daily program schedule - Midwest Political Science Association

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THURSDAY, APRIL 27 - 1:30 - 3:15 pm
Panel 18-A CLARK 10
COURTS AND PUBLIC OPINION
Chair: Elliot E. Slotnick, The Ohio State University, slotnick.1@osu.edu
Papers: “The ‘Exacting-Cost’ Model of Public Confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Matthew Carlson, University of California, Davis; Aaron Weltmer, University of
California, Davis; arweltmer@ucdavis.edu; John B. Gates, University of
California, Davis, jbgates@ucdavis.edu
“Excuse Me, Mr. President. . . : Media Coverage of Presidential Rhetoric During
U.S. Supreme Court Nominations.” Stephen Caliendo, University of Missouri-
St. Louis, caliendo@umsl.edu
“The Least Dangerous Branch Revisited: New Evidence on Supreme Court
Responsiveness to Public Preferences. ”Kevin T. McGuire, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, kmcguire@unc.edu; James A. Stimson, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, jstimson@unc.edu
“Taking New Measure: The German Federal Constitutional Court, the European
Court of Justice and Legitimacy Transfer.” Anke Grosskopf, Tulane University,
agrossk@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Disc: Elliot Slotnick, The Ohio State University, slotnick.1@osu.edu
Micheal W. Giles, Emory University, mgiles@emory.edu
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Panel 19-A BURNHAM 5
STABILITY AND CHANGE IN STATE POLICY ENVIRONMENTS
Chair: Carol S. Weissert, Michigan State University, carol.weissert@ssc.msu.edu
Papers: “Stability and Change in State Policy Priorities, 1982-1992” Saundra Schneider,
University of South Carolina, saundra-schneider@sc.edu
“Them That Has Gets: Interest Group Communities of the 1990s” Virginia Gray,
University of Minnesota, vgray@polisci.umn.edu
“Change and Stability in State Public Opinion, 1976-1998.” Gerald Wright,
Indiana University, wright1@indiana.edu; John McIver, University of Colorado
Disc: Carol S. Weissert, Michigan State University, carol.weissert@ssc.msu.edu
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Panel 20-B BURNHAM 2
AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: MELVIN HOLLI'S THE AMERICAN MAYOR
Chair: Bryan D. Jones, University of Washington, bdjones@u.washington.edu
Panelists: Jeffrey R. Henig, George Washington University, henig@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu;
Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Illinois, dpinderh@uiuc.edu
Disc: Melvin G. Holli, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Panel 21-G MONTROSE 7
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY
Chair: Ann O'M. Bowman, University of South Carolina, bowman-ann@sc.edu