu
Paper Globalization and the Political Right in India and Mexico: The
Rise of the BJP and the PAN
The critical juncture of globalization in the 1980's created a political
opening for parties of the conservative right in India and Mexico to
replace nominally socialist secular dominant/hegemonic parties in
both countries.
Tom Brister, Wake Forest University
bristet@wfu.edu
Disc. Mary E. Breeding, American University
mary.breeding@american.edu
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