2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 14 – 9:50 am – 11:25 am
1-115 ROUNDTABLE: MEET THE EDITORS OF APSR
AND AJPS, JOP AND PRQ
Room Red Lacquer, 4 th Floor, Sat at 9:50 am
Chair APSR: Ronald Rogowski, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelist APSR: Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles
APSR: Daniel S. Treisman, University of California, Los
Angeles
APSR: John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles
AJPS: Marianne Stewart, University of Texas, Dallas
JOP: John Geer, Vanderbilt University
PRQ: Amy Mazur, Washington State University
Overview: The editors of the four journals will discuss journal
policies and plans, answer questions, and exchange ideas with
members of the scholarly community, including the new UCLAbased
editorial team at APSR.
3-10 GLOBALIZATION: WINNERS AND LOSERS
Room Salon 2, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 9:50 am
Chair Thomas E. Flores, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Paper Globalization, Political Elite Choices: Democracy in Africa
and Middle East
Matthew T. Bradley, Indiana University, Kokomo
Overview: Globalization wages uncertainty on fragile African and
Middle Eastern states. Political mavericks can manipulate fragile
governments while attempting to mitigate the impact of
globalization. What impact does globalization have on nascent
democracies?
Paper Globalization, Power Shift, and Industrial Structure:
Comparing the Post-Crisis Economic Development of S. Korea
and Taiwan
Chen-Hou Chiang, University of Denver
Overview: To what extent does the power shift transform Korean
and Taiwanese states to implement upgrading policies on the one
hand and to what extent does globalization impact the existing
industrial structure of South Korea and Taiwan on the other.
Paper MNCs Accountability to Human Security in Africa: Rethinking
Governance
Cyril Fegue, New York University
Overview: Amidst the avatars of globalization the unbundling
process of private forces such as MNCs, entrenched in the profitmaximizing
rationality, poses a threat to Human Security. How to
hold MNCs responsive to ensuring Human Security in African
context ?
Paper Globalization, Leftist Government and Poverty: A Pooled
Time-Series Analysis, 1975-2005.
Eunyoung Ha, University of California, Los Angeles
Overview: This paper examines the impact of globalization and
the ideological position of the government on poverty rate using
pooled time-series data analysis for eighty six countries from 1975
to 2005.
Paper The Politics of Globalization, Social Welfare and Citizenship
in Africa
Lauren M. Morris MacLean, Indiana University
Overview: I compare the local impacts of economic globalization
in Ghana and Ivory Coast. I show how divergent histories of state
formation have stimulated differences in social reciprocity with
significance for indigenous notions of citizenship and democracy.
Disc. Thomas E. Flores, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3-22 STATES, TAXATION, AND REDISTRIBUTION
Room Salon 4, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 9:50 am
Chair Jose Cheibub, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Paper The Politics of Resource Distribution in Developing
Federations: Argentina and Brazil
Lucas I. Gonzalez, University of Notre Dame
Overview: I advance a game-theoretical framework to explain the
shifting distribution of resources in federal democracies arguing
that political power is critical but it is also necessary to look at the
actors’ strategic interactions in different contexts and arena.
Paper Regional-Racial Cleavages Effects on Taxation Outcomes:
Argentina and Brazil
Hiram J. Irizarry, Ohio State University
Overview: Argentina has collected fewer taxes, although
wealthier, than Brazil because of Brazil’s greater territorial
resources de-concentration, earlier establishment of a central
government, and greater percentage of non-white population than
Argentina.
Paper Pension Policy in East Asia and Latin America
Illan Nam, Princeton University
Overview: This project examines the different trajectory of
pension policies in Latin America and East Asia.
Paper The Network Foundations of State Capacity in Latin America
Melissa Ziegler, University of California, San Diego
Overview: Building upon state capacity theories that analyze the
state as a network, I test how physical links (roads, railroads,
phones, computers) between state and societal actors affect tax
collection in Latin America.
Disc. Jose Cheibub, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
4-11 RESOURCE CURSE AND DEMOCRACY
Room PDR 4, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 9:50 am
Chair John A. Doces, University of Southern California
Paper Distribution and Power in Petro-States
Ryan Kennedy, Ohio State University
Overview: This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence
that a limited number of economic variables explain the
concurrent observations of political stability and instability in fuel
dependent states, and how it relates to the "natural resource curse."
Paper High Oil and Natural Gas Prices, Property Rights and
Democracy: A Comparative Study
Parviz Soltanov, Texas Tech University
Overview: With the comparative case studies of Russia,
Venezuela, Bolivia, Iran, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and
Netherlands I try to test the following hypothesis: democracy
grades of countries rich in oil and natural gas decrease only when
high world market plunges.
Paper Oil-Gas and Transition to Democracy in the Middle East
Islam Y. Qasem, Pompeu Fabra
Overview: Does oil-gas wealth impede the transition from nondemocracy
to democracy? If oil-gas inhibits democracy, then what
are the causal mechanisms? The aim of this paper is to answer
these two questions using cross-case analysis.
Paper Oil: Curse or Blessing for Cambodia's Democracy and
Economic Development?
Kheang Un, Northern Illinois University
Overview: This paper argues that, given present traditions and
institutions based on patronage networks, Cambodia's recent oil
discovery might become 'a curse' rather 'a blessing' for Cambodian
democracy and development.
Disc. Ben Ansell, University of Minnesota
5-6 REGIONAL ORGANIZATION, REPRESENTATION,
AND POLITICAL CONTROL
Room Salon 1, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 9:50 am
Chair Robin E. Best, Syracuse University
Paper Presidential Impeachment and Regional Party System in
Korea in Comparative Perspective
WooJin Kang, Florida State University
Overview: Among institutional provisions, fixed term and nonconcurrent
election play important role in regard to discrepancy of
main concerns between two major actors: president and the
legislator.
Paper Who's Minding the Locals? Federalism, Ethnic Diversity, and
Political Conflict in Democracies
Claudia Dahlerus, Alion College
Overview: This paper explains why federal and unitary
institutional arrangements differently impact targeting of ethnic,
gender-based, and labor organizers in the course of political
protest in European democracies.
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