Department of Political Science Bulletin
September, 2003

Acceptances

Jim Battista's "Reexamining Committee Outliers in the States" was accepted at State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

Steve Forde's "Thucydides on Ripeness and Conflict Resolution" has been accepted for publication in International Studies Quarterly.

Kimi King and Jim Meernik's "Determinants of ICTY Sentencing" was accepted for publication in The Leiden Journal of International Law.

Emile Sahliyeh and Zixian Deng's "The Determinants of Palestinians' Attitudes towards Peace with Israel" has been accepted for publication in International Studies Quarterly.

Getting Ink

Steve Forde's chapter, "Benjamin Franklin and the Theory of Social Compact" appeared in the volume, The American Founding and the Social Compact. Another chapter, "Benjamin Franklin: An American Model and a Model American," appeared in the volume, History of American Political Thought.

Jim Meernik's "Equality of Arms: The Individual versus the International Community in War Crimes Tribunals" was published in the May issue of Judicature.  His article, "Victor's Justice or the Law: Judging and Punishing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was published in the April issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Richard Ruderman's "'Let Freedom Ring': William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and Slavery" appears in History of American Political Thought, Eds. Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga.

Emile Sahliyeh's "The Status of Human Rights in The Middle East" appears in David P. Forsythe and Patrice C. McMahon, eds., Human Rights and Diversity: Area Studies Revisited.

Alex Tan's "Political Choices and Economic Outcomes: A Perspective on the Differential Impact of the Financial Crisis on South Korea and Taiwan" (co-authored with Uk Heo) appears in the August issue of Comparative Political Studies.

Alumni & Student News 

Elizabeth Hamblen, one of our INST majors, received a National Security Education Program scholarship ($10K) which she will use to spend a semester studying in Russia. She will continue her Russian language studies and do research on "Ethnic Russians in Estonia: Integration Program".

Events

The Political Science Department will again have a tent at the UNT Homecoming Football game with drinks and snacks on October 18 from 12 pm to 3 pm.

The "Post War Reconstruction and Development" conference will be held Saturday, November 8 in Room 322 Wooten Hall.  Outside speakers include Lani Elliot consultant to the World Bank, Caroline Hartzell of Gettysburg College and Mitch Seligson of the University of Pittsburgh.  More details will follow soon.

Appearances

Many people presented papers at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, August 27 - August 31st  including:

James Battista presented, "Explaining Variation in Committee Representativeness".

Patrick Brandt presented, "The Idea of Political-Economic Equilibrium" with John Freeman and Timothy Hellwig.  

Corey Ditslear with Margaret Williams presented, "Bidding for Influence: The Influence of Contributions on State Supreme Courts".

Andrew Enterline and Dave Mason presented, "Agreeing to Peace(keeping): Modeling Combatant and Third Party Decisions to Support Intervention by UN Peacekeepers".

Dave Mason & Jason Quinn presented, "Sustaining the Peace: Determinants of Civil War Recurrence".

Jim Meernik with Kimi King presented, "Levels of Analysis in Judicial Decision Making".

Elizabeth Oldmixon presented, "Support for Israel in the U.S. Senate: Traditional and Non-Traditional Explanations of Legislative Behavior".

Phil Paolino, with Dean Lacy, presented, "Policy Expectations Voting in Executive Elections: The Role of Information and Institutions".

Phil Paolino, with Emerson Niou, presented, "Divided Government and the 2001 Taiwanese Legislative Yuan Elections".

Alex Tan, with Karl Ho, presented, "Democratization, Dealignment and Demise of the Old Party System: Exploring the New Citizenship and Political Parties in Taiwan since 2000."

Peter Vondoepp presented, "The Battle for Third Term: The Comparative Dynamics of Institutional Development in Malawi, Zambia and Namibia".

Congratulations

Julie Harrelson-Stephens for successfully defending her dissertation, "The Value of Human Rights on the Open Market: Liberal Economic Policies and the Achievement of Personal Integrity Rights" on Wednesday, August 20th.

In Other News:

Steve Forde served on a grant review board for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a bricklayer in the wild woods of Minnesota.

Milan Reban spoke on "Putin's Presidency at Mid-Term" at the University of Texas at Arlington on April 28.

Alex Tan presented "Pluralization of Politics, Win-sets, and Perverse Financial Liberalization: The Case of Taiwan" at the Conference on Taiwan Issues, Center for Asian Studies, University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 5-7 September 2003

Alex Tan was also appointed assistant coordinator of the APSA Conference Group on Taiwan Studies for 2003-2005.