2006 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

PaperPaperPaperDisc.226that encourage African-American candidates to run for statewideoffice will be discussed.The Effects of Racial Messages in Televised CampaignAdvertising: A Multi-Contextual Experimental StudyStephen Maynard Caliendo, North Central CollegeCharlton D. McIlwain, New York UniversityJillian Maynard Caliendo, Avila UniversityOverview: This paper presents the results of an experimentaldesign to explore the effect of racial messages on attitudes aboutpolitical candidates in multiple election contexts.Navigating the Identity Terrain: Race, Ethnicity, and theLatino CandidateF. Jane Mabe, New York UniversityOverview: This study focuses on Antonio Villaraigosa--the 1stLatino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872--in order to examinestrategies employed by candidates with cross-over appeal innavigating stereotypes and addressing the race as a campaignissue.Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Race, Power and theDevelopment of Urban DemocracyMichael Javen Fortner, Havard UniversityOverview: This paper traces the process of cross-racial coalitionformation in New York during each mayoral election from 1965to 1989. It reveals how political institutions and temporalprocesses interact to produce coalitions or hinder theirdevelopment.Marisa A. Abrajano, Texas A&M University26-101 ROUNDTABLE: THE POWER OF THELATINO VOTE: LESSONS FROM THE PASTAND FOR THE FUTURERoomPanelistTBA, Sat 1:45 pmHenry Flores, St. Mary's UniversityAntonio Gonzalez, William C. Velasquez InstituteLuis Miranda, Mirram GroupMatt Barreto, University of WashingtonOverview: TBA27-13 POLITICAL PASSIONSRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sat 1:45 pmThomas Conte, Maryville CollegeFear and Politics, Ancient and ModernDaniel J. Kapust, University of GeorgiaOverview: An historical criticism of Corey Robin's "Fear: TheHistory of a Political Idea," developed through a reading of aselection of Greek and Roman texts.Nietzsche and the Problem of GuiltRoberto Alejandro, University of MassachusettsOverview: In this paper I attempt to offer a detailed examinationof the different versions of guilt that Nietzsche offers in theGenealogy.Adventures in Invisibility: Against Political Uses of ShameBlaise Misztal, Yale UniversityOverview: While the repressive nature of the practice of socialshaming has been expounded at some length, recently therehave been attempts to rehabilitate shame or humiliation aspotential salutary correctives on social and political behavior.On the Introduction of BoredomDaniel A. Silver, University of ChicagoOverview: This paper seeks methods for understanding themeaning and power of the idea of boredom and related conceptsin modern political and social thought.Jeffrey Church, University of Notre DameThomas Conte, Maryville College27-23 THE POLITICS OF CHANCE AND RISKRoomChairPaperTBA, Sat 1:45 pmFred Eidlin, University of GuelphFrom Danger to Risk in Early Modern British PoliticalThoughtEmily C. Nacol, University of ChicagoOverview: This paper will analyze the linguistic and conceptualrelationship between seventeenth-century British politicalPaperPaperPaperDisc.discourse about danger and safety and an eighteenth-centuryBritish account of risk as an opportunity for profit.Gambling for CertaintyMindy J. Peden, John Carroll UniversityNicole Rishel, John Carroll UniversityOverview: In this paper we explore the historical andcontemporary uses of the concepts of luck, chance, anduncertainty as the corollaries to inequality premised on merit,talent, worth or desert.Why Lotteries Are JustPeter Stone, Stanford UniversityOverview: Lotteries are just distributive devices, but theorists ofjustice have done little to explain this fact. A contractariandefense, grounded in the work of Thomas Scanlon, can fill thisgap.Rawls on Stability, Legitimacy and AffirmationEdward H. K. Song, University of VirginiaOverview: Critics of Rawls' political liberalism ignore its coreworry, the ideal of political legitimacy. I offer an account ofRawlsian legitimacy called 'affirmation' that defends the importof citizens' subjective endorsement of their political regimes.Fred Eidlin, University of GuelphSharon Vaughan, Morehouse College27-27 CONSTITUTIONALISMRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sat 1:45 pmAnthony A. Peacock, Utah State UniversityThe Missing Judiciary in Locke's Separation of PowersRoss J. Corbett, Brown UniversityOverview: Locke's separation of powers comprises theexecutive, legislative, and federative, while everyone else'sreplaces the federative with the judicial. Where is the judicialfunction in Locke, and why is it not a separate power?Reconsidering Locke's Strange Doctrine of NaturalExecutive PowerLee Ward, Campion College at the University of ReginaOverview: Rather than interpreting Locke's political thought interms of Hobbes' natural rights or Christian natural law, his"strange" doctrine of natural executive power, is bestunderstood as a critical departure from both of these strains ofargument.Pacificus v. Helvidius: The Problem of Executive PowerBenjamin A. Kleinerman, Virginia Military InstituteOverview: Seeks to extend recent work upon the founders'understanding of executive power and upon the constitutionaldebate between Hamilton and Madison. Paper emphasizes theessential constitutional differences that emerge from this debate.Expertise and AccountabilityDimitri Landa, New York UniversityOverview: I argue that the election-based account ofaccountability runs into a fundamental conceptual problem: iflegislators are superior judges, how can we judge the choicesthey make?Anthony A. Peacock, Utah State UniversityScott C. Pandich, St. Lawrence University28-12 FREEDOM, PUNISHMENT, AND POWER INMODERN POLITICAL THOUGHTRoomChairPaperPaperTBA, Sat 1:45 pmMichael R. James, Bucknell UniversityFoucault, Felons, and Voting RightsAndrew T. Dilts, University of ChicagoOverview: In the contemporary US, the subject generatingfunctions of the carceral society outlined by Foucault existoutside the walls of the prison or reformatory, finding their wayinto the constitutional forms of self-government.Rationale of Punishment: Utilitarianism's Most ImportantContribution?James T. McHugh, Roosevelt UniversityOverview: The Rationale of Punishment, attributed to Bentham,is a neglected and, arguably, the most important utilitarian text,especially for its real and potential contribution to penalogy andinsight into the early development of this school of thought.