Pacific Northwest
Political Science Association
Annual Conference

October 17-19, 2002
Bellevue, Washington
 
 
 

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Thursday, October 17

5:00 — 7:00 pm
Registration and Evening ReceptionOak/Pine Rooms


Friday, October 18

7:15 - 8:30 am Executive Council Breakfast Meeting —

Eastside Bar & Grill
8:00 - 11:00 am Registration — Lobby

SESSION I
8:30 - 10:00 am

A. CURRENT ISSUES IN POLICY AND REFORMMaple Room Chair and Discussant, Brian Paul Newman, Duke University
Paper Presenters

Richard Young and Jeff Meiser, Seattle University
"Seattle Praxis: The Origins of a Reform Movement in the Democratic Party"

Ralph Maughan and Doug Nilson, Idaho State University
"Urban Political Invisibility in Idaho"


B. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION I Alder Room
Chair and Discussant, Maria Chavez-Pringle, Boise State University
Paper Presenters
Stephanie Witt, Boise State University, Dave Patton,
University of Utah, and Nicholas Lovrich, Washington
State University
"Blending Practice and Theory in a Public Administration Text: Building on the Experiences of Reflective Practitioners"
Selby Marks III, University of Nevada, Reno
"Policy Punctuation and Structural Change in U.S. Budget Appropriations"

Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno
"Public School Administration: Applying Contingency Theory to the Study of California School Districts in the 1990’s"


C. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ROUNDTABLE ON GLOBAL FAIR TRADE AND GLOBAL STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE Tamarack Room
Chair and Discussant, Adam Resnick, Western Washington University
Participants:

Peter G. Prontzos, Langara College, Vancouver, B.C.
"The Political Economy of Global Structural Violence"
Ben Corey-Moran, Student, Lewis & Clark College
"Essential Complexities of Fair Trade Coffee"
Colin McDonald, Student, Western Washington University
"Fair Trade Coffee on Campus: An Activist's Perspective"

SESSION II 10:15 — 11:45 a.m.

A. COMPARATIVE POLITICS I: POLITICS AND
DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMERICAS — Maple Room
Chair and Discussant, Patrick O’Neil, University of Puget Sound
Paper Presenters:

Stephanie Wickstrom, Central Washington University
"Responding to Development: Policy and Indigenous Peoples in Panama, Chile and the United States"

Claudia Reyes-Quilodran, Washington State University
"The Main Factors That Could Determine the Behavior of a Torturer"

Robert Chisholm, Columbia Basin College
"Progress and Mimesis: Political Theory, Imitation, and Development in the Brazilian Experience"

Michael Treleaven, SJ, Gonzaga University
"Landscape Politics in the Pacific Northwest: States and Provinces"


B. PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: POLICY ASSESSMENTS AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS - Alder Room
Chair and Discussant, Nicholas Lovrich, Washington State
University, Pullman


Paper Presenters:
Patrick Wilson, University of Idaho
"Saving Salmon Policy: Policy Theory Explanations of Snake River Salmon Recovery"

Robert S. Wood, University of Washington
"At the Regulatory Frontlines: Positive vs. Negative Explanations for Street-Level Behavior"

Christopher Stream, University of Alabama-Birmingham and
Barbara Coyle McCabe, Arizona State University
"Public Opinion and Tax Reform: The Chicken or the Egg"

Rex Wirth and Tim Plourd, Central Washington University
"An Assessment of Public Policy in Native American Communities"


C. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I: DEMOCRACY,
THE STATE, AND CIVIL SOCIETY LINGERING

QUESTIONS Tamarack Room
Chair: Curtis Johnson, Lewis & Clark College
Paper Presenters:

Kenneth Hoover, Western Washington University
"What Should Democracy Do About Identity?"
Peter Steinberger, Reed College
"Democratic Government and Democratic State"

Sammy Basu, Willamette University
"The Birth of the Modern Nation State and Crowd Control: Reading the Frontispiece of Hobbes Leviathan (1651)"
David Watkins, University of Washington
"Reading Contemporary Cosmopolitical Thought"

Discussant: D.W. "Sid" Olufs, Pacific Lutheran University


12:00 — 1:15 pm
Lunch — Lounge
Drs. Kurt and Gladys Engel Lang, Professors Emeriti, University of Washington

"Television and Politics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

Friday Afternoon

SESSION III 1:30 — 3:00 pm
A. JUDICIAL POLITICS: CIVIL RIGHTS, LEGAL WRONGS:
RECOGNIZING AND TEACHING ABOUT LEGAL INSTITUTIONSResearch Presentation Panel
Maple Room

Chair and Discussant, Rorie Spill, Oregon State University
Paper Presenters:

Gregg Ivers, American University
"Using the Case Method To Teach Constitutional Law"

Yuksel Sezgin, University of Washington
"Legal Pluralism: Why do States Need to Recognize Non-State Normative Orderings? The Case of Israeli Religious Courts"

Gene Straughan, Lewis-Clark State College
"The Establishment Clause, the Rehnquist Court, and School Vouchers"

B. WOMEN & POLITICS ROUNDTABLE - A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE PARLIAMENT: THE UNTOLD STORY FROM MOROCCO Alder Room
Chair, Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington, Seattle
Participants:
Cathy Allen, Connections Group, Inc., Seattle, Washington and other members of the political training team that worked
with aspiring women candidates in Morocco

C. POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AND POLITICS

Chair and Discussant: Todd Schaefer, Central Washington University
Presenters:

Kevin Pirch, University of Oregon
"Serious Times, Serious Voters: An Examination of the Draft and Voters 21-24"
Joseph Morris, Mercyhurst College, Pennsylvania
"New West, Old West: The Environmental Attitudes of Elected Officials in Montana"

Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver
"Information, Environmental Action and Local Communities"

SESSION IV 3:15 — 4:45 pm
 

A. AMERICAN POLITICS ROUNDTABLE: THE 2000 REAPPORTIONMENT IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST STATES - Maple Room
Chair, Clive Thomas, University of Alaska Southwest
Presenters:

Clive Thomas, University of Alaska Southwest, "Alaska"
Jasper M. LiCalzi, Albertson College of Idaho, "Idaho"
William Lunch, Oregon State University, "Oregon"
D.W. "Sid" Olufs, Pacific Lutheran University, "Washington"
 
Susan Byorth Fox, Legislative Services Division, Montana State Legislature, "Montana"
 

B. COMPARATIVE POLITICS II: CIVIL SOCIETY, ETHNICITY, AND COLLECTIVE ACTION Alder Room
Chair and Discussant, Robert Chisholm, Columbia Basin College

Paper Presenters:

A.E. Gordon Buffonge, Portland State University
"Societal Mentalities, Political Culture and Collective Action Frames:Three Kinds of Culture in Movement Emergence and Endurance"

Nicole Watts, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
"How Weak Groups Resist Strong States: Three Forms of Ethnic Contention"

Kenneth G. Lawson, Shoreline Community College
"The State from Below: State-Society Relations During a Time of War, County Roscommon, 1913-1920

Mary-Alice Pickert, University of Washington
"Civic Communities: Explaining Variation in Volunteer Participation in Japan

C. SUPREME COURT ROUNDTABLE: CIVIL RIGHTS IN CRISIS? THE REHNQUIST COURT AND PROTECTIONS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES IN A POST-SEPTEMBER 11 WORLD

Tamarack Room
Chair, Julie Novkov, University of Oregon
Participants:
David Adler, Idaho State University
Cornell Clayton, Washington State University
Don Crowley, University of Idaho
George Lovell, University of Washington

Saturday, October 19

7:30 — 8:00 am Continental BreakfastHemlock Room
8:00 — 9:00 am General Membership Meeting:
Election of Officers
 

SESSION V 9:15 — 10:45 am

A. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION II Maple Room
Chair and Discussant, Selby Marks III
University of Nevada, Reno
Paper Presenters:
Maria Chavez-Pringle, Boise State University
"Civic Engagement of Latinos: Increased Diversity in Politics, Public Administration, and Society"

Lisa Morris, University of LaVerne - City of Las Vegas
"Shared Leadership: The Role of Civic Leaders in Local Government"

 
Ted Jones, Washington State University
"Contingency Theory and the White House Chief of Staff"

 
B. WOMEN & POLITICS: FEMINISM(S) IN THE NEW
CENTURY ISSUES AND IDENTITIESAlder Room

Chair and Discussant, Sara J. Weir, Western Washington
University
Presenters:

Monica McCallum, Fairhaven College
"Seeing in Color"

Colleen Mack-Canty, Montana State University
"Third-Wave Feminism and the Need to Reweave the Nature/ Culture Duality"

Phoebe McCullough, University of Minnesota
"Deer Story, Dear Story"


C. ROUNDTABLE ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
POLITICAL SCIENCE IN VARIOUS COLLEGE VENUES:
A CONVERSATION AMONG COLLEAGUES AT TWO-
FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS Tamarack Room

Participants:

T.M. Sell, Highline Community College
"The Sage on the Stage is not dead; a contrarian view of lectures"

Paula M. Hoene, Lewis-Clark State College; Walla Walla
Community College
"The Academy and Technological Education: Political Science in The Community College.

Stephen Candee, Lane Community College
"PS104: Problems in U.S. Politics Through Film"
 

SESSION VI 11:00 — 12:30 pm

A. COMPARATIVE POLITICS III: MEASUREMENT
ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICSMaple Room
Chair and Discussant, TBA by panel
Paper Presenters:
Dorothy Stetson, Florida Atlantic University and
Amy Mazur, Washington State University
"The Cross-National Measurement of Gender-Related Institutions and Policies"

Stephen Benedict Dyson, Washington State University
"The Assessment of Leadership Traits: A Heuristic for Modeling Party Leadership Effects"

Jason Giesler, Washington State University, Ashley Grosse,
Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, and Andrew
Appleton, Washington State University
"Comparing Measures of Party Attachment in Cross-National Surveys"

B. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY II: ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY
POLITICAL THOUGHTExecutive Conference Room

Chair and Discussant: Michaele Ferguson, University of Washington
Paper Presenters:

Matthew Goldfeder, University of Virginia
"Stuck in-between: E.M. Ciorans Reflections on the Problems of Conscous Existence"
David Gutterman, Willamette University
"Innocence"
Jeff Johnson, Eastern Oregon University
"Biologically Based Justice and the Retributive Urge"
Henry Evans, Idaho State University
"African American and Liberal Feminist Narratives"

 
12:30 pm Annual Meeting Adjourned

12:45 pm New Executive Council MeetingTBD

A special thank you to our 2002 Section Chairs:

Sean K. Anderson, Idaho State University

Joe Bowersox, Willamette University

Doug Clark, Linn-Benton Community College

Christine DiStefano, University of Washington

Carolyn N. Long, Washington State University-Vancouver

Nick Lovrich, Washington State University

Julie Novkov, University of Oregon

Patrick O’Neil, University of Puget Sound

Christopher Simon, University of Nevada - Reno

 

Save the Date!

2003 PNWPSA ANNUAL MEETING

October 16-18

Coast Plaza Suite Hotel at Stanley Park,

Vancouver, B.C.

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