2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

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Paper Constitutional Theory of Legislative Organization: Directionality of Institutional Changes in the House Gisela Sin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Overview: I show that changes in the President and Senate’s preferences alter the bargaining power of House members and that their new relative position with respect to those of House members determines the directionality of the institutional changes that occur. Disc. Glen S. Krutz, University of Oklahoma C. Lawrence Evans, College of William and Mary 39-201 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: A PROPERTY RIGHTS APPROACH TO LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 3, Thur at 4:25 pm Presenter A Property Rights Approach to Legislative Organization Blair Williams, United States Military Academy Overview: This paper presents a unified framework, combining elements of transaction-cost economics and contract theory, to explain the organizational structure of the U.S. House of Representatives. 41-4 THE JUDICIAL POWER: INSULATION, INTERACTION, AND INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY Room LaSalle 3, 7 th Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Lee D. Walker, University of South Carolina Paper Strategic Anticipation in a Judicial Hierarchy Kirk A. Randazzo, University of Kentucky Overview: I examine whether appellate judges strategically anticipate actions taken later by the Supreme Court when they decide current cases. Paper The Determinants of Judicial Independence: A Study of Latin America, 1950-2002 Julio Rios-Figueroa, CIDE, Mexico Overview: I analyze the conditions under which and the reasons why politicians delegate authority to judges and/or the judiciary in Latin American countries from 1950 to 2002. Paper Gender, Ideology and Corruption: Explaining Attitudes Toward Judicial Separation in Latin America Lee D. Walker, University of South Carolina Overview: I develop and explain an attitudinal measure of judicial separation across 17 Latin American countries. Gender, political ideology and corruption attitudes are factors in citizen’s decision to separate the judiciary from political society. Disc. Jeffrey Staton, Florida State University Lee D. Walker, University of South Carolina 41-22 JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING DURING TIMES OF WAR Room Burnham 1, 7 th Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Cynthia L. Ostberg, University of the Pacific Paper The Dynamic Effects of War on Supreme Court Liberalism Naser L. Javaid, Stony Brook University Overview: This paper seeks to examine the effects of war on Supreme Court liberalism in cases involving civil rights or liberties claims. Paper The Tension Between Politics and Justice: German Courts and the 9/11 Suspect Trials Shawn M. Boyne, University of Wisconsin Overview: This paper examines how politics shaped the 9/11 suspect trials in Germany and led to charges that German courts chose to protect the defendant's rights at the expense of America's security concerns. Paper Courts and the Rights of Terrorists Michael R. Reinhard, Millsaps College Amber Davids, Millsaps College Overview: Drawing on field work in Afghanistan and a range of historical examples, we argue that the expansion of courts and legal decision making at the expense of executive and military decison makers will result in less justice rather than more. Disc. Brett Curry, Georgia Southern University Tobias T. Gibson, Monmouth College Page | 128 42-3 REASONING, DECISION-MAKING, AND PRECEDENT Room Clark 5, 7 th Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Trenton Davis, Northern Illinois University Paper Modes of Legal Reasoning and Justifying Legal Outcomes Anna O. Law, DePaul University Overview: In a legal opinion, judges need to justify their decisions. How do they do this? Do they cite legal doctrine or a legal principle like due process? Do they rubber stamp the decisions of Congress and the Executive? Paper The Federal Judicial Hierarchy and Reapportionment/Redistricting Cases John F. Ryan, Bates College Overview: This project investigates the federal judicial hierarchy (and competing explanations) by analyzing the uses of Supreme Court precedent by federal lower-court judges, in reapportionment/redistricting cases (1965-1993). Paper Rethinking Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability Alan Tarr, Rutgers University Overview: This paper analyzes and critiques prevailing understandings of judicial independence and judicial accountability and offers a more defensible version of these aims and of how they might be achieved. Paper Assessing the "Rehnquist Revolution": Examining Lower Court Compliance with Lopez, Printz and Morrison Alan M. Tauber, University of South Carolina Overview: This paper examines whether the so-called "Rehnquist Revolution" in federalism was carried out in the Courts of Appeal. Disc. Carl M. Dibble, University of Michigan 44-5 TOPICS IN INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Room Parlor E, 6 th Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Min-hyung Kim, University of Washington Paper Indian Gaming and State-Level Constraints on Tribal Political Influence Steven A. Light, University of North Dakota Overview: Using a case study of recent events in Minnesota, this paper asks and answers two key questions concerning tribal-state intergovernmental relations today: How do tribes use gaming revenue to interact with state legal and political systems? Paper Provisional Liberty: The Evolution of Libertas in State Constitutions Sean R. Boutin, Cornell University Overview: This paper introduces a new method for cataloguing civil liberty provisions within state constitutions. It traces the temporal development for all 50 states from 1789-2006 and analyzes the categorical variance in visions of civil liberty. Paper The Land of Whose Father? The Politics of American Indian Land Settlements Anne F. B. Flaherty, Duke University Overview: How can small and institutionally powerless groups win concessions from the powerful? This paper explores this question in the context of American Indian land claims and explains why different tribal claims have had such varied settlement outcomes. Paper Strange Bedfellows: Interstate Cooperation, 1960-2000 Neal D. Woods, University of South Carolina Ann O. M. Bowman, University of South Carolina Overview: Using an original dataset, we test theories of interstate cooperation through pooled event count models of dyadic state participation in interstate compacts. Disc. Neal D. Woods, University of South Carolina Juliet F. Gainsborough, Bentley College
45-4 DISTRIBUTIVE AND REDISTRIBUTIVE SPENDING BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Room Burnham 4, 7 th Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Kenneth Bickers, University of Colorado Paper Deciding to Provide: Local Decisions on Providing Social Welfare Michael C. Craw, Michigan State University Overview: Though fiscal federalism predicts a small role for local governments in social welfare, variations in tax base competition create opportunities for some local governments to provide and fund social welfare policies. Paper Redistrutive Politics and Education in Times of Surplus Kenann McKenzie-Thompson, Columbia University Overview: Redistributive politics in a time of surplus and gentrification has a tone that differs that the traditional way of viewing redistributional politics. Factors such as race and class also confound the dynamics in old and new ways. Paper Demand-side Explanations of Local Redistributive Spending Josh M. Ryan, University of Colorado, Boulder Overview: This paper investigates the demand-side components for redistributive spending at local levels taking into account constraints such as polycentrism and budgetary issues. Paper Beyond Distributive Politics Howard A. Stern, City of Pittsburgh Overview: Through an expanded distributive politics model -- one that takes into account the form of government, size of city, geographical region, per capita income and poverty level of the jurisdiction -- better explains allocation decisions. Disc. Kenneth Bickers, University of Colorado Megan Mullin, Temple University 46-6 IMPLEMENTING HEALTH POLICY Room PDR 6, 3 rd Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Mary Schmeida, Cleveland Clinic Paper Comparing Regulatory Regimes to Reduce Smoking: Analyzing 13 OECD Countries Michael J. Licari, University of Northern Iowa Overview: This paper examines the effectiveness of regulations used to reduce smoking in 13 OECD countries from 1970 on. It also assesses the impact of EU policies on smoking in those countries. Paper State Programs to Encourage Long Term Care Insurance: Worthwhile or Wasted? David C. Nixon, University of Hawaii Overview: We examine cross-state variation in sales of long term care insurance across the 1990s, and estimate the impact that state income tax incentives and long term care partnership programs have in encouraging such sales. Paper Diffusion Spurred by Need?: State Health and High-Risk Pools Nathan G. Myers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Overview: This paper will examine whether a relationship exists between the health of a state's population as shown by leading health indicators and the diffusion of high-risk pools to cover medically uninsurable individuals. Paper Health Equity and Neoliberal Macroeconomic Reforms in Chile and Argentina Alexander W. Hertel-Fernandez, Pan American Health Organization; Northwestern University Overview: Argentina and Chile have pursued nation building paths characterized by social exclusion. This paper seeks to quantify the impact of neoliberal reform policies on health equity in both countries. Paper Cost Containment and Profit Maximization: Conflicting Goals of the Medicare Managed Care Program Meg Comins, University of South Florida John Large, University of South Florida Overview: This paper analyzes Florida hospital financial data to explore how hospital fiscal policies evolve in reaction to changes in Medicare cost containment policies. Disc. Mary Schmeida, Cleveland Clinic Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY, Albany 49-3 POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS Room Parlor C, 6 th Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Paul Rich, The University of the Americas, Puebla Paper Role of Lobbyists and Corruption in Environmental Treaty Ratification Benjamin Y. Clark, University of Georgia Overview: The paper demonstrates a link between corruption and lobbyists on the ratification of an environmental treaty. Additionally it demonstrates ratification is negatively influenced by past participation in environmental treaties and government. Paper The Dead Zones: Nitrogen, Public Policy, and International Agreements Mary H. Morris, University of Southern Indiana Overview: The Baltic’s international regime is one of the most successful examples of transnational environmental cooperation on record. What lessons can the U.S. learn from the Baltic Sea paradigm? Paper Transboundary Coordination in North American Wildlife Management Robert Pahre, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Overview: The paper develops a formal model explaining variation between successful and unsuccessful transboundary cooperation in wildlife management. The outcomes depend on the interaction of agency mandates, policy instruments available, and the population biology. Paper Wildlife Smuggling in the EU: Risks for Candidate States During Expansion Elizabeth E. Wheat, Western Michigan University Overview: Wildlife crime is worth $6 billion/year. With EU expansion and states having profitable trafficking markets, new laws are needed. This paper evaluates CITES, criteria for an EU smuggling Directive, and approaches to improving legal detection. Disc. Eric A. Coleman, Indiana University, Bloomington 50-5 PRIVATIZATION AND PERFORMANCE Room PDR 7, 3 rd Floor, Thur at 4:25 pm Chair Laura Langbein, American University Paper Program Hybridization and Public Management: The Case of Quality Improvement Colleen L. Croxall, Eastern Michigan University David H. Ready, City of Palm Springs Overview: Based on survey data as well as intensive longitudinal case studies from local units of government and hospitals that were early implementers of QI, this study assesses the life-cycle of QI efforts in the public sector. Paper Examining Privatized Child Welfare System in Florida: Community Networks and Performance Assessment Wendy Xinfang Gao, Florida State University Frances S. Berry, Florida State University Overview: The research develops a theoretical framework to account for the relationship between the structural properties of community networks and service performance of the newly privatized child welfare system in Florida. Paper Pragmatism or Politics?: Privatization and Public Services in North Dakota Dana Michael Harsell, University of North Dakota Robert Wood, University of North Dakota Overview: Using questionnaire data, the privatization levels of 64 public services are evaluated across North Dakota’s 53 counties and largest 200 cities. Results help shed light on privatization use in sparsely populated, rural Midwestern municipalities. Paper Agency Power and Adaptation: Implementation of Competitive Sourcing Maria Ernita T. Joaquin, Northern Illinois University Overview: Theories of organizational adaptation and bureau power intersect in this study OMB Circular A-76 implementation, uncovering new themes on power, leadership, and congressional influences on bureaucratic response in the era of third-party governance. Page | 129
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