3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine

February 24, 2007

Conference Committee: Nina Bandelj (Sociology), Anthony McGann (Political
Science), David Meyer (Sociology), Yuliya Tverdova (Political Science)

9:00-9:30 Registration and Breakfast

9:30-10:00   Introduction

10:00- 11:45am (SST 220A): PANEL 1 - ELECTORATES, PARTIES

Ana Haro Gonzalez, Visiting Student, CSD
National District Proportional Representation: Coming to Power in Peru
and Colombia While Avoiding Regions

Discussant: Professor Rein Taagepera

Tatiana Rizova, Political Science, UCLA
The Origins of Paraguayan Post-Authoritarian Electoral Institutions and
Their Effects on Internal Party Organization

Discussant: Professor Rein Taagepera

Kuniaki Nemoto, UCSD
Divided Government, Internal Party Structure, and Policy Consequences:
Distributional Politics in Korea, 1989-2005

Discussant: Professor Anthony McGann

10:00-11:45pm (SST 220B): PANEL 2 - DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMY

Liang-Chih Evans Chen, Political Science, UC Riverside
Development First, Democracy Later? Or Democracy First, Development
Later? The Controversy over Development and Democracy

Discussant: Professor Amihai Glazer

Jason Enia, USC
Ambivalent Answers to Important Questions: The Relationship Between
Foreign Aid and Democracy

Discussant: Professor Amihai Glazer

Stephen Weymouth, UCSD
Political Institutions, Policy Instability, and Financial Dollarization

Discussant: Professor Amihai Glazer

11:45 - 12:45 Lunch

12:45-2:30pm (SST 220A): PANEL 3 - POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND ATTITUDES

Daniel Bochsler, Visiting Student, CSD
The Best of Both Worlds Or Institutionalising Electoral Lottery: A
Quantitative Study of Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Central and
Eastern Europe

Discussant: Professor Anthony McGann

Jennifer Piscopo, Political Science, UCSD
Engineering Quotas in Latin America

Discussant: Professor Anthony McGann

David Yang, Visiting Fellow, Stanford University
Classing Ethnicity: Class, Ethnicity, and the Mass Politics of Taiwan's
Democratic Transition

Discussant: Professor Anthony McGann

12:45-2:30pm (SST 220B): PANEL 4 - SOCIAL CAPITAL AND MASS BELIEFS

Willy Jou, Political Science, UCI
Social Capital and Democratic Support in East Asia: Testing a Two-Step
Hypothesis

Discussant: Professor Carole Uhlaner

Daniel Laurison, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Refusing to Engage: Political Competence and the "Don't Know" Response
on Surveys

Discussant: Professor Carole Uhlaner

Danielle Lussier, Political Science, UC Berkeley
The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs in Postcommunist Russian Political
Space

Discussant: Professor Yuliya Tverdova

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:45pm (SST 220A): PANEL 5 - POLITICAL AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Amy Alexander, Political Science, UCI
Empowering Women: Four Theories Tested on Four aspects of Gender Equality

Discussant: Professor Catherine Bolzendahl

Ariane Dalla Dea, Anthropology, UCI
Participatory Budget: Citizenship and Participatory Democracy in the
City of Santo Andre, Brazil

Discussant: Professor David Meyer

Bogdan Radu, Political Science, UCI
The Word of God Comes into the Voting Booth: A Comparative Study of
Political Participation in Central and Eastern Europe

Discussant: Professor David Meyer

3:00-4:45pm (SST 220B): PANEL 6 - ELITE POLITICS IN THE U.S.

John Ensch, Political Science, UCI
Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Institutional Change: Caltrans as a Case
Study

Discussant: Professor Mark Petracca

Wes Hiers, Sociology, UCLA
Democracy and Racial Closure in the Nineteenth Century United States

Discussant: Professor Mark Petracca

Merav Sadi-Nakar, UCLA
Welfare and Immigration Policies During the 1960s: The Bifurcated
Influence of the Civil Rights Discourse

Discussant: Professor Mark Petracca

4:45 - 5:00 Concluding Remarks