2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Friday, April 4-8:00 am
Paper
Paper
Disc.
The Effects of Institutional Characteristics on Program Success
Program success is influenced by a great many factors. This paper
investigates how institutional and community characteristics can
affect the success of Upward Bound which is a program administred
by the U.S. Department of Education.
Ethan M. Bernick, University of North Texas
bernick@unt.edu
Amy C. Thompson, University of North Texas
thompson@pacs.unt.edu
Government Effectiveness in Comparative Perspective
Research on government effectiveness usually focuses on two
issues: how to measure it, and what factors influence it. We focus on
two questions: what is government effectiveness, and how countries
compare in terms of perceived effectiveness.
Andrew B. Whitford, University of Georgia
aw@uga.edu
Soo-Young Lee, University of Georgia
soo3121@uga.edu
Evan Ringquist, Indiana University
eringqui@indiana.edu
49-6 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL
PROCESSES, SOCIAL OUTCOMES I
Room Suite 10-150 on the 10th Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Chair Amy R. Poteete, Concordia University
apoteete@alcor.concordia.ca
Paper Defining Political Community and Rights to Natural Resources:
Land, Minerals, and Wildlife in Botswana
This paper explores how political competition in Botswana puts
pressure on the government to weaken policies for decentralized
natural resource management and make them more consistent with
mineral and land policies that privilege national identity.
Amy R. Poteete, Concordia University
apoteete@alcor.concordia.ca
Paper Conservation Rules: Explicating Governance Effects of
Conservation Regimes
TBA
Prakash Kashwan, Indiana University, Bloomington
pkashwan@indiana.edu
Paper Democracy and Forest Cover Change: Exploring
Environmental Citizenship in the Western Himalayas
The paper explores the role of state, markets, and communities,
in explaining patterns of change in forest cover in the Western
Himalayas, in the province of Himachal Pradesh in north India, in
relation to democratic processes.
Ashwini Chhatre, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
achhatre@uiuc.edu
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
arunagra@umich.edu
Paper Explaining Failure in Decentralized Natural Resource
Management: How Citizens’ Property Rights Constrain Local
Official Implementation of National Forest Policy in Vietnam
This paper examines the allocation of forest land use rights to
households in Vietnam in order to explain how local officials are
more accountable to existing local power structures than to national
government goals in implementing forest policy.
Cari An Coe, University of California, Los Angeles
ccoe@ucla.edu
Disc. Cari An Coe, University of California, Los Angeles
ccoe@ucla.edu
50-6 COMPARATIVE
Room Salon 3 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Chair Sara R. Jordan, University of Hong Kong
sjordan@hku.hk
Paper Comparative Analysis of Local Government in Russia and the
United States
This study examines the work of the executive branch of local
government; special interest is paid to the relations with residents,
businesses and internal organization of the local authorities.
Maria G. Fedorova,
maria_fedorova777@hotmail.com
Paper Asian Bureaucracy Revisited: Material Incentives for Job
Performance from Deferred Compensation
This research is a comparative analysis of job incentives in the
Asian and American bureaucracy. Assuming that both types work
on material incentives, this study focuses on the Asian institutional
scheme that has long concealed the material motives.
Dongryul Kim, Saint Augustine's College
rdokim@gmail.com
Paper Understanding the Adoption, Use and Development of e-
Government and e-Democracy by National Governments: A
Global Perspective
This paper seeks to develop and test hypotheses about how nations
compare in their use across e-government and e-democracy
dimensions, and assess the factors that lead to high use of various
aspects of these broad initiatives.
Frances Stokes Berry, Florida State University
fberry@fsu.edu
Chung-pin Lee, National Chengchi University
chungpin.lee@gmail.com
Kaiju Chang, Florida State University
kc07e@fsu.edu
Paper Aging and Disability Online Service Delivery: A Global
Perspective
U.S. Aging and Disability Resource Centers provide online service
delivery, reflecting global efforts to build e-government resources.
We evaluate comparative cross-state and cross-country data on this
key area of public policy and administration.
Mack Clayton Shelley, II, Iowa State University
mshelley@iastate.edu
Seongyeon Auh, Iowa State University
sauh@iastate.edu
Paper Trust in the Public Service: A Cross-National Examination
How do attitudes towards public servants by Americans compare
to similar attitudes in other nations 2004 ISSP data are used to
examine attitudes held by citizens in the U.S., Canada, and several
European nations.
David J. Houston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
dhouston@utk.edu
J. Abraham Whaley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
jwhaley3@utk.edu
Lauren K. Harding, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
lauren.harding@hotmail.com
Disc. Sara R. Jordan, University of Hong Kong
sjordan@hku.hk
50-22 LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES AND
OUTCOMES
Room Salon 4 on the 3rd Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Chair Cynthia J. Bowling, Auburn University
bowlicj@auburn.edu
Paper The Role of Townships in Urban Governance
Township government was developed for a rural society. Only a
few states have township government. Are townships useful in an
urban environment This research will provide information on a
little understood and studied government.
David K. Hamilton, Roosevelt University
dhamilto@roosevelt.edu
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