2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Thursday, April 3-12:45 pm
61-2 LEADERSHIP: PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS
Room PDR 18 on the 5th Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm
Paper Power Corrupts Constraints of Citizen Leadership
This paper explores the notion of citizen leadership and how Vaclav
Havel's transition from dissident to president demonstrates the
complexities and conflict that remains entrenched in the democracy/
leadership debate.
Heather McDougall, Christopher Newport University
heather.mcdougall@cnu.edu
Paper Political Leadership: Hard Choices, Ethics, and Poetry's 'Other
Voice'
As a supplement to ethical and political considerations, I suggest
that a poetic sensibility--in part, Octavio Paz's 'other voice' of
poetry--may provide a helpful orientation toward and engagement
with the complex decision-moments of hard choices.
Larry M. Preston, Union Institute & University
Larry.Preston@tui.edu
63-101 ROUNDTABLE: PUBLIC POLICY
Room Honore on the Lobby Level, Thur at 12:45 pm
Chair Hugh Bartling, DePaul University
hbartlin@depaul.edu
The homeless in the United States are generally ignored in policy
circles due to the socio-political climate. An alternate belief system
combining instrumental pramatism with psychosocial theory
encourges individual potential for the homeless.
Panelist Donna E. Karno, Ohio State University
karno.1@osu.edu
The purpose of the project is to examine the effort to use the
criminal justice system to regulate issues of public civility from the
perspective of class conflict. The specific policy in question is the
effort to regulate car stereos.
Panelist Craig Curtis, Bradley University
rcc@bradley.edu
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