Online Program » Divisions for Call Year 2007

    T-1   Theme Panel: Fairness Economics and Political Economy: A Theme Panel
    T-2   Theme Panel: International Human Rights Law
    T-3   Theme Panel: Legitimacy in the Modern World
    T-4   Theme Panel: Empire in Comparative Perspective
    T-5   Theme Panel: Immigration, Citizenship, and American Democracy
    T-6   Theme Panel: International Migration and the Evolution of World Politics
    T-7   Theme Panel: Politics and Macroeconomic Policy
    T-8   Theme Panel: Beyond Florida 2000: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Issue of Vote Rigging
    T-9   Theme Panel: Religion, Economics and Culture: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research
    T-10   Theme Panel: Politics and the Brain: New Research Approaches from Neuroscience
    T-11   Theme Panel: Biology, Psychology, and Political Science: The New Look
    T-12   Theme Panel: Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries
    T-13   Theme Panel: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Inequality
    T-14   Theme Roundtable: The Future of Racial and Ethnic Identity
    T-15   Theme Panel: Methodological Advances in the Study of Political Networks
    T-16   Theme Roundtable: Political Psychology: A Roundtable on Political Science and Beyond
    T-17   Theme Roundtable: Clifford Geertz (1926-2006): His Legacy for Political Science and Beyond
    T-18   Theme Roundtable: Principals, Agents, and Hierarchies: The New Institutional Economics and International Relations
    T-19   Theme Panel: Simplicity versus Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling for the Social Sciences
    T-20   Theme Panel: Natural and Field Experiments
    T-21   Theme Panel: 40 Years of Challenge: Critical Issues Then and Now
    T-22   Theme Roundtable: Funding Interdisciplinary Research
    T-23   Theme Panel: Academic Data Mining: Making the Most of the Internet and Information Technology in Political Science Research
    T-24   Theme Panel: Political Socialization and Early-Learned Symbolic Beliefs: Research Inspired by David Sears
    T-25   Theme Roundtable: Knud Haakonssen's Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
    T-26   Theme Panel: Insights for International Security from the Life Sciences
    T-27   Theme Panel: Borrowing from Behavioral Economics and Political Psychology
    T-28   Theme Roundtable: The American Voter Revisited: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
    T-29   Theme Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Taskforce

1   Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches
    1-1   Wisdom and Power in Medieval Islamic Political Philosophy
    1-2   Roundtable: Modernity as a Crossdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Concept
    1-3   Nietzsche and Political Judgment
    1-4   Roundtable: The French Liberal Tradition Revisited: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
    1-5   The Politics of Poetry in Democratic Athens
    1-6   Machiavelli's Sources
    1-7   Race and Political Theory
    1-8   Hegel’s Politics Across Disciplines
    1-9   Roundtable: Are the Principles of the Right Fascist, Authoritarian, Imperial? (Leo Strauss to Karl Loewith, May, 1933) How did Strauss Change his Vision of the Right when he came to the United States?
    1-10   Political Science as the Art of the State and the Art of the Prince
    1-11   Political Theory Beyond the State
    1-12   Rereading the Ancient Greek Historians
    1-13   Constitutionalism, Popular Sovereignty and Rights
    1-14   Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: On Michael Kazin's "A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan"
    1-15   Rationality Reconsidered through Encounters With South Asian Thought
    1-16   Roundtable: Rhetoric as Inquiry: The Original and Future Civic Science?
    1-17   The Relationship between Philosophy and Politics
    1-18   Friendship and Politics
    1-19   Cosmopolitanism
    1-20   Views of the Political Subject
    1-21   The Relevance of Aristotle
    1-22   Virtue and the American Founding
    1-23   Rousseau and the History of Ideas
    1-24   Rousseau and Subjectivity
    1-25   Arendt and Modern Politics
    1-26   Mill's Political Ethics
    1-27   Cicero and the History of Ideas
    1-28   Socratic Arguments: Philosophers, Sophists and Gods
    1-29   The Aesthetic Turn in Political Theory
    1-30   Rethinking Laski's Legacy as a Political Theorist
    1-31   Interpreting the American Radical Tradition
    1-33   Montesquieu’s Persian Letters Reconsidered: Herald of the Enlightenment?
    1-34   Reading Mary Wollstonecraft

2   Foundations of Political Theory
    2-1   The Aesthetic Turn in Political Theory
    2-2   Rethinking Laski's Legacy as a Political Theorist
    2-3   Performance As Politics
    2-4   Discourse in Theory and Practice
    2-5   Terror: Challenging Liberal Conceptions of Citizenship and Violence
    2-6   New Turns in Democratic Theory
    2-7   Democracy Without Common Grounds
    2-8   Responsibilities to Distant Strangers
    2-9   Are the Times A-Changin'? Technological Conundrums for Political Theory
    2-10   Dilemmas of Democratic Equality
    2-11   Roundtable: W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
    2-12   Moderation and Fanaticism
    2-13   The Material of Politics: Scientific Discourses and the Cultivation of Material Political Subjects
    2-14   The Boundaries of Politics: Connection and Freedom in Democratic Relationships
    2-15   Roundtable: Political Language, Ideology and the Future of Political Theory
    2-16   Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life
    2-17   Political Action in Global Perspective
    2-18   Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit"
    2-19   Political Theologies: Providentialism and its Critics
    2-20   Reproductive Technologies and Social Justice
    2-21   Political Theory and Interdisciplinary Traveling
    2-22   On the Politics of Narrative
    2-23   Roundtable: Ethos and Politics: New Paradigm or Retreat from the Political
    2-24   Power and Mini Publics: lessons from theory and practice.
    2-25   Histories of Postmodernism
    2-26   Political Importance of Small and Pleasing Things
    2-27   Affect and Politics: Fear, Desire, Longing, Sentiment
    2-28   Power, Culture and Constructions of the Western Other
    2-29   New Approaches to the Public/Private Distinction
    2-30   Race and Justice
    2-31   Power and Persuasion: Speech and Political Expression in Ancient and Contemporary Politics
    2-32   Suffering and the Political: History, Interpretation and Representation
    2-33   Time, Virtue, and the Republican/Green Theoretical Nexus
    2-34   Roundtable: Comparative Political Theory: An (Inter)Disciplinary Intervention
    2-35   Foundations of Political Theory Plenary Session: PostCapitalist Politics
    2-36   Is Political Theory 'Beyond Political Science'?
    2-37   Roundtable: How Should Normative Political Theorists Use Empirical Findings?
    2-38   Roundtable: What Do Empirical Political Scientists Need or Want (If Anything) From Normative Political Theory?
    2-39   Global Justice
    2-40   Roundtable: Legitimation Crisis Today
    2-41   Roundtable: The Political Theory of Bernard Williams
    2-42   Passionate Attachments and the State
    2-43   Images of Federalism in Early Modern and Contemporary Europe
    2-44   Roundtable: Theorizing Activism, Activist Theorists
    2-45   Roundtable: Iris Marion Young: Legacies for Feminist Theory
    2-46   Regimes of Seeing, Masculinities, and Heteronormativity
    2-47   Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism
    2-48   Embittered Subjects: Membership and The Politics of Resentment
    2-49   Rethinking Political Inquiry

3   Normative Political Theory
    3-1   Performance As Politics
    3-2   Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life
    3-3   Roundtable: Comparative Political Theory: An (Inter)Disciplinary Intervention
    3-4   Is Political Theory 'Beyond Political Science'?
    3-5   Roundtable: How Should Normative Political Theorists Use Empirical Findings?
    3-6   Roundtable: What Do Empirical Political Scientists Need or Want (If Anything) From Normative Political Theory?
    3-7   Contours of Black Political Thought: Panel I
    3-8   Contours of Black Political Thought: Panel II
    3-9   Global Justice
    3-10   Religion and Science in the Public Sphere: New Directions in Critical Theory
    3-11   Roundtable: Legitimation Crisis Today
    3-12   Roundtable: The Political Theory of Bernard Williams
    3-13   Collective Agency and Collective Responsibility
    3-14   Hannah Arendt and the Question of Violence: Can it be Politics?
    3-15   What are the Burdens of Historical Injustices?
    3-16   Sovereignty, Secularism and Religion in Comparative Perspective
    3-17   Democracy and the Politics of Judgment
    3-18   Roundtable: Deliberative Democracy and its Limits
    3-19   Risk in Democratic Decision-Making
    3-20   Ethical Perspectives on the Rights of Migrants
    3-21   The Problem of Political Obligation
    3-22   What Can Normative Political Theory Learn From Psychology?
    3-23   Postnational Democracy
    3-24   The Rule of Law: Uses and Abuses
    3-25   Multiculturalism and Justice
    3-26   Multiculturalism and Political Identity
    3-27   Testing and Refining the Claims of Deliberative Democratic Theory
    3-28   Religious Freedom in Liberal Polities
    3-29   Justifying Human Rights
    3-30   Obligations Beyond Borders
    3-31   Justifying Welfare
    3-32   Roundtable: Constituting Republican Government
    3-33   Passionate Attachments and the State
    3-34   Roundtable: The Legitimacy of International Institutions
    3-35   An Ownership Society? Critical Perspectives on John Rawls's Idea of a Property-Owning Democracy

4   Formal Political Theory
    4-1   Formal Theories of Legislative Institutions
    4-2   Game-theoretic studies of news and the media
    4-4   Formal Theory and International Conflict
    4-5   Formal Theories of Legislative Processes
    4-6   Formal Theories of Voting and Elections
    4-7   Formal Theories of Political Institutions
    4-8   Negotiation and Deliberation
    4-9   Endogenous Ethnicity
    4-10   On the Political Economy of Collective Action
    4-11   Political Economy of Business-Government Relations

5   Political Psychology
    5-3   Selective Exposure, Self-Interest, and Symbolic Politics: Research Inspired by David Sears
    5-4   Roundtable: Reasoning and Choice: Retrospective and Future Directions
    5-5   Roundtable: Competing Psychological Perspectives for Political Behavior
    5-7   Communication and Competition
    5-8   Opinion Formation in Varying Contexts
    5-9   Information and Intelligence
    5-10   Emotion and Learning
    5-11   The Psychology of Immigration
    5-12   Socialization
    5-13   The Psychology of Policy Opinions
    5-14   Whose to Blame?
    5-15   Evaluating Politicians

6   Political Economy
    6-3   Globalization and its Effects
    6-4   Business-State Relations in Developing and Transition Countries
    6-5   Congressional Voting on Foreign Policy
    6-6   On the Political Economy of Collective Action
    6-7   Political Economy of Investment
    6-8   IPE of Development
    6-9   Political Economy of Business-Government Relations
    6-10   Political Economy of Legislatures
    6-11   Political Economy of Development
    6-12   Political Economy of Elections
    6-13   The Behavior of Autocracies in International Politics
    6-14   The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
    6-15   The Political Economy of Trade

7   Politics and History
    7-1   Roundtable: Towards A Post Fordist Political Science: A Roundtable Discussion Bringing Theorists and Americanists Together
    7-2   Government Control over Information: Propaganda, Presidential Power, and Freedom of the Press
    7-3   Roundtable: Authors Meet Critics: Gretchen Ritter's, "The Constitution as Social Design," and Eileen McDonagh's, "The Political Meaning of Gender in the American State"
    7-4   The Politics of Demarcation: Reconfiguring the Status Quo
    7-5   Sustaining Coordination: the Evolution and Perpetuation of Managed Capitalism
    7-6   Intersections of Race, Class and Religion: Faith and Boundary Crossing
    7-7   The Micro Politics of Regime Change
    7-8   Roundtable: Politics, History, and the State of the State as a Conceptual Variable
    7-9   From Cold War to War on Terror: Ideology, Law, and State-building
    7-10   Lessons from the Great Society: Public Policy and the 1970s in Historical Perspective
    7-11   Looking Back for Lessons Going Forward on Health Care Reform
    7-12   Roundtable: Culture Clash over Fat: Politics, History and Law
    7-13   Comparative Perspectives on American Political Development
    7-14   Interests, Identities and the Struggle for Equality in 20th Century US Politics
    7-15   The State and The Family: Policy, Culture, and Ideology
    7-16   Immigration and Immigrants in the U.S. and EU: An Empirical and Analytical Comparison
    7-17   New Perspectives on the American State
    7-18   Rhetoric and Leadership in the American Presidency
    7-19   Roundtable: Author Meets Readers: Mark Graber's Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
    7-20   Legal Liberalism and Counter-Mobilization After the 1960s
    7-21   The Role of State and Local Courts in American Political Development
    7-22   Race and US Political Development
    7-23   The History of the Racial State
    7-25   The Politics of Indigenous Self-Determination: Contemporary Challenges, Opportunities, and Conflicts

8   Political Methodology
    8-1   Methodological Developments in the Study of Legislatures
    8-3   Laboratory Experiments across Political Science
    8-4   The Ideology of Non-legislative Institutions in American Politics
    8-5   Geographic Information System (GIS), Spatial Statistics & Political Science
    8-6   Developments in Quantal Response Modeling
    8-7   Methodological Advances in the Study of Law and Courts
    8-8   Methodological Advances in the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior
    8-9   Advances in Survey Methodology
    8-10   Why Do We Fear Freedom?: Non-parametric and semi-parametric methods in political science
    8-11   They've Given You a Number and Taken Away Your Name: Agent-based Modeling in Political Science
    8-12   Mutli-level Modeling
    8-13   Causal Inference
    8-14   Temporal Quantitative Analysis
    8-16   Roundtable: Experiments, Natural Experiments, and the Comparative Study of Institutions
    8-17   Measurement Across Contexts

9   Teaching and Learning in Political Science
    9-1   Roundtable: Teaching About War and the Military: What do Students Want and Need to Know?
    9-2   Roundtable: Integrating Civic Engagement into the American, Comparative, and Service Learning Undergraduate Curriculum
    9-3   Simulations, Blogs, and Multimedia: Technologies for Teaching Political Science
    9-4   Teaching Law in Political Science
    9-5   Teaching Research Methods to Undergraduates
    9-6   The Practice of Political Science
    9-7   Innovative and Creative Teaching Methods and Strategies

10   Political Science Education
    10-1   Teaching Research Methods to Undergraduates
    10-2   Interdisciplinary Approaches for Teaching Political Science
    10-3   Innovative and Creative Teaching Methods and Strategies
    10-4   Students as Citizens
    10-5   Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Education: Enriching the Undergraduate Study of 'Politics'
    10-6   Assessment and Teaching Styles

11   Comparative Politics
    11-1   Ethnic Political Mobilization and State Responses
    11-2   Politics of Migration Control
    11-3   Local Governance and Political Change in East Asia
    11-4   Institutions and Trust
    11-5   Politics and Islam
    11-6   The Dynamics of Political Scandal in the U.S. and Latin America
    11-7   The Process of Collective Memory Formation in Authoritarian and Democratic Societies
    11-8   Globalization Re-Examined: The State and FDI in Comparative Perspective
    11-9   Authoritarian Politics in Comparative Perspective
    11-10   Democracy, Partisanship, and Policy-Making in Latin America
    11-11   The Rise of a New Left? Recent Presidential Elections and New Political Directions in Latin America
    11-12   State Institutions and the Selective Use of Power in Latin America
    11-13   Understanding Types of Violence During Civil Conflict
    11-14   Popular Protests and Social Instability in China
    11-15   The Paradox of Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach
    11-16   Roundtable: Cross-National Comparisons in Health Policy
    11-17   Demographic Change during War and its Impact
    11-18   Political Determinants of Growth and Equality: Comparing Developed and Developing Countries
    11-19   The Construction and Impact of International Regimes on Domestic Institutional Development
    11-20   Constructing the "Global Nation": Diaspora Policies and the Politics of Transnationalism in Comparative Perspective
    11-21   Roundtable: Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship
    11-22   Roundtable: Globalization, the State, and Innovation-Based Industrial Development: Should we Have a More Interdisciplinary Research? A Discussion Around the Book: "Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland" (Dan Breznitz, Yale University Press)
    11-23   Healthy bodies, healthy societies? The problem of HIV and the puzzles of collaborative politics
    11-24   Understanding Conflicts of Self-Determination: Causes, Dynamics and Institutional Effects
    11-27   Roundtable: Sovereignty and Citizenship in States with Territories
    11-28   Good Governance and Legislative Reforms
    11-29   Beyond Need and Belief: Cross-national comparisons of Islamist recruitment mechanisms in Middle-East, Africa and Asia
    11-30   Democracy and Institutional Change in Africa
    11-31   Explaining Party System Change in Latin America
    11-32   Political Corruption: Origins and Impact
    11-33   Presidentialism in Latin America
    11-34   Endogenous Ethnicity
    11-35   Is Democracy Working? Satisfaction, Accountability and Participation in Electoral Democracies
    11-36   The Democratizing Power of Elections I
    11-37   Policy-making in clientelistic and progressive regimes: Is there a difference?
    11-38   Business-State Relations in Developing and Transition Countries
    11-39   The Politics of Provision and Denial of Public Goods in Developing Countries: Lessons from South Asia
    11-40   Building Tax Capacity: The Politics of Tax Policy, Administration, and Compliance in Latin America.
    11-41   Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Internal Nationalism
    11-42   Representation: Voters, Parties, Presidents and Governments in Democracies around the World
    11-43   The Radical Right in Europe: New Research Directions with a Sociological Twist
    11-44   Democracy and Democratization in Europe: Lessons and Challenges
    11-45   Roundtable: Civilizational States in World Politics
    11-46   Dynamics of Post-Civil War Politics
    11-47   Comparative Approaches to the Study of Religion and Politics
    11-48   Revisiting State Infrastructural Power
    11-49   Pursuing Portability: Cross-Regional Analyses of Democratic Institutional Development
    11-50   Roundtable: Remembering Donald Rothchild
    11-51   Migrants/Diasporas and Domestic Politics

12   Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
    12-1   Beyond Need and Belief: Cross-national comparisons of Islamist recruitment mechanisms in Middle-East, Africa and Asia
    12-2   Political Economy of Development
    12-3   Political Economy of Elections
    12-5   The Politics of Distributing State Resources: Evidence from Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and Latin America
    12-6   The Politics of Provision and Denial of Public Goods in Developing Countries: Lessons from South Asia
    12-7   Building Tax Capacity: The Politics of Tax Policy, Administration, and Compliance in Latin America.
    12-8   Shifting the Unit of Analysis: Assessing the Political Effects of Group and Institutional Fragmentation
    12-9   New Perspectives on Durable Authoritarianism
    12-10   Microdynamics of Ethnic Conflict
    12-11   Negotiating Aid: Re-conceptualizing Donor-Recipient Relations
    12-12   Democracy and Inequality in the Developing World
    12-13   Immigration and Fertility II: The Political Demography of Ethnic, Religious and National Conflict
    12-14   Political Economy of Capital Markets
    12-15   Ethnicity and Politics in South Asia
    12-16   The Politics of Financial Sector Reform in Emerging Markets
    12-17   Development Aid Allocation: The Impact of Country Characteristics on Allocation Decisions
    12-18   Understanding Types of Violence During Civil Conflict
    12-19   The Construction and Impact of International Regimes on Domestic Institutional Development
    12-20   Courts, Constitutions, and Judicial Policymaking in Comparative Perspective
    12-21   Pursuing Portability: Cross-Regional Analyses of Democratic Institutional Development
    12-22   Migrants/Diasporas and Domestic Politics

13   The Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries
    13-1   Roundtable: The International Political Economy of Russian Energy Policy
    13-2   Diverse Uniformities? External Pressures, Domestic Forces, and Economic Reform in Postcommunist Europe
    13-3   Influences on Identity: Islam, Ethnicity, and Economic Behavior
    13-4   Becoming Citizens? The Impact of the Post-Soviet Colored Revolutions on Societal Participation
    13-5   Electoral Protests: Beyond the Color Revolutions
    13-6   Legislative-Executive Relations in Post-Communist Countries: Cross-Regional Perspective.
    13-7   Post-Communist Political Economy: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
    13-8   The Organization of New Post-Communist Polities: Internal-External Linkages
    13-9   Russia's Institutions in Formation
    13-10   Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Democratic Consolidation: Trust, Legitimacy and Accountability
    13-11   Roundtable: Presidential Succession and Succession Crises in Contemporary Russia
    13-12   Negotiated Authoritarianism: Monolithic Regime and Local Conditions in the Making and Implementation of Policies in China
    13-13   Governance at the Grassroots: Political Participation and Contention in China
    13-14   The Radical Right in the New Europe

14   Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrialized Societies
    14-1   Strange Bedfellows as Normal Politics
    14-2   Voters, Partisan Politics and Welfare States
    14-3   Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Internal Nationalism
    14-4   Representation: Voters, Parties, Presidents and Governments in Democracies around the World
    14-5   The Politics of Corporate Governance Change
    14-6   Interstate Cooperation, Domestic Politics, and Migration Management
    14-7   Dynamics of Institutional Change in Coordinated Market Economies
    14-8   Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
    14-9   Legislators' Preferences toward Globalization in Advanced Industrialized Nations
    14-10   Party Systems
    14-11   Party Strategies and Electoral Systems
    14-12   The Life and Death of Coalition Governments
    14-13   Fiscal Policies and Financing the Welfare State
    14-14   Contemporary Japanese and Korean Politics and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

15   European Politics and Society
    15-1   Sustaining Coordination: the Evolution and Perpetuation of Managed Capitalism
    15-2   Immigration and Immigrants in the U.S. and EU: An Empirical and Analytical Comparison
    15-3   Strange Bedfellows as Normal Politics
    15-4   Dynamics of Institutional Change in Coordinated Market Economies
    15-5   Models in Motion: The Dynamics of Political Change in France and Western Europe in an Age of Economic Austerity
    15-6   The Radical Right in Europe: New Research Directions with a Sociological Twist
    15-7   Roundtable on Joni Lovenduski’s "Feminizing Politics"
    15-8   Non-Hierarchical Policy-Coordination in Federal and Supranational Settings
    15-9   Changing France: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Globalization and French Politics in Light of the 2007 Presidential Elections
    15-10   Images of Federalism in Early Modern and Contemporary Europe
    15-11   To Comply or not to Comply? Explaining EU Member States' Violations of European Law
    15-12   Thirty Years of Spanish Democracy: Evaluating Institutional and Party Theories
    15-13   Europe and the Management of Globalization
    15-14   The Radical Right in the New Europe
    15-15   Human Rights Regimes in Europe: Still in Development
    15-16   Satisfaction and Discontent in the EU: How the Public and the Media Perceive European Integration
    15-17   Religion and Politics in Europe
    15-18   Democracy and Democratization in Europe: Lessons and Challenges
    15-19   New Governance Regimes in Europe: Biology and Health
    15-20   Goals of Citizenship: State Strategies in Diversity
    15-21   The Changing Whitehall Model: Bureaucracy and Politics

16   International Political Economy
    16-1   Human Rights and the Global Economy
    16-2   Congressional Voting on Foreign Policy
    16-3   Political Economy of Investment
    16-4   IPE of Development
    16-5   Economic Consequences of Political Tensions
    16-6   The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund: Governance, Lending, and Forecasting
    16-7   The Impact of Politics and Trade on Cooperation
    16-8   The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment
    16-9   Domestic Politics and IPE: Democracies and Democratization
    16-10   Regional Integration: Causes, Contours and Consequences
    16-11   The Domestic Institutional Determinants of International Market Regulation
    16-12   The Next Great Globalization? Foreign Finance and Development
    16-13   The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
    16-14   The Political Economy of Trade
    16-15   The Discipline of International Relations: Past, Present and Future
    16-17   Designing International Agreements

17   International Collaboration
    17-1   NGOs, Humanitarianism, and World Order
    17-2   Interstate Cooperation, Domestic Politics, and Migration Management
    17-3   Economic Consequences of Political Tensions
    17-4   The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund: Governance, Lending, and Forecasting
    17-6   Roundtable: The Legitimacy of International Institutions
    17-7   ITRAG Panel: International Cooperation through International Treaties?: Treaty Avoidance, Compliance and Inter-Treaty Relations in International Politics
    17-8   Who Governs? The Domestic Politics of Trade Reform in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs)
    17-9   The Discipline of International Relations: Past, Present and Future
    17-11   Designing International Agreements
    17-12   Networks in International Relations
    17-13   International Promotion of Human Rights
    17-14   International Environmental Cooperation
    17-15   Information and International Institutions
    17-16   The Effects of International Law
    17-17   Domestic Politics and Compliance with International Agreements
    17-18   The Design of International Institutions
    17-19   Hegemony, Power, and Order in the International System
    17-20   International Courts

18   International Security
    18-1   Microdynamics of Ethnic Conflict
    18-2   Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans
    18-4   Audience costs
    18-5   Roundtable on Bounding Power
    18-6   Secession
    18-7   Anti-Americanism: Causes and Consequences
    18-8   Regime Type and Susceptibility to Terrorism
    18-9   Security Norms in International Politics
    18-10   How and When Do Terrorists "Win"?: Terrorism and the Elusive Pursuit of Strategic Success
    18-11   Soft Power in International Security
    18-12   Roundtable: 9/11 and the Politics of Intelligence Reform
    18-13   Deterrence, Commitment, and Bargaining in Civil and Interstate Conflicts
    18-14   The Internal Politics of Insurgency, Rebellion, and Terrorism
    18-15   Roundtable: America's Global Role After Bush
    18-16   The Role of Foreign Aid in Social Service Delivery, Security, and Reconstruction in Post-Conflict States
    18-17   Asymmetrical Conflict and Military Occupation
    18-18   Civilians as Targets of Political Violence
    18-19   Maintaining Coalitions in War and Peace
    18-20   Is it Really Fundamental? Religion and the Micro-dynamics of Violence in Iraq
    18-21   Democracies and War
    18-22   Rising Powers and the Likelihood of War
    18-23   Intervention and Mediation in Civil Conflicts
    18-24   Containing Nuclear Proliferation
    18-25   The Arab-Israeli Conflict Arena
    18-26   Understanding and Responding to Islamist Terrorism
    18-27   The Ethics and Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Statebuilding
    18-28   State Failure
    18-29   Quantitative Approaches to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
    18-30   Comparative Case Studies on Counter-Terrorism
    18-31   Migration and International Security
    18-32   The Strategic Effectiveness of Terrorism
    18-33   The Strategic Effectiveness of Counterterrorism
    18-34   Roundtable: Reflections on the Iraq Study Group
    18-35   Cognition and Foreign Policy Decisions
    18-36   Foreign Policy Leadership
    18-37   Geography of Civil War
    18-38   American Strategies of Preponderance in the Early Cold War
    18-39   The Politics of Shame: Weak Actor Influence in the International System
    18-40   Roundtable on "Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East" (Princeton University Press 2007) by Etel Solingen

19   International Security and Arms Control
    19-1   Soft Power in International Security
    19-2   Asymmetrical Conflict and Military Occupation
    19-3   Roundtable: What are the Stakes in Iraq, and What are the Consequences of the Several Ways the U.S. Might Withdraw?
    19-4   How "Global" is the "War on Terror"? The Comparative Politics of the Counter-terrorism Regime
    19-5   Roundtable: The Nuclearization of North Korea
    19-6   Balancing and Wedge Strategies in International Politics
    19-7   Roundtable: American Civil-military Relations: Huntington's Soldier and the State at Fifty Years
    19-8   State Failure
    19-9   The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
    19-10   The Return of Realism?
    19-11   Terrorists, Insurgents, and Rogues: Prospects for Negotiation and Coexistence
    19-12   Quantitative Approaches to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
    19-13   Non-Proliferation: What Works? What Backfires?
    19-14   European Responses to "New" Security Threats: The Role of the European Union
    19-15   Comparative Case Studies on Counter-Terrorism
    19-16   Migration and International Security
    19-17   The Strategic Effectiveness of Terrorism
    19-18   The Strategic Effectiveness of Counterterrorism
    19-19   Roundtable: Reflections on the Iraq Study Group
    19-20   New Challenges to East Asian Security

20   Foreign Policy
    20-1   Roundtable: America's Global Role After Bush
    20-2   Maintaining Coalitions in War and Peace
    20-3   Democracies and War
    20-4   The Arab-Israeli Conflict Arena
    20-5   Roundtable: American Civil-military Relations: Huntington's Soldier and the State at fifty years
    20-6   The Poliheuristic Theory of Decision-making: New Research and New Directions
    20-7   Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
    20-8   Cognition and Foreign Policy Decisions
    20-9   Foreign Policy Perspectives on Political Economy
    20-10   Legislative-Executive Relations and Foreign Policy
    20-11   Domestic Politics and International Relations
    20-12   Using the WomanStats Database to Examine the Dynamics between Women’s Status and State Behavior
    20-13   Roundtable: Civilizational States in World Politics
    20-14   Perception and Misperception in Decision-Making: Understanding Security Challenges for US Foreign Policy
    20-15   Communication, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
    20-16   Standoff with North Korea
    20-17   Foreign Policy Leadership
    20-18   East Asia Security and Foreign Policy
    20-19   Leaps and Limits in Presidential Leadership of American Foreign Policy
    20-20   Theoretical Models and Historical Lessons from the 1930s: The Foreign Policy Strategy of Appeasement

21   Conflict Processes
    21-1   Networks in International Relations
    21-2   Audience Costs
    21-3   Secession
    21-4   Intervention and Mediation in Civil Conflicts
    21-5   Geography of Civil War
    21-6   Dynamics of Post-Civil War Politics
    21-7   Terrorism and its Consequences
    21-8   New Perspective on Civil Wars: Enduring Internal Rivalries
    21-9   Trade and Conflict: The Enduring Debate
    21-10   Computational Approaches to Civil Wars
    21-11   Territory and Issues
    21-12   Conflict over Water and Resources
    21-13   Mediation
    21-14   Bargaining and Signaling
    21-15   Conflict Management and Settlement
    21-16   Intrastate Conflict Management
    21-17   Domestic Politics and Interstate Conflict
    21-18   History and Conflict
    21-19   Civil War
    21-20   Repression and Dissent
    21-21   Conflict Processes as a Complex System: Insights from Beyond Political Science
    21-22   Bridging the Gap? Connecting Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Civil War

22   Legislative Studies
    22-1   Roundtable on the 110th Congress
    22-2   Roundtable on the 2006 Congressional Elections
    22-3   Policies, Promises and Governance in American Legislatures
    22-4   Historical Perspectives on Congressional Institutions
    22-5   Pork, Pensioners and Policy in Congress
    22-6   Political Boundaries in Congressional Elections
    22-7   Representation and Political Elites
    22-8   Agendas, Rules and Parties
    22-9   Agencies, Legislatures and Oversight
    22-10   Estimating Legislators' Ideal Points
    22-11   Formal Theories of Legislative Institutions
    22-12   The Constitutional Convention of 1787
    22-13   The European Parliament
    22-14   Methodological Developments in the Study of Legislatures
    22-15   Parties and Legislatures in Comparative Perspective
    22-16   Good Governance and Legislative Reforms
    22-17   The Symbols, Substance, and Scandals of Public Policy
    22-18   Political Economy of Legislatures
    22-19   Legislative-Executive Relations in Post-Communist Countries: Cross-Regional Perspective.
    22-20   Legislative-Executive Relations and Foreign Policy
    22-21   Persuasion and Influence between the Presidency and Congress
    22-22   State Legislatures I: Money and Representation
    22-23   State Legislatures II: States as Laboratories for Policy and Politics
    22-24   Race, Ethnicity, and Representation
    22-25   Ambition, Opportunity and Women's Legislative Careers
    22-26   Policy Responsiveness and Representation In U.S. Legislatures

23   Presidency Research
    23-1   Government Control over Information: Propaganda, Presidential Power, and Freedom of the Press
    23-2   Roundtable on the Making of the Presidential Candidates 2008
    23-3   Presidential Endings: George W. Bush and the Final Two Years
    23-4   Legacies and Packaging: Understanding the Perceptions of and the Challenges Facing Presidential Aspirants
    23-5   Cabinets in Presidential Systems in Comparative Perspective
    23-6   Roundtable: George W. Bush and the 110th Congress
    23-7   Rhetoric and Leadership in the American Presidency
    23-8   Clashes and Consequences of the Unitary Executive in American Politics
    23-9   Persuasion and Influence between the Presidency and Congress
    23-10   Leading the Public from the White House
    23-11   Leaps and Limits in Presidential Leadership of American Foreign Policy
    23-12   Unpacking the Toolkit of Presidential Policy Making
    23-13   Delegating Leadership: The Importance of Presidential Appointments
    23-14   Power and Prerogative in the George W. Bush Presidency
    23-15   Campaigning For and From the White House
    23-16   Do Words Bring Results? The Influence of Presidential Rhetoric on Public Policy
    23-17   How Do We Judge Presidents? Measuring Leadership Performance
    23-18   From Partisanship to Unilateralism in the American Presidency
    23-19   Constitutional Perspectives on the Presidency
    23-20   Keeping the Modern Presidency In Check and Balance
    23-21   The Changing Image of the President in American Politics
    23-22   Political Speeches and Political Futures: Presidential Campaign Rhetoric and Governance

24   Public Administration
    24-1   Agencies, Legislatures and Oversight
    24-2   Homeland Security and Other Disasters
    24-3   The Changing Whitehall Model: Bureaucracy and Politics
    24-4   Governance and Information Technology
    24-5   Nested Institutions and Public Management
    24-6   Political Control of the Bureaucracy
    24-7   Bureaucratic Behavior and Attitudes
    24-8   Public Personnel - Employee Performance, Turnover, and Job Satisfaction
    24-9   Gender, Race and Representative Bureaucracy
    24-10   Public Administration and the Constitution
    24-11   Government Transparency, Accountability and Responsiveness
    24-12   Local Government Performance: Public, Private, and Non-Profit Actors

25   Public Policy
    25-1   Homeland Security and Other Disasters
    25-2   Federalism and Public Policy
    25-3   The Symbols, Substance, and Scandals of Public Policy
    25-4   Ways of Knowing: Getting Beyond Interests in Understanding Public Policy
    25-5   Fostering Collaboration and Civic Engagement: the Role of Public Policy
    25-6   Discourses of Health Care Policy
    25-7   Policy Change: Policy Learning, Path Dependency, and Punctuated Equilibrium
    25-8   Framing and Social Constructions in Policy Design
    25-9   Policy Narratives in Contemporary Policy Issues
    25-10   Rethinking Regional Governance: Democracy, Equality, and the Administrative State
    25-11   Policy and Disadvantaged People: Lessons from State Government
    25-12   Children's Health, Education and Welfare Policies
    25-13   Methodological Innovations in the Study of Public Policy
    25-14   Education: Choice and Accountability
    25-15   Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
    25-16   Unpacking the Toolkit of Presidential Policy Making
    25-17   Social Justice in the City: Policy Perspectives
    25-18   Environmental Governance at Multiple Scales
    25-19   Science, Institutions and Stakeholder Processes in Environmental Decision-making
    25-20   Deliberative Policy Analysis: Discourse, Argumentation and Social Construction

26   Law and Courts
    26-1   Methodological Advances in the Study of Law and Courts
    26-2   Courts, Constitutions, and Judicial Policymaking in Comparative Perspective
    26-3   Public Administration and the Constitution
    26-4   Roundtable: Author Meets Readers: Mark Graber's Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
    26-5   Do Legislatures Shape Constitutional Values? American and Canadian Differences
    26-6   Causes of Judicial Empowerment: Testing the Hegemonic Preservation Thesis in Comparative Perspective
    26-7   Legal Liberalism and Counter-Mobilization After the 1960s
    26-8   International Courts
    26-9   Roundtable: The Role of State and Local Courts in American Political Development
    26-10   Human Rights and Post-atrocity Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Critical New Issues
    26-11   Constitutional Citizenship
    26-12   Judicial Power: Hierarchy and the Separation of Powers
    26-13   Judicial Policy Making & Institutional Capacity: A Thirty Year Reanalysis of Chayes, Fuller & Fiss
    26-14   Roundtable: Critics Meet Authors: Rubin & Feeley, "Federalism: A Theoretical Inquiry"
    26-15   The Public and the Courts
    26-16   The Future of Law: Old Legal Institutions, New Approaches
    26-17   Comparative Courts
    26-18   Supreme Court Decision-making and the History of American Political Development
    26-19   The Politics of Court Jurisdiction and Court Power
    26-20   Theories of Supreme Court Decision-making
    26-21   Constructing Constitutional Doctrine and Authority
    26-22   Comparing Law, Courts, and Constitutions
    26-23   Decision-making on the Lower Federal Courts
    26-24   Roundtable: Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award: A Discussion and Appreciation of Saul Brenner's Work
    26-25   Roundtable: What's New About the New Originalism?
    26-26   Judicial Politics in the American States
    26-27   Domestic Militarization, Race, and Crime
    26-28   Roundtable: Authors Meet Critics: Walter Murphy's Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order and Donald Lutz's Principles of Constitutional Design

27   Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence
    27-1   Roundtable: Authors Meet Critics: A Discussion of The Constitution as Social Design, and Gender and Statebuilding
    27-2   Clashes and Consequences of the Unitary Executive in American Politics
    27-3   Causes of Judicial Empowerment: Testing the Hegemonic Preservation Thesis in Comparative Perspective
    27-4   Constitutional Citizenship
    27-5   Judicial Policy Making & Institutional Capacity: A Thirty Year Reanalysis of Chayes, Fuller & Fiss
    27-6   The Future of Law: Old Legal Institutions, New Approaches
    27-7   Supreme Court Decision-making and the History of American Political Development
    27-8   The Politics of Court Jurisdiction and Court Power
    27-9   Theories of Supreme Court Decision-making
    27-10   Constructing Constitutional Doctrine and Authority
    27-11   Comparing Law, Courts, and Constitutions
    27-12   Decision-making on the Lower Federal Courts
    27-13   Roundtable: Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award: A Discussion and Appreciation of Saul Brenner's Work
    27-14   Roundtable: What's New About the New Originalism?
    27-15   Roundtable: Authors Meet Critics: Walter Murphy's Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order and Donald Lutz's Principles of Constitutional Design

28   Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
    28-1   Federalism and Public Policy
    28-2   Non-Hierarchical Policy-Coordination in Federal and Supranational Settings
    28-3   Nested Institutions and Public Management
    28-4   Roundtable: Is Federalism Theory Poor or Theory Rich?
    28-5   Governing the Metropolis: Interdisciplinary Contributions to the Study of Regionalism
    28-6   Regional and Interlocal Cooperation
    28-7   Federalism and the Bush Administration
    28-8   Intergovernmental Relations and Environmental Governance Today

29   State Politics and Policy
    29-1   Policy and Disadvantaged People: Lessons from State Government
    29-2   New Directions in Pre-K Education
    29-3   The Impact of Campaign Finance Laws in U.S. States
    29-4   Judicial Politics in the American States
    29-5   State Legislatures I: Money and Representation
    29-6   State Legislatures II: States as Laboratories for Policy and Politics

30   Urban Politics
    30-1   Fostering Collaboration and Civic Engagement: the Role of Public Policy
    30-2   Rethinking Regional Governance: Democracy, Equality, and the Administrative State
    30-3   Governing the Metropolis: Interdisciplinary Contributions to the Study of Regionalism
    30-4   Cities and Homeowners' Associations: The Evolving Relationship Between Public and Private Local Governments
    30-5   Reflections on the Urban Politics Field: A Next Generation of Voices
    30-6   Social Justice in the City: Policy Perspectives
    30-7   Intersections of Race and Class in Urban Areas
    30-8   Regional and Interlocal Cooperation
    30-9   Race and Ethnicity in Big-City Education
    30-10   Local Government Performance: Public, Private, and Non-Profit Actors
    30-11   Culture in Urban Politics
    30-12   Explaining Growth Management Policy
    30-13   Hurricane Katrina: Issues of Race, Space, and Place in the Reconstruction Effort
    30-14   Minority Empowerment in Urban Areas

31   Women and Politics
    31-1   From Local to Global and Back Again: Making Human Rights Matter for Women
    31-2   Roundtable: W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
    31-3   Reproductive Technologies and Social Justice
    31-4   The State and The Family: Policy, Culture, and Ideology
    31-5   Roundtable on Joni Lovenduski’s "Feminizing Politics"
    31-6   Roundtable: Theorizing Activism, Activist Theorists
    31-7   The Politics of Rape and War: Processes and Results
    31-8   Roundtable: Iris Marion Young: Legacies for Feminist Theory
    31-9   Comparative Perspectives on the Implementation of Candidate Gender Quotas
    31-10   Theme Panel: Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries
    31-11   Intersectionality and Representation: Women of Color and the Path to Public Office
    31-12   Understanding Politics and Political Participation at the Intersection of Race and Gender
    31-13   New Directions in the Study of Women's Groups and Social Movements
    31-14   Women's Activism and Representation in Comparative Perspective
    31-15   Political Parties and Women's Representation: Help or Hindrance?
    31-16   Rethinking Gender and Public Opinion
    31-17   Ambition, Opportunity and Women's Legislative Careers
    31-18   Gender in U.S. and Comparative Elections
    31-19   Transnational Activism, Border Crossing, and/or Foreign Intervention: Violence Against Women in Europe, Western Asia, and the Americas
    31-20   Politics, Gender and Concepts

32   Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
    32-1   Intersections of Race and Class in Urban Areas
    32-2   Race and Ethnicity in Big-City Education
    32-3   Interpretive Methods for Understanding Latino Politics
    32-4   Race and US Political Development
    32-5   Causes and Effects of Anti-Immigrant Opinion
    32-6   Immigrant Incorporation Across Contexts
    32-7   Transnationalism and Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities
    32-8   Race, Context, and Participation
    32-9   Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    32-10   Contemporary Issues in Black Public Opinion
    32-12   Latino Racial Identity across Communities
    32-13   Out of the Shadows and into the Light: How Black Immigrants Complicate Black Politics
    32-14   Domestic Militarization, Race, and Crime
    32-15   The History of the Racial State
    32-16   Race, Representations, and Political Communication
    32-17   Race, Ethnicity, and Representation
    32-19   Hurricane Katrina: Issues of Race, Space, and Place in the Reconstruction Effort
    32-20   Minority Empowerment in Urban Areas
    32-21   Ethnic Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic Societies
    32-22   New, Interdisciplinary Directions in Race Studies
    32-23   Intersectionality and Representation: Women of Color and the Path to Public Office
    32-24   Understanding Politics and Political Participation at the Intersection of Race and Gender
    32-25   Identity: Critical Analysis of Old Terms & Discourses in Relationship to 21st Century Indigenous Issues

33   Religion and Politics
    33-1   Religion, Human Rights, and Justice
    33-2   Intersections of Race, Class and Religion: Faith and Boundary Crossing
    33-3   Religion and Politics in Europe
    33-4   Theme Panel: Religion, Economics and Culture: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research
    33-5   Islamist Politics and Democratization: Cross-Regional Perspectives on the Relationship between Islamism and Democratic Practices
    33-6   Comparative Approaches to the Study of Religion and Politics
    33-7   Beyond Toleration and Dialogue: Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Religion and Citizenship in Liberal Theory
    33-8   'Faith in Action': Religion and Political Engagement in America
    33-9   Perspectives on Religion and Law in America
    33-10   Religion and the 'Culture Wars' in America
    33-11   Faith in the Polling Booth: Religion and the Voter
    33-12   Islam and the Institutions of Democracy: A Global Survey
    33-13   Religion and International Order

34   Representation and Electoral Systems
    34-1   Comparative Perspectives on the Implementation of Candidate Gender Quotas
    34-2   Spatial Models of European Politics
    34-3   The Quality of Decision-making in Citizen Deliberative Assemblies: The Three Cases of Electoral Reform
    34-4   Coalitions and Minority Governments in Parliamentary Democracies: Mass Perceptions and Electoral Strategies
    34-5   Policy Responsiveness and Representation In U.S. Legislatures
    34-6   Historical Perspectives on Electoral System Design
    34-7   Electoral Institutions at the Local Level
    34-8   Electoral Institutions and Political Outcomes
    34-9   Election Law Reform: Theory, Law, Practice

35   Political Organizations and Parties
    35-1   Roundtable on the Making of the Presidential Candidates 2008
    35-2   Spatial Models of European Politics
    35-3   Party Evolution and Realignment
    35-4   Political Organizations and the Money Channel
    35-5   Interest Groups and Lobbying Activity
    35-6   Party Positioning
    35-7   Party Polarization: Causes and Consequences
    35-8   New Directions for the Study of Political Parties in Third Wave Democracies

36   Elections and Voting Behavior
    36-1   Methodological Advances in the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior
    36-2   Legacies and Packaging: Understanding the Perceptions of and the Challenges Facing Presidential Aspirants
    36-3   The Impact of Campaign Finance Laws in U.S. States
    36-4   Gender in U.S. and Comparative Elections
    36-5   Coalitions and Minority Governments in Parliamentary Democracies: Mass Perceptions and Electoral Strategies
    36-6   Election Reforms and Voter Turnout
    36-7   The Electoral Effects of the Ballot
    36-8   Primaries Around the World
    36-9   Election Administration and Voter Confidence
    36-10   Local Elections & Turnout
    36-11   Candidate Emergence
    36-12   Exploring Similarities and Differences between Voters and Non-Voters
    36-13   Comparative Voter Turnout and Choice
    36-14   Polarization, Realignment and Partisan Change
    36-15   Explaining Presidential Vote Choice
    36-16   Comparative Electoral Systems
    36-17   Rethinking the Effects of Demographics on Voter Turnout
    36-18   Economic Voting Internationally
    36-19   The Influence of State Election Laws on Voter Turnout
    36-20   Political Contact, Mobilization and the Dynamics of Elections
    36-21   The Influence of Party Identification on Turnout and Vote Choice
    36-22   The Role of Information and Communication in Elections
    36-23   Field Experiments
    36-24   Voter Contact
    36-25   Looking Forward to the 2008 Presidential Nomination Battle
    36-26   From a Ripple to a Wave: A Report from Competitive Races in the 2006 Midterm Elections
    36-27   Culture War: The Role of Issues in Voting Behavior
    36-28   Methods of Long-Range Election Forecasting
    36-30   This is Not Your Father’s Negative Campaigning: Analyses of How Visual Content is Leading Mainstream Media and Elections into Uncharted Territory
    36-31   Ads and Turnout
    36-32   The 2007 French Presidential Election: A Case Study for Electoral Choice Models

37   Public Opinion and Political Participation
    37-1   Selective Exposure, Self-Interest, and Symbolic Politics: Research Inspired by David Sears
    37-2   Satisfaction and Discontent in the EU: How the public and the media perceive European integration
    37-3   Leading the Public from the White House
    37-4   The Public and the Courts
    37-5   Contemporary Issues in Black Public Opinion
    37-6   Latino Racial Identity across Communities
    37-7   Rethinking Gender and Public Opinion
    37-8   Field Experiments
    37-9   Voter Contact
    37-11   The Macro Polity: Looking Back and Looking Forward
    37-13   Ideology, Values, and Sophistication
    37-14   Elite Discourse and Public Opinion
    37-15   War and Public Opinion
    37-16   Party Identification and Partisan Attitudes
    37-17   Social Capital
    37-18   Public Attitudes Toward Racial and Ethnic Groups
    37-19   Public Opinion and Welfare
    37-20   Citizen Orientations Toward Science and Technology
    37-21   Public Opinion Toward Democratic Principles and Human Rights
    37-22   Citizen Thinking, Feeling, and Reasoning About Politics
    37-23   Deliberation, Discussion, and Social Networks
    37-24   Activism and Turnout in Political Campaigns
    37-25   The Impact of Education, Interest, and Knowledge on Public Opinion
    37-26   The Socioeconomic Context of Public Opinion
    37-27   Political Trust
    37-28   Public Opinion Toward Government Institutions and Practices
    37-30   9/11 and the Media

38   Political Communication
    38-1   Do Words Bring Results? The Influence of Presidential Rhetoric on Public Policy
    38-2   Race, Representations, and Political Communication
    38-3   The Role of Information and Communication in Elections
    38-4   Deliberation, Discussion, and Social Networks
    38-5   "New" Media and Public Opinion
    38-6   Framing and the Media
    38-7   The Media and Public Policy
    38-8   Congress and the Media
    38-9   War and the Media
    38-10   Media Bias
    38-11   Networking and Deliberative Democracy
    38-12   Affect and Political Communication
    38-13   Congressional Campaigns and the Media
    38-14   The Importance of Cues in Developing Evaluations
    38-15   The Media and the Middle East
    38-16   This is Not Your Father’s Negative Campaigning: Analyses of How Visual Content is Leading Mainstream Media and Elections into Uncharted Territory
    38-17   9/11 and the Media
    38-18   Ads and Turnout
    38-19   Blogging as Political Communication

39   Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics
    39-1   Environmental Governance at Multiple Scales
    39-2   Science, Institutions and Stakeholder Processes in Environmental Decision-making
    39-3   National Institutions and the Political Economy of Industrial Technological Change
    39-4   Civil Society, Governance, and the Response to Disaster: Katrina and Beyond
    39-5   Intergovernmental Relations and Environmental Governance Today

40   Information, Technology and Politics
    40-1   Are the Times A-Changin'? Technological Conundrums for Political Theory
    40-2   Governance and Information Technology
    40-3   Blogging as Political Communication
    40-4   National Institutions and the Political Economy of Industrial Technological Change
    40-5   Governing Information Technologies
    40-6   Emergence of E-Government Evaluated
    40-7   Theme Panel: Academic Data Mining: Making the Most of the Internet and Information Technology in Political Science Research
    40-8   Mobilization and Participation: The Internet 10 Years Later

41   Politics, Literature, and Film
    41-1   Montesquieu’s Persian Letters Reconsidered: Herald of the Enlightenment?
    41-2   Reading Mary Wollstonecraft
    41-3   Regimes of Seeing, Masculinities, and Heteronormativity
    41-4   Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism
    41-5   Print the Legend: John Ford's Interpretation of America
    41-6   Aristophanes: New Thoughts on an Old Poet from Across and Beyond the Discipline
    41-7   New World Orders in Literature and Film: Europe, Africa, Asia
    41-8   Theorizing Politics, Literature, and Film

42   New Political Science
    42-1   Polemics: How a Book Series can Change the World
    42-2   What is New Political Science?
    42-3   Transnational Activism, Border Crossing, and/or Foreign Intervention: Violence Against Women in Europe, Western Asia, and the Americas
    42-4   Embittered Subjects: Membership and The Politics of Resentment
    42-5   Roundtable: Critical Engagements with Cornel West's Democracy Matters
    42-6   Roundtable: Scholarship at the Intersections: Feminist Methodologies, Social Movements and Human Rights
    42-7   Food and Power
    42-8   Building Solidarity in a Neo-Liberal World
    42-9   Republican Politics, Public Opinion, and "Kids Today"
    42-10   Roundtable: Bringing the Workers Back In: New Issues in Comparative Labor Politics
    42-11   An Ownership Society? Critical Perspectives on John Rawls's Idea of a Property-Owning Democracy
    42-12   40th Anniversary New Political Science Plenary Address: Christian Parenti

43   International History and Politics
    43-1   The Politics of Demarcation: Reconfiguring the Status Quo
    43-2   Roundtable on Bounding Power
    43-3   Domestic Politics and International Relations
    43-4   Roundtable: China's Rising Strategy in Comparative Perspectives
    43-5   Who are the Global Governors?
    43-6   Anarchy and State Formation
    43-7   International Norms and Empire
    43-8   When Talk Matters
    43-9   Asian Integration as the Mirror Of Europe?
    43-10   State Identities and World Politics
    43-11   Religion and International Order
    43-12   Big Threats from Small Actors
    43-13   The Origins of IR Concepts
    43-14   Theoretical Models and Historical Lessons from the 1930s: The Foreign Policy Strategy of Appeasement
    43-15   Theme Panel: Empire in Comparative Perspective
    43-16   American Strategies of Preponderance in the Early Cold War
    43-17   The Politics of Shame: Weak Actor Influence in the International System
    43-18   Roundtable: Civil War and Iraq
    43-19   Policy Feedbacks in Comparative and International Perspective

44   Comparative Democratization
    44-1   The Democratizing Power of Elections I
    44-2   Thou Shalt Democratize! Comparing EU and US strategies of external democracy promotion
    44-3   Social Movements and Regional and International Institutions
    44-4   Electoral Laws and Democracy in Latin America
    44-5   Gender and the Limits of Democracy
    44-6   Transitional Justice and Democratization
    44-7   Federalism, decentralization and party-voter linkages in Latin America and Europe
    44-8   Explaining Variation in Post-Communist Party Politics
    44-9   Islamic Political Parties in Democratic Competition
    44-10   Promoting Democracy in the Americas
    44-11   Civil Society Attitudes and Organizations and the Prospects for Democratization in the Arab World
    44-12   The Role of the Media in Political Change
    44-13   Democratization, Secession and Violence
    44-14   Democratization and Diversity
    44-15   Policy-making in clientelistic and progressive regimes: Is there a difference?
    44-16   The Democratizing Power of Elections II
    44-17   Poor Peoples' Movements
    44-18   Islam, Secularism and Democracy: Reflections on the Turkish Experience
    44-19   Civil Society and Civic Identities
    44-20   Political Elites, Hybrid Regimes and Democratization
    44-21   Judicial Politics and Democratic Development
    44-22   Pivotal Elections and Democratic Development
    44-23   Monitoring and Managing Elections
    44-24   Political Protest and Opposition Movements in Authoritarian Regimes
    44-25   Party Competition and Political Stability
    44-26   Electoral Protests: Beyond the Color Revolutions
    44-27   Governance at the Grassroots: Political Participation and Contention in China
    44-28   Islamist Politics and Democratization: Cross-Regional Perspectives on the Relationship between Islamism and Democratic Practices

45   Human Rights
    45-1   Transitional Justice and Democratization
    45-2   Religion, Human Rights, and Justice
    45-3   Interdisciplinary Research on Human Rights: The Challenge for Political Science
    45-4   Ethics and Politics in the "War on Terror": Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    45-5   NGOs, Humanitarianism, and World Order
    45-6   From Local to Global and Back Again: Making Human Rights Matter for Women
    45-7   Democratic Institutional Design and Human Rights
    45-8    Domestic Implementation of Human Rights
    45-9   Human Rights and the Global Economy
    45-10   Kosovo's Future: Between Self-Determination and Security for Minorities
    45-11   Human Rights, Borders, and Global Governance
    45-12   Human Rights Regimes in Europe: Still in Development
    45-13   International Promotion of Human Rights
    45-14   Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans
    45-15   Human Rights and Post-atrocity Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Critical New Issues
    45-16   Roundtable: Scholarship at the Intersections: Feminist Methodologies, Social Movements and Human Rights

46   Qualitative Methods
    46-1   Interpretive Methods for Understanding Latino Politics
    46-2   Roundtable: Revisiting the Origins of Democracy: Do We Still Need the Qualitative Classics?
    46-3   Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: John Gerring's Case Study Research: Principles and Practices
    46-4   Roundtable: Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research
    46-5   Roundtable: Using History in Political Science: Best-Practice Approaches
    46-6   The Future of Method: Feminist Perspectives
    46-7   Understanding Historical Causation
    46-8   Roundtable: Investigating and Assessing Research Funding Opportunities for Interpretive Social Science Research
    46-9   Reviewing Institutional Review Boards: Issues for Political Science Research
    46-10   Conducting Fieldwork in Violent Settings
    46-11   The Methods Café
    46-12   Roundtable on Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch's "Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations" (M.E. Sharpe 2007)
    46-13   Where History Meets Political Science: A Reassessment
    46-14   Roundtable: The Politics of Memory
    46-15   Political Science in Post-Conflict Societies: Novel Approaches to Research in Post-Genocide Rwanda
    46-16   Policy Feedbacks in Comparative and International Perspective
    46-17   Revisiting State Infrastructural Power
    46-18   Bridging the Gap? Connecting Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Civil War
    46-19   Politics, Gender and Concepts
    46-20   Roundtable: Experiments, Natural Experiments, and the Comparative Study of Institutions
    46-21   Measurement Across Contexts
    46-22   Rethinking Political Inquiry
    46-23   Qualitative Methods and International Relations Theory
    46-24   New Empirical Applications of Qualitative Comparative Analysis
    46-25   New Qualitative Work on American Politics: Representation, Institutional Development, and Leadership in Congress
    46-26   How Political Economies Change: Causal Mechanisms in Qualitative Research
    46-27   Causal Inference and External Validity in Qualitative Research
    46-28   Development Under Dictatorship
    46-29   Case Studies, Causation, and Theory Development
    46-30   Challenges of Concept Development and Coding

PS 1   Poster Session I: American Politics Session 1

PS 2   Poster Session II: Theory and Methodology

PS 3   Poster Session III: Teaching and Learning

PS 4   Poster Session IV: American Politics Session 2

PS 5   Poster Session V: Comparative Politics Session 1

PS 6   Poster Session VI: International Relations Session 1

PS 7   Poster Session VII: Comparative Politics Session 2

PS 8   Poster Session VIII: International Relations Session 2

American Enterprise Institute
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Broken Branches? The Balance of Powers in the 21st Century
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Democracy in an Age of Terror: Regime Transformation and U.S. Foreign Policy

African Politics Conference Group
    Panel 1   Micro Foundations for Conflict and Democracy

Aging Politics and Policy Group
    Panel 1   Expanding the Welfare State? The Reform of Long-Term Care in Europe and the United States

Asian Pacific American Caucus
    Panel 1   Transnationalism and Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities
    Panel 2   Immigration, Transnationalism, and Politics of Asian Americans

Walter Bagehot Council on National Sovereignty
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Walter Bagehot, Constitutionalism, and Executive Power

Brazilian Political Science Association
    Panel 1   What we can learn about democracy from Latin American democratic experiences?

British Politics Group
    Panel 1   Roundtable: A Retrospective on the Career of Samuel H. Beer
    Panel 2   The British Economy: What Kind of Model?
    Panel 3   The Year in British Politics: Britain After Blair

Campaign Finance Research Group
    Panel 1   The Current and Future Agenda for Campaign Finance in the U.S.

Society of Catholic Social Scientists
    Panel 1   John Courtney Murray and the American Proposition

The Cato Institute
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Nuclear Proliferation, Deterrence and Preventive War

Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists
    Panel 1   Civil Society in China: Findings from Survey Studies
    Panel 2   China and the International Order

Association of Chinese Political Studies
    Panel 1   China's Search for Energy Security

Christians in Political Science
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Revisioning Evangelical Political Ethics

The Churchill Centre
    Panel 1   Churchill and France

The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
    Panel 1   Liberalism and Locke's Political Philosophy
    Panel 2    Executive Power and the Constitution
    Panel 3    Roundtable: Dred Scott at 150
    Panel 4   Roundtable: The State of American Liberalism
    Panel 5   Roundtable: The U.S. Supreme Court: Its Recent Term and Its New Justices
    Panel 6   The Classics and War
    Panel 7   Roundtable: Is Social Conservatism Good for Conservatism?
    Panel 8   Roundtable: Erler, Marini, West, eds., "The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration"
    Panel 9   Roundtable on James Ceaser's "Nature and History in American Political Development"
    Panel 10   Western Films and American Political Thought
    Panel 11   Roundtable: Recent Books on Leo Strauss
    Panel 12   Roundtable: Reforming Higher Education and the Opening of the American Mind
    Panel 13   German Political Philosophy and the American Regime
    Panel 14   History as Political Philosophy
    Panel 15   Roundtable: Roundtable on the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Canadian Politics Study Group
    Panel 1   Canadian Politics

Center for the Study of the Constitution
    Panel 1   Constitutions as Problem-Solving Tools

Communitarian Network
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: Amitai Etzioni

Institute for Constitutional Studies
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Whither Constitutional History: An Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Conversation

European Consortium for Political Research
    Panel 1   Religion and Politics: American and European Experiences and Contrasts
    Panel 2   The Politics of European Labor Markets
    Panel 3   America in the World Order: Historical Reflections, 21st Century Consequences

French Politics Group
    Panel 1   Models in Motion: The Dynamics of Political Change in France and Western Europe in an Age of Economic Austerity
    Panel 2   Changing France: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Globalization and French Politics in Light of the 2007 Presidential Elections
    Panel 3   Roundtable: Mapping French Political Science: The State of the Field II
    Panel 4   The 2007 French Presidential Election: A Case Study for Electoral Choice Models

Green Politics and Theory
    Panel 1   New Books in Green Politics and Theory
    Panel 2   Current Issues in Green Politics

Society for Greek Political Thought
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Political Realism in Xenophon's Anabasis

Conference Group on German Politics
    Panel 1   Germany as a European and Global Power

Committee on Health Politics
    Panel 1   The Politics of Medicaid

National Humanities Institute
    Panel 1   Not By Politics Alone: Redefining Political Science

Iberian Studies Group
    Panel 1   Representation and Democracy in Iberia: Regions, Civil Society and Women

Indigenous Studies Network
    Panel 1   Identity: Critical Analysis of Old Terms & Discourses in Relationship to 21st Century Indigenous Issues
    Panel 2   The Politics of Indigenous Self-Determination: Contemporary Challenges, Opportunities, and Conflicts

IPSA Research Committee '12 (Biology and Politics)
    Panel 1   Political Science and Beyond: The Role of Biology

Association for Israel Studies
    Panel 1   Defining Israel's Borders

Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society
    Panel 1   Italian Politics After the Crisis

Japan Political Studies Group
    Panel 1   Institutional Change in Japan's Political System: Probing the Consequences of Recent Reforms

Association of Korean Political Studies in North America
    Panel 1   Human Rights and Economic Reform in North Korea
    Panel 2   New Political Dynamics in South Korea
    Panel 3   Korea and Taiwan in Changing East Asian System
    Panel 4   Political Economy of Democracy and Development: South Korea and Taiwan Compared

Law and Political Process Study Group
    Panel 1   Election Law Reform: Theory, Law, Practice

Labor Project
    Panel 1   Food and Power
    Panel 2   Bringing the Workers Back In: New issues in comparative labor politics

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Caucus
    Panel 1   The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage
    Panel 2   Different Angles on LGBT Politics

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
    Panel 1   Roundtable on Biopolicy

Latino Caucus in Political Science
    Panel 1   Causes and Effects of Anti-Immigrant Opinion
    Panel 2   Immigrant Incorporation Across Contexts
    Panel 3   Roundtable: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Keeping Women of Color in the Discipline
    Panel 4   New Approaches for Looking at Latino Political Issues

Latin American Studies Association
    Panel 1   Electoral Laws and Democracy in Latin America
    Panel 2   Promoting Democracy in the Americas
    Panel 3   Grassroots Movements, Decentralization, and Democracy in Latin America

McConnell Center for Political Leadership
    Panel 1   Roundtable: A Discussion of Barbara A. Perry's Book, The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases

Politica: Society for the Study of Medieval Political Thought
    Panel 1   Politics, Knowing, and the Known in Medieval Political Thought

Conference Group on the Middle East
    Panel 1   Tyranny, Liberalism and Resistance: The Future of Democracy in the Middle East

Miller Center on Public Affairs
    Panel 1   Policy and Partisan Revolutions in American Political Development Perspective

Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy
    Panel 1   Strategy and the 'Long War': New Perspectives on Counter-terrorism and Counter-Insurgency

Association for the Study of Nationalities
    Panel 1   Methodological Innovations in the Study of Post-Communist Politics and Identity

The Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society
    Panel 1   Deliberative Democracy and its Limits
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Constituting Republican Government

Political Forecasting Group
    Panel 1   Conflict Processes as a Complex System: Insights from Beyond Political Science
    Panel 2   Methods of Long-Range Election Forecasting

Committee for Political Sociology
    Panel 1   Changing Forms of Political Activism: Issues with Mobilization, Professionalization and Outsourcing

Political Studies Association
    Panel 1   Islamic Extremism in Britain: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Policy Studies Organization
    Panel 1   Discourses of Health Care Policy
    Panel 2   Policy Change: Policy Learning, Path Dependency, and Punctuated Equilibrium
    Panel 3   Policy Narratives in Contemporary Policy Issues
    Panel 4   Methodological Innovations in the Study of Public Policy
    Panel 5   New Directions in Pre-K Education
    Panel 6   Education: Choice and Accountability

Publius: The Journal of Federalism
    Panel 1   Federalism and the Bush Administration
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Is Federalism Theory Poor or Theory Rich?

Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law
    Panel 1   Dogmas in Politics and Political Science: Roundtable On Dennett's and Harris Book on the Role of God in Policy Making and the Study of Political Science

American Public Philosophy Institute
    Panel 1   Contemporary Issues in American Public Philosophy

Society for Romanian Studies
    Panel 1   Romanian Authoritarianism and EU Integration

Slovenian Political Science Association
    Panel 1   Democratic Praxis in Slovenia

Conference Group on Taiwan Studies
    Panel 1   Korea and Taiwan in Changing East Asian System
    Panel 2   Cross-Strait Relations: Theorizing a Complex Relationship
    Panel 3   Political Economy of Democracy and Development: South Korea and Taiwan Compared
    Panel 4   Consequences of Democratization in Taiwan: Constitutional Reform, National Identity, and Human Rights
    Panel 5   Changing Party Politics in Taiwan: Elite Mobilization, Policy Cleavage, and Social Network

Conference Group on Theory, Policy, and Society
    Panel 1   Deliberative Policy Analysis: Discourse, Argumentation and Social Construction
    Panel 2   New Directions in Theorizing Post-positivist/Interpretive Policy Analysis

Comparative Urban Politics
    Panel 1   Roundtable: The Comparative Politics of Urban Reform

Eric Voegelin Society
    Panel 1   The Relevance of Plato
    Panel 2   Equivalences of Symbolization-Experience in China?
    Panel 3   Scientism, Westernization, and Liberty in Chinese Politics
    Panel 4   The Authority of Truth: Eric Voegelin’s Hitler and the Germans
    Panel 5   Civil Theology of the American Founding
    Panel 6   Mysticism, Philosophy, and Holocaust Studies
    Panel 7   Good and Evil in Politics, Experience, and Political Theory
    Panel 8   Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin: Rival Visions of Politics and Reality
    Panel 9   Voegelin’s Quandary: Faith in Search of Understanding or Understanding in Search of Faith?
    Panel 10   Philosophies of History and Theories of Politics

Women in International Security
    Panel 1   The New Terrorism: Explorations of Theory and its Application to Modern Threats

Women’s Caucus for Political Science
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Teaching Graduate Seminars and Mentoring Graduate Students
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Survival Skills for Women Political Scientists in Academic Administration