MPSA

1:33 Policy Failure of an Irish Solution to a Global
Problem: The Case of the Personal Injuries
Assessment Board
Marian Jennings, DIT, Dublin, Ireland
Marian.Jennings@dit.ie
Sharon Mary Feeney, Dublin Institute of
Technology, Ireland
sharon.feeney@dit.ie
J. William Hogan*, Hogan, J. William
450592@gmail.com
1:46 Rural/Urban Perceptions of Midwestern Human
Trafficking: Frontline Workers’ Perspectives
Hannah Britton, University of Kansas
britton@ku.edu
Ryan Colby Daugherty, University of Kansas
rdaugherty@ku.edu
Sierra Reicheneker, University of Kansas
s.reicheneker@gmail.com
Corinne Schwarz, University of Kansas
cschwarz@ku.edu
Marcus Williamson*, University of Kansas
mpwilliamson@ku.edu
1:59 The Guelph Abattoir Program Gets Unionized:
Prison Industry Privatization and Prisoner-
Worker Unionization in Ontario in the 1970s
Jordan House, York University
housej@yorku.ca
2:12 Disc., John C. Kilwein, West Virginia University
jkilwein@wvu.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
57-11 Judicial Elections
Fri at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Christopher P McMillion, Oklahoma Baptist
University
christopher.mcmillion@okbu.edu
1:20 Mobilizing Messages: Campaign Television Ad
Content and Voter Participation in State Supreme
Court Elections
Matthew J. Zalewski*, Michigan State University
zalews17@msu.edu
1:30 Prosecutorial Discretion and Judicial Decisions in
Capital Cases: Understanding Case Facts and
Electoral Pressures
Rachel Paine Caufield, Drake University
rachel.caufield@drake.edu
Alex Freeman, Drake University
alex.freeman@drake.edu
1:41 Qualifications and Credibility: The Persuasive
Power of Judicial Experience
Brenden Higashi, Washington State University
brenden.higashi@wsu.edu
Michael Salamone, Washington State University
michael.salamone@wsu.edu
1:52 State High Court Outcomes at the U.S. Supreme
Court: Clear Error, Misunderstanding, and
Failure.
Robbin Smith, Central Connecticut State University
smithr@ccsu.edu
2:03 The Role of Campaign Donations in Judicial
Primary and General Elections
Kate Eugenis, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
eugenisk@unlv.nevada.edu
2:14 Disc., Michael G. Miller, Barnard College
mgmiller@barnard.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
58-6 Polarization in State Politics
Fri at 1:15 pm
1:15 Chair, Matthew T Gross, Henderson State
University
grossm@hsu.edu
1:20 Red and Blue for How Long?: Stasis and Change
in the Ideological Composition of the U.S. States
Scott Harris, University of South Carolina-Upstate
sharris8@uscupstate.edu
1:33 A Comparison of State Legislative DIME and
Roll-Call Ideal Points
Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University
smrogers@slu.edu
1:46 State Legislative Polarization and Trust in State
Government
Lilliard Richardson, Indiana University-Purdue
University-Indianapolis
lilliardrichardson@gmail.com
Jeff Milyo, University of Missouri-Columbia
MILYOJ@MISSOURI.EDU
1:59 State Policy and the Nationalization of Party-
Group Coalitions
Jacob Martin Grumbach, University of California-
Berkeley
jakegrumbach@berkeley.edu
2:12 Disc., Matthew T Gross, Henderson State
University
grossm@hsu.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
59-5 Metropolitan Governance and Regional
Interactions
Fri at 1:15 pm
1:15 Cooperation with Distrust? Intergovernmental
Agreements and the Provision of Regional Public
Goods
Edella Schlager, University of Arizona
schlager@email.arizona.edu
1:26 Is There a Leviathan In Your Region?: The Power
of American Local Governments and the
Distribution of Public Investment in Regional
Governance
Brian Y. An, University of Southern California
yeokwana@usc.edu
Raphael W Bostic*, University of Southern
California
bostic@price.usc.edu
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