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PUBLICATIONS

 

Cleary, Matthew.  2007.  “Contemporary Islamism: Trajectory of a Master Frame,” in The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences’ (AJISS) issue, vol. 24, no. 2 (spring).

 

Bowman, Robin.  2007.  “Moro Insurgents and the Peace Process in the Philippines” in James J.F. Forest, editor, Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, Praeger Security International.

 

Drummond, Andrew. 2006. “The Impact of Party Affect on Voter Sincerity in Open and Closed Electoral Systems.”  Paper Series for the Center for the Study of Democracy

 

Drummond, Andrew. 2006. “Electoral Volatility and Party Decline in Western Democracies: 1970-1995.” Political Studies.  54 (3):  628-647.

 

Rein Taagepera and John Ensch.  “Institutional Determinants of the Largest Seat Share,” by.  Electoral Studies 25 (2006), 760-775.

 

Hemmer, Bruce, Paula Garb, Marlett Phillips, and John L. Graham. “Putting the “up” in Bottom-up Peacebuilding: Broadening the Concept of Peace Negotiations.” International Negotiation 11 (2006): 129-62.

 

Jensen, Michael J. and Alladi Venkatesh.  2007.  “Government Websites and Political Engagement: Facilitating Citizen Entry into the Policy Process.” Barbara Thönssen et al., eds.  Proceedings of TED Conference on e-Government: Enhancing Public Administration Back Offices Linz, Austria: Trauner Verlag. 

 

Jensen, Michael, James N. Danziger, and Alladi Venkatesh.  2007.  “Civil Society and Cyber Society: Community Associations and Democratic Politics.”  The Information Society.  Vol. 23, No. 1. 

 

Meyer, David S. and Lindsey Lupo.  2007.  “Assessing the Politics of Protest: Political Science and the Study of Social Movements.”  In Handbook of Social Movements. Edited by Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans.  New York: Springer Press.

 

Louis DeSipio, Natalie Masuoka, and Christopher Stout. 2006. “The Changing Non-Voter: What Differentiates Non-Voters and Voters in Asian American and Latino Communities?”  Paper Series for the Center for the Study of Democracy.

 

Masuoka, Natalie, Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld.  2007.  “Ranking Departments:  A Comparison of Alternative Approaches.”  PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (3).

 

Masuoka, Natalie, Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld.  2007.  “The Production and Placement of Political Science Ph.D.s, 1902-2000.”  PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (2):  361-366.

 

Masuoka, Natalie, Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld.  2007.  “The Political Science 400:  A 20 Year Update.”  PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (1):  133-145.

 

Rim, Kathy.  2007. “Model, Victim, or Problem Minority?  Examining the Socially Constructed Identities of Asian-Origin Ethnic Groups in California’s Media” Asian American Policy Review. 16 (June)

 

Scola, Becki. 2007. “Women of Color in State Legislatures: Gender, Race, and Legislative Office Holding.” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy 28(3-4).

 

García Bedolla, Lisa and Becki Scola. 2006. “Finding Intersection: Race, Class and Gender in the California Recall.”  Politics & Gender.

 

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. 2006. “The Human Right of Religious Freedom in International Law Practices.” Peace Review Vol. 18 No.3, p. 403-410.

 

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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

 

Baer, Madeline and Alison Brysk.  Forthcoming.  “New Rights for Private Wrongs: FGM, Health, and Self-Determination” in Clifford Bob, ed., Rights on the Rise: International Mobilization for New Human Rights.

 

      Forthcoming. “The Global Water Crisis, Privatization, and the Bolivian Water War” in John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram, and Richard Perry, eds., Water, Place and Fairness: Tempering Efficiency with Equity.  MIT Press.

 

 

Bowman, Robin, Paul Bolt, and Su Chenghe,.  Forthcoming.  “Chinese and American Security Policy in the Post-Cold War World: Unilateral, Bilateral, and Multilateral Responses to the Changing International Environment” in International Dimensions of the Global War on Terrorism and 21st Century World Security Challenges:  Perspectives from China, Europe, Russia, and the United States (tentatively titled).

 

Masuoka, Natalie.  Forthcoming.  “Political Attitudes and Ideologies of Multiracial Americans:  The Implications of Mixed Race in the U.S..”  Political Research Quarterly.

 

Masuoka, Natalie.  Forthcoming.  “Defining the Group:  Latino Identity and Political Participation.”  American Politics Review.

 

Junn, Jane and Natalie Masuoka.  Forthcoming.  “Identities in Context:  Racial Group Consciousness and Political Participation Among Asian American and Latino Young Adults.”  Applied Developmental Science.

 

Fowler, James, Bernard Grofman and Natalie Masuoka.  Forthcoming.  “Social Science Networks in Political Science:  Department Attractiveness and Ph.D. Placement, 1960-2002.”  PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (4).

 

Nuño, Stephen and Fernando Guerra “Political Representation and Resident Perceptions of the City of Los Angeles” in 2007 Los Angeles, State of the City Report. Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs; Los Angeles, CA.

 

Nuño, Stephen, Matt Barreto and Gabriel Sanchez.  Forthcoming.  “Methods in Exit Polling,” in Frank Columbus, ed., Public Opinion Research Focus. Columbus; Nova Science Publishers.

 

Nuño, Stephen.  Forthcoming.  “Latino Politics.” In William A. Darity, ed.  International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., Macmillan Reference USA; Detroit, MI.

 

Jafari, M, Elahi, F, Saba Ozyurt,  T. Wrigley.  Forthcoming  “Religious Perspectives on Embryonic Stem Cell Research” in K. Monroe (eds).  Stem Cells:  Science, Ethics, and Politics in Dialogue.  University of California Press.

 

Wong, Janelle, Kathy Rim and Haven Perez. Forthcoming. “Latino and Asian Protestant Churches and Conservative Politics in the United States.”  In Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad, eds., Civic Roots and Political Realities: Community Organizations and Political Engagement Among Immigrants in the United States and Abroad.

 

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. Forthcoming. “Legal Money with an Illegal Past: The

     unchallenged power of the New Terror Economy in a Globalized World.” In:

     Michaelene Cox (ed.), State of Corruption, State of Chaos: The Terror of Political Malfeasance. Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books.

 

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. Forthcoming. “Best Practice in Counter-Terror and Human

      Rights.” In Brysk, Alison and Gershon Shafir, eds., Counter-Terror and Human Rights: International   Perspectives on National Insecurity. UC Press.

 

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (external to UCI)

 

Ahmed, Zahra.  “Democratic Values Transmitted through Service-learning: from Personal Responsibility to Social Justice.”  Association of Pan-African Doctoral Scholars, April 2007.

 

-----  “The Politics of Engagement: Locating the Citizen and the State in Civic Engagement Policy.”  Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

-----  “Bridging the Gap: Culture as a Mediating Force for Women’s Increased Participation.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

-----  “From the Classroom to the Community: Reconsidering Service-learning in a Critical Pedagogical Context.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

-----  “Engaging our Youth: Interrogating Contexts for Civic and Political Engagement Among Students.”  Association of Pan-African Doctoral Scholars, July 2006.

 
 

Alexander, Amy.  “Evaluating Support for Democratic Communities in the Attitudes of European Parliamentarians from Eastern and Western Europe.”  Democracy and Governance in Central and Eastern Europe, Luneburg, Germany, August 2007.

 

-----  “Empowering Women: The Role of Economic Development, Political Culture and Institutional Design in the World’s Societies.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

-----  (with Chris Balding).  “The Hard Part of Becoming a Female Representative: Becoming a Female Candidate.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2006.

 

-----  (With Monroe, K.R., Ozyurt, S., Wrigley, T.).  “Gender Equality in Academia: Bad News from the Trenches and some Possible Solutions.”  International Society of Political Psychology, July 2006.

 

 

Baer, Madeline.  “Human Rights and Private Wrongs: International and Local Campaigns Against Female Genital Mutilation.”  International Studies Association. Chicago, March 2007

 

 

Balding, Christopher.  “The Role of World Bank Lending in Chinese Economic Development, Poverty Reduction, and Social Adjustment.”  World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Bled, Slovenia, May 2007.

 

-----   “A Two-Sided Market Analysis of Institutions.”  European Social Choice and Welfare Society, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2007.

 

-----  “Do Democracies Trade More than Authoritarian States:  A Look at the Empirics.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

-----  “The Hard Part of Becoming a Female Representative?  Becoming a Female Candidate.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

-----  “Joining the World Trade Organization: It’s All About the Exports.” The Changing Structure of World Trade and Investment and its Impact on Poverty and Income Inequality, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March 2006.

 

 

Bergeron, Joe.  “Sexual Identity and Queer Marginalization in American Politics.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2006.

 

-----  “Social Movements and Public Policy:  Learning from the Organized LGBT Movement in the United States.”    Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

 

Bowman, Robin.  “Chinese and American Security Policy in the Post-Cold War World: Unilateral, Bilateral, and Multilateral Responses to the Changing International Environment.”  21st Century World Security Challenges: Perspectives from China, Europe, Russia, and the United States Conference/Workshop, Shanghai, China, 2006.

 

 

Budz, Michelle. “Sinking Ships, Smugglers, and Sovereign States.” International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

Chen, Chih-Chieh (Titus).  “Paper title.”  Northwestern Political Science Association, Boston, November 2006.

 

-----  “Paper title.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

Choi, Moon-Young.  “The Politics of Signage and Space: An Examination of Critical Factors Influencing Claims-Making toward “Ethnic Space.”  Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

-----  “Research Presentation on ‘Little India.’”  Conference/Workshop on Ethnic Communities Convened by Institute for Migration and Ethnic studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam, May 2007

 

 

Doyle, Thomas.  “Taboos and Sanctions: Preventing Nuclear Weapons Proliferation.”   International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

-----  “Moderate Foundationalism in Democratic Theory.”   Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

 

Drummond, Andrew. “Open and Closed: Sincere Voting and Party Attachment in Electoral Context.” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2006.

 

 

Ensch, John.  “The Seat Share of the Smaller Parties and Social Trust.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

 

Fisher, Brian.  “Contextual Environmentalism: The Effects of Climate Change.”  Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

 

-----  “The Construction of Arctic Global Climate Change: The Case of the Inuit.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

-----  “Nature Divided:  Transnational Environmental Discourse and the Environment in the Brazilian Amazon.”  International Studies Association and NE/NPSA, Boston, November 2006.

 

 

Hemmer, Bruce.  “Peace Constituency Mobilization by Peacebuilding NGOs in Northern Ireland & Bosnia.” American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

 

Hsu, Jason.  “The Rise and Fall of the INDUCE Act.” American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

 

Ibarra, Armando.  “The Intersection of Labor, Politics and Space: Unauthorized Latinos in Moorefield, WV & Siler City, NC.” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2007

 

-----  “The State and Immigrant Incorporation:  A Theoretical Assessment of the Immigrant Position in America.”  National Association of Chicano/a Studies Annual Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2006.

 

-----  “Mexican Labor: The Construction of Legality, Space and New Destination Immigration.” National Association of Chicano/a Studies Annual Conference, 2007.

 

 

Jensen, Michael.  “Electronic Democracy in America.”  Jaume Bofill Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2007.

 

-----  “Images of Citizenship: A Content Analysis of Local Government Websites.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

-----  “Panel on Social Networks and the Internet.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

-----  “Government Websites and Political Engagement: Facilitating Citizen Entry into the Policy Process.”  Towards Electronic Democracy Workshop, 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan Poland, April 2007.

 

 

Jones, Nathan.  “The Decision to Invade and the Iraqi Insurgency as a Market Entry/Exit Game.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

Jou, Willy.  “Not Just a Western Phenomenon? Testing the Impact of Social Capital in Asia.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

 

Kline, Reuben.  “Competing Approaches to Measuring Party Competition: the Effective Number of Parties and the Banzhaf Index.”  Southwestern Political Science Association, Albuquerque, March 2007.

 

-----  Chair and Discussant for Panel on “Political Parties in Comparative Perspective.” Southwestern Political Science Association, Albuquerque, March 2007.

 

 

Komaie, Maryam and Etel Solingen.  “Carrots, Sticks, and Nonproliferation: The Case of Iran.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

Martin, Adam with Kristen Monroe.  “The Moral Identity: Can Work On Religious Experience Help Construct A Philosophical Framework For Understanding The Neuroscientific Foundation For Altruism?”  Conference on Peace Studies and Peace Education, Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University, December 2006

 

 

Masuoka, Natalie and Kathy Rim.  “Developing a Comparative Framework to Study Race and Ethnic Politics:  Asian American Vote Choice and Racial Group Attachment.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

 

Masuoka, Natalie.  “Contesting racial Grouop Cohesion:  Multiracial Incorporation and Minority Political Opportunity in the 2000 Census Debates.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

DeSipio, Louis, Natalie Masuoka and Christopher Stout.   “The Changing Non-Voter: What Differentiates Non-Voters and Voters in Asian American and Latino Communities?”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

 

Minney, Maria.  “Paper title.”  Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

-----  “Paper title.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

 

Moore, Colin.  “Paper title.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

Stephen Nuño.  “Republicanus Latinus Erectus:  The Missing Link?”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

 

Ozyurt, Saba“Between Tradition and Modernity: Impact of Religion and Religious Institutions on the Acculturation to Muslim Immigrant Women in the West.” International Society of Political Psychology, Portland, Oregon, July 2007.

 

 

Rim, Kathy.  “Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity.”  University of Southern California, April 2007.

 

-----  “Hawai’i versus the Mainland: Examining the Impact of Racial Group Consciousness on Asian American Political Participation.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

-----  (with Natalie Masuoka).  “Developing a Comparative Framework to Study Racial Group Attachment: Asian American Vote Choice and the Mediating Effect of Immigration.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

-----  “Hawai’i versus the Mainland: Examining the Differential Effects of Group Consciousness on Asian American Political Participation.”  Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity, UC Riverside, Winter 2007.

                                      

-----  “Model, Victim, or Problem Minority?  Examining the Socially Constructed Identities of Asian Origin Ethnic Groups in California’s Media.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

 

Robb, Denise.  “Does Ideology Affect Donations to Congress.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

 

Stout, Christopher.  “Are African American Candidates at a Disadvantage in Statewide Elections? An Analysis of African American Senatorial Candidates.”  Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Colloquium, UC Riverside, 2006.

 

DeSipio, Louis, Natalie Masuoka and Christopher Stout.   “The Changing Non-Voter: What Differentiates Non-Voters and Voters in Asian American and Latino Communities?”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

-----  “The Missing Link in Black Political Participation: Black Candidates on the State Level and their effect on Black Turnout.”  Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

 

Wan, Wilfred.  “The Influence of the Decision-Making Process on Decision-Making: Explaining UNAMIR Policy.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

 

Wehrenfennig, Daniel, “The Importance of Ongoing Communication: Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine in Focus.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

-----  “Do you hear me now?  The use of Modern Communication Technology for Conflict Management.”  International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007.

 

-----  “Beyond Diplomacy: Conflict Management in the Network Society.”  American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

 

 

Wilson, Victoria.  “Cultural Nationalism, Gender, and Cyborg Citizenship:  Rethinking the Divide between Gender and Race Liberation in Cultural Nationalist Ideology.”  Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007.

 

-----  “The Associational Roots of the Political Participation Gender Gap.”  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

 

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SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS (external to UCI School of Social Sciences)

 

Alexander, Amy.  Institute of European Studies, Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2007

 

-----  Graduate Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, 2007.

 

-----  Graduate Fellow of the Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, University of California, Irvine,  summer 2006.

 

 

Bergeron, Joe.  James J. Harvey Dissertation Fellowship (Winter 2007 and Spring 2007)

 

-----  Human Rights Campaign Foundation Graduate Student Grant (Winter 2007)

 

-----  School of Social Ecology Warmington Public Policy Fellowship (Fall 2006)

 

-----  Center in Law, Society, and Culture Graduate Student Fellowship (Summer 2006)

 

 

Chen, Chih-Chieh (Titus).  UCI CGPACS graduate student small grant from summer research (2006)

 

-----  UCI Center for Asian Studies graduate student research grant (2006 and 2007)

 

 

Doyle, Thomas.  UCI CGPACS Small Grant for Research on Literature Review   

 

 

Ferenstein, Gregory.  Peltason Fellowship, Center for the Study of Democracy

 

 

Fisher, Brian.  Coalition Advocating Human Security (CAHS) Fellowship for research on the effects of climate change on Pacific SIDS (Small Island Developing States), 2006-07.

 

-----  CGPACS (Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies), Research and

 

 

Hemmer, Bruce.  Ebadi Fellow, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding,  Fall 2006

 

-----  Dissertation Research Grant, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, Summer 2006.

 

-----  Dissertation Research Grant, Center for the Study of Democracy, Summer 2006.

 

-----  Graduate Student Researcher, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, Winter 2006.

 

 

Hsieh, Hsin-Yeh.  Award for the Center for Asian Studies – An award for Single Non-Transferable Vote System proposal, Spring Quarter, 2007

 

-----  Award for the Center for Asian Studies – An award for East Asia Barometer proposal, Summer Quarter, 2006

 

 

Jou, Willy.  Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), Spring 2007.

 

 

Masuoka, Natalie.  Dissertation Writing Grant, Center for the Study of Democracy, UCI, Summer 2006.

 

-----  Ted Robinson Award for Outstanding Research in Minority Politics, Southwest Political Science Association, 2006.

 

 

Moore, Colin.  CGPACS research grant, summer 2006.

 

 

Nuno, Stephen.  UC MEXUS Research Dissertation Grant, University of California at Riverside, 2006-07.

 

 

Saba Ozyurt, UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (IES) Pre-dissertation Fellowship Award, 2006

 

 

Rim, Kathy.  ICPSR Summer Program Award   Summer 2006

 

-----  American Political Science Association Travel Grant  Summer 2006

 

 

Scola, Becki.  Most Promising Future Faculty, University of California, Irvine:  Spring 2007.  Competitively selected as one of two graduate students for excellence in research, teaching, and service to the UCI academic community. 

 

-----  Alice Paul Dissertation Prospectus Award:  Summer 2006

Awarded by the American Political Science Association’s Women's Caucus for the best dissertation prospectus on women and politics for the 2005/2006 academic year.

 

 

Wilfred Wan, Winter, Spring 2007: International Organization Stipend / Fellowship (with Professor Solingen)

 

 

Wehrenfennig, Daniel.  CGPACS Graduate Student Small Grant, Summer 2006

 

-----  Co-Author and Investigator, USAID project, “Comparative Case Studies of Lessons Learned in Putting the “UP” in Bottom-up Peacebuilding: Developing and Maintaining Effective Partnership and Networks for Citizen Peacebuilder”, 2006-2007.

 

-----  The Kugelman Citizen Peacebuilding Research Fellowship, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding (UCI), 2006.

 

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