Department of
Political Science Bulletin
October, 2008
Political Science News
Events
The department honored
Prof Milan
Reban at a retirement party at the home of Steve Forde
and Mari Metzgar on October 4th. Milan had taught in the
department for some 40 years, and his many achievements were
celebrated with champagne toasts and an evening of
conviviality"
The Political Science
Department will be hosting a tent at Homecoming on
Saturday, October 25th beginning at 3:00 pm right
outside Fouts Field.
We will be hosting Lieutenant
General John Bradley (ret.), former head of the US Air Force
Reserve on October 29 at 6:30 pm in Wooten Hall 322.
The Department of Political
Science is teaming up with the Department of Radio,
Television and Film to hold Eagle Election Night on November
4th from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the UNT Union. There will
be live election coverage featuring Political Science
faculty and lots more!
Acceptances
Professor Marijke Breuning and
Professor John Ishiyama's "The Politics of Intercountry
Adoption: Explaining Violations in the Legal Requirements of
Sub-Saharan African Countries" was accepted for publication
in Perspectives on Politics.
Professor Paul Collins's
essay "Interests Groups and the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms" was syndicated throughout the internet ,
appearing in the OUP Blog, Rational Review, Free Republic,
Keep and Bear Arms, and Gun Watch.
Professor
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and Sean Nicholson-Crotty's
(University of Missouri), "Presidential Campaigning in
Midterm Elections" was accepted for publication in the
American Review of Politics.
Professor Eshbaugh-Soha's and Tom
Miles (UNT, PhD student)' "George W. Bush's
Domestic Policy Agenda" was also accepted at the
American Review of Politics.
Professor Eshbaugh-Soha
and Jeffrey S. Peake's (Bowling Green) "Local Newspaper
Coverage of President George W. Bush", was accepted for
publication in Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Professor Steve Forde
has had an article accepted for
publication by the Review of Politics, entitled "The
Charitable John Locke."
Professor Paul Hensel
and Marit Brochmann's "Peaceful
Management of International River Claim" was accepted for
publication in International Negotiation.
Professor Paul Hensel
and Michael Allison, and Ahmed Khanani's,
"Territorial Integrity Treaties and Armed Conflict over
Territory" was accepted for publication in
Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Professor John Ishiyama's "Do
Ethnic Parties Promote Ethnic Conflict?" was accepted for
publication in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Professor John Ishiyama's
"Explaining ‘Minor’ Party Nominations
in Sub Saharan Africa: The Cases of Ethiopia, Zambia, and
Malawi" was accepted for publication in the
Journal of Asian and African Studies.
Professor John Ishiyama's
“Historical Legacies and the Size of
the Red-Brown Vote in Post Communist Politics” was accepted
for publication in
Communist and Post Communist Studies.
Professor John Ishiyama,
Katherine
Haggans and Ryan Conway's (Truman State University)
“Is
there a Monadic Authoritarian Peace? Authoritarian Regimes,
Democratic Transition Types and the First Use of Violent
Force” was accepted for publication in the African
Journal of Political Science and International Relations.
Professor David Mason's
chapter "The Evolution of Theory in Civil War and
Revolution" was accepted for publication in Manus Midlarsky
eds. Handbook of War Studies, 3rd. Ed.
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press). Professor David Mason, Patrick Brandt, Mehmet Gurses, Nikolai Petrovsky,
and Dagmar Radin's "When and
How the Fighting Stops: Explaining the Duration of Civil
Wars" was accepted for publication in Defense
and Peace Economics.
Professor David Mason and Madhav Joshi's (UNT PhD
Candidate) "Between Democracy and Revolution: Peasant
Support for Insurgency versus Democracy in Nepal" was
accepted for publication in the Journal of
Peace Research.
Professor Ko Maeda's
"Re-Examining
the Contamination of Japan's Mixed Electoral System Using
the Treatment Effects Model" was accepted for publication in
Electoral Studies.
Professor James Meernik
and
Rosa Aloisi's (UNT PhD
Student) "I
Do Declare: Politics, Declarations and the International
Criminal Court" was accepted for publication in
International Criminal Law Review.
Grants
The Political Science Department
raised over $20,000 at its annual Constitution Day Reception
at The Abbey Inn. The money will be used to fund
student scholarships.
Steve Liebel
received a $3000
Peace Science Study grant. For the grant, he participated in
the GIS and Spatial Analysis summer Course for Conflict and
Peace Science at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, in Trondheim, Norway. June 16-20, 2008.
Professors Kimi King and
Jim Meernik received a $2000 grant from the Dallas
Bar Foundation for scholarships for first generation
students to attend their 2009 study abroad program to the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in
The Hague.
Professor Idean Salehyan
received a $10,357 grant from the U.S. Army War College for
work on the "External Support of Insurgencies and the
Escalation of Regional Conflict."
In Print
Professor Paul Collins's
"Friends of
the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision
Making" was published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Paul Collins's
"The
Consistency of Judicial Choice" was also published in the
Journal of Politics.
Professor Paul Collins's
"International Conflicts and the Decision Making on the
Federal District Courts" (with Daniel A. Norton, Kenneth L.
Manning, and Robert A. Carp) was published in the
Justice System Journal
and
was also featured
in the October issue of the Albany
County Bar Association Newsletter.
Professor John Ishiyama's
“Political Party Development and Party “Gravity” in Semi
Authoritarian States: The Cases of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan
and Tajikistan” was published in the Taiwan Journal of
Democracy. Professor
John Ishiyama's
also published a chapter entitled
“Learning to Lose (and Sometimes Win): The Neocommunist
Parties in Post Soviet Politics” in Joseph Wong and Edward
Friedman (eds.) Political Transitions in Dominant Party
Systems: Learning to Lose (London:Routledge).
Professor James Meernik
and
Rosa Aloisi's (UNT
PhD Student)
"Is Justice Delayed at the International Criminal
Tribunals?" was published in Judicature.
Professor Idean Salehyan's "The
Externalities of Civil Strife: Refugees as a Source of
International Conflict" was published in the
American Journal of Political Science.
Appearances
At the American Political
Science Association meetings in Boston, MA in August:
Professor Paul Collins
and Wendy
L. Martinek presented "Friends of the Circuits: Interest
Group Influence on the U.S. Courts of Appeals"
Professor Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha presented "Policy
Priorities and Presidential Success in Congress"
Professor Cullen Hendrix
presented
"Taxation in the Tropics: Geography and the Fiscal Contract"
Professor Ko Maeda
presented "What
Motivates Changes? Policy Shifts of Ruling Parties and
Opposition Parties"
Professor David Mason
and Mehmet
Gurses presented "Repression, Democracy and the Duration of
Peace after Civil War"
Professor
Idean Salehyan
presented "The Delegation
of War to Rebel Organization"
Professor Mathieu Turgeon
and J.F. Godbout
presented "A Matter of Degree: Policy Preferences and
Ability to Vote"
Other Presentations
Professor
Marijke Breuning presented "Role Theory Research
in International Relations" at the Conference on the Role
Theory Research in International Relations:
Conceptual Challenges and Political Promise, sponsored by
the University of Trier and the University of
Heidelberg in Otzenhausen, Germany. September 28 - October
1.
Professor
Cullen Hendrix and Sarah M. Glaser presented "Beating
Fishhooks into spears: Civil Conflict, crowding out effects
and marine fisheries, 1950-2005" at the FAO/CLIOTOP Coping
with Change in the Marine Socio-Ecological Systems
Symposium, in Rome, Italy. July 7-11.
Professor
Emile Sahliyeh and Erik
Case presented, "The Roots of Terrorism: an
Alternative Way for Political Expression" at a NATO
sponsored workshop in Washington DC on September 26.
Professor
Mathieu Turgeon, and R. Luskin, B. Cautres
presented "The Conditioning Effects of Political
Sophistication on Vote Choices from Various Perspectives:
The Case of France" at the International Society for
Political Psychology, in Paris, France. July 2008.
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