University of California, Irvine
 Department of Political Science

PUBLICATIONS

Alexander, Amy. 2007. "Empowering Women: The Role of Economic Development, Political Culture and Institutional Design in the World's Societies" in Working Paper Series for the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Gellars, Joshua. 2008. "University of Florida," in J. Golson & S. Philander (eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Russell J. Dalton, Doh C. Shin, and Willy Jou. 2008. "Understanding Democracy: Data From Unlikely Places," Journal of Democracy, 18 (4): 142-156.

Jafari, M, Elahi, F, Saba Ozyurt, T. Wrigley. 2007. "Religious Perspectives on Embryonic Stem Cell Research," in K. Monroe, et al. (eds), The Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues. University of California Press.

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 and Social Movements," Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 28 (3-4).

Natalie Masuoka, Louis DeSipio, Christopher Stout. 2008. "Asian American Immigrants as the New Electorate: Exploring Turnout and Registration of a Growing Community." Asian American Policy Review Vol. 17, No.2.

Wehrenfennig, Daniel, Gershon Sahfir and Alison Brysk. 2007 . "Conclusion: Human Rights in Hard Times." In Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, eds., National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism. Berkley: University of California Press, pp. 158-177.

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 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Alexander, Amy. Forthcoming. "The Gender Gap in Parliamentarian Support for Reproductive Rights: Comparisons across Western Europe," in Working Paper Series for the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Alexander, Amy, Kristen Monroe, Saba Ozyurt, T. Wrigley. Forthcoming. "Gender Equality in Academia: Bad News from the Trenches and some Possible Solutions." Perspectives on Politics.

Baer, Madeline. 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.

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. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bowman, Robin, Paul Bolt, Su Chenghe, and David H. Sacko,. Forthcoming. "Chinese, American, and Russian Security Policies: The Response to Terrorism," in Paul J. Bolt, Su Changhe, and Sharyl Cross, eds., The United States, Russia, and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the 21st Century. Praeger Security International.

Hemmer, Bruce. Forthcoming. "The Democratization of Peacebuilding: Democratic Exposure and the Politically Participatory Ideology of Peacebuilding NGOs in Northern Ireland and Bosnia." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change.

Wong, Janelle, Kathy Rim, and Haven Perez. Forthcoming. "Latino and Asian Protestant Churches and Conservative Politics in the United States," in S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad, eds., Civic Roots and Political Realities: Community Organizations and Political Engagement Among Immigrants in the United States and Abroad. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.

Van Sickle, Alix and Wayne Sandholtz. Forthcoming. "The Right to Democracy," in Wayne Sandholtz and Ken Stiles, eds., Cycles of International Norm Change. Oxford University Press.

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. Forthcoming. "Conflict Management and Communicative Action: Second Track Diplomacy from a Habermasian Perspective." Communication Theory. August 2008.

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.

Albert Wolf. Forthcoming. "Distraction Theory of War," Colonial Wars," and "War Termination," in George Kurian, ed., International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Washington, DC, Congressional Quarterly Press.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (external to UCI)

Alexander, Amy with K. Coulter. "Explaining the Gender Gap in Pathways to Parliament: Comparisons across Western Europe." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Alexander, Amy with C. Welzel. "Effective Democracy: A Concept to Capture Democracy's Empowering Nature." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Alexander, Amy with C. Welzel. "Explaining Gender Equality: The Mediating Role of Emancipative Attitudes." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Alexander, Amy. "The Influence of Context on Parliamentarian Support of a Women's Right to Choose." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Albuquerque, March 2008.

Alexander, Amy with K. Coulter. "Gender Differences in Elite Recruitment and Attitudes: Comparing European Democracies." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

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.

John Altick. "Finding the Political in Governance and the UN Global Compact." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

John Altick. "Governance in the United Nations Global Compact: The Quest for a Constitution and Praxis of Good Governance at the Global Level." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Baer, Madeline. "From Private Grievance to Human Right: How FGM Became an International Human Rights Issue." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

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

Bergeron, Joe. "Policy Agendas as Vehicles for Negotiating Tensions in the Organized LGBT Movement." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

Bergeron, Joe. "The Impact of Public Policy Losses on Social Movement Strategy." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Chiu, William. "Politics in the Mind: Evaluating Neuroscientific Accounts of Moral Judgment." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Choi, Moon-Young. "Little India." Conference/Workshop on Ethnic Communities, University of Amsterdam, January 2008.

Cooper, Katie. "The States and Trust in Government: Exploring the Causes for the Divergent Levels of Trust between the States." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Cooper, Katie. "The States and Trust in Government: Exploring the Causes for the Divergent Levels of Trust between the States." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Coulter, Kristine. "The Impact of Welfare State Policies on Abortion Rates." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Coulter, Kristine and A. Alexander . "Contextualizing Gender Differences in Elite Recruitment and Selection. Paper." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Coulter, Kristine and A. Alexander. "Gender Differences in Elite Recruitment and Selection: Comparing European Democracies." Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Coulter, Kristine and A. Alexander. "Gender Differences in Elite Recruitment and Attitudes: Comparing European Democracies." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 2007.

Doyle, Thomas. "The Morality of Acquiring Nuclear Weapons in the Second Nuclear Age." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Doyle, Thomas. "Norm Decay and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norm." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Doyle, Thomas. "An Examination of International Cooperation on Civilian Nuclear Power / The Demand for Ethical and Nondiscriminatory Regimes." Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Conference, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Livermore CA, February 2008.

Ensch, John. "Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Institutional Change: Caltrans as a Case Study." Symposium on Positive Political Theory of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Politics, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, September 2007.

Ensch, John. "The Seat Share of the Smaller Parties and Social Trust." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Fisher, Brian. "Climate Justice: Human Security and Climate Change in Tuvalu." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Gellars, Joshua. "U.S. Congressional Conceptions of Climate Change: An Interpretivist Approach." International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis III, University of Essex, June 2008.

Haddad, Heidi. "Gender Roles in the Muslim World: A Value Difference between Men and Women?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Haddad, Heidi. "Gender Roles in the Muslim World: A Value Difference between Men and Women?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Hemmer, Bruce. "Bosnia and Herzegovina." Civil Society and Peacebuilding, Antalia, Turkey, November 2007.

Hemmer, Bruce. "The Democratization of Peacebuilding: Democratic Exposure and the Politically Participatory Ideology of Peacebuilding NGOs in Northern Ireland & Bosnia." Cutting Edge Theories and Recent Developments in Conflict Resolution Conference, Program on Analysis & Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University, September 2007.

Hernandez, Jennifer. "Naturalization, Socialization, and Political Incorporation: The Case of Latino Youth in Florida and San Diego." Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium, April 2008.

Hshieh, Hsin-yeh. "Vote Distribution System in Taiwan's 2004 Legislative Yuan Election." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Ibarra, Armando. "The Intersection of Labor, Politics and Space: Unauthorized Latinos in Moorefield, WV & Siler City, NC." Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society, 2007.

Ibarra, Armando. "The Intersection of Labor, Politics and Space: Unauthorized Latinos in Moorefield, WV & Siler City, NC." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

Jou, Willy. "Examining Turnout in British General Elections, 1987-2005." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2008.

Jou, Willy. "The Effect of Social Capital on Political Interest, Efficacy, and Democratic Beliefs in Japan." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Kelman, Jonathan. "A Different Kind of Power Shift: Illicit Flows, State Power and the Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Program." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Kelman, Jonathan. "From DIY to Off-the-Shelf: The Future of Nuclear Proliferation in the Developing World." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association West, September 2007.

Kline, Reuben. "Comparative Party Competition, the Effective Number of Parties and the Banzhaf Index." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Albuquerque, March 2008.

Kruse, Karl. "Realism and the Security of Energy Supplies in Northeast Asia: Why Conventional Wisdom is Wrong." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Kristen Monroe and Adam Martin. "The Moral Identity." International Society for Political Psychology, Portland, Oregon, July 2007.

Nelle, Bryan. "Finding the Political in Governance and the UNGC." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Nelle, Bryan. "Governance in the United Nations Global Compact." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

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. "Structure, Agency, and Cumulative Disadvantage in the Immigration Rallies of 2006: A Comparative Analysis of Latina/o and Asian American Elite Mobilization." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Rim, Kathy. "Asian American and Latino Immigrant Mobilization and Participation in the 2006 Immigration Rallies." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

Robb, Denise. "Does Instant Runoff Voting Promote a More Cooperative Style of Campaigning? An Analysis of Mass Mailers in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Election. Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, May 2008.

Shella, Kimberly. "Mixed Effects of Diversity on Interethnic Trust: Ethnically Divided, New Democracies." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Shella, Kimberly. "Interethnic Trust and Membership in Liberal and State-linked Associations in Nigeria". African Studies Association, New York, NY, October 2007.

Stout, Christopher. "The Missing Link in Black Participation: Black Candidates at the State Level and Their Effect on Turnout." American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

Stout, Christopher. "Rating LA's Top Cop: Assessing the Effect of Race on Police Chief Approval" Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Colloquium, Riverside, California 2008.

Van Sickle, Alix. "Building Support for Democracy in Latin America: A Role for Civil Society?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 2008.

Van Sickle, Alix. "Civil Society and Democratic Citizenship in Latin America." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.

Wilson, Victoria. "Cultural Nationalism, Gender, and Cyborg Citizenship: Rethinking the Divide between Gender and Race Liberation in Cultural Nationalist Ideology." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. "Dialogue makes a Difference: Learning from Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. "Digital Bridges – The Use of Modern Information and Communication Technology for Conflict Management." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. "Digital Bridges – The Use of Modern Information and Communication Technology for Conflict Management." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.

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

Ahmed, Zahra. Fellowship, Center for Law and Society, University of California, Irvine.

Alexander, Amy. Research Fellow, Regional Business Fellowship, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Lueneburg, Germany.

Alexander, Amy. Researcher, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.

Alexander, Amy. Travel Grant, Graduate Retreat for Young Comparativists, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Alexander, Amy. Jack and Suzanne Peltason Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Appenrodt, Katie. Exchange Program Fellowship, Center for Asian Studies and Peking University.

Baer, Madeline. Don Owen Water Science and Policy Fellowship, School of Social Ecology and The Urban Water Research Center, University of California, Irvine.

Megan Bodane. Southeast European Language Training Grant, American Council of Learned Societies.

Budz, Michelle. Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation IGCC), University of California.

Budz, Michelle. Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Chen, Chih-Chieh (Titus). Hayward Alker Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California.

Choi, Moon-Young. Peltason Fellow, Center for the Study of Democracy.

Doyle, Thomas. Fellowship, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), Public Policy and Nuclear Threats.

Doyle, Thomas. National Science Foundation Grant, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT).

Fisher, Brian. Center for Unconventional Security, University of California, Irvine.

Kelman, Jonathan. Participant, IGCC’s Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT), University of California, San Diego, July 2007.

Kline, Reuben. Scholarship, National Science Foundation (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, June 2008.

Kronberger, Morgan. Kugelman Peacebuilding Fellowship, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, University of California, Irvine.

Kruse, Karl. Fellowship for study in Japan, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Ozyurt, Saba. Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Ozyurt, Saba. Frances Benton Fellowship Award.

Rahman, Fatima. William F. Podlich Fellowship, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Robb, Denise. Warren E. Miller Award, University of Michigan.

Shella, Kimberly. John A. Garcia Tuition Scholarship (ICPSR).

Shella, Kimberly. Aznar-Argyos Summer Fellowship, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Wehrenfennig, Daniel. The Kugelman Citizen Peacebuilding Research Fellowship 2007, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, University of California, Irvine.

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