8th Annual Great Plains Political Science Association Meeting
March 5, 2005
University of Nebraska at Kearney
8:00-9:00am Nebraska Student Union Room 310
Registration & Continental Breakfast
PANEL 1: Politicians at work -- Power, representation, and policy success
9:00-10:30am Nebraska Student Union Room 238 A
Eric Uecker, University of South Dakota, The budget reconciliation game: Clinton v. Reagan
Michael Card & Matthew C. Moen, University of South Dakota, South Dakota: Term limits
in a citizen legislature
Mark Leeper & Cory Carnahan, Wayne State College, Representation roles of women in the
Nebraska unicameral
Diane Duffin, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Hitting the ground running: Explaining
legislative effectiveness among House freshman
PANEL 2: Campaign strategy and the voter
9:00-10:30am Nebraska Student Union Room 238 B
Mark Johnson, Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Electoral strategies in
multi-member districts: A study of the 2004 North Dakota legislative elections
Rich Braunstein & Elizabeth Smith, University of South Dakota, A case study of prairie
populism and the nationalization of state elections: South Dakota’s 2004 US Senate election
Peter Hatemi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Independents or partisans: Which voters have
the greatest impact on the outcome of presidential elections?
John Sautter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Do voters take derivatives? Evolution and the
voting paradox
PANEL 3: Studies in citizenship – Social capital, coalition building, and public opinion
9:00-10:30am Nebraska Student Union Room 238 C
Robert Blair & Jerry Deichert, University of Nebraska- Omaha, Small cities in Nebraska and
rural development
John Anderson, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Making social capital work
Thomas Holyoke, Hastings College, Giving a little to get a little: A bargaining model of
interest group coalition formation
Thomas Holyoke, David Brown, & Tessa Walker, Hastings College, Internationalism and the
war in Iraq: Attitudes toward foreign policy in rural America
11:00am-12:00pm Nebraska Student Union Room 310
Teaching Workshop:
12:00-2:00pm Nebraska Student Union Room 310
Luncheon & Keynote Address: Dr. John Hibbing, Foundation Regents University Professor of
Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “The Biology of Political Behavior”
PANEL 4: International Relations
1:00-2:30pm Nebraska Student Union Room 238 A
William Aviles, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Plan Colombia and U.S. Intervention:
The Role of Transnational Relations
Delmer Lonowski, South Dakota State University, Diversity Protections in the New
European Constitution
PANEL 5: Public Policy/ Administration
1:00-2:30 Nebraska Student Union Room 238 B
Levi Littvay & John Sautter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Collection Action in The
Prisoner’s Dilemma: Cooperation and Empathy
Matthew Fairholm, University of South Dakota, Linking the Practice of Strategic Thinking to
Leadership Theory
Joe Blankenau & Monica Snowden, Wayne State College, Exploring the Complexity of
Environmentalism: A View from an Agriculture State
John Falconer, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Universities and Small Towns: What do
public universities contribute to their host communities?
PANEL 6: Public Law
1:00-2:30pm Nebraska Student Union Room 238 C
Alan Gless, Nebraska District Court Judge, Appreciating the Changing Factual Meaning Of
“Verbatim,” Or, Battling the Curse of The “Verbatim” Assumption
Peter Longo, University of Nebraska at Kearney, The Politics of Water in Nebraska: Cycles
Beyond Mother Nature
Joshua Horton, South Dakota State University, Unfair Burden: Critical Habitat and Impacts
on Tribal Soverginty
Brent Lerseth, Augustana College, An Aristotelian Evaluation of American
Constitutionalism
PANEL 7: Comparative Politics
1:00-2:30pm Nebraska Student Union Room 238 D
Kadir Ergin & John Sautter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Variance, Violence and the
Substitution Effect of Political Participation: A Formal Model of Domestic Terrorism
Melissa Berab-Samuelson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Women and Social Change in
the Maoist Movement of Nepal
Elizabeth Frombgen, Hastings College, Toward An Understanding of the Chechen “Black
Widows”