Re-Thinking Democracy in the New Millennium
Conference Schedule
I. Welcoming Reception and Buffet Dinner
Wednesday, February 16, 2000: 5:00-8:30, Palm Court Omni Hotel:
Thursday, February 17, 2000
Breakfast: February 17, 2000: 7:30-8:30, Colonnade B Omni Hotel
II. Opening Remarks from Conference Sponsors
Raymond Duch, University of Houston
James Gibson, Washington University
Thursday, February 17, 2000: 8:30-9:45, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
Coffee Break: 9:45-10:15, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
III. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Social Identity
Thursday, February 17, 2000: 10:15-12:00, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
Moderator:Brian Silver
Michigan State University
Papers:
Harold Clarke
University of North Texas
Alan Kornberg
Duke University
Marianne Stewart
University of Texas, Dallas
“Risking a Democracy: Voting in the 1995 Quebec Sovereignty Referendum”
Cynthia Kaplan
University of California, Santa Barbara
Henry Brady
University of California, Berkeley
“Ethnicity and Context: Mass Mobilization during Transitions”
Art Miller & Tom Klobucar
University of Iowa
“Social Identity: the Persistence of Nostalgia for the Past”
Jim Sidanius
UCLA
"Interface between Ethnic and National Identity in Modern Multi-Ethnic States."
Lunch: February 17, 2000: 12:00-1:30, Colonnade A, Omni Hotel
IV. Can Democracies Survive in an Environment of Political Intolerance?
Thursday, February 17, 2000: 1:30-3:15, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
Moderator:Karen Remmer
University of New Mexico
Papers:
Christian Davenport
University of Maryland
“Understanding Illiberal Democracies, Liberal Autocracies, and everything in Between: Cross-National Examination from 1972-1998”
Steve Finkel
University of Virginia
“Can Tolerance Be Taught?: Adult Civic Education and the Development of
Democratic Values"
Jim Kuklinski
University of Illinois
"Citizen Political Competence: Rethinking Downs and Adding Evolutionary
Psychology."
Mitch Seligson
University of Pittsburgh
"Support for Due Process in a High-Crime, Fragile Democracy: The Case of Guatemala”
Paul Sniderman
Stanford University
“Results from the Dutch Study”
Coffee Break: 3:15-3:30, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
V. Funding Opportunities and Collaborative Research
Thursday, February 17, 2000: 3:30-5:00, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
Moderator:Frank Scioli
Marianne Stewart
National Science Foundation
Cocktails: February 17, 2000: 6:30-7:30, Colonnade B
Dinner: February 17, 2000: 7:30, Colonnade B
Friday, February 18, 2000
Breakfast: February 18, 2000: 7:30-8:30, Colonnade B Omni Hotel
VI. Institutional Design as a Panacea for Successful Democratization?
Friday, February 18, 2000: 8:30-10:15, Colonnade B Omni Hotel
Moderator:James Alt
Harvard University
Michael Filippov
Washington University, St. Louis
Peter C. Odeshook
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Olga Shvetsova
Washington University, St. Louis
“The Parameters of Federal Institutional Design”
Bingham Powell
University of Rochester
"Institutional Design, Citizens' Preferences and Policymaking."
Kaare Strom
University of California, San Diego
“Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies”
George Tsbelis
University of California, Los Angeles
“Veto Players and Institutional Analysis “
Coffee Break: February 18, 2000: 10:15-10:30, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
VII. Political Parties: Relevant or Inconsequential in Modern Democracies
Friday, February 18, 2000: 10:30-12:15, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
Moderator:Susan Scarrow
University of Houston
Papers:
Tim Colton
Harvard University
“The Puzzle of Partisan in the New Russia”
Michael McFaul
Stanford University
“Party Development in Russia”
Radoslaw Markowski
Collegium Civitas
Polish National Election Survey
Institute of Political Studies, PAS
“Party System Institutionalization in New Democracies:
Poland – a Trend-Setter with No Followers”
Gabor Toka
Central European University
“Do Some Party Systems Make Equal Votes Unequal? A Comparison
Across Old and New Democracies”
Lunch: February 18, 2000: 12:15-1:45, Palm Court, Omni Hotel
VIII. Electoral Systems in New Democracies
Friday, February 18, 2000: 1:45-3:30, Colonnade B, Omni Hotel
Moderator:Arthur Lupia
University of California, San Diego
Papers:
Ken Benoit
Trinity College
“The Issues and Problems in Studying the Causes and Effects of Electoral Systems in New
Democracies”
Norman Schofield
Washington University
“Representative Democracy and Social Choice”
Leonard Wantchekon
Yale University
"Why does Democracy Emerge in Nations with Weak Civil Societies?”
Michelle Taylor-Robinson
Texas A&M
“How Deputy Roles Affect Legislative and Constituency Service Behavior in Nascent
Democracies: The Case of the Honduran Congress”
Coffee Break: 3:30-3:45, Colonnade B Omni Hotel
IX. Political Culture: Does it Matter? For What?
Friday, February 18, 2000: 3:45-5:30, Colonnade B Omni Hotel
Moderator: William Mishler
University of Arizona
Papers:
Geoffrey Evans and Stephen Whitefield
Oxford University
“Explaining the structure of political cleavages in post-communist societies”
Robert Rohrschneider
Indiana University
“Transition Democracies: the East/West German Model”
Richard Rose
Strathclyde University
“Bottlenecks in Democratization: Elite Supply and Popular Demand”
Renata Siemienska
Institute of Sociology
University of Warsaw
“Political Culture of Elites and Public: Building Women’s Political Representation in
Post-Communist Poland”
Optional Excursion to De Menil: 5:30-7:30
Dinner: Houston Visitor’s Center: 7:30
Saturday, February 19, 2000
Breakfast: February 19, 2000: 7:30-8:30, Grand Salon Omni Hotel
X. Judicial Institutions as Agents of Democratization?
Saturday, February 19, 2000: 8:30-10:15, Grand Salon Omni Hotel
Moderator:Greg Caldeira
Ohio State University
Papers:
Stacia Haynie
Louisiana State University
“South African Constitutional Court“
William Reisinger
University of Iowa
“Promoting the Rule of Law 'At Sea': The Catch-22 Facing Tentatively Democratic Regimes “
Neal Tate
University of North Texas
“Law Courts Judges and Democracy: A Cross-national Perspective”
Coffee Break: 10:15-10:30, Grand Salon Omni Hotel
XI. Social Capital in New Democracies
Saturday, February 19, 2000: 10:30-12:15, Grand Salon Omni Hotel
Moderator:Margaret Levi
University of Washington
Papers:
David Brown
Rice University
“Democracy and Gender Equality in Education“
Raymond Duch
University of Houston
Guy Whitten
Texas A&M University
“Dynamic Models of Democratic Failure“
Dieter Fuchs
Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Berlin
" A Comparision of Democratic Communities:
American Individualism and European Etatism"”
Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Berlin
"Democratic community and democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe:
An Empirical Assessment”
Paul Whiteley
University of Sheffield
“Economic Growth and Social Capital”
Lunch, February 19, 2000: 12:15-1:45, TBA
XII. Roundtable Discussion with NIS and Central and Eastern European Scholars
February 19, 2000: 1:45-3:30, Grand Salon Omni Hotel
Moderator:William Zimmerman
University of Michigan
Donna Bahry
Vanderbilt University
Participants:Invited scholars from East and Central Europe and NIS
Dinner:Ninfa’s on Navigation February 19, 2000: 7:30
Sunday, February 20, 2000
XIII. Meeting of Working Group on Survey-Based Research in Russia and the FSU
February 20, 2000: 10:00-12:00, Grand Salon, Omni Hotel