26-6 ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICSRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Thur 3:45 pmHimanee Gupta-Carlson, University of HawaiiIn Pursuit of Inclusion: Citizenship Acquisition AmongAsian ImmigrantsJanelle Wong, University of Southern CaliforniaAdrian Pantoja, Arizona State UniversityOverview: This paper examines the naturalization of Asianimmigrants in the US by analyzing the standard sociodemographicdeterminants as well as a plethora of political,religious, and transnational factors largely ignored in paststudies.Divided Loyalties and the Problem of Asian-American PartyAcquisitionShyam K. Sriram, Georgia State UniversityOverview: This paper attempts to solve the puzzle of why socioeconomicfactors do little to predict party identification amongAsian-Americans.Politics of Signage and Space: Claims-Making in the Case ofLittle IndiaMoon-Young Choi, University of California, IrvineOverview: This case study of "Little India" examines factorsinfluencing the claims-making process toward "ethnic space." Istudy the specific political dimensions of linking race/ethnicityto space in terms of how such spaces are demarcated andrecognized.Ideology and Party Identification of Asian-Americans inHoustonP. See Lim, Texas A&M UniversityOverview: This paper examines the ideology and partyidentification of Asian-Americans in Houston. This is a veryinteresting group to study because their higher socioeconomicstatus is not translated into voting turnout.Jason P. Casellas, University of Texas, Austin27-5 FIVE SITES FOR FEMINIST POLITICS:WORK, HOME, ETHICS, CYBORGS, ANDCINEMA (Co-sponsored with Gender andPolitics, see 25-16)RoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperTBA, Thur 3:45 pmJohn S. Nelson, University of IowaShould Feminists Be Cyborgs?Joan M. Blauwkamp, University of Nebraska, KearneyNicole R. Krassas, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityOverview: Building on Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto, weanalyze cyborg exemplars from science fiction to assess thepotential of cyborgs to challenge sexist dualisms along with thelogics and practices of domination that spring from them.Can Homo Economicus Come Home Again? Households asSites of ResistanceAlexandra M. Kogl, University of Northern IowaOverview: The ideal abstract worker of liberal economicdiscourse relies on a hegemonic construction of masculinity yetconstructs an ideal of personhood that is unattractive for menand women alike. Can households serve as sites of resistance tothis ideal?Gods and Monsters: Feminist Theory, Arendt, and theSincerity Norm in Deliberative DemocracyElizabeth Markovits, Saint Louis UniversityOverview: This paper critiques deliberative theory's emphasison sincerity in discourse, as well as Aristotle's notion of ethos,arguing that attention to the presumed moral interior of speakersactually harms the quality of discourse.From Femme Fatale to Femmes Focales? FeministProtagonists in Film NoirJohn S. Nelson, University of IowaOverview: Hollywood has returned lately to film noir, but witha difference: it no longer restricts women to deadly females,deceitful spider women, and passive victims. Womenprotagonists are remaking the genre, especially its takes ongender and politics.PaperDisc.Motherhood and EqualityJames Chalmers, Wayne State UniversityOverview: Women in America still come up short. Why?Chiefly because of the division of labor in the home. Equalityappears to require that fathers care for children as do mothers.Yet maternal desire appears to be legitimate. Is it? If it is, whatfollows?Eloise Buker, St. Louis University27-20 STATE AND SOCIETY IN MODERNTHOUGHTRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Thur 3:45 pmEdward F. McClennen, Syracuse UniversityThe Emergence of the Modern State from MedievalDisorderDaniel M. Paltzer, Lawrence UniversityOverview: Examining the unexpected difference betweenmedieval theory and the political reality and the development ofthe social contract theories in conjunction with the growth ofstate power.The State of Nature and the Formation of the "Good" Statein PoliticsG. Patrick Lynch, Liberty FundOverview: Both traditional and formal political theorists havelong relied on constructing a starting point or "state of nature"as the basis for building their vision of the "good" state.Rational SocietyEdward F. McClennen, Syracuse UniversityOverview: New rational choice foundations for political theoryand its use to defend both an expansive set of constitutionalrights, and a principle of justice that tolerates only thoseinequalities that serve the mutual interests of participants.Rethinking the State as a Technology of DominationXavier I. Marquez, University of Notre DameOverview: I present and defend a view of the state as atechnology of domination. This view draws on, but is in somesignificant respects different from, the view of the state that isdominant in political science today, namely, the Weberian view.Evan P. Riley, University of PittsburghGreg Sadler, Ball State University28-4 DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: THEORYAND PRACTICERoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperTBA, Thur 3:45 pmStephen P. Chilton, University of Minnesota, DuluthOf Radical Democrats and Great Republics: Agnes Heller’s<strong>Political</strong> ThoughtAnthony Kammas, University of Southern CaliforniaOverview: This paper will focus on a particular aspect of AgnesHeller’s immense contribution to political thought—specificallyher writings on democratic citizenship and politics.Expanding the Democratic Ideal: Inclusion and DeliberativeDemocracyTimothy Dale, University of Notre DameOverview: This paper considers Iris Young's call for expandedinclusion in the processes of deliberative democracy. The paperexamines Young's approach to inclusion, assessing both itspromise and the possible limits of inclusion for her democraticideal.Egalitarian Theory as Policymaking FrameworkIsaiah L. O'Rear, University of GeorgiaOverview: I argue that egalitarian theory should provide aframework for policymaking. It should emphasizeresponsiveness to public conceptions of justice and providemethods for formulating just policy using the limitedinformation available to policymakers.Habermas and American Electoral Campaigns: DeliberativeResponsibilities and PossibilitesJohnny Goldfinger, Indiana University-Purdue University,IndianapolisMichael R. James, Bucknell UniversityOverview: Habermas's understanding of deliberative democracyis used to provide a critique of the electoral process in America.120
PaperDisc.We examine current campaign practices, the role of the media,and the behavior of the electorate.The Evolution of Ideal Speech in the Thought of JurgenHabermasDavid V. Schwab, Indiana University, BloomingtonOverview: This paper examines the evolution of the idealspeech situation in Habermas' thought. It is argued that asHabermas' concerns have changed, ideal speech has evolvedfrom a pure sociological construct to one displayingtranscendental elements.Charles T. Rubin, Duquesne UniversityStephen P. Chilton, University of Minnesota, Duluth29-5 DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACYRoomChairPaperPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Thur 3:45 pmRobert Mayer, Loyola University, ChicagoAmerican <strong>Political</strong> Polarization as Disagreement FailurePhil Neisser, SUNY, PotsdamOverview: Key moments in American political history aredefined as "disagreement failures," leading to the conclusionthat deliberative democracy requires both the celebration ofdisagreement and the crossing of multiple borders throughdialogueAlternative Theories of Rationality in DeliberativeDemocracyZsuzsanna Chappell, London School of EconomicsOverview: Deliberative democracy is founded on theunderspecified notion of communicative rationality. Idemonstrate that strategic rationality is a more realisticunderlying assumption on which to develop democratic theory.Deliberation: From Immediate to Mediated CommunicationMolly A. Patterson, Aquinas CollegeOverview: This paper explores the relationship between face-tofacecommunication and mediated deliberation in HabermasÆwork. How, and how well, Habermas manages this transitionhas implications for how we conceive of and institutionalizedeliberation.The Individual Benefits of Deliberative Democracy - AnExperimentEdmond D. Hally, University of IowaOverview: This paper tests whether or not the individual-levelbenefits typically associated with theories of deliberativedemocracy are plausible in an experimental setting.Robert Mayer, Loyola University, ChicagoWilliam A. Gorton, Alma College29-9 MARGINALITY AND PERSPECTIVE INPOLITICAL THOUGHTRoomChairPaperPaperPaperTBA, Thur 3:45 pmIris M. Young, University of ChicagoTheorizing from the Margins with Situated TheoristsEleanor B. Fleming, Vanderbilt UniversityOverview: Scholars doing problem-based inquiry cannot answercompletely their questions, if they overlook people mostaffected by those political problems. Scholars should listen tosituated theorists to engage their ideas and their political praxis.Representing the BorderlandsYvonne A. Gastelum, Harvard UniversityOverview: Borderlands represent political space in transition.They articulate a significant perspective for theorizing aboutjustice in an interdependent world bound by transnational labormobility and migration.Liberalism and Civic Assimilation: A New Look at MinorityNationsTroy A. Kozma, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityOverview: Why do minority nationals resist membership inliberal states? I argue that liberalism demands their civicassimilation. I propose a new social contract between majorityand minority - a Federation of Peoples - modeled upon Rawls'Society of Peoples.PaperDisc.Theorizing Lived Experience: Existence, Suffering and theNormative CycleGiunia Gatta, University of Minnesota/The Ohio StateUniversityOverview: Suffering is a powerful political reality, whichlargely falls beyond the scope of contemporary political science.In this paper I draw a phenomenology of suffering and theorizeits implication for political thought and political action.Brooke A. Ackerly, Vanderbilt UniversityIris M. Young, University of Chicago29-203 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: PERSONHOODAND THE SOVEREIGN STATERoom TBA, Thur 3:45 pmPresenter State Sovereignty and the Idea of a Universal PersonMargaret Jenkins, University of TorontoOverview: This paper examines the idea of a universal person intheoretical approaches to international justice and offers aconceptualization of the individual and the state that specifiesthe scope of human rights and the conditions for statesovereignty.29-204 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: THECOSMOPOLITAN SUBJECTRoom TBA, Thur 3:45 pmPresenter The Cosmopolitan Subject: Cosmopolitanism asResponsibility to the SelfJennie S. Han, University of ChicagoOverview: I argue cosmopolitanism is best conceptualized notas a set of principles, but as a form of moral subjectivity. Thethen is to articulate the cosmopolitan consciousness andconscience as processes of thinking and making judgmentsabout the world.30-5 FORMAL THEORIES OF COMPARATIVEINSTITUTIONSRoomChairPaperPaperPaperDisc.TBA, Thur 3:45 pmSeok-ju Cho, Yale UniversityModels of Government Formation Process in Semi-Presidential SystemsShin-Goo Kang, University of RochesterOverview: This paper presents two models of governmentformation process in Semi-Presidential systems, in which theselection of formateur is endogenously determined by thepresident who has the power to choose a formateur amongparties.Logrolling in Intergovernmental NegotiationsFrank Arndt, Universität MannheimOverview: I investigate the impact of political exchange duringthe Amsterdam Intergovernmental <strong>Conference</strong> 1996-97. Anagent-based simulation is applied to model preferenceaggregation under unanimity rule with a special focus onlogrolling processes.Evolution of Party Systems Inside the Electoral CycleSorin-Gabriel M. Sebe, Bucharest UniversityOverview: Using basic concepts as volatility, polarisation,fractionalization in a multilevel structure, we treat the dynamicsof the party system evolution inside the electoral cycle. The caseof the present Romanian electoral cycle is used as an illustrationSeok-ju Cho, Yale University30-18 FORMAL THEORIES OF POLITICALPARTIESRoomChairPaperTBA, Thur 3:45 pmSean Gailmard, Northwestern UniversityIdentity, Partisanship and Party GovernmentElizabeth M. Penn, Harvard UniversityJohn W. Patty, Harvard UniversityOverview: We examine the implications of identity within amodel of legislative policymaking. Applying our theory to theU.S. House of Representatives, we provide an alternative view121
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