2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Thursday, April 3-2:45 pm
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Campaign Promises in a New Democracy
This paper assesses the degree to which parties in a new democracy
fulfill their campaign promises.
Andrew Roberts, Northwestern University
aroberts@northwestern.edu
Mandate Representation in Central and Eastern Europe,
1990-2007
An analysis of thirty-three governments from Central and Eastern
Europe for the time period 1990-2007 concludes that the majority
of these governments followed policies consistent with mandate
representation, even when they are unaccountable.
Petia Kostadinova, University of Florida
petiak@ces.ufl.edu
Assimilation and Contrast in Central and Eastern European
Party Systems
This paper addresses whether assimilation and contrast effects
manifest in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.
Andrew James Drummond, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
ajdrummond@ualr.edu
New Challenges: Eastern and Central European Parties'
Responses to an International Economy
I present a quantitative analysis of Eastern and Central Europe’s
parties’ responses to economic globalization.
Andrea Beate Haupt, Ohio State University
haupt.19@osu.edu
Oana I. Armeanu, University of Southern Indiana
oiarmeanu@usi.edu
14-23 FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY
Room Salon 3 on the 3rd Floor, Thur at 2:45 pm
Chair Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich
swalter@ipz.uzh.ch
Paper Holding All the Cards: European Central Bank Policy Bias
Toward New EU Entrants
This paper uses the Taylor Rule to determine if the European
Central Bank's monetary policy is optimum for new EU entrants.
Joseph J. St. Marie, Univeristy of Southerm Mississippi
j.stmarie@usm.edu
Shahdad Naghshpour, University of Southern Mississippi
s.naghshpour@usm.edu
Paper Seeing Like the BIS on Financial Supervision
This paper, which will be paper of a special issue of Review of
International Organizations, examines the Bank for International
Settlement's approach to global financial supervision.
Kevin Vedat Ozgercin, SUNY, College at Old Westbury
kevin_ozgercin@yahoo.com
Paper The Market for Convergence: Factor Specificity, Institutions,
and Policies
The paper analyzes the change of fiscal policies in countries caught
up between regional integration and specific socio-economic
national politico-institutional characteristics.
Tobias Hofmann, College of William & Mary
thofmann@wm.edu
Paper Political Interdependence in a Currency Union
This study theoretically and empirically analyzes how economic
integration and the common monetary policy in a currency union
affects political evaluation of government policies in the separate
member countries.
Thomas Sattler, Princeton University
tsattler@Princeton.edu
Disc. Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich
swalter@ipz.uzh.ch
14-301 POSTER SESSION: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL
ECONOMY
Room Grand on the 4th Floor, Thur at 2:45 pm
Poster 9 Nested South African Financial Service Trade Strategies
This study examines the means by which the mid-developing state
of South Africa discursively and institutionally manipulates new
regionalism’s nesting of South-South and North-South FTAs or
RECs within the Multilateral Trade System (MTS) of the WTO.
Catherine A. Long, Boston University
catlong@bu.edu
Poster WTO: Perpetuating U.S. Hegemony or Reshaping the
10 International Order
In this paper I test the hypothesis that the WTO, as a post-World
War II institution, serves a strategy of preserving and extending US
dominance by assessing relative economic power gains accrued
through the WTO.
Rafael Ranieri, University of Cincinnati
ranierr@email.uc.edu
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Trade Capacity Building: Based on Donor Interest or Recipient
Need
Trade capacity building is a growing portion of the U.S. foreign aid
budget. Does this foreign aid really serve the needs of the recipients
or is the U.S. attempting to use aid in pursuit of its own interests
Samuel R. Brazys, Indiana University
sbrazys@indiana.edu
Action and Reaction in Globalization Practices: Maintaining
Global Hegemony
Global development practices--while touted as economically,
socially, and politically beneficial--succeed only in forcing
underdeveloped nations into a constant state of reaction, thereby
stripping these nations of political or national agency.
Jessica Anne Baldwin-Philippi, Northwestern University
j.baldwin.philippi@northwestern.edu
Hegemony, Size, and the Post War International Economy
Revisited
Within the context of the public goods model, this paper evaluates
the theory of hegemonic stability for the post World War II period
using quantitative methods. The results support the theory of a
benevolent hegemon.
Faisal Z. Ahmed, University of Chicago
faisal@uchicago.edu
Collusion or Insulation The Politics of Trade and the
Developing World's Institutions
As developing countries continue to liberalize and restructure their
economies, how do institutional characteristics of governance
determine trade policy
Ann Pawlik Kryzanek, University of Georgia
kryzanek@uga.edu
Politics of Regulating Financial Markets in Canada
The purpose of this project is to examine the discourse and actions
surrounding the establishment of a single financial market regulator
in Canada.
Stephen Lloyd Harris, Carleton University
stephen.harris@rogers.com
15-18 NORTH AMERICA
Room Salon 4 on the 3rd Floor, Thur at 2:45 pm
Paper The Same Yet Different: The Canada-U. S. Security
Relationship Through History
The paper examines the history of the relationship and concludes
that while there have been some fundamental changes to it there is
also a strain of consistency and invariability that continues to serve
as its foundation and structure over time.
Bernard James Brister, Royal Military College of Canada
Bernard.Brister@rmc.ca
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