2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

49-5 PROCESS AND REPRESENTATION IN
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Room Clark 3, 7 th Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Mark C. Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver
Paper The Impact of Policy Change in Local and State Environment
Policy: The Case of Brownfields
Richard C. Hula, Michigan State University
Overview: This paper examines the long-term impact Michigan’s
program to promote the cleaning and redevelopment of
contaminated land parcels (brownfields). The analysis is based on
a set of observations of sites over a five-year period.
Paper Deliberation Lite: How Minimal Interaction Influences Policy
Preferences
Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University
Rachel Shwom, Michigan State University
Amy Dan, Michigan State University
David Bidwell, Michigan State University
Overview: Results of an experiment using feedback in a mail
survey to influence preferences for climate change mitigation
policy.
Paper Representing Interests and Communities in Policymaking
Richard Barke, Georgia Institute of Technology
Overview: There are many political and policy processes in the
U.S. that stipulate categories of membership of advisory boards or
decision-making committees, with either tacit or explicit
assumptions that individuals will in some way represent particular
interests.
Disc. Ramiro Berardo, University of Arizona
50-11 ORGANIZATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF
AGENCY PERFORMANCE
Room Suite 9-128, 9 th Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Carolyn Bourdeaux, Georgia State University
Paper Can Management Strategy Minimize the Impact of Red Tape
on Organizational Performance?
Gene A. Brewer, University of Georgia
Richard M. Walker, Hong Kong University
Overview: The nature and impact of red tape on public agencies
has long been debated. For example, previous literature and
anecdotal accounts suggest that there are two conceptually distinct
forms of red tape – internal and external. This study aims to fill a
gap.
Paper Consequences of Conflict in Public Organizations
James L. Chappell, Western Kentucky University
Overview: Brief overview of how conflict impacts the service
delivery of public organizations provides the basis for the
research. Additionally, the research looks at the sources of
conflict within public organizations.
Paper A Comparative Study of Staff and Operating Agencies:
Quantitative Analysis on the Organizational Structures of
Federal Agencies
Yoonho Kim, Cornell University
Overview: This paper analyzes the U.S. federal agencies by
dividing into two categories, "staff" and "operating" agency. This
analysis focuses on how these two agencies differ and similar in
regard to organizational structures.
Paper Managing for Results in Governmental Organizations: Does
Organization Matter?
Jung Wook Lee, University of Illinois, Springfield
Seok Eun Kim, Kansas State University
Overview: This study explores the organizational characteristics
that can affect the successful implementation of managing for
results (MFR) practices in public organizations.
Paper Perceptions of Organizational Red Tape: Career Contextual
Determinants
Branco Ponomariov, University of Illinois, Chicago
Craig Boardman, Science and Technology Policy Institute
Overview: This paper investigates the effect of career context (e.g.
technical, professional, managerial, single- or multi- sectoral), on
public managers' red tape perceptions.
Disc. Carolyn Bourdeaux, Georgia State University
Lada Dunbar, University of Michigan, Dearborn
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51-12 RETHINKING CONSTITUENCY POLITICS
Room PDR 8, 3 rd Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair David Karol, University of California, Berkeley
Paper Mugwumps and Goo-Goos: American Democracy and 19th
Century Anti-Partisanship
Zachary C. Courser, Claremont McKenna College
Overview: A study of the development of a Northern anti-partisan
movement after the Civil War, its anti-democratic origins, and its
contribution to diminishing political participation in contemporary
American politics.
Paper Trade Doesn't Just Happen à Politics Matter
Mark A. Martinez, California State University, Bakersfield
Overview: To achieve objectives under the modern liberal state
private interests organize and use political institutions. Yet,
notions of laissez-faire continue to dominate our notions of the
market place. This needs to be reevaluated.
Paper The Making of the Silent Majority: Nixon, Polling, and
Constituency Building
Mark D. Nevin, University of Virginia
Overview: This paper offers a case study of President Richard
Nixon’s drive to forge a new social conservative coalition in 1969-
70 through the strategic use of public opinion polls.
Paper Eisenhower, Christians, and Fighting the Cold War
Andrew J. Schlewitz, Albion College
Overview: This paper exams bottom-up and top-down efforts in
the 1950s to mobilize American Christians for the Cold War.
Disc. Eric D. Russell, Ohio State University
David Karol, University of California, Berkeley
54-1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE
STUDY OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND
GOVERNANCE
Room Sandburg 1, 7 th Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Chair Myron J. Aronoff, Rutgers University
Paper The Evolution of the Popular Political Representations in
Burkina Faso
Hilgers Mathieu, National Fund for Scientific
Research/Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
Overview: If the formal democracy in Burkina Faso can
marginalize the institutional political opposition and manages to
integrate criticism, is it really able to reduce to silence a popular
opposition which can be seen in everyday life ?
Paper Biography and Voting in the Elections of 2003 and 2004 in
Lithuania
Neringa Klumbyte, University of Pittsburgh
Overview: The paper explores political communication in the
elections of 2003, 2004 in Lithuania. It proposes to understand
voting for the so-called populist candidates and ideas by exploring
people’s political subjectivities and focusing on their biographies.
Disc. Myron J. Aronoff, Rutgers University
56-304 POSTER SESSION: UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH IV
Room Exhibit Hall, 4 th Floor, Sat at 4:25 pm
Presenter America's Dead Capital
(Board 1)
Sarah N. Friederich, Belmont University
Overview: When considering the problem of "dead capital" in the
developing world and "dead labor" in the United States, the
similarities between the two concepts signifies that legal
incorporation into the system for excluded individuals solves both
problems.
Presenter Email's Effect on Voter Turnout
(Board 2)
Brian D. Pitts, Emory University
Overview: Analysis of a field experiment testing the impact of
email reminders with hyperlinks on midterm election turnout
among a population of college freshmen.