2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 14 – 4:25 pm – 6:00 pm
HERBERT A. SIMON AWARD FOR CAREER
ACHIEVEMENT IN THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF
BUREAUCRACY: RUMINATIONS ON THE STUDY
OF AMERICAN PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES
Room Monroe, 6 th Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Speaker Herbert Kaufman, Visiting Fellow Yale University, Emeritus
Overview: In his address, Profressor Kaufman will primarily focus
attention on the power relationships between elected officials and
civil servants.
1-111 ROUNDTABLE: A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME:
TORTURE AS A TACTIC IN THE WAR ON
TERROR (Co-sponsored with Judicial Politics and
Public Law, see 41-103 and 42-103 )
Room Red Lacquer, 4 th Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Barbara J. Hayler, University of Illinois
Panelist Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University
Alice Ristroph, University of Utah
Shawn M. Boyne, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Richard A. Paschal, Georgetown University
Christi Siver, University of Washington, Seattle
Overview: This panel addresses the legal, political, moral, and
practical consequences of accepting and using torture, with
attention to provisions of the UN Convention Against Torture as
well as existing and newly-adopted U.S. statute law.
2-14 ELECTORAL AND PARTY SYSTEMS IN
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Room Salon 1, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Lawrence Mayer, Texas Tech University
Paper Estimating the Electoral Value of Party Label Across
Developed Democracies
Kenichi Ariga, University of Michigan
Overview: This paper explores empirically the importance of
collective party label for individual candidates in elections and the
variation of its significance across time, parties, and electoral rules
using the actual voting data from developed democracies.
Paper Intra-party Competition and Party Splits
Hande Mutlu, New York University
Overview: I model the intra-party competition between faction
leaders, and examine under which conditions faction leaders
decide to break-up from the party. I illustrate the propositions
derived from the model looking at party cases in parliamentary
regimes.
Paper Political Dimensionality and Voter Preferences in Australia
Shane P. Singh, Michigan State University
Overview: This paper examines how voters and parties align
themselves in Australian political space. Based on the results of
an unfolding model, inferences are then made as to how voters
will rank the parties on their ballots.
Paper The Cost of Governing for Former Pariah Parties in
Established Democracies
Joost van Spanje, European University Institute, Florence
Overview: Mainstream parties often aim to give (alleged)
extremist parties a ‘kiss of death’ by including them in
government. Does government participation have a negative
impact on support for extremist parties compared to other parties?
Disc. Lawrence Mayer, Texas Tech University
3-13 LABOR POLITICS
Room Salon 2, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Roy Germano, University of Texas, Austin
Paper Labor Market Deregulation and Protest in New Democracies
Jose Aleman, Fordham University
Overview: This study examines the relationship between labor
militancy and labor market institutions in 20 new democracies
(1994-2003). In particular, the paper studies the effect of recent
labor market reforms on labor collective behavior in new
democracies.
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Paper Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions in
International Migration
Saltanat Liebert, American University
Overview: This paper examines how formal and informal
institutions interact in the process of labor migration from
Kyrgyzstan to the United States and what the nature of their
interaction is.
Paper Dealing with a Trojan Horse: How Brazilian Labor
Legislation Prevents Unions from Adjusting to Market
Reforms
Monica Arruda de Almeida, University of California, Los
Angeles
Overview: This paper examines the many ways in which Brazil's
pro-labor legislation has constrained the unions' capacity to
respond to market reforms.
Paper Back to the Bargaining Table: The New Politics of Labor
Relations in Argentina and Peru
Matthew E. Carnes, Stanford University
Overview: How does labor affect politics after neo-liberal
reforms? This paper employs a new dataset of collective
bargaining outcomes before and after the reforms of the 1990s in
Argentina and Peru to explain the surprising re-activation of
unions since 2000.
Paper Politics of the Educated Unemployed: Labor Export in the
Philippines
Neil G. Ruiz, The Brookings Institution
Overview: Why did the Philippines chose to export its human
capital rather than make use of them for economic development?
This paper explores how labor export is interconnected with the
lack of state control on private market for higher education.
Disc. Roy Germano, University of Texas, Austin
3-20 REDISTRIBUTION AND INEQUALITY
Room Salon 4, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Eduardo L. Leoni, Harvard University
Paper Income Inequality and Popular Commitment to Democracy
Eric Chang, Michigan State University
Overview: This paper asks whether citizen perceptions concerning
levels of income inequality influence their commitment to
democracy by utilizing survey data from the Afrobarometer and
the East Asian Barometer.
Paper Domestic Sources of Income Inequalities
Won Paik, Central Michigan University
Piotr Paradowski, Central Michigan University
David Jesuit, Central Michigan Univesity
Overview: The purpose of this study is to analyze global income
inequalities by examining neo-classical, dependency, and statist
analyses. The present study utilizes cross-sectional analyses for
developing and less developed countries for the time frame of
1990s.
Paper Does Education Cause Inequality?
Glenn D. Wright, University of Colorado, Boulder
Overview: Can the economic inequality found in Latin American
states can be explained by examining the way those systems sort
students? The paper uses case studies and statistical techniques to
evaluate the hypothesis.
Paper Globalization, Democracy, and Income Inequality in Middle-
Income Countries
Dae Jin Yi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Overview: This paper investigates the relationships between
globalization, democracy, and income distribution through a timeseries
cross-sectional panel data set for 49 middle-income
countries from 1970 to 2002.
Disc. Eduardo L. Leoni, Harvard University