72

nd
annual
CONFERENCE

Palmer
House
Hilton
April 3-6, 2014
chicago
 Midwest Political
Science Association

72nd Annual Conference

April 3-6, 2014

Palmer House Hilton

Chicago, Illinois

Program Chairs President

Elizabeth Maggie Penn Arthur Lupia
Washington University in St. Louis University of Michigan

Tasha Philpot
University of Texas at Austin

MPSA Office, 101 W. Kirkwood Avenue, #207, Bloomington, IN 47404

Phone (812) 558-0588 Fax (812) 335-1510
Conference: conf@mpsanet.org
Membership: mpsainfo@mpsanet.org
 Saturday, April 5, 8:30 am to 10:10 am

Saturday, April 5 at 8:30 am 9:20 Fighting for the Life of the Party: Making Anticorruption
Campaigns Work in China
2-13 Trust, Culture, Networks and Civil Society Jiangnan Zhu, University of Nevada, Reno
Room LaSalle 5 on the 7th floor, Sat at 8:30 am jzhu@unr.edu
8:30 Chair, Francisco Herreros, CSIC Yiping Wu, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
francisco.herreros@csic.es wyp_ren1977@hotmail.com
8:35 Philanthropy and Civil Society Dong Zhang, Northwestern University
Thomas Adam, University of Texas, Arlington dongzhang2015@u.northwestern.edu
adam@uta.edu
9:35 Disc., Tanya Georgieva Bagashka, University of Houston
8:50 Institutional “Losers”, European Smoking Policies and the tbagashka@uh.edu
Limits of Gradualism 9:55 Audience Discussion
Edward Ashbee, Copenhagen Business School
ea.dbp@cbs.dk
9:05 The Effect of Impartial institutions on Social Trust across and 4-11 Vote Choice in the Developing World
below the National Level in Europé. Room Salon 6 on the 3rd floor, Sat at 8:30 am
Nicholas Charron, Copenhagen Business School 8:30 Chair, Arturas Rozenas, New York University
nicholas.charron@pol.gu.se ar199@nyu.edu
Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg 8:35 Why Vote For a Criminal? The Importance of Ethnicity
Bo.Rothstein@pol.gu.se Simon Chauchard, Dartmouth College
9:20 Passing on the Family Business: Political Families in Canadian simon.chauchard@gmail.com
Legislatures 8:47 The Impact of Candidate Gender on Vote Choice in Brazil
David C. Docherty, Mount Royal University Scott W. Desposato, University of California, San Diego
ddocherty@mtroyal.ca swd@ucsd.edu
9:35 Disc., Carol Ann Traut, University of Texas, Permian Basin Rosario Aguilar-Pariente, CIDE
trautca@gmail.com rosario.aguilar@cide.edu
9:55 Audience Discussion Saul Cunow, University of California, San Diego
scunow@ucsd.edu
8:59 Economic voting at Brazilians elections: when local power plays
3-5 Foreign Aid the most important role in national elections
Room Ashland on the 3rd floor, Sat at 8:30 am Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Fundacao
8:30 Chair, Amanda Deerfield, Odessa College Getulio Vargas
aldeer2@g.uky.edu gustavo.fernandes@fgv.br
8:35 BRICS Development Bank: Threat or Complement Ivan Filipe Fernandes, University of São Paulo
Leeland Clark, Syracuse University ivanfilipe98@hotmail.com
ldclark@syr.edu 9:11 Identifying Causal Mechanisms of Informational Cues in Ethnic
8:50 A Study of Corruption, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth Voting
Amanda Deerfield, Odessa College Hye Sung Kim, University of Rochester
aldeer2@g.uky.edu hkim82@z.rochester.edu
9:05 Who’s punished for noncompliance? The redistributive effect of 9:23 Voting for Parties or Candidates? Evidence from North India
IMF program suspension Adam Ziegfeld, Beloit College
Jikuo Lu, University of Pittsburgh ziegfelda@beloit.edu
jikuolu@gmail.com 9:35 Disc., Arturas Rozenas, New York University
9:20 How do donors choose who to pressure: a critical test of the ar199@nyu.edu
salience of aid recipients. 9:55 Audience Discussion
Bann Seng Tan, College of William and Mary
btan@wm.edu
9:35 Disc., Tanu Kohli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 5-6 Legitimazing and Securing Autocracy
tkohli@illinois.edu Room Salon 1 on the 3rd floor, Sat at 8:30 am
Disc., Bann Seng Tan, College of William and Mary 8:30 Chair, Luai A. Allarakia, University of Houston
btan@wm.edu luai.allarakia@gmail.com
9:55 Audience Discussion 8:35 The Organization of Security under Dictatorship:
Paramilitaries, Repression and Coup-Proofing
Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
4-10 Combating Corruption in the Developing World abel.escriba@upf.edu
Room Buckingham on the 5th floor, Sat at 8:30 am Gonzalo Rivero, CEACS, IJM
8:30 Chair, Tanya Georgieva Bagashka, University of Houston grivero@march.es
tbagashka@uh.edu 8:47 The Manager on Horseback: Military Business and Regime
8:35 Scandalous politics: Has transparency improved electoral Security in Egypt
accountability? Stephen Feagin, University of Chicago
Milena Ang, University of Chicago stephenfeagin@gmail.com
milenaang@uchicago.edu 8:59 Life after Co-optation: Opposition Quiescence and
8:50 Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why I- Confrontation in Authoritarian Regimes
Paid-A-Bribe Worked in India but Failed in China Sofia Fenner, University of Chicago
Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan sfenner@uchicago.edu
yuenang@umich.edu 9:11 The Organizational Weapon: Ruling Parties in Authoritarian
9:05 Varieties of Corruption: Evidence from the Georgian Reform Regimes
Process Anne Meng, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Thomas Nasuti, University of Wisconsin, Madison ameng@berkeley.edu
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Sunday, April 6, 8:30 am to 10:10 am

10-21 New Research on Japanese Politics 9:15 Narratives of the Other: The Development of New Foreign
Room Sandburg 7 on the 7th floor, Sun at 8:30 am Relations with Post-Communist Russia in New EU Member
8:30 Chair, Tony Liu, National Chung Hsing University States
stanggoftibia1984@yahoo.com.tw Dessi Kirilova, Syracuse University
8:35 National Security, Social Welfare, and Political Scandal: Dessi.Kirilova@syr.edu
Dynamics of Issue Effects in Japanese Legislative Elections, 9:35 Disc., Andrew MacDonald Akin, University of Alabama
1967 - 2010 amakin@crimson.ua.edu
Yong Jae Kim, University of Missouri, Columbia 9:55 Audience Discussion
yk4y8@mail.missouri.edu
8:50 Coalition Making in the Pre-Electoral Arena: Examining the
14-18 Institutions and Innovation
1999 LDP-CGP Coalition in Japan
Room Clark 3 on the 7th floor, Sun at 8:30 am
Daniel Nagashima, University of Virginia
8:30 Chair, Xiaojun Li, University of British Columbia
dkn4a@virginia.edu
xjli@stanford.edu
9:05 Middle Power and Its Limits: Japan and Turkey as Traditional 8:35 Overcoming innovation Blocking by Early Winners: Political
and Emerging Middle Powers institutions for Agenda Power Access
Bahadir Pehlivanturk, TOBB University of Economics and Dina Balalaeva, Binghamton University
Technology, Ankara balalaeva@gmail.com
pturk@mac.com
8:50 Varieties of Innovation: Evidence from 250,000 Firms
9:20 The Internet in Japanese Politics: Why the Internet does not Benjamin S. Barber IV, Duke University
provide a public forum in Japan bsb18@duke.edu
Fumiko Sasaki, New Jersey City University Pablo Beramedni, Duke University
fumikosasaki@aol.com pb45@duke.edu
9:35 Disc., Tony Liu, National Chung Hsing University 9:05 How does Venture Capital Work in the Transition Economies?
stanggoftibia1984@yahoo.com.tw Ying Jia, University of Texas, Dallas
9:55 Audience Discussion yxj099020@utdallas.edu
9:20 Institutions and Development: Do Intellectual Property Rights
12-13 Mobilization and Repression during the Arab Spring Increase Productivity?
Room Dearborn 3 on the 7th floor, Sun at 8:30 am Cassandra Mehlig Sweet, Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Chile
8:30 Chair, Risa Brooks, Marquette University csweet@uc.cl
risa.brooks@marquette.edu Dalibor Sacha Eterovic, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
8:35 Egypt’s Desperate Middle Class The Story of Building and dalibor.eterovic@googlemail.com
Breaking the January Alliance 9:35 Disc., Stephen Brett Kaplan, George Washington University
Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim, American University sbkaplan@gwu.edu
moneim@american.edu 9:55 Audience Discussion
8:50 Protesting The Muslim Brothers: Egypt Since June 30
Ibrahim G. Aoudé, University of Hawai‘i
14-23 Inequality and Redistribution--Institutions
aoude@hawaii.edu
Room Sandburg 8 on the 7th floor, Sun at 8:30 am
9:05 The Diffusion of Political Liberalism: What We Can Learn 8:30 Chair, Stephen Nelson, Northwestern University
From Regime Responses During the Arab Spring stephen-nelson@northwestern.edu
Nicholas Davis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 8:35 Electoral Institutions, Credible Commitment, and
nrdavis@uwm.edu Redistribution
9:20 The Arab Uprising, Religious Sectarianism and the New Michael Becher, University of Konstanz
Challenge to Nation-State Building in the Middle East michael.becher@uni-konstanz.de
Afshin Shahi, The University of Bradford 8:47 Inequality, Labor-Market Institutions, and Redistributive
a.shahi1@bradford.ac.uk Voting
9:35 Disc., Risa Brooks, Marquette University Matthew Dimick, State University of New York, Buffalo
risa.brooks@marquette.edu mdimick@buffalo.edu
9:55 Audience Discussion 8:59 Can the democratic political competition be a driving force to
reduce economic inequality?
13-12 Spheres of Influence: Whither Russia's Former Empire? Ivan Filipe Fernandes, University of São Paulo
Room Clark 9 on the 7th floor, Sun at 8:30 am ivanfilipe98@hotmail.com
8:30 Chair, Andrew MacDonald Akin, University of Alabama 9:11 Choose Your Parents Wisely: Economic Inequality and Mobility
amakin@crimson.ua.edu in Canada and the United States
8:35 Does Balancing Work? Analyzing European and Russian John Harles, Messiah College
behavior towards the Ukraine jharles515@gmail.com
Andreas Michael Bock, University of Augsburg 9:23 Budget Allocation and Social Spending in Developing Countries
andreas.bock@phil.uni-augsburg.de Julia Hyeyong Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
Tetyana Kloubert, University of Augsburg juliakim@ucla.edu
tetyana.kloubert@phil.uni-augsburg.de 9:35 Disc., Michael Albertus, University of Chicago
8:55 Integration and Disintegration of The Former Soviet Space: albertus@uchicago.edu
What People Want? 9:55 Audience Discussion
Olga Kamenchuk, VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research
Center)
olga.kamenchuk@gmail.com

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