2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 14 – 2:35 pm – 4:10 pm
1-105 ROUNDTABLE: WHAT CAUSES ETHNIC RIOTS?
TAKING STOCK OF ACCUMULATED EVIDENCE
(Co-sponsored with Ethnicity and Nationalism, see 20-
101)
Room Red Lacquer, 4 th Floor, Sat at 2:35 pm
Chair Henry E. Hale, George Washington University
Panelist Paul R. Brass, University of Washington
Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University
Alexandra Scacco, Columbia University
Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan
Steven I. Wilkinson, University of Chicago
Overview: What Causes Ethnic Riots? Taking Stock of
Accumulated Evidence
3-12 INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Room Salon 2, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 2:35 pm
Chair Natasha Iskander, New York University
Paper Contemporary Mexico-U.S. Migration and Sub-National
Politics in Mexico
Jorge Bravo, Duke University
Overview: Out-migration from Mexico to the U.S. has reshaped,
via ‘selection’ effects and ‘contextual’ effects, local politics in
Mexico.
Paper Emigration and Remittance Policy in the Developing World
Roy P. Germano, University of Texas, Austin
Overview: This paper provides an overview of and general
explanations for the types of emigration policies and institutions
that have emerged in Latin America, the Middle East, and South
Asia in recent decades.
Paper Interpretative Engagement for Global Services: The Case of
La Banque Centrale Marocaine
Natasha Iskander, New York University
Overview: Based on a Moroccan case study, I argue that service
globalization derives from new understandings about the kinds of
services demanded as globalization stretches labor markets,
industries and state functions internationally.
Paper Remitting Ideas and Money: How Migrants are Changing
Political Beliefs and Behavior Back Home in Mexico
Clarisa Perez-Armendariz, University of Texas, Austin
David Crow, University of Texas, Austin
Overview: We draw on original survey data to explore the effect
of international migration on beliefs about, and evaluations of,
democracy among Mexican nationals residing in Mexico.
Paper Mobility and New Institutions in a Transnational Labor
Market: The Return of Chinese Migrant Engineers from the
U.S.
Fei Qin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Overview: This study examines the determinants of return
migration decisions and the role of a variety of institutional and
social factors in shaping the migration flows.
Paper Extending the Arms of the State: Overseas Filipinos and the
Politics of Emigration
Neil G. Ruiz, Brookings Institution
Overview: The paper examines the growing dependence of the
Philippine state on labor export institutions.
Disc. Manuel Orozco, Inter American Dialogue
Saltanat Liebert, American University
3-23 TERRORISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Room Salon 4, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 2:35 pm
Chair Benjamin Smith, University of Florida
Paper Under the Siege of Terrorism: National Security or
Fundamental Liberties?
Banu Baybars Hawks, Kadir Has University
Overview: Fredrick S. Siebert, in 1952, argued that when events
increased stresses on society and on government, freedom of
expression would diminish. The examples of Turkey and the
United States, as argued in this paper, will support Siebert’s thesis.
Paper Terrorism: The New Development Strategy
Laura V. Fontaine, University of Colorado, Boulder
Overview: This paper will argue that terrorist groups are leading
citizen run bottom-up development projects, increasing their
membership and escalating their cause. Terrorist organizations are
now utilizing development strategies as a recruitment tool.
Paper Terrorism in the Horn of Africa: Where Bin Laden Began his
Rise
Tseggai Isaac, University of Missouri, Rolla
Overview: In the far corners of the Horn of Africa, terrorist
movements have taken advantage of Western indifference to the
region are muscling their way to formal politics. Ethiopia, Eritrea,
Kenya and Uganda have battled terrorist for decades.
Paper Insurgencies, Counterinsurgencies, and Civil-Military
Relations: How, When, and Why Do Civilians Prevail?
Ozlem Kayhan Pusane, University of Notre Dame
Overview: This paper explores how domestic security threats
affect civil-military relations in Turkey and Peru.
Disc. Benjamin Smith, University of Florida
4-13 TOWARDS DEMOCRATIZATION IN CHINA?
Room PDR 4, 3 rd Floor Sat at 2:35 pm
Chair Xiaojun Yan, Harvard University
Paper Civil Liberty and Political Freedom in China
Diqing Lou, Texas A&M University
Tianjian Shi, Duke University
Overview: Combining subjective survey data and objective coding
analysis, the paper examines the influence of economic
development on the transformation of civil liberties and political
freedom in non-democratic China during the past decades.
Paper Working Class and Democratization Deadlock in China
Feng Sun, University of Alabama
Overview: This paper explores the democratization puzzle of
economic reform without political liberalization in China by
indicating the fact that China lacks one of the critical elements of
democratization: a relative strong working class.
Paper The Rising Leaders in the Chinese Countryside
Xiaojun Yan, Harvard University
Overview: The paper examines the transformation of village
leadership in China under the market reform. It shows how the
reform brought former political outcasts (business owners) into
China's local politics and why the communist officials supported
it.
Paper Governance-Driven Deliberation in China: Democratization
on the Way?
Li Guo, University of British Columbia
Overview: My paper addresses the theoretical challenge to the
liberal paradigm of democratization posed by China's recent
reform to bring public participation and consultation into some
decision-making process.
Paper A Game-Theoretic Analysis of China's Village Elections
Hiroki Takeuchi, University of California, Los Angeles
Overview: This paper discusses China's village elections. Using a
simple game-theoretic model, it shows that cadres' personal
qualities would be the decisive factor in determining whether
public goods were provided in the village.
Disc. Jessica Xu, Yale University
6-1 COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC VOTING
Room Sandburg 7, 7 th Floor, Sat at 2:35 pm
Chair Matthew M. Singer, Duke University
Paper On the Efficiency of the Voting Market: A Global Perspective
Timothy Hellwig, University of Houston
David Samuels, University of Minnesota
Overview: Building on research on the effects of information on
elections, this paper examines the efficiency of the voting market
in comparative perspective. It seeks to determine the extent to
which voters are "fully informed" .
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