NORTHEASTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

 2005 Annual Meeting

Philadelphia, November 17-19

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PROGRAM SUMMARY

 

Updated 10/30/2005

 

 

SPECIAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS

 

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

 

 

 

NPSA Luncheon

12:30-1:45p.m.

NPSA Executive Council Meeting

3:45-5:15p.m.

New Jersey Political Science Association Meeting

5:00-6:00p.m.

Pennsylvania Political Science Association Meeting

5:00-6:00p.m.

ISA-NE Executive Committee Meeting

5:30-6:30p.m.

NPSA Dinner

Speaker : Ira Katznelson, APSA President

 

7:00-9:00p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

 

 

NPSA Breakfast

7:30-9:00a.m.

ISA-NE Breakfast

7:30-9:00a.m.

NPSA Women’s Caucus

10:45-12:15p.m.

ISA-NE Luncheon

Co-Sponsored By The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

Guest Speaker:  Sohail Hashmi, Mt. Holyoke College

Topic:  “Islamic International Law and Public International Law:  Convergence or Dissonance”

12:30-1:45p.m.

2006 Program Committee

12:30-1:45p.m.

ISA-NE Circle: Seductions of Empire: Complicity, Desire, and Insecurity in Contemporary World Politics

3:45-5:15p.m.

ISA-NE Plenary Session

Keynote Speaker:  William R. Thompson, Indiana University, President of the International Studies Association

Topic: “The Evolution of War”

6:00-7:00p.m.

Temple University “Meet and Greet”

6:00-7:30p.m

ISA-NE Reception

7:15-8:15p.m.

Polity Journal Reception

8:00-9:00p.m

 

 

 

P A N E L S       S C H E D U L E

By Section

 

 

                Section A - CONGRESS, PRESIDENCY AND THE COURTS

Chair: Thomas Baldino, Wilkes University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

A1

Congressional Elections And Careers

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

A2

Congress And Public Policy

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

A3

The Presidency In Theoretical Perspective

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

A4

The President As Leader And Manager

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

A5

Presidential Style And Rhetoric

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

A6

Observing The Observers: The Implications Of The Blessing‑Skleder Surveys For Understanding Political/Constitutional Scholarship

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

A7

The Supreme Court And Social Policy

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

A8

Decision Making In The Federal Courts

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m

A9

Interpreting Constitutions

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m

 

  Section B- STATE-LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

  Chair: Joseph R. Marbach, Seton Hall University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

B1

ROUNDTABLE:  The New Jersey Election

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m

B2

I Love New York

Saturday

9:00-1030a.m

B3

Public Policy Issues in the States

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

B4

Developments in Local Economic Development

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

B5

Issues Affecting State Legislatures

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

B6

Canceled

 

 

 

 

  Section C- PARTIES, INTEREST GROUPS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR

  Chair: Garrison Nelson, University of Vermont

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

C1

Author Meets Critics: Frank Bryan’s Real Democracy

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

C2

The Austin-Boston Speakership

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

C3

The Politics of Inclusion

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m

C4

How Divided Are the United States?

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m

C5

Political Information: Sources and Impacts

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

C6

Canceled

 

 

C7

The Politics of the Primaries

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

C8

Lessons from the 2004 Election: Reform, Reorganization and Representation

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

C9

Canceled

 

 

C10

The Uniqueness of American Nominating and Electing Institutions

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m

C11

A Century of State Legislative Committee Assignments and Policy Impacts

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

C12

The Return of the Religious Dimension in American Politics

Saturday

10:45-12:15a.m.

 

 

  Section D/M-PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

  Chair: Stanley P. Berard, Lock Haven University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

D1

Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Administration

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

D2

Contemporary Challenges in Public Personnel Recruitment and Retention

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m

D3

Stadiums and Smokestacks: The Politics of High Profile Economic Development Projects

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

D4

Community‑Building and Public Policy

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

D5

Defining Problems and Solutions in Law Enforcement Contexts

Friday

10:45-12:15 pm

D6

Policy Priorities in Health Care and Higher Education

Saturday

10:45-12:15 pm

D7

Improving Educational Outcomes

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

M1

Interdisciplinary Research and Environmental Policy

(Cross-listed)

Thursday

10:45-12:15 pm

M3

Environmental Politics as a Policy‑Making Process

(Cross-listed)

Saturday

10:45-12:15 pm

 

 

  Section E- AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

  Chair: Bruce Caswell, Rowan University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

E1

ROUNDTABLE:  Wilson Carey McWilliams, 1933-2005

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m

E2

Wilson Carey McWilliams in American Political Thought

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

E3

Liberalism and Morality:  Friends, Foes, or Strangers?

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

E4

American Presidents as Political Theorists

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

E5

Dewey and Croly

Saturday

4:30-6:00p.m.

E6

Tocquevillian Interpretation of American Political Thought

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

E7

The Political Thought of the American Revolution and the Constitution

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

E8

Canceled

 

 

E9

American Liberalism And Exceptionalism In Patriotism And War

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

 

 

  Section F- ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THEORY

  Chair: Thornton Lockwood, Fordham University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

F1

Nature and Convention in Ancient Thought

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

F2

Xenophon’s “Non-Socratic” Writings (Sponsored by the Society for Greek Political Thought)

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

F3

Rhetoric and Political Philosophy (Sponsored by the Society for Greek Political Thought)

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

F4

Problems of Aristotle’s Politics

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

F5

The Foundation of Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Philosophy

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

F6

Politics in Plato’s Republic

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

F7

Plato’s Political Philosophy

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

F8

Virtue and Politics in Ancient and Medieval Thought

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

F9

Law in Ancient and Medieval Thought

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

F10

Rights in Ancient and Medieval thought

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

F11

Political Philosophy in Greek Thought

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

F12

The Relationship of Roman and Modern Political Theory

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

 

 

  Section G- MODERN POLITICAL THEORY

  Chair: Diana Judd, City University of New York

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

G1

Politics and the Orchestration of Otherness

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

G2

The Legacy of Socrates

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

G3

Liberty, Community and the Individual

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

G4

Politics and Morality

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

G5

Liberalism Reconsidered

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

G6

Consciousness, Human Nature, and Citizenship

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

 

 

  Section H- CONTINENTAL POLITICAL THOUGHT SINCE MARX

  Chair: David A. Freeman, Washburn University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

H1

Nietzsche's Paradigm

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

H2

Politics, Power, and Subjectivity

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

H3

The Scientific Paradigm and the Human Condition

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

H4

Politics, Rights, and Justice

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

H5

Political Philosophy, Ideology, and Democratic Construction

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

H6

Constructive Voices, Critical Thinking, and Textuality

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

H7

The Imaginative Spirit and Resoned Governance

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

H8

Phenomenology and Ethics: Scheler, Wojtyla, and Arendt

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

 

 

  Section I- DEMOCRATIC THEORY

  Chair: Sharon Fingerer-Goldman, Ramapo College

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

I1

Conceptualizing Citizenship

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

I2

Democratic Deliberation

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

I3

The Problematic Nature of Group Identity

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

I4

Creating Political Relationships and Commitments

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

I5

Critical Foundations and Institutions of Democracy

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

I6

Representation and Accountability

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

 

 

  Section J- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

  Co-Chair: NPSA: Francine D’Amico, Syracuse University

  Co-Chair: ISA-NE: Rosemary Shinko, University of Connecticut

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

J1

Modeling Foreign Policy

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J2

Constructing US Foreign Policy

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

J3

Conflict Studies

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J4

Conflict Resolution Issues

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J5

Inter‑American Relations

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

J6

Theory & Method in IR

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J7

US Foreign Policy

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

J8

Constructing International Relations

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J9

Reading Iraq

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

J10

Terrorism?

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J11

Middle East

Saturday

4:30-6:00p.m.

J12

Islam & Politics

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

J13

Israeli‑Palestinian Conflict

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m

J14

South Asia

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J15

Asian Multilateralism

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J16

Identity & Security: China

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J17

Identity Politics in Europe

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J18

EU Integration Politics

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J19

EU IPE

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J20

EU‑Turkey

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

J21

European Identity & Security

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

J22

European Security

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J23

NATO

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J24

Just War

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J25

International Law: Puzzles & Challenges

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

J26

Global Governance Issues

Saturday

4:30-6:00p.m.

J27

Globalization I

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J28

Globalization II

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J29

Transborder Issues

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

J30

IPE of Development

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

J31

Religion & Politics

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

J32

Constructing Ethics in IR Theory

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

J33

Recapturing Citizenship/Reclaiming Political Power

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

J34

Reconceptualizing Just War Theory in the 21st Century

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

J35

Insecurity & Infection: Questions of Stability & Disease in the International Sphere

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

J36

Issues in Early Modern European International Relations

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

J37

ISANE Graduate Student Workshop: Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies

(4 consecutive sessions)

Saturday

9:00-10:30a.m.

10:45-12:15p.m.

1:00-2:30p.m.

2:45-4:15p.m.

J38

NORTHEAST CIRCLE: Seductions of Empire

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

J39

Inside Out: Inverse Strategies of Containment

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

J40

ROUNDTABLE: Democracy and Human rights in US Policy in the Middle East

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

M2

Norms in International Environmental Politics and Policy

(Cross-listed)

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

 

 

  Section K- COMPARATIVE POLITICS

  Chair: Eric N. Budd, Fitchburg State College

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

K1

ROUNDTABLE:  Is the Party Over or Back to Business as Usual?:  Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Turns 50

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

K2

Political Change in China

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

K3

Social Services and the Welfare State in Comparative Perspective

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

K4

On the Move: The Politics of Mobile Populations in the Age of Globalization

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

K5

Foreign Policy in the Wake of 9/11

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

K6

The Long and Winding Road to Democratic Consolidation

Friday

2:00-3:30p.m.

K7

Measuring Democracy: Progress and Setbacks in the Post‑Cold War Era

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

K8

Russia under Putin: On the Road to Democracy?

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

K9

After the Fall: Can Democracy Flourish in the Former Communist Bloc?

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

K10

Identity Politics in the Middle East

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

K11

Political Minorities in Western Europe

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

K12

European Politics: Coming Together or Falling Apart?

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

K13

The Left in the Age of Globalization

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

K14

Asian Politics

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

 

 

  Section L- GENDER, RACE, AND ETHINICITY

  Chair: Rosanna Perotti, Hofstra University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

L1

Women as Candidates and Legislators

Thursday

9:00-10:30a.m.

L2

Group Identity and Political Representation

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

L3

Gender, Language and Power

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

L4

Women's Representation in Russia and Europe

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

L5

Gender, Rights and Roles in International Affairs

Saturday

2:45-4:15p.m.

L6

Ethnic Politics

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

 

 

  Section M- ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY

  Chair: Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

M1

Interdisciplinary Research and Environmental Policy

(Cross-listed with Section D)

Thursday

10:45-12:15p.m.

M2

Norms in International Environmental Politics and Policy

(Cross-listed with Section J)

Thursday

2:00-3:30p.m.

M3

Environmental Politics as a Policy‑Making Process

(Cross-listed with Section D)

Saturday

10:45-12:15p.m.

 

 

  Section N- TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE PROFESSION

  Chair: John J. O’Rorke, Frostburg State University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

N1

Innovative Topics and Techniques in Teaching

Saturday

1:00-2:30p.m.

N2

ROUNDTABLE:  Getting Tenure

Friday

9:00-10:30a.m.

N3

Integrating Technology into the Learning Experience

Thursday

3:45-5:15p.m.

 

 

  Section O-CANADIAN POLITCS

  Chair: Melissa Haussman, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

O1

Canadian Politics

Friday

10:45-12:15p.m.

 

 

  Section P- SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PROGRAMS

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

P1

Publishing In Professional Journals

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.

P2

Workshop - Women’s Caucus On Mentoring Networks

Friday

10:45-12:15

P3

International Studies Association Workshop --Finance As Power: The Second Wave (By Invitation Only)

Thursday

9:00a.m.-5:00p.m.

P4

Baltic Security

Saturday

4:30-6:00p.m.

P5

ROUNDTABLE:  The Political Philosophy and Contributions of Walter Bagehot

Saturday

4:30-6:00p.m.

 

 

  Section Q-POPULAR CULTURE AND POLITICS

  Chair: Kevan M. Yenerall, Clarion University

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

Q1

POP! Goes Politics: Reflections on Music, Film, and Satire

Saturday

4:30-6:00p.m.

Q2

ROUNDTABLE:  11:00-1:00: Critiques from Comedy Central, the Cartoon Network and HBO

Friday

3:45-5:15p.m.