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Theme Panels
    T-1   Theme Panel: How Constitutions Work: Developmental Approaches to Constitutional Function
    T-2   Theme Panel: The Idea of Change and the Problem of Politics
    T-3   Theme Panel: Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change in an Age of Turbulence
    T-4   Theme Panel: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008: Remembrance and Legacy
    T-5   Theme Panel: Comparative State Reactions to LGBT Rights Claims
    T-6   Theme Panel: Change and Complexity in International Migration
    T-7   Theme Roundtable: Does Postcommunism Still Make Sense as an Analytical Framework?
    T-8   Theme Panel: Understanding a Complex World: Complexity Theory and Political Science?
    T-9   Theme Panel: Health System Complexity and Change: Measuring the Politics of Delivering Care
    T-10   Theme Roundtable: International Governance and Global Democracy
    T-11   Theme Roundtable: Just How Different? Sexual Politics in Canada and the United States
    T-12   Theme Roundtable: The Principles of Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities
    T-14   Theme Panel: The Globalization of the 'French Model': A Turning Point in Ethnic and Racial Politics?
    T-15   Theme Panel: Rethinking State Policy Diffusion
    T-16   Theme Panel: Intersectional Analysis of Comparative Politics
    T-17   Theme Roundtable: 2008 and the Future of the American Party Coalitions
    T-18   Theme Panel: Web 2.0 and Social Media in the 2008 Elections and Beyond
    T-19   Theme Panel: Neuropsychology and International Politics
    T-20   Theme Roundtable: New Waves in Political Philosophy
    T-21   Theme Panel: Citizens' Assemblies and Deliberative Democracy
    T-22   Theme Panel: "Forgotten Partnership" Remembered: U.S.-Canada Relations 25 Years Later
    T-23   Theme Roundtable: Obama and the Cities
    T-24   Theme Panel: Canadian Human Rights Commissions
    T-25   Theme Roundtable: Political Science and the Shifting Study of Economic Development
    T-26   Theme Panel: Educating Students to be Global Citizens
    T-27   Theme Roundtable: Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Crisis?
    T-28   Theme Panel: The Politics and Governance of Multiculturalism in Toronto
    T-29   Theme Panel: History, Identity, Political Violence: The Relative Merits of Qualitative Methods to Explain Complex and Dynamic Phenomena

1   Political Thought and Philosophy
    1-1   Roundtable on James Tully's 'Public Philosophy in a New Key'
    1-2   Roundtable: Motivating Politics: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Reason and Desire
    1-3   Religion and Modern Politics in Spinoza and Rousseau
    1-4   The Politics of Hunger
    1-5   Roundtable: After the Cambridge School and Postmodernism: Rethinking Approaches to the History of Political Thought
    1-6   Tocqueville’s Views on America After 1840: What Would the Third Volume of "Democracy in America" Have Looked Like Had It Ever Been Written?
    1-7   Roundtable: Clinton Rossiter's CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP: CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN THE MODERN DEMOCRACIES: Still Relevant?
    1-8   Critical Perspectives on Global Democracy and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
    1-9   Foundings and the History of Political Thought
    1-10   Rawls and the History of Political Liberalism
    1-11   Liberty, Commerce and Virtue: Historical and Theoretical Reflections on the Scottish Enlightenment
    1-12   The Uses and Abuses of George Orwell in the Twenty-First Century
    1-13   Roundtable: "The West" as Category and Concept
    1-14   Rhetoric, Representation, Authorization
    1-15   Global Justice and Transnational Politics
    1-16   Nature, Technology and Biopolitics
    1-17   Rethinking Teleology and Liberalism
    1-18   Democracy, Agonism and Power
    1-19   Rights, Self-Determination and Difference
    1-20   Machiavelli’s Methods for Addressing "Politics in Motion"
    1-21   Tocqueville and the Analysis of Democratic Politics
    1-22   Theme Panel: The Idea of Change and the Problem of Politics
    1-23   Histories of Liberty
    1-24   Political Inheritance and Critique
    1-25   Cultivating Agency in Locke, Rousseau and Mill
    1-26   Comparative Political Thought: Perspectives on the State of Nature
    1-27   Recognition, Civility and Political Discourse
    1-28   Comparative Political Theory Applied: Change and Hybridity in the Study of Political Thought
    1-29   Territorial Right and Global Justice
    1-30   Political Theory and Teaching
    1-31   Platonic Dialogues on Political Science and Political Virtue

2   Foundations of Political Theory
    2-1   Roundtable on James Tully's 'Public Philosophy in a New Key'
    2-2   Roundtable: After the Cambridge School and Postmodernism: Rethinking Approaches to the History of Political Thought
    2-3   Tocqueville’s Views on America After 1840: What Would the Third Volume of "Democracy in America" Have Looked Like Had It Ever Been Written?
    2-4   Athens Within Jerusalem: Contemporary Re-readings of Leo Strauss
    2-5   Foundations of Political Theory Plenary: Charles Taylor, "The Many Forms of Secularism"
    2-6   The Political Thought of Isaiah Berlin: Neglected Dimensions and Continuing Legacies
    2-7   Form, Content, and Contingency: The Contours of Political Theory
    2-8   Politics and/as Drive
    2-9   "We are all democrats now..."
    2-10   Roundtable on Stephen K. White's "The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen"
    2-11   Political Theory as Subfield and Profession?
    2-12   Political Theory Today: Results and Implications of a National Survey
    2-13   The People Judge
    2-14   Focus on Metaphor: New Perspectives on Language and Discourse
    2-15   The Politics of Good Intentions
    2-16   "Capitalism and Christianity, American Style" by William E. Connolly
    2-17   Machiavelli and Democracy
    2-18   Fear of Images? Roundtable on Political Science and the Evasion of Visual Culture
    2-19   Critical Theory and Environmental Politics in the 21st Century: a look into the future with an eye on the past
    2-20   Decolonizing Mental Space: the Interior Struggle for Change and Liberation
    2-21   Politics and the Force of Habit
    2-22   Contesting Secular Modernities
    2-23   Nietzsche
    2-24   Bodies, Passions, de Beauvoir
    2-25   Politics, Ecology, and Equity
    2-26   Governmentality and Biopolitics
    2-27   Encountering the Other
    2-28   Deploying Arendt
    2-29   Theorizing the Social Sciences
    2-30   Judgment and Politics
    2-31   Democracy in Motion
    2-32   About Schmitt
    2-33   Concepts of the Political
    2-34   Vision, Narrative and Politics
    2-35   Liberalism, Ethics and Culture
    2-36   Citizenship and Civic Culture
    2-37   Tocqueville Confronts the Democratic Mind
    2-38   Plato and Political Life
    2-39   Psychologies of Democratic Contestation
    2-40   Nature, Science, and Democracy after Bruno Latour
    2-41   Political Possibility in the Novels of Jose Saramago
    2-42   The Rule of Law in Times of Emergency
    2-43   Misunderstanding Historical Injustice
    2-44   Theme Roundtable: New Waves in Political Philosophy
    2-45   Uses of Ranciere
    2-46   Spinoza and Critical Theory
    2-47   Deliberative Democracy and Mass Society
    2-48   Theme Roundtable: The Principles of Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities
    2-49   Authors Meet Critics: Roundtable on Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary
    2-50   Author Meets Critics: James Fishkin, When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
    2-51   Power, Governmentality and Social Change

3   Normative Political Theory
    3-1   Critical Perspectives on Global Democracy and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
    3-2   The People Judge
    3-3   Contesting Secular Modernities
    3-4   Misunderstanding Historical Injustice
    3-5   When are Citizens Responsible for the Actions of the State?
    3-6   The Authority of Democracy
    3-7   Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty" After 50 Years
    3-8   Unconventional Conventions in Just War Theory
    3-9   Democracy and Collective Wisdom
    3-10   Institutional Design and Democratic Legitimacy
    3-11   Toleration, Secularism, and the New Religious Pluralism
    3-12   Social Justice, the Public, and the City
    3-13   Deliberative Democracy and Mass Society
    3-14   Should Citizens Think?
    3-15   Can Cosmopolitanism co-exist with the Nation-State?
    3-16   Creating the Conditions for a Deliberative Democracy
    3-17   Immigrants and Emigrants
    3-18   The Moral Psychology of Choice and Coercion
    3-19   Free Market Libertarianism: Is There a Moral Defense?
    3-20   Taking Injustice Seriously
    3-21   Challenges to Multiculturalism
    3-22   Is Equality Possible?
    3-23   Theme Roundtable: International Governance and Global Democracy
    3-24   Theme Roundtable: The Principles of Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities
    3-25   Territorial Right and Global Justice
    3-26   Kant and Rawls
    3-27   The Complexities of Securing Rights and Democracy: A Round table on Corey Brettschneider's
    3-28   The Status of Party Primaries
    3-29   Author Meets Critics: Peter A. Meyers, CIVIC WAR AND THE CORRUPTION OF THE CITIZEN, University of Chicago Press, 2008
    3-30   Responsibilities of Care and Dilemmas of Freedom
    3-31   On Chaim Gans' Book "A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State" (OUP 2008)
    3-32   Theorizing Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship
    3-33   Democracy and the Distribution of Carework

4   Formal Political Theory
    4-1   Agency Models and the Politics of Agencies
    4-2   Models of Elections
    4-3   Bargaining Theory in Various Political Arenas
    4-4   Connecting the Branches
    4-5   Modeling Authoritarian Politics
    4-6   Warfighting Within and Across Nations
    4-7   Modeling Replacement in Democracy
    4-8   Aggregation of Preferences and Information
    4-9   Structural Estimation of Formal Models
    4-10   Reputation in International Politics

5   Political Psychology
    5-1   Race, Racisms, Xenophobia and Politics
    5-2   Candidate Evaluations
    5-3   Framing
    5-4   Values
    5-5   Political Information
    5-6   Deliberation and Social Networks
    5-7   Motivated Reasoning
    5-8   Information Processing
    5-9   Risk
    5-10   Affect and Emotions
    5-11   Personality and Politics
    5-12   Attributions and Judgments
    5-13   Correct Voting
    5-14   Biology, Genetics, and Politics
    5-15   Ideology
    5-16   Political Trust

6   Political Economy
    6-1   Corruption and the Sources of Democratic Success and Failure
    6-2   Comparative Subnational Politics and Political Economy in Asia
    6-3   The Politics and Geography of Development
    6-4   International Institutions and Domestic Policy Change
    6-5   The Political Economy of Trade Agreements and Trade Instruments: New Insights into Causes and Effects
    6-6   The Political Economy of Corruption
    6-7   Deliberation and Decision-Making in Monetary Policy Committees
    6-8   The Governance and Crisis of International Finance
    6-9   The Politics of Financial Crises: Responses to the 2007-2009 Crisis in Comparative and Historical Perspective
    6-10   Political Economy of Migrants' Financial Flows
    6-11   The Domestic Politics of Globalization in Developing Countries
    6-12   New Approaches to Regime Performance and Transition
    6-13   Pushing the Boundaries of Trade
    6-14   The Lobbying of Businesses, Bankers and Agencies
    6-15   Institutions of Monetary Policy
    6-16   The Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
    6-17   Democratic Representation and Policymaking
    6-18   Politics of Fiscal Policy
    6-19   Inequality and Redistribution
    6-20   The Economics of Voting Behavior
    6-21   The New Politics of Economic Policy Making in Japan
    6-22   Leadership and Rhetoric
    6-23   Trade and Partisanship
    6-24   Theme Roundtable: Political Science and the Shifting Study of Economic Development
    6-25   Varieties of Change in European Political Economy

7   Politics and History
    7-1   North, Wallis and Weingast's "Violence and Social Orders"
    7-2   The Persistence of Nationalism and Nation-Building in the 21st Century
    7-3   Bringing Sexual Orientation In: Gay Citizenship and American Political Development
    7-4   The Life and Scholarship of Charles Tilly
    7-5   Rethinking the American State: Historians and Political Scientists Converse
    7-6   Standardizing the American State: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
    7-7   Fresh Debates in Southern Politics: Race, Class, Religion, and Partisanship in a Changing American South
    7-8   Author Meets Readers: Sheldon Pollack's "War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State."
    7-9   New Perspectives on Congress and History
    7-10   The Political Analysis of Policy Development
    7-11   Shifting Modes of Governance: A Punitive Turn in American Social Policy?
    7-12   Social Movements and Their Tactics
    7-13   Engines of Change? American Political Parties in Historical Perspective
    7-14   Experts in the American Polity
    7-15   The Politics of Social Policy: Historical Perspectives
    7-16   Race and American Political Development
    7-17   Institutional Analysis of the Courts
    7-18   Economic Regulation in Historical and Comparative Perspective
    7-19   Presidential Development in Historical Perspective
    7-20   The Scholarly Legacy of Nelson W. Polsby

8   Political Methodology
    8-1   Experiments in the Study of Comparative Politics
    8-2   How Bayesian Methods Make the Study of Latin American Politics Substantially Better.
    8-3   Computational Models of Politics
    8-4   Structural Estimation of Formal Models
    8-5   New Approaches to Studying Public Opinion
    8-6   Quantitative Approaches to Human Rights
    8-7   Estimating Causal Effects
    8-8   Advances in Panel/TSCS/Multilevel Models
    8-9   Advances in Event History Models
    8-10   Advances in Quantitative Textual Analysis
    8-11   Advances in Ideal Point Estimation
    8-12   Advances in Studying Representation and Electoral Rules
    8-13   Advances in Studying Elections
    8-14   Using Network Analysis
    8-15   New Approaches to the Study of International Conflict
    8-16   Estimating Ideal Points in the U.S. Congress
    8-17   Networks of Advocates and Activists
    8-18   Statistical Models and Causal Inference: David Freedman's Dialogue with the Social Sciences
    8-19   Constructing Cross-National Datasets: Challenges and Lessons

9   Teaching and Learning in Political Science
    9-1   A New World of Political Science Pedagogy
    9-2   Challenges and Solutions in Teaching Critical Thinking in the American Government Course
    9-3   Beautiful Souls and Just Warriors: Gender, the Military, and Pedagogy
    9-4   Enhancing & Connecting Experiential Education & Civic Engagement
    9-5   Theme Panel: Educating Students to be Global Citizens
    9-6   Educating for Civic Engagement: Past, Present, and Future
    9-7   Improving Student Learning in Political Science Courses

10   Political Science Education
    10-1   A New World of Political Science Pedagogy
    10-2   Challenges and Solutions in Teaching Critical Thinking in the American Government Course
    10-3   Enhancing & Connecting Experiential Education & Civic Engagement
    10-4   Theme Panel: Educating Students to be Global Citizens
    10-5   Political Theory and Teaching
    10-6   Educating for Civic Engagement: Past, Present, and Future
    10-7   Improving Student Learning in Political Science Courses

11   Comparative Politics
    11-1   New Perspectives on Contention and Repression in Rural and Urban China
    11-2   Women, Immigrants and Labor Markets: Understanding and Responding to Labor Shortages and Low Fertility in Aging Societies
    11-3   Studying Interests and Distribution
    11-4   Modes of Democratic Partisan Accountability and Electoral Competition. Programmatic and/or Clientelistic Citizen-Politician Linkages?
    11-5   The Politics of International Migration
    11-6   Financial Crisis and Contemporary Capitalism
    11-7   Violence: What Does Comparative Politics Contribute Today to Understanding and Addressing Genocide and Civil War?
    11-8   Comparative Politics in a Globalized World: What Problems Ought it be Addressing
    11-9   Varieties of Economic Change?
    11-10   North, Wallis and Weingast's "Violence and Social Orders"
    11-11   Corruption and the Sources of Democratic Success and Failure
    11-12   Comparative Subnational Politics and Political Economy in Asia
    11-13   Institutional Origins of Capitalism
    11-14   Illiberal Politics in Liberal States: Studying The ‘Rough Edges of Democracy’
    11-15   More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World
    11-16   Democracy, Dictatorship, and Political Succession
    11-17   Civilian Targeting during Civil War: Exploring Sub-National Variation
    11-18   Diffusion Dynamics in Democratization Processes
    11-19   The Politics and Geography of Development
    11-20   Civilian Agency in Civil Wars
    11-21   Complexity and Clientelism: The Role of Mobilization and Regime Type
    11-22   The Politics of Settlers and Settlements in Contested Territories
    11-23   Inter-Ethnic Contact and Violence: From Pogroms and Riots to War and Genocide
    11-24   The Politics of Democratic Reversal
    11-25   The Persistence of Nationalism and Nation-Building in the 21st Century
    11-26   The New Comparative Political Economy of Latin America: Economic Liberalization and Beyond
    11-27   Islam and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
    11-28   Field Experiments on Democracy in Developing Countries
    11-29   Comparative Analyses of Administrative Politics, Delegation and Oversight
    11-30   Insurgent Governance of Civilians during Civil War
    11-31   Party Change: New Approaches to Old Questions
    11-32   Transformations of Business-Government Relations in Developing and Transition Economies
    11-33   Global Political City and International Affairs
    11-34   Comparative Political Economy of Health
    11-35   The Changing Political Economy of Human Capital Formation
    11-36   Political Parties and Elections in Divided Societies
    11-37   The Armed Forces In Business: Military Entrepreneurial Work in Comparative Perspective
    11-38   Resacralizing Imagined Communities: Rethinking Religion and Nationalism
    11-39   Theme Panel: Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change in an Age of Turbulence
    11-40   Experiments in the Study of Comparative Politics
    11-41   Democratization and Ethnic Minorities: Conflict, Protection, and Accommodation
    11-42   Migration and Democracy
    11-43   Coordinated Market Economies under Pressure
    11-44   New Methodological Approaches to Ethnicity and National Identity
    11-45   Transparency, Information and Governance
    11-46   Democracy, Elections, and Political (In)Stability
    11-47   The Remains of the State – Governance with(out) Government
    11-48   Modeling Party Performance over Time and Space
    11-49   Transitional Justice, Equality, and Reconciliation
    11-50   Decentralization, Democratization and Governance: Does Democracy Improve Local Governance in Decentralized Settings?
    11-51   Leadership and Policy Change in the Era of Complexity
    11-52   Domestic Politics of International Trade Policy
    11-53   Politics and Non-Tax Revenue: Examining Causal Mechanisms
    11-54   Health Policy, Crossing National Boundaries, and Ideological Paradigms
    11-55   New Approaches to Regime Performance and Transition
    11-56   The New Business Politics in Developing and Post-socialist Countries
    11-57   Political Engagement and Governance in Developing Democracies: New Experimental Evidence
    11-58   The Politics of Targeted Social Policy and Clientelism in Latin America
    11-59   Changing Business - State Relations in the Extractive Industries in Developing Economies
    11-60   Colonialism, Democracy, and Development
    11-61   China and India as Developmental Models?: The Conceptual Challenges and Policy Implications of the Chinese and Indian Developmental Paths
    11-62   Inequality and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective
    11-63   Tax Me If You Can: Renewed State-Building and Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist Europe
    11-64   Postcommunist Party Politics: Comparing Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
    11-65   Political Trust, Satisfaction, and Participation in Today's China
    11-66   The Politics of Inequality
    11-67   The (im)Possibility of Redistribution in Diverse Welfare States
    11-68   Actor Fragmentation and Civil Conflict
    11-69   Party Unity and Defection
    11-70   Measuring Quality of Government: Is There Room for Improvement?
    11-71   Territorial Autonomies and Multinational Federations: Innovation and Complexity in the Institutional Design of Multinational States
    11-72   The State and Gender Equality: Institutions, Policies and Movements
    11-73   Symbolic and Substantive Representation of Women : New Approaches
    11-74   Islam, Secularism, and Sexual Equality: Resistance and Change in Muslim Societies
    11-75   Is There a Multimethod Consensus in Comparative Politics?
    11-76   Decentralized Governance and Social Inequality

12   Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
    12-1   Democracy, Dictatorship, and Political Succession
    12-2   Civilian Targeting during Civil War: Exploring Sub-National Variation
    12-3   Diffusion Dynamics in Democratization Processes
    12-4   Civilian Agency in Civil Wars
    12-5   Complexity and Clientelism: The Role of Mobilization and Regime Type
    12-6   The New Comparative Political Economy of Latin America: Economic Liberalization and Beyond
    12-7   Islam and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
    12-8   Field Experiments on Democracy in Developing Countries
    12-9   Insurgent Governance of Civilians during Civil War
    12-10   Transformations of Business-Government Relations in Developing and Transition Economies
    12-11   The Armed Forces In Business: Military Entrepreneurial Work in Comparative Perspective
    12-12   The Remains of the State – Governance with(out) Government
    12-13   The Politics of International Finance: Capital Markets and Elections in the Developing World
    12-14   Theme Roundtable: Political Science and the Shifting Study of Economic Development
    12-15   How Bayesian Methods Make the Study of Latin American Politics Substantially Better.
    12-16   International Do-gooders and Domestic Political Economies
    12-17   State Responses to Liberalizing Global Pressures
    12-18   Effecting Social Change in a Globalized Era: Social Democracy, Inequality and Pro-Poor Policies
    12-19   FDI and the Changing Contours of Domestic Markets
    12-20   Urbanization and the Politics of the City in the Developing World
    12-21   Who/What are Elections Good For? Electoral Participation, Change and Voter Motivations in Select Developing Countries
    12-22   Mobilizing Ethnic and Class Identities
    12-23   Disaggregating Civil Wars
    12-24   The New Business Politics in Developing and Post-socialist Countries
    12-25   Political Engagement and Governance in Developing Democracies: New Experimental Evidence
    12-26   Islam and Political Mobilization in Southeast Asia
    12-27   Migration and Citizenship: National Identities in a Transnational World
    12-28   Migrants: Agents of Change?
    12-29   State Capacity and Change: National and Local Levels
    12-30   Governing Diversity: Inclusions and Exclusions
    12-31   The Politics of Ethnicity, Sectarianism and the State
    12-32   The Politics of Targeted Social Policy and Clientelism in Latin America
    12-33   Towards a New Political Economy of Rents: Late Development in Comparative Perspective
    12-34   The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
    12-35   Changing Business - State Relations in the Extractive Industries in Developing Economies
    12-36   Colonialism, Democracy, and Development
    12-37   China and India as Developmental Models?: The Conceptual Challenges and Policy Implications of the Chinese and Indian Developmental Paths
    12-38   Inequality and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective
    12-39   Local Politics in New Democracies: Patterns of Democratization in the Mexican States
    12-40   Democratization, State Strength and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Empirical and Conceptual Horizons
    12-41   Democratization in Latin America: Changes and Challenges
    12-42   From Rebels to Soldiers: Legitimizing Rebels and Militaries
    12-43   Conflicted: Violence, Coups and Their Ambiguous Consequences
    12-44   Social Origins of Party Systems and Party-System Change
    12-45   The New Role of Courts in Latin America: Arbiters of political conflicts or active defenders of rights?
    12-46   Federalism in Global Perspective: Foundings and Financing
    12-47   Mass Media and National Identity
    12-48   It's Not Easy Going Green
    12-49   Protest and Democratization in Latin America and East Asia
    12-50   Varieties of Presidentialism in Latin America: Origins, Scope and Consequences
    12-51   Agency under Authoritarianism
    12-52   Ethnicity, Religion and Traditional Authority in African Politics

13   The Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries
    13-1   New Perspectives on Contention and Repression in Rural and Urban China
    13-2   Theme Roundtable: Does Postcommunism Still Make Sense as an Analytical Framework?
    13-3   Roundtable: Where is Europe and What Does it Mean to be European?
    13-4   Energy as an Instrument of Russian Foreign Policy
    13-5   Pecularities of Postcommunist Electoral Behavior
    13-6   Tax Me If You Can: Renewed State-Building and Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist Europe
    13-7   Authoritarian Regime Building and Breakdown in Post-Soviet Eurasia
    13-8   Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years After the Fall of Communism
    13-9   The Postcommunist Democratic Experiment Twenty Years after 1989: Trajectories and Assessments
    13-10   Postcommunist Party Politics: Comparing Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
    13-11   Postcommunist Identity Politics
    13-12   Local Governance, Policy Implementation, and Authoritarian Rule in China
    13-13   Intellectuals in Politics
    13-14   Political Trust, Satisfaction, and Participation in Today's China
    13-15   Theme Roundtable: Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Crisis?
    13-16   The Ambiguous Political Legacies of EU Enlargment

14   Advanced Industrial Societies
    14-1   The Changing Political Economy of Human Capital Formation
    14-2   The Governance and Crisis of International Finance
    14-3   Ideas and Norms in Complex Political Orders
    14-4   Taxation and Institutional Change in Advanced Industrial States
    14-5   Modeling Complex Political Environments
    14-6   The New Politics of Labor
    14-7   Theme Panel: Understanding a Complex World: Complexity Theory and Political Science?
    14-8   Theme Roundtable: Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Crisis?
    14-9   The Financial Crisis - The Return of the Mixed Economy?
    14-10   The Politics of Inequality
    14-11   The (im)Possibility of Redistribution in Diverse Welfare States
    14-12   Conditions for Change: Reforming Advanced Welfare States
    14-13   Responses to New Immigration: The European Union in Comparative Perspective
    14-14   Anti-Americanism
    14-15   Welfare Preferences in a Post-Industrial Era
    14-16   Welfare State and Inequality
    14-17   Where is the Left?
    14-18   Youth, Culture and Football: Varieties of Nationalism in Advanced Industrial States
    14-19   The Complexity of Electoral System Change: The Role of Values

15   European Politics and Society
    15-1   Institutional Origins of Capitalism
    15-2   Roundtable: Where is Europe and What Does it Mean to be European?
    15-3   Conditions for Change: Reforming Advanced Welfare States
    15-4   Responses to New Immigration: The European Union in Comparative Perspective
    15-5   Welfare Preferences in a Post-Industrial Era
    15-6   The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: Lessons from Europe
    15-7   France and Europe: A Rekindled Affection?
    15-8   Welfare State and Inequality
    15-9   Extreme Politics
    15-10   A ‘Second Transition’ in Spain? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004-08)
    15-11   The Ambiguous Political Legacies of EU Enlargment
    15-12   Varieties of Change in European Political Economy
    15-13   Elites vs Citizens: Who Wants the European Union, Who Doesn't and Why
    15-14   Where is the Left?
    15-15   Youth, Culture and Football: Varieties of Nationalism in Advanced Industrial States
    15-16   The Human Rights Regime in Europe: Issues and Challenges
    15-17   Immigrants vs. National Identity? The Problem of Integration in Europe
    15-18   Rethinking Party Politics in Comparative Welfare State Research
    15-19   Judicial Politics in the European Union
    15-20   Facing a Religious Divide? Europe in the Twenty-first Century
    15-21   Causes and Consequences of Party Positions in European Democracies
    15-22   Europe and Elections

16   International Political Economy
    16-1   The Politics of International Migration
    16-2   International Institutions and Domestic Policy Change
    16-3   The Political Economy of Trade Agreements and Trade Instruments: New Insights into Causes and Effects
    16-4   Constructing US Trade Policy
    16-5   Migration Regimes: International Prospects and National Variations
    16-6   Illicit Flows and Controls
    16-7   The Political Economy of Corruption
    16-8   The Political Ramifications of the Global Financial Crisis
    16-9   The Contentious Politics of Intellectual Property
    16-10   Theme Panel: Change and Complexity in International Migration
    16-11   Domestic Politics of International Trade Policy
    16-12   The Politics of International Finance: Capital Markets and Elections in the Developing World
    16-13   Change and Complexity in Exchange Rate Policies
    16-14   New Perspectives on Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Disaggregated Analytical Approach
    16-15   Responding to International Economic Crises
    16-16   Change and Complexity in Financial and Other Institutions
    16-17   Public/Private Interaction and the Transformation of Global Governance
    16-18   Heath, Environment, and International Openness
    16-19   States, Multinationals, and Emerging Powers
    16-20   Dynamics of Regional Integration
    16-21   Politics and Non-Tax Revenue: Examining Causal Mechanisms
    16-22   Rethinking the Necessity of the State For Private Self-Regulation
    16-23   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: David Lake’s Hierarchy in International Relations
    16-24   The Politics of Financial Crises: Responses to the 2007-2009 Crisis in Comparative and Historical Perspective
    16-25   Political Economy of Migrants' Financial Flows
    16-26   The Domestic Politics of Globalization in Developing Countries
    16-27   Trade and Partisanship
    16-28   FDI and the changing contours of domestic markets
    16-29   Energy as an Instrument of Russian Foreign Policy
    16-30   Accountability, Credibility, and Capture of NGOs in Global Governance
    16-31   Global Governance: Theoretical Innovations and Current Issues
    16-32   The Political Economy of International Regimes

17   International Collaboration
    17-1   The Political Ramifications of the Global Financial Crisis
    17-2   New Perspectives on Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Disaggregated Analytical Approach
    17-3   Change and Complexity in Financial and Other Institutions
    17-4   Creating a Dialogue Between Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Human Rights
    17-5   Europe’s Transformative Power and Mechanisms of Social Influence in International Relations
    17-6   Empirical Analysis of Transgovernmental Politics
    17-7   The Domestic Politics of International Law
    17-8   The Enforcement of International Commitments
    17-9   International Policy Diffusion: Further Investigation on Domestic-International Linkage
    17-10   International Governance and Conflict Management
    17-11   The Role of Domestic Courts in International and Transnational Political and Economic Processes
    17-12   Complexity and Organizational Adaptation in International Relations
    17-13   Transforming the Fragile State: The Role of International Bureaucracies in Modern State Formation
    17-14   Accountability, Credibility, and Capture of NGOs in Global Governance
    17-15   Private Standards, Public Goals: Non-State actors as standard-setters
    17-16   Global Governance: Theoretical Innovations and Current Issues
    17-17   Roundtable on Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics, Cambridge 2009
    17-18   The Political Economy of International Regimes
    17-19   Soft Power and Smart Power
    17-20   Changing Conceptualizations of Security
    17-21   Where's Truth and Justice? Tracking Changes in International Law

18   International Security
    18-1   More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World
    18-2   Theme Panel: Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change in an Age of Turbulence
    18-3   Illicit Flows and Controls
    18-4   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: David Lake’s Hierarchy in International Relations
    18-5   Post-Civil War Processes
    18-6   Transatlantic Homeland Security Cooperation: Between Policy and Politics
    18-7   New Approaches to Understanding Nuclear Nonproliferation
    18-8   Immigration, Security and the Borderlands in the Post-Global Age
    18-9   Reconsidering the Role of Uncertainty in IR
    18-10   The Nuclear Proliferation Challenge in the Middle East: Causes and Consequences
    18-11   To intervene or not to intervene? Assessing the Impact of Foreign Military Intervention and Occupation
    18-12   Hostile Territory? In Search of Common Ground in the Theoretical and Policy Debates on Military Privatization
    18-13   Security and Development Revisited: Theories and Practices
    18-14   Threat as a Theoretical Question: Microfoundations in Emotion, Cognition, and Construction of Collective Experience in Democratic Conditions
    18-15   Cross-Border Threats
    18-16   Conceptualizing Terrorism
    18-17   Creating Durable Alliances
    18-18   The Motives Behind Interventions
    18-19   Testing Securitization Theory beyond the European Union
    18-20   Power and Prestige in a Changing World: China, Russia, and the Dilemmas of Becoming a Great Power
    18-21   Dilemmas in Private Security, Past and Present
    18-22   New Challenges in Asian Regional Security
    18-23   The Environment and Security: Conceptualizations, Problems and Strategies
    18-24   New Cases and Ideas on International Peace Building
    18-25   Counterinsurgency Strategies
    18-27   Disaggregating Civil Wars
    18-28   The Domestic Politics of International Law
    18-29   Transforming the Fragile State: The Role of International Bureaucracies in Modern State Formation
    18-30   Roundtable on Atomic Obsession (Oxford UP, 2009), by John Mueller
    18-31   Unipolarity and War in Today's World
    18-32   The NPT At Work
    18-33   Unifying Analyses of Civil and Interstate War
    18-34   Author Meets Critics: An Assessment of R. Harrison Wagner's "War and the State"
    18-35   Territorial Disputes: Conflict and Resolution
    18-36   Advances in the Study of Peacekeeping and Peacemaking
    18-37   Human Rights, Women's Rights and International Relations: The Body in IR Theory
    18-38   Lessons in War, Lessons from War
    18-39   Roundtable: Understanding Political Extremism
    18-40   International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy
    18-41   Grand Strategy Between the Wars
    18-42   Identity Politics and Nationalism in China: Historical Context, Contemporary Challenges, and Policy Implications

19   International Security and Arms Control
    19-1   Beautiful Souls and Just Warriors: Gender, the Military, and Pedagogy
    19-2   New Approaches to Understanding Nuclear Nonproliferation
    19-3   The Nuclear Proliferation Challenge in the Middle East: Causes and Consequences
    19-4   Security and Development Revisited: Theories and Practices
    19-5   Conceptualizing Terrorism
    19-6   New Challenges in Asian Regional Security
    19-7   Counterinsurgency Strategies
    19-8   Roundtable on Atomic Obsession (Oxford UP, 2009), by John Mueller
    19-9   Unipolarity and War in Today's World
    19-10   The NPT At Work
    19-11   US Foreign Policy
    19-12   Future of Warfare
    19-13   The End of American Hegemony? Rising Powers and World Order
    19-14   NATO at 60: What is the Future for Alliances
    19-15   Preparing for the Future Whilst Confronting the Present: British Defence and Security Policy in an Unstable World
    19-16   Soft Power and Smart Power
    19-17   Changing Conceptualizations of Security
    19-18   Developing Military Capacities
    19-19   The Balance of Power in International Politics: Theoretical Innovations and Historical Analysis

20   Foreign Policy
    20-1   The Motives Behind Interventions
    20-2   US Foreign Policy
    20-3   NATO at 60: What is the Future for Alliances
    20-4   Bringing Diplomacy Back In (1): Theory
    20-5   Bringing Diplomacy Back In (2) Empirics
    20-6   Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration
    20-7   The Causes, Conduct and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation
    20-8   The Israel Lobby at 2.
    20-9   Core Values and Preferences for Domestic and Foreign Policies
    20-10   Advances in Turkish Foreign Policy
    20-11   Historical Developments in Foreign Policy Analysis
    20-12   Tools of Statecraft: Foreign Aid
    20-13   Tools of Statecraft: Sanctions and Force
    20-14   Elections and Attitudes in Foreign Policy Analysis
    20-15   Methods, Models and Theory in Foreign Policy
    20-16   Asian Foreign Policy Concerns
    20-17   Domestic Political Structure and International Conflict
    20-18   Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

21   Conflict Processes
    21-1   Bringing Diplomacy Back In (1): Theory
    21-2   Bringing Diplomacy Back In (2) Empirics
    21-3   The Causes, Conduct and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation
    21-4   Alliance Formation & Outcomes
    21-5   Domestic Political Structure and International Conflict
    21-6   Unifying Analyses of Civil and Interstate War
    21-7   Reputation in International Politics
    21-8   Author Meets Critics: An Assessment of R. Harrison Wagner's "War and the State"
    21-9   Territorial Disputes: Conflict and Resolution
    21-10   Advances in the Study of Peacekeeping and Peacemaking
    21-11   Actor Fragmentation and Civil Conflict
    21-12   Mediation and Conflict Management
    21-13   International Institutions and Conflict Management
    21-14   Formal Theory Approaches to International Conflict
    21-15   Post Civil Conflict
    21-16   Civil War Onset
    21-17   New Approaches to the Study of International Conflict
    21-18   Domestic Constraints and International Conflict
    21-19   Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
    21-20   Domestic Institutions and International Conflict
    21-21   Elections and International Violence
    21-22   Alliances: Formation and Influence
    21-23   Contemporary Issues in International Conflict

22   Legislative Studies
    22-1   The Balance of Power Between Congress and the President
    22-2   Partisanship and Bipartisanship in the U.S. Congress
    22-3   Party Unity and Defection
    22-4   Legislative Productivity
    22-5   Legislators' Speech and Its Determinants
    22-6   Political Careers and Ambition
    22-7   Estimating Ideal Points in the U.S. Congress
    22-8   Legislative Policy Bargaining and Change
    22-9   Roundtable: Congress and the 21st Century: Future Challenges and Development
    22-10   Legislators' Preferences and Voting Across Legislatures
    22-11   Congressional Committees
    22-12   Constitutent Connections
    22-13   Committees Outside the U.S. Congress
    22-14   What Happened to Incumbency Advantage?
    22-15   Congress, the President, and the Politics of Signing Statements
    22-16   Parties and Party Control in U.S. State Legislatures
    22-17   Explaining Party Polarization in the U.S. Congress
    22-18   Political Parties and Policy Making in the U.S. Congress
    22-19   Congressional Elections and Accountability

23   Presidency Research
    23-1   The Balance of Power Between Congress and the President
    23-2   Presidential Development in Historical Perspective
    23-3   Newly Emerging Questions and Trends in Presidential Elections
    23-4   Reflections on Presidential Transitions - the Role of Political Science and Public Administration
    23-5   Checking and Balancing? Institutional interactions and the (in)operation of the separation of powers in the 'war on terror'
    23-6   Presidential Communication
    23-7   Going Public and the Rhetorical Presidency
    23-8   Assessing Executive Power Before, During, and After the Bush Presidency
    23-9   Personality, Performance, and the President's Legacy
    23-10   Congress, the President, and the Parties
    23-11   Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Public Opinion
    23-12   The President in Foreign and Defense Policy-making
    23-13   The President and the Bureaucracy
    23-14   Staffing the White House
    23-15   Congress, the President, and the Politics of Signing Statements
    23-16   Gender, Race and the Presidency
    23-17   Presidency and Public Opinion

24   Public Administration
    24-1   Reflections on Presidential Transitions - the Role of Political Science and Public Administration
    24-2   Human Resource Management and Change
    24-3   Labor Relations in the Public Sector: Changing Paradigms, Structures, and Measurement
    24-4   Government Performance: An International Perspective on the Role of Public Management and Policy
    24-5   Crisis Governance: The Organizational and Political Challenges of Health Epidemic Policy
    24-6   Measuring Quality of Government: Is There Room for Improvement?
    24-7   Changing Patterns of Governance and Accountability
    24-8   Beyond the Hollow State: Multisector Governance
    24-9   Performance Systems in Motion
    24-10   Workforce Issues in Motion
    24-11   Gender and Public Administration: New Approachs and Tools
    24-12   Governing at the Local Level
    24-13   Public Administration and Urban Governance
    24-14   Digital Governance: Policy Development and Administrative Strategies

25   Public Policy
    25-1   Leadership and Policy Change in the Era of Complexity
    25-2   System Effects, Path Dependence, and Health Policy
    25-3   The Politics of Social Policy: Historical Perspectives
    25-4   Government Performance: An International Perspective on the Role of Public Management and Policy
    25-5   Crisis Governance: The Organizational and Political Challenges of Health Epidemic Policy
    25-6   Political Branding: A New Approach to Mobilization and Policy Making
    25-7   Geoengineering and Global Order
    25-8   Explaining the Success and Failure of Certain Health Policies
    25-9   Is Education Policy Serving the Disadvantaged?
    25-10   Public Participation, Democratic Theory, and Policymaking
    25-11   Agenda Setting and Policy Change in New Contexts
    25-12   Raising the Temperature on Climate Change Policy
    25-13   Factors that Drive Policy Formation and Implementation: What Drives the Science that Drives Policy?
    25-14   Exploiting Natural Resources Like There is No Tomorrow
    25-15   'Interest Groups and Transparency in the Policy Process'
    25-16   The Comparative Politics of Carbon Pricing in the OECD
    25-17   Opportunities and Tensions Surrounding Public Partnerships with Faith-Based and Community Organizations at the Close of the Bush Era
    25-18   Neoliberal Penality and Shifting Institutional Norms of Responsibility
    25-19   Theme Panel: Rethinking State Policy Diffusion
    25-20   Cities and Public Policy
    25-21   Leadership in City Government and Schools: Policy Processes and Outcomes
    25-22   Explaining Sex Equality Policy: Religion, Economics, Movements and Institutions
    25-23   Tactical Choices and Organizational Success
    25-24   Adapting to or Avoiding Doomsday: Dealing with Climate Change
    25-25   Policy Change and the Governance of Controversial Science
    25-26   Today's Science Fiction, Tomorrow's Policy?
    25-27   Critical Public Policy Questions in Canada and the US
    25-28   Deliberative Democracy and Civil Society: Interpretive Approaches

26   Law and Courts
    26-1   Courts in the Political Environment
    26-2   Courts in Crisis and Transition: Latin American and Post-Communist States in Comparative Perspective
    26-3   The New Role of Courts in Latin America: Arbiters of Political Conflicts or Active Defenders of Rights?
    26-4   Judicial Behavior in the Courts of Appeals
    26-5   Courts and Public Opinion in Comparative Perspective
    26-6   Judicial Politics in the States
    26-7   Judicial Politics in the European Union
    26-8   Methods in Judicial Politics
    26-9   Judicial Selection and Judicial Retirement
    26-10   Strategic Influences on Judicial Decision-Making
    26-11   Judicial Opinion Writing in Comparative Perspective
    26-12   Canadian Courts in Comparative Perspective
    26-13   Judicial Politics and the Executive Branch
    26-14   Social Impacts of the Courts
    26-15   Authors Meet Critics: Saul Brenner and Joseph Whitmeyer, Strategy on the United States Supreme Court

27   Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence
    27-1   Roundtable: Clinton Rossiter's CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP: CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN THE MODERN DEMOCRACIES: Still Relevant?
    27-2   Checking and Balancing? Institutional interactions and the (in)operation of the separation of powers in the 'war on terror'
    27-3   Constitutional Empire
    27-4   Roundtable: Constitutional Identity
    27-5   Roundtable: Same-Sex Marriage, Courts, and Direct Democracy
    27-6   Authors Meet Critics: Maveety and Knowles on Justices O'Connor and Kennedy
    27-7   Theme Panel: How Constitutions Work: Developmental Approaches to Constitutional Function
    27-8   Popular Constitutionalism in Global Perspective
    27-9   Religion and Constitutional Conflict
    27-10   Lawyering, Advocacy, and Interests
    27-11   Neoliberal Penality and Shifting Institutional Norms of Responsibility

28   Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
    28-1   Territorial Autonomies and Multinational Federations: Innovation and Complexity in the Institutional Design of Multinational States
    28-2   Understanding the Evolution of Federations: Comparative Perspectives on Institutional Change
    28-3   Federalism, Nationalism, and Democracy: A Roundtable Honoring Samuel H. Beer's Contributions to the Study of Federalism
    28-4   Federalism in Global Perspective: Foundings and Financing
    28-5   Federalism, Medicaid, and Changing Modes of Social Service Delivery
    28-6   Federal Mandates in the States: Implementation and Resistance
    28-7   Theme Roundtable: Obama and the Cities
    28-8   Roundtable: What Do We Know About Territorial Rescaling, How Do We Know It and Why Should We Study It: Perspectives from the United States and Canada
    28-9   Do We Need a New ACIR: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. ACIR
    28-10   Subnational Governments and the Stimulus Packages in the United States and Canada
    28-11   Non-Metropolitan Policy and Governance

29   State Politics and Policy Section
    29-1   Judicial Politics in the States
    29-2   Theme Panel: Rethinking State Policy Diffusion
    29-3   Electing Women to State and Local Office
    29-4   Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in the States
    29-5   Politics and Punishment in the States
    29-6   Parties and Party Control in U.S. State Legislatures
    29-7   Social Welfare Policy in the States
    29-8   Electoral Reform, Voting Technology, and Equal Access
    29-9   Party Organizations in the States
    29-10   Connecticut's New Public Financing System: A First Look
    29-11   Policy Responsiveness in the States
    29-12   Key Concepts in State Politics and Policy Research
    29-13   Gubernatorial Politics
    29-14   Federal Mandates in the States: Implementation and Resistance
    29-15   Theme Panel: Comparative State Reactions to LGBT Rights Claims

30   Urban Politics
    30-1   Politics, Race and the City
    30-2   Urbanization and the Politics of the City in the Developing World
    30-3   Governing at the Local Level
    30-4   The Once and Future Study of City Politics: Overcoming the Malaise about Theory
    30-5   Roundtable: A Reexamination on the 20th Anniversary of Clarence Stone's Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta: 1946-1988
    30-6   Urban Campaigns, Voting, and Elections
    30-7   Cities and Public Policy
    30-8   Rainbow’s End? An Examination of an Urban Classic
    30-9   Leadership in City Government and Schools: Policy Processes and Outcomes
    30-10   Alternative Forms of Political Participation in Cities
    30-11   New Directions in Urban/Local Politics Research
    30-12   Roundtable: Studying Canadian Cities: A Sub-field in Motion
    30-13   Theme Panel: The Politics and Governance of Multiculturalism in Toronto
    30-14   Theme Roundtable: Obama and the Cities
    30-15   Roundtable: What Do We Know About Territorial Rescaling, How Do We Know It and Why Should We Study It: Perspectives from the United States and Canada
    30-16   Public Administration and Urban Governance
    30-17   Organizing Diverse Communities: New Strategies for a New Century

31   Women and Politics Research Section
    31-1   Gender and Public Administration: New Approachs and Tools
    31-2   Electing Women to State and Local Office
    31-3   Gender, Race and the Presidency
    31-4   Elected Officials at the Intersection of Gender and Race
    31-5   Between Minority Inclusion and Gender Equality? Analyzing Identities and Institutions
    31-6   Gender in Canadian Politics and Policy
    31-7   Gendering Political Organizing: Women, Men and Activism in the US
    31-8   Selling Sex, Selling Selves? Gender, the Sex Trade and the State
    31-9   Theme Panel: Intersectional Analysis of Comparative Politics
    31-10   Human Rights, Women's Rights and International Relations: The Body in IR Theory
    31-11   Theorizing Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship
    31-12   The State and Gender Equality: Institutions, Policies and Movements
    31-13   Explaining Sex Equality Policy: Religion, Economics, Movements and Institutions
    31-14   Symbolic and Substantive Representation of Women : New Approaches
    31-15   Women in Motion: Advances and Setbacks in Implementing Women’s Rights
    31-16   The Politics of Backlash: Theory and Case Studies in Dynamic Resistance
    31-17   The Impact of Gender Quotas: Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation
    31-18   Democracy and the Distribution of Carework
    31-19   Black Feminist Intersectionality in Action: A Roundtable on Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy
    31-20   Islam, Secularism, and Sexual Equality: Resistance and Change in Muslim Societies
    31-21   The Best Women for the Job: Comparative Perspectives on Female Politicians’ Pathways to Power
    31-22   Gender and Voter Behavior: 2008 and Beyond
    31-23   Gender and Public Opinion
    31-24   Gendered Political Communication
    31-25   The War Between Men and Women
    31-26   States of Same-Sex Marriage: What Else is at Stake?
    31-27   Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective

32   Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
    32-1   Race, Racisms, Xenophobia and Politics
    32-2   Politics, Race and the City
    32-3   Pan-Ethnicity, Exploring New Horizons in Identity
    32-4   Comparative Racial and Ethnic Politics
    32-5   Coalitions, and Minority Politics
    32-6   Race, Ethnicity, Popular Culture and Politics
    32-7   Assimilation, Incorporation or Racialization?
    32-8   Gender, Race and Sexuality
    32-9   Policy Focus on Fat Poor Minorities: From Welfare Reform to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
    32-10   Theme Panel: The Globalization of the ‘French Model’: A Turning Point in Ethnic and Racial Politics?
    32-11   Race and American Political Development
    32-12   Mobilizing Ethnic and Class Identities
    32-13   Is Education Policy Serving the Disadvantaged?
    32-14   Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in the States
    32-15   Rainbow’s End? An Examination of an Urban Classic
    32-16   Elected Officials at the Intersection of Gender and Race
    32-17   Between Minority Inclusion and Gender Equality? Analyzing Identities and Institutions
    32-18   Theme Panel: Intersectional Analysis of Comparative Politics
    32-19   Black Feminist Intersectionality in Action: A Roundtable on Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy
    32-20   Race and Electoral Politics in America
    32-21   Prejudice, Racism, Racial Threat, and Public Opinion
    32-22   Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

33   Religion and Politics
    33-1   Religion and American Presidential Politics
    33-2   Evangelical Political Thought and Natural Law
    33-3   The Disappearing God Gap? Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election
    33-4   Authors Meet Critics: Roundtable on Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary
    33-5   Religious Actors in Democratization Processes: Evidence from Five Muslim Democracies
    33-6   Religious Political Parties in Comparative Perspective
    33-7   Facing a Religious Divide? Europe in the Twenty-first Century
    33-8   Religion and European Politics
    33-9   Politics and Religion in the American Founding Era
    33-10   Author Meets Critics: Roundtable on Melissa Deckman's School Board Battles
    33-11   Religion and Politics in Canada

34   Representation and Electoral Systems
    34-1   The Impact of Gender Quotas: Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation
    34-2   Turnout and Electoral Institutions
    34-3   The Complexity of Electoral System Change: The Role of Values
    34-4   Minority and Descriptive Representation
    34-5   Comparing the Representative Outcomes of Institutional Differences
    34-6   Beyond the Ballot Box: Institutions, Participation and Representation
    34-7   Theme Panel: Citizens' Assemblies and Deliberative Democracy
    34-8   Representation and Legislative Behavior
    34-9   The Best Women for the Job: Comparative Perspectives on Female Politicians’ Pathways to Power
    34-10   Party Linkage and Party Government in Contemporary Democracies
    34-11   Bias and Responsiveness in Electoral Systems
    34-12   Election Law Issues from the 2008 Elections

35   Political Organizations and Parties
    35-1   Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years After the Fall of Communism
    35-2   Party Organizations in the States
    35-3   Gendering Political Organizing: Women, Men and Activism in the US
    35-4   Religious Political Parties in Comparative Perspective
    35-5   Party Linkage and Party Government in Contemporary Democracies
    35-6   The Politics of Presidential Nominations
    35-7   Stability and Change in American Partisanship
    35-8   The Scholarly Legacy of Nelson W. Polsby
    35-9   Theme Roundtable: 2008 and the Future of the American Party Coalitions
    35-10   Author Meets Readers: Larry Bartels' 'Unequal Democracy'
    35-11   Advocacy and Legislative Activity
    35-12   Tactical Choices and Organizational Success
    35-13   Networks of Advocates and Activists
    35-14   Causes and Consequences of Party Positions in European Democracies
    35-15   Party Politics and Legislative Elections
    35-16   Explaining Party Polarization in the U.S. Congress
    35-17   Political Parties and Policy Making in the U.S. Congress

36   Elections and Voting Behavior
    36-1   Candidate Evaluations
    36-2   Pecularities of Postcommunist Electoral Behavior
    36-3   Electoral Reform, Voting Technology, and Equal Access
    36-4   Urban Campaigns, Voting, and Elections
    36-5   Religion and American Presidential Politics
    36-6   Turnout and Electoral Institutions
    36-7   The Politics of Presidential Nominations
    36-8   Stability and Change in American Partisanship
    36-9   Elections and the Economy: New Directions
    36-10   The 2008 Election and the Future of American Politics
    36-11   Field Experiments and Mobilization
    36-12   Polarization
    36-13   Money in American Elections
    36-14   Voters and Candidates
    36-15   Race and Electoral Politics in America
    36-16   The American Voter in Context: Neighborhoods, Social Environments, and the Vote
    36-17   Voters, Elections, and the Internet
    36-18   Explaining Turnout in American National Elections
    36-19   Voters and Welfare States
    36-20   How Election Rules and Administration Affect Voters
    36-21   Legislative Elections and Representation
    36-22   Gender and Voter Behavior: 2008 and Beyond
    36-23   Europe and Elections
    36-24   Economic Self-Interest and the Vote
    36-25   Correct Voting
    36-26   Electoral Volatility
    36-27   Voters in Space: Spatial Models of Voting and Elections
    36-28   Congressional Elections and Accountability
    36-29   Social Processes and Voting
    36-30   Learning, Persistence, and Habits in Voting
    36-31   Revisiting the American Voter
    36-32   Understanding Record Voter Participation in the French Elections of 2007 and the U.S. Elections of 2008
    36-33   What's Now and What's Next: The Present and Future of the American National Election Studies
    36-34   Bias and Responsiveness in Electoral Systems
    36-35   A Taste for Politics: The Roots and Dynamics of Political Interest

37   Public Opinion
    37-1   Framing
    37-2   Values
    37-3   Political Information
    37-4   Deliberation and Social Networks
    37-5   New Approaches to Studying Public Opinion
    37-6   Policy Responsiveness in the States
    37-7   Elections and the Economy: New Directions
    37-8   The 2008 Election and the Future of American Politics
    37-9   Polarization
    37-10   Revisiting the American Voter
    37-11   What's Now and What's Next: The Present and Future of the American National Election Studies
    37-12   Biology, Genetics, and Politics
    37-13   Presidency and Public Opinion
    37-14   The Puzzle of Popular Legitimacy
    37-15   Religion, Public Opinion, and Politics
    37-16   Representation
    37-17   Ideology
    37-18   Political Trust
    37-19   Immigration
    37-20   Gender and Public Opinion
    37-21   Mass Media and Public Opinion
    37-22   Prejudice, Racism, Racial Threat, and Public Opinion
    37-23   Comparative Public Opinion
    37-24   Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism
    37-25   Authors Meet Critics: Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America
    37-26   Communication and Political Support
    37-27   Examining Attitudes about Gay Rights

38   Political Communication
    38-1   Presidential Communication
    38-2   Mass Media and Public Opinion
    38-3   Media, Parties, and the 2008 Elections: Canada and the United States Compared
    38-4   Framing Experiments in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
    38-5   New Media, New Politics?
    38-6   Authors Meet Critics: Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America
    38-7   News Across Borders
    38-8   Communication and Political Support
    38-9   Governmental News Management Strategies: Examining the International Evidence
    38-10   Deliberation, Social Networks and the Framing of Discourse
    38-11   Campaign Messages: Impacts of Information Quality and Tone
    38-12   Media Preferences and Political Learning
    38-13   News, Information and Mobilization
    38-14   Mass Media and National Identity
    38-15   Communicating and Framing Political Identities
    38-16   Gendered Political Communication
    38-17   Legislatures and Internet Use: Governing and Campaigning
    38-18   Internet: Collective Action, Social Mobilization, and Civic Engagement
    38-19   New Strategies of Political Communication in Canada

39   Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
    39-1   Geoengineering and Global Order
    39-2   Raising the Temperature on Climate Change Policy
    39-3   Factors that Drive Policy Formation and Implementation: What Drives the Science that Drives Policy?
    39-4   Adapting to or Avoiding Doomsday: Dealing with Climate Change
    39-5   Policy Change and the Governance of Controversial Science
    39-6   Today's Science Fiction, Tomorrow's Policy?
    39-7   When Science Begets Values and Vice Versa
    39-8   It's Not Easy Going Green

40   Information Technology and Politics
    40-1   New Media, New Politics?
    40-2   Theme Panel: Web 2.0 and Social Media in the 2008 Elections and Beyond
    40-3   Legislatures and Internet Use: Governing and Campaigning
    40-4   Internet: Collective Action, Social Mobilization, and Civic Engagement
    40-5   Internet Governance: Structures and Issues
    40-6   Comparative Experiences in Online Political Organizing, Deliberating and Participating
    40-7   Digital Governance: Policy Development and Administrative Strategies
    40-8   Roundtable on Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Future of Democratic Discourse

41   Politics, Literature and Film Section
    41-1   Fear of Images? Roundtable on Political Science and the Evasion of Visual Culture
    41-2   Political Possibility in the Novels of Jose Saramago
    41-3   Art and Politics in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others
    41-4   They've All Gone to Look for America
    41-5   The War Between Men and Women
    41-6   Theme Panel: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008: Remembrance and Legacy
    41-7   Beyond ‘Self-Reliance’: Emerson’s Politics in Motion
    41-8   Justice, Passion, and Self-Knowledge in Plato and Aristophanes

42   New Political Science
    42-1   The Contentious Politics of Intellectual Property
    42-2   Politics and Punishment in the States
    42-3   Alternative Forms of Political Participation in Cities
    42-4   The Politics of Backlash: Theory and Case Studies in Dynamic Resistance
    42-5   Organizing Diverse Communities: New Strategies for a New Century
    42-6   Are These Times A Changin'? Party Politics in the Obama Era
    42-7   Reconsidering Resistance: Contested Sites for Political Change
    42-8   Analyzing Religion and Social Relations in an Age of Globalization
    42-9   Marx and the Current Crisis
    42-10   Roundtable: 40 Years Since J David Greenstone's "Labor in American Politics": Reflections on Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We Should Go
    42-11   New Political Science Plenary Address, delivered by Tom Hayden: Movements Against Machiavellians, the Theory and Practice of Social Change

43   International History and Politics
    43-1   The Politics of Settlers and Settlements in Contested Territories
    43-2   Inter-Ethnic Contact and Violence: From Pogroms and Riots to War and Genocide
    43-3   The End of American Hegemony? Rising Powers and World Order
    43-4   The Israel Lobby at 2.
    43-5   Lessons in War, Lessons from War
    43-6   Where's Truth and Justice? Tracking Changes in International Law
    43-7   The Balance of Power in International Politics: Theoretical Innovations and Historical Analysis
    43-8   Roundtable: Understanding Political Extremism
    43-9   Process Tracing in International and Comparative Politics: Achievements and Challenges
    43-10   International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy
    43-11   Grand Strategy Between the Wars
    43-12   Shaping Reality with Information Operations, Propaganda, and Spin
    43-13   Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War
    43-14   Shocking! Shocks and Other External Sources of Foreign Policy
    43-15   Progress and Change in the International System
    43-16   The Sweep of History: Cleaning Up on Historical Lessons
    43-17   China, World Order, and Security Issues in Asia
    43-18   Identity Politics and Nationalism in China: Historical Context, Contemporary Challenges, and Policy Implications

44   Comparative Democratization
    44-1   The Politics of Democratic Reversal
    44-2   Democratization and Ethnic Minorities: Conflict, Protection, and Accommodation
    44-3   Democracy, Elections, and Political (In)Stability
    44-4   Post-Civil War Processes
    44-5   Who/What are Elections Good For? Electoral Participation, Change and Voter Motivations in Select Developing Countries
    44-6   Local Politics in New Democracies: Patterns of Democratization in the Mexican States
    44-7   Authoritarian Regime Building and Breakdown in Post-Soviet Eurasia
    44-8   The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: Lessons from Europe
    44-9   Religious Actors in Democratization Processes: Evidence from Five Muslim Democracies
    44-10   Violence, Uncivil Politics and Democratization
    44-11   China's Third Sector: Dynamics and Consequences
    44-12   Revisiting Regime Change: Cross-regional Perspectives
    44-13   The Political Economy of Democratization
    44-14   Civil Society, Citizenship and Participatory Democracy
    44-15   "New" Social Movements and Democratization
    44-16   Democracy, Transitional Justice, and the Memory of Dictatorship
    44-17   Protest and Democratization in Latin America and East Asia
    44-18   Varieties of Presidentialism in Latin America: Origins, Scope and Consequences
    44-19   Roundtable: George W. Bush's Democratic Promotion Legacy
    44-20   Post-War Democratization
    44-21   Religion and Democracy in Comparative Perspectives
    44-22   Authoritarian Regime Consolidation
    44-23   Agency under Authoritarianism

45   Human Rights
    45-1   Quantitative Approaches to Human Rights
    45-2   The Human Rights Regime in Europe: Issues and Challenges
    45-3   Roundtable on Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics, Cambridge 2009
    45-4   Women in Motion: Advances and Setbacks in Implementing Women’s Rights
    45-5   Analysing Complexity and Change in Human Rights Research
    45-6   Conceptual Innovations in Human Rights Theorizing
    45-7   Islam and Human Rights: Theory, Law, and Practice
    45-8   The United States and Human Rights
    45-9   Normative Dimensions of Human Rights
    45-10   Theme Panel: Canadian Human Rights Commissions
    45-11   International Economics and Human Rights

46   Qualitative Methods
    46-1   Illiberal Politics in Liberal States: Studying The ‘Rough Edges of Democracy’
    46-2   Focus on Metaphor: New Perspectives on Language and Discourse
    46-3   Process Tracing in International and Comparative Politics: Achievements and Challenges
    46-4   Ethnographic Methods in Political Science: What Difference Can They Make?
    46-5   Is There a Multimethod Consensus in Comparative Politics?
    46-6   The Epistemological Foundations of Mixed-Method Research
    46-7   Statistical Models and Causal Inference: David Freedman's Dialogue with the Social Sciences
    46-8   Theme Panel: History, Identity, Political Violence: The Relative Merits of Qualitative Methods to Explain Complex and Dynamic Phenomena
    46-9   Taking Research Design Seriously in Ideational Approaches to International Relations
    46-10   Case Study Meta-Analysis: Methodological Challenges and Applications in Political Science
    46-11   Qualitative Approaches to Institutional and Policy Change in American Politics
    46-12   Virtues and Limits of Mixed-Method Research in Diverse Contexts
    46-13   Qualitative Research in Post-Communist Space
    46-14   Repression and Protest in Non-Democratic Regimes
    46-15   Challenges and Advances in Historically-Oriented Research
    46-16   Refinements in Research Design: Cases, Concepts, Variables
    46-17   Everyday Politics in Developing Countries: Qualitative Approaches
    46-18   Meaning, Discourse and Agency in Political Life
    46-19   Qualitative Approaches to Studying the Emergence and Practice of Democracy
    46-20   Constructivism and Traditional IR Theory: Pluralism, Conflict or Eclecticism?
    46-21   Complexity and Interdependence in World Politics: New Qualitative Approaches
    46-22   Research Design, Methods, and Theory-Building in Comparative Judicial Politics
    46-23   Constructing Cross-National Datasets: Challenges and Lessons
    46-24   Debating Research Designs: Do Qualitative and Interpretive Logics of Inquiry Differ? Should They?
    46-25   Methods Cafe
    46-26   Understanding Experiences Across the Subfields: Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Fieldwork, Framing/Narratives, and Textual Ethnography

47   Sexuality and Politics
    47-1   Selling Sex, Selling Selves? Gender, the Sex Trade and the State
    47-2   States of Same-Sex Marriage: What Else is at Stake?
    47-3   Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage
    47-4   Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective
    47-5   Theme Panel: Comparative State Reactions to LGBT Rights Claims
    47-6   Examining Attitudes about Gay Rights
    47-7   Theme Roundtable: Just How Different? Sexual Politics in Canada and the United States

48   Health Politics and Health Policy
    48-1   Comparative Political Economy of Health
    48-2   Theme Panel: Health System Complexity and Change: Measuring the Politics of Delivering Care
    48-3   System Effects, Path Dependence, and Health Policy
    48-4   Health Policy, Crossing National Boundaries, and Ideological Paradigms
    48-5   Health Priorities, Agenda-setting, and Political Tensions: Defining the Public Interest in Health
    48-6   Explaining the Success and Failure of Certain Health Policies

49   Canadian Politics
    49-1   Canadian Courts in Comparative Perspective
    49-2   Roundtable: Studying Canadian Cities: A Sub-field in Motion
    49-3   Gender in Canadian Politics and Policy
    49-4   Forecasting Canadian Federal Elections
    49-5   Religion and Politics in Canada
    49-6   Critical Public Policy Questions in Canada and the US
    49-7   New Strategies of Political Communication in Canada
    49-8   Theme Panel: "Forgotten Partnership" Remembered: U.S.-Canada Relations 25 Years Later

Poster Sessions
    Poster Session 1
    Poster Session 1, Group 1
    Poster Session 1, Group 2
    Poster Session 1, Group 3
    Poster Session 1, Group 4
    Poster Session 1, Group 5
    Poster Session 1, Group 6
    Poster Session 2
    Poster Session 2: New Frontiers in American Party Research
    Poster Session 2: Explaining Organized Political Action
    Poster Session 2: Intra-party Democracy in Comparative Perspective
    Poster Session 3
    Poster Session 4: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
    Poster Session 5
    Poster Session 6
    Poster Session 7
    Poster Session 8
    Poster Session 2: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

American Enterprise Institute

African Politics Conference Group
    Panel 1   Democratization, State Strength and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Empirical and Conceptual Horizons
    Panel 2   African Leadership Roles and the Role of The Civic in a Context of Political Change
    Panel 3   Ethnicity, Religion and Traditional Authority in African Politics

Aging Policy and Politics Group
    Panel 1   Crossnational Perspectives on Aging Politics

Project on the American Constitution

Asian Pacific American Caucus
    Panel 1   Asian Americans and Immigrant Political Incorporation

American Public Philosophy Institute
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Standing Freedom on Its Head: 'Equality' and 'Nondiscrimination' and the Suppression of Democratic Liberties

Association of Chinese Political Studies
    Panel 1   China, the United States, and Global Order
    Panel 2   Globalization and the Chinese Regulatory State

Walter Bagehot Research Council on National Sovereignty
    Panel 1   Constitutional Powers of the Presidency: Historical and Theoretical Explorations

Brazilian Political Science Association
    Panel 1   Emerging Powers and Global Governance

British Politics Group
    Panel 1   Roundtable on Pressure Groups and the Policy Process
    Panel 2   Politics in Scotland and Quebec
    Panel 3   Measurement and Electoral Behaviour in the UK
    Panel 4   British Politics Group Roundtable- Year in Review

Campaign Finance Research Group
    Panel 1   Small Donors and Large in U.S. Federal and State Elections

Committee for Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy
    Panel 1   Coercion and Reconciliation in Counterinsurgency Operations

Society of Catholic Social Scientists
    Panel 1   John Paul II and Liberal Modernity

Cato Institute
    Panel 1   Roundtable: American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11

The Churchill Centre
    Panel 1   Churchill and Canada

Christians in Political Science
    Panel 1   Evangelical Political Thought and Natural Law
    Panel 2   The Disappearing God Gap? Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election
    Panel 3   Religion and Global Politics

Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Same-Sex 'Marriage' in the U.S. and Canada: Legal Controversies and Evolving Paradigms
    Panel 2   Roundtable: The State of Academic Free Speech in Canada and the U.S.
    Panel 3   Roundtable: Islam and the West
    Panel 4   Roundtable: The Obama Administration: First Seven Months
    Panel 5   Abraham Lincoln and the American Progressive Movement
    Panel 6   The Place of Nobility in the Thought of Aristotle, Aristophanes, and Xenophon
    Panel 7   Liberty and Human Nature in Modern Political Philosophy
    Panel 8   Abraham Lincoln: The 200th Anniversary of His Birth
    Panel 9   The Conservative Movement and the Legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr.
    Panel 10   Leo Strauss's 'What is Political Philosophy?': 50th Anniversary
    Panel 11   The American Founders and Free Speech
    Panel 12   The Recent Term of the U.S. Supreme Court
    Panel 13   The New Deal and Its Legacy
    Panel 14   Cicero's Political Philosophy
    Panel 15   Tocqueville after 150 Years: What is Alive and What is Dead in the Political Philosophy of Alexis de Tocqueville?

Center for the Study of the Constitution
    Panel 1   Judicial Restraint and Political Change: Fierce Opponents or Fellow Travelers?

Center for the Study of Federalism
    Panel 1   Do We Need a New ACIR: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. ACIR

Communitarian Network

Comparative Urban Politics
    Panel 1   Subnational Governments and the Stimulus Packages in the United States and Canada
    Panel 2   Decentralized Governance and Social Inequality

European Consortium for Political Research
    Panel 1   The Americanisation of European Executives
    Panel 2   Energy Policy and Global Warming: American and European Approaches
    Panel 3   Terrors in Transatlantia- still? Europe and the United States from Bush to Obama

Political Forecasting Group
    Panel 1   Forecasting Canadian Federal Elections

French Politics Group
    Panel 1   Theme Panel: The Globalization of the ‘French Model’: A Turning Point in Ethnic and Racial Politics?
    Panel 2   Political Radicalism in France: Right, Left, and Center
    Panel 3   France and Europe: A Rekindled Affection?
    Panel 4   Understanding Record Voter Participation in the French Elections of 2007 and the U.S. Elections of 2008

International Association for the Study of German Politics
    Panel 1   The Party Politics of the 2009 German Election

Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists
    Panel 1   New Trends in Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations
    Panel 2   Political Development under an Authoritarian Regime: Findings from Recent Survey Research on China
    Panel 3   New Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy
    Panel 4   Chinese Democratization in Times of Change

Society for Greek Political Thought
    Panel 1   Platonic Dialogues on Political Science and Political Virtue
    Panel 2   Justice, Passion, and Self-Knowledge in Plato and Aristophanes

Green Politics and Theory
    Panel 1   New Approaches to Green Research
    Panel 2   Ecology, Equity, and Democracy

National Humanities Institute
    Panel 1   Theory and Practice in the American Founding
    Panel 2   Literature and the Study of Politics

Iberian Studies Group
    Panel 1   A ‘Second Transition’ in Spain? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004-08)

Institute for Constitutional Studies
    Panel 1   Lifetime Achievement Award: Law and Courts
    Panel 2   Author Meets Readers, Gordon Silverstein's Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics

Indigenous Studies Network
    Panel 1   Examining Indigenous Rights, Identities, and Governance Through Native and Non-Native Frameworks

Interpretive Methodologies and Methods
    Panel 1   Debating Research Designs: Do Qualitative and Interpretive Logics of Inquiry Differ? Should They?
    Panel 2   Methods Cafe
    Panel 3   Understanding Experiences Across the Subfields: Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Fieldwork, Framing/Narratives, and Textual Ethnography

Intelligence Studies Group
    Panel 1   National Security Intelligence: A Research Agenda

IPSA Research Committee 12 (Biology and Politics)
    Panel 1   Recent Research in Biology and Politics

IPSA Research Committee 36 (Power)
    Panel 1   Power, Governmentality and Social Change

Association for Israel Studies
    Panel 1   Elections in Israel, 2009: Continuity or Change

Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society
    Panel 1   Italian Politics Between Reforms and Revival

Japan Political Studies Group
    Panel 1   Women, Immigrants and Labor Markets: Understanding and Responding to Labor Shortages and Low Fertility in Aging Societies
    Panel 2   The New Politics of Economic Policy Making in Japan
    Panel 3   The Interaction of Domestic and International Political Economy in Japan

Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law
    Panel 1   Accountability and the Ethics of Responsibility

Association of Korean Political Studies in North America
    Panel 1   Identifying Korea, Othering Neighbors
    Panel 2   Korea’s Responses to Globalization
    Panel 3   Consolidating Democracy in South Korea?

Labor Project
    Panel 1   Varieties of Economic Change?
    Panel 2   Reversing the Tide? The Election of Barack Obama and the Future of Organized Labor in the US
    Panel 3   Roundtable: 40 Years Since J David Greenstone's "Labor in American Politics": Reflections on Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We Should Go

Latino Caucus in Political Science
    Panel 1   Roundtable: Complex Models for Latino Politics: Quantitative and Qualitative Innovations

Latin American Studies Association
    Panel 1   The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
    Panel 2   The Puzzle of Popular Legitimacy
    Panel 3   Free Trade, Social Reform, and Politics in Latin America

Law and Political Process Study Group
    Panel 1   Election Law Issues from the 2008 Elections

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Caucus
    Panel 1   Emerging Rights Battles: LGBT Politics Today

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
    Panel 1   Evolution and Politics

McConnell Center for Political Leadership

Miller Center of Public Affairs

Politica: Study of Medieval Political Thought
    Panel 1   Obedience, Hierarchy, and Authority in the Middle Ages

Conference Group on the Middle East
    Panel 1   Political Reform in the Middle East: Contexts, Dilemmas, Cases

Association for the Study of Nationalities
    Panel 1   Ukraine: Looking West ... and East

Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society
    Panel 1   Author Meets Critics: James Fishkin, When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

American Society for Political & Legal Philosophy

Political Studies Association
    Panel 1   China’s Welfare Politics in Comparative Perspective
    Panel 2   Children, Justice, and Democracy

Policy Studies Organization
    Panel 1   'As If There Really Was a World Out There': Applications of Political Theory to Global Challenges

Publius: The Journal of Federalism
    Panel 1   Understanding the Evolution of Federations: Comparative Perspectives on Institutional Change
    Panel 2   Non-Metropolitan Policy and Governance

Society for Romanian Studies
    Panel 1   Voter, Candidate and Party Strategic Decision-Making: Cases from the Romanian Experience

Slovenian Political Science Association

Committee on Political Sociology
    Panel 1   Party Organizations and the Challenge of "Democratization"

Conference Group on Taiwan Studies
    Panel 1   Governing Taiwan
    Panel 2   Choice and Democracy in Taiwan
    Panel 3   Transnationalism and Taiwan's Role in the World
    Panel 4   Re-Considering the Developmental State

Conference Group on Theory, Policy, and Society
    Panel 1   Deliberative Democracy and Civil Society: Interpretive Approaches
    Panel 2   Expertise and Public Policy

Committee on Viable Constitutionalism

Eric Voegelin Society
    Panel 1   Mysticism and Politics in Voegelin's Philosophy
    Panel 2   Conscience, Expression & Liberty: Pitfalls of Political Correctness
    Panel 3   Voegelin and the Ancients
    Panel 4   Voegelin’s The Form of the American Mind and American Pragmatism as a Significant Contribution to World Philosophy
    Panel 5   Voegelin’s The Political Religions After 70 years
    Panel 6   Assessing Voegelin’s Critique of Hegel
    Panel 7   Revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr in the 21st Century
    Panel 8   Anamnetic Literature
    Panel 9   Theorists, Theologians, and Littérateurs: Evil and Modern Political Thought
    Panel 10   Voegelin in Toronto, the DVD: Reflections on the 1978 York University "Hermeneutics and Structuralism" Conference
    Panel 11   The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Theory
    Panel 12   The Languages of Political Order: Experience and Symbolization in Non-Western Modes of Thought
    Panel 13   Roundtable: The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence

Women in International Security

Women's Caucus for Political Science