2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Paper School Governance and Information: Does Choice Lead to
Informed Parents?
Patrick Wolf, University of Arkansas
Brian Kisida, University of Arkansas
Overview: In this paper we examine if increasing choices to
parents through the use of school vouchers leads to parents who
are more informed about their children's school.
Paper Parental Satisfaction under Universal School Choice
Elif Erisen, Stony Brook University
Jack Buckley, Teachers College
Overview: This paper examines parental satisfaction in a universal
school choice environment by means of a panel study. The paper
focuses on differences across school sectors as well as within
school sector differences in terms of organization and mission.
Disc. Olivia M. McDonald, Regent University
Gordon Shockley, Arizona State University
50-1 MANAGING DISASTER: ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSESSMENTS OF THE RESPONSE TO
HURRICANE KATRINA
Room PDR 7, 3 rd Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Chair Samuel H. Clovis, Jr., Morningside College
Paper The Role of Political Science in Disaster Studies: Unrealized
Potential
Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY, Albany
Overview: This paper describes the contributions that political
scientists can make to understanding the socio-political aspects of
natural and technological hazards and disasters.
Paper The Effectiveness of FEMA's Reorganization?
Viviane E. Foyou, West Virginia University
Overview: In the three years since DHS was created, FEMA’s
ability to respond to disasters was questioned especially during the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The objective of this study is to
review the purpose of reorganization, and trace the evolution of
FEMA.
Paper The Policy Challenge of Regionalizing Catastrophic Disaster
Management
Brian J. Gerber, West Virginia University
Overview: This paper explores a critical dimension and limitation
of disaster management policy in the U.S.: the lack of effective
regional coordination institutions to deal with catastrophic events
that require a multiple-jurisdictional response.
Paper Was it the Plans, the Leaders, or the System? An Assessment
of Failures in Hurricane Katrina
Patrick S. Roberts, Virginia Tech University
Overview: Instead of the problems with plans or leadership during
the response to Hurricane Katrina, I focus on the failures and
contradictions in the system of disaster preparedness. States and
localities are not rewarded for making hard choices to change
development.
Paper The Disastrous Response to Hurricane Katrina: Blame it on
the Bureaucracy?
Saundra K. Schneider, Michigan State University
Overview: Why did such horrific conditions emerge and persist in
the gulf coast states following Hurricane Katrina? Many
journalists and public officials have blamed the worst elements of
this situation on “the bureaucracy.”
Disc. Samuel H. Clovis, Jr., Morningside College
Peter Haas, San Jose State University
52-2 SOCIAL CAPITAL WITHIN AND ACROSS
DIVERSE COMMUNITIES
Room PDR 8, 3 rd Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Chair Luke J. Keele, Ohio State University
Paper Bridging and Bonding: Ethnicity and Voluntary Associations
in Canada
Edward G. Grabb, University of Western Ontario
Monica C. Hwang, University of Waterloo
Robert E. Andersen, McMaster University
Overview: Canadian survey data for 2000 show most ethnic or
racial minorities differ little in their number of voluntary
association involvements. Exceptions are lower levels for Latin
Americans and East Asians and quite high levels for Jewish
Canadians.
Paper Volunteering Asians and Latinos: Patterns of Group
Volunteer Behavior
Dari E. Sylvester, University of the Pacific
Overview: The conspicuous absence of Latinos and Asians in
various volunteer domains is explored. Cultural difference and
social disenfranchisement hypotheses are tested.
Paper Civil Society, Faith-Based Radicalism and Individualism
Ayhan Akman, Sabanci University
Overview: I am interested in the question of whether religious
movements which do not espouse individualism as a core value
can be considered a vital and legitimate part of civil society.
Disc. Pamela Paxton, Ohio State University
55-101 ROUNDTABLE: INTERDISCIPLINARY
TEACHING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: BEST
PRACTICES?
Room Monroe, 6 th Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Panelist Karen Beckwith, Case Western Reserve University
John Aldrich, Duke University
Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College
R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Patrick Sellers, Davidson College
Lester Spence, Johns Hopkins University
Overview: This roundtable, part of the APSA Presidential Task
Force on Interdisciplinarity, focuses on interdisciplinary teaching.
How do political scientists engage in interdisciplinary teaching?
What are the best practices in political science?
62-2 CAPITALISM AND GLOBALISM
Room Parlor J, 6 th Floor, Fri at 8:00 am
Chair Craig Curtis, Bradley University
Paper Institutionalizing Hegemony in Venezuela
Daniel C. Hellinger, Webster University
Overview: Since the resounding victory of President Hugo Chavez
in the August 2004 recall election, the presidient's supporters have
sought to institutionalize a new regime based on the Bolivarian
Constitution of 1999.
Paper Time and Political Contestation in Hobbes and Lukacs
Nichole Shippen, Rutgers University
Overview: This paper delineates the ways in which different
conceptions of time as order and predictability within the political
philosophy of Hobbes and Lukacs affect the range of possibilities
for political contestation of that order.
Paper What We Have Forgotten About Capitalism
Craig Curtis, Bradley University
Overview: The purpose of this paper is to make a normative
argument that our current version of capitalism is not functioning
as the founders intended and that, as a consequence, it exerts a
negative impact on our society.
Paper The Production of the Global
Isaac Kamola, University of Minnesota
Overview: This paper looks at how what was once called the
international, or world-, system has become re-imagined as a
global system. I argue that the discourses of globalization and
global governance are symptomatic of an emerging global
imaginary.
Disc. John C. Berg, Suffolk University
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