2006 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

PaperDisc.It's Not the Economy Stupid! EU Citizens' AttitudesTowards TurkeyBasak Yavcan, University of PittsburghOverview: The purpose of this paper is to reveal whereEuropean Union citizens' attitudes towards Turkey'smembership come from. A new theory incorporating the effectsof identity is generated and tested against utilitarian approachesof preference formation.Francesca Vassallo, University of Southern Maine7-10 THE OUTCOMES AND EFFECTS OFSUBNATIONAL ELECTIONS IN LATINAMERICARoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sat 3:45 pmChristopher Diaz, Morehead State UniversityHow Mexico's Municipal Usos y Costumbres Regimes AffectFederal ElectionsAllyson L. Benton, CIDEOverview: This paper investigates how systems of localgovernance in Mexico affect electoral behavior in state andfederal contests.Determinants of Voting Behavior in Mexico’s Sub-NationalPoliticsRicardo H. Cavazos-Cepeda, University of California,BerkeleyOverview: Mexico’s democratization process evolved rapidly.The objective of this paper is to investigate the existence ofpunishment voting based on state level politics in Mexico. etaro,The Evolution of Partisan Competition in the MexicanStates Between 1970 and 2005: Origins and ConsequencesMark P. Jones, Rice UniversityPaloma Bauer de la Isla, Michigan State UniversityOverview: We examine the evolution of partisan competition atthe state level in Mexico since 1970. To do so we employmodified versions of the Ranney and Holbrook-Van Dunkindices that have been used to examine partisan competition inthe U.S.Clashing Incentives: the Provincialization of ElectoralPolitics in ArgentinaJulieta Suarez-Cao, Northwestern UniversityOverview: Despite a constitutional reform that encourages thenationalization of politics, Argentine electoral politics areincreasingly tied to the local arenas. The paper argues that thisshould be understood as an unintended by-product of economicreforms.Christopher Diaz, Morehead State UniversityTulia G. Falleti, University of Pennsylvania8-12 TOPICS IN ASIAN POLITICAL ECONOMYRoomChairPaperPaperPaperTBA, Sat 3:45 pmKam C. Wong, University of Wisconsin, OshkoshCCP’s Cooptation Strategy and the Chinese Private SectorJing Tong, Indiana University, BloomingtonOverview: The paper examines the relation between the Chineseprivate sector and the government by looking into the variationof CCP’s cooptation strategy and how the size of privateenterprises significantly influences their relationship with thegovernment.Politics of Financial and Corporate Restructuring in SouthKoreaHeon Joo Jung, University of PennsylvaniaOverview: This research examines the role of financialregulatory reform in corporate restructuring in South Koreasince the 1997 financial crisis.The Political and Social Role of Business Groups (BusinessAssociations) in the Democratization of ChinaSiu Fung Nerisa Chan, University of Newcastle upon TyneOverview: Despite the rapid economic growth of China inrecent decades, there have been no significant political change.PaperPaperDisc.Political Economy of Banking Reforms in Indonesia, Korea,and ThailandSawa Omori, University of TokyoOverview: This paper examines what makes the pace and thedegree of banking reforms vary in Indonesia, Korea, andThailand. Not only the IMF's influence but also the number ofveto players matter in explaining banking reforms in these threecountries.Global Finance, Neoliberal Economic Reform, and theState: The Case of JapanTakaaki Suzuki, Ohio UniversityOverview: This paper demonstrates how and why the rise ofglobal finance in Japan since the early 1990s has expanded,rather than eroded, the role of the state in the issue area of fiscaland financial policy.Kam C. Wong, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh9-2 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND SUB-NATIONAL LOYALTIES IN AFRICARoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sat 3:45 pmAgber Dimah, Chicago State UniversityThe 'Re-traditionalization' of Ethnicity in Post-ColonialAfricaJean G. Tompihe, University of California, Los AngelesOverview: This study asks why do ethnicities reinforce andbecome politically salient. It argues that the plausibleexplanation for re-traditionalization of ethnicities results fromthe lethal combination of institutional legacies of inequity, andthe intentionRegime Type and Political Competition in AfricaAthanassios Roussias, Yale UniversityCharalampos Mylonas, Yale UniversityOverview: We extend previous analyses of party politics in Sub-Saharan Africa and show that recent findings have beenincorrect. We show that the interaction of standard variablespredicts the number of parties only for democratically heldelections.Electoral Systems and Ethnicity in Africans' PoliticalParticipationWonbin Cho, Michigan State UniversityOverview: Using Afrobarometer survey data set withinformation on political institutions from 18 Sub-SaharanAfrican countries, I want to explore variance in politicalparticipation across ethnic groups.The New Challenge of Classifying Africa's Post-Authoritarian RegimesFodei J. Batty, Western Michigan UniversityOverview: The paper draws attention to problematic regimes inSub-Saharan Africa. Previous classification criteria fail tocapture the real nature these regimes, which have flourishedsince Western donors set democracy as a precondition forreceiving aid.Carl LeVan, University of California, San Diego11-11 REALISM'S ANCIENT ROOTS ANDMODERN RELEVANCERoomChairPaperPaperTBA, Sat 3:45 pmZaryab Iqbal, University of South CarolinaThe Sophists, Thucydides, and Realism in InternationalPoliticsThomas J. Johnson, University of Akron Wayne CollegeOverview: This is a reevaluation of the place that Thucydidesholds in the realist canon in international politics, based on areading of how the ideas of the sophists of Athens influencedhis "History", and thus all subsequent realist scholarship.Could War Become Obsolete? An Examination of theClassical Understanding of WarAngela D. Dworin, University of ChicagoOverview: This paper will examine the writings of Thucydides,Plato, and Aristotle on the subject of war and its causes, andthen ask whether their insights will illuminate the contemporaryquestion of whether it is possible for war to become obsolete.236