2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

39-102 ROUNDTABLE: THE STATE OF THE
LEGISLATIVE POLITICS SUBFIELD
Room Adams, 6 th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Panelist Sarah Binder, George Washington University
Richard Hall, University of Michigan
John Aldrich, Duke University
C. Lawrence Evans, College of William and Mary
Overview: This roundtable focuses on the legislative subfield's
contributions. Expert scholars with a range of perspectives will
offer their insight on topics that have been overtilled and
undertilled.
40-2 VOTER CONFIDENCE AND ELECTION
ADMINISTRATION IN THE 2006 MIDTERM
ELECTIONS
Room Montrose 2, 7 th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair James McCann, Purdue University
Paper Voter and Poll Worker Confidence in Elections
R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Thad E. Hall, University of Utah
Overview: This paper combines two data sources—exit polls of
voters and a survey of poll workers—to examine how confident
voters and poll workers were in Cuyahoga County were in the
2006 primary election and the factors that affected that
confidence.
Paper Purple Mountain Majesty: The Politics of Voter Confidence in
Election Administration in Colorado and New Mexico
Lonna Rae Atkeson, University of New Mexico
Kyle L. Saunders, Colorado State University
Overview: Using an original data set collected after the November
2006 general election, this paper examines voter confidence and
voter satisfaction in their election administration and how that
varied across election contexts.
Paper Voter Confidence in the Congressional Election of 2006
Kelly D. Patterson, Brigham Young University
David B. Magleby, Brigham Young University
Overview: We examine how structural factors influence the voting
experience and voter confidence. We use exit poll data on the
voting experience and characteristics of individual voters together
with data of the actual conditions at the polling locations.
Disc. James McCann, Purdue University
Morgan H. Llewellyn, California Institute of Technology
41-102 AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: HETTINGER,
LINDQUIST, MARTINEK,"JUDGING ON A
COLLEGIAL COURT"
Room Monroe, 6 th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University
Panelist Virginia A. Hettinger, University of Connecticut
Stefanie A. Lindquist, Vanderbilt University
Wendy L. Martinek, SUNY, Binghamton
Susan B. Haire, University of Georgia
Thomas G. Hansford, University of California, Merced
Richard L. Pacelle, Jr., Georgia Southern University
Overview: The authors explain how law is shaped by dissensus in
federal appeals courts. They focus on disagreement both within a
judicial panel and between the levels of the federal judicial
hierarchy to explain how attitudes impact judicial decisionmaking.
42-1 BRINGING THE SUPREME COURT INTO
AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (Cosponsored
with Judicial Politics and Politics and
History, see 41-27 and 51-15)
Room Clark 5, 7 th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College
Paper Women Lawyers Forging Visions of Political Change and
Shaping Public Agendas, 1900-1925
Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College
Overview: Using data from an open-ended 1918 survey of women
lawyers in the United States, this paper will examine ways in
which women lawyers took their training and knowledge into the
public sphere, engaged in state-building activities, and worked for
policies.
Paper Legal Time, Political Time and Popular Constitutionalism:
The Supreme Court in American Political Development
Ronald Kahn, Oberlin College
Overview: : Legal time is very different from political time as
viewed by American Political Development scholars, and this
raises questions both about applying APD generalizations to the
Supreme Court and about popular constitutionalism.
Paper From Lochner to the Brandeis Brief: The Supreme Court,
Problem Definitions and the Burden of Proof
Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University
Overview: Using the Lochner-era as its focus, this paper explores
the impact of change in the Court’s due-process doctrine on the
problem definitions and litigation.
Paper Notes Toward a Legal Genealogy of Color Blindness
Julie Novkov, University of Albany
Overview: This paper brings the insights of feminist international
relations scholars and of constitutional law scholars on the “war
on terror” to argue that the specific integration of formal case
precedents and also discussion of the nature of the threats
launched.
Disc. Andrew McFarland, University of Illinois, Chicago
42-4 INTERPRETING FOUNDING MOMENTS, RIGHTS,
AND LEGITIMACY
Room Burnham 1, 7 th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Laura J. Hatcher, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Paper Founders at Cross Purposes: Framers of the State and
National Constitutions
Michael R. Fine, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Overview: The paper compares the principal participants at the
National Constitutional Convention, state ratifying conventions
and early state constitutional conventions to see if these
participants recognized the different theories of federalism.
Paper "Constitutional Politics as Paradigm"
Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland
Overview: This paper suggests that constitutional politics provides
a better paradigm for constitutional studies that the law/politics
distinction that structure New Deal analysis.
Paper The Properties of a Person in U.S. Constitutional Terms
David M. Speak, California Institute of Technology
Overview: Drawing on materials from diverse settings, this paper
argues for a constitutional return to an older wholistic and
humanistic understanding of the core concept of property in U.S.
Foundational terms.
Paper Faith in the System: The Iraqi Constitution in Comparative
Perspective
Catherine Warrick, Villanova University
Overview: Will providing a role for Islamic law in the Iraqi
constitution preclude democracy? This depends on how religious
law affects constitutional law and politics, as shown by
comparative analysis of Arab, Israeli, European and American
constitutions.
Disc. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University
43-3 INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN
Room Montrose 7, 7 th Floor, Sat at 8:00 am
Chair Mark Sachleben, Shippensburg University
Paper Legalization and (non-) Compliance with International Law
Carina Sprungk, University of Victoria
Overview: Bringing together the International Relations literatures
on legalization and compliance, we develop and empirically test
hypotheses on how legalization might matter for compliance with
international law.
Paper The Design of Monitoring Institutions in Environmental
Agreements
Hyeran Jo, University of Michigan
Overview: To understand the process of this design of monitoring
institutions in environmental agreements, I identify the
determinants of monitoring institutions and theorize their effects.
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