Grad Students and Faculty Presentations at Midwest PSA Annual Meeting

In April of each year, the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) holds one of the largest political science conferences, with more than 4,000 presenters from throughout the United States and around the world. This year, the UCSB Department of Political Science will be well represented by its graduate students and faculty participants.

The following graduate students will be presenting papers:
John Fortuna, "Approaches to Loss in Politics"
Laura Frey, "How Do the Undecided Decide? Swing Voters and Electoral Choice"
Mario Guerrero, "Forecasting Money: Predicting Campaign Fundraising by the Major Parties"
David Reed, "The Will to Be Responsible: Identity and Personal Responsibility in Arendt"
Cynthia Stavrianos, "The Politics of Motherhood: Maternal Frames in Women's Political Action"
Meimei Zhang, "Collective Memories and Jealousies Between Rival Cites in China"

Graduate Student Panel Chairs:
Meimei Zhang, "Asian Development: Ten Years after the Financial Crisis"

Recent Ph.D. Participants:
Christopher McCoy (Ph.D. '08), paper: "An Enemy for All Seasons:
Schmitt and the Limits of Anti-Liberal Formalism"

Faculty participants:
Sarah Anderson (affiliated faculty), paper: "Budget Incrementalism: Small Aggregation, Big Changes"
Discussant: "Unilateral Presidential Policymaking"
Garrett Glasgow, paper: "Modeling the Government Formation Process";
Discussant: "Negotiating Sex and Power: Prostitution, Identity, and Diversity"
M. Kent Jennings, paper: "The Impact of Higher Education on Political Attitudes and Involvement" (with Laura Stoker)

MPSA is an international organization with a membership of more than three thousand political science professors and students and public administrators representing more than 80 countries. Founded in 1939, the MPSA is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science.