Since 1960 we have been holding an Election Post Mortem Dinner as part of the program in presidential election years and this year is no exception. Don Balmer of Lewis and Clark College rounds up the usual suspects of pollsters, media consultants, campaign professionals, and academics to candidly review the strategies, issues, and results of the campaign winners and losers in the region. This fun-filled Friday evening event of behind-the-campaign-scene-revelations provided valuable insights for understanding a momentous election.

The 1996 Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association was an exciting opportunity for collegial interaction and professional development at a time of profound historical upheaval. The PNWPSA has traditionally welcomed the attendance and participation of our political science colleagues, who for one reason or another, location, size of department, budget, community college status, or whatever do not have a regular opportunity to meet with colleagues from other schools in the area who share the same teaching and scholarly interests. The PNWPSA provides an atmosphere where such encounters can take place in a congenial social and scholarly environment. We urge you to discover for yourself what this unique Political Science Association has to offer.

Thursday, November 7 evening

5:00-7:30 Registration - Mezzanine

6:00-9:00 EVENING RECEPTION - Cambridge Room

Friday, November 8

7:15-8:20 Executive Council Breakfast Meeting

8:00-11:00 am Registration - Mezzanine

Panels:

Friday, 8:30-10:00a

ISSUES IN PUBLIC LAW

Moderator: William Haltom, University of Puget Sound

Papers: "Aboriginal Justice Initiatives in Canada," Katherine Chiste, University of Lethbridge; "The Invisible Community: The First Amendment in Cyberspace," Howard Schweber, Cornell University; "Thomas v. Ginsberg: Examining Modes of Constitutional Interpretation on Both Ends of the Court," James Giordano, Washington State University-Pullman

Discussant: Robert W. Langran, Villanova University

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Moderator: Larry Luton, Eastern Washington University

Papers: "The Administrative Challenges of Ecosystem Management: A Case Study of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem," Larry Luton; "Race, Class and the Environment: The Struggle of the Environmental Justice Movement," Tammy Terrio, Western Washington University; "Agencies, Political Alienation and Problems in Managing Rural Landscapes," Kathleen O. Jackson & David Jackson, University of Montana

Discussant: Meredith Newman, Washington State University-Vancouver

10:30-noon

ROUNDTABLE: PRESIDENTIAL -CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS AFTER THE 1996 ELECTIONS

Brandon Haller, University of Oregon

Carolyn Long, Washington State University-Vancouver

Lance LeLoup, Washington State University-Pullman

SUBNATIONAL POLITICS AND POLICIES I

Moderator: Stephanie Witt, Boise State University

Papers: "An Urban County Government for the New Century," Douglas Nilson, Idaho State University; "Presidential Voting Across the States," Robert Jackson, Washington State University; "Why States Choose Choice as an Education Policy Option," Michael Buckley, Washington State University; "The Virtual University: A Figment of the Western Governors Association," W. David Patton, Boise State University

Discussant: Richard Clucas, Portland State University

ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY

Moderator: Blaine Garvin, Gonzaga University

Papers: "Radicals, Doctrinaires, and the Modernizing Power: The Strange Case of Liberalism in Imperial Brazil," Robert Chisholm, University of Pittsburgh; "The Power of Identity: Politics in a New Key," Kenneth Hoover, Western Washington University; "Healing Ideas: The Health of the Self and the Problem of Politics in Plato's Republic," Robert Geroux, University of Minnesota; "Natural Equality and the Question of Membership in Locke's Second Treatise," Peter Josephson, University of New Hampshire

Discussant: Maurice Foisy, Western Washington University
Lunch 12:00-1:30p

1:30-3:30

ROUNDTABLE ON THE COURTS

David Adler, Idaho State University

Cornell Clayton, Washington State University

Donald Crowley, University of Idaho

James Foster, Oregon State University

Daniel Levin, Boise State University

Gene Straughan, Lewis Clark College

SUBNATIONAL POLITICS AND POLICIES II

Moderator: Meredith Newman, Washington State University-Vancouver

Papers: "Middle Managers in Local Government: The Effects of Re-Inventing Government," Douglas Morgan, Portland State University; "Regime Change and Continuity in Seattle," David Vega, University of Washington; "Attention Accorded to Local Government Issues by State Legislators: The Effects of Prior Service in City or County Government," Meredith Newman, Washington State University-Vancouver & Nicholas Lovrich, Washington State University-Pullman; "Local Government in Alaska: Centralized Funding and Decentralized Authority,"

Clive Thomas, University of Alaska-Juneau

Discussant: Timothy Jeske, Yakima Valley Community College

GLOBAL POWER, COOPERATION AND PEACE

Moderator: Lisa Carlson: University of Idaho

Papers: "The Limits of Liberal Peace: Why is it Hard for New Developing Democracies to Join the Club?" Andrew K. Milton, University of Oregon; "The New Realist Paradigm and The Peoples Republic of China: A Case Study of Global Power Limitations," John Scire, University of Nevada; "The Development of Institutional Cooperation: Three Ascending Stages,"

Terrence E. Cook, Washington State University-Pullman; "All Party Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland," Richard Moore, Lewis Clark College

Discussant: Lisa Carlson, University of Idaho

3:15-4:45p

ELECTION RULES, VOTER TURNOUT AND ISSUE VOTING

Moderator: Donald McCrone, University of Washington

Papers: "The National Voter Registration Act and Voter Turnout in the States: The Road Not Taken," Jerry Calvert, Montana State

University; "The Effect of Vote-by-Mail on Turnout in the Special Senate Election in Oregon," Priscilla Southwell, University of Oregon & Justin Burchett, University of Oregon; "Does Vote-by-Mail Increase Voter Turnout? Ecological Inferences, Spatial Dependence, and Other Methodological Nightmares," Susan Banducci, Oregon State University & Jeffrey Karp, University of Puget Sound; "The Correlates of Tolerance: Analyzing Statewide Voting on Anti-Gay Initiatives," Stephanie Witt, Boise State University & Les Alm, Boise State University

Discussant: Todd Donovan, Western Washington University

CHALLENGES TO THE STATE IN THE THIRD WORLD

Moderator: Claude Pomerleau, University of Portland;

Papers: "Negotiating Turkish Identity: The Case of the People's Labor Party in Turkey," Nicole Watts, University of Washington; "Between State and Society: Changing Relations between the Egyptian Government and al-Azhar," Tamir Moustafa, University of Washington; "Reconsidering the Military in Africa: The Nature of Discipline in the Armed Forces of Mozambique," Eric T. Young, Boise State University

Discussant: Rose Bettencourt, Portland Community College
5:30-6:00p No Host Social

6:00p Election Post Mortem Dinner

Saturday, 7:30-8:00a Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:00a General Membership Meeting

9:00-10:30a

PRACTICUM IN NEW EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCE

David Waguespack, University of Oregon

Steve Millman, Western Washington University

CULTURAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Moderator: Phil Wittman, Carroll College

Papers: "KMT, Inc.: Party Capitalism in Taiwan's Developmental State, Karl Fields, University of Puget Sound; "The Cultural Dimension of Domestic Security in the United States and Canada," Vernon Johnson, Western Washington University; "Democracy and Chinese Political Discourses," Yali Peng, University of Oregon; "Changing Methods in the Study of Post-Soviet Russian Politics," Deone Terrio, Oregon State University

Discussant: Tom Lewis, University of Washington

POLICY ISSUES IN THE 90s

Moderator: Sara Weir, Western Washington University

Papers: "Legislative Tenure and the Term Limits Movement in the Pacific Northwest," Steven Millman, Western Washington University; "Do Local DUI Education Programs Work?" Steven Stehr, Washington State University

Discussant: Sara Weir, Western Washington University

10:45-12:15

WHEN PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC VALUES COLLIDE

Moderator: Donna Loper, Washington State University-Vancouver; "Telecommunications Policy," Richard Olufs, Pacific Lutheran University; Papers: "Medical Data: Personal Privacy and the Law," Jeff Johnson, Eastern Oregon State

Discussants: Candy Morgan, Fort Vancouver Regional Library & Sandy O'Rourke, Southwest Washington Medical Center

INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES IN US POLITICS

Moderator: Marcy Everest, Weber State University

Papers: "Clarifying the CNN Effect: An Examination of Media Effects According to Type of Military Intervention," Steven Livingston, George Washington University; "The Relationship Between Voter Turnout and Ballot Measures: A Test of Three Hypothesis," Pamela Paaso,

University of Oregon & Priscilla Southwell, University of Oregon; "Political Explanations for the Difficulties in Congressional Budgeting," Patrick Fisher, Univ. of Idaho

Discussant: Jerry Medler, University of Oregon

HISTORY AND POLITICS

Moderator: Melody Rose-Butler, Portland State University

Papers: "Liberal Technology, Republican Science: Rationalizing Principles in Ante-bellum Political Theory," Howard Schweber, Cornell University; "Typical American Boys: The Chad Mitchell Trio and the Disintegration of the American Center," Megan Serenco, University of Puget Sound

Discussant: Stuart W. Schulman, University of Oregon

12:30 New Executive Council Meeting

Note: Special Events:

Friday Lunch Topic and Speaker: "Neoliberalism and Demise of the Mexican State"

Salvador Paniche, Sustainable Development Institute, University of British Columbia

Friday Evening: No Host Social Hour

Election Post Mortem Dinner: Winners, Losers and Whatnot