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Theme Panels
    T-1   Theme Panel: Is the Discipline Prepared to Address 21st Century Political Issues?
    T-2   Theme Panel: Parties, Groups and Inequality
    T-3   Theme Panel: Between Structure and Agency: Relational Interactions and Group Identity in Marginalized Areas
    T-4   Theme Panel: The Power of People: Comparative Studies of Civil Society in Disaster Recovery
    T-5   Theme Panel: Inequality and International Migration in Comparative and Historical Perspective
    T-6   Theme Panel: The Complexities of Inequality and Political Behavior: Class, Color and Descriptive Representation
    T-7   Theme Panel: Reactions to Unequal Governance: Politicization of International Institutions from Below
    T-8   Theme Panel: Trust, Norms, Reputation and International Cooperation
    T-9   Theme Panel: Solidarity and Global Inequalities
    T-10   Theme Panel Roundtable: Reconceiving Social Justice
    T-11   Theme Panel: The Religious Politics of Multiple Categories
    T-12   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Inequalities, Global Insecurities, Global Government
    T-13   Theme Panel Roundtable: Political Ideologies in the Global Age: Continuity or Novelty?
    T-14   Theme Panel: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Political Institutions
    T-15   Theme Panel Roundtable: Barack Obama and the Election of 2008
    T-16   Theme Panel Roundtable: Immigration, Diversity, and Civic Participation in the United States
    T-17   Theme Panel: Race, Inequality, and Class in America
    T-18   Theme Panel: Inner City Inequalities: A Cross-National Assessment of Policy Interventions in Deprived Urban Neighborhoods
    T-19   Theme Panel: Global Inequalities, Concepts of Asymmetric Conflict, and American Counterinsurgency
    T-20   Theme Panel: Public Opinion, Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America
    T-21   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Redistribution and Sovereign Wealth Funds
    T-22   Theme Panel: Inequality, Institutions, and the Social Contract: A Long-Run Perspective
    T-23   Theme Panel: Results of Differences in the Classroom
    T-24   Theme Panel: Globalization, Inequality, and Domestic Adjustment
    T-25   Theme Panel: Influence, Inequality and the Design of Violent Opposition
    T-26   Theme Panel: New Approaches to the Measurement of Ethnicity: Identities, Institutions, and Power
    T-27   Theme Panel: Act-Up Paris at 20: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Social Movements, the State, and Global Inequality
    T-28   Theme Panel Roundtable: Black Presidential Politics: The Work of Ronald Walters
    T-29   Special Election Panel: Presidential Character and Temperament: An Evaluation of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Nominees
    T-30   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Foreign Policy, the 2008 Election and a New Administration
    T-31   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Encouraging Voter Registration and Turnout: New Experimental Discoveries
    T-32   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Racial Attitudes and Voting in the 2008 Election
    T-33   Special Election Panel Roundtable: Congressional Elections in 2008
    T-34   Special Election Panel: Between Race and Gender: Intersectional Voters
    T-37   Theme Panel Roundtable: Political Voice Beyond Voting: Social Movements
    T-38   Theme Panel: Responding to Global Health Inequalities

1   Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches
    1-1   Political Liberalism: Ordinary Vices and Virtues
    1-2   Reason, Language, and Moral Development in Rousseau
    1-3   Feminist History of Political Thought
    1-4   Roundtable: Continental Political Thought: Past, Present and Future
    1-5   Roundtable: Democracy and Virtue Now: Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Twists
    1-6   Rethinking Property's Liberal Origins and its Future
    1-7   Political Theory and Models of the Mind
    1-8   David Hume as Political Theorist
    1-9   Democratic Statecraft
    1-10   Roundtable: The Significance of History for Normative Political Theory
    1-11   Hegel and Global Justice/Injustice
    1-12   The Crisis of the Liberal Center
    1-13   Cicero: Philosopher and Orator
    1-14   Roundtable: Michael Gillespie's THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERNITY
    1-15   Equality in the English Revolution, 1640-1660
    1-16   Reconsidering Rousseau's Political Philosophy
    1-17   Resistance in Transition
    1-18   Roundtable: 50 Years of Hannah Arendt's THE HUMAN CONDITION
    1-19   Theory and Practice as Categories in Medieval Political Philosophy
    1-20   Edmund Burke’s Defense of Inequality
    1-21   New Directions in Early American Political Thought
    1-22   Tocqueville and the Intellectual Origins of French Liberalism
    1-23   Early Modern Political Knowledge: Doubts, Disputes, and Death
    1-24   Colonial, Racial, and Ethnic Inequalities and Injustices
    1-25   Concepts and Categories in Liberal Political Theory
    1-26   Roundtable: Twentieth-Century International Thought
    1-27   Engaging Socrates: Past, Present, and Future
    1-28   Walt Whitman and Democratic Visions Today
    1-29   Spectatorship and Audience Democracy
    1-30   Authority in Ancient Athens
    1-31   Self-Cultivation and the Political Life in Emerson and Thoreau
    1-32   Roundtable: The Theological-Political Predicament

2   Foundations of Political Theory
    2-1   Roundtable: Simone De Beauvoir: Rethinking Freedom, Plurality, Sovereignty, and Judgment
    2-2   Roundtable: Democracy and Images
    2-3   A Theory and Event Roundtable: Ten Years of Thinking the Event
    2-4   Why Freud? Judgment, Narrative, Critique
    2-5   Roundtable: Ideology and Identity: Reflections on the Ideas and Life of Kenneth Hoover
    2-6   Roundtable: Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom by Linda M.G. Zerilli
    2-7   Roundtable: Laying Claim to the World: Contesting the Secular, the Religious, and the Political
    2-8   Roundtable: Rethinking The Communist Manifesto
    2-9   Who Counts? Critically Interrogating the Human
    2-10   Fugitive Metaphors, Fugitive Theory
    2-11   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Thomas L. Dumm's Loneliness As a Way of Life
    2-12   Tragedy: A Road to Democratic Politics
    2-13   Engaging Socrates: Past, Present, and Future
    2-14   Darkness at Noon Revisited: Rethinking Dignity and Politics in the Gulag
    2-15   Rawls, Civic Republicanism and the Power of the People
    2-16   Democratic Theory and Democratization
    2-17   Walt Whitman and Democratic Visions Today
    2-18   Walter Benjamin, Now Political
    2-19   Ideas, Causes and Logics in Post-Positivist Approaches to Political Analysis
    2-20   Spectatorship and Audience Democracy
    2-21   Authority in Ancient Athens
    2-22   Pluralism Before Pluralism
    2-23   The Disunity of Reason: Heterogeneous Rationalities and Practical Possibilities
    2-24   How Not to Be Governed: Critical Anarchism as Contemporary Political Theory
    2-25   Roundtable: Deliberation and Self-Interest, Negotiation and the Vote
    2-26   Embodied Politics: A New Paradigm of Democracy?
    2-27   Politics and the Outside
    2-28   Authors Meet Critics Roundtable: Carole Pateman and Charles Mills' Contract and Domination
    2-29   Black Political Thought in Comparative Perspective
    2-30   Self-Cultivation and the Political Life in Emerson and Thoreau
    2-31   Roundtable: Political Equality: Can this Ideal Be Saved in the Contemporary Era?
    2-32   Charles Taylor and the Secular Age
    2-33   Political Spaces and the Built Environment
    2-34   Modernity's Persistence
    2-35   Affect and the Sentiments of Politics
    2-36   Sovereignty, Violence, and Biopolitics
    2-37   Love, Ethics, and the Limits of Immanence
    2-38   Aesthetics and Democracy?
    2-39   Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
    2-40   Roundtable: Social Capital and Inequality
    2-41   Religious Belief and Public Values: Complements, Tensions, and Conflicts
    2-42   Roundtable: Continental Political Thought: Past, Present and Future
    2-43   Dynamic Conceptions of the People
    2-44   Continental Philosophers' Perspectives on Global Inequalities
    2-45   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eddie Glaude's IN A SHADE OF BLUE: PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK AMERICA
    2-46   Power and the Politics of Urban Space
    2-47   Theme Panel: Solidarity and Global Inequalities
    2-48   Roundtable: Strange Bedfellows: Sex Scandals in the Bush Era
    2-49   Theme Panel Roundtable: Reconceiving Social Justice
    2-50   Feminist Theory and "Redistribution"
    2-51   "Public" and "Private" in Global Politics: Boundaries of Political Power and Legitimacy
    2-53   Roundtable: The Theological-Political Predicament
    2-54   Foundations of Political Theory Plenary Address: Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher, University of Ljubljana

3   Normative Political Theory
    3-1   Why Freud? Judgment, Narrative, Critique
    3-2   Roundtable: FEMINISM AND THE ABYSS OF FREEDOM by Linda M.G. Zerilli
    3-3   Roundtable: Laying Claim to the World: Contesting the Secular, the Religious, and the Political
    3-4   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Thomas L. Dumm's LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE
    3-5   Tragedy: A Road to Democratic Politics
    3-6   Democratic Theory and Democratization
    3-7   The Disunity of Reason: Heterogeneous Rationalities and Practical Possibilities
    3-8   Roundtable: Deliberation and Self-Interest, Negotiation and the Vote
    3-9   Black Political Thought in Comparative Perspective
    3-10   Political Spaces and the Built Environment
    3-11   Sovereignty, Violence, and Biopolitics
    3-12   Religious Belief and Public Values: Complements, Tensions, and Conflicts
    3-13   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eddie Glaude's IN A SHADE OF BLUE: PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK AMERICA
    3-14   Power and the Politics of Urban Space
    3-15   Bono and Beyond: The Democratic Functions of Non-Elected Representatives
    3-16   Luck-Egalitarianism in Practice
    3-17   Contesting the Bounds and Grounds of Global Justice
    3-18   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Inequalities, Global Insecurities, Global Government
    3-19   Roundtable: Culture After Multiculturalism
    3-20   Theme Panel: Solidarity and Global Inequalities
    3-21   Roundtable: Strange Bedfellows: Sex Scandals in the Bush Era
    3-22   Theme Panel Roundtable: Reconceiving Social Justice
    3-23   Feminist Theory and "Redistribution"
    3-24   "Public" and "Private" in Global Politics: Boundaries of Political Power and Legitimacy
    3-25   Roundtable: Can Cosmopolitan Principles Foster World Democracy after the Iraq War?
    3-26   Political Theory and Transitional Justice
    3-27   Confucianism and Citizenship
    3-28   Global Democracy
    3-29   Comparative Political Theory: Methods and Justifications
    3-30   Citizenship: Rights and Responsibilities
    3-31   Border Politics: Immigration in the New Millennium
    3-32   Economic Justice and the Politics of Solidarity
    3-33   Punishment, Prisons, and Neo/Liberalism
    3-34   Genes, Justice, and the Politics of Biotechnologies
    3-35   Nonhumans, Nature, and Democratic Politics
    3-36   Political Discourse After 9/11
    3-37   Democratic Decisionmaking
    3-38   Public Space and Political Communication
    3-39   The Role of Rights in Politics
    3-40   Authors Meet Authors: Feminism and Equalities in Local, Global, and Historical Perspective
    3-41   The Politics of Care and Paternalism
    3-42   Identity, Inclusion, and the Politics of Recognition

4   Formal Political Theory
    4-1   Formal Models and Empirical Methods
    4-2   Social Context and Identity
    4-3   Elections and Electoral Systems
    4-4   Pork and Redistribution
    4-5   Valence and Voting
    4-6   Legislative Bargaining
    4-7   Public Goods and the Prisoner's Dilemma
    4-8   Oversight, Regulation, and Delegation
    4-9   Aggregation and Social Choice
    4-10   Formal Models of Authoritarian Politics
    4-11   Strategic Choices in Comparative Legislatures
    4-12   Party Games: Formal Models of Party Competition

5   Political Psychology
    5-1   Political Theory and Models of the Mind
    5-2   Experimental Studies of International Relations
    5-3   Political Psychology and Terrorism: Festschrift Panel for Martha Crenshaw
    5-4   Candidate Evaluation
    5-5   You've Got to ... Accentuate the Negative
    5-6   Biology, Psychology, and Politics
    5-7   Political Socialization
    5-8   Political Cognition
    5-9   Measuring Racism
    5-10   Political Information and Political Learning
    5-11   Elite Cues and Public Opinion
    5-12   Public Opinion about Immigration: Threat, Identity, and Acculturation
    5-13   Potpourri of Potentially Parallel Political Psychology Papers
    5-14   Neuropsychology, Political Behavior and Elections
    5-15   Religion and Political Psychology
    5-16   Preference Formation in New and Developing Democracies
    5-17   Immigration and Public Opinion
    5-18   Elites and Public Opinion Formation
    5-19   The Nature and Consequences of Deliberative Democracy
    5-20   Group Identity and Political Attitudes

6   Political Economy
    6-1   Roundtable: Social Capital and Inequality
    6-2   Inequality and Redistribution
    6-3   Property Rights
    6-4   Regime Stability
    6-5   Immigration and Migration
    6-6   Federalism
    6-7   Corruption
    6-8   Issues in U.S. Political Economy
    6-9   Political Behavior of Firms
    6-10   Electoral Politics
    6-11   Roundtable: PUNISHING THE PRINCE: A THEORY OF INTERSTATE RELATIONS, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND LEADER CHANGE by Fiona McGillivray and Alastair Smith
    6-12   Theorizing and Measuring Power in Authoritarian Regimes
    6-13   The Politics of Finance and Economic Development
    6-14   Country Risk Profiles and Development Prospects: What Difference Have "Policy Substitutes" for Domestic Institutions Made?
    6-15   The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
    6-16   The Political Economy of Collective Decision Making and Knowledge Aggregation

7   Politics and History
    7-1   The Crisis of the Liberal Center
    7-2   Roundtable: The Role of History in Political Science: A Discussion Among APSA Presidents
    7-3   Building Institutional Capacity
    7-4   Explaining Institutional Change: From historical institutions to ideas and discourse
    7-5   The American Presidency and Civil Liberties: A Conversation Across Disciplines
    7-6   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and Fall of the American Consensus
    7-7   Terms of Inclusion: Gender, Status Relations, and Constitutional Designs for Equality
    7-8   Theme Panel: Inequality and International Migration in Comparative and Historical Perspective
    7-9   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Victoria Hattam's IN THE SHADOW OF RACE: JEWS, LATINOS AND IMMIGRANT POLITICS IN THE U.S.
    7-10   Colonization and Empire in American Political Development
    7-11   American Political Development in Non-Western-European Comparative Perspective
    7-12   City Hall, Local Investment Credits and Clientelism: Comparative Historical Analysis of Local Party Dominance in Post-War France, Italy and Japan
    7-13   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Randall Strahan's LEADING REPRESENTATIVES: THE AGENCY OF LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF THE U.S. HOUSE
    7-14   History of Congress
    7-15   Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Eric Patashnik’s REFORMS AT RISK: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER MAJOR POLICY CHANGES ARE ENACTED
    7-16   The Historical Development of U.S. Public Policy
    7-17   Roundtable: Steve Teles' THE RISE OF THE CONSERVATIVE LEGAL MOVEMENT
    7-18   The Anatomy of Constitutional Crises
    7-19   Roundtable: Join the Party? George McGovern, American Liberalism and the Politics of Hope in U.S. Presidential Politics, 1972 and Today
    7-20   Explaining Institutional Change: Contributions from Historical Institutionalism

8   Political Methodology
    8-1   Formal Models and Empirical Methods
    8-2   Methodological Advances in the Study of Public Opinion
    8-3   Methodological Innovations in the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior
    8-4   Elections as Natural Experiments: Applications of Regression Discontinuity Design to the Study of Politics
    8-5   New Methods in Comparative Politics
    8-6   New Directions in Political Methodology
    8-7   New Methods for Studying the Law and Courts
    8-8   Methodological Advances in International Relations
    8-9   New Models and Methods for Political Analysis
    8-10   Multilevel Modeling
    8-11   Network Analysis for International Relations (2): Empirics
    8-12   The Politics of Policy Diffusion
    8-13   The Political Methodology of Legislative Studies
    8-14   Counting 1, 2, 3: Methodological Issues in Electoral Behavior
    8-15   Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud
    8-16   Multi-Method Tools I: Using Qualitative Evidence with Matching Designs and Instrumental Variables
    8-17   Multi-Method Tools II: Concepts, Indicators, and Equivalence
    8-18   Roundtable: Causal Mechanisms and the Science of Politics

9   Teaching and Learning in Political Science
    9-1   Visual Learning, Informatics and Awareness of Inequality
    9-2   Framing the Global Village in the Political Science Classroom
    9-3   Centering Socialization and Inequality in Political Science Instruction
    9-4   Political Education and "Real Life": Innovations in Service Learning and Internships
    9-5   Techniques and Technologies for New Methods, New Students, New Outcomes

10   Political Science Education
    10-1   The Interactive Classroom
    10-2   Engaging Students as Citizens
    10-3   Impacts of Civic Education on Students
    10-4   Theme Panel: Results of Differences in the Classroom
    10-5   Creative Classroom Techniques

11   Comparative Politics
    11-1   Theorizing and Measuring Power in Authoritarian Regimes
    11-2   Blocking Democratic Change
    11-3   Analyzing Subnational Inequalities: Development and Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
    11-4   Revisiting the "Urban Bias" of the African State
    11-5   Roundtable: Trends in Funding for Dissertation Field Research: Why So Little Support for Political Science and Sociology?
    11-6   Fiscal Contracts and Political Outcomes
    11-7   Formal Models of Authoritarian Politics
    11-8   Strategies of Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes
    11-9   The Politics of Land Rights in the Developing World: How Property Rights Can Be Politicized in Rural Africa and Latin America
    11-10   Party Switching in Comparative Perspective
    11-11   Crossing Boundaries: Diffusion Studies in Political Science
    11-12   Political Preference Formation and Partisan Choice
    11-14   Roundtable: Haggard and Kaufman, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
    11-15   Political Elites in Latin America: The Latest Wave from Salamanca
    11-16   European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms
    11-17   Elections, Parties, and Party Systems in Latin America: Changes in Linkage and Cleavage
    11-18   Theme Panel: New Approaches to the Measurement of Ethnicity: Identities, Institutions, and Power
    11-19   Political Dimensions of Economic Remittances: Struggles, Rules and Effects of Labor Export
    11-20   The Origins and Development of Citizen Mobilization
    11-21   Institutional Constraints on the Policy Process
    11-22   American Political Development in Non-Western-European Comparative Perspective
    11-23   The Effects of Democratic Constitutions and Regime Types on Policy, Governments and Accountability
    11-24   Building Durable Democracies in Multi-Ethnic and Religious Contexts
    11-25   Democracy, Inequality, and Redistribution Revisited
    11-26   The Politics of Non-State Social Service Provision
    11-27   Theme Panel: Inequality, Institutions, and the Social Contract: A Long-Run Perspective
    11-28   Old Concepts, New Puzzles: Competing With the Radical Right in Europe
    11-29   Cross-National Perspectives on Inequalities in Health: Their Origins, Extent and Politics
    11-30   Labor Relations and the Effects of Globalization on Inequality-Addressing Institutions
    11-31   Macro Indicators and Micro Measurement: Contextualizing Corruption
    11-32   New Approaches to Clientelism
    11-33   Politics, Poverty and Redistribution in Latin America
    11-34   The Politics of Immigration: Western Europe in Comparative Perspective
    11-35   Recent Research on Advanced Industrial Democracies
    11-36   Business-Government Relations in the Global Economy
    11-37   New Pieces for a New Puzzle? Coalitions and Institutions for Development Under Globalization
    11-38   The Political Consequences of Violent Conflict
    11-39   Subnational Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective
    11-40   Vote Buying, Turnout and Distribution
    11-41   New Perspectives on Informal Institutions and Political Order
    11-42   On The Politics of State-Business Relations in Developing Countries
    11-43   Ethnic Cleavages and Political Parties in Africa’s New Democracies
    11-44   Reviewing Comparative Datasets: Governance and Violence
    11-45   Politics, Development, and Social Reform in Southeast Asia
    11-46   Theme Panel: Globalization, Inequality, and Domestic Adjustment
    11-47   Nations, States and Violent Conflicts
    11-48   Muslims in Western Democracies: Religious Diversity and Political Incorporation
    11-49   Sociological and Institutional Investigations of Regime Endurance
    11-50   Regional Perspectives on Elections in Authoritarian and Post-Authoritarian Contexts

12   Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
    12-1   Analyzing Subnational Inequalities: Development and Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
    12-2   Revisiting the "Urban Bias" of the African State
    12-3   Strategies of Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes
    12-4   The Politics of Land Rights in the Developing World: How Property Rights Can Be Politicized in Rural Africa and Latin America
    12-5   Political Elites in Latin America: The Latest Wave from Salamanca
    12-6   Institutional Constraints on the Policy Process
    12-7   Macro Indicators and Micro Measurement: Contextualizing Corruption
    12-8   New Perspectives on Informal Institutions and Political Order
    12-9   Exploiting Elections
    12-10   Participatory Institutions in Developing Countries: Do Civil Society-State Partnerships Improve the Quality of Democracy?
    12-11   Distributive Politics of Developing Countries
    12-12   Across the Great Divide: Local Actors Versus International Agendas in Civil Wars
    12-13   Ethnic Cleavages and Political Parties in Africa’s New Democracies
    12-14   Theme Panel: Public Opinion, Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America
    12-15   Governance in Transition Countries: What Role for Private Actors?
    12-16   Islam, Law, and Democracy in Sahelian Africa
    12-17   Convergence and Divergence in Sources of Democratic Legitimacy: Findings from Global Barometer Survey
    12-18   Reviewing Comparative Datasets: Governance and Violence
    12-19   Civilian Abuses During Civil War: Methodological Choices and Challenges
    12-20   Violence and the Emergence of Ethnic Identity: Cleavage Construction, Conflict and Peace in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
    12-21   Taking Agency and Contingency Seriously: Land, Identity and Institutional Change in Africa
    12-22   Comparing Turkey: Ethnic Categories and State Policies at the Crossroads of East and West
    12-23   Patronage and Service Provision in Africa
    12-24   Governance in the Middle East and Asia
    12-25   African Democracy and its Challenges
    12-26   India: Clientelism and Cleavages Compared
    12-27   Inequality and Policy Responses to Inequality
    12-28   Governance in Latin America
    12-29   Revisiting the Common Wisdom on Foreign Aid
    12-30   Politics, Development, and Social Reform in Southeast Asia
    12-31   The Political Economy of Foreign Aid
    12-32   Politics and Women's Rights in the Muslim World
    12-33   Labor Markets, Labor Movements and Democracy in Latin America and Spain

13   The Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries
    13-1   The Impact of International Institutions and International Law on Putin's Russia
    13-2   Beyond Conditionality: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe after Enlargement
    13-3   Roundtable: Postcommunist Welfare States and Inequality: Lessons from Comparative Study of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989
    13-4   Gender, Policies, and Poltitics in Post-Soviet States
    13-5   The Rule of Law and Judicial Politics After Communism
    13-6   Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: Regime, Leadership, Party
    13-7   The Politics of Social Stratification and Economic Inequality
    13-8   Ethnic and National Mobilization in Post-Communist States
    13-9   Redressing Inequalities in a Socialist State: China’s Local, National, and International Strategies
    13-10   Learning to Choose: Post-Communist Parties and Voters
    13-11   The Politics of Property After Communism

14   Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies
    14-1   The Effects of Democratic Constitutions and Regime Types on Policy, Governments and Accountability
    14-2   Roundtable: Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union: From is to Ought
    14-3   New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies
    14-4   Partisan Politics in the European Union
    14-5   Immigrants, Opinions and Outcomes
    14-6   Questioning the Quality of Democracy
    14-7   Government Formation and Failure: Before During and After
    14-8   Internal Party Dynamics
    14-9   Voter Turnout: Who Votes and Why?
    14-10   Citizenship, Identity, Representation and Scope of Governance in the European Union
    14-11   Comparative Public Policy
    14-12   Representation in Parliamentary Systems
    14-13   The Impact of Local Institutions on Public Opinion and Political Participation

15   European Politics and Society
    15-2   European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms
    15-3   Beyond Conditionality: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe after Enlargement
    15-4   Roundtable: Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union: From is to Ought
    15-5   New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies
    15-6   Symbols and Power in European Politics
    15-7   Extremist Politics in Europe
    15-8   Structure and Agency in Cleavage Formation
    15-9   City Hall, Local Investment Credits and Clientelism: Comparative Historical Analysis of Local Party Dominance in Post-War France, Italy and Japan
    15-10   Migrants and Minorities: The European Response
    15-11   National Preference Formation and Policy Coordination in the Enlarged European Union
    15-12   Bring the State Back In, Yet Again
    15-13   Legislative Relations and Institutions in Europe
    15-14   Governing the New European Union
    15-15   European Welfare States in an Age of Regional Integration, Migration, and Globalization
    15-16   Who Supports Europe?
    15-17   Determinants of European Trade Policy
    15-18   Gender and Public Policy in Europe
    15-19   Religion and Politics in Europe
    15-20   Party Survival in the EU
    15-21   Legacies of Authoritarianism in Western and Eastern European Democracies
    15-22   Sex Trafficking in Europe and Beyond
    15-23   Roundtable in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann: The U.S., France, and the Search for a Just International System

16   International Political Economy
    16-1   Revisiting the Common Wisdom on Foreign Aid
    16-2   Determinants of European Trade Policy
    16-3   The Politics of Finance and Economic Development
    16-4   Network Analysis for International Relations (1): Theory
    16-5   Network Analysis for International Relations (2): Empirics
    16-6   The Political Economy of Foreign Aid
    16-7   Political and Economic Sources of Immigration Policies
    16-8   New Research on the Politics of International Capital Mobility
    16-9   The Political Economy of International Courts
    16-10   Institutions, Outcomes, and the Evolution of the Multilateral Trading System
    16-11   The Social Effects of International Financial Institutions
    16-12   Globalization and Labor Rights
    16-13   The Politics of Policy Diffusion
    16-14   The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Crises
    16-15   Theme Panel: Globalization, Inequality, and Domestic Adjustment
    16-16   Theme Panel Roundtable: Global Redistribution and Sovereign Wealth Funds
    16-17   Policy Making and Inequality in Emerging Markets
    16-18   The Political Economy of the World Bank and the IMF
    16-19   International Regulatory Politics: Implications for IR Theory and Democracy
    16-20   Country Risk Profiles and Development Prospects: What Difference Have "Policy Substitutes" for Domestic Institutions Made?
    16-21   The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
    16-22   International Organizations Solving Global Problems
    16-23   Issues in Dispute Settlement and Institutional Design
    16-24   Delegation to International Organizations: Dilemmas and Resolutions
    16-25   Domestic Politics, Forum Shopping, and International Agreements
    16-26   Competitive Regionalism: Driving Forces and Implications for the World Economy
    16-27   Political Economy of Financial Regionalism
    16-28   Economic Interdependence and Conflict
    16-29   Economic Development and Conflict

17   International Collaboration
    17-1   Network Analysis for International Relations (1): Theory
    17-2   Institutions, Outcomes, and the Evolution of the Multilateral Trading System
    17-3   International Regulatory Politics: Implications for IR Theory and Democracy
    17-4   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (1)
    17-5   International Organizations Solving Global Problems
    17-6   Inequality, Human Rights, and International Law
    17-7   Issues in Dispute Settlement and Institutional Design
    17-8   Delegation to International Organizations: Dilemmas and Resolutions
    17-9   Exporting Governance to Areas of Limited Statehood
    17-10   Unilateralism Versus Multilateralism(s): Designing Regimes and Choosing Policies
    17-11   Courts and the Politics of International Human Rights Protection
    17-12   Interpretation and Contestation in the Construction of International Norms
    17-13   Theme Panel: Reactions to Unequal Governance: Politicization of International Institutions from Below
    17-14   Domestic Politics, Forum Shopping, and International Agreements
    17-15   Theme Panel: Trust, Norms, Reputation and International Cooperation
    17-16   Power Transitions, Grand Strategies, and International Order
    17-17   Competitive Regionalism: Driving Forces and Implications for the World Economy
    17-18   Political Economy of Financial Regionalism
    17-19   Power, Alliances, and International Cooperation
    17-20   Re-Examining Regime Theory: Evaluating Regime Success
    17-21   Justice, International Tribunals, and Human Rights
    17-22   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (2)
    17-23   Trade, Interdependence, and Grand Strategy
    17-24   Mapping the Modern State System
    17-25   Roundtable: The Future of International Order

18   International Security
    18-1   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (1)
    18-2   Exporting Governance to Areas of Limited Statehood
    18-3   Unilateralism Versus Multilateralism(s): Designing Regimes and Choosing Policies
    18-4   Power Transitions, Grand Strategies, and International Order
    18-5   Alliances
    18-6   Commitment, Bargaining, and War
    18-7   The Ethics and Effectiveness of Asymmetrical Warfare
    18-8   The Origins and Effects of International Law
    18-9   Roundtable: Casualties, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War
    18-10   Roundtable: The Impact of World War I on Security Studies: Reflections and Reconsiderations
    18-11   Issues in Civil Military Relations
    18-12   Military Effectiveness
    18-13   Integration and Security: Sticks and Carrots in the Treatment of Immigrant Minorities in America and Europe
    18-14   Nations, States and Violent Conflicts
    18-15   Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
    18-16   Discourse, Identity, and International Security
    18-17   Strategy in Civil War
    18-18   Diasporas in International Politics
    18-19   Roundtable: Realism Redux: What Does it Mean to Be a Realist in the Contemporary World
    18-20   Post Conflict Stabilization
    18-21   Domestic Politics and Conflict Behavior
    18-22   The Origins of Civil War
    18-23   Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    18-24   War Termination
    18-25   Theme Panel: Influence, Inequality and the Design of Violent Opposition
    18-26   International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy
    18-27   Justice, Historical Memory, and Post-Conflict Reconciliation
    18-28   Realism and War
    18-29   The Control of Private Security
    18-30   Civilizational Polities in Domestic and International Politics (2)
    18-31   Strategic Trade and International Security
    18-32   Roundtable: Does the Bush Doctrine Have a Future?
    18-33   The Scholarship of Bruce Russett
    18-34   International Influences on Civil War
    18-35   New Approaches to Intervention
    18-36   Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
    18-37   Conflict Mediation
    18-38   The Personal is International: Women's Lives, Gender Roles, and International Security
    18-39   Historical Experience in Counterinsurgency: Strategy, Economics and Demobilization
    18-40   New Perspectives on Realism and Idealism

19   International Security and Arms Control
    19-1   Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
    19-2   Roundtable: Arabs and Israelis After Annapolis: Is the Peace Process Headed Anywhere?
    19-3   Issues in East Asian Security
    19-4   Roundtable: The Future of Transatlantic Relations
    19-5   The Effect of Nuclear Proliferation: Beyond Optimism and Pessimism
    19-6   Alliance Politics Revisited
    19-7   Norms, Weapons, and War
    19-8   Diplomacy and Strategy in War and Peace
    19-9   Terrorist Groups in Social and Strategic Context
    19-10   Unconventional War and Civilian Targeting
    19-11   Deterrence: New Dimensions and Debates
    19-12   Roundtable: What are the International Security Implications of Global Climate Change?
    19-13   Theme Panel: Global Inequalities, Concepts of Asymmetric Conflict, and American Counterinsurgency
    19-14   Proliferation, Restraint, and Reversal
    19-15   Nonproliferation Regimes
    19-16   Basing, Power Projection, and America's Presence in the Asia-Pacific
    19-17   Roundtable: Comparing the Iraq and Vietnam Wars

20   Foreign Policy
    20-1   Diasporas in International Politics
    20-2   Realism Redux: What Does it Mean to Be a Realist in the Contemporary World
    20-3   International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy
    20-4   A Post-Bush Foreign Policy
    20-5   Roundtable: Does the Bush Doctrine Have a Future?
    20-6   Roundtable: Sustainable Authoritarianism: Why Illiberal States are Thriving in the Liberal International Order
    20-7   Energy and Foreign Policy
    20-8   Economic Factors and Foreign Policy
    20-9   Environment and Foreign Policy
    20-10   Govenment Change and Stability and Foreign Policy
    20-11   Ideology and Beliefs and Foreign Policy
    20-12   The Causes and Consequences of Economic Sanctions
    20-13   Roundtable: Core Values and Public Attitudes Toward Both Domestic and Foreign Policies

21   Conflict Processes
    21-1   Experimental Studies of International Relations
    21-2   Political Psychology and Terrorism: Festschrift Panel for Martha Crenshaw
    21-3   Alliances
    21-4   Commitment, Bargaining, and War
    21-5   Strategy in Civil War
    21-6   The Scholarship of Bruce Russett
    21-7   Credible Commitment, Diversion, and Escalation: Continuing Research on International Conflict
    21-8   International Influences on Civil War
    21-9   Neighbors, Networks, and Issues in Conflict Onset and Expansion: Uncovering the Complexity of World Politics
    21-10   The Causes and Consequences of Economic Sanctions
    21-11   International Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: Evidence from New Data
    21-12   New Approaches to Intervention
    21-13   Trade, Interdependence, and Grand Strategy
    21-14   Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
    21-15   Civil Conflict and Human Rights
    21-16   Economic Interdependence and Conflict
    21-17   Economic Development and Conflict
    21-18   Domestic Politics and International Conflict
    21-19   Economic Sources of Civil Conflict