2006 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Sunday, April 23 – 8:30 am – 10:15 am2-15 VOICE AND OPPOSITION -- MEASURINGDEMOCRACY AND PROTESTRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sun 8:30 amErik R. Tillman, Emory UniversityA New Measurement of Democracy: The Inclusion of theContextMichael Stoiber, University of DarmstadtHeidrun Abromeit, University of DarmstadtOverview: Indices of democracy produce an institutional fallacyin measuring democratic quality, because they ignore therespective (societal, institutional) context. We develop and test anew contextualized measurement.Diffusing Violence: Competition and Radicalization inContentious PoliticsJakub Kakietek, Emory UniversityOverview: This paper examines relationship betweencompetition between social movement organizations and theiruse of political violence.Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death: Repression in theDemocratic ContextDavid A. Armstrong, II, University of MarylandOverview: This work investigates the variation of repressionand violations of civil liberties within democracies. I find thateven within democracies when domestic threats are present, thecivil liberties of citizens hang tenuously in the balance.The Politcal Responses of the 'Losers of Globalization'Yotam M. Margalit, Stanford UniversityOverview: A comparative study of the political responses of the'losers of globalization': who they are, what factors are salient intheir own accounts of why they are worse off, and how thesense of losing out translates into support for a politicalprogram.Erik R. Tillman, Emory University3-6 DISAGGREGATING ETHNIC IDENTITYRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sun 8:30 amBrent D. Hierman, Indiana University, BloomingtonPolicy Veto Players and Relevant Ethnic GroupsJóhanna K. Birnir, SUNY, BuffaloDavid M. Waguespack, University of MarylandOverview: Are indigenous groups, that by and large areexcluded from the policy process in Latin America, instrumentalto the passing (and quality) of economic policy?Appropriating Nation-ness: Peru as the "Inca State"Sebastian Karcher, Northwestern UniversityOverview: Drawing on a variety of non-standard approaches,the paper seeks to explain why in Peru, unlike in its Andeanneighbor states, no significant indigenous movement hasemerged.The Political Economy of Ethnic MobilizationNikolaos Biziouras, Harvard UniversityOverview: Using case study evidence from Sri Lanka, Bulgariaand Malaysia, I show how the strategic interests of ethnicpolitical entrepreneurs interact with the selective incentives thatthe ethnic group members demand to institutionalize ethnicpolitics.Bolivia and Peru: Differing Ethnic DiscoursesKimberly E. Moloney, American UniversityOverview: Bolivia's indigena and Peru's indigenista discoursesand their relevance for present-day Bolivian and Peruvianpolitics.Political Community and Indigenous Identity in LatinAmericaDaniel E. Moreno Morales, Vanderbilt UniversityOverview: Using survey data from Bolivia and Guatemala, thispaper explores the effect that ethnic, and particularly indigenousidentities have on the strength of citizens’ identification with thenational political community.Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois, Chicago3-24 KEY CASES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENTPOLICIESRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Sun 8:30 amSusan Glover, American UniversityEconomic Globalization, Winning Coalitions, and HumanRightsMeggan Fitzgerald, SUNY, BinghamtonOverview: This paper attempts to reconcile the competingliberal and critical theories of globalization by arguing that theeffect of foreign economic penetration on respect for humanrights is conditional upon the size of the leader's winningcoalition.It's the Government, Stupid!; Human DevelopmentVariation in China and IndiaDevin Joshi, University of WashingtonOverview: Through historical process tracing I find that: 1)leadership priorities, 2) state capacity, and 3) national stabilityexplain most of the variation in human development andpoverty alleviation in China and India from 1950-2000.The Political Distribution of Employment Programs inArgentina During the 1990sAgustina Giraudy, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillOverview: Partisanship, state structure and social mobilizationstrongly determined the expansion of employment programs inArgentina in the '90s. My results challenge the assumption thatthese programs are used as clientelistic handouts to buy people'svotes.China's Family Planning Policy: An Economic Analysis ofSome ExternalitiesLinjing Wang Wang, Purdue UniversityGlenn R. Parker, Purdue UniversityDwayne Woods, Purdue UniversityOverview: The most prominent external cost of the familyplanning policy is an unbalanced sex ratio of the new bornbabies. We use a simple economic model of the costs and valueof having sons to explain the cause of the problem.Hunger in Brazil: Comparative Analysis Across Time,Regimes, and InstitutionsTricia D, Olsen, University of Wisconsin, MadisonOverview: Using hunger in Brazil as the case study, thisanalysis gives insight into why particular social movementsemerge and diffuse and under what conditions regimes chooseto institutionalize efforts of the movement.Joseph Wright, University of California, Los Angeles4-6 COMPARING DEMOCRATIZATIONADAPTATION IN TRANSITION STATESRoomChairPaperPaperTBA, Sun 8:30 amKathleen R. Barrett, Georgia State UniversityDemocratic Society and Adaptive Management Models:Comparing the Resilience and Collapse of Ten DemocraticSystemsAmy Lauren Lovecraft, University of Alaska, FairbanksSultan Tepe, University of Illinois, ChicagoOverview: Drawing on ten cases (Iran, Nicaragua, Iraq, Nigeria,Colombia, Turkey, Israel, Germany, the UK, the US) we ask towhat extent the Gunderson and Holling's resilience theory isuseful to explain the adaption and maladaption of democraticsociety?The Cultural and Institutional Foundations of Trust: ACross-National StudyAmaney A. Jamal, Princeton UniversityIrfan Nooruddin, The Ohio State UniversityOverview: The correlation between trust and democraticgovernment has opened several new debates, in which twooverarching themes have become particularly visible. The firstexamines the source from which trust emerges. From whatcultural dynamics does trust249