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Democracy and its Development

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2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine

April 29, 2006

Breakfast and Introduction. SST 220A. 9:00-10:00.

Introductory Remarks. SST 220A. 10:00-10:15.

Panel A1: You Tell Me It's the Institution. SSL 228. 10:15-12:00.

"Do Democracies Outperform Non-democracies in Income Inequality?"
Liang-chih Evans Chen, UC Riverside
paper

"Effective Number of Parties and Effective Numbers of Relevant Parties: A Comparison and an Analysis with an Application to the Duration of Cabinets. "
Reuben Kline, UCI
paper not available online.

"Citizenship Policies in the 15 Former Soviet Union Republics: A Quantitative Analysis"
Shushanik Makaryan, Washington State University
paper

"How do we get the institutions right? The conditions for institutional effectiveness"
Nicholas Weller with Cheryl Boudreau, UCSD
paper

Lunch, SST 220A. 12:00-1:15.

Panel B1: Sub-national Democracy. SSL 228. 1:30-3:15.

"Efficiency of the Political Market in the California State Legislature."
Seiji Fujii, UCI
paper

"Explaining Variance in State Spending in Public Post-Secondary Education: A Look at Legislature Identification with Target Populations"
Megan Thiele, UCI
paper

"Clientelism and War Criminals: What Keeps Serbia from Cooperating with the Hague?"
Keith Jarrett, UCI
paper

"Estimations of the Incumbency Effects in the US State Legislatures: A Quasi-experimental approach"
Yogesh Uppal, UCI
paper

Panel C1: After Authority. SSL 228. 3:30-5:15.

"Democratic Support in Post-Communist Europe"
Willy Jou, UCI
paper not available online.

"A City Upon a Hill:Religious Participation, Ideology, and Conservative Political Attitudes in the United States"
Adam Martin, UCI
paper

"Platform Leadership: Cultivating Support for a Public Profile"
Kelsy Kretschmer, UCI
paper

"Where does it Work? An Empirical Analysis of Political Conditionality"
Nikolas Emmanuel, UC Davis
paper

Panel C2: Religious and Reactive Movements. SSL 238. 3:30-5:15.

"Political Threats and Reactive Movements: White Supremacist Public Actions in the U.S., 1947-1997"
Steve Boutcher, UCI
paper not available online.

"Colonial Effects: Women, the Nation and the Iranian Revolution of 1979"
"Impact of Internet on Chinese Authoritarian Rule during SARS and Falun Gong Incidents"
Minna Jia, USC
paper

"Colonial Effects: Women, the Nation and the Iranian Revolution of 1979"
Heather Barahmand, UCR

"Strong and Weak Institutionalization: The Chilean-Argentine Paradox"
Moira Mackinnon, UCSD
paper

Closing Remarks. SST 220A. 5:15.
Please join us afterward for drinks and light food at the Steelhead Brewery.