MPSA

77-313 Poster Session: Political Economy III:
Neoliberalism and Development
Fri at 9:45 am
Post. 1 Lights On, Lights Out and Energy Poverty in
Nigeria and South Africa
Naaborle Sackeyfio, Pennsylvania State University-
Penn State Erie-Behrend College
nvs5412@psu.edu
Post. 2 The Privatization-Nationalization Cycle: Recent
Developments in Mexico and Argentina’s Oil
Companies
Richard Huizar*, William Paterson University of
New Jersey
huizarR@wpunj.edu
Post. 3 Oil Subsidy Reform: The Fall of Rentier States?
Maryam Fawzi Aljafen, University of California-
Santa Barbara
maryam.aljafen@gmail.com
Post. 4 Unfulfilled State Promises: Citizen Action and a
“bottoms up” Approach to Development
Kristina Teater, University of Cincinnati-Main
Campus
teaterkm@mail.uc.edu
Post. 5 Political and Economics Development: A
Comparative Study of Malaysia and Nigeria
Okoro Clement Ikechukwu*, University Utara
Malaysia
mr.okoro_clement@yahoo.co.uk
Disc. Andrew Quayle Philips, Texas A & M University-
College Station
aphilips@pols.tamu.edu
Mark K. Cassell, Kent State University at Kent
mcassell@kent.edu
77-404 Lightning Talk: Comparative Politics of
Environmental Policy
Fri at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, Manny Teodoro, Texas A & M University-
College Station
mteodoro@tamu.edu
9:50 The Selling of Progress: Regional Diplomacy and
the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Justin Doherty Leach, Troy University
jdleach@troy.edu
9:58 Conflicting Societal Goals: Community
Engagement in Wind Energy Projects and the
Potential for Sustainable Socioeconomic
Development in Mexico and Chile
Katerin Ramirez-Tejeda, University of
Massachusetts-Lowell
katerin_ramireztejeda@student.uml.edu
10:06 The Role of Organizational Motivations in
Watershed Protection
Luisa M. Diaz-Kope, University of North Georgia
Luisa.DiazKope@ung.edu
John Charles Morris*, Old Dominion University
jcmorris@odu.edu
10:14 Risk, Uncertainty, and Interest Coalitions
Laila Sorurbakhsh, American University
lfsorurbakhsh@uh.edu
10:22 Audience Discussion
78-402 Lightning Talk: The Dynamics of Civil Conflict
and Insurgency
Fri at 9:45 am
9:45 Chair, David Sarkisyan, Yerevan State University
sarkisyan_d@yahoo.com
9:50 A Violent Peace?: Violence by Non-state Actors
during Civil War Mediation
Claire J Tam, University of California-Berkeley
claire.tam@berkeley.edu
9:58 Above the Foreign Plain: War, Insurgency, and
the Syrian Arab Republic
Karis L Kotalac, University of Akron-Main Campus
klk96@zips.uakron.edu
10:06 Causes, Implications, and Applications of the
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Insurgency
Garrett J. J. Scherba, University of Akron-Main
Campus
gjs33@zips.uakron.edu
10:14 From Start to Finish: The Influence of Rebel
Group Origins on Organizational Adaptation and
Conflict Outcome
Michael Widmeier, University of North Texas
MichaelWidmeier@my.unt.edu
10:22 Ceasefire Politics in Myanmar’s Civil War
Matthew Koo, University of Chicago
mkoo@uchicago.edu
10:30 Audience Discussion
79-302 Poster Session: Budgeting and Finance Decisions
in Governmental and Nonprofit Agencies
Fri at 9:45 am
Post. 6 The Effect of the Participatory Budgeting on
Local Government: Focusing on the Level of
Participation and Types of Policy
So Won Seon, Arizona State University-Downtown
Phoenix
sseon@asu.edu
Disc. Annabelle Wittels, University College London
annabelle.wittels@hotmail.com
79-303 Poster Session: Climate Change, Consumption
Policy and Framing Discourse (Co-sponsored with
63. Environmental Politics and Policy, see 63-1)
Fri at 9:45 am
Post. 7 Climate Change and the Urban-Rural Divide
Remington Purnell, Seattle University
remipurnell@gmail.com
Post. 8 Climate Macrosecuritizations: Climate Change as
a Threat to Humanity
Collin M Douglas, University of Oklahoma-Norman
Campus
collin.m.douglas-1@ou.edu
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