APSA - American Political Science Association

2011 Annual Meeting Program

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2011 Related Group Panels

American Enterprise Institute

No panels

African Politics Conference Group

Panel 1 Accountability and Redistribution in Africa

Panel 2 South Sudan: A Lens for a New Paradigm of African Politics

Aging Policy and Politics Group

Panel 1 POLICY AND POLITICS OF AGING IN OECD STATES: Health Reform, Long-Term Care and Age-Identity Politics

Project on the American Constitution

No panels

Asian Pacific American Caucus

Panel 1 The National Asian American Survey and Its Implications for Studies of Political Behavior

Panel 2 Asian American Identity and Politics

American Public Philosophy Institute

Panel 1 Roundtable on Natural Law and Contemporary Political Controversies

American Political Thought

Panel 1 American Exceptionalism

Panel 2 Executive Power and the Politics of Rights

Association of Chinese Political Studies

Panel 1 A New Cold War? Understanding the Recent Chill in US-China Relations

Panel 2 Chinese Traditions in International Relations

Association Française de Science Politique Group

Panel 1 French Legislative Politics in Comparative Perspective

Panel 2 Feminist movements and the challenge of pluralism: practices of intersectionality in a comparative perspective

Walter Bagehot Research Council on National Sovereignty

Panel 1 The U.S. President, Congress, and the Conduct of Military Conflict in the 21st Century in the Light of New Forms Warfare

Brazilian Political Science Association

Panel 1 Political Participation and Policy Outcomes in Contemporary Brazil

Panel 2 Foreign Policy in Latin America: Between Public Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis

British Politics Group

Panel 1   Understanding the 2010 British Elections

Panel 2   The Year in Review

Panel 3   The Politics of Rights in the UK

Panel 4   Debates about immigration and race in the UK

Campaign Finance Research Group

Panel 1 Dynamics of Campaign Fundraising

Panel 2 Party and Interest Group Responses to Campaign Finance Reform

Committee for Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy

Panel 1 Contemporary Issues in Civil-Military Relations

Society of Catholic Social Scientists

Panel 1 Tocqueville and Catholicism

Cato Institute

Panel 1 Exploring the Origins and Implications of the Military-Industrial Complex

The Churchill Centre

Panel 1 A Roving Commission: Politics in Churchill's Autobiography

Christians in Political Science

Panel 1 The Politics of Memory and Reconciliation

Ciceronian Society

Panel 1 Rights, Place, and Alienation in America

Panel 2 The Roman Knows

Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy

Panel 1   Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt

Panel 2   The Recent Term of the U.S. Supreme Court

Panel 3   The 112th Congress

Panel 4   Prospects for the 2012 Presidential Election

Panel 5   Xenophon, the Philosopher, and the Theological-Political Problem

Panel 6   The 150th Anniversary of Fort Sumter: Lessons for Presidential Power Today

Panel 7   Jaffa's Thomism and Aristotelianism Reconsidered

Panel 8   The Reagan Legacy for Today's Politics on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth

Panel 9   The Return to Founding Principles: Should Natural Rights Be Part of the Conservative Resurgence?

Panel 10   The Resurgence of State Sovereignty: The Right Move for Conservatism?

Panel 11   Does a Return to the Constitution Mean a Return to Libertarianism?

Panel 12   The Philosophical Foundations of Liberalism

Center for the Study of the Constitution

No panels

Center for the Study of Federalism

Panel 1   Theme Panel: Majoritarian Institutions and Minority Rights: Direct Democracy in the American States

Panel 2   Obama Administration: Shaping Intergovernmental Relations in the Obama years

Panel 3   Federalism and Rights

Communitarian Network

No panels

Critical Policy Studies

Panel 1 Policy, Identity, and the Politics of Difference

Panel 2 Governance, Policy Learning and Change

Comparative Urban Politics

Panel 1 Roundtable: Multilevel Governance in Canada: Constitutional Rights and Power Shifts

Panel 2 The Right to the City in Comparative Perspective

European Consortium for Political Research

Panel 1 Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: How Can Governance Networks Produce Policy Innovation?

Political Forecasting Group

Panel 1   Issues in Forecasting Elections

Panel 2   The Predictioneer's Game and Beyond: An Assessment of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's Forecasting Model

Panel 3   Presidential Election Forecasting

French Politics Group

Panel 1   Theme Panel: Parity and the Shift from ‘Universal’ to Group Rights in France

Panel 2   French Presidential Elections

Panel 3   France at the EU, G8 and G20: International governance in question?

International Association for the Study of German Politics

Panel 1 Rethinking German Federalism: Perspectives on a Multi-Level State

Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists

Panel 1   Political Development Under An Authoritarian Regime: Findings from Recent Survey Research in China

Panel 2   Dynamics in Cross-Strait Relations: Taiwan, China, and the Asia-Pacific Stability

Panel 3   Rights and Responsibility of a Rising China

Society for Greek Political Thought

Panel 1   Violence, Action, and Withdrawal in Democratic Athens

Panel 2   Poetry, Philosophy, and Politics in Greek and Renaissance Tragedy

Panel 3   Socrates on Justice, Eros, and the Gods

Panel 4   The Roman Knows

Green Politics and Theory

Panel 1 Responses to Climate Change: Ethics, Rights, and Justice

National Humanities Institute

Panel 1 The Politics of Human Scale

Iberian Studies Group

Panel 1 Developments in Iberian Politics

Institute for Constitutional Studies

Panel 1 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Institutional Development

Indigenous Studies Network

Panel 1 Laws, Organizations, and Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Panel 2 Theorizing Settler-Colonialism

Interpretive Methodologies and Methods

Panel 1   The Methods Café

Panel 2   Crafting Interpretive Research: Theoretical Possibilities and Practical Challenges

Panel 3   Conceptualization: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Applications

Intelligence Studies Group

Panel 1 Assessing Intelligence Reform

IPSA Research Committee #12 (Biology and Politics)

Panel 1 Evolution and Politics

IPSA Research Committee 1 (Concepts and Methods)

Panel 1 Theme Roundtable: Hanna Pitkin’s 'Concept of Representation' Revisited: A New Agenda for Studying Representation Rights?

Panel 2 Conceptualization: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Applications

IPSA Research Committee #36 (Power)

Panel 1 Is Power Zero-Sum?

Association for Israel Studies

Panel 1 Politics of Rights in the Middle East

Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society

Panel 1 The Italian Political System 150 Years On: The Risorgimento’s Relevance Today

Japan Political Studies Group

Panel 1 The Unimagined Party and Politician Responses to Japan’s Electoral Reforms

Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law

No panels

The Association of Korean Political Studies

Panel 1 What (Not) to Do with North Korea?

Labor Project

Panel 1 The Politics of Labor Rights

Panel 2 Workers Rights in an International Economy

Latino Caucus in Political Science

Panel 1 The New Latino Politics?

Latin American Studies Association

Panel 1 Decentralized Natural Resource Management in Recentralizing Latin America

Panel 2 Theme Panel: The Politics of LGTB Rights in Latin America

Law and Political Process Study Group

Panel 1 Redistricting Roundtable: Law and Politics in the New Decade

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Caucus

Panel 1 Sexual Minority Rights and LGBTQ People: Discourse and Framing in Movement Activism

Panel 2 Public Opinion, the Law, and LGBT Rights: From Global to Local

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

Panel 1 Current Research in Biopolitics

McConnell Center for Political Leadership

Panel 1 Statesmanship and Democracy

Politica: Study of Medieval Political Thought

Panel 1 Politics and Economics in the Middle Ages

Conference Group on the Middle East

No panels

Association for the Study of Nationalities

Panel 1 Historical Legacies in Contemporary Politics

Panel 2 Political Science and the Holocaust: New Findings and Research Agendas

Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society

Panel 1 Xenophon and the Constitution of the Good Society

American Society for Political & Legal Philosophy

Panel 1   Nomos: Federalism and Subsidiarity: Against Dual Federalism

Panel 2   Nomos: Federalism and Subsidiarity: The Constitution and Federalism

Panel 3   Nomos: Federalism and Subsidiarity: The City and Subsidiarity

Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy Caucus

Panel 1 Poverty and Public Policy

Practicing Politics Working Group

Panel 1   Governing Bilaterally: the Politics of BITs and PTAs

Panel 2   Technology, Development and Global Governance: Beyond Instrumentality, Liberalization, and Participation

Panel 3   The Changing Nature of the World’s Second Oldest Profession: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy Project

Panel 4   The Politics of Federal Budget Process Reform

Political Studies Association

Panel 1 The Politics of Rights in the UK

Panel 2 France at the EU, G8 and G20: International governance in question?

Policy Studies Organization

Panel 1 Poverty and Public Policy

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Panel 1 Fiscal Federalism: Federal Assistance to U.S. States

Panel 2 The State of American Federalism 2010-2011

Society for Romanian Studies

Panel 1 Society for Romanian Studies

Slovenian Political Science Association

Panel 1 TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE BREAKUP OF YUGOSLAVIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Committee for Political Sociology

Panel 1 Rights claiming and political participation

Conference Group on Taiwan Studies

Panel 1 New Directions in the Study of Taiwan Politics

Panel 2 The Taiwan Experience and Democracy in China

Committee on Viable Constitutionalism

No panels

Eric Voegelin Society

Panel 1   Mysticism & Politics in Voegelin’s Theory

Panel 2   Religious Experience and Politics: Eric Voegelin and Beyond

Panel 3   The Languages of Eric Voegelin

Panel 4   The Range of Human Memory

Panel 5   Order and Disorder in International Politics: From Pacem in Terris to the Regensburg Address

Panel 6   Is there a clash of civilizations? Geopolitics and Globalization.

Panel 7   What Does Mass Man Do With His Soul? Popular Arts in Democracies

Panel 8   Realism in Political Philosophy

Panel 9   Voegelin and Personalism

Panel 10   Perspectives on the Crisis of Modernity

Panel 11   A Republic if You can Keep it: Constitutionalism in Crisis?

Panel 12   Voegelin Studies and East Asian Politics: The Silent Brush-Politics & Art in China

Consortium of Washington Internship Programs

No panels

Women in International Security

No panels

Women's Caucus for Political Science

Panel 1 The Practice of Politics: A Gendered Assessment of the Obama Administration