Pacific Northwest
Political Science Association
Annual Meeting 2009
October 15-17, 2009
Fairmont Empress Hotel
Victoria, British Columbia

 

PROGRAM • CALL FOR PAPERS • REGISTRATION • SCRAPBOOK

Please plan to attend the 2009 annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, in Victoria, British Columbia. Contact the appropriate section chair to propose papers or to serve as a panel chair or discussant. The Association welcomes the participation proposals of advanced graduate students but a letter of endorsement by a faculty sponsor should accompany the proposal. If you would like to propose a special panel in addition to the ones listed below, please contact Cornell Clayton at cornell@mail.wsu.edu. Deadline for proposals is August 7, 2009.

Location and Accommodations The 2009 PNWPSA conference will be held October 15 – 17 at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC. We have a set number of rooms reserved at the Empress, and members can call to reserve their rooms at 250-384-8111 or 1-800-441-1414. As with last year, they should identify themselves as a PNWPSA participant. The standard room rate will be $147 Canadian (approx. $135 US) per night, not including tax and parking. This room rate is guaranteed until September 15, 2009. Please reserve as soon as possible. You will need a current passport to enter Canada.

Download a registration form in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat. You may pay online using Brown Paper Tickets.

 

Thursday, October 15

     

      Registration: 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

      Opening Reception: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 

Friday, October 16

 

      Executive Council Meeting: 7:00 am – 8:30 am

      Registration: 8:00 am –  5:00 pm

      Session 1: 8:30 am – 10:00 am

      Session 2: 10:15 am – 11:45 am

      Lunch: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

      Session 3: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

      Session 4: 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

 

Saturday, October 17

 

      Breakfast & General Membership Meeting:  7:00 am – 8:45 am

      Session 5: 9:00 am – 10:30 am

      Session 6: 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

 

      PNWPSA Annual meeting adjourned at 12:15 pm

 

 

Thursday, October 15

 

 

Registration: 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 

Upper Lobby South

 

 

Opening Reception: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 

Tea Lobby, featuring complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar

 

Sponsored by The Foley Institute

 

 

Friday, October 16

 

 

Executive Council Meeting: 7:00 am – 8:30 am

 

Douglas Suite

 

 

Registration: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

 

Upper Lobby South

 

 

 

1-A. International Relations: Post-Conflict Issues:

         Aid and Territorial Integrity – Kensington Room

 

Chair: Claire Metelits, Washington State University

 

“The Profit of Humanitarian Assistance”

Lisa Burke, University of Denver

 

“Czech Relations with Austria in the Post-Czechslovak Era”

Robert Evanson, University of Missouri, Kansas City

 

“Territorial Integrity and Self-Determination”

H.B. McCullough, UBC Okanagan

 

“Pursuing ‘Normal’: Assessing Conformance with New

     Priorities in Japan’s ODA”

Cameron Otopalik, Central Washington University

 

Discussant: Claire Metelits, Washington State University

 

 

1-B. State and Local Politics – Kiplings

 

Chair: Clive S. Thomas, University of Alaska Southeast

 

“Obstacles to the Development of Renewable Energy at the

     State and Local Level: NIMBY and Beyond”

Christopher A. Simon, University of Nevada - Reno

 

“The State of Transportation Policy in the Pacific Northwest:

     A Long Term Analysis”

Andrew R. Thomas, Washington State University

 

Discussant: Jasper LiCalzi, The College of Idaho

 

 

1-C. Political Theory: Democratic Engagement:

        Diverse Approaches – St. James Room

 

Chair: Simon Glezos, University of Victoria

 

“Identity and Democratic Engagement”

Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria

 

“The Micropolitics of Democratic Engagement”

Loren King, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

“Foucault’s Care of the Self: Democratic Possibilities”

James Wong, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

Discussant: Simon Glezos, University of Victoria

 

 

1-D. Media and Politics: Fairness in Media Coverage - Balmoral

 

Chair: Kathleen Searles, Washington State University

 

“Explaining Variations in Fairness of Local and National

     Newspaper Candidate Coverage”

Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University

Eric Hill, Washington State University

 

“Hometown Hero to National Celebrity: How Alaska, Idaho

     and National Newspapers Covered Sarah Palin’s

     Candidacy for Vice President”

Kenton Bird, University of Idaho

 

“Measuring Balance and Fairness in Network News Coverage

of Presidential State of the Union Messages”

Robert C. Fordan, Central Washington University

Todd M. Schaefer, Central Washington University

 

Discussants: Kathleen Searles, Washington State University

                     and Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University

 

 

1-E. Race and Ethnicity: Issues of Class and Race in

         Latin America – Blanshard Suite

Chair: Martín Meráz-García, Eastern Washington University

 

 

“The Path to Political Autonomy in the Atlantic Coast of

Nicaragua: Strategic Alliances Between Indigenous Peoples

and Armed Groups during the Contra War”

Bruno Baltodano, Washington State University

“Landless Sandinista and Contra Peasants; A Current 

     Assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution”

Martín Meráz-García, Eastern Washington University

 

“Conversations with Revolutionaries: Coming Together

to Win a Revolution”

Joe Huseby, Washington State University

 

Discussant: Martha Cottam, Washington State University

 

 

 

 

2-A. Politics in Canada – Kensington Room

 

Chair: Dennis Pilon, University of Victoria

 

“Public-Public Partnerships: An alternative to pimping

         public projects”

Stephen Elliott-Buckley, CUPE Research

Robin Roff, CUPE Research

 

“Constitutional Conventions: The devils in the details”

Andrew Heard, Simon Fraser University

 

“Parks, Preserves and Primary Accumulation: A foundational experience of conservation as dispossession in the

Upper Ottawa Valley, Canada”

James Lawson, University of Victoria

 

Discussant: Dennis Pilon, University of Victoria

 

 

2-B. Law and Courts: The Politics of Law, Courts and

         Court-Like Institutions – Kiplings

 

Chair: Don Crowley, University of Idaho

 

“Political Regimes and U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeal”

Ericka Christensen, Washington State University

Jason B. McConnell, Washington State University

 

“Blind Faith and Blind Justice: How American Constitutionalism

is an Impediment to Fairness”

Kerry L. Hunter, The College of Idaho

 

“Explanation and Interpretation: A Working Theory of

         Constitutional Evidence”

Jeffrey Johnson, Eastern Oregon University

 

“The Supreme Court of Canada and Reproductive Autonomy: Implications for Reproductive Technologies”

Dave Snow, University of Calgary

 

Discussant: Don Crowley, University of Idaho

 

 

2-C. Comparative Politics: Labor and Markets – St. James Room

 

Chair: Doh C. Shin, University of Missouri at Columbia

 

“Joining the Last Stage of Economic and Monetary Union:

The Cases of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia”

Assem M. Dandashly, University of Victoria

 

“South African Coloureds as a Privileged Proletariat”

Vernon D. Johnson, Western Washington University

 

“Peace and Political Economy: Labor Markets and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland”

Niall Ó Murchú, Western Washington University

 

“Enter the Dragon: Institutional Developments in

Sub-Saharan African Economies”

Robert Farkash, American Military University

 

Discussant: Marlea Clarke, University of Athabasca

 

 

 

2-D. Public Administration – Balmoral Room

 

Chair: Christopher A. Simon, University of Nevada - Reno

 

“Internationalizing Public Administration: Acting Globally,

     Thinking Locally”

      Jack Corbett, Portland State University

 

“The Politics of State Renewable Energy Programs”

Charles Davis, Colorado State University

      Sandra Davis, Colorado State University

 

“Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in two diverse

     states, New York and Oklahoma”

Sandra J. Johnson, Lehman College

 

“Types of Agency by Mission: Analyzing Korean Agencies”

Yoon-Ho Kim, The University of Seoul

 

Discussant: Sid Olufs, Pacific Lutheran University

 

 

2-E. Race and Ethnicity: New Research on Immigrant

          Communities – Blanshard Suite

 

Chair: Gilberto Garcia, Central Washington University

 

 

“Immigration enforcement’s discontents: The creation

     and endurance of the American sanctuary city”

Ben Gonzalez, University of Washington

 

“Interest Group Identity and Immigration: An Exploration

     of Goal Setting Behavior”

Robin Jacobson, University of Puget Sound

 

“The Politics of Immigrant Political Integration: The Role

     of the Receiving Community”

Francisco Pedraza, University of Washington

 

Discussant: Gilberto Garcia, Central Washington University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crystal Ballroom

 

Vaughn Palmer, Lunch Speaker

 

Vaughn Palmer has been the Vancouver Sun’s provincial political columnist, based in Victoria, since 1984. He hosts Voice of B.C., an hour-long interview show on Shaw TV and also does commentaries on CKNW radio, based in Vancouver. For 22 years, he has done a weekly commentary on Canadian news on KUOW, the NPR radio station at the University of Washington. During that time he has covered eight premiers (and counting, judging from the latest opinion polls). Palmer attended the University of B.C. He also attended Stanford University on a journalism fellowship in 1982-83. He is a past winner of the Bruce Hutchison award for lifetime achievement from the Jack Webster Foundation and of the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism from the Canadian Public Policy Forum.

 

 

 

3-A. Current Political Issues in the Pacific Northwest:

          A Roundtable – Kensington Room

 

Chair: Clive Thomas, University of Alaska Southeast

 

Montana Representative

Seán Patrick Eudaily, University of Montana Western

 

Idaho Representative

Jasper LiCalzi, The College of Idaho

 

Oregon Representative

William M. Lunch, Oregon State University

 

British Columbia Representative

Dennis Pilon, University of Victoria

 

Washington Representative

T.M. Sell, Highline College

 

Alaska representative

Clive S. Thomas, University of Alaska Southeast

 

 

3-B. American Politics – Kiplings

 

Chair: Kevin Pirch, Eastern Washington University

 

“Home Affordability and Vote Choice in the 2000

     Presidential Election: Evidence from U.S. Counties”

George Hawley, University of Houston

 

“Public Health and Deregulation: Searching for a New

     Narrative at the FDA?”

Sid Olufs, Pacific Lutheran University

 

“Automatic for the People: Political Party Identification

     and the Automaticity of Affect”

Shea Robison, Idaho State University

Kathleen C. McCulloch, Idaho State University

 

“Demographic Determinants of Public Opinion on Same

     Sex Marriage and Other Gay Rights Issues”

Priscilla Southwell, University of Oregon

 

“The Truth Commission in the American Political System”

Stuart Streichler, University of Washington

 

Discussant: Todd Schaefer, Central Washington University

 

 

3-C. Comparative Politics: Transitional Justice – St. James Room

 

Chair: Steve Ropp, University of Wyoming

 

“On Spirits and Social Reconstruction in northern Uganda: Rethinking the Field of Transitional Justice”

Erin Baines, University of British Columbia

 

“The Three R’s of Transitional Justice: Reparation,

     Responsibility, and Reframing in Canada and Argentina”

Michelle Bonner, University of Victoria

Matt James, University of Victoria

 

“Forgiving but not Forgetting: The Politics of Indigenous

     Truth-Telling in Canada”

Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria

 

“Truthfulness in Reconciliation: Just a Means to an End?”

Cindy Holder, University of Victoria

 

Discussant: Pablo Policzer, University of Calgary

 

 

3-D. Professionalization Roundtable – Balmoral Room

 

Chair: Rorie Solberg, Oregon State University

 

“Getting Ready for Tenure”

Rorie Solberg, Oregon State University

 

“Getting Ready for the Job Market”

Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin

 

“Getting Published in Journals”

Cornell Clayton, Washington State University

 

“Applying for Grants”

Todd Donovan, Western Washington University

 

“Selling Book Manuscripts”

Andrew Valls, Oregon State University

 

 

3-E. Politics and the Environment – Blanshard Suite

 

Chair: Debra Salazar, Western Washington University

 

“Fostering environmental citizenship and reducing carbon intensity”

Andrea Thomas, Western Washington University

Craig McConnell, Washington State University – Extension

Joyce Jimerson, Washington State University – Extension

Troy Abel, Western Washington University

 

“Activating Ecological Citizenship with International

Environmental Service-Learning”

Troy Abel, Western Washington University

Jennifer Kelly, Michigan State University

 

 

 

         “EPA and the Evolution of Community Involvement Policy”

Mark Stephan, Washington State University

 

Discussant: Debra Salazar, Western Washington University

 

 

 

4-A. Political Theory: Reinterpreting the Canon – Kensington Room

 

Chair: Curtis Johnson, Lewis & Clark College

 

“Plato’s Symposium”

Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Simon Fraser University

 

“Edmund Burke’s Critique of British Imperialism Prior to

         Hastings’ Impeachment”

Benjamin Mitchell, United States Military Academy

 

“William James, Pluralism and the Science of Religious Experience”

Dylan Weller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

 

Discussant: Curtis Johnson, Lewis & Clark College

 

 

4-B. Comparative Politics: Debates on Democracy – Kiplings

 

Chair: Michelle Bonner, University of Victoria

 

“Genocide in Chile? An assessment”

Pablo Policzer, University of Calgary

Maureen Hiebert

 

“Is Democracy Emerging as a Universal Value? A

Contrarian Perspective”

Doh Chull Shin, University of Missouri at Columbia

Nicholas Spina, University of Missouri at Columbia

 

“The dynamics of the public opinion in the Basque Country

thirty years after the Statute of Guernica”

César García, Central Washington University

“Quranic Studies Legitimizing Change for Muslim Women 

     in Egypt and Malaysia”

Vanessa Mousavizadeh, University of Oregon

 

Discussant: Steve Ropp, University of Wyoming

 

 

4-C. Law and Courts: Roundtable on Supreme Court Politics

      –  St. James Room

 

Chair: William Haltom, University of Puget Sound

 

Don Crowley, University of Idaho

 

Todd Lochner, Lewis & Clark College

 

Steve Shaw, Northwest Nazarene University

 

         Simon Zschirnt, Washington State University

 

Discussant: William Haltom, University of Puget Sound

 

 

4-D. Media and Politics: Candidate, Interest Group and

          Economic Influences on Media Coverage – Balmoral Room

 

Chair: Kenton Bird, University of Idaho

 

“Negativity as a Tool: Predicting Negative Responses in

         the 2008 Campaign Season”

Loren Collingwood, University of Washington

Marcela García-Castañon, University of Washington

 

“Testing the Reliability of Electronic Newspaper Databases”

Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University

Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University

Kathleen Searles, Washington State University

 

“The Political Implications of Recent Media Developments”

Jerry Medler, University of Oregon

 

“Conservative Opposition Media Strategies, Actions, and

Effects during the Clinton and Obama Administrations”

Robert Sahr, Oregon State University

 

Discussants: Kenton Bird, University of Idaho

 and Loren Collingwood, University of Washington

4-E. Roundtable on Indigenous Peoples’ Politics:

         The Challenge of Self-Determination – Blanshard Suite

 

Chair: Seán Patrick Eudaily, University of Montana Western

 

Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria

 

Carla Lewis, University of Victoria

 

Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia

 

Chaw-win-is Ogilvie, University of Victoria

 

Molly Wickham, University of Victoria

 

Discussant: Seán Patrick Eudaily, University of Montana Western

 

 

Saturday, October 17

 

 

Breakfast and General Membership Meeting:  7:00 – 8:45 am

 

Location: Crystal Ballroom

 

The buffet opens at 7:00 am, and the meeting begins at 7:30.

 

 

Registration: 8:45 am – 12:00 pm

 

Location: Palm Court

 

 

 

5-A. Political Theory: Contemporary Political Thought

         – Kensington Room

 

Chair: R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria

 

“Rorty’s Liberal Utopia and Huxley’s ‘Island’”

William Curtis, University of Portland

 

 

 

“Jacques Rancière and the Paradox of Political Education”

Rachel Magnusson, York University

 

“A Foucault for Political Scientists?”

Warren Magnusson, University of Victoria

 

Discussant: R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria

 

 

5-B. Comparative Politics: Immigration, NGOs and

          Constitutions – Buckingham Room

 

Chair: Feng Xu, University of Victoria

 

“A Comparative Study of Immigration Policy after 9/11 in

Canada and United States”

Lauretta Conklin Frederking, University of Portland

 

“Immigration Politics in the New Germany”

Eliot Dickinson, Western Oregon University

 

“Different methods, same apathy: how amending procedures affect public acceptance of the constitution in Canada and Germany”

Wolfgang Depner, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

 

Discussant: Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria

 

 

5-C. Teaching Political Science – St. James Room

 

Chair: Timothy D. Jeske, Yakima Valley Community College

 

“Technology and Pedagogy: Teaching the ‘Net Gen’”

Janni Aragon, University of Victoria

 

“The Political Science Undergraduate/Graduate Joint

Research Project”

Season Hoard, Washington State University

Jenny Holland, Washington State University

Kathleen Searles, Washington State University

 

Discussant: Timothy D. Jeske, Yakima Valley Community College

 

 

 

 

 

5-D. Campaigns and Elections – Balmoral Room

 

Chair: Todd Donovan, Western Washington University

 

“Women Candidates and Russian Regional Elections in

     Putin’s Authoritarian State”

Dawn Nowacki, Linfield College

Rebekah Shrader, Linfield College

 

“When did the Campaign End? An Examination of the Timing of Vote Returns in the 2008 General Election in Washington State”

Kevin Pirch, Eastern Washington University

 

“Psychology and Politics: How could anyone (beside the rich)

vote for George Bush?”

Peter Prontzos, Langara College Vancouver

“The electoral consequences of the presence of asylum seekers 

     on support for far right parties in English local elections”

David Brockington, University of Plymouth

 

Discussant: Todd Donovan, Western Washington University

 

 

 

 

6-A. Comparative Politics: Political Parties – Kensington Room

 

Chair: Jeremy Wilson, University of Victoria

 

“Party Leadership Politics in Comparative Perspective:

Examining the Westminster Cases”

      Andre Blais, Carleton University

      William Cross, Carleton University

 

“Electoral verdict and regional politics in India: Continuity or

change in 2009?”

      Arijit Mazumdar, University of St. Thomas

 

“The Influence of Candidate-Selection Methods on Legislative Performance in Pakistan”

      Mariam Mufti, Johns Hopkins University

 

“France’s Gender Parity Reforms at Ten: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of their Impact”

      Jocelyne Praud, University of Regina

 

Discussant: Dennis Pilon, University of Victoria

 

 

6-B. International Relations: Globalization and Trade

         – Buckingham Room

 

Chair: Ritu Lauer, Peninsula College

 

“Domestic Health Policies and International Trade: The Framework”

Mark Crawford, Athabasca University

 

“The WTO Trade Dispute and the Case of a Disaggregated State:

Why Canada Defended Products Containing Asbestos”

Anna Lanoszka, University of Windsor

 

“Globalization and Citizens’ Support for Global Capitalism:

Analyses from the World-Systems Perspective”

Satoshi Machida, University of Nebraska at Kearney

 

Discussant: Ritu Lauer, Peninsula College

 

 

6-C. Race and Ethnicity: The Obama-phenomenon and

         Race Relations in America – St. James Room

 

Chair: Martín Meráz-García, Eastern Washington University

 

“Accounting for both Perceived and Actual Race of Interviewer Effects in Survey Research”

Loren Collingwood, University of Washington

 

“The Latino Political Challenge to the Black-White Paradigm”

Gilberto Garcia, Central Washington University

 

“The Age of Reaction: White Backlash to Civil Rights Policies”

William Lunch, Oregon State University

 

“Political Allegiance under a Black President”

Christopher Towler, University of Washington

 

Discussant: Vernon D. Johnson, Western Washington University

 

 

6-D. Political Theory: Race, Gender, and Citizenship - Balmoral

 

Chair: Bradley Bryan, University of Victoria

 

“They’re All Wrong: Misinterpretations of Frederick Douglass”

Nicholas Buccola, Linfield College

 

“The Biopolitics of Pig Farms: Willy Pickton and the Downtown

East Side”

Lisa Burke, University of Denver

 

“Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East: A New Paradigm”

Shirin Saeidi, University of Cambridge

 

Discussant: Bradley Bryan, University of Victoria