MPSA

3:28 The Cost of Doing Business: Changes in the Levels
of Interest Groups Lobbying in Response to
Changes in Procedural Rules
Kenneth Michael Ferstle, Wayne State University
fk3964@wayne.edu
3:42 American Interest Groups and Civic
Representation
Andrew S. McFarland, University of Illinois-
Chicago
amcfarla@uic.edu
3:56 Disc., Antoine Yoshinaka, University at Buffalo
antoiney@buffalo.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
52-201 Table 4: JSS: Symposium on Comparative Parties
and Interest Groups
Sat at 3:00 pm
3:00 Deliberate Decisions:Evaluating Multidimensional
Party Policy Responsiveness in Europe,1996 to
2014
McCage Griffiths, University of California-Davis
mgriffiths@ucdavis.edu
3:23 Why Did East Asian Cleavage Structures Form
the Dominant Party System in the Center-Right,
not the Centrist Position?: The Cold War,
Developmental State, and the State-Led
Industrialization
Seokdong Kim, Claremont Graduate University
seokdong.kim@cgu.edu
3:46 Disc., Tarik Abou-Chadi, Humboldt University,
Berlin
tarik.abou-chadi@hu-berlin.de
Disc., Mi-son Kim, University of Texas-Rio Grande
Valley
mison.kim@utrgv.edu
4:10 Audience Discussion
53-200 Table 5: JSS: Politics of Unilateral Power
Sat at 3:00 pm
3:00 Presidential Personality and Executive Orders:
Bridging the Gap Between the Informal Powers of
the President and Formal Powers of the
Presidency
Steven Betz*, Wayne State University
bl9010@wayne.edu
3:14 Unilateral Delegation: A Principal-Agent Model
for Presidential Use of Executive Orders to Direct
Policy-Making Authority
Derek Matthew Culp, University of Pittsburgh-
Pittsburgh Campus
dmc143@pitt.edu
3:28 Does Secrecy Matter for American Statecraft? A
Cross-Presidential Study of Executive Orders
Keita Omi, University of Utah
keita.omi@utah.edu
3:42 Hyperpresidentialism in the Southern Cone of
Latin America: Examining the Diverging Cases of
Argentina and Chile
Dan Berbecel, Princeton University
berbecel@princeton.edu
3:56 Disc., Michelle H. Belco, University of Houston
mhbelco@CENTRAL.uh.edu
Disc., Ian Ostrander, Michigan State University
ian.ostrander@gmail.com
4:10 Audience Discussion
54-21 Parliamentary Politics
Sat at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Brian D. Williams, The University of West
Florida
bwilliams1@uwf.edu
3:05 Brazilian Municipal Coalitions: Coalition
Building, Public Policy and Implementation
David Vawter Hughes, Rice University
dvh2@rice.edu
3:21 Parliamentary Government in 19th Century
Germany?: Legislative Coalition Formation in
the Frankfurt Assembly, 1848-849
Ulrich Sieberer, University of Bamberg
ulrich.sieberer@uni-bamberg.de
Michael Herrmann*, University of Konstanz
michael.herrmann@uni-konstanz.de
3:37 Prompting Legislative Agreement and Loyalty:
What Role for the Extra-Parliamentary Party
Organization?
Caroline Close, Université Libre de Bruxelles
cclose@ulb.ac.be
3:53 Disc., Jack Blumenau, London School of Economics
j.blumenau@lse.ac.uk
Disc., Caroline Close, Université Libre de Bruxelles
cclose@ulb.ac.be
4:10 Audience Discussion
54-22 The United States Senate
Sat at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Nicholas Howard, Auburn University at
Montgomery
nhoward8@aum.edu
3:05 Advising the Senate: Lessons from Howard Baker
Michael Peter Bobic, Alderson Broaddus University
mbobic@bellsouth.net
3:15 Careers and The Institutionalization of the United
States Senate
Nicholas Howard, Auburn University at
Montgomery
nhoward8@aum.edu
Mark Owens*, Bates College
mowens2@bates.edu
3:26 Filling the Void: Retired Senators and Their
Successors
Theodore J. Masthay, University of Missouri-
Columbia
tmy58@mail.missouri.edu
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