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Online Program » » Program NOTE: Location subject to change. Check the FINAL PROGRAM issued upon arrival at the conference for updates and actual room numbers. PS 3-1   Divisions 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, and 43 Date: Friday, Aug 29, 10:15 AM Room Assignment: Only those who have registered for the Annual Meeting can see the room assignment. If you have registered, please log in above and click on "Annual Meeting Online Program" in the Annual Meeting box. Author(s): Spillover Effects of Felon Disenfranchisement and Racial Profiling Chris Finn University of California, Berkeley, cfinn@berkeley.edu Author(s): Race, Class and the Politics of Punishment in the United States Criminal Justice System Ann Frost University of Washington, acfrost@u.washington.edu Author(s): What Hath Jena Wrought? Ronald J. Vogel Southern University, ronvogel@cox.net Discussant(s): John E. McNulty SUNY, Binghamton, jmcnulty@binghamton.edu Discussant(s): Georgia Kernell University of Pennsylvania, gkernell@northwestern.edu Discussant(s): Daniel Peter Klinghard College of the Holy Cross, dklingha@holycross.edu Author(s): Restoring Virtue’s Lost Loveliness: The Reconstitution of an American Civil Theology in the Twilight of the Liberal Order Troy Manuel Vidal Columbus State University, troyvidal@gmail.com Author(s): Ethnic Diversity, Institutions, and Inequality Jonathan Hanson Syracuse University, johanson@maxwell.syr.edu Author(s): Interest Group Politics Well Played: Or the Slow Slide Toward De Facto Theocracy? Testing the Intentions of the ‘Christian Right’ in the Political Arena Frank Guliuzza Weber State University, fguliuzza@weber.edu Author(s): We are the World: Do Black Pastors Link Aid to Africa with Black Fortunes at Home? Larycia A. Hawkins Wheaton College, larycia@yahoo.com Author(s): Religion and Pools of Support for Democracy in Africa: Does Support for Military Rule Contradict Support for Democracy in Emerging African Democracies Among Muslims? Virginia Parish Beard Hope College, beard@hope.edu Author(s): Context and the First Amendment: The Religion Clauses and Same-Sex Marriage Emily R. Gill Bradley University, gill@bradley.edu Author(s): The Religious Composition of the American Population at 2050 Eric P. Kaufmann University of London, e.kaufmann@bbk.ac.uk   Vegard Skirbekk International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, skirbekk@iiasa.ac.at Author(s): God of War? Clergy Cues and Public Support for Preemption Brian R. Calfano Missouri State University, briancalfano@missouristate.edu   Paul A. Djupe Denison University, djupe@denison.edu Author(s): Government Responsiveness in Central and Eastern Europe:Relating Median Voter and Government Policy Preferences Paulina Maria Pospieszna University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, pospi001@bama.ua.edu Author(s): Behavioral Differences Between Ruling Parties and Opposition Parties Ko Maeda University of North Texas Author(s): Democratic Reversals: A Study of Electoral Outcomes that Differ from the Intent of the Voters Ray Christensen Brigham Young University, ray_christensen@byu.edu Author(s): The Long-term Consequences of Competitive House Campaigns Michael J. Ensley Indiana University, mensley@kent.edu   Edward G. Carmines Indiana University, Bloomington, carmines@indiana.edu   Michael W. Wagner University of Nebraska, mwagner3@unl.edu Author(s): The Diverse Origins of Left Politics in Brazilian States Jaime Kirzner-Roberts Princeton University, jaime@princeton.edu Author(s): Political Context and Party Gender Quotas in the OECD Frank C. Thames Texas Tech University, frank.thames@ttu.edu   Margaret Susan Williams Goucher College, mswilliams77@gmail.com Author(s): Dimensions of Political Positions: A Latent Trait Model for Electoral Platforms of Political Parties Martin Elff University of Mannheim, melff@essex.ac.uk Author(s): Priorities and Partisanship Melanie Goodrich New York University, melaniegoodrich@nyu.edu Author(s): Party Characteristics and Policy Movement: Sorting Among Types of Parties Jeannette Money University of California, Davis, jnmoney@ucdavis.edu   Josephine T. Andrews University of California, Davis, jtandrews@ucdavis.edu Author(s): Donkeys Finding Religion: How the Christian Right Influenced the Democratic Party Napp Nazworth Charleston Southern University, napp.nazworth@gmail.com Author(s): Assessing the Impact of Candidate Selection Rules Susan Scarrow University of Houston, sscarrow@uh.edu   Anna Mikulska University of Houston, anna_b_m@hotmail.com Author(s): Incumbents versus Businessmen in 2007 Russia’s Legislative Elections Olesya Tkacheva University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, otkachev@umich.edu Author(s): Should I stay or Should I go? The British Conservative Party, Party Discipline and Local Campaigning Robert McIlveen University of Sheffield, r.mcilveen@sheffield.ac.uk Author(s): Session Limits and Contributor Strategies in State Legislatures David Prince University of Southern Indiana, dprince@ggc.usg.edu Author(s): Money, Parties, Interest Groups and Policy: The Iowa State Legislative Session, 2008 Arthur Sanders Drake University, arthur.sanders@drake.edu Author(s): Out With the Old, in With the New: What Constitute a New Party? Shlomit Barnea Johns Hopkins University, barnea@jhu.edu   Gideon Rahat Hebrew University, msgrah@mscc.huji.ac.il Author(s): Getting Primaried: A New Worry for Incumbents, or a New Name for an Old Worry? Robert G. Boatright Clark University, rboatright@clarku.edu Author(s): Voting Alone: The Long Term Effects of Early Voting on Social Ties Martha E. Kropf University of North Carolina, Charlotte, mekropf@uncc.edu   David Swindell University of North Carolina-Charlotte, daswinde@uncc.edu Author(s): The Long-term Consequences of Competitive House Campaigns Michael J. Ensley Indiana University, mensley@kent.edu   Edward G. Carmines Indiana University, Bloomington, carmines@indiana.edu   Michael W. Wagner University of Nebraska, mwagner3@unl.edu Author(s): The American Primary Voter: Sincere, Sophisticated, or Strategic? Gar Culbert University of Virginia, gculbert@virginia.edu   Brett Benson Vanderbilt University, brett.benson@vanderbilt.edu   John G. Geer Vanderbilt University, john.g.geer@vanderbilt.edu Author(s): The Effect of Compulsory Voting on Turnout Patterns: A Cross-National Comparison of Turnout Inequality Ellen Quintelier KU Leuven, ellen.quintelier@soc.kuleuven.be   Marc Hooghe KU Leuven, Marc.Hooghe@soc.kuleuven.be   Sofie Marien KU Leuven, sofie.marien@soc.kuleuven.be Author(s): The Role of Candidate Personality in Low-information Elections Danny Hayes Syracuse University, dwhayes@maxwell.syr.edu Author(s): The Structure and Variation of State-Level Outcomes in U.S. Presidential Elections Paul-Henri Gurian University of Georgia, PHGurian@uga.edu   Damon M. Cann University of Georgia, damon.cann@usu.edu Author(s): Contextualizing Extreme Right Support: A Multilevel Analysis of Voting for Extreme Right Parties in Europe Benjamin T. Bowyer College of William and Mary, bbowyer@scu.edu Author(s): Response Answer Category Effects in the Context of Multi-Candidate Vote Questions Loren Collingwood University of Washington, loren.collingwood@gmail.com Author(s): An Association Between the DRD2 Gene and Partisanship Chris Dawes University of California, San Diego, cdawes@ucsd.edu Author(s): The Role of Partisanship in the Rational Public Peter Enns Cornell University, pe52@cornell.edu   Gregory McAvoy University of North Carolina, Greensboro, gemcavoy@uncg.edu Author(s): The Consultant Effect: Why Some Campaigns Talk Issues and Some Go Negative Matt Grossmann Michigan State University, matt@mattg.org Author(s): Does Tactical Voting Matter? The Political Impact of Tactical Voting in Canadian Parliamentary Elections Tatiana Kostadinova Florida International University, kostadin@fiu.edu   HeeMin Kim Florida State University, hkim@fsu.edu Author(s): Choosing One From Many: Developing Consideration Set Models of Voting Behaviour Henrik Oscarsson Goteborg University, henrik.oscarsson@pol.gu.se Author(s): A Receive-Accept Model of Poll Effects for US Presidential Elections Mark A. Pickup University of Oxford, mark.pickup@gmail.com Author(s): Language Complexity and Voters: Does Ballot Question Wording impact Participation? Shauna Reilly Georgia State University, sreilly@gsu.edu   Sean E. Richey Georgia State University, srichey@gsu.edu Author(s): The Determinants of Strategic Voting in the 2002 and 2006 Presidential Elections in Brazil Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Zepeda University of Pittsburgh, jar48@pitt.edu Author(s): Strategic Voting in Korean Presidential Election of 2007 Jaesung Ryu Seoul National University, jryu@snu.ac.kr Author(s): Is Globalization Reducing Voter Turnout? Erik R. Tillman University of Nebraska-Lincoln, etillman2@unl.edu Author(s): Voter Decisionmaking and Uncertainty in Non-Partisan Elections Stuart Roy Kasdin University of California, Santa Barbara, skasdin@umail.ucsb.edu Author(s): Political Knowledge and the Endorsement of Direct Democracy Loren Collingwood University of Washington, loren.collingwood@gmail.com Author(s): Group Affinity as a Basis for Interest in Politics and Government Maruice Mangum Texas A&M University, Texarkana, maruicemangum@yahoo.com   Christopher D. Martin Ohio University, martinc3@ohio.edu   Randall D. Swain Morehead State University, randall.swain@eku.edu Author(s): Comparing Voters’ Choices in the 2002 and 2006 Midterm Congressional Elections Heather Evans Indiana University, hkbarton@indiana.edu   Edward G. Carmines Indiana University, Bloomington, carmines@indiana.edu Author(s): Public Support Across Levels of Sophistication and Phases of Military Interventions: A Statistical Analysis Cigdem V. Sirin Texas A&M University, cigdemsirin@polisci.tamu.edu Author(s): When Does the Public Matter? The Effect of Public Opinion on Unpopular Wars Julie M Garey Ohio University, jg340002@ohio.edu Author(s): Growing up on Different Sides of the Wall: A Quasi-Experimental Test of Ideological Coherence in the German Mass Public Anja Neundorf University of Essex, aneund@essex.ac.uk   Paul F. Whiteley University of Essex, whiteley@essex.ac.uk Author(s): An Assessment of Public Support for Differing Conceptions of American National Identity Jennifer Eileen Byrne James Madison University, byrneje@jmu.edu Author(s): Immigrants in the United States and Their Political Views on Welfare Jungho Roh Massachusetts Institute of Technology, roh@mit.edu Author(s): Denying the Voter Paradox Galen A. Irwin Leiden University, irwin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl   Huib Pellikaan University Leiden, Pellikaan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl   Joop Van Holsteyn Leiden University, holsteyn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Author(s): Confidence and Expectations for the Public Education System Rebecca J. Jacobsen Michigan State University, rjacobs@msu.edu Author(s): Beyond Red and Blue: A Survey-Based Measure of Intra-State Political Culture Daniel J. Coffey University of Akron, dcoffey@uakron.edu Author(s): Emotional Restraint? Information Processing of Foreign Policy in a Time of Terror David Rankin SUNY, Fredonia, rankin@fredonia.edu Author(s): Globalization, Political Regimes and International Environmental Commitment Anna Kalbhenn ETH Zurich, kalbhenn@ir.gess.ethz.ch   Vasiliki Koubi ETH Zurich, koubi@ir.gess.ethz.ch   Thomas C. Bernauer ETH Zurich, thbe0520@ethz.ch   Gabriele S. Ruoff ETH Zurich, ruoff@ir.gess.ethz.ch   Geon Lee University of Illinois at Chicago, glee29@uic.edu Author(s): Fighting Global Warming One Town at a Time: Environmental Activism on Climate Change Issues At the Local Level in Massachusetts Daniel Marien University of Central Florida, danielmarien@yahoo.com   Alastair Iles University of California, Berkeley, iles@nature.berkeley.edu Author(s): Caribou and Conoco: Rethinking Environmental Politics in Alaska's ANWR and Beyond Rob McMonagle Neumann College, mcmonagr@neumann.edu Author(s): The Good Steward: The Impact of Religion on Climate Change Attitudes Kristy E.H. Michaud California State University, Northridge, kristy.michaud@csun.edu Author(s): Surfing for Problems: Advocacy Strategy and Agenda Setting Jessica E. Boscarino Syracuse University, jeboscar@maxwell.syr.edu Author(s): The Politics of Climate Change in Advanced Industrialized Societies Detlef Jahn University of Greifswald, Djahn@uni-greifswald.de Author(s): Upperdogs and Underdogs in Clean Water Act cases from the Courts of Appeals: Do the Haves Still Win on Appeal? Elizabeth Erin Wheat Western Michigan University, elizabeth.e.wheat@wmich.edu Author(s): Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Innovation Clusters: Contrasting Evidence from Taiwan, China and South Korea Youngmin Jo Indiana University Author(s): Blogs and State Politics: The Impact of State-Focused Blogs in the United States Emily Metzgar Louisiana State University, emetzgar@indiana.edu Author(s): Blogging and Environmental Advocacy: A New Way to Engage the Public? Melissa K. Merry University of Washington, mkmerr01@louisville.edu Author(s): The Demand Side of Negative Advertising: Online Video Presentations in Election Campaigns Rob Salmond University of Michigan, rsalmond@umich.edu Author(s): Cyber-Campaigning for the 2002, 2004 and 2006 Elections: Does President Bush’s Public Approval Influence Republican House Candidate Websites? Christopher Latimer SUNY, Cortland, cplacl@juno.com Author(s): The Rise of Online Public Opinion in China: Rhetoric or Reality? Chin-fu Hung National Cheng Kung University, bcfhung@mail.ncku.edu.tw Author(s): Usernames as Issue Frames: Randomized Experiments Measuring the Effects of Partisan, Ideological, and Gendered Username Cues on Web Message Board Responses Tiffany C. Davenport Yale University, tiffany.davenport@yale.edu Author(s): Why Democratize Democracy? Criteria for the Evaluation of Democratic Innovations Brigitte Geissel Social Science Research Center, Berlin, bgeissel@netscape.net Author(s): From Checkpoints to Terminals: New Forms of Power and Surveillance in the Palestinian Occupied Territories? Daniela Mansbach New School University Author(s): Four Faces of Power: Bono, Clinton, Gates, and Sachs Edward W. Schwerin Florida Atlantic University, schwerin@fau.edu Author(s): A Striking Difference: Coverage of Worker Struggles in Three Metropolitan Newspapers Brian Dolber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bdolber2@uiuc.edu   Molly Niesen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mniesen@uiuc.edu Author(s): Assimilation and its Alternatives: Albanians in Serbian Kosovo, 1912-1940 Harris Mylonas Yale University, mylonas@gwu.edu Author(s): So Entirely Predictable: The War in Iraq Explained Jeffrey Stacey Tulane University, jstacey@tulane.edu   Robert Kane Niagara University, rkane@niagara.edu Author(s): Canadian and United States Treatment of Aliens during World War I Carolyn Geiser University of Denver, cjgeiser@earthlink.net Author(s): U.S. Policy and the Disappearing Frontier of Modernity in the Middle East Waleed Hazbun Johns Hopkins University, hazbun@jhu.edu Author(s): A Longitudinal Study of the Institutional Isomorphism of Civil-Military Relations Lisa Joan Sansoucy Cornell University, LJS4@Cornell.edu Author(s): Locating Presidential Power: A Selection Model of Presidents' Success on Key Votes, 1953-2004 Matthew N. Beckmann University of California, Irvine, beckmann@uci.edu Author(s): Media Coverage of State Legislatures: Assessing Quantity, Content, and Tone Beth A. Rosenson University of Florida, rosenson@ufl.edu Author(s): The New Planned Obselescence and Sustainability: Integrating Technological Design with the Needs of Sustainability Andrew R. Thomas Washington State University, Andrew_Thomas@wsu.edu Author(s): Chilean Congressional Politics Under President Lagos: Environment and Politics in Chile 2000-2006 Francisca Reyes-Mendy Pontifica Universidad Catholica de Chile, freyesm@uc.cl Author(s): Getting Attention: Issue Emergence and Framing in International Environmental Politics Steven B. Rothman University of Oregon, srothman@apu.ac.jp Author(s): Divisions Over the Place of Religion in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe Andrew G. Smith Georgetown University, andrew.smith.16@gmail.com   Ophelia Eglene Middlebury College, oeglene@middlebury.edu Author(s): The Politics of State Accommodation of Religious Groups: A Comparison of Alevis in Turkey and Muslims in France Ramazan Kilinc Arizona State University, kilinc@msu.edu Author(s): The Impact of the Separation of Powers on National Level Turnout David Hill Stetson University, dhill@stetson.edu Author(s): Coalitions and Conservative Interest Group Participation in the United States Supreme Court's Church-State Docket Traci Lynne Nelson University of Pittsburgh, traci.l.nelson@gmail.com Author(s): The Downside of Diffuse Support: A New Theoretical Perspective on Court-Congress Relations Thomson W. McFarland University of Colorado at Boulder, Thomson.McFarland@colorado.edu Author(s): Historical Antecedents of Japanese Aid Policy: Views of Science, Spirituality and Development, 1895-1945 Richard Warren Shannon University of Denver, rshannon@du.edu