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Paper The Rule of Law Through the Looking Glass Mary Liston, University of Toronto Overview: This paper suggests that children’s literature can provide insights into how the rule of law has been conceptualized in both Anglo-North American popular culture as well as political and legal theory. Disc. Eileen H. Botting, University of Notre Dame Laurie Naranch, Siena College 33-28 JUSTICE AND JUSTIFICATION Room Dearborn 1, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Colin P. Bird, University of Virginia Paper Tribal Liberalism: The Ethical Implication of Public Justification Bill Curtis, University of Vermont Overview: The commitment to public justification has greater ethical implications than most liberal theorists realize. It implies a distinctively liberal "way of life" that cannot in principle be reconciled with the accomodation of nonliberal pluralism. Paper Can Deliberation Build Trust? Patti Tamara Lenard, Harvard University Overview: I assess whether deliberation can be thought of a trustbuilding mechanism, in particular the institutional conditions under which it takes place so that it can be a trust-builder. I focus on the ‘deliberation mediator’. Paper Public Reason as Reason-of-State Fred M. Frohock, University of Miami Overview: A version of public reason crafted on reason-of-state, a tradition of thought holding that the exercise of power at collective levels identifies a political reasoning which presents its own distinct and independent rules of engagement and morality. Disc. Stephen P. Chilton, University of Minnesota, Duluth Colin P. Bird, University of Virginia 34-7 ELECTORAL COMPETITION Room PDR 5, 3 rd Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Steven Callander, Northwestern University Paper Targeted Campaigns with Ambiguity-Averse Voters Scott Ashworth, Princeton University Overview: I study equilibrium targeting decisions in an election in which candidates can provide information to voters who are ambiguity averse, and might abstain if their information is "low quality". Paper Signalling Policy Commitments in Electoral Competitions with Heterogeneously Motivated Candidates Haifeng Huang, Duke University Overview: When candidates can be either policy seeking or office seeking, their policy announcements during campaigns signal to voters their degrees of policy commitments. The median voter theorem no longer holds in this signalling game. Paper Attack Politics: Who Goes Negative and Why? Kyle Mattes, California Institute of Technology Overview: I introduce a formal model of campaign strategy to show when candidates will engage in negative campaigning and how it can affect election results. Paper When Candidates as Well as Voters Value Good Job Performance: A Spatial Model James Adams, University of California, Davis Samuel Merrill, III, Wilkes University Overview: We develop a spatial model in which the candidates – like the voters – prefer that the winning candidate possess qualities such as competence and integrity that will enhance his job performance. Paper 2’s Company, 3’s An Equilibrium: Strategic Voting and Multicandidate Elections John W. Patty, Harvard University Overview: Electoral competition with 3 or more candidates is examined and it is shown that any profile of platforms in which at least three candidates adopt different platforms is a subgame perfect equilibrium in weakly undominated strategies. Disc. Kevin A. Roust, University of California, San Diego Page | 276 35-11 INFERRING INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTES Room Montrose 2, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Regina Branton, Rice University Paper Inequality in Freedom Within States: Multi-level Models for Survey Data Olivia C. Lau, Harvard University Overview: Freedom varies across individuals within states, as well as across states. Using a multi-level ordinal probit model and individual-level data from 38 countries, I find that individual income, education, and gender affect the distribution of freedom. Paper Uncovering Trail of Votes: A Solution for Ecological Bias Problem Mikhail G. Myagkov, University of Oregon Dmitrii Shakin, Russian Economic School Sergey Sulgin, Russian Academy of National Economy Overview: The paper presents new solution for the Ecological Bias problem, and uses it to trace votes between elections in several countries. The new model is tested against several current methods. Paper Racial Disparities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy Samir S. Soneji, Princeton University Kosuke Imai, Princeton University Overview: Disability-free life expectancy is an important measure of active life expectancy that has been used for over thirty years. In this paper, we apply new methodology to estimate racial disparities in this measure by U.S. birth cohorts. Disc. Gregory E. McAvoy, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 38-9 ASSESSING THE PERMANENT CAMPAIGN Room LaSalle 2, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Lilly J. Goren, Carroll College Paper Vulnerability and Responsiveness in U.S. Disaster Policy, 1953-2003 R. Steven Daniels, California State University, Bakersfield Overview: Relying on material collected from multiple disaster databases, I examine the role of media coverage and demographic, social, economic, and political vulnerability on the presidential disaster decisions from 1953-2003. Paper The Politics of the Permanent Campaign: Presidents, Fundraising, and the Electoral College Brendan J. Doherty, American Political Science Association Overview: In this paper I systematically examine presidential travel and fundraising from 1977 through 2004 to assess empirically the extent to which there is a permanent campaign for the presidency, as well as the evolution of the public presidency. Paper From the Campaign Trail to the White House: The Consequences of Geographic Targeting for Presidents' Abilities to Govern Henriet Hendriks, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Overview: Through a comparative case study of presidential election campaigns and the period after the candidates took office, this paper examines the effects of geographic targeting on the ability to govern. Disc. Lilly J. Goren, Carroll College 39-13 CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE: BALANCING POWER Room Montrose 1, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Ryan J. Vander Wielen, Temple University Paper Presidents or Politics?: Fast Track Trade and the Line-Item Veto Patrick T. Hickey, University of Texas Overview: This paper analyzes the dynamics of institutional power. Specifically, under what conditions will Congress cede power to the president? To answer this question, I examine the politics of fast-track trade promotion authority and the line-item veto.
Paper Circumventing the Senate: The President’s Use of Recess Appointments on the NLRB Micheal S. Lynch, Washington University, St. Louis Anthony J. Madonna, Washington University, St. Louis Ryan J. Owens, Washington University, St. Louis Overview: Is the increase in recess appointments a politically motivated attempt to circumvent the Senate? This paper tests whether recess appointees vote differently than their Senateconfirmed counterparts on the National Labor Relations Board. Paper The Evolution of U.S. Governmental Attitudes and Responses to Terrorism Adam L. Silverman, Long Island University Jacob R. Straus, Frostburg State University Overview: This paper focuses on the historical reaction of the Executive and Legislative branches to acts of terrorism over history. We posit that the government has a history of overreaction and then must make adjustments before establishing a public policy. Paper The Executive-Legislative Balance of Power: New Measures of Legislative Success in Brazil, 1988 - 2005 Monica Pachon, University of California, San Diego Overview: Using the Brazilian case, I propose measuring legislative success as the capacity to delay/stop as a whole/part an executive bill, and show how the opposition is successful amending/delaying the enactment process even with the existence of a cartel. Disc. Jesse T. Richman, Old Dominion University Ryan J. Vander Wielen , Temple University 41-25 HIGH COURTS IN THEIR LARGER POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS Room Burnham 1, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Donald Kommers, University of Notre Dame Paper Creating Credible Commitments: Courts in Transitional Democracies Minodora A. Buliga-Stoian, Binghamton University Geoff McGovern, SUNY, Binghamton Overview: This paper is a comparative study of the interaction between constitutional courts and political actors within transitional democracies, by introducing judiciaries into the political processes specified by previous transition models. Paper Should there be an Inspector General for the Federal Courts? Mark C. Miller, Clark University Overview: Based on interviews with Members of Congress and with Members of Parliament, this paper will compare courtlegislative interactions in the two societies. Paper By-Passing the Court: The Politics of Unconstitutional Legislation in Spain Gemma Sala, Yale University Overview: When policies transgress the constitutional arrangement, politicians engage in logrolling negotiations in order to by-pass the court and avoid their policies from reaching the judicial arena. Paper A Cross-National Analysis of Judicial Decision Making in the U.S., Canada and Australia David L. Weiden, Illinois State University Overview: This paper analyzes the attitudinal and legal models in the high courts of the U.S., Canada, and Australia, and proposes a new theory of cross-national judicial decision-making. Disc. Lydia B. Tiede, University of California, San Diego 42-9 RACE, RIGHTS, AND HISTORY (Co-sponsored with Race, Class and Ethnicity, see 29-2) Room Clark 5, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Michael W. Combs, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Paper Reviving the Republican Face of Constitutional Rights: Abolition as a Constitutional Project Elizabeth Beaumont, University of Minnesota Overview: Refashions the relationship between rights and constitutional development by exploring how an engaged public participated in national rights debates shaping the Civil War and Amendments and recasting principles of federalism and republicanism. Paper The Supreme Court and the Paradox of Apartheid: Revisiting Brown Michael W. Combs, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Peter Hatemi, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Overview: In this paper, we argue that the Supreme Court and some of its decisions have promoted the convergence of cultural, political and economic factors and forces that foster and maintain educational apartheid in the schools of this nation. Paper Is a Slave 'Any Woman'? Slavery, Sex, and Claims of Citizenship in State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave Joan Sitomer, University of Michigan Overview: This paper explores a defense attorney's attempt to push the raced and gendered boundaries of citizenship by framing a slave's story of sexual exploitation in universal terms and examines why that claim wasn't legible to the court. Paper Race, Police Power, and Constitutional Structure Kathleen S. Sullivan, Ohio University Overview: A study of the deployment of both white supremacist and civil rights readings of the police power in the late nineteenth century. Disc. Judith A. Baer, Texas A&M University Paul Kriese, Indiana University East 45-11 COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Room Burnham 4, 7 th Floor, Sun at 9:50 am Chair Charles Sampson, University of Missouri Paper Values, Coalition Modification and Regime Replacement Charles L. Sampson, University of Missouri Timothy O. Smith, Missouri Department of Economic Development Overview: How are effective coalitions of stakeholders formed, modified and changed internally in order to implement public policy? Each of the three concepts: Punctuated Equilibrium, Advocacy Coalition Frameworks and Urban Regime Theory contribute to an understanding. Paper Determinants of the Responsiveness of Street-Level Bureaucrats: The Case of Los Angeles Kyu-Nahm Jun, University of Southern California Chris Weare, University of Southern California Juliet Musso, University of Southern California Ellen Shiau, University of Southern California Overview: This paper examines the managerial, technical and environmental factors that influence the performance of local public agencies from the perspectives of community stakeholders. Paper Power and Local Actors: Analyzing Antipoverity Housing Policy Jeffrey B. McLaughlin, University of California, Riverside Overview: This paper investigates local political forces that create a variation in the implementation of state mandates, and how the perceptions of local development elites cause a differential compliance in a California antipoverty housing policy. Paper Patterns of Cooperation: Coalitions in Local Public Health Practice Elise Papke, University of Illinois, Chicago Daivd R. Papke, Marquette University Overview: This paper explores the application of social network analysis to evaluating patterns of cooperation in community public health coalitions. Coalition effectiveness may be better understood with knowledge about structures of power in the network. Paper Agents of Social Change: Police Engagement in Social Policy Liliokanaio Peaslee, Brandeis University Overview: This paper examines how and why some police departments move away from traditional law enforcement and towards a proactive model of crime prevention that emphasizes partnerships with municipal and community-based social service agencies. Disc. Michael Craw, Michigan State University Page | 277
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