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Paper Workers and Democracy:Labor Rights and International Institutions in South Korea Susan L. Kang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Overview: In the paper, I argue that despite lack of strong enforcement powers, international institutions were able to influence the South Korean government to better protect and codify basic labor rights. Paper International Influences on Domestic Decisions of Transitional Justice Sara E. Dahill-Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison Leigh A. Payne, University of Wisconsin, Madison Courtney J. Hillebrecht, University of Wisconsin, Madison Tricia D. Olsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison Andrew G. Reiter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Overview: This paper measures the impact of international civil society on the domestic transitional justice decisions. Specifically, it seeks to understand the relationship between INGOs and the adoption of particular transitional justice mechanisms. Disc. Darren Hawkins, Brigham Young University 15-201 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: THE DOMESTIC POLITICS OF INTELLIGENCE REFORM Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 1, Thur at 12:45 pm Presenter Understanding the Cyclical Relationship Between the President and the Intelligence Community Elizabeth Grimm, Georgetown University Overview: The Intelligence Community has vacillated between a symbiotic relationship with the policy-making arm of the executive branch to an adversarial rapport. This study develops a model of this rapport to understand the junctures of executive influence. Presenter The Politics of Intelligence: The Politicization of Intelligence Since 9/11 Robert D. Stacey, Regent University Overview: This paper examines three cases to help establish and understand the awkward and sometimes debilitating relationship between the professional intelligence community and the more political decision makers in the United States in the post-9/11 era. 15-202 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: RELIGION, POLITICS, AND FOREIGN POLICY Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 2, Thur at 12:45 pm Presenter US Catholic Clergy and the War in Iraq Benedict E. DeDominicis, Wright State University, Lake Campus Overview: The study examines American nationalism and the increasing religiousity of American politics in the form of identification with religious communities while examining Ohio politics as a campaign battleground state. Presenter Christian Zionism, Ideology, and American Foreign Policy Robert O. Smith, Baylor University Overview: How does American Christian Zionism inform and influence US Middle East policy, especially post-9/11? The movement’s ideology taps deep currents of American experience and offers a unique supplement to traditional pro-Israel lobbies. 16-3 SECURITY NORMS AND TABOOS Room Salon 6, 3 rd Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Chair Andrew C. Richter, University of Windsor Paper When Norms Matter and U.S. Sanctions Against Strategic Partners Charles W. Walldorf, Jr., Auburn University Overview: When do norms matter? This paper offers a nuanced constructivist explanation to answer this question in the context of U.S. relations with South Africa, Greece, and Turkey during the Cold War. Paper Losing Afghanistan: Unlearned Lessons of Past Wars Jacob F. English, InterMedia: Global Research Overview: International military forces have made mistakes that closely reflect those of past conflicts. This study tracks changes in public sentiment, strength of insurgents, and the phenomenon of defining success in terms of body count in the war on terror. Disc. Olga Bogatyrenko, University of California, Davis Page | 96 17-3 MEDIATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Room Sandburg 8, 7 th Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Chair Renato Corbetta, University of Alabama, Birmingham Paper The Power to Enforce? International Organizations and Conflict Management Megan Shannon, University of Mississippi Overview: I investigate the ability of international organizations to mitigate commitment problems surrounding conflict management. Using data on territorial claims, I explore if the active involvment of IOs helps disputants reach and comply with agreements. Paper Who’s Using Whom? Strategic Bargaining and Civil War Mediation Richard W. Frank, SUNY, Binghamton Overview: In contrast to recent research, I argue that the occurrence and timing of mediation is driven more by the conflicting parties than the external mediator. I incorporate lessons from the interstate bargaining literature in creating a bargaining theory. Paper Third Party Mediation: Which States Get Invited? Jaclyn D. Streitfeld, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shweta Moorthy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Overview: This paper will look at the ‘demand-side’ of conflict mediation and seeks to find what criteria disputants use to select certain third party mediator state(s) for a conflict. Paper An Integrated Model of International Mediation: Who Mediates, and How? Bernd Beber, Columbia University Overview: How do mediators become involved in international conflicts, and how does this affect mediator effectiveness? This paper presents an integrated game-theoretic model of both the selection and the implementation stage of mediation. Disc. Resat Bayer, Koc University 17-201 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: ISRAEL/PALESTINE CONFLICT Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 3, Thur at 12:45 pm Presenter The Internal Politics of Insurgency: Reflections from the Palestinian Case Wendy Pearlman, Harvard University Overview: Most appreciate that a national movement’s unity affects its success. This essay theorizes how it shapes its methods as well. A study of the Palestinian case, it reconceptualizes political fragmentation and its impact on conflict processes. 17-202 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: LEARNING TO BE A TERRORIST Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 4, Thur at 12:45 pm Presenter Reading, Writing and Arithmetic: Understanding Terrorist Group Learning William J. Josiger, Georgetown University Overview: How can law enforcement, intelligence professionals and policy makers exploit a greater understanding of terrorist group learning to disrupt these groups and prevent future attacks? Presenter Volatile Breeding Grounds: The Origins of Terrorist Tactics in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Christine M. Sixta, University of South Carolina Overview: Why did the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood digress from a social movement to a terrorist organization? This case study is the first chapter in a dissertation that seeks to understand why social movements resort to the use of terrorist tactics. 18-3 MANAGING THE RISE OF CHINA Room Salon 7, 3 rd Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Chair Vincent Wei-chengWang, University of Richmond Paper Resisting U.S. Pressure: Changes and Continuity of China’s Exchange Rate Policy Tun-jen Cheng, College of William and Mary Dan Maliniak, College of William and Mary Overview: This paper contends that China’s astute deployment of trade benefits to key players in the U.S. and China’s ability to frame the issue in neo-liberal terms neutralized exchange rate policy hawks in the U.S.
Paper Managing Challenges to China’s Grand Strategy: Korea, Taiwan, and the South China Sea Yuan-Kang Wang, Northern Illinois University Overview: This paper shows that China has been crafting a grand strategy that combines elements of internal balancing and external “soft balancing” to counter American preponderance of power. Paper Changes in Japan's Security Policies: Riding the Third Image Daniel Unger, Northern Illinois University Overview: This paper identifies institutional, normative and structural determinants of the changing Japanese security policies. Paper Gazing Eagle, Hiding Dragon: The Transparency Discourse in Contemporary U.S.-China Relations James J. Marquardt, Lake Forest College Andreea Petre, Lake Forest College Overview: Transparency is the world of the moment in international relations. This paper is a textual analysis of American and Chinese official statements on the importance of "greater openness and transparency" in this bilateral relationship. Disc. Yongwook Ryu, Harvard University Vincent Wei-chengWang, University of Richmond 19-2 THE DETERMINANTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED COOPERATION Room Clark 10, 7 th Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Chair Brett V. Benson, Vanderbilt University Paper Encompassing Institutions and International Public Goods William T. Phelan, Middlebury College Overview: This paper proposes an explanation for costly international cooperation by rationalist, egoist states without hegemony or specific reciprocity, relying instead on the encompassing nature of internal political organization of participating states. Paper The Determinants of Institutionalization in International Relations Sebastian Rosato, University of Notre Dame Robert T. Brathwaite, University of Notre Dame Overview: This paper provides a competitive test of three major approaches (realist, liberal, and constructivist) to explaining variation in the depth and scope of international institutions in the modern period (1750-2000). Paper Depth, Compliance, and the Design of Regional Trade Institutions Douglas M. Stinnett, University of Georgia Overview: This paper seeks to account for the diversity of institutional arrangements governing regional trade integration using an original data set of agreements formed between 1957 and 2003. Paper Politics of River Cooperation Jaroslav Tir, University of Georgia John T. Ackerman, Air Command and Staff College, United States Air Force Overview: We investigate determinants of entry into rivermanaging treaties. Results reveal that economic development, democracy, and IGO membership increase treaty chances, while the lack of common security interests and balanced power reduce them. Disc. Brett V. Benson, Vanderbilt University 22-101 ROUNDTABLE: THE AMERICAN VOTER REVISITED Room Adams, 6 th Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Panelist Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine Michael Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa William Jacoby, Michigan State University Herbert Weisberg, Ohio State University John Aldrich, Duke University Patricia Hurley, Texas A&M University Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley Overview: A discussion of a project, "The American Voter Revisited," which replicates and updates The American Voter with present-day election studies. 23-2 INTEREST GROUPS AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS Room Salon 8, 3 rd Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Chair Clifford W. Brown, Union College Paper Independent Spending in the 2004 Presidential Election Margaret Carne, Rhodes College Overview: This paper examines how interest groups used independent expenditures in the 2004 presidential campaign, comparing it to 527 campaign activities, and why groups would greatly increase their independent expenditures following the BCRA reforms. Paper The Hidden Reform: How PACs Moblized a New Breed of Mass Contributor Philip H. Pollock, University of Central Florida William J. Claggett, Florida State University Overview: Using NES data, we compare the social and political characteristics of PAC contributors and other types of campaign contributors. Preliminary analyses suggest that PAC contributors differ in important ways from other contributor types. Paper Corporate Contributions Post-BCRA: A Reassessment Susan Clark Muntean, University of California, San Diego Overview: This study evaluates changes in the political behavior of the business and financial community following passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. I find that contributions from corporate interests to 527 organizations are understated. Paper Competition and Contributors Dave Wiltse, Hacettepe University Overview: The role of political competition in modeling individual monetary contribution behavior has been largely overlooked. Utilizing NES data, the relationship between political competition and the likelihood of a financial contribution will be gauged. Disc. Arthur Sanders, Drake University 24-3 MINORITY AND WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Room Salon 12, 3 rd Floor, Thur at 12:45 pm Chair Donald P. Haider-Markel, University of Kansas Paper The Impact of Women’s Representation on <strong>Political</strong> Engagement Jeffrey A. Karp, University of Exeter Susan A. Banducci, University of Exeter Overview: Electoral systems are known to have an impact on the representation of women (Rule 1984). Less is known about what effects, if any, such representation has on political engagement. Although women appear to be less interested and less engaged in politics. Paper The Issue of Minority Representation: Jurisprudence and <strong>Political</strong> Considerations Pearl K. Ford, Johnson C. Smith University Overview: This paper will access the impact of the Supreme Court ruling in Georgia v. Ashcroft (2003) on not only African Americans and the pursuit of substantive representation but the ability to elect the African American politician. Paper Marginalized Minorities? Examining the Empirical Reality of Electoral Exclusion Rachel K. Cremona, Flagler College Overview: This paper uses a process of two-step inference – from excluded parties to excluded party supporters – to explore whether developed democratic government facilitates the exclusion of distinct, cohesive societal minorities. Paper Election Rules and the Supply of Latino Candidates for Local Office Eric J. Gonzalez Juenke, University of Colorado, Boulder Overview: The paper challenges the traditional votes/seats electoral literature. I examine the effects of electoral rules on the supply of Latino candidates for local office to test a theory of candidate emergence in different electoral environments. Disc. Michiko Ueda, California Institute of Technology Page | 97
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