Research Design Discussion Sections 2012 Institute for qualitative and multi-method research
TUESDAY JUNE 19 10:45AM-12.30PM RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SESSION ONE
1.1 Chair: Andrew Bennett
1.1.1 In Tae Yoo, Who Makes What Order: A Theory of Cooperative Regional Hegemony
1.1.2 Patrick Thompson, Political Trajectories & The Globalization of Weapons Production
1.1.3 Leo Kosinski, Going Multinational: Department of Defense Approach for the Future
1.2 Chair: Jody LaPorte
1.2.1 Sophia Petriashvili, Black Sea Region - Myth or Reality?
1.2.2 Casey McNeill, War by Other Means: Biopolitics, AFRICOM and "ungoverned spaces" in the Sahara-Sahel
1.3 Chair: Jennifer Pitts
1.3.1 Anna Rader, Muwaddinka*: Civic Virtue, Identity and the Public in Somaliland
1.3.2 Jekatyerina Dunajeva, Negotiating Cultural Identity: A Comparative Study of Roma (Gypsy) Youth in Schools
1.3.3 Ela Rossmiller, Of Victors and Villains: Secret Informers, Lustration, and the Politics of Memory in Postsocialist Poland
1.4 Chair: Colin Elman
1.4.1 Kirstin Hasler, Symbols and Sacrifice The Role of Nationalism in Combat Effectiveness
1.4.2 Joshua Wu, "If God be for me…" Providentialism, Religion, and War
1.4.3 Jason Klocek, Band of Believers How Religion Sustains Insurgent Organizations
THURSDAY JUNE 21 10:45AM-12.30PM RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SESSION TWO
2.1 Chair: Andrew Bennett
2.1.1 Chana Solomon-Schwartz , When Reputation? Assessing the Impact of Reputational Concerns on Foreign Policy Decision-Making
2.1.2 Eka Akobia, Making and remaking of the European Security Order: The role of the USSR/Russia and the US
2.1.3 Jakob Jørgensen, NATO's relationship with the Middle East
2.2 Chair: Gary Goertz
2.2.1 SoonKun Oh, What Makes Rivalries Endure: A Fuzzy Set Analysis
2.2.2 Soul Park, Surrender Before Defeat: The Strategic Approach to Ending Wars
2.2.3 Christopher Clary, The Politics of Peace: The End of Interstate Rivalry
2.3 Chair: James Mahoney
2.3.1 Michalis Moutselos, The determinants of immigrant riots in France: 1980-2010
2.3.2 Ingvild Aagedal Skage, Politicization of the Urban Subalterns - Socio-economic grievances in African democracies
2.3.3 Kelly Bauer , Indigenous Mobilization in Chile - The Politics of Land Reform and Inequality
2.4 Chair: Anne Norton
2.4.1 Eric van der Voort, Intervention and Invalidation: The Impact of the Repeal or Invalidation of Sodomy Statutes on LGBT Family Law in the United States
2.4.2 Sara Angevine, Women's Neoliberation: A Legislative Analysis of Women's Rights in American Foreign Policy
2.4.3 Brett Remkus, Global LGBT Rights as Human Rights: Norms, Normalization, and (Post)Colonial Governance
2.5 Chair: Victoria Hattam
2.5.1 Maria Schreiber, IMAGE 2.0 Pictorial practices in a digital age
2.5.2 Tania Islas, Intellectuals and artists in times of democratic transition
2.5.3 Remzie Shahini-Hoxhaj, Media--‐culture in societies in transition. The role of Television in Kosovo
2.6 Chair: Colin Elman
2.6.1 Sameer Lalwani, The Wars Within: Explaining State Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Consolidation
2.6.2 Emily Molfino, Infrastructure-Stability Theory: A First Look
2.6.3 Andrea Jackson, Who Governs, How and Why in Afghan Communities?
MONDAY JUNE 25 10:45AM-12.30PM RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SESSION THREE
3.1 Chair: Thad Dunning
3.1.1 Matt Herbert, To Kill or Corrupt: How Drug Trafficking Organizations Structure their Relations with Governments
3.1.2 John Meyer, Why do illicit market participants engage in political violence - A search for necessary causes in Mexico and the United States.
3.1.3 Megan Turnbull, Solving the Hobbesian Problem with Non-State Armed Actors in Nigeria
3.2 Chair: Daniel Hidalgo
3.2.1 Asli Baysal, Beyond the Democratic Deficit - Elite Democratization in the European Union
3.2.2 Felipe Carlos Betancourt Higareda, Measuring the deliberative quality of political decision-making in Mexico
3.2.3 Felipe Monestier, Decentralization, Involvement and Interest in Politics in Uruguay: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
3.3 Chair: Diana Kapiszewski
3.3.1 Melanie Bowers, Privatizing Politics? Examining the Political Consequences of Charter Schools in Detroit
3.3.2 Conrad King, Integrating immigrant children: the effect of neo-liberal education policy on educational outcomes.
3.3.3 Monica Jacobo-Suarez, Educating Immigrant Children in the United States
3.4 Chair: Lauren MacLean
3.4.1 Jael A Goldsmith Weil, Striving for Services: Citizen Strategies in Changing Economic, Political, and Welfare Regimes, Chile 1954-2010
3.4.2 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, The Politics of Financing Social Policy: Regional Coalitions and the Historical Development of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and the United States
3.4.3 Mine Tafolar, Bearers of Rights? A Comparative Study of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Turkey and Argentina
3.5 Chair: Charles Ragin
3.5.1 Jazmin Sierra, The South Goes Global: State Sponsorship of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries
3.5.2 Yongshin Kim, The Paths of the Chinese Automobile Industry Development in the Post-WTO Era: A Comparative Case Study of Beijing-Hyundai, Chery and Geely
3.5.3 Mariana Rangel-Padilla, Can a Knowledge Economy Flourish in Latin American Cities
3.6 Chair: Carsten Schneider
3.6.1 Ji Hyun Lee, Resource Competition, Confrontation, and Cooperation in Asia
3.6.2 Ivan Rasmussen, Rational Nationalism on the Rise: Chinese public opinion and foreign relations
3.6.3 Tom Le, From Constraints to Restraints: An Evolution of Japanese Security Policy
3.7 Chair: Jason Seawright
3.7.1 Lilian Jaimes, A Closer Look at Party Giants: Dominant Parties in Mexico, South Africa and Sweden
3.7.2 Lucas Novaes, Party Adaptation and Campaign Coordination When do politicians obey party leaders?
3.7.3 Fernando Rosenblatt, How to Party? Static and Dynamic Party System Institutionalization in Latin America
3.8 Chair: Colin Elman
3.8.1 Sahar Khan, Sponsoring Terrorism: A State Strategy that Reaps No Rewards
3.8.2 Noa Levanon, Separatist Factionalism and its Influence on Negotiation Policy
3.8.3 Andrea Malji, Bombs or Ballots: How Do Ethnic Elites Determine Their Political Strategy?
TUESDAY JUNE 26 10:45AM-12.30PM RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SESSION FOUR
4.1 Chair: Thad Dunning
4.1.1 Nina Kelsey, Profit and the Public Good: The Role of Private Interest Group Benefits in International Public Goods Negotiations
4.1.2 Adriane Fresh, The Adoption of the Income Tax in Comparative Perspective: The United Kingdom and the United States
4.1.3 Matthew Maguire, From Private Regulation to Public Policy: The Case of Corporate Non-Financial Reporting
4.2 Chair: Daniel Hidalgo
4.2.1 Alanna van Antwerp , Legacies of Repression: Political Mobilization in the Shadow of Authoritarian Rule
4.2.2 Luis Schiumerini, Why is there an Incumbency Bias in the Developing world? Lessons from the Southern Cone
4.2.3 Nara Pavao, Accountability and electoral impunity in Brazil: why do voters support corrupt politicians?
4.3 Chair: Diana Kapiszewski
4.3.1 Ursula Hackett, Explaining Sub-National Variation in Indirect Religious School Aid in the US
4.3.2 JulieMarie Shepherd, Institutional Variation Among Colorado School Boards: Consequences of Policy Governance for Student Achievement
4.3.3 Niels Dyhrberg, On Professionalism - Does the Knowledge Base Matter?
4.4 Chair: Lauren MacLean
4.4.1 Meghann Rother, Non-Governmental Organizations in Developing States: Driven By or Defining Policy?
4.4.2 Kellie McGiverin-Bohan, To Own or to Owe: Identifying Why Nonprofit Organizations Take-On Major Debt and How it Affects Their Operations
4.4.3 Melita Sawyer, The Effect of "Cold" External Finance on Savings Groups' Institutional Functioning: Does the source of loan financing matter to the institutional functioning of savings groups?
4.5 Chair: Charles Ragin
4.5.1 Daniel Sterns, Greenhouse Gas Energy Policies in the American States
4.5.2 Alper Yagci, Regulation of Genetically Modified Seeds in Developing Countries
4.5.3 Erla Katrine Løvseth, Explaining Variation in Climate Policies
4.6 Chair: Carsten Schneider
4.6.1 Alex Berg, Intervention and Influence: The Politics of Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform
4.6.2 Arsène Brice Bado, African Union's interventions in intra-‐state conflicts- Exploring conditions and strategies of peace maintenance in Africa
4.6.3 Anjali Dayal, War, Repetition, Reputation - Peacekeeping and Links between Civil Wars
4.7 Chair: Jason Seawright
4.7.1 Poulomi Chakrabarti, One Nation, Many Worlds - What explains sub-national variation in political regimes in India?
4.7.2 Agustin Goenaga, Without the King's Head - Varieties of State Formation - Mexico, France, and the Latin World in Comparative Perspective
4.7.3 Sinan Chu, Knowledge and Politics in the People's Republic: The Ethnic Politics in Communist China
4.8 Chair: Colin Elman
4.8.1 Jeehye Kim, Rising Powers, Reassurance, Weak Neighboring States
4.8.2 Chad Nelson, Revolutionary Waves: The International Effects of Threatened Domestic Order
4.8.3 Silvana Toska, Domino Theory of Revolutions: Causes and Consequences for International Politics
WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 10:45AM-12.30PM RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SESSION FIVE
5.1 Chair: Diana Kapiszewski
5.1.1 Lucas McMillan, Conceptualizing the Rule of Law in a Post-Realist World
5.1.2 Mert Arslanalp, Law and Contentious Politics in the Informal Settlements - A Comparative Study of Judicial Contention in Globalizing Istanbul and Buenos Aires
5.1.3 Bjoern Dressel, Courts, Politics, and Power in Southeast Asia
5.2 Chair: Will Lowe
5.2.1 Elena Sokolova, Resistance to harm reduction programs in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: the role of national epistemic communities
5.2.2 Yige Wang, Tribal State or Not？Ethnic Composition and Natural Disaster Relief in Ch'ing China
5.2.3 Gina Martinez, Unraveling Red Tape: Domestic Bureaucracy and the Allocation of Foreign Aid
5.3 Chair: Timothy Pachirat
5.3.1 Ana Velitchkova, The production of "political" and "cultural" internationalisms: the Esperanto movement and its publics in four Eastern European state-socialist countries
5.3.2 Sara Hall, Negotiating the Nation and the Colonial Past in France's New Museums
5.3.3 Lydia Lundgren, Behind Closed Doors: When & How Politicians Discuss Immigration Publicly and Privately
5.4 Chair: Sven-Oliver Proksch
5.4.1 Anthony Imbrogno, Economic Unions and the Institutionalization of Intergovernmental Relations in Multi-Level Governance Systems
5.4.2 Patrick Roberts, Emergency Management in Rural America - Decision-Makers' Use of Climate Science in Flood Planning and Management
5.4.3 Jeff Hanlon, Examining Regional Scale Common-Pool Resource Governance in a Federation: The Case of the Catskill-Delaware Watershed and New York City
5.5 Chair: Fred Schaffer
5.5.1 Austin Trantham, The Rhetoric of Rapport: Analyzing the "Special Relationship" through the State of the Union Address and Queen's Speech
5.5.2 Alexander Lu, Transforming Personal Tragedy into Community Tragedy Using Emotions and Organizations
5.5.3 Michael Newell, Asymmetrical Crisis Authority
5.6 Chair: Jason Seawright
5.6.1 Darragh McNally, Transparency and the Mechanisms of Corruption
5.6.2 Paula Munoz, Campaign Clientelism and the Importance of Large Numbers: An Informational Approach
5.6.3 Mariana Giusti-Rodriguez, Social Movement Parties: A Less Than Inevitable Transformation
5.7 Chair: Sherry Zaks
5.7.1 Matthew Chandler, Nonviolent Action and Peace Processes: The Effect of Civil Resistance on the Initiation, Completion and Implementation of Peace Agreements
5.7.2 Carly Reed, Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Reparations: Child Soldiers in Colombia
5.7.3 Kate Cronin-Furman, Explaining Accountability Outcomes After Mass Atrocity: The Role of International Actor Response
5.8 Chair: Colin Elman
5.8.1 Robert Kelly, Strategic Self-Restraint: A Third Step in the Liberal Hegemony Debate
5.8.2 Peter Harris, Recessional - Hegemonic Decline and Statecraft
THURSDAY JUNE 28 10:45AM-12.30PM RESEARCH DESIGN DISCUSSION SESSION SIX
6.1 Chair: Will Lowe
6.1.1 Corri Zoli, Postconflict Justice and Islam
6.1.2 Aviv Melamud, Justice in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Are Justice Contentions related to Compliance with International Commitments
6.1.3 Michael Broache, Explaining Cross-Case Variation in the Impact of ICC Prosecutions in Ongoing Conflict
6.2 Chair: Timothy Pachirat
6.2.1 Anya Stanger, Putting Your Body Where Your Belief Is: Prisoners of Consicence, Power, and Resistance
6.2.2 Chiedo Nwankwor, Navigating Cooptation, Sustaining Resistance, and Negotiating Agency: Analyzing the Substantive and Symbolic Representation of Women by Women Cabinet Ministers in Sub-Saharan Africa
6.2.3 Sheherazade Jafari, Bridging the Secular-Religious Divide within Transnational Women's Movements?: Western-Muslim Partnerships for Women's Rights
6.3 Chair: Sven-Oliver Proksch
6.3.1 Daniel Neep, How Social Science Shapes the Arab State: Culture, Knowledge and Institutions
6.3.2 Christopher Thomas, Do Female Migrants Affect Household Asset Accumulation in Latin America?
6.3.3 John Christie-Searles, Tanzanian Benedictine Monasticism: Modernization through Primary Education
6.4 Chair: Fred Schaffer
6.4.1 Marie Østergaard Møller, The Construction of Danish Identity in Immigrant Integration Policy
6.4.2 Anne Fruge, The Most Dangerous Frame The effect of elite-directed frames on ethnocentrism in Africa
6.4.3 Romana Careja, Shaping migration policies in Europe - Causal mechanisms and constellations of actors
6.5 Chair: Jason Seawright
6.5.1 Masaaki Higashijima, The Art of Authoritarian Architectures: Institutions, Resource Abundance and the Paths of Dictatorial Survival in Central Asia
6.5.2 Joe Florence, The Authoritarian Dilemma in the Age of Financial Globalization: Elite Coalition Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
6.5.3 Ion Marandici, Oligarchs and state capacity
6.6 Chair: Sherry Zaks
6.6.1 David Knoll, Revolution in (non-state) Military Affairs
6.6.2 Kate Blakeley, Fighting Green: The Pentagon and the Future of Energy Policy
6.6.3 Robbie Totten, Security Objectives and United States Immigration Policy
6.7 Chair: Colin Elman
6.7.1 Shelli Israelsen, When Freedom Fighters Become Killers: Explaining Changes in Rebel Group Strategy
6.7.2 Ches Thurber, Civil Insurrection or Armed Insurgency? Strategies of Violence and Non-Violence in Revolutionary Movements
6.7.3 Devin Finn, Civilian Support for Violent Insurgency in India and Peru: Participation in Politics and Revolution