| 9:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
| Registration |
| Book Exhibits/Paper Room |
| Placement Service |
| |
| 9:30
a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
| IR 4 FOREIGN POLICY AND
FOREIGN AID ISSUES |
| Chair: |
Harvey Strum, The
Sage Colleges |
| Papers: |
American Foreign Policy
and Aid: Russia and Yeltsin and Lessons from Post War Germany and
Japan
James M. Quirk, Catholic University of America |
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Perceptions and Misunderstandings
Regarding Contemporary Foreign Policy Issues Between the United States
and Germany
Michaela Hertkorn, Johns Hopkins University |
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Liberality, Clarity, and
Philanthropy: A Conceptual Analysis of Foreign Aid in the Historical
Context of Giving Traditions
Tomohisa Hattori, Lehman College, CUNY |
| Discussant: |
Harvey Strum, The
Sage Colleges |
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| JP 2 REFORM AND
CHANGE IN THE LAW AND LEGAL PRACTICE |
| Chair: |
Daniel Kramer, College
of Staten Island, CUNY |
| Papers: |
Music as Legal Revolution
Aaron R. S. Lorenz, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
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The Effects of Hate Crime
Legislation on the Justice System
Tim Bakken, United States Military Academy |
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Public Policy and Civil
Litigation: Sanctions and Judicial Discovery Devices and Changes to
Legal Tools in Policy Making
Roger Cusick, SUNY Albany |
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The Lawyers' Cooperative:
An Alternative Practice Model
Pamela Katz, The Sage Colleges |
| Discussant: |
Daniel Kramer, College
of Staten Island, CUNY |
| |
| PP 2 PUBLIC FINANCE
AND BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS |
| Chair: |
Robert C. A. Sorensen,
Long Island University |
| Papers: |
Private versus Public Financing
of Economic Development: The Politics of Economic Development in a
Local Region
Lynndee Kemmet, Bard College |
| |
Prior Financial Performance
as Predictors of Perceived Organizational Reputation: An Empirical
Test Among Local Authorities in Israel
Abraham Carmeli, University of Haifa |
| |
Who's In Charge Here? Debt
Management, Principals and Interests at New York's Metropolitan Transit
Authority
Jonathan Justice, Rutgers University |
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Public School Financing
and the Problem of Equity
Peter Lohman, United States Military Academy |
| Discussant: |
Robert C. A. Sorensen,
Long Island University |
| |
| PT 7 CLASSICAL
AND MODERN APPROACHES TO RHETORIC AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES |
| Chair: |
Jeff Miller, SUNY
New Paltz |
| Papers: |
Faith in Freedom
Jenn Heetner, SUNY New Paltz |
| |
Socratic Augmentation and
Rhetoric
Therese Nordlund, SUNY New Paltz |
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The Relative Merits of Positivism
and Normative Theory in Political Science
Leon Fredericks, SUNY New Paltz |
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Rhetoric, Power and Knowledge:
Gadamers Hermenentics and the Division between the Natural and Social
Sciences
Corey Williams, SUNY New Paltz |
| Discussant: |
Justin Van Dongen and
Kevin Rickard, SUNY New Paltz |
| |
| SL 3 BIG CITIES,
BIG THEORIES |
| Chair: |
Jonathan McFall,
Rutgers University |
| Papers: |
The Catholic Church as an
Urban Institution
Kathe Newman, CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| |
A New Theory of Mayoral
Behavior
Richard Flanagan, The College of Staten Island, CUNY |
| |
A Tale of Two Cities: The
Philadelphia Mayoral Election of 1989
Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner College |
| Discussant: |
Jonathan McFall,
Rutgers University |
| |
| 11:15
a.m. to 12:45 p.m. |
| AG 1 DEMOGRAPHICS
AND PUBLIC OPINION |
| Chair: |
Simon Peter Gomez,
SUNY Buffalo |
| Papers: |
To Be Announced
Gary Hubert, SUNY Buffalo |
| |
To Be Announced
Melissa Wheeler, SUNY Buffalo |
| |
To Be Announced
David Lafalce, SUNY Buffalo |
| |
To Be Announced
Genevieve Kenyon, SUNY Buffalo |
| Discussant: |
Jon Lines, SUNY Buffalo |
| |
| CN 1 CANADIAN DISTINCTIVENESS:
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES |
| Chair: |
Anne Griffin, The
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art |
| Papers: |
The Concept of "Distinct
Society" and the Canadian Constitutional Dynamic
Daniel Charron, Columbia University |
| |
Minorities in Mexico and
Canada: A Comparative Study
Monica Gonzalez, Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores
de Monterrey (ITESM) |
| |
Pre-Depression French Canadian
Immigration to New England: A Historical Bi-national Labor Market
Barbars Driscoll, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| |
Understanding
Media Assimilation: McLuhan's Communications Theory and the Aboriginal
Languages of Canada
David Tabachnik, Carleton University |
| Discussant: |
To Be Announced |
| |
| CP 1 PRIVATIZATION,
REGIONALIZATION, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE |
| Chair: |
Uma Balakrishnan,
St. John's University |
| Papers: |
Privatization in Developing
Countries: Turkey, India, Brazil, and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective
H. Hakan Tunc, University of Pennsylvania |
| |
Regionalization or Globalization
of Trade in South Asia
Javier Morales-Ortiz, University of Connecticut |
| |
Institutions and Corporate
Strategies for Regionalization
Daniel Friel, New School University |
| |
Egypt's Politics
of Openness in the Nineties: Security and Domestic Coalitions
Asya El-Meehy, McGill University |
| Discussant: |
Uma Balakrishnan,
St. John's University |
| |
| PP 4 ROUNDTABLE:
NON-TRADITIONAL UNDERGRADUATES EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES FOR RESEARCH
IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY |
| Convener: |
Nancy Wright, City
College, CUNY and Manhattan College |
| |
| PT 1 TOPICS IN
AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT |
| Chair: |
Morgan Knull, Louisiana
State University |
| Papers: |
A Jeffersonian Modernity
Douglas A. Ollivant, United States Military Academy |
| |
The Political Thought of
James Madison in the 1790s
Joel Lefkowitz, SUNY New Paltz |
| |
Muir, Emerson and Nietzsche
as Environmentalists
Roger Cusick, SUNY Albany |
| Discussant: |
Morgan Knull, Louisiana
State University |
| |
| TL 3 ROUNDTABLE:
THE IMPACT OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ON THE TEACHING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
|
| Convener: |
Dennis R. DeLong,
Connecticut State University System |
| Participants: |
William Culver,
SUNY Plattsburgh |
| |
Herman Lujan, Connecticut
State University System |
| |
Michael E. Lynch,
SUNY Oneonta |
| |
| 1:00
p.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
| AG 3 VOTING AND
ELECTIONS: ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE |
| Chair: |
Tim Duvall, St. John's
University |
| Papers: |
Evaluating the Clinton Veto
Record, 1993-2001
Samuel B. Hoff, Delaware State University |
| |
Inside the Black Box-Coalitions
and Voting in the Republican Committee on Committees
Scott A. Frisch, California State University-Bakersfield,
and Sean Q. Kelly, Niagara University |
| |
The Case of Electoral College
Reform
Gary Bugh, SUNY Albany |
| |
The Very Model of a Modern
General Election: Spending in Congressional Campaigns
Gary A. Feld, Campaign Study Group |
| Discussant: |
Tim Duvall, St. John's
University |
| |
| CN 2 ROUNDTABLE:
THE EMERGENCE OF A NORTH AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE: THE LIMITS TO BOTTOM-UP
GROWTH |
| Convener: |
Stephen Blank, Pace
University |
| Participants: |
Noemi Gal-Or, Kwantlen
University College |
| |
Stephanie Golub,
Baruch College, CUNY |
| |
Denis Michaud,
University of Ottawa |
| |
Chris Sands, Center
for Strategic and International Studies |
| |
Guy Stanley, University
of Ottawa |
| |
| CP 2 ETHNIC CONFLICT:
ISLAMISM AND POLITICAL TRANSITION |
| Chair: |
Azzedine Layachi,
St. John's University |
| Papers: |
Ethnic Conflict and the
Road to Democracy in Africa
Maame Adwoa Gyekye, Temple University |
| |
In the Deep Freeze? Malaysia-U.S.
Relations
Bridget Welch, Hofsta University |
| |
Yemen: Law and
Politics in Transition
Anthony Chase, University of Massachusetts-Boston and Wheaton
College |
| Discussant: |
Azzedine Layachi,
St. John's University |
| |
| PP 1 CITIZENSHIP
AND BUREAUCRATIC PERFORMANCE |
| Chair: |
Alice M. Jackson,
Morgan State University |
| Papers: |
Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Seung-Yong Rho, Rutgers University
|
| |
Citizen Participation and
Public Administration: Current Prospects for Comparative Research
Robert C. A. Sorensen, Long Island University |
| |
Community Participation
and Environmental Protection
Rod Colvin, SUNY Albany |
| Discussant: |
Alice M. Jackson,
Morgan State University |
| |
| PT 6 POLITICAL
THOUGHT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD |
| Chair: |
Jeff Miller, SUNY
New Paltz |
| Papers: |
Launching a Thousand Ships:
Women, Politics and Symbol Manipulation in Ancient Greece
Leslie Feldman, Hofstra University |
| |
Aidos and Archetypes
in Thucydides' History
Seth DeLong, University of Virginia |
| |
Humility as a
Political Virtue: An Augustinian Inquiry
David J. Bobb, Boston College |
| |
Stoicism's Approach
to Contemporary Liberal Thought
Alexandra MacKinnon, SUNY New Paltz |
| Discussant: |
Jeff Miller,
SUNY New Paltz |
| |
| TL 2 ROUNDTABLE:
COHORT TEACHING: INSTRUCTING STUDENTS AT THE NEW YORK POLICE ACADEMY
IN POLICY AND POLITICS |
| Convener: |
Joseph D'Ambrosio,
Grace Church Community Center of White Plains, New York |
| Participants: |
Alexander
F. Contini, Marist College |
| |
Karim Ismaili,
St. John's University |
| |
| 2:45
p.m. to 4:15 p.m. |
| CP 5 ROUNDTABLE:
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE THE COLD WAR |
| Convener: |
Nancy Wright,
City College, CUNY and Manhattan College |
| |
| IR 5 TOPICS
IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
| Chair: |
James M. Quirk, Catholic
University of America |
| Papers: |
Small Voices: Child Soldiers
and International Rights
Alexis Henshaw, SUNY Geneseo |
| |
India and Nuclear
Arms Control Moving Closer: "A Study of CTBI"
Pant Harsh Vardhan, University of Notre Dame |
| |
The Causes and
Consequences of International Cooperation with Reference to Human
Rights Laws
D. Jacobsastry, Andhra University |
| |
Space Policy
To Be Announced |
| Discussant: |
James M. Quirk,
Catholic University of America |
| |
| JP 1 THE UNITED
STATES SUPREME COURT: CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINES AND CONSTITUTIONAL
LIMITS |
| Chair: |
Mark Welton, United
States Military Academy |
| Papers: |
Executive Perogative and
the Political Question Doctrine
Brian M. Loy, Syracuse University |
| |
The Morality
of the Rehnquist Court
Stephen E. Gottlieb, Albany Law School |
| |
Bush v. Gore:
Doctrinal Analysis and Political Implications
Brian J. Nickerson and Ralph W. Johnson, Iona College |
| Discussant: |
Mark Welton,
United States Military Academy |
| |
| PT 2 POLITICS AND RELIGION |
| Chair: |
David J. Bobb, Boston
University |
| Papers: |
The Art of Making Marvels and Monsters:
Implications of Bacon's Tripartite Division of Nature for Medicine
and Politics
Travis B. Smith, Harvard University |
| |
Liberal Democracy and Religion: Are
They Inseperable?
S. B. Benjamin, Japan Local Government Center |
| |
States and Churches: Political Pressures
and State Assistance to Sectarian Institutions
Maureen O'Manion, St. Norbert College |
| Discussant: |
David J. Bobb, Boston University
|
| |
| 4:15
p.m. |
| NYSPSA
Executive Council Meeting |
