2006 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 22 – 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm1-101 ROUNDTABLE: REMAKING THEAMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTIONSTUDY: A NEW ERA BEGINSRoomPanelistTBA, Sat 3:45 pmArthur Lupia, University of Michigan, Ann ArborJon A. Krosnick, Stanford UniversityBrian Humes, National Science FoundationOverview: In 2005, NSF funded a dynamic new ANES. It notonly continues the presidential year study, it also adds panel andpilot studies and new ways to promote broad involvement insurvey development. This roundtable examines the changes andtheir benefits.2-13 STRATEGIC CHOICES AND POLITICALLEADERSHIPRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sat 3:45 pmMichael Harris, Ferris State UniversityWhose Your Daddy? Legitimacy, Regime Type, and theDuration of Leadership TenureRandall J. Blimes, University of ColoradoOverview: The primary purpose of this paper is to explainleadership duration as a function of the success a leaderencounters following one or all of three different strategiesdesigned to maintain offce.Cabinet Reshuffles and Government Duration inParliamentary DemocraciesHande Mutlu, New York UniversityOverview: I examine the link between cabinet reshuffles andcabinet duration. Using competing risks approach and data on13 parliamentary democracies (1945-1987), I show thatreallocation of portfolios-itself an indicator of instability- canlead to stability.Choosing Leaders in FederationsKenneth W. Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann ArborOverview: The paper compares how leadership accession infederations is influenced by philosophies of governmentproposing centralization or devolution of power.Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy in JapanYoshikuni Ono, University of Michigan, Ann ArborOverview: Constructing a formal model and drawing on data offactional affiliations in LDP cabinets between 1956 and 1991, Idemonstrate that portfolio allocation is an instrument the primeminister uses to handle intra-party and inter-party pressures.Michael Harris, Ferris State UniversityBonnie N. Field, Bentley College3-4 BOTTOM-UP, OUTSIDE-IN:CHALLENGING AND CHANGING THECHINESE STATE (Co-sponsored with AsianPolitics, see 8-15)RoomChairPaperPaperTBA, Sat 3:45 pmAndrew C. Mertha, Washington University, St. LouisBottom-Up, Outside-In: Challenging and Changing theChinese StateAndrew C. Mertha, Washington University, St. LouisYi Zhao, MacAllister CollegeOverview: TBAPopular Participation in Policy-Making and PolicyImplementation in ChinaMartin K. Dimitrov, Dartmouth CollegeOverview: Scholars assume that there is no popular input inpolicy-making in single-party states. Empirically based onenvironmental protection in China, this paper shows thatcitizens do have a variety of means through which they canaffect policy-making.PaperPaperPaperDisc.Between Bureaucrats and Markets: China's FrustratingInvolvement in Standards WarsScott Kennedy, Indiana University, BloomingtonOverview: This paper investigates Chinese efforts to set uniquetechnical standards in information technology. It finds thatChinese have had no success using standards as part of aprotectionist strategy.Foreign Direct Investment and Politically Strong ChinaMaksym Kovalov, University of OklahomaOverview: This paper looks at how and where the Chinesegovernment has acquired the capacities to operate as a marketeconomy under centralized political control, given the highinflows of FDI into the Chinese economy.Policy Learning and China's Opening StrategyLawrence C. Reardon, University of New HampshireOverview: Having undergone a complex learning process thatrevealed the deficiencies of China’s thirty-year inwardlyorienteddevelopment regime, Chinese elites incrementallylearned to implement an outwardly-oriented regime in the1980s.Yi Zhao, MacAlester College3-5 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND DEMANDSIN ETHNIC AUTONOMY MOVEMENTSRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sat 3:45 pmMary E. Breeding, American University, SPAResponses to Demands for Autonomy: Cultural Autonomy,Carvation, SecessionTavishi Bhasin, Emory UniversityAmy H. Liu, Emory UniversityOverview: Using game theory, we show that the concessionsgranted by the central government to demands for greaterautonomy depend on discount rates, expected electoral gains,economic clout, and ethnic heterogeneity. We test thehypotheses on multiple cases.The Dynamic Declines of the JVP's Waves of Contention inSri LankaBrent D. Hierman, Indiana University,BloomingtonOverview: This paper utilizes social mobilization literature toexplore factors that caused two insurgent waves launched by theJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the Ceylonese/Sri Lankanstate to crest from an initial upsurge and begin a downwardtrajectory.Question of Identity of Enclave People Between India andBangladeshPahi Saikia, McGill UniversityOverview: I examine the construction of a shared enclaveidentity of the people in the enclaves between India andBangladesh and what impact if any, does it have on thedilemmas of their citizenship? How can one possibly find a wayout of this situation?Pragmatic Ideologues: The Conflict of Strategic andNormative Interests in the Promotion of Democracy in Post-Civil-War StatesMadhav R. Joshi, University of North TexasOverview: Promotion of democracy in the post-civil-war state isdominant research agenda in political science right now. It hasbeen presumed that the democratic countries are more likely tosupport democracy in post-civil-war state if involved in theconflict.Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University4-5 ENHANCING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICEAND THE RULE OF LAWRoomChairPaperTBA, Sat 3:45 pmKaty Crossley-Frolick, DePaul UniversityFragile Judicial Independence in Latin America: A DecadeAfter ReformSilvia Inclan, UNAMOverview: This paper examines the effects of elections anddivided governments on executives' incentives for judicialindependence by looking at the Argentinean, Peruvian,234