2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Sunday, April 6-8:00 am
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'George Washington has Four Nuts': Masculinity, the Founding,
and the Courts as Told by YouTube
This paper explores how the founding fathers are constructed on
You Tube, and the import of this development for understanding
contemporary judicial politics and constitutional interpretation.
Susan R. Burgess, Ohio University
burgess@ohio.edu
Kevin Scott, Congressional Research Service
kmscott@gmail.com
42-19 THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS AND THE
SUPREME COURT
Room PDR 7 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Steven Tauber, University of South Florida
stauber@cas.usf.edu
Paper Deference or Defiance: Explaining Court of Appeals Decision-
Making During the Rehnquist Court Era
Current research does not account for the long leash given to
the circuit courts during the Rehnquist Court era--the number of
appellate cases granted cert diminished greatly. We explain this
change with a new model.
Nathaniel Robert Vanden Brook, Western Michigan University
nate.vandenbrook@gmail.com
Ashlyn Kuersten, Western Michigan University
ashlyn.kuersten@wmich.edu
Mark Samuel Hurwitz, Western Michigan University
mark.hurwitz@wmich.edu
Paper Do Federal Appeals Judges Fear Reversal from the Supreme
Court
The goal of analysis is to determine under what conditions federal
circuit courts of appeals judges are concerned by or fear reversal
from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jennifer Barnes Bowie, University of South Carolina
barnesj@mailbox.sc.edu
Paper Judicial Impact Revisited
By studying a full body of cases remanded from courts of appeals
to district courts across multiple issue areas, I am able to assess the
impact that appellate court intervention has on the outcome in these
lower court cases.
Christina L. Boyd, Washington University, St Louis
cLboyd@artsci.wustl.edu
Paper A Strategic Model of Judicial Behavior in the U.S. Federal
Courts
Applies a comprehensive strategic model of judicial behavior,
including interactions amongst justices and relationships between
the executive and legislative branches, to explain judges’ decisions
in the U.S. District Court and Courts of Appeals.
Denise M. Keele, University of Illinois, Springfield
dkeel2@uis.edu
Robert W. Malmsheimer, State University of New York
rwmalmsh@esf.edu
Disc. Jeremy Buchman, Long Island University/C.W. Post Campus
jeremy.buchman@liu.edu
45-16 EDUCATION POLICY: WHICH BRANCH OF
GOVERNMENT MATTERS
Room Salon 9 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Richard F. Winters, Dartmouth College
rfw@dartmouth.edu
Paper Issue Framing in Education
I utilize the theory of issue framing to examine how early childhood
has been framed by policymakers. I do so by contrasting the frames
used in education and in welfare it is in these two policy domains
that early childhood policy operates.
Rachel A. Fulcher Dawson, Michigan State University
fulcher1@msu.edu
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Policy Legacies and Preschool Education in the American States
This paper assesses the external validity of claims about the
significance of policy feedback by examining the impact of existing
policy provisions on preschool education reform in the fifty
American states.
Andrew Karch, University of Texas, Austin
akarch@mail.utexas.edu
Leadership Continuity and Educational Performance in the
American States
We use an original data set to examine how turnover of state
education agency leaders and members on state boards of education
influence educational outcomes in the American states.
Paul Manna, College of William and Mary
pmanna@wm.edu
Amanda Guthrie, College of William and Mary
aeguth@wm.edu
State Politics and Education Finance Systems: A Split
Population Duration Model
We use a duration model to answer the following questions: Under
what conditions will an educational equity case be brought to the
state high court Under what conditions will a state’s education
finance system be declared unconstitutional
Teena Wilhelm, University of Georgia
twilhelm@uga.edu
Damon M. Cann, University of Georgia
dcann@uga.edu
Richard F. Winters, Dartmouth College
rfw@dartmouth.edu
Nancy Martorano, University of Dayton
Nancy.Martorano@notes.udayton.edu
46-102 ROUNDTABLE: THE FUTURE OF SUBURBAN
POLITICS
Room PDR 9 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Panelist Paul Lewis, Arizona State University
paul.lewis@asu.edu
Eric Oliver, University of Chicago
eoliver@midway.uchicago.edu
Christopher R. Berry, University of Chicago
crberry@uchicago.edu
47-23 CONTESTED IDEAS AND CONFLICTS IN TAX
POLICY
Room PDR 8 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Rebecca Hendrick, University of Illinois, Chicago
hendrick@uic.edu
Paper Assessing the Impact of Tax and Expenditure Limitations and
Balanced Budget Requirement During Periods of Revenue
Shocks: How Do They Affect States’ Expenditures by Function
The paper assesses the impact of fiscal restriction policies
specifically Tax and Expenditure Limitations and Balanced Budget
Requirement on states’ expenditures by function during periods of
revenue shocks.
Benedict Salazar Jimenez, University of Illinois, Chicago
bjimen2@uic.edu
Wan-Ling Huang, University of Illinois, Chicago
whuang24@uic.edu
Paper Progressive Taxation and U.S. Social Policy
This paper examines how economic ideas acquire political traction
and argues that a policy regime analysis, which stresses the
interconnection of ideas and interests, augments institutional and
coalitional analyses in explaining policy outcomes.
Alba Alexander, University of Illinois, Chicago
aalex@uic.edu
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