6th Annual UCI Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 10, 2010
9:00- 9:30 Registration and Breakfast (SSPB 1208)
10:00- 11:45 (SSL 117) Panel 1a- Institutions
Discussant: Katie Bolzendahl, Department of Sociology, UCI
Neil Chaturvedi – The People’s Will: State Supreme Court Justices as Representatives
Thomas J. Hayes – Senate Responsivness in an Era of Inequality
Seth Alexander – Judicial Empowerment in Authoritarian Regimes
Brian Donald Williams – How Consensual are Consensual Democracies? Comparing Legislative Roll-Call Vote Outcomes From Twenty-Four Countries
10:00- 11:45 Panel 1b-Mobilization
(SSL 119)
Discussant: Yang Su, Department of Sociology, UCI; Dorothy Solinger, Department of Political Science, UCI
Yuval Feinstein – War and the Public: A New Explanation from the Rally-Round-The-Flag Syndrome
Kathryn Quick – Narrative Work of Managing Emergent Democratic Processes
Evan McCulla – Labor Contention in China: A Statistical Perspective
Amanda Pullum – Countermovements in the States
Jeff Kwong – Multiple Principles, Conflicting Objectives, and Agent Enactment Failure: The Case of Proposition 209 in California
11:45- 1:00
Lunch (SSPB 1208)
1:00-2:45 Panel 2a-Theory (SSL 117)
Discussant: Evan Shoefer, Department of Sociology, UCI
Mayia Shulga – The Elite Competitive Conception of Democracy, Its Social Ontological Assumptions, and their Consequences for Studying Democracy