MPSA

Post. 13 The Geopolitics of Oil: Tracing U.S. Involvement
in the Persian Gulf
Alyce Bauer, DePaul University
alycebauer@gmail.com
Post. 14 The Effect of United States Defense Subsidies
Through Nato on Other Member States'
Economies
Hayden Rutledge, Belmont University
haydenrutledge@gmail.com
Post. 15 The Sino-American War of Words: Soft Power as
Coercion
Lucas Myers, Macalester College
lucasmyers20@yahoo.com
Disc. Andrew Heritage, Claremont Graduate University
andrew.heritage@cgu.edu
Marika Landau-Wells, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
mlw@mit.edu
82-331 Poster Session: Legislative Politics
Sat at 11:30 am
Post. 16 The Relative Impact of Party, Money, and
Experience in Open Seats
Samuel B Ostrow, The University of Alabama
sbostrow@gmail.com
Post. 17 Perceived Effectiveness of Lobbying Coalitions in
Washington, D.C.
Alice Danelia, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
adanelia@umich.edu
Post. 18 Support for Zika Legislation in the U.S. Senate:
Ideology, Public Opinion and Perceived Threat of
Zika Exposure
Megan F Hunt, Clemson University
mfhunt@g.clemson.edu
Post. 19 A House Divided
Joshua Charles Davis, Rose State College
joshuacdavis56@gmail.com
Post. 20 Reforming the Senate: Changes to Increase
Efficiency While Maintaining the Deliberative
Character of the Body
Myles Ambrose, Macalester College
mambrose@macalester.edu
Post. 21 Congressional Committee Jurisdictions Revisited
Ryan C Moore, Ohio State University-Main Campus
moore.3340@osu.edu
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University-
Main Campus
steffensmeier.2@osu.edu
Post. 22 Communicating Identities: An Examination of
Member’s of Congress’ Bill Sponsorship and
Cosponsorship in a Pre and Post 9/11 Context
Lucy Brazil, The College of Wooster
librazil13@gmail.com
Disc. Kevin Thomas Fahey, Florida State University
kf12d@my.fsu.edu
82-332 Poster Session: Regimes, Peace, and Justice
Sat at 11:30 am
Post. 23 Regime Type, Protest Incidence, and Repression
Meyer Thalheimer, Swarthmore College
meyer.thalheimer@gmail.com
Post. 24 Scotland is Ours: The Impact of Youth Voters on
the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
Evan Mathers, Nebraska Wesleyan University
emathers@nebrwesleyan.edu
Ryan Klute, Nebraska Wesleyan University
rklute@nebrwesleyan.edu
Post. 25 Non-State Militancy and Regime Type: An
Assessment of the Rise of Religious Militancy in
South Asia
Saadat N Khan, Texas A & M University-College
Station
saadatnawaz4@gmail.com
Post. 26 When Fragile States Break: Intergovernmental
Organizations’ Role in the Recognition of De
Facto States
Odessa Torrez, Carthage College
odessa.torrez@gmail.com
Post. 27 Comparative Authoritarianism on State-Society
Relations
Madeleine Case, Southern Methodist University
mscase@smu.edu
Post. 28 No Justice, No Peace: Traditional and Informal
Justice Systems of Reconciliation in Peace
Agreements
Kaitlin L McClamrock, University of South
Carolina-Columbia
mcclamrk@email.sc.edu
Post. 29 What Effect Does the Presence of a Nationally
Significant Square have in Influencing a
Revolution?
Eloïse Gabadou, McGill University
eloise.gabadou@mail.mcgill.ca
Juliette Deshormes, McGill University
juliette.deshormes@mail.mcgill.ca
Jean-Yves Cambier, McGill University
jean-yves.cambier@mail.mcgill.ca
Disc. Viveca Pavon Harr, The University of Texas at
Dallas
Viveca.Pavon@utdallas.edu
Allison Spencer Hartnett, University of Oxford
allison.hartnett@politics.ox.ac.uk
87-2 Examining Leadership through a Political
Philosophical Lens: Aristotle, Locke, Spinoza, and
Pericles (Co-sponsored with 47. Political
Philosophy: Approaches and Themes, see 47-8)
Sat at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Greg Weiner, Assumption College
gs.weiner@assumption.edu
11:35 Thucydides on the Contextual Limits of
Innovative Leadership: The Case of Pericles
Brent Edwin Cusher, Christopher Newport
University
brent.cusher@cnu.edu
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