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Theme Panels
    T-1   Theme Panel: Is the Discipline Prepared to Address 21st Century Political Issues?
    T-2   Theme Panel: Parties, Groups and Inequality
    T-3   Theme Panel: Between Structure and Agency: Relational Interactions and Group Identity in Marginalized Areas
    T-4   Theme Panel: The Power of People: Comparative Studies of Civil Society in Disaster Recovery
    T-5   Theme Panel: Inequality and International Migration in Comparative and Historical Perspective
    T-6   Theme Panel: The Complexities of Inequality and Political Behavior: Class, Color and Descriptive Representation
    T-7   Theme Panel: Reactions to Unequal Governance: Politicization of International Institutions from Below
    T-8   Theme Panel: Trust, Norms, Reputation and International Cooperation
    T-9   Theme Panel: Solidarity and Global Inequalities
    T-10   Theme Panel Roundtable: Reconceiving Social Justice
    T-11   Theme Panel: The Religious Politics of Multiple Categories
    T-12   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Inequalities, Global Insecurities, Global Government
    T-13   Theme Panel Roundtable: Political Ideologies in the Global Age: Continuity or Novelty?
    T-14   Theme Panel: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Political Institutions
    T-15   Theme Panel Roundtable: Barack Obama and the Election of 2008
    T-16   Theme Panel Roundtable: Immigration, Diversity, and Civic Participation in the United States
    T-17   Theme Panel: Race, Inequality, and Class in America
    T-18   Theme Panel: Inner City Inequalities: A Cross-National Assessment of Policy Interventions in Deprived Urban Neighborhoods
    T-19   Theme Panel: Global Inequalities, Concepts of Asymmetric Conflict, and American Counterinsurgency
    T-20   Theme Panel: Public Opinion, Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America
    T-21   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Redistribution and Sovereign Wealth Funds
    T-22   Theme Panel: Inequality, Institutions, and the Social Contract: A Long-Run Perspective
    T-23   Theme Panel: Results of Differences in the Classroom
    T-24   Theme Panel: Globalization, Inequality, and Domestic Adjustment
    T-25   Theme Panel: Influence, Inequality and the Design of Violent Opposition
    T-26   Theme Panel: New Approaches to the Measurement of Ethnicity: Identities, Institutions, and Power
    T-27   Theme Panel: Act-Up Paris at 20: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Social Movements, the State, and Global Inequality
    T-28   Theme Panel Roundtable: Black Presidential Politics: The Work of Ronald Walters
    T-29   Special Election Panel: Presidential Character and Temperament: An Evaluation of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Nominees
    T-30   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Foreign Policy, the 2008 Election and a New Administration
    T-31   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Encouraging Voter Registration and Turnout: New Experimental Discoveries
    T-32   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Racial Attitudes and Voting in the 2008 Election
    T-33   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Congressional Elections in 2008
    T-34   Special Election Panel: Between Race and Gender: Intersectional Voters
    T-37   Theme Panel Roundtable: Political Voice Beyond Voting: Social Movements
    T-38   Theme Panel: Responding to Global Health Inequalities

1   Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches
    1-1   Political Liberalism: Ordinary Vices and Virtues
    1-2   Reason, Language, and Moral Development in Rousseau
    1-3   Feminist History of Political Thought
    1-4   Roundtable: Continental Political Thought: Past, Present and Future
    1-5   Roundtable: Democracy and Virtue Now: Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Twists
    1-6   Rethinking Property's Liberal Origins and its Future
    1-7   Political Theory and Models of the Mind
    1-8   David Hume as Political Theorist
    1-9   Democratic Statecraft
    1-10   Roundtable: The Significance of History for Normative Political Theory
    1-11   Hegel and Global Justice/Injustice
    1-12   The Crisis of the Liberal Center
    1-13   Cicero: Philosopher and Orator
    1-14   Roundtable: Michael Gillespie's THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERNITY
    1-15   Equality in the English Revolution, 1640-1660
    1-16   Reconsidering Rousseau's Political Philosophy
    1-17   Resistance in Transition
    1-18   Roundtable: 50 Years of Hannah Arendt's THE HUMAN CONDITION
    1-19   Theory and Practice as Categories in Medieval Political Philosophy
    1-20   Edmund Burke’s Defense of Inequality
    1-21   New Directions in Early American Political Thought
    1-22   Tocqueville and the Intellectual Origins of French Liberalism
    1-23   Early Modern Political Knowledge: Doubts, Disputes, and Death
    1-24   Colonial, Racial, and Ethnic Inequalities and Injustices
    1-25   Concepts and Categories in Liberal Political Theory
    1-26   Roundtable: Twentieth-Century International Thought
    1-27   Engaging Socrates: Past, Present, and Future
    1-28   Walt Whitman and Democratic Visions Today
    1-29   Spectatorship and Audience Democracy
    1-30   Authority in Ancient Athens
    1-31   Self-Cultivation and the Political Life in Emerson and Thoreau
    1-32   Roundtable: The Theological-Political Predicament

2   Foundations of Political Theory
    2-1   Roundtable: Simone De Beauvoir: Rethinking Freedom, Plurality, Sovereignty, and Judgment
    2-2   Roundtable: Democracy and Images
    2-3   A Theory and Event Roundtable: Ten Years of Thinking the Event
    2-4   Why Freud? Judgment, Narrative, Critique
    2-5   Roundtable: Ideology and Identity: Reflections on the Ideas and Life of Kenneth Hoover
    2-6   Roundtable: Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom by Linda M.G. Zerilli
    2-7   Roundtable: Laying Claim to the World: Contesting the Secular, the Religious, and the Political
    2-8   Roundtable: Rethinking The Communist Manifesto
    2-9   Who Counts? Critically Interrogating the Human
    2-10   Fugitive Metaphors, Fugitive Theory
    2-11   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Thomas L. Dumm's Loneliness As a Way of Life
    2-12   Tragedy: A Road to Democratic Politics
    2-13   Engaging Socrates: Past, Present, and Future
    2-14   Darkness at Noon Revisited: Rethinking Dignity and Politics in the Gulag
    2-15   Rawls, Civic Republicanism and the Power of the People
    2-16   Democratic Theory and Democratization
    2-17   Walt Whitman and Democratic Visions Today
    2-18   Walter Benjamin, Now Political
    2-19   Ideas, Causes and Logics in Post-Positivist Approaches to Political Analysis
    2-20   Spectatorship and Audience Democracy
    2-21   Authority in Ancient Athens
    2-22   Pluralism Before Pluralism
    2-23   The Disunity of Reason: Heterogeneous Rationalities and Practical Possibilities
    2-24   How Not to Be Governed: Critical Anarchism as Contemporary Political Theory
    2-25   Roundtable: Deliberation and Self-Interest, Negotiation and the Vote
    2-26   Embodied Politics: A New Paradigm of Democracy?
    2-27   Politics and the Outside
    2-28   Authors Meet Critics Roundtable: Carole Pateman and Charles Mills' Contract and Domination
    2-29   Black Political Thought in Comparative Perspective
    2-30   Self-Cultivation and the Political Life in Emerson and Thoreau
    2-31   Roundtable: Political Equality: Can this Ideal Be Saved in the Contemporary Era?
    2-32   Charles Taylor and the Secular Age
    2-33   Political Spaces and the Built Environment
    2-34   Modernity's Persistence
    2-35   Affect and the Sentiments of Politics
    2-36   Sovereignty, Violence, and Biopolitics
    2-37   Love, Ethics, and the Limits of Immanence
    2-38   Aesthetics and Democracy?
    2-39   Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
    2-40   Roundtable: Social Capital and Inequality
    2-41   Religious Belief and Public Values: Complements, Tensions, and Conflicts
    2-42   Roundtable: Continental Political Thought: Past, Present and Future
    2-43   Dynamic Conceptions of the People
    2-44   Continental Philosophers' Perspectives on Global Inequalities
    2-45   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eddie Glaude's IN A SHADE OF BLUE: PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK AMERICA
    2-46   Power and the Politics of Urban Space
    2-47   Theme Panel: Solidarity and Global Inequalities
    2-48   Roundtable: Strange Bedfellows: Sex Scandals in the Bush Era
    2-49   Theme Panel Roundtable: Reconceiving Social Justice
    2-50   Feminist Theory and "Redistribution"
    2-51   "Public" and "Private" in Global Politics: Boundaries of Political Power and Legitimacy
    2-53   Roundtable: The Theological-Political Predicament
    2-54   Foundations of Political Theory Plenary Address: Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher, University of Ljubljana

3   Normative Political Theory
    3-1   Why Freud? Judgment, Narrative, Critique
    3-2   Roundtable: FEMINISM AND THE ABYSS OF FREEDOM by Linda M.G. Zerilli
    3-3   Roundtable: Laying Claim to the World: Contesting the Secular, the Religious, and the Political
    3-4   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Thomas L. Dumm's LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE
    3-5   Tragedy: A Road to Democratic Politics
    3-6   Democratic Theory and Democratization
    3-7   The Disunity of Reason: Heterogeneous Rationalities and Practical Possibilities
    3-8   Roundtable: Deliberation and Self-Interest, Negotiation and the Vote
    3-9   Black Political Thought in Comparative Perspective
    3-10   Political Spaces and the Built Environment
    3-11   Sovereignty, Violence, and Biopolitics
    3-12   Religious Belief and Public Values: Complements, Tensions, and Conflicts
    3-13   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eddie Glaude's IN A SHADE OF BLUE: PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK AMERICA
    3-14   Power and the Politics of Urban Space
    3-15   Bono and Beyond: The Democratic Functions of Non-Elected Representatives
    3-16   Luck-Egalitarianism in Practice
    3-17   Contesting the Bounds and Grounds of Global Justice
    3-18   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Inequalities, Global Insecurities, Global Government
    3-19   Roundtable: Culture After Multiculturalism
    3-20   Theme Panel: Solidarity and Global Inequalities
    3-21   Roundtable: Strange Bedfellows: Sex Scandals in the Bush Era
    3-22   Theme Panel Roundtable: Reconceiving Social Justice
    3-23   Feminist Theory and "Redistribution"
    3-24   "Public" and "Private" in Global Politics: Boundaries of Political Power and Legitimacy
    3-25   Roundtable: Can Cosmopolitan Principles Foster World Democracy after the Iraq War?
    3-26   Political Theory and Transitional Justice
    3-27   Confucianism and Citizenship
    3-28   Global Democracy
    3-29   Comparative Political Theory: Methods and Justifications
    3-30   Citizenship: Rights and Responsibilities
    3-31   Border Politics: Immigration in the New Millennium
    3-32   Economic Justice and the Politics of Solidarity
    3-33   Punishment, Prisons, and Neo/Liberalism
    3-34   Genes, Justice, and the Politics of Biotechnologies
    3-35   Nonhumans, Nature, and Democratic Politics
    3-36   Political Discourse After 9/11
    3-37   Democratic Decisionmaking
    3-38   Public Space and Political Communication
    3-39   The Role of Rights in Politics
    3-40   Authors Meet Authors: Feminism and Equalities in Local, Global, and Historical Perspective
    3-41   The Politics of Care and Paternalism
    3-42   Identity, Inclusion, and the Politics of Recognition

4   Formal Political Theory
    4-1   Formal Models and Empirical Methods
    4-2   Social Context and Identity
    4-3   Elections and Electoral Systems
    4-4   Pork and Redistribution
    4-5   Valence and Voting
    4-6   Legislative Bargaining
    4-7   Public Goods and the Prisoner's Dilemma
    4-8   Oversight, Regulation, and Delegation
    4-9   Aggregation and Social Choice
    4-10   Formal Models of Authoritarian Politics
    4-11   Strategic Choices in Comparative Legislatures
    4-12   Party Games: Formal Models of Party Competition

5   Political Psychology
    5-1   Political Theory and Models of the Mind
    5-2   Experimental Studies of International Relations
    5-3   Political Psychology and Terrorism: Festschrift Panel for Martha Crenshaw
    5-4   Candidate Evaluation
    5-5   You've Got to ... Accentuate the Negative
    5-6   Biology, Psychology, and Politics
    5-7   Political Socialization
    5-8   Political Cognition
    5-9   Measuring Racism
    5-10   Political Information and Political Learning
    5-11   Elite Cues and Public Opinion
    5-12   Public Opinion about Immigration: Threat, Identity, and Acculturation
    5-13   Potpourri of Potentially Parallel Political Psychology Papers
    5-14   Neuropsychology, Political Behavior and Elections
    5-15   Religion and Political Psychology
    5-16   Preference Formation in New and Developing Democracies
    5-17   Immigration and Public Opinion
    5-18   Elites and Public Opinion Formation
    5-19   The Nature and Consequences of Deliberative Democracy
    5-20   Group Identity and Political Attitudes

6   Political Economy
    6-1   Roundtable: Social Capital and Inequality
    6-2   Inequality and Redistribution
    6-3   Property Rights
    6-4   Regime Stability
    6-5   Immigration and Migration
    6-6   Federalism
    6-7   Corruption
    6-8   Issues in U.S. Political Economy
    6-9   Political Behavior of Firms
    6-10   Electoral Politics
    6-11   Roundtable: PUNISHING THE PRINCE: A THEORY OF INTERSTATE RELATIONS, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND LEADER CHANGE by Fiona McGillivray and Alastair Smith
    6-12   Theorizing and Measuring Power in Authoritarian Regimes
    6-13   The Politics of Finance and Economic Development
    6-14   Country Risk Profiles and Development Prospects: What Difference Have "Policy Substitutes" for Domestic Institutions Made?
    6-15   The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
    6-16   The Political Economy of Collective Decision Making and Knowledge Aggregation

7   Politics and History
    7-1   The Crisis of the Liberal Center
    7-2   Roundtable: The Role of History in Political Science: A Discussion Among APSA Presidents
    7-3   Building Institutional Capacity
    7-4   Explaining Institutional Change: From historical institutions to ideas and discourse
    7-5   The American Presidency and Civil Liberties: A Conversation Across Disciplines
    7-6   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and Fall of the American Consensus
    7-7   Terms of Inclusion: Gender, Status Relations, and Constitutional Designs for Equality
    7-8   Theme Panel: Inequality and International Migration in Comparative and Historical Perspective
    7-9   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Victoria Hattam's IN THE SHADOW OF RACE: JEWS, LATINOS AND IMMIGRANT POLITICS IN THE U.S.
    7-10   Colonization and Empire in American Political Development
    7-11   American Political Development in Non-Western-European Comparative Perspective
    7-12   City Hall, Local Investment Credits and Clientelism: Comparative Historical Analysis of Local Party Dominance in Post-War France, Italy and Japan
    7-13   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Randall Strahan's LEADING REPRESENTATIVES: THE AGENCY OF LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF THE U.S. HOUSE
    7-14   History of Congress
    7-15   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eric Patashnik’s REFORMS AT RISK: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER MAJOR POLICY CHANGES ARE ENACTED
    7-16   The Historical Development of U.S. Public Policy
    7-17   Roundtable: Steve Teles' THE RISE OF THE CONSERVATIVE LEGAL MOVEMENT
    7-18   The Anatomy of Constitutional Crises
    7-19   Roundtable: Join the Party? George McGovern, American Liberalism and the Politics of Hope in U.S. Presidential Politics, 1972 and Today
    7-20   Explaining Institutional Change: Contributions from Historical Institutionalism

8   Political Methodology
    8-1   Formal Models and Empirical Methods
    8-2   Methodological Advances in the Study of Public Opinion
    8-3   Methodological Innovations in the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior
    8-4   Elections as Natural Experiments: Applications of Regression Discontinuity Design to the Study of Politics
    8-5   New Methods in Comparative Politics
    8-6   New Directions in Political Methodology
    8-7   New Methods for Studying the Law and Courts
    8-8   Methodological Advances in International Relations
    8-9   New Models and Methods for Political Analysis
    8-10   Multilevel Modeling
    8-11   Network Analysis for International Relations (2): Empirics
    8-12   The Politics of Policy Diffusion
    8-13   The Political Methodology of Legislative Studies
    8-14   Counting 1, 2, 3: Methodological Issues in Electoral Behavior
    8-15   Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud
    8-16   Multi-Method Tools I: Using Qualitative Evidence with Matching Designs and Instrumental Variables
    8-17   Multi-Method Tools II: Concepts, Indicators, and Equivalence
    8-18   Roundtable: Causal Mechanisms and the Science of Politics

9   Teaching and Learning in Political Science
    9-1   Visual Learning, Informatics and Awareness of Inequality
    9-2   Framing the Global Village in the Political Science Classroom
    9-3   Centering Socialization and Inequality in Political Science Instruction
    9-4   Political Education and "Real Life": Innovations in Service Learning and Internships
    9-5   Techniques and Technologies for New Methods, New Students, New Outcomes

10   Political Science Education
    10-1   The Interactive Classroom
    10-2   Engaging Students as Citizens
    10-3   Impacts of Civic Education on Students
    10-4   Theme Panel: Results of Differences in the Classroom
    10-5   Creative Classroom Techniques

11   Comparative Politics
    11-1   Theorizing and Measuring Power in Authoritarian Regimes
    11-2   Blocking Democratic Change
    11-3   Analyzing Subnational Inequalities: Development and Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
    11-4   Revisiting the "Urban Bias" of the African State
    11-5   Roundtable: Trends in Funding for Dissertation Field Research: Why So Little Support for Political Science and Sociology?
    11-6   Fiscal Contracts and Political Outcomes
    11-7   Formal Models of Authoritarian Politics
    11-8   Strategies of Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes
    11-9   The Politics of Land Rights in the Developing World: How Property Rights Can Be Politicized in Rural Africa and Latin America
    11-10   Party Switching in Comparative Perspective
    11-11   Crossing Boundaries: Diffusion Studies in Political Science
    11-12   Political Preference Formation and Partisan Choice
    11-14   Roundtable: Haggard and Kaufman, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
    11-15   Political Elites in Latin America: The Latest Wave from Salamanca
    11-16   European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms
    11-17   Elections, Parties, and Party Systems in Latin America: Changes in Linkage and Cleavage
    11-18   Theme Panel: New Approaches to the Measurement of Ethnicity: Identities, Institutions, and Power
    11-19   Political Dimensions of Economic Remittances: Struggles, Rules and Effects of Labor Export
    11-20   The Origins and Development of Citizen Mobilization
    11-21   Institutional Constraints on the Policy Process
    11-22   American Political Development in Non-Western-European Comparative Perspective
    11-23   The Effects of Democratic Constitutions and Regime Types on Policy, Governments and Accountability
    11-24   Building Durable Democracies in Multi-Ethnic and Religious Contexts
    11-25   Democracy, Inequality, and Redistribution Revisited
    11-26   The Politics of Non-State Social Service Provision
    11-27   Theme Panel: Inequality, Institutions, and the Social Contract: A Long-Run Perspective
    11-28   Old Concepts, New Puzzles: Competing With the Radical Right in Europe
    11-29   Cross-National Perspectives on Inequalities in Health: Their Origins, Extent and Politics
    11-30   Labor Relations and the Effects of Globalization on Inequality-Addressing Institutions
    11-31   Macro Indicators and Micro Measurement: Contextualizing Corruption
    11-32   New Approaches to Clientelism
    11-33   Politics, Poverty and Redistribution in Latin America
    11-34   The Politics of Immigration: Western Europe in Comparative Perspective
    11-35   Recent Research on Advanced Industrial Democracies
    11-36   Business-Government Relations in the Global Economy
    11-37   New Pieces for a New Puzzle? Coalitions and Institutions for Development Under Globalization
    11-38   The Political Consequences of Violent Conflict
    11-39   Subnational Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective
    11-40   Vote Buying, Turnout and Distribution
    11-41   New Perspectives on Informal Institutions and Political Order
    11-42   On The Politics of State-Business Relations in Developing Countries
    11-43   Ethnic Cleavages and Political Parties in Africa’s New Democracies
    11-44   Reviewing Comparative Datasets: Governance and Violence
    11-45   Politics, Development, and Social Reform in Southeast Asia
    11-46   Theme Panel: Globalization, Inequality, and Domestic Adjustment
    11-47   Nations, States and Violent Conflicts
    11-48   Muslims in Western Democracies: Religious Diversity and Political Incorporation
    11-49   Sociological and Institutional Investigations of Regime Endurance
    11-50   Regional Perspectives on Elections in Authoritarian and Post-Authoritarian Contexts

12   Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
    12-1   Analyzing Subnational Inequalities: Development and Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
    12-2   Revisiting the "Urban Bias" of the African State
    12-3   Strategies of Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes
    12-4   The Politics of Land Rights in the Developing World: How Property Rights Can Be Politicized in Rural Africa and Latin America
    12-5   Political Elites in Latin America: The Latest Wave from Salamanca
    12-6   Institutional Constraints on the Policy Process
    12-7   Macro Indicators and Micro Measurement: Contextualizing Corruption
    12-8   New Perspectives on Informal Institutions and Political Order
    12-9   Exploiting Elections
    12-10   Participatory Institutions in Developing Countries: Do Civil Society-State Partnerships Improve the Quality of Democracy?
    12-11   Distributive Politics of Developing Countries
    12-12   Across the Great Divide: Local Actors Versus International Agendas in Civil Wars
    12-13   Ethnic Cleavages and Political Parties in Africa’s New Democracies
    12-14   Theme Panel: Public Opinion, Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America
    12-15   Governance in Transition Countries: What Role for Private Actors?
    12-16   Islam, Law, and Democracy in Sahelian Africa
    12-17   Convergence and Divergence in Sources of Democratic Legitimacy: Findings from Global Barometer Survey
    12-18   Reviewing Comparative Datasets: Governance and Violence
    12-19   Civilian Abuses During Civil War: Methodological Choices and Challenges
    12-20   Violence and the Emergence of Ethnic Identity: Cleavage Construction, Conflict and Peace in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
    12-21   Taking Agency and Contingency Seriously: Land, Identity and Institutional Change in Africa
    12-22   Comparing Turkey: Ethnic Categories and State Policies at the Crossroads of East and West
    12-23   Patronage and Service Provision in Africa
    12-24   Governance in the Middle East and Asia
    12-25   African Democracy and its Challenges
    12-26   India: Clientelism and Cleavages Compared
    12-27   Inequality and Policy Responses to Inequality
    12-28   Governance in Latin America
    12-29   Revisiting the Common Wisdom on Foreign Aid
    12-30   Politics, Development, and Social Reform in Southeast Asia
    12-31   The Political Economy of Foreign Aid
    12-32   Politics and Women's Rights in the Muslim World
    12-33   Labor Markets, Labor Movements and Democracy in Latin America and Spain

13   The Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries
    13-1   The Impact of International Institutions and International Law on Putin's Russia
    13-2   Beyond Conditionality: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe after Enlargement
    13-3   Roundtable: Postcommunist Welfare States and Inequality: Lessons from Comparative Study of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989
    13-4   Gender, Policies, and Poltitics in Post-Soviet States
    13-5   The Rule of Law and Judicial Politics After Communism
    13-6   Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: Regime, Leadership, Party
    13-7   The Politics of Social Stratification and Economic Inequality
    13-8   Ethnic and National Mobilization in Post-Communist States
    13-9   Redressing Inequalities in a Socialist State: China’s Local, National, and International Strategies
    13-10   Learning to Choose: Post-Communist Parties and Voters
    13-11   The Politics of Property After Communism

14   Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies
    14-1   The Effects of Democratic Constitutions and Regime Types on Policy, Governments and Accountability
    14-2   Roundtable: Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union: From is to Ought
    14-3   New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies
    14-4   Partisan Politics in the European Union
    14-5   Immigrants, Opinions and Outcomes
    14-6   Questioning the Quality of Democracy
    14-7   Government Formation and Failure: Before During and After
    14-8   Internal Party Dynamics
    14-9   Voter Turnout: Who Votes and Why?
    14-10   Citizenship, Identity, Representation and Scope of Governance in the European Union
    14-11   Comparative Public Policy
    14-12   Representation in Parliamentary Systems
    14-13   The Impact of Local Institutions on Public Opinion and Political Participation

15   European Politics and Society
    15-2   European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms
    15-3   Beyond Conditionality: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe after Enlargement
    15-4   Roundtable: Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union: From is to Ought
    15-5   New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies
    15-6   Symbols and Power in European Politics
    15-7   Extremist Politics in Europe
    15-8   Structure and Agency in Cleavage Formation
    15-9   City Hall, Local Investment Credits and Clientelism: Comparative Historical Analysis of Local Party Dominance in Post-War France, Italy and Japan
    15-10   Migrants and Minorities: The European Response
    15-11   National Preference Formation and Policy Coordination in the Enlarged European Union
    15-12   Bring the State Back In, Yet Again
    15-13   Legislative Relations and Institutions in Europe
    15-14   Governing the New European Union
    15-15   European Welfare States in an Age of Regional Integration, Migration, and Globalization
    15-16   Who Supports Europe?
    15-17   Determinants of European Trade Policy
    15-18   Gender and Public Policy in Europe
    15-19   Religion and Politics in Europe
    15-20   Party Survival in the EU
    15-21   Legacies of Authoritarianism in Western and Eastern European Democracies
    15-22   Sex Trafficking in Europe and Beyond
    15-23   Roundtable in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann: The U.S., France, and the Search for a Just International System

16   International Political Economy
    16-1   Revisiting the Common Wisdom on Foreign Aid
    16-2   Determinants of European Trade Policy
    16-3   The Politics of Finance and Economic Development
    16-4   Network Analysis for International Relations (1): Theory
    16-5   Network Analysis for International Relations (2): Empirics
    16-6   The Political Economy of Foreign Aid
    16-7   Political and Economic Sources of Immigration Policies
    16-8   New Research on the Politics of International Capital Mobility
    16-9   The Political Economy of International Courts
    16-10   Institutions, Outcomes, and the Evolution of the Multilateral Trading System
    16-11   The Social Effects of International Financial Institutions
    16-12   Globalization and Labor Rights
    16-13   The Politics of Policy Diffusion
    16-14   The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Crises
    16-15   Theme Panel: Globalization, Inequality, and Domestic Adjustment
    16-16   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Redistribution and Sovereign Wealth Funds
    16-17   Policy Making and Inequality in Emerging Markets
    16-18   The Political Economy of the World Bank and the IMF
    16-19   International Regulatory Politics: Implications for IR Theory and Democracy
    16-20   Country Risk Profiles and Development Prospects: What Difference Have "Policy Substitutes" for Domestic Institutions Made?
    16-21   The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
    16-22   International Organizations Solving Global Problems
    16-23   Issues in Dispute Settlement and Institutional Design
    16-24   Delegation to International Organizations: Dilemmas and Resolutions
    16-25   Domestic Politics, Forum Shopping, and International Agreements
    16-26   Competitive Regionalism: Driving Forces and Implications for the World Economy
    16-27   Political Economy of Financial Regionalism
    16-28   Economic Interdependence and Conflict
    16-29   Economic Development and Conflict

17   International Collaboration
    17-1   Network Analysis for International Relations (1): Theory
    17-2   Institutions, Outcomes, and the Evolution of the Multilateral Trading System
    17-3   International Regulatory Politics: Implications for IR Theory and Democracy
    17-4   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (1)
    17-5   International Organizations Solving Global Problems
    17-6   Inequality, Human Rights, and International Law
    17-7   Issues in Dispute Settlement and Institutional Design
    17-8   Delegation to International Organizations: Dilemmas and Resolutions
    17-9   Exporting Governance to Areas of Limited Statehood
    17-10   Unilateralism Versus Multilateralism(s): Designing Regimes and Choosing Policies
    17-11   Courts and the Politics of International Human Rights Protection
    17-12   Interpretation and Contestation in the Construction of International Norms
    17-13   Theme Panel: Reactions to Unequal Governance: Politicization of International Institutions from Below
    17-14   Domestic Politics, Forum Shopping, and International Agreements
    17-15   Theme Panel: Trust, Norms, Reputation and International Cooperation
    17-16   Power Transitions, Grand Strategies, and International Order
    17-17   Competitive Regionalism: Driving Forces and Implications for the World Economy
    17-18   Political Economy of Financial Regionalism
    17-19   Power, Alliances, and International Cooperation
    17-20   Re-Examining Regime Theory: Evaluating Regime Success
    17-21   Justice, International Tribunals, and Human Rights
    17-22   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (2)
    17-23   Trade, Interdependence, and Grand Strategy
    17-24   Mapping the Modern State System
    17-25   Roundtable: The Future of International Order

18   International Security
    18-1   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (1)
    18-2   Exporting Governance to Areas of Limited Statehood
    18-3   Unilateralism Versus Multilateralism(s): Designing Regimes and Choosing Policies
    18-4   Power Transitions, Grand Strategies, and International Order
    18-5   Alliances
    18-6   Commitment, Bargaining, and War
    18-7   The Ethics and Effectiveness of Asymmetrical Warfare
    18-8   The Origins and Effects of International Law
    18-9   Roundtable: Casualties, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War
    18-10   Roundtable: The Impact of World War I on Security Studies: Reflections and Reconsiderations
    18-11   Issues in Civil Military Relations
    18-12   Military Effectiveness
    18-13   Integration and Security: Sticks and Carrots in the Treatment of Immigrant Minorities in America and Europe
    18-14   Nations, States and Violent Conflicts
    18-15   Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
    18-16   Discourse, Identity, and International Security
    18-17   Strategy in Civil War
    18-18   Diasporas in International Politics
    18-19   Roundtable: Realism Redux: What Does it Mean to Be a Realist in the Contemporary World
    18-20   Post Conflict Stabilization
    18-21   Domestic Politics and Conflict Behavior
    18-22   The Origins of Civil War
    18-23   Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    18-24   War Termination
    18-25   Theme Panel: Influence, Inequality and the Design of Violent Opposition
    18-26   International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy
    18-27   Justice, Historical Memory, and Post-Conflict Reconciliation
    18-28   Realism and War
    18-29   The Control of Private Security
    18-30   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (2)
    18-31   Strategic Trade and International Security
    18-32   Roundtable: Does the Bush Doctrine Have a Future?
    18-33   The Scholarship of Bruce Russett
    18-34   International Influences on Civil War
    18-35   New Approaches to Intervention
    18-36   Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
    18-37   Conflict Mediation
    18-38   The Personal is International: Women's Lives, Gender Roles, and International Security
    18-39   Historical Experience in Counterinsurgency: Strategy, Economics and Demobilization
    18-40   New Perspectives on Realism and Idealism

19   International Security and Arms Control
    19-1   Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
    19-2   Roundtable: Arabs and Israelis After Annapolis: Is the Peace Process Headed Anywhere?
    19-3   Issues in East Asian Security
    19-4   Roundtable: The Future of Transatlantic Relations
    19-5   The Effect of Nuclear Proliferation: Beyond Optimism and Pessimism
    19-6   Alliance Politics Revisited
    19-7   Norms, Weapons, and War
    19-8   Diplomacy and Strategy in War and Peace
    19-9   Terrorist Groups in Social and Strategic Context
    19-10   Unconventional War and Civilian Targeting
    19-11   Deterrence: New Dimensions and Debates
    19-12   Roundtable: What are the International Security Implications of Global Climate Change?
    19-13   Theme Panel: Global Inequalities, Concepts of Asymmetric Conflict, and American Counterinsurgency
    19-14   Proliferation, Restraint, and Reversal
    19-15   Nonproliferation Regimes
    19-16   Basing, Power Projection, and America's Presence in the Asia-Pacific
    19-17   Roundtable: Comparing the Iraq and Vietnam Wars

20   Foreign Policy
    20-1   Diasporas in International Politics
    20-2   Realism Redux: What Does it Mean to Be a Realist in the Contemporary World
    20-3   International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy
    20-4   A Post-Bush Foreign Policy
    20-5   Roundtable: Does the Bush Doctrine Have a Future?
    20-6   Roundtable: Sustainable Authoritarianism: Why Illiberal States are Thriving in the Liberal International Order
    20-7   Energy and Foreign Policy
    20-8   Economic Factors and Foreign Policy
    20-9   Environment and Foreign Policy
    20-10   Govenment Change and Stability and Foreign Policy
    20-11   Ideology and Beliefs and Foreign Policy
    20-12   The Causes and Consequences of Economic Sanctions
    20-13   Roundtable: Core Values and Public Attitudes Toward Both Domestic and Foreign Policies

21   Conflict Processes
    21-1   Experimental Studies of International Relations
    21-2   Political Psychology and Terrorism: Festschrift Panel for Martha Crenshaw
    21-3   Alliances
    21-4   Commitment, Bargaining, and War
    21-5   Strategy in Civil War
    21-6   The Scholarship of Bruce Russett
    21-7   Credible Commitment, Diversion, and Escalation: Continuing Research on International Conflict
    21-8   International Influences on Civil War
    21-9   Neighbors, Networks, and Issues in Conflict Onset and Expansion: Uncovering the Complexity of World Politics
    21-10   The Causes and Consequences of Economic Sanctions
    21-11   International Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: Evidence from New Data
    21-12   New Approaches to Intervention
    21-13   Trade, Interdependence, and Grand Strategy
    21-14   Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
    21-15   Civil Conflict and Human Rights
    21-16   Economic Interdependence and Conflict
    21-17   Economic Development and Conflict
    21-18   Domestic Politics and International Conflict
    21-19   Economic Sources of Civil Conflict
    21-20   Domestic Institutions and International Conflict
    21-21   Conflict Mediation
    21-22   Testing Bargaining Models of War
    21-23   Political Economy of Military Conflict
    21-24   Domestic Audiences and International Conflict
    21-25   Quantitative Evidence from Within Cases of Civil War

22   Legislative Studies
    22-1   Legislative Relations and Institutions in Europe
    22-2   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Randall Strahan's LEADING REPRESENTATIVES: THE AGENCY OF LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF THE U.S. HOUSE
    22-3   Testing Theories of Legislative Behavior and Organization in the Contempory Congress
    22-4   Policymaking in Legislatures
    22-5   History of Congress
    22-6   The Political Methodology of Legislative Studies
    22-7   Strategic Choices in Comparative Legislatures
    22-8   Congressional Elections
    22-9   Minority Representation in Legislatures
    22-10   The Politics of Legislative Spending Decisions
    22-11   Legislative Deliberation, Debate, and Deception
    22-12   The Politics of Legislative Organization
    22-13   Polarization in Congress
    22-14   Comparative Legislative Institutions
    22-15   Congressional Appropriations
    22-16   Congress: Getting There Is Half the Battle
    22-17   Legislative Decision Making Throughout American History
    22-18   Legislative Rules and Institutions
    22-19   Presidential Success in Congress
    22-20   Analytical Examinations of Presidential and Congressional Leadership
    22-21   Court-Congress Relations
    22-22   Committees in State Legislatures
    22-23   Legislative Professionalism
    22-24   Issues in State Legislatures
    22-25   Gender, Race and the Politics of Legislative Representation
    22-26   Roundtable: Forecasting the 2008 Congressional Elections
    22-27   House Party: Legislative Polarization Over Time
    22-28   Influencing Government

23   Presidency Research
    23-1   The American Presidency and Civil Liberties: A Conversation Across Disciplines
    23-2   Roundtable: Madam President in 2008? Assessing Hillary Clinton's Candidacy
    23-3   Roundtable: Evaluating the Bush Presidency
    23-4   Roundtable: Forecasting the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
    23-5   Staffing and Decision Making in the White House
    23-6   Public Opinion and the Presidency
    23-7   Religion and the Presidency
    23-8   Ideology in the Executive Branch and the Separation-of-Powers: Theory and Methods
    23-9   Roundtable: Preparing Transition 2009: Lessons in Political Science
    23-10   Presidential Leadership Versus Party Leadership
    23-11   War and the Presidency
    23-12   Alternative Routes of Presidential Involvement in the Policy Process
    23-13   Presidential Use of Executive Orders
    23-14   Roundtable: Restoring the Constitutional Presidency
    23-15   Presidential Success in Congress
    23-16   Analytical Examinations of Presidential and Congressional Leadership
    23-17   Presidential Communication Strategies
    23-18   Media Coverage of Presidents and Candidates
    23-19   Going Public and the Rhetorical Presidency
    23-20   The 2008 Elections and Judicial Selection
    23-21   The 2008 Presidential Nomination Process: Resource Aggregation and Momentum Formation During the Pre-Primary Period, Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary

24   Public Administration
    24-1   Local Government: Public Administration Challenges
    24-2   The Challenge of Representation in Public Bureaucracies
    24-3   Bureaucratic Accountability for Individuals and Organizations
    24-4   Does Better Administration Lead to Better Governance?
    24-5   States and Feds: Complexities of Intergovernmental Management
    24-6   Roundtable: Collaborative Governance, Distributional Politics, and Equity
    24-7   Networking, Collaborating, and Getting Things Done
    24-8   Governing and Administrating: The French Case in Comparative Perspective
    24-9   Leaving Government: Causes and Effects
    24-10   The "Public" in Public Administration and Public Policy
    24-11   Managing Social Services
    24-12   Intellectual Reflections on The Centennial of The Executive Budget
    24-13   Minority Incorporation in Urban Bureaucracy
    24-14   Blogging, eGovernment, and Public Administration

25   Public Policy
    25-1   Crossing Boundaries: Diffusion Studies in Political Science
    25-2   Bring the State Back In, Yet Again
    25-3   Policymaking in Legislatures
    25-4   Ideology in the Executive Branch and the Separation-of-Powers: Theory and Methods
    25-5   Alternative Routes of Presidential Involvement in the Policy Process
    25-6   Presidential Use of Executive Orders
    25-7   The Politics of Attention in Western Europe
    25-8   Ideas, Agendas, and Policy Innovation Diffusion
    25-9   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eric Patashnik’s REFORMS AT RISK: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER MAJOR POLICY CHANGES ARE ENACTED
    25-10   Roundtable: We Think Ideas Matter, But How Do We Know?
    25-11   The Politics of State-Level Implementation
    25-12   Social Policy in the States
    25-13   The Historical Development of U.S. Public Policy
    25-14   The Dynamics of Policymaking in a Federal System
    25-15   Intergovernmental Dynamics in Health Care
    25-16   Roundtable: Steve Teles' THE RISE OF THE CONSERVATIVE LEGAL MOVEMENT
    25-17   Critical Perspectives on Punctuated Equilibrium and Policy Feedback
    25-18   Comparative Studies of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Policy
    25-19   Lobbying, Inequality, and Representation
    25-20   Lobbying and Policy Change
    25-21   Spillover Effects and Policy Linkages across Issues and Levels of the Federal System
    25-22   Education Policy
    25-23   School Reform and Public-Private Partnerships
    25-24   Urban Environmental Issues
    25-25   Equal Employment Opportunity: Policy, Race, and Politics
    25-26   Race and Education
    25-27   Theme Panel: Race, Inequality, and Class in America
    25-28   Comparative Public Policy
    25-29   Ideology, Gender and the Politics of Policymaking

26   Law and Courts
    26-1   New Methods for Studying the Law and Courts
    26-2   The Political Economy of International Courts
    26-3   New Directions in Institutional Analysis of the Courts
    26-4   Roundtable: The 2008 Elections and Judicial Selection
    26-5   Decision Making on State Courts
    26-6   Court-Congress Relations
    26-7   Gender and the Courts
    26-8   Public Opinion and the Courts
    26-9   Strategy and Coalition Formation on the Supreme Court
    26-10   Judicial Review of Administrative Action
    26-11   Research on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
    26-12   Judicial Selection
    26-13   Legal Doctrine and Judicial Decision Making
    26-14   Supreme Court Membership: Continuity and Change
    26-15   Court Agenda Setting
    26-16   Parties and Interests in the Courts
    26-17   The Judiciary in American Politics
    26-18   Comparative Courts
    26-19   New Directions in State Court Research

27   Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence
    27-1   Terms of Inclusion: Gender, Status Relations, and Constitutional Designs for Equality
    27-2   Race, Constitutional Agency, and Full Citizenship
    27-3   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Susan Burgess’ The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law: Who’s Your Daddy?
    27-4   Rights, Citizenship, and Institutional Struggles in the "War on Terror"
    27-5   Identity, Law, and Power in Cross National Contexts
    27-6   Law and Institutions in Time
    27-7   The Anatomy of Constitutional Crises
    27-8   What If We Had a New Constitutional Convention in the United States?
    27-9   Author Meets Readers Roundtable: Paul Frymer's Black and Blue: African Americans, The Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
    27-10   Legal Power and Inequality Around the World
    27-11   Varying Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
    27-12   Author's Roundtable: Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

28   Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
    28-1   States and Feds: Complexities of Intergovernmental Management
    28-2   The Dynamics of Policymaking in a Federal System
    28-3   Intergovernmental Dynamics in Health Care
    28-4   Spillover Effects and Policy Linkages across Issues and Levels of the Federal System
    28-5   Science, Water, Space, NIMBY: Balancing Politics, Policy, and Federalism/Intergovernmental Relations
    28-6   Policy, Implementation, and Federalism: Reconciling National Goals, Flexibility and Discretion
    28-7   Federalism and Europe: A Contemporary Natural Experiment
    28-8   Federalism and Contemporary Challenges: Responses and Perceptions
    28-9   Roundtable: Vincent Ostrom's SCHOLARSHIP AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL INEQUALITY: CONTRIBUTIONS TO INSTITUTIONAL THEORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND FEDERALISM IN THE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE
    28-10   The Politics of Federalism: States and Policy
    28-11   Cities, States and Regions in the American Intergovernmental System
    28-12   The State of American Federalism, 2007-2008

29   State Politics and Policy
    29-1   Ideas, Agendas, and Policy Innovation Diffusion
    29-2   The Politics of State-Level Implementation
    29-3   Social Policy in the States
    29-4   Decision Making on State Courts
    29-5   New Directions in State Court Research
    29-6   Direct Democracy in the States
    29-7   The Politics of Federalism: States and Policy
    29-8   Political Trust and State Politics
    29-9   State Elections
    29-10   Committees in State Legislatures
    29-11   Legislative Professionalism
    29-12   Issues in State Legislatures
    29-13   Religion and Politics at the State Level

30   Urban Politics
    30-1   Education Policy
    30-2   School Reform and Public-Private Partnerships
    30-3   Urban Environmental Issues
    30-4   The Context of Latino Participation and Socialization
    30-5   Local Networks, Race, Immigration and Identity
    30-6   Marginalized Populations and Public Policy
    30-7   Cities, States and Regions in the American Intergovernmental System
    30-8   Urban Elections and the Urban Electorate
    30-9   Urban Economic Development
    30-10   Minority Incorporation in Urban Bureaucracy
    30-11   Inequality
    30-12   Innovations in Urban Political Theory
    30-13   Roundtable: The Future of Racial Politics in American Cities
    30-14   Theme Panel: Inner City Inequalities: A Cross-National Assessment of Policy Interventions in Deprived Urban Neighborhoods
    30-15   Theme Panel: The Power of People: Comparative Studies of Civil Society in Disaster Recovery

31   Women and Politics
    31-1   Roundtable: Simone De Beauvoir: Rethinking Freedom, Plurality, Sovereignty, and Judgment
    31-2   Roundtable: Madam President in 2008? Assessing Hillary Clinton's Candidacy
    31-3   Gender and the Courts
    31-4   Politics and Women's Rights in the Muslim World
    31-5   Authors Meet Authors: Feminism and Equalities in Local, Global, and Historical Perspective
    31-6   The Personal is International: Women's Lives, Gender Roles, and International Security
    31-7   Women-Friendly Democracies and the Canadian Model
    31-9   Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation
    31-10   Gender, Organizing and Women's Human Rights
    31-11   Gender, Race and the Politics of Legislative Representation
    31-12   Gender and Public Policy in Europe
    31-13   Intersectionality in the Practice of Politics
    31-14   Race, Gender, Culture, Discourse: Theorizing the Implications
    31-15   EnGendering Campaigns?
    31-16   The Politics of Care and Paternalism
    31-17   Ideology, Gender and the Politics of Policymaking
    31-18   The Construction of Gendered Interests
    31-19   Organizing, Gender, Social Movements
    31-20   Theme Panel: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Political Institutions
    31-21   Authors Meet Readers Roundtable: Patricia Strach's All in the Familyand Kathleen Sullivan's Constitutional Context
    31-22   Electoral Institutions and Female Representation
    31-23   Gendered Campaigns, Gendered Media Coverage: Female Presidential Candidates in Comparative Perspective

32   Race, Ethnicity and Politics
    32-1   Measuring Racism
    32-2   Migrants and Minorities: The European Response
    32-3   Minority Representation in Legislatures
    32-4   Equal Employment Opportunity: Policy, Race, and Politics
    32-5   Race and Education
    32-6   Theme Panel: Race, Inequality, and Class in America
    32-7   The Context of Latino Participation and Socialization
    32-8   Local Networks, Race, Immigration and Identity
    32-9   Intersectionality in the Practice of Politics
    32-10   Race, Gender, Culture, Discourse: Theorizing the Implications
    32-11   Muslim Americans and Core American Attitudes?
    32-12   New Visions of Latino/a Politics
    32-13   Evaluating the Prospects for an African American President
    32-14   It's the Media: The Impact on Racial Politics
    32-15   Theme Panel Roundtable: Immigration, Diversity, and Civic Participation in the United States
    32-16   Theme Panel Roundtable: Barack Obama and the Election of 2008
    32-17   The Political and Policy Consequences of Racial Identities
    32-18   Faith and Race in American Political Life
    32-19   Candidate Race/Ethnicity and Vote Choice
    32-20   Theme Panel: The Complexities of Inequality and Political Behavior: Class, Color and Descriptive Representation
    32-21   Methodological Innovations in Research on Race/Ethnicity
    32-22   Race, Ethnicity, and Political Attitudes
    32-23   Global Inequalities: Race, Class, and Gender at Home and Abroad
    32-24   Social Context and the Political Implications of Asian American Identities
    32-25   Roundtable: Indirect Strategies toward Racial Equality: The United States in Comparative Perspective
    32-26   The Impact of Gender Parity Law on French Political Life and Beyond
    32-27   American Indian Legal Claims: Negotiating Rights and Identities Through a Non-Native Judicial Lens

33   Religion and Politics
    33-1   Religion and the Presidency
    33-2   Roundtable: Overcoming the Inequalities of Religious Minorities: Catholics and Jews on the U.S. Supreme Court
    33-3   Faith and Race in American Political Life
    33-4   Sanctity and the State: Catholic Identity in the Political Arena
    33-5   Muslims in Western Democracies: Religious Diversity and Political Incorporation
    33-6   Religion and Politics at the State Level
    33-7   Religion and Immigration Politics
    33-8   Religion and Politics in Israel
    33-9   Politics of American Muslims
    33-10   Political Liberalism in Christian and Muslim Thought
    33-11   Religion and Politics in Europe
    33-12   Religion and Political Psychology
    33-13   Theme Panel: The Religious Politics of Multiple Categories
    33-14   Religion and Asian Politics
    33-15   Religion and Politics in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Comparative Politics
    33-16   Is the Good Book Good Enough? Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
    33-17   Secular States and Religions: Europe and the Middle East in Comparative Perspective
    33-18   Varieties of Secularism

34   Representation and Electoral Systems
    34-1   Voter Turnout: Who Votes and Why?
    34-2   Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation
    34-3   New Issues in Voter Turnout: Americanists Meet Comparativists
    34-4   Dictators, Citizens, and Elections
    34-5   Representation in Parliamentary Systems
    34-6   Electoral Institutions and Female Representation
    34-7   The Politics of Electoral Reform
    34-8   ID Requirements and Voter Turnout
    34-9   Re-Examining Strategic Voting
    34-10   Electoral Coordination and Volatility
    34-11   Changing Perspectives on Party System Institutionalization in New Democracies
    34-12   Roundtable: Debating the Rules for Presidential Elections: Primaries and the Electoral College

35   Political Organizations and Parties
    35-1   Party Switching in Comparative Perspective
    35-2   The Origins and Development of Citizen Mobilization
    35-3   Partisan Politics in the European Union
    35-4   Comparative Studies of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Policy
    35-5   Lobbying, Inequality, and Representation
    35-6   Lobbying and Policy Change
    35-7   Roundtable: Forecasting the 2008 Congressional Elections
    35-8   Roundtable: What is a Party?
    35-9   The 2008 Election in Long-Term Perspective
    35-10   The 2008 Presidential Nomination Process: Resource Aggregation and Momentum Formation During the Pre-Primary Period, Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary
    35-11   Theme Panel: Parties, Groups and Inequality
    35-12   Parties and Polarization
    35-13   Party Games: Formal Models of Party Competition
    35-14   Advertising a Candidate
    35-15   House Party: Legislative Polarization Over Time
    35-16   Influencing Government
    35-17   Party Survival in the EU
    35-18   Parties as Social Networks
    35-19   Party Systems in Latin America
    35-20   Comparative Party Polarization

36   Elections and Voting Behavior
    36-1   Methodological Innovations in the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior
    36-2   Vote Buying, Turnout and Distribution
    36-3   Congressional Elections
    36-4   Roundtable: Forecasting the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
    36-5   EnGendering Campaigns?
    36-6   New Issues in Voter Turnout: Americanists Meet Comparativists
    36-7   ID Requirements and Voter Turnout
    36-8   Parties and Polarization
    36-9   Advertising a Candidate
    36-10   Back to Basics: Demographics and Electoral Behavior
    36-11   Information, Sophistication and Calculation
    36-12   Citizen Competence: Complications and Consequences
    36-13   Ads and Turnout
    36-14   Political Implications of Income Inequality
    36-15   Voting Reforms and Their Effects: NVRA, HAVA and VBM
    36-16   Consequences of Turnout
    36-17   The 2008 Nominations
    36-18   Economic Voting: Studies Abroad
    36-19   Campaign Effects in New and Established Democracies
    36-20   Roundtable: The American Voter Revisited: What We Know Now
    36-21   New Modes and Methods of Political Survey Research
    36-22   Roundtable: Impact of Objective Economic Conditions and Subjective Economic Evaluations on Individual-Level Voting Choice Cross-Nationally
    36-23   Counting 1, 2, 3: Methodological Issues in Electoral Behavior
    36-24   Party Coalitions and Class: Historical and Contemporary Views
    36-25   Candidate Race/Ethnicity and Vote Choice
    36-26   Theme Panel: The Complexities of Inequality and Political Behavior: Class, Color and Descriptive Representation
    36-27   Preference Formation in New and Developing Democracies
    36-28   New Issues in the Study of Election Reform: Audits, Administration and Attitudes
    36-29   Political Knowledge
    36-30   A Polarized America?
    36-31   Heterogeneity in Social Networks: Genes, the Internet, Information, and Participation
    36-32   Political Advertising
    36-33   Covering 2008: Campaign News Coverage

37   Public Opinion
    37-1   Political Socialization
    37-2   Political Cognition
    37-3   Elite Cues and Public Opinion
    37-4   Public Opinion about Immigration: Threat, Identity, and Acculturation
    37-5   Methodological Advances in the Study of Public Opinion
    37-6   Political Preference Formation and Partisan Choice
    37-7   Casualties, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War
    37-8   Public Opinion and the Courts
    37-9   Roundtable: The American Voter Revisited: What We Know Now
    37-10   New Modes and Methods of Political Survey Research
    37-11   Immigration and Public Opinion
    37-12   Public Opinion and the Iraq War
    37-13   Ideology, Policy Issues, and Public Opinion
    37-14   Elites and Public Opinion Formation
    37-15   Priming and Persuasion in Opinion Formation
    37-16   Civic Engagement and Political Efficacy
    37-17   Political Knowledge
    37-18   Inequality and Public Opinion
    37-19   The Nature and Consequences of Deliberative Democracy
    37-20   Public Attitudes Toward Government
    37-21   War, Terrorism, and the Public
    37-22   A Polarized America?
    37-23   Mass Media and Public Opinion
    37-24   Computer Assisted Self-Administered Interview
    37-25   The Impact of Local Institutions on Public Opinion and Political Participation
    37-26   Group Identity and Political Attitudes
    37-27   Methodological Innovations in Research on Race/Ethnicity
    37-28    Roundtable: Core Values and Public Attitudes Toward Both Domestic and Foreign Policies
    37-29   Race, Ethnicity, and Political Attitudes

38   Political Communication
    38-1   Presidential Communication Strategies
    38-2   Mass Media and Public Opinion
    38-3   Heterogeneity in Social Networks: Genes, the Internet, Information, and Participation
    38-4   Polls, Politics and Media
    38-5   Media, War and Terrorism
    38-6   Discussion, Polarization and Civicness: The Role of Political Talk in Campaigns
    38-7   "Political" Science: Emerging Technologies at the Intersection of Communication and Politics
    38-8   Political Communication, Globalization, and Global Media Environments
    38-9   Elections Around the Globe: Theoretical and Methodological Advances
    38-10   Political Advertising
    38-11   Covering 2008: Campaign News Coverage
    38-12   Campaign Communication: Of Frames, Backgrounds, and Heuristics
    38-13   Candidates, Images, and Strategy
    38-14   Political Learning
    38-15   Political Communication: Online
    38-16   The Nature and Impact of Global News Coverage
    38-17   Social Networking and the Future of Politics and Administration
    38-18   The Electoral Impact of Web 2.0
    38-19   U.S. Foreign Policy, the U.S. News Media, and Identity Formation: Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of Coverage of the War in Iraq

39   Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics
    39-1   International Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: Evidence from New Data
    39-2   Science, Water, Space, NIMBY: Balancing Politics, Policy, and Federalism/Intergovernmental Relations
    39-3   Theme Panel: The Power of People: Comparative Studies of Civil Society in Disaster Recovery
    39-4   Nanotechnology and Public Policy: Problems, Regimes, and Stakeholders
    39-5   Roundtable: Political and Legal Implications of the $1000 Genome
    39-6   The Role of Networks in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics
    39-7   The Politics of Agriculture and Food Supplies
    39-8   The Role of Private Actors in International Environmental Politics
    39-9   New Findings in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics
    39-10   Global Multistakeholder Networked Governance for Information and Communication Technology Policy

40   Information Technology and Politics
    40-1   Social Networking and the Future of Politics and Administration
    40-2   The Electoral Impact of Web 2.0
    40-3   Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud
    40-4   The Political Economy of Collective Decision Making and Knowledge Aggregation
    40-5   Deepening the Analysis: Understanding the Complexity of the Global Digital Divide and Efforts to Address the Disparity
    40-6   Global Multistakeholder Networked Governance for Information and Communication Technology Policy
    40-7   The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Enhancing Distributed Deliberation and Participatory Policy Processes
    40-8   Blogging, eGovernment, and Public Administration
    40-9   Freedom of Expression and Internet Policy in the Information Society
    40-10   Global Progress and Challenges in eGovernment Implementation

41   Politics, Literature, and Film
    41-1   Darkness at Noon Revisited: Rethinking Dignity and Politics in the Gulag
    41-2   Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
    41-3   Reconceiving the National Story
    41-4   Politics and the Sources of Creativity
    41-5   Erotic Critiques of Enlightenment Politics
    41-6   Justice, Vengeance, and Conciliation in Ancient and Modern Perspective
    41-7   Roundtable: Current American Political Documentaries: A Conversation With New England Film Directors
    41-8   For the Love of the World: The Political and Social Thought of Marilynne Robinson
    41-9   Thomas Pynchon and the Pathologies of Power
    41-10   Plato and the Poets: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em

42   New Political Science
    42-1   Roundtable: Can Cosmopolitan Principles Foster World Democracy after the Iraq War?
    42-2   Global Democracy
    42-5   Theme Panel Roundtable: Political Ideologies in the Global Age: Continuity or Novelty?
    42-6   Rethinking Marxism and the Future of Radical Environmental Politics
    42-7   Roundtable: End of a Nightmare? The 2008 Elections and the Prospects for Progressive Politics
    42-8   Uneven Globalization and Social Movements of Alternative Globalization
    42-9   Entering the Global Mainstream? The Politics of Disability in the 21st Century
    42-10   Methodologies of a New Political Science
    42-11   U.S. Foreign Policy, the U.S. News Media, and Identity Formation: Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of Coverage of the War in Iraq
    42-12   Global Inequalities: Race, Class, and Gender at Home and Abroad
    42-13   Anarchy in Action: Contemporary Theory and Practice
    42-14   Roundtable: Join the Party? George McGovern, American Liberalism and the Politics of Hope in U.S. Presidential Politics, 1972 and Today
    42-15   New Political Science Plenary Address: "I Told You So: A Liberal Look at Global Capitalism" delivered by Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA)

43   International History and Politics
    43-1   Roundtable: Twentieth-Century International Thought
    43-2   Roundtable: The Impact of World War I on Security Studies: Reflections and Reconsiderations
    43-3   Roundtable: Comparing the Iraq and Vietnam Wars
    43-4   Balance, Power and Domination in Historical International Systems
    43-5   Mapping the Modern State System
    43-6   Should There Be National Schools of Thought in IR Theories? The Case of Chinese School
    43-7   Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy
    43-8   Peace, War and Alliances in Modern International Systems
    43-9   Historical Experience in Counterinsurgency: Strategy, Economics and Demobilization
    43-10   Identity, History and Chinese Foreign Policy
    43-11   Comparative History of State-Building
    43-12   Historical Development of International Norms
    43-13   Construction of Historical Narratives of National Identity in Asia and Russia
    43-14   New Perspectives on Realism and Idealism
    43-15   Balancing and Expanding Power: Case Studies in Asia and Beyond
    43-16   Evolutionary Models and Metaphors
    43-17   Roundtable: The Future of International Order
    43-18   Theme Panel: Between Structure and Agency: Relational Interactions and Group Identity in Marginalized Areas
    43-19   Roundtable: Don’t Know Much About History: Confronting the Possibilities and Perils of Using Historical Material in Political Science

44   Comparative Democratization
    44-1   Blocking Democratic Change
    44-2   Building Durable Democracies in Multi-Ethnic and Religious Contexts
    44-3   Subnational Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective
    44-4   Exploiting Elections
    44-5   Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: Regime, Leadership, Party
    44-6   Dictators, Citizens, and Elections
    44-7   Changing Perspectives on Party System Institutionalization in New Democracies
    44-8   China's Adaptive Authoritarianism: From the Propaganda State to the Public Relations State
    44-9   Informal Mechanisms Underlying Regime Stability: Comparative Evidence from the Middle East
    44-10   Missing Alliances and (Un)expected Transformations in the Politics of Islam
    44-11   Democratization and Democracy Promotion Revisited
    44-12   Democracy and Dictatorship in Sub-Saharan Africa After the Cold War
    44-13   Legacies of Authoritarianism in Western and Eastern European Democracies
    44-14   Sociological and Institutional Investigations of Regime Endurance
    44-15   Regional Perspectives on Elections in Authoritarian and Post-Authoritarian Contexts
    44-16   Empowering Women in Democratizing and Dictatorial Settings
    44-17   Religions and Regimes
    44-18   International Actors and Democratization
    44-19   Fresh Takes on the Determinants of Democratization
    44-20   Labor Markets, Labor Movements and Democracy in Latin America and Spain
    44-21   Reviewing Comparative Datasets: Democracy and Elections

45   Human Rights
    45-1   Globalization and Labor Rights
    45-2   Inequality, Human Rights, and International Law
    45-3   Courts and the Politics of International Human Rights Protection
    45-4   Interpretation and Contestation in the Construction of International Norms
    45-5   Civil Conflict and Human Rights
    45-6   Gender, Organizing and Women's Human Rights
    45-7   Ethnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention and Human Rights
    45-8   Human Trafficking
    45-9   Democracies and Mixed Regimes: Assessing Their Records on Human Rights
    45-10   Accountability and Justice: The Role of International Trials and Tribunals
    45-11   Transitional Justice: The Role of Truth Commissions and Reparations
    45-12   Terrorism and Human Rights
    45-13   Promoting Economic and Social Rights

46   Qualitative Methods
    46-1   Roundtable: Haggard and Kaufman, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
    46-2   Theme Panel: New Approaches to the Measurement of Ethnicity: Identities, Institutions, and Power
    46-3   Roundtable: We Think Ideas Matter, But How Do We Know?
    46-4   Explaining Institutional Change: Contributions from Historical Institutionalism
    46-5   Roundtable: Asking and Answering Questions About Law and Courts
    46-6   Multi-Method Tools I: Using Qualitative Evidence with Matching Designs and Instrumental Variables
    46-7   Multi-Method Tools II: Concepts, Indicators, and Equivalence
    46-8   The Methods Cafe
    46-9   Roundtable: Teaching Interpretive Research Methods
    46-10   Roundtable: Causal Mechanisms and the Science of Politics
    46-11   Reviewing Comparative Datasets: Democracy and Elections
    46-12   Process Tracing, Causal Mechanisms, and Theory
    46-13   Using Data Appropriately
    46-14   The Prospects and Pitfalls of Multi-Method Research
    46-15   Concept Formation in Practice
    46-16   Comparative Methods: Past and Present
    46-17   Gendered Campaigns, Gendered Media Coverage: Female Presidential Candidates in Comparative Perspective
    46-18   Reconceptualizing Majorities, Minorities and the State
    46-19   Roundtable: Weberian Methods for Contemporary Comparative Politics
    46-20   History and Politics: Legacies, Sequence, and Method
    46-21   Roundtable: Don’t Know Much About History: Confronting the Possibilities and Perils of Using Historical Material in Political Science
    46-22   Credit to the People: Historical-Institutional, Econometric, and Mixed Methods for the Politics of Money
    46-23   The Nuts and Bolts of Challenging Fieldwork
    46-24   Human Informants: Interviews, Focus Groups, and Ethnography
    46-25   Taking Qualitative Comparative Analysis Seriously
    46-26   Mechanisms and the Dynamics of Civil War
    46-27   Context, Method and Analysis- Interpretive Techniques for Understanding Other Political Systems

47   Sexuality and Politics
    47-1   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Susan Burgess’ The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law: Who’s Your Daddy?
    47-2   Authors Meet Readers Roundtable: Patricia Strach's ALL IN THE FAMILY and Kathleen Sullivan's CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
    47-3   Sex Trafficking in Europe and Beyond
    47-4   Varying Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
    47-5   LGBTs in the Political Process
    47-6   Theme Panel: Act-Up Paris at 20: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Social Movements, the State, and Global Inequality

50   Poster Session 1
    PS 1   Divisions 1, 2, 3, and 4

60   Poster Session 2
    PS 2   Divisions 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31

70   Poster Session 3
    PS 3-1   Divisions 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, and 43
    PS 3-2   Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

80   Poster Session 4
    PS 4   Divisions 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

90   Poster Session 5
    PS 5   Divisions 5, 6, 7, 8, 38, 41, 44, 46, and 47

100   Poster Session 6
    PS 6   Divisions 9 and 10

200   Poster Session 7
    PS 7   Divisions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 45

American Enterprise Institute
    Panel 1   The Voting Rights Act and the Deconstruction of the Republic
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Reforming the Politically Correct University

African Politics Conference Group
    Panel 1   Mechanisms of Accountability in New African Democracies

Aging Policy and Politics Group
    Panel 1   A Current Picture of Aging Politics and Policy Research

Project on American Constitutionalism
    Panel 1   What If We Had a New Constitutional Convention in the United States?
    Panel 2   Author's Roundtable: Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

Asian Pacific American Caucus
    Panel 1   Social Context and the Political Implications of Asian American Identities

Association of Chinese Political Studies
    Panel 1   China and the International Political Economy: Trends and Theoretical Implications

Brazilian Political Science Association

British Politics Group
    Panel 1   Public Opinion and Voting in the UK
    Panel 2   Roundtable: British Politics Year in Review
    Panel 3   Neoliberalism, Economic Policy and the Conservative Party
    Panel 4   Roundtable: Territory and Power in the United Kingdom: Twenty Five Years On

Campaign Finance Institute
    Panel 1   Roundtable: An Agenda for Campaign Finance: With The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research

Committee for Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (CAMOS)
    Panel 1   Strategy, Culture and Religion: Counter-Insurgency Case Studies from Across the Globe
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Short Telegrams for a Long War: The Future of U.S. Grand Strategy in an Age of Terror

Canadian Politics Study Group
    Panel 1   Women-Friendly Democracies and the Canadian Model

Society of Catholic Social Scientists
    Panel 1   Varieties of Secularism
    Panel 2   Christianity and Civil Society: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives

Cato Institute
    Panel 1   Roundtable: The Presidency After George W. Bush

Center for the Study of the Constitution
    Panel 1   Now What? The Future of the Second Amendment after the Heller Decision

Center for the Study of Federalism
    Panel 1   The "Glocalization" of U.S. Foreign Policy: City Responses to International Issues

Churchill Centre, The
    Panel 1   Churchill on the Executive Power and Civil Liberty

Christians in Political Science
    Panel 1   Is the Good Book Good Enough? Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
    Panel 2   Christianity and Civil Society: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives
    Panel 3   The Forgotten Founders on Church and State

Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
    Panel 1   Roundtable: The Work of Herman Belz
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Strauss's THOUGHTS ON MACHIAVELLI: 50th Anniversary
    Panel 3   Roundtable: Mansfield's Jefferson Lecture and the State of Political Science
    Panel 4   Roundtable: U.S. Foreign Policy
    Panel 5   Roundtable: The Presidential Election and the Future of Conservatism
    Panel 6   Roundtable: The Future of U.S. Healthcare Policy
    Panel 7   Leo Strauss's Critique of Modernity: Reason, Revelation, and Equality
    Panel 8   The Political Economy of the Founding and Early Republic
    Panel 9   Possibilities for Promoting Liberal Democracy
    Panel 10   Roundtable: Progressivism and the U.S. Supreme Court
    Panel 11   Roundtable: Statesmanship in a Democratic Age
    Panel 12   John Locke on God and Property
    Panel 13   Religion, Tolerance, and the Rule of Law in the Founding and Early Republic

Comparative Urban Politics
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Climate Change and Cities

European Consortium for Political Research
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Is the United States in Decline Again?
    Panel 2   The New "Special Relationship"? Post-Gaullist France and America
    Panel 3   Migration as an Internal and External Security Essue: European and American Perspectives

French Politics Group
    Panel 1   Governing and Administrating: The French Case in Comparative Perspective
    Panel 2   Roundtable in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann: The U.S., France, and the Search for a Just International System
    Panel 3   Theme Panel: Act-Up Paris at 20: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Social Movements, the State, and Global Inequality
    Panel 4   Roundtable: Indirect Strategies toward Racial Equality: The United States in Comparative Perspective
    Panel 5   The Impact of Gender Parity Law on French Political Life and Beyond
    Panel 6   The New "Special Relationship"? Post-Gaullist France and America

International Association for the Study of German Politics
    Panel 1   German Foreign Policy and the Grand Coalition: A New Orthodoxy?

Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists
    Panel 1   Comparative Political Culture in East Asia
    Panel 2   China's New Foreign Policy
    Panel 3   Political Culture, Political Participation, and Democratization in China: Results from Most Recent Survey Studies

Society for Greek Political Thought
    Panel 1   Plato and the Poets: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
    Panel 2   Plato on the Good Society: Utopian Musings or Realistic Statesmanship?

Green Politics and Theory
    Panel 1   Recent Research in Green Politics and Theory
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Teaching Green Politics and Theory
    Panel 3   Film Screening: Liz Miller's THE WATER FRONT

Committee on Health Politics
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Elections 2008 and Health Care Reform: Influencing Electoral Returns, Shaping Policy Outcomes
    Panel 2   Health Politics and Policy in a Changing World

National Humanities Institute
    Panel 1   The Modest Republic in an Age of Vulgarity
    Panel 2   American Empire: The End of Empire?

Iberian Studies Group
    Panel 1   Challenges for Portugal in the New Century

Indigenous Studies Network
    Panel 1   Reconceiving the National Story
    Panel 2   American Indian Legal Claims: Negotiating Rights and Identities Through a Non-Native Judicial Lens

Institute for Constitutional Studies
    Panel 1   Lifetime Achievement Award Roundtable: Honoring J. Woodford Howard

Intelligence Studies Group
    Panel 1   New Directions in Intelligence Studies Research

IPSA Research Committee #12 (Biology and Politics)
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Biobehavioral Politics

IPSA Research Committee #36 (Power)
    Panel 1   Concepts of Power

Association for Israel Studies
    Panel 1   War, Peace and Israeli Security

Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society
    Panel 1   Italy in Transition: The Long Path to a Second Republic

Japan Political Studies Group
    Panel 1   Business-Government Relations in the Global Economy
    Panel 2   Computer Assisted Self-Administered Interview and
    Panel 3   Globalization, Electoral Incentives and Economic Inequality in Japan

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

Association of Korean Political Studies in North America
    Panel 1   The Politics of History in East Asia: Domestic and International Dynamics
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Korea After the Elections
    Panel 3   The Changing Security Environment Surrounding the Korean Peninsula and the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
    Panel 4   North Korean Reforms and Scenarios of Reunification

Labor Project
    Panel 1   Labor Relations and the Effects of Globalization on Inequality-Addressing Institutions
    Panel 2   Roundtable: End of a Nightmare? The 2008 Elections and the Prospects for Progressive Politics

Latino Caucus in Political Science
    Latino Caucus Panel

Latin American Studies Association
    Panel 1   Elections, Parties, and Party Systems in Latin America: Changes in Linkage and Cleavage
    Panel 2   Politics, Poverty and Redistribution in Latin America

Law and Political Processes Study Group
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Debating the Rules for Presidential Elections: Primaries and the Electoral College

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Caucus
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Moving Massachusetts Beyond Marriage: The Future of Research and Activism among Boston's LGBT Community
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Why NOT Marry

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
    Panel 1   Biopolicy

McConnell Center for Political Leadership
    Panel 1   Toward a Definition of a Modest Republic

Politica: Society for the Study of Medieval Political Thought
    Panel 1   Between the Medieval and the Modern

Conference Group on the Middle East
    Panel 1   Middle East Advice for the New President

Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society
    Panel 1   Plato on the Good Society: Utopian Musings or Realistic Statesmanship?
    Panel 2   Identity, Inclusion, and the Politics of Recognition

American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    Panel 1   Evolution and Morality, Perspective from Philosophy
    Panel 2   Evolution and Morality, Perspective from Law
    Panel 3   Evolution and Morality, Perspective from Political Science

Political Forecasting Group
    Panel 1   Political Forecasting

Committee on Political Sociology
    Panel 1   Political Participation and the Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Action

Political Studies Association
    Panel 1   Parties and Leaders: Responsibility and Influence
    Panel 2   The Politics of Nationalism in Brown's Britain

Policy Studies Organization
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Next Generation Theories of the Public Policy Process
    Panel 2   Roundtable: Fine Tuning the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Resolution Act
    Panel 3   Parliamentary Debate: "This House urges continued American military presence and victory in Iraq."

Publius: The Journal of Federalism
    Panel 1   The State of American Federalism, 2007-2008

American Public Philosophy Institute
    Panel 1   Contemporary Education and American First Principles

Society for Romanian Studies
    Panel 1   Romanian Parties and Politicians: Governance and Economic Policy-Making in Comparison

Association for the Study of Nationalities
    Panel 1   The Politics of Social Stratification and Economic Inequality
    Panel 2   Ethnic and National Mobilization in Post-Communist States

Conference Group on Taiwan Studies
    Panel 1   Consensus Building in a Divided Taiwan?
    Panel 2   (Re-)Imagining Modern Taiwan
    Panel 3   Positioning Taiwan Internationally
    Panel 4   Normalizing the Idea of Democracy in Taiwan

Conference Group on Theory, Policy, and Society
    Panel 1   Critical Policy Analysis: Discourse, Narratives, and Deliberation

Committee on Viable Constitutionalism

Eric Voegelin Society
    Panel 1   America as Vindicator or Exemplar: The Soul of American Statecraft
    Panel 2   Voegelin and the Liberal Political Order
    Panel 3   Politics Unto Creativity: Eric Voegelin Applied
    Panel 4   Mysticism and Philosophy in Voegelin’s Work
    Panel 5   Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God: Religion and Revolution Revisited
    Panel 6   Three Poets and a Novelist: Voegelinian Readings of Literature
    Panel 7   Eric Voegelin and Modern European Continental Thought
    Panel 8   Reason and Revelation in Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
    Panel 9   China and Contemporary Political Thought
    Panel 10   Political Theory in East Asian Context: Ancient and Modern Perspectives

Walter Bagehot Research Council on National Sovereignty
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Character, Electoral Politics, and Executive Power

Women in International Security

Women's Caucus for Political Science
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Gender Equality in Academia