Division 35

Political Organizations and Parties

 

 

Title:  2008 and the Future of the American Party Coalitions

APSA Theme Panel

 

Chair:               Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame (wolbrecht.1@nd.edu)

 

Participants:   Paul R. Abramson, Michigan State University (abramson@msu.edu)

 

                        Paul A. Beck, Ohio State University (beck.9@osu.edu)

 

                        Geoffrey C. Layman, University of Maryland (glayman@gvpt.umd.edu)

 

                        Tasha S. Philpot, University of Texas, Austin (tphilpot@austin.utexas.edu)

 

                        Gary M. Segura, Stanford University (segura@stanford.edu)

 

 

Title:  Author Meets Readers:  Larry Bartels’ Unequal Democracy

 

Chair:              Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University, (b-page@northwestern.edu)

 

Participants:   Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University (bartels@princeton.edu)

 

                        Robert            S. Erickson, Columbia University (rse14@columbia.edu)

 

                        Kay Lehman Schlozman, Boston College (kschloz@bc.edu)

 

                        Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley (taekulee@berkeley.edu)

 

                        John R. Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles (zaller@ucla.edu)

 

 

Title:   Advocacy and Legislative Activity

 

Chair:              Kristina Miler, University of Illinois (kmiler@illinois.edu)

 

Papers:           “How a Bill Becomes a Law:  The Effect of Interest Groups”

                        Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University (matthewg9@gmail.com)

                        Kurt Pyle, Michigan State University (pylekurt@msu.edu)

 

                        “Lobbying the State Legislature:  Who Dominates and When Does It Matter”

                        Dave Nelson, University of Wisconsin, Madison (denelson3@wisc.edu)

 

                        “Congressional Responses to Lobbying:  Observations of an APSA Congressional Fellow”

                        Amy Melissa McKay (amckay@gsu.edu)

 

                        “Organized Interests Campaign Advertisements and Legislative Behavior”

                        Mary C. Deason, University of Mississippi (mcdeason@olemiss.edu)

 

Disc:                Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia (sainswor@uga.edu)

 

 

Title:   Party Politics and Legislative Elections

 

Chair:              Stephen K. Medvic, Franklin and Marshall College (stephen.medvic@fandm.edu)

 

Papers:           “Candidate Ideology or Candidate Quality: Explaining Democratic House Victories in 2006 and 2008”

                        Gregory Huber, Yale University (gregory.huber@yale.edu)

                         Conor Dowling, Yale University (conor.dowling@yale.edu)

 

                        “Realignment, Open Seats, the Retirement Slump, and the Appearance of an Increasing Incumbency Effect”

                        Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Syracuse University (jstoneca@syr.edu)

 

                        “Risk Taking and Redistricting: How a Party’s Willingness to Accept Risk Leads to Seat Gains and Losses”

                        Aaron Dusso,  George Washington University (aaron444@gwu.edu)

 

                        “Changing the Playing Field: Redistricting and Party Competition in the States”

                        John M. Bruce, University of Mississippi (jbruce@olemiss.edu)

                        Jonathan Winburn, University of Mississippi (jwinburn@olemiss.edu)

                        Robert Brown, University of Mississippi (psrbrown@olemiss.edu)

 

Disc:                Jamie L. Carson, University of Georgia (Carson@uga.edu)

                       

 

Title:   The Scholarly Legacy of Nelson W. Polsby

Cosponsored by Politics and History

 

Chair:              Raymond J. La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (laraja@polsci.umass.edu)

 

Papers:           “The Divided Democrats Revisited: Ideological Cohesion in the American Party System, 1996-2008”

                        William G. Mayer, Northeastern University (w.mayer@neu.edu)

 

                        “Presidential Cabinet Formation and Party-Building”

                        Harold F. Bass, Ouachita Baptist University (bassh@obu.edu)

 

                        “Continuity and Change in the Study of Congress”

                        David W. Brady, Stanford University (dbrady@stanford.edu)

 

                        “Title TBD”

                        Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University (sda@gov.harvard.edu)

 

                        “The Problem of Ideology”

                        John R. Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles (zaller@ucla.edu)

 

 

Title:   Networks of Advocates and Activists

Cosponsored by Political Methodology

 

Chair:              Timothy M. LaPira, College of Charleston (LaPiraT@cofc.edu)

 

Papers:           “Network Determinants of Interest Groups’ Participation in Coalitions over Time”

                        John C. Scott, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (jcscott@email.unc.edu)

 

“It’s Not Personal; It’s Strictly Business:  A Social Networks Analysis of Internal Party Cleavages, 1972-2008”

                        Hans Noel, University of Michigan (hansnoel@umich.edu)

 

“527 Committees as Central Actors in the Political Party Network, 2006 and 2008”

                        David A. Dulio, Oakland University (ddulio@oakland.edu)

                        Richard Skinner, Bowdoin College (rskinner@bowdoin.edu)

                        Seth Masket, University of Denver (smasket@du.edu)

 

                        “Parties and the Congressional Lobbying Network”

                        Gregory Koger, University of Miami (gregory.koger@gmail.com)

                        Jennifer Victor, University of Pittsburgh (jnvictor@pitt.edu)

 

“Social Networks, Political Heterogeneity, and Interpersonal Influence: Test of a Formal Model with Empirical Evidence from Italy and the U.S.”

                        Delia Baldassarri, Princeton University (dbalda@princeton.edu)

 

Discussant:     Suzanne M. Robbins, George Mason University (srobbin1@gmu.edu)

 

 

Title:   Causes and Consequences of Party Positions in European Democracies

Cosponsored by European Politics and Society

 

Chair:              Markus M. L. Crepaz, University of Georgia (mcrepaz@uga.edu)

 

Papers:           “When parties position themselves. Political parties in policy space across Europe”

                        Alexander H. Trechsel, European University Institute (Alexander.Trechsel@eui.eu)

                        Peter Mair, European University Institute (Peter.Mair@eui.eu)

 

                        “Cross-Cutting Issues and Party Strategy in the European Union”

                        Craig A. Parsons, University of Oregon (cap@uoregon.edu)

                        Till Weber, European University Institute (till.weber@eui.eu)

 

                        “Voter Engagement and Responses to Party Polarization and Depolarization: An Analysis of Party Positioning and Voter Partisanship in Britain, 1970-2005”

                        James Adams, University of California, Davis (jfadams@ucdavis)

                        Jane Green, University of Manchester (jane.green@manchester.ac.uk)

                        Caitlin Milazzo, University of California, Davis (ccmilazzo@ucdavis.edu)

 

                        “Who is Left Behind? Comparing European Party and Voter Positions Along Two Dimensions”

                        Jan Rovny, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (rovny@unc.edu)

 

Disc:                Michael D. McDonald, SUNY, Binghamton (mdmcd@binghampton.edu)

 

 

Title:   Explaining Party Polarization in the U.S. Congress

Cosponsored by Legislative Studies

 

Chair:              Jon R. Bond, Texas A&M (jonbond@polisci.tamu.edu)

 

Papers:           “Whatever Happened to Moderate Republicans? Party Asymmetry in the U.S. Congress, 1972-2008”

                        David A. Hopkins, University of California, Berkeley (dhopkins@berkeley.edu)

 

                        “Income Inequality and Party Polarization in the U.S. House”

                        Jeffrey W. Ladewig, University of Connecticut (Jeffrey.ladewig@uconn.edu)

                        Samuel Best, University of Connecticut (sam.best@uconn.edu)

                        Robert O’Brien, University of Connecticut (Robert.o’brien@uconn.edu)

 

                        “What about Institutions? The Polarizing Effect of Reforms on the House of Representatives’ Amendment Process”

                        Barry Pump, University of Washington (bpump@u.washington.edu)

 

                        “Procedural Polarization in the U.S. Congress”

                        Sean M. Theriault, University of Texas, Austin (seant@mail.utexas.edu)

 

Disc:                Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, University of Chicago (grynav@uchicago.edu)

 

 

Title:   Political Parties and Policy Making in the U.S. Congress

Cosponsored by Legislative Studies

 

Chair:              Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester (gerald.gamm@rochester.edu)

 

Papers:           “A computational model of party committee influence on legislative behavior”

                        Andrew Waugh, University of California, San Diego (aswaugh@ucsd.edu)

 

                        “Taming the Filibuster: Vote Skipping and Omnibus Spending Bills in the U.S. Senate”

                        Peter Hanson, University of California, Berkeley (phanson@berkeley.edu)

 

                        “Party Power in the U.S. House: Discharge Petitions, Agenda Control, and Committees”

                        Susan Miller, University of Missouri, Columbia (smmwbc@mizzou.edu)

                        L. Overby, University of Missouri, Columbia (overby@missouri.edu)

 

                        “House Appropriations After the Republican Revolution”

                        David W. Rohde, Duke University (rohde@duke.edu)

                        John Aldrich, Duke University (aldrich@duke.edu)

                        Brittany Perry, Duke University (bnp2@duke.edu)

 

Disc:                Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester (gerald.gamm@rochester.edu)

                        Steven S. Smith, Washington University, St. Louis (smith@wustl.edu)

 

 

Title:   Tactical Choice and Organizational Success

Cosponsored by Public Policy

 

Chair:              Virginia H. Gray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (vagray@email.unc.edu)

 

Papers:           “The Structure of Lobbying and Representation across Policymaking Venues”

                        Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa (frederick-boehmke@uiowa.edu)

                        John Patty, Harvard University (jpatty@gov.harvard.edu)

                        Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley (gailmard@berkeley.edu)

                        Andrew Pettine, University of Iowa (andrew-pettine@uiowa.edu)

 

                        “Organizational Strategies in Breast Cancer Research”

                        Patricia Strach, Harvard University (pstrach@rwj.harvard.edu)

 

                        “Signals through the Fog:  Bureaucratic Signaling and Attention in Financial Regulation”

                        Samuel Workman, University of Texas, Austin (sworkman@austin.utexas.edu)

                        JoBeth Shafran, University of Texas, Austin (surfaceshafran@gmail.com)

 

                        “Interest Group Competition and Legislative Success in the U.S. Congress”

                        Holly Brasher, University of Alabama, Birmingham (hbrasher@uab.edu)

 

Disc.:               Marie Hojnacki, Penn State University (marieh@psu.edu)

                        Beth L. Leech, Rutgers University (BethL@rci.rutgers.edu)

 

 

Title:   Party Linkage and Party Government in Contemporary Democracies

Cosponsored by Representation and Electoral Systems

 

Chair:              Richard S. Katz, Johns Hopkins University (richard.katz@jhu.edu)

 

Papers:           “Comparing Voter Participation:  Individual Resources, Orientations, and the Context of Party Politics”

                        Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University (miki.kittilson@asu.edu)

 

                        “Parties and Participation:  The Linkage between Parties and Voters”

                        Ian McAllister, Australian National University (ian.mcallister@anu.edu.au)

 

                        “Forming a Government: Do Expectations Match Reality?”

                        Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine (rdalton@uci.edu)

 

                        “Democratic Representation:  The Congruence between Citizens and Government”

                        David M. Farrell, University of Manchester (david.farrell@manchester.ac.uk)

 

                        “Voter Diversity, Ideological Trends and Changing Party System Polarization: Implications for Ideological Congruence”

                        Bingham G. Powell, Jr., University of Rochester (gb.powell@rochester.edu)

 

Disc:                André Blais, University of Montreal (andre.blais@u.montreal.ca)

 

 

Title:   The Politics of Presidential Nominations

Cosponsored by Elections and Voting Behavior

 

Chair:              Barbara Norrander, University of Arizona (norrande@u.arizona.edu)

 

Papers:           “Early State Primary Momentum: Media Hype or Reliable Cue?”

                        Dino Christenson, The Ohio State University (christenson.24@polisci.osu.edu)

                        Corwin Smidt, Michigan State University  (smidtc@msu.edu)

 

                        “The Consequences of Open Presidential Primaries”

                        Michael G. Hagen, Temple University (michael.hagen@temple.edu)

                        Richard Johnson, University of Pennsylvania (rgcj@sas.upenn.edu)

 

                        “Healing the Rifts: Intraparty Factionalism at the 2008 Presidential Nominating Conventions”

                        Michael T. Heaney, University of Florida (mtheaney@ufl.edu)

                        Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota (dzs@umn.edu)

                        Seth E. Masket, University of Denver (smasket@du.edu)

 

                        “Politics in Motion: Dynamics of Presidential Primaries, 1972 – 2008”

                        Martin Cohen, James Madison University (cohenmg@jmu.edu)

                        David Karol, University of California, Berkeley (dkarol@berkeley.edu)

                        Hans Noel, University of Michigan (hansnoel@umich.edu)

                       

Disc:                Seth E. Masket, University of Denver (smasket@du.edu)

                        Barbara Norrander, University of Arizona (norrande@u.arizona.edu)

 

 

Title:   Stability and Change in American Partisanship

 

Chair:              Charles Franklin, University of Wisconsin, Madison (chfrankl@wisc.edu)

 

Paper:             “The Next American Voter: The Political Demography of American Partisanship”

                        Eric P. Kaufmann, Harvard University/University of London (e.kaufmannbbk.ac.uk)

                        Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (skirbekk@iiasa.ac.at)

 

                        “The Geography of Political Independence”

                        Brian J. Brox, Tulane University (bbrox@tulane.edu)

 

                        “The New Democratic Majority: Who Voted in the 2008 Presidential Election?”

                        Seth C. McKee, University of South Florida St. Petersburg (scmckee@stpt.usf.edu)

                        David Hill, (dhill@stetson.edu)

 

                        “A Reversal of Trends? Voter Turnout in the 2008 Presidential Elections”

                        Priscilla L. Southwell, University of Oregon (psouth@uoregon.edu)

 

Disc:                Charles Franklin, University of Wisconsin, Madison (chfrankl@wisc.edu)

 

 

Title:   Gendering Political Organizing:  Women, Men, and Activism in the U.S.

Cosponsored by Women in Politics Research

 

Chair:              Jennifer Leigh Disney, Winthrop University (disneyj@winthrop.edu)

 

Papers:           “National Coalition Work in the American Women’s Movement”

                        Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina (woliver@sc.edu)

 

                        “Pro-Women, Antifeminist?  Understanding Sarah Palin Through Conservative Women Activists”

                        Ronnee Schreiber, San Diego State University (rschreib@mail.sdsu.edu)

 

                        “Advocacy in Hard Times:  Representing Marginalized Groups in the Twenty-First Century”

                        Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota (dzs@umn.edu)

 

                        “Governance and the Political Activity of Women’s Associations”

                        Maryann Barakso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (barakso@polsci.umass.edu)

 

                        “The Electoral Success of Women’s Organizations: Do the Media Matter?”

                        Danielle Thomsen, Cornell University (dt324@cornell.edu)

 

Disc:                Kristen Goss, Duke University (kgoss@duke.edu)

 

 

Title:   Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe:  Twenty Years After the Fall of Communism

Cosponsored by The Politics of Communist and Post-Communist Countries

 

Chair:              Mary Stegmaier, University of Virginia (ms2bu@virginia.edu)

 

Papers:           “Party Divisions in Europe:  Theory and Evidence from an Expert Survey in 27 European Democracies”

                        Robert Rohrschneider, University of Kansas (roro@ku.edu)

                        Stephen Whitefield, University of Oxford

 

                        “Are Mixed Electoral Systems the Best Choice for Central and Eastern Europe or the Reason for Defective Party Systems”

                        Daniel Bochsler, University of Zurich, Center for Comparative and International Studies (bochsler@ipz.uzh.ch)

 

                        “Populist Appeals in Postcommunist Europe”

                        Kevin Deegan-Krause, Wayne State University (kdk@wayne.edu)

                        Tim Haughton, University of Birmingham (T.J.Haughton@bham.ac.uk)

 

                        “The Endurance of the Czech Communist Party”

                        Mary Stegmaier, University of Virginia (ms2bu@virginia.edu)

                        Klara Plecita-Vlachova, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences (Klara.Plecita@soc.cas.cz)

 

Disc:                Andrew Roberts, Northwestern University (aroberts@northwestern.edu)

 

 

Title:   Religious Political Parties in Comparative Perspective

Cosponsored by Religion and Politics

 

Chair:              Ramazan Kilinc, Michigan State University (kilinc@msu.edu)

 

Papers:           “Understanding Moderation and Extremism: The Strategies and Goals of Religious Parties”

                        P. Pushkar, McGill University (p.pushkar@mcgill.ca)

                        Madhvi Gupta, Concordia University (madhvi_gupta@excite.com)

 

                        “Religion Between Movement and Party:  A Comparative Analysis of Religious Party Formation in Middle East and Latin America”

                        Luis Mantilla, Georgetown University (lfm5@georgetown.edu)

 

                        “Negotiating Islam, Civil Society, and Secularism:  The Justice and Development Party in Turkey”

                        Ani Sarkissian, Michigan State University (asarkiss@msu.edu)

                        Serife Osler, SUNY New Paltz

 

                        “What Accounts for the Success of Islamist Parties in the Arab World?  Evidence from Jordan”

                        Michael D.H. Robbins, University of Michigan (robbinmd@umich.edu)

 

Disc:                Robert A. Dowd, University of Notre Dame (Robert.A.Dowd.9@nd.edu)

 

 

Title:   Party Organizations in the States

Cosponsored by State Politics and Policy

 

Chair:              Rachael Vanessa Cobb, Suffolk University (rcobb@suffolk.edu)

 

Papers:           “The Dynamic Relationship Between State Party Organizational Strength and Electoral Success”

                        Robert C. Lowry, University of Texas, Dallas (robert.lowry@utdallas.edu)

 

                        “When Do Party Elites Democratize?  The Direct Primary in Penn Sylvania, 1842-1906”

                        Kaori Shoji, Gakushuin University (kaori.shoji@gakushuin.ac.jp)

                       

                        “A Network Analysis of State Party Committee Strength”

                        Andrew Waugh, University of California, San Diego (aswaugh@ucsd.edu)

 

                        “Party Strength and Activity and Women’s Political Representation at the Local Level”

                        Melody Crowder-Meyer, Princeton University (mcrowder@princeton.edu)

 

Disc:                John Clark, Western Michigan University (john.clark@umich.edu)

                        Rachael Vanessa Cobb, Suffolk University (rcobb@suffolk.edu)

 

 

Title:   Poster Session:  New Frontiers in American Party Research

 

Posters:          “Vying for the Plank: Discovering the Conditions under which Interest Groups Influence Party Platforms”

                        Jennifer Nicoll Victor, University of Pittsburgh (jnvictor@pitt.edu)

                        Gina Reinhardt, Texas A&M University (greinhardt@bushschool.tamu.edu)

 

“Parties and Movements in American Politics: Patterns of Alliance from Free Soil to the Christian Right”

Daniel Schlozman, Harvard University (schlozm@fas.harvard.edu)

 

“From Images to Votes: Understanding the Dynamics of Issue Evolution”

Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin, Madison (cavari@wisc.edu)

 

                        “The Cultural Basis of Party Identification”

                        Joel A. Lieske, Cleveland State University (j.lieske@csuohio.edu)

 

Disc:                David Karol, University of California, Berkeley (dkarol@berkeley.edu)

 

 

Title:   Poster Session:  Intra-party Democracy in Comparative Perspective

 

Posters:          “Intra-party dynamics and party splits”

                        Hande Mutlu, New York University (hande.mutlu@nyu.edu)

 

“Do parties become more democratic and does it pay? Assessing the reciprocal relationship between intraparty democracy and party membership”

Ingo Rohlfing, University of Cologne (rohlfing@wiso.uni-koeln.de)

 

                        “Do Primaries Matter? How Internal Democracy Affects Party Performance in the General Election”

                        Kathleen M. Bruhn, University of California, Santa Barbara (bruhn@polsci.ucsb.edu)

 

                        “Formal Models of Machine Politics”

                        Ugur Ozdemir (uozdemir@artsci.wustl.edu)

 

Disc:               Marisa Kellam, Texas A&M University (mkellam@polisci.tamu.edu)

                        Simone Bohn, York University (sbohn@yorku.ca)

 

 

Title:   Poster Session:  Explaining Organized Political Action

 

Posters:          “Examining Endogeneity in Social Movement Protest and Public Opinion: The Case of the U.S. Women’s Movement”

Lee Ann Banaszak, Penn State University (lab14@psu.edu)

Heather L. Ondercin, Louisiana State University (ondercin@lsu.edu)

 

“Baptists and Church-State Advocacy: An Analysis of the Effects of Membership Opinion on Lobbying the Supreme Court”

Andrew R. Lewis, American University (al3978a@student.american.edu)

 

“Should We Go Steady? Patterns of Cooperative Lobbying Behavior among Forestry Advocacy Groups in France and Sweden”

Emily Olivia Matthews , University of California, San Diego (eomatthews@ucsd.edu)

 

“Advocacy Coalitions: Beyond Influence, an Organizational Survival Perspective”

Stephanie Yates, Laval University (stephanie.yates.1@ulaval.ca)

Raymond Hudon, Laval University (hudon@pol.ulaval.ca)

 

“Soliciting Participation:  Understanding the Role of Membership Groups in Promoting Political Engagement”

Maryann Barakso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (barakso@polsci.umass.edu)

 

Disc:                Michael T. Heaney, University of Michigan (mheaney@umich.edu)