Fourth Annual:
Berkeley PSGSA Graduate Student Conference
May 2, 2007
Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
Heyns Room
PROGRAM
8:30 am: Continental Breakfast
9:00 am: Opening Remarks - Pradeep Chhibber
9:15 am:
Panel 1 - International Policymaking and Signaling Theory
- Faculty Discussant: Giacomo Chiozza
- Allan Dafoe
Observing the Capitalist Peace? A Test of Whether State Leaders Signal Resolve through Capital Markets - Jonathan Hassid, Bart Watson, and Jakub Wrzesniewski
The Benefits of Cost: Politics and Signaling Theory - Boris Barkanov
Constructing the National Interest: Transformations in Russian Foreign Energy Policy Thinking and the Energy Charter Treaty
10:45 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am:
Panel 2 - Market Formation, Ownership Disputes and Lobbying in Comparative Political Economy
- Faculty Discussant: Jonah Levy
- Regine Spector
Who Owns the Marketplace? Conflict over Property in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan - Marcy McCullaugh
Regional Variation in Russia's Health Insurance System - Neal Richardson
The Politics of Abundance: The State and the Modern Agricultural Export Boom in South America - Lee Drutman
The Business of America is…Lobbying?
12:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm:
Panel 3 - Gender, Social Identity and the 'Concept' in Political Theory
- Faculty Discussant: Mark Bevir
- Asaf Kedar
Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Concept and its Relation to his Concept of the Political
- Toby Reiner
Marx on Gender and the Family - Tacuma Peters
The Effacement of the Political: Science and Politics in the Leviathan - Nina Kelsey
Aid, Image, and Attraction: A Social Identity Framework for Public Diplomacy
3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:45 pm:
Panel 4 - Influencing Electoral Outcomes: the Role of Ideology, Race and Drug Militias
- Faculty Discussant: Jason Wittenberg
- Danielle Lussier
The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs in Postcommunist Russian Political Space - Danny Hidalgo and Ben Lessing
Politics in the Shadow of the Drug War: Does Parallel Power Affect Electoral Outcomes? - Devin Caughey
Responding to the Roosevelt Reconstruction: The South, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal Coalition
5:30 pm: Reception
Please contact Veronica Herrera <vherrera@berkeley.edu> or Lee Drutman <drutman@berkeley.edu> with any questions.