MPSA

Post. 14 Restoring the American Dream
Guneev Sharma, Hendrix College
SharmaGG@hendrix.edu
Post. 15 Deadly Force: Causes, Implications, and Solutions
Connor McGuire, Curry College
connorj.mcg@gmail.com
Post. 16 The Unconstitutionality of Minimum Wage
Jeremy Spankowski, Carroll University
jspankow@pio.carrollu.edu
Post. 17 Analyzing the Impact of Social and Economic
Development on Regular Immigration Policies
Mustafa Isaac Filat, Hendrix College
filatmi@hendrix.edu
Post. 18 Using Geographic Information Systems to
Improve Veteran’s Access to Health Care in
Michigan
Kathryn M Xerri*, Grand Valley State University
xerrik@mail.gvsu.edu
Post. 19 The Invisible Inequality of 21st Century America:
Disenfranchisement of U.S. Citizens Living in U.S.
Territories
Peter Paul H Camacho*, University of Washington-
Seattle Campus
pcama003@uw.edu
Post. 20 From Compton to Congress: Rap and Politics in
the United States
Remy Eisendrath*, Macalester College
reisendr@macalester.edu
Post. 21 Criticism of the Argument that we are in a Second
Gilded Age
Ashley Cross, Carthage College
across@carthage.edu
Post. 22 The Afterlife of a Bloody Day: The Construction
and Reception of Social Trauma in the Case of
Bloody Sunday
Dominic J Pfister, Denison University
pfiste_d1@denison.edu
Disc. Samantha Howe, Ohio Northern University
s-howe@onu.edu
David Casalaspi, Michigan State University
dwc@msu.edu
85-4 Political Virtue and Philosophic Knowledge in
Classical Political Philosophy
Sat at 3:00 pm
3:00 Chair, Devin Andrew Stauffer, University of Texas-
Austin
devinstauffer@mail.utexas.edu
3:05 Alcmaeon’s Islands and Periclean Imperialism:
Mortality, Hubris, and the Question of Being
Borden Flanagan, American University
flanagan@american.edu
3:18 Tension between Theoretical and Practical
Knowledge in Nicomachean Ethics
Kyu-Been Chun, Claremont Graduate University
kyu-been.chun@cgu.edu
3:31 Socrates' Defense of Philosophy in Plato's
Republic
Mark J. Lutz, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
lutzm@cox.net
3:44 Virtue in Cyrus' Monarchy
Timothy William Burns, Baylor University
Timothy_Burns@baylor.edu
3:57 Disc., David Paul Ramsey, University of West
Florida
dramsey1@uwf.edu
Disc., Ken Mathew DeLuca, Hampden-Sydney
College
kdeluca4@hotmail.com
4:10 Audience Discussion
Speed Networking: American II
Sat at 3:00 pm
Saturday, April 8 at 4:45 pm
3-8 The Causes and Consequences of Parties’ Policy
Images
Sat at 4:45 pm
4:45 Chair, David Fortunato, Texas A & M University-
College Station
fortunato@tamu.edu
4:50 Follow the (Foreign) Leader
Tobias Böhmelt*, University of Essex
tbohmelt@essex.ac.uk
Lawrence Ezrow, University of Essex
ezrow@essex.ac.uk
Roni Lehrer*, University of Mannheim
rlehrer@mail.uni-mannheim.de
Hugh D. Ward*, University of Essex
hugh@essex.ac.uk
5:00 Exogenous Shocks and Their Impact on the Policy
Profile Changes of Parties: Evidence From Eight
European Countries
Markus Baumann*, University of Mannheim
mbaumann@uni-mannheim.de
Marc Debus*, University of Mannheim
marc.debus@uni-mannheim.de
Martin Gross, Mannheim Centre for European
Social Research
martin.gross@uni-mannheim.de
5:11 Explaining Cross-National Differences in Political
Interest: The Role of Partisan and Ideological
Cues
Randy Stevenson, Rice University
stevenso@rice.edu
5:22 Campaign Dynamics and Voter Perceptions: How
do Election Campaigns Affect Voter Perceptions
of Party Positions
Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas-Austin
zsomer@utexas.edu
Margit Tavits*, Washington University in St. Louis
tavits@wustl.edu
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