2007 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Presenter Doing it Thai Way: Toward Democracy or Authoritarianism
Sirivalaya Kachathan, Texas Tech University
Overview: The analysis of the unprecedented political event
inThailand will serve a San indicator to tell whether this event will
lead a country to be more a democratic government or slip back
into an authoritarian regime like it happened in many parts of the
world.
4-202 INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE: GRASSROOTS
MOBILIZATION IN KOREA
Room State, 4 th Floor, Table 3, Fri at 9:50 am
Presenter From Street to Polling Booth: The Democratic Generation in
South Korea
Won-ho Park, University of Florida
JunhgHwa Lee, Oregon State University
Overview: We analyze the voting behavior of the democratization
generation in South Korea, which contributed to the transfer of
power to the opposition party and the broadening of the
ideological spectrum of the party system.
Presenter Learning and Doing Politics: Strategies and Works in Korean
Housewives’ Protest Politics
Youngtae Shin, University of Central Oklahoma
Overview: I explore Korean housewives protest movements and
their unusal strategies that aims to appeal to the cultural norms
specific to their age and gender to attain their goals.
5-9 INSTITUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN
Room Salon 4, 3 rd Floor, Fri at 9:50 am
Chair Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida
Paper Speaking for Place or Party? Territorial Representation and
the Legislative Behavior of Deputies in the Spanish Congress
of Deputies
Alfred P. Montero, Carleton College
Overview: The paper asks whether individual deputies in the
Spanish Congress of Deputies with experience in sub-national
politics proffer questions in committee and plenary sessions as
theories of territorial representation in decentralized polities
predict.
Paper Feminized Federalization: The Incorporation of Spanish
Women into Sub-national Parties and State Institutions
Candice D. Ortbals, Pepperdine University
Overview: The paper examines whether Spanish federalization
feminizes political parties and the state. It concludes that
federalization is advantageous (policy innovations) and
disadvantageous (closed non-feminized institutions) depending on
the region.
Paper The Power of Committees in the Spanish Congress of Deputies
Lynn M. Maurer, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Overview: The influence of the Spanish committee system is
examined over eight legislative sessions based on elite interviews.
Committee influence in this new democracy is found to vary
according to different variables than in longstanding democracies.
Paper The Genesis of Candidate Selection Procedures in Spain
(1976-1982)
Bonnie N. Field, Bentley College
Peter Siavelis, Wake Forest University
Overview: The paper applies a framework on the genesis of
candidate selection procedures (regime uncertainty, party
organization, institutional format, and the strategic complexity of
the electoral system) to explain the exclusive candidate selection
procedures in Spain.
Paper Life-cycle, Generation or Period Effect? Party Development in
Post-Franco Spain
Ingrid van Biezen, University of Birmingham
Overview: This paper focuses on political parties in Spain: it
redresses the theoretical contours for the study of party formation
and development and empirically evaluates the development of the
main parties throughout the post-Franco period.
Disc. Robert Fishman, University of Notre Dame
6-3 ON THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY
Room Sandburg 7, 7 th Floor, Fri at 9:50 am
Chair Marc Howard, Georgetown University
Paper Putting Tocqueville to the Test: The Internal Effects of
Participation
Marc M. Howard, Georgetown University
Leah E. Gilbert, Georgetown University
Overview: Employing a new measure of civic involvement that
distinguish es between different types of participation, this paper
argues that the internal effects hypothesized by Tocqueville are
widely present in the U.S. and 19 European countries.
Paper States of Freely Associating Citizens?
Thomas W. G. Van der Meer, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Peer Scheepers, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Manfred te Grotenhuis, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Overview: Although in theoretical accounts the state is recurrently
brought up as a crucial determinant of civic participation,
empirical research is scarce and inconclusive. We aim to fill this
empirical gap by taking up a new institutionalist approach.
Paper Not Just Being A Winner: Competition and Satisfaction with
Democracy
Jennifer R. Wilking, University of California, Davis
Overview: This paper explores the effects of outcomes and
processes on citizens' satisfaction with democracy. Employing the
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems dataset, I find that
'winning' and competition affect satisfaction with democracy.
Paper A Cross-National Exploration of Two Dimensions of
Democratic Citizenship
Richard Ledet, University of Notre Dame
Kate Schuenke, University of Notre Dame
Overview: In this paper we use data from the 2000-2001 wave of
the World Values Survey to create two democratic quality scales
based on two dimensions of democratic citizenship, expressive
participation and tolerance, which are grounded in democratic
theory.
Disc. Meredith Rolfe, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
8-7 INTEREST GROUPS AND CLIENTELISM IN
LATIN AMERICA
Room Sandburg 6, 7 th Floor, Fri at 9:50 am
Chair J. Salvador Peralta, University of West Georgia
Paper The Impact of Caudillismo on Institutional Development in
Mexico
Julie A. VanDusky, SUNY, Binghamton
Overview: This paper will develop a formal model to explain the
developme nt of caudillismo in New Spain and its impact on the
development of post-colonial political institutions in Mexico.
Paper As Parties Compete for Votes (By Buying Them): Gifts and
Votes in Mexico
Salvador Vazquez del Mercado, Northwestern University
Overview: This paper provides evidence that political parties in
Mexico during the presidential 2000 elections made efficient use
of particularistic benefits (gifts) to buy votes, specifically PAN
managed to demobilize PRI’s voters.
Paper Incentives and Tradeoffs for Politicians in the Policy Setting
Process
Ricardo H. Cavazos-Cepeda, University of California, Berkeley
Gordon Rausser, University of California, Berkeley
Overview: Modeling the policy setting process has evolved
considerably. We present a three stage bargaining model general
enough to allow for aggregate welfare maximization as well as
office seeking or partisan politicians.
Paper Interests and Interest Groups and the Consolidation
Clive S. Thomas, University of Alaska, Juneau
Overview: Is a viable interest group and interest system essential
to the consolidation of Latin American democracy? In answer,
this paper presents a framework for understanding the
development, current role, and future developments of interest
groups in the region.
Disc. Alejandro Poire, Harvard University
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