MPSA

69-1 Addressing Critical Questions in Religious
Thought and the Study of Religion
Thu at 1:15 pm
1:15 The Only Church that Illuminates is a Burning
One: Experiments in Political Pyrotheology
Brendan Joseph Wright, Princeton University
bjwright@princeton.edu
1:26 Paper Proposal: Ihsan and the Role of Sufi Islam
in Muslim Politics and Good Governance
Muqtedar Khan*, University of Delaware
mkhan@udel.edu
1:38 Church Attendance, Authoritarianism, and
Political Influence Cross-Nationally
Amy Erica Smith, Iowa State University
aesmith2@iastate.edu
1:50 Civil Religion as a Basis for Civic Unity Amidst
Diversity: Spinoza, Dewey, and Habermas
Daniel Ian Mark, Villanova University
dmark55@aol.com
2:01 The Law and the Prophets: Religion, Law, and
Politics in 21st Century Africa
Christopher Rhodes, College of the Holy Cross
christopheredward.rhodes@gmail.com
2:13 Disc., Chase M. Porter, The University of Alabama
cporter3@ua.edu
2:25 Audience Discussion
72-105 Roundtable: Research: Getting Your Book
Published
Thu at 1:15 pm
Chair Daniel R. Pinello, CUNY John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
dpinello@jjay.cuny.edu
Part. Thomas A. Birkland, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh
tabirkla@ncsu.edu
Michael Peter Bobic, Alderson Broaddus University
mbobic@bellsouth.net
Daniel R. Pinello, CUNY John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
dpinello@jjay.cuny.edu
Stephen L. Wasby, SUNY at Albany
wasb@albany.edu
77-306 Poster Session: Candidates, Parties and Elections
Thu at 1:15 pm
Post. 1 Does Charisma Discourage Experience and
Encourage Extremism? A Model of Endogenous
Valence
Gilles Serra, CIDE (Centro de Investigacion y
Docencia Economicas)
gilles.serra@cide.edu
Post. 2 Does Charisma Discourage Experience? Elections
with Two Types of Valence
Gilles Serra, CIDE (Centro de Investigacion y
Docencia Economicas)
gilles.serra@cide.edu
Post. 3 Estimating the effect of Pentecostal churches’
support on candidate voting in Brazilian
legislative elections
Fabio Lacerda Silva*, University of São Paulo
flacerdams@gmail.com
Post. 4 U.S. Congressional Member’s Choice and Voting
Behavior on Financial Liberalization Policy:
Centering on the Comparison between Gramm-
Leach-Bliley Act and Dodd-Frank Act
Dongyoun Chang, Ewha Womans University
dyounc@gmail.com
Post. 5 The Fight Against Corruption in Mexico: Recent
Changes and Future Prospects
Miguel Valverde*, Tecnológico de Monterrey,
Mexico City Campus
mavalverdeloya@gmail.com
Post. 6 Friends Over Experience: Party Rooting in
Mexico
Julio Ramos, Indiana University-Bloomington
jramospa@indiana.edu
Disc. Eduardo Aleman, University of Houston
ealeman2@uh.edu
77-307 Poster Session: Institutions, Trust and Democracy
Thu at 1:15 pm
Post. 7 Can Institutional Failure Breed Success?:
Interbranch Relations and the Defensoria del
Pueblo
Erika Moreno*, Creighton University
erikamoreno@creighton.edu
Post. 8 How Does Institutional Confidence Affect Social
Trust?: Comparing the Sources of In-Group, Out-
Group and Generalized Trust in China
Linan Jia, University of Georgia
lj09169@uga.edu
Post. 9 Ideal Points of Brazilian Senators with an
Informative Prior via Hierarchical Modeling
Maurício Yoshida Izumi, University of São Paulo
mauricioizumi@hotmail.com
Disc. Tiffany D. Barnes, University of Kentucky
tiffanydbarnes@uky.edu
77-308 Poster Session: Political Parties, Party Change
and Regime Change
Thu at 1:15 pm
Post. 10 Intra-Party Politics and the Separation of Powers:
A Case of South Korea
Kyu Sik Yang, Yonsei University
kyusik.yang@yonsei.ac.kr
Post. 11 South of the Border, West of the Sun: A
Comparative Historical Analysis of the Party,
Electoral and Party Systems Changes in the USSR
and Mexico
Shin Toyoda*, Keio University, Tokyo
gpmstandalone@yahoo.co.jp
Disc. Joy Langston, CIDE, Mexico City
joy.langston@cide.edu
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