Northeastern Political Science Association

2006 Annual Meeting

November 9-11, 2006

Omni Parker Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

CONFERENCE PANELS

Summary List by Section 

 

 

Last Update: Wednesday, November 08, 2006

 

Section A - CONGRESS, PRESIDENCY, AND THE COURTS

Chair:  Brigid C. Harrison, Montclair State University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

A1

Presidential Elections and Their Impact

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

A2

Analyzing the Presidency

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

A3

The Presidency and The Media

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

A4

Analyzing Congress

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

A5

Congressional Elections and Representation

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

A6

Judges and the Judicial Process

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

A7

Courts and the Constitution

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

A8

Roundtable:   The American Constitution and the Supreme Court in a World at War:  Past Lessons and Future Developments

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

 

Section B - STATE-LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chair:  Joseph R. Marbach, Seton Hall University          

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

B1

Administrative Issues in States and Localities

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

B2

State and Local Electoral Issues: Domestic and International

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

B3

Issues in Local Governance

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

B4

Local Government in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

    

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

Co-Chairs:  Garrison Nelson, University of Vermont

Douglas Harris, Loyola College in Maryland

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

C1

Progressivism and Its Contemporaneous Critics

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

C2

Votes and Service among American Youth:  Then and Now

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

C3

Voting Turnout:  Prospects and Problems

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

C4

Measuring Political Continuity and Change

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

C5

State Legislative Committees and Members

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

C6

Party Development in Historic Perspective

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

C7

The 2000 and 2004 Elections Revisited

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

C8

Social Movements:  A Comparative Perspective

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

C9

New Political Tools for a New Century

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

C10

Motives for Political Action:  Collective and Individual

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

C11

Organized Labor and National Politics

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

C12

The Values of Polls and the Polls of Value

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

C13

Money and Media Matters

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

C14

Roundtable:  Hindsight is 20/20:  Assessing the 2006 Congressional Election Forecasts

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

C15

Roundtable:  The 2006 Congressional Elections:  What Happened and Why

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

C16

Roundtable:  The 2008 Presidential Election:  Strategy and Organization

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

C17

Roundtable:  The 2008 Presidential Election:  Media and Fundraising

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

    

Section D - PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Chair:  Stanley P. Berard, Lock Haven University

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

D1

Belief Systems and Policy Formation

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

D2

Policy Discourses and the Art of the Possible

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

D3

States, Localities, and Policy Innovation

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

    

Section E - AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Chair:  David Alvis, University of West Florida

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

E1

The Founders Federalism

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

E2

Patriotism and Civic Virtue in American Political Thought

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

E3

Political Action and American Political Thought in Historical Perspective

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

E4

Rethinking the Novus Ordo Seclorum

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

E5

The Contemporary Significance of the Constitutional Executive

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

    

Section F - ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Chair:  Thornton C. Lockwood, Jr., Fordham University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

F1

Rhetoric in Action

(Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought)

Friday

 

9:30-11:00

 

F2

The Political Animal Speaks:  Aristotle and the Politics of Logos (Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought)

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

F3

Irreconcilable Differences (?) in Plato and Xenophon

(Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought)

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

F4

The Philosopher and the City:   A Millennium of Reflection and Rejoinder

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

F5

Political Thought in Jewish Philosophy

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

F6

Ancient ideas through modern eyes

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

F7

Plutarch’s Political Thought

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

F8

Plato and the Political technê

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

F9

Plato’s Republic, Past and Present

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

F10

Politics in Plato’s Dialogues

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

F11

Problems in Plato’s Republic

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

F12

Aristotle’s Political Thought

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

F13

Regimes in Aristotle’s Politics

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

F14

Enduring problems in ancient and modern thought

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

F15

Thomas Aquinas’ Political Thought

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

F16

Resacralizing Political Thought: The Boundaries of the Medieval

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

F17

Justice, evil, and politics in Plato’s thought

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

F18

Ancient and modern comparisons

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

F19

Athens, Persia, and Rome

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

F20

Roundtable:  The Socratic Paradox and its Enemies, by Roslyn Weiss (University of Chicago Press)

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

F21

Roundtable:  The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle’s Polis, by D. Brendan Nagle (Cambridge University Press)

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

F22

Roundtable:  Plato’s Republic: A Study, by Stanley Rosen (Yale University Press)

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

F23

Roundtable:  Breaking with Athens:  Alfarabi as Founder, by Christopher A. Colmo (Lexington Books)

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

     

Section G - MODERN POLITICAL THEORY

Chair:  Diana Judd, William Paterson University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

G1

Exploring the Foundations of Good Government:  Montesquieu on Fate, Fortune, Love, and Empire

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

G2

Law, Liberty and American Greatness

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

G3

Individualism, Historicism and Freedom

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

G4

Nationalism, Liberalism and Democracy

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

G5

Strange Bedfellows:  Secularism, Fundamentalism and Politics

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

G6

Imagination, Will and Political Pragmatism

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

G7

State Sovereignty and Imperialism in an Age of Globalization

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

G8

Autonomy and the Individual

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

 

Section H - CONTINENTAL POLITICAL THOUGHT

Chair:  David A. Freeman, Washburn University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

H1

Hannah Arendt:  Ideas and Opinions

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

H2

Nietzsche and Friends

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

H3

Suffering and Politics

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

H4

Existentialism, Essentialism, and Language

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

H5

Autonomy, Liberal Democracy, and Globalization

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

H6

Reason, Solidarity, and Immigration in the 21st Century

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

H7

The Secular and the Temporal: Reason and Faith

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

H8

Threads of Political Theory

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

    

Section I - DEMOCRATIC THEORY

Chair:  Sharon Fingerer-Goldman, Ramapo College

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

I1

The construction of citizenship

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

I2

Global Culture and Identity

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

I3

Deliberative Democracy

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

I4

Obligations and Demands of Citizenship

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

I5

Dewey, Democracy, and Power

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

I6

Underlying Foundations of Democracy

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

 

Section J - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (with International Studies Association –Northeast)

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

ISA-NE Co-Chair:  Rosemary E. Shinko, University of Connecticut at Stamford

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

J1

Popular Culture, Identities and Public Narration

Friday

3:35-5:15

J2

New and Improved:  Discussing Security Studies

Friday

7:45-9:15

J3

The Doctor is in the House:  Science Fiction and International Relations

Thursday

3:45-5:15

J4

Using Images:  Media and (Re)presentations in IR

Thursday

10:45-12:15

J5

The Construction of European Security

Thursday

9:00-10:30

J6

Human Rights Challenges in West Africa

Thursday

10:45-12:15

J7

Women and Terrorism

Thursday

2:00-3:30

J8

Feminist IR Theory

Friday

9:30-11:00

J9

Islam, Democracy, and Radicalism

Thursday

9:00-10:30

J10

Institutional Design in Conflict Management:  From Prevention to Peace building

Thursday

2:00-3:30

J11

The Politics of Food Insecurity

Thursday

3:45-5:15

J12

The EU and Democratization in SE Europe

Saturday

10:45-12:15

J13

How the Leviathan Got Its Sight

Friday

11:15-12:45

J14

Terrorism:  Causes and Consequences

Friday

2:30-4:00

J15

Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

Saturday

9:00-10:30

J16

US Intelligence and Strategy I

Saturday

10:45-12:15

J17

Framing US Foreign Policy

Saturday

12:30-2:00

J18

Critical IPE I

Saturday

10:45-12:15

J19

Critical IPE II

Saturday

9:00-10:30

J20

Transnational Actors and Social Movements

Saturday

2:30-3:45

J21

Constructing IR Theory

Thursday

9:00-10:30

J22

Democratic Peace?

Thursday

10:45-12:15

J23

IR Theory

Friday

11:15-12:45

J24

Nuclear Politics

Thursday

2:00-3:30

J25

The Politics of Foreign Aid

Saturday

10:45-12:15

J26

Identity and Security

Thursday

3:45-5:15

J27

International Regimes and Norms                                    

Friday

7:45-9:15

J28

Global Ethics and Human Rights      

Friday

9:30-11:00

J29

The International Criminal Court

Friday

11:15-12:45

J30

International Legal Issues I

Thursday

9:00-10:30

J31

International Legal Issues II

Thursday

10:45-12:15

J32

IGOs and Multilateralism

Thursday

2:00-3:30

J33

"The State" and Sovereignty

Friday

2:30-4:00

J34

Chinese International Relations

Thursday

7:45-9:15

J35

Security Issues

Saturday

9:00-10:30

J36

Global Health Issues

Saturday

10:45-12:15

J37

Middle East Society and Conflict

Friday

9:30-11:00

J38

Post-Cold War CE Europe

Saturday

2:15-3:45

J39

Turkey:  Identity and Foreign Policy

Friday

11:15-12:45

J40

European Identity Politics

Friday

7:45-9:15

J41

EU Issues I

Friday

9:30-11:00

J42

Negotiation, Mediation, Peacemaking

Friday

2:30-4:00

J43

IPE and Development

Saturday

12:30-2:00

J44

EU Issues II

Saturday

2:15-3:45

J45

Roundtable:  International Relations:  The State of the Discipline

Saturday

2:15-3:45

J46

Roundtable:  War, Oil, Democracy:  Combustion or Bust

Friday

2:30-4:00

J47

ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop:  Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies (meets for four consecutive sessions)

Saturday

9:00-4:15

 

J47

ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop:  Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

J47

ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop:  Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

J47

ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop:  Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 


 

M1

Environmental Politics and Policy in an Economically Liberal World Order

(Co-sponsored by Section M, Environmental Politics and Policy)

Friday

9:30-11:00

M2

 

Environmental Policy-Making in the Modern State:  Institutions, Processes, and Results

(Co-sponsored by Section M, Environmental Politics and Policy)

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

    

Section K - COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Chair:  Eric N. Budd, Fitchburg State College

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

K2

Roundtable:  Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

K3

Show Me The Money:  Varieties of Capitalism

Thursday

2:00-3:30

 

K4

The Politics of Religion

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

K5

Nickel and Dimed:  The Politics of Labor

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

K6

Policymaking After the Collapse of Communism

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

K7

After the Fighting Stops:  Peace and Reconciliation in Comparative Perspective

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

K8

The Politics of Gender

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

K9


Taking it to the Streets:  People Power

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

K10

Democracy in the Wake of the Collapse of Communism

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

K11

Bullets into Ballots: Electoral Politics and Political Conflict

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

K12

Political Change in Asia

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

K13

European Politics:  Pressures for Change

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

K14

Civil-Military Relations

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

K15

Development Theory

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

K16

The Long and Winding Road:  Democratic Transitions and Consolidation

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

    

Section L - GENDER, RACE, AND ETHNICITY

Chair:  Farida Jalalzai, University of Missouri-Saint Louis

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

L1

Gender and Political Representation Worldwide

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

L2

Race, Parties, and Political Behavior

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

L3

Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Representation

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

L4

Gender, Religion, Ethnicity and the State

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

L5

Challenges of Migration, Assimilation, and Ethnic Diversity

Saturday

9:00-10:30

 

    

Section M - ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY

Chair:  Paul A. Barresi, Southern New Hampshire University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

M1

Environmental Politics and Policy in an Economically Liberal World Order (co-sponsored by ISA-NE)

Friday

9:30-11:00

 

M2

Environmental Policy-Making in the Modern State:  Institutions, Processes, and Results (co-sponsored by ISA-NE)

Friday

11:15-12:45

 

M3

Environmental Governance for Security, Prosperity, and Peace

Friday

2:30-4:00

 

M4

Location, Location, Location:  The Politics of Sitting Controversial Facilities

Friday

7:45-9:15

 

    

Section N - TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE PROFESSION

Chair:  John O'Rorke, Frostburg State University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

N1

Innovative Ideas About Teaching:  Who, What, How

Saturday

2:15-3:45

 

N2

Workshop:  Constructing Good Courses:  From Learning Goal to Assessment (cross-listed with ISA-NE as Active Learning in International Affairs)

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

N3

Workshop:  Engaging the Millennials:  Techniques in Active Learning for a New Generation of Students (Co-sponsored with ISA-NE  as Active Learning in International Affairs)

Saturday

12:30-2:00

 

N4

Integrating Civic Engagement into the Undergraduate Political Science Curriculum

Thursday

3:45-5:15

 

 

Section P – Special Sessions and Prorgams

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

P1

Workshop:  Publishing in Professional Journals

Friday

4:15-5:45

 

P2

Roundtable:  Women In the Profession

Saturday

10:45-12:15

 

    

Section Q - POPULAR CULTURE AND POLITICS

Chair:  Kevan M. Yenerall, Clarion University

 

 

 

Panel

Title

Day

Time

 

Q1

War, Popular Culture and the American Experience:  Imagery, Attitudes, and Political Psychology from World War II, Vietnam and Beyond

Thursday

10:45-12:15

 

Q2

One South Park, Two West Wings, and Entertainment Media:  Alternative Visions of American Politics and Institutions

Thursday

9:00-10:30

 

Q3

Fiction, Television and the Red-Blue Debate:

Framing Foreign Relations, Shaping the American Imagination

Thursday

2:00-3:30