2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Sunday, April 6-8:00 am
Paper
Paper
Disc.
Happens When Public Managers "Manage the Market"
Evidence and Implications
We examine the extent to which public managers are "managing the
market" and address the implications of this practice.
Jocelyn M. Johnston, American University
jocelyn@american.edu
Amanda M. Girth, American University
ag0768a@american.edu
Contracting Out Transit Services: Evaluating the Link Between
Organization Form and Effectiveness
This study seeks to explain whether the type of service delivery has
an effect on performance of transit agencies.
Olga Smirnova, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
ovsmirno@uncc.edu
Suzanne Leland, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
smleland@uncc.edu
Alexander Michael Pevec, Malaspina University College
peveca@mala.ca
51-5 PARTIES AS INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICAN
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Room PDR 4 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Lilly J. Goren, Carroll College
lgoren@cc.edu
Paper Party Competition and the Development of Federal Crime
Policy
This paper examines how federal crime policy becomes more
punitive with Democratic distancing from black civil rights.
Naomi Murakawa, University of Washington
murakawa@u.washington.edu
Paper Parties as Political Institutions in American Political
Development
Treating parties as political institutions, this paper identifies specific
mechanisms of reproduction and change in the parties’ structures
and operations and examines the conditions under which they are
more or less likely to change "paths."
Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University
galvin@northwestern.edu
Paper Van Buren’s Error: The Rise and Fall of Party as a
Constitutional Claim and the Contingent Logic of Coordinate
Construction
By evaluating Martin Van Buren’s theory of political party, this
paper reassesses the predominant characterization of the second
party system and argues that coordinate construction is a politically
contingent constitutional claim.
Stephen Marcus Engel, Yale University
stephen.engel@yale.edu
Paper A Partisan Regime Approach to Shifts in Coalitional
Dominance
I account for the shifts in coalitional dominance that periodically
punctuate the course of APD by borrowing from Schattschneider’s
focus on conflict in politics and Toynbee’s developmental insights,
extending a theory of partisan regimes.
Curtis W. Nichols, University of Texas, Austin
curtnichols@mail.utexas.edu
Disc. William Daniel Angel, Ohio State University, Lima
angel.1@osu.edu
53-5 CULTURE, AUTHORITARIANISM AND CHANGE
Room Salon 4 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair John J. Ulrich, East Central University
julrich@ecok.edu
Paper Middle-Class Formation and the Crisis of Democracy in
Ecuador, 1970s-2006
Focusing on Ecuador from the 1970s onward, this paper aims to
explain the social, political, and discursive processes by which the
Ecuadorian middle class was socially constructed prior to and after
the revolt against Lucio Guiterrez in 2005.
Celso M. Villegas, Brown University
Celso_Villegas@brown.edu
Paper The Problem of Legitimacy Under Illegitimate and Semilegitimate
Regimes
The stability and authority of Soviet-type regimes requires
explanation in light of their serious legitimacy deficit. Fills the
explanatory gap between such perceptions and the significant
legitimate authority these regimes actually possessed.
Fred Eidlin, University of Guelph
feidlin@uoguelph.ca
Paper Media Ethics and Political Control in Post Islamic
Revolutionary Iran
In the last three decades there have been many critical and important
subjects at discussion in Iranian polity and society that are crucial
for media studies.
Majid Mohammadi, Princeton University
majidmohammadi@hotmail.com
Paper Hizb ut-Tahrir a Cultural Analysis: Neo-Colonialists in the
Making
In this paper a cultural analysis of Hizb ut-Tahrir is given that is
theoretically informed by Homi Bhabha's colonial discourse.
Reed Walker Taylor, Virginia Technical University
rtaylor2@vt.edu
Disc. Thomas Malang, University of Konstanz
thomas.malang@uni-konstanz.de
54-3 RELIGION IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Room Salon 7 on the 3rd Floor, Sun at 8:00 am
Chair Mary C. Slosar, University of Texas, Austin
maryslosar@mail.utexas.edu
Paper Restrictions on the Religious Practices of Religious Minorities
This study uses a new version of the Religion and State dataset to
examine the patterns of religious discrimination against all religious
minorities in 175 states which constitute at least 0.25% of that
state's population.
Jonathan Fox, Bar Ilan University
foxjon@mail.biu.ac.il
Paper Post-Christian Spirituality and Political Participation in
Western Countries
This paper studies post-Christian spirituality's influence on
political participation. Its strong emphasis on the self is expected
to negatively affect political participation, especially the more
demanding forms requiring personal involvement.
Sarah Nicolet, University of Geneva
sarah.nicolet@politic.unige.ch
Anke Tresch, University of Geneva
anke.tresch@politic.unige.ch
Paper Religiosity in a Communist State: The Chinese Case
This paper uses concepts of other-worldly and this-worldly
religiosity to examine religion in China, and questions the
conventional conclusion that religiosity has remained low in China
and that political control is mainly responsible.
Wenfang Tang, University of Pittsburgh
tang@pitt.edu
Fang Sun, University of Pittsburgh
sunfangxing@gmail.com
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