2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

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critical perspective. This keystone of contemporary public
administration.
51-6 COURTS, POLITICS, AND POLICIES
Room PDR 8, 3 rd Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Leslie F. Goldstein, University of Delaware
Paper The Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship:
Thick or Thin?
Jordon B. Barkalow, Bridgewater State College
Overview: The question of what it means to be an American is
pursued through an analysis of the Congressional debate over the
Fourteenth Amendment. Analysis demonstrates that American
citizenship is best understood in liberal terms.
Paper Prosecuting the Powerful: State Regulation of 19th Century
Corporations
Jonathan Chausovsky, SUNY, Fredonia
Overview: State Attorneys General in the 19th Century actively
prosecuted corporations for violations of their charters. I position
Attorneys General as political actors, and explain when and why
they sought to rein in powerful economic actors.
Paper Corruption in History: The 1853 Impeachment Trial of Judge
Levi Hubbell
Michael A. Kwas, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Overview: This paper examines the 1853 impeachment trial of
Judge Levi Hubbell. It vividly illustrates conceptions of political
corruption in flux and demonstrates both the instrumental and
normative role that narratives of corruption played in creating a
legitimate trial.
Paper Laissez-Faire Redux: The Supreme Court and Age/Disability
Discrimination
William M. Leiter, California State University, Long Beach
Overview: The Supreme Court has embraced laissez-faire themes
in its statutory and constitutional treatment of age and disability
discrimination, while being more deferential to race/gender/ethnic
antidiscrimination claims.
Paper Letting Politics Make Law: The Judicial Restraint of the
Warren Court
Rebecca E. Zietlow, University of Toledo
Overview: This talk celebrates the often overlooked judicial
restraint of the Warren Court, which allowed Congress to enact
legislation protecting individual rights. It reconsiders the proper
relationship between politics and law in the ongoing debate over
judicial restraint.
Disc. Francis J. Carleton, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
53-5 RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE ON INTEREST GROUP
FORMATION AND STRATEGY
Room Burnham 4, 7 th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Caroline M. Nordlund, Dickinson College
Paper Argument Frame Diversity in Religious Group Rhetoric
Katherine E. Stenger, Gustavus Adolphus College
Kathryn L. Johnson, Gustavus Adolphus College
Overview: In this paper, we use a new collection of over 3,000
press releases from a sample of Christian groups to test the
accuracy of the claim that religious groups are limited in the types
of argument frames they use.
Paper Religious Conservatives and Social Movement
Institutionalization
Kimberly H. Conger, Iowa State University
Overview: The religious conservative movement in the U.S.
shows less organizational institutionalization than we would
expect. I examine the reasons for this and implications for social
movement theory and the study of the religious conservative
movement.
Paper The Political Consequences of Premillennial Theology in
America
Paula N. Booke, University of Chicago
Overview: This paper examines the relationship between
premillennialism and politics by examining the social network of
premillennial websites.
Paper A New Sacred History: The Political Foundation of the New
Christian Right
James M. Patterson, University of Virginia
Overview: The political foundation of the New Christian Right
(NCR) uses a historical narrative to demand political action from
membership, who then seek positions in government to encourage
the completion of that narrative.
Disc. Franklyn C. Niles, John Brown University
55-2 WHY SERVICE LEARNING?
Room Montrose 7, 7 th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Suzanne Soule, Center for Civic Education
Paper Quality Internship and Service Learning Programs: The New
CAS Standards
Eugene J. Alpert, The Washington Center for Internships and
Academic Seminars
Overview: The Council for the Advancement of Standards in
Higher Education recently adopted national standards as
guidelines for internship and service learning programs. This
presentation reviews these guidelines and implementation.
Paper Missing Incentives: Faculty Attitudes about Service Learning
Jackson Sellers, University of Kansas
Overview: This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data to
discuss factors associated with attitudes about service learning by
political science faculty and provides suggestions for increasing
the use of service learning in the field.
Paper Public Service, Service Learning and Undergraduate
Education
Ronald Matthews, Jr., Mount Union College
Amanda Espenschied-Reilly, Mount Union College
Overview: This presentation provides participants with the
importance of incorporating public service and service learning
into the undergraduate educational experience within the field of
political science.
Paper Service Learning and Government Agencies: Partnerships
that Work
Johnny Goldfinger, Indiana University Purdue University,
Indianapolis
Steven G. Jones, Indiana University Purdue University,
Indianapolis
Timothy M. Koponen, Indiana University Purdue University,
Indianapolis
Overview: This paper examines service learning partnerships with
government agencies, highlighting the long-term benefits for both
faculty members and the agencies.
Disc. Steven Jones, Indiana University Purdue University,
Indianapolis
Tom Caiazzo, East Georgia College
63-1 LATINO POLITICS IN THE MIDWEST
Room Montrose 1, 7 th Floor, Fri at 12:45 pm
Chair Chris Olds, Texas A&M University
Paper Latinos in Illinois: What Explains their Participation?
Julia Albarracin, Western Illinois University
Overview: This paper analyzes the factors shaping participation
among Latinos in Illinois.
Paper The Role of the Spanish Media in Chicago Latino Political
Organizing
Antonio Rodriguez, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Overview: The role of the Spanish language news media in the
Chicago Latino Community was explored by conducting a series
of interviews with Latino elected officials, Spanish language news
media representatives and leaders in Latino Organizations.
Paper Latino Cultural Assimilation, Divided Loyalties, and World
Cup Television Ratings
Brandon G. Valeriano, University of Illinois, Chicago
Cynthia M. Mosqueda, University of California, Los Angeles
Overview: We challenge the hypothesis that the choice of a
person’s favored national team can measure cultural assimilation
as a simplistic, naïve, and flat out wrong assumption for many
reasons.
Disc. Sylvia Manzano, Texas A&M University