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Once again– Welcome– to the Annual Newsletter of the Department of Political Science, 2005 edition. We hope that all of you had a good year. With the formal reconstitution of the College of Arts and Sciences on January 16, 2005, all of us in the former College of Liberal Arts were reunited with our colleagues from the College of Science and Mathematics. These have been busy and challenging times, with all that has gone into making two colleges one. Still, 2005 has been another good year for Political Science. Our enrollments and majors continue to grow– with 830 majors in Fall 2005, we have the largest number of Departmental majors since 1992. We rank third in the College, not far behind Psychology, but with a ways to go to catch Biology. See the section on “Political Science Presents ‘Election ‘04'” for a review of the variety of activities in which faculty and students participated regarding the 2004 elections. As always, our faculty were active in teaching, scholarship and research, as well as University and professional service. Ann Bowman and Mark Tompkins serve on a USC interdisciplinary research team that received a Department of Homeland Security grant for The Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. George Krause was the 2005 recipient of the Russell Award for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. See the section on new faculty, for the results of two highly successful recruitment efforts in the areas of American Politics and Methodology. We are pleased to announce the arrival of Christopher Zorn, who joins us after teaching at Emory University and serving as the Program Director for the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation, and David Darmofal, with a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, who joins us after a post-doctoral fellowship at Ohio State University. Last year was also remarkable for a wonderful surprise. A Department alum pledged a $1,000,000 bequest to the Department for a Chair in Politics whose “occupant would be a major research scholar, nationally or internationally known.” As a bequest this gift and Chair will not come to fruition for a number of years. However, this gift provides the Department with substantial resources for the future recognition or recruitment of Political Science faculty. While not everyone can bequeath such a sum, everyone can contribute to the Department. Everyone can contribute to our website– communicating with Departmental faculty and staff, departmental alumni, and friends, with their own news or reactions to our Newsletters. The “Giving Back” section of the Departmental web page under “Alumni & Friends” suggests other ways everyone can contribute– from helping us recruit students, to providing internships, or lecturing, to the ever useful gift of money, no matter how large or small. Again, we look forward to hearing from you and hope you find this year’s news of interest. Your continuing concern and involvement in our Department adds to our strength, and is most gratifying. Harvey Starr In the Fall semester of presidential election years, Political Science and Political Science faculty become very popular indeed. Not only did the Department sponsor several events, but Political Science faculty participated in a wide variety of election-related programs and activities, including numerous speaking engagements and media interviews. • Presentations on “Election 2004,” were given by Professors Oldendick and Barbieri to the Department of Political Science Partnership Board on October 8, 2004. • On October 25, the Department co-sponsored an event with Preston College, “NON Partisan Election Forum,” a truly “non-spin zone” forum, where student representatives of the political parties explained their parties’ positions on major election issues (and were not allowed to attack each other!). • Four Departmental faculty members (Durkin, Glad, Songer, Whiteman) participated in a Bates West Dorm Student Election Forum on October 26. • A major post-election event was sponsored by the Department and its Partnership Board, Fowler Communications, The Felkel Group, and Morgan Stanley on November 23. Chaired by Professor Starr, “Politics and Your Money– A Post Election Strategy,” had presentations by Don Fowler, Chip Felkel, Ben Rast and Dean Livingston. • Finally, on November 30, five Departmental faculty (Barbieri, Durkin, Fowler, Glad, Shaw and Woliver) gave presentations to a packed house in an event organized by Professor Betty Glad, “The Democrats: How the Election of 2004 was Lost; Analyses from the Political Science Profession.” Departmental faculty spoke to a variety of audiences. Don Fowler was in heavy demand, as was Blease Graham. Professor Graham gave eight talks in October and November to such groups as, the Five Points Rotary Club, the USC Media Office Forum, the South Carolina Certified Public Managers’ Association, the Palmetto Forum, the Trinity Cathedral Discussion Group, and the Columbia Civitan Club. At least nine faculty members appeared on television and radio programs, and/or gave interviews to the print media. While Professors Glad, Woliver, and Whiteman, gave a dozen or more such interviews (and Professor Mona Lyne did a phone interview for the BBC Brazil after the first debate!), Blease Graham was the undisputed champ with around 30 interviews to state and regional media. He also gave interviews to such national outlets as the Fox Television News “Britt Hume Hour,” the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Atlanta Constitution. Given the flurry of activity surrounding the quadrennial election cycle, the relative lull that occurred during the Fall of 2005 was a welcome respite. Despite this fact, however, the POLI faculty continue to be the primary source of commentary on South Carolina politics within the State, and a major contributor to the broader national and international dialogues. Walker Institute of International and Area Studies
Master of Public Administration Program (MPA ) Eighteen MPA students graduated during 2004-2005, adding to the hundreds of graduates who now work in nonprofit agencies, South Carolina state and local government, the federal sector and even in international organizations. Seventeen new students joined the program in the fall of 2005. A recent study examining the publication rates – by academic department – of Public Administration & Policy faculty within American universities demonstrates the visibility of POLI’s PA subfield. The study focused on the ten journals that are sponsored or associated with the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), during the decade 1993-2002 (see Douglas J. Watson, Wendy L. Hassett, and Donna Milam Handley, “The ASPA Journals: Who is Publishing?” Journal of Public Affairs Education 11 (2005): 53-60). Our Department ranks tenth (10th) nationally, only one item below the University of Oklahoma (9th), and two items behind the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (8th). Interestingly, Oklahoma’s ranking would drop well below that of USC without the half-dozen items authored by Professor Jim Douglas, who joined our faculty in 2001 Institute for Public Service and Policy Research In September the Institute for Public Service and Policy Research celebrated its 60th anniversary. The Institute was established in 1945 as the Bureau of Public Administration, and over the years has gone through several name changes, including the Bureau of Governmental Research and Service (1964), and the Institute of Public Affairs (1988), before becoming part of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and receiving its current name in 2001. Despite these changes, the Institute has, over time, maintained its mission to address current and emerging issues relating to matters of public policy, governance, and leadership through research, educational activities, publications, and direct assistance programs. The goal of the institute is to improve the quality of social, political, environmental, and economic life, with a primary focus in South Carolina. A history of the Institute can be found at: http://www.ipspr.sc.edu/60th%20Annir_Institute.pdf. This fall the Institute also launched the South Carolina Indicators (SCI) Project. The SCI is a comprehensive web-based site that provides reliable data and analysis on South Carolina’s status and position with regard to education, the economy, the environment, public safety, public health, social welfare, culture and recreation, and government administration. For each policy area, relevant indicators are presented in summary form and the significance or relevance of the indicator is described. Most data on this site are comparable to other states and historical data are available. Select state rankings are also provided. The web site for the SCI Project is http://www.ipspr.sc.edu/scip.New Faculty Join the Department Joining the political science faculty in the fall of 2005 were two new faculty members. David Darmofal has research interests in political behavior and methodology. His substantive research focuses on voting behavior, public opinion, and political psychology, while his methodological interests include spatial econometrics and duration models. His research includes examinations of the sources of socioeconomic bias in voter participation, the effects of elite cues on citizen decision making, and the evolving political geography of voter participation in the U.S. He is currently working on a project that examines the sources of voter participation in the United States since the 1820s. Professor Darmofal received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Program in Statistics and Methodology at Ohio State University this past year. Associate professor Christopher Zorn arrived in the fall semester also. He was formerly a Visiting Scientist and the Program Director for the Law and Social Science program at the National Science Foundation (2003-2005). Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Zorn was assistant professor (1996-2002) and associate professor (2002-2005) of political science at Emory University. A native of Nebraska, Dr. Zorn received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Ohio State University, and his bachelor's degree from Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) in 1991. His research focuses primarily on questions in American politics, particularly judicial politics, and on statistics and quantitative methods. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, International Organization, Political Analysis, and a host of other journals, and he is currently completing books for Cambridge University and the University of Michigan presses. He is a past winner of numerous awards and recognitions, including the Winship Distinguished Research Professorship at Emory and a John M. Olin Foundation faculty fellowship. At USC, he will primarily teach courses on law and judicial politics and on quantitative research methods. FACULTY HONORS, PUBLICATIONS, AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS: 2004-05 For a faculty as professionally active as ours, a complete chronicle of every publication, presentation, or other activity would be far too extensive to hold your attention or interest. Instead, we have elected to include only the most notable accomplishments and a sample of publications activity that have occurred over the past year (and not already noted last year). We invite you to examine the on-line bios and resumes of any faculty member with whom you’d like to get re-acquainted. Shahrough Akhavi spent 2004-05 on sabbatical in Egypt. He has been named Senior Editor for the Oxford University Press multi-volume Oxford Encyclopaedia of Islam. Robert Angel inaugurated and developed the Japan Considered Project of the Department of Political Science, and designed its highly successful web site. The Project and this site focus on the institutions and processes of Japan’s domestic politics and international relations. Katherine Barbieri, completed her first year at USC. She received a Walker Institute grant in support of Research on Terrorism/Counterterrorism. ________. “Trading with the Enemy During Wartime,” Security Studies (2004), co-author. Ann Bowman was a member of the USC interdisciplinary team that received a Department of Homeland Security grant for The Center for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. ________. “Horizontal Federalism: Exploring Interstate Interactions,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2004). Roger Coate. “Civil Society as a Force for Peace,” International Journal of Peace Studies (2004). ________. “U.S. War on Iraq and the United Nations: A Challenge to the UN’s Relevance or U.S. Legitimacy?” in Christopher Dolan and Betty Glad, eds., First Strike: The Doctrine of Preemption and Preventive War and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy (Palgrave, 2004). James Douglas. “Impoundment at the State Level: Executive Power and Budget Impact,” American Review of Public Administration (2004), co-author. One of four articles appearing this year. Jill Frank was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. ________. A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Betty Glad. First Strike: The Doctrine of Preemption and Preventive War and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy (Palgrave, 2004), co-editor. Brad Gomez received College of Arts and Sciences support for a project on “The lInkage Between the Weather and Voter Turnout: Fact or Myth?” co-author. Blease Graham, Director of the John C. West Forum on Politics and Policy, participated in a number of election-related activities, and provided over 115 media interviews on South Carolina and national politics/elections, which included most State and regional media outlets, and included such national media outlets as: PBS; the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Thomas Hansford. “Information Provision, Organizational Constraints, and the Decision to Submit an Amicus Curiae Brief in a U.S. Supreme Court Case,” Political Research Quarterly (2004). Steve Hays became the President-Elect of the South Carolina Chapter for the American Society for Public Administration. ________. “Innovations in Local Government Juman Resource Systems: Observations from Severl Best Practice Locations,” Public Administration Quarterly (2004), co-author. John Hsieh. “Measuring Taiwanese Public Opinion on Taiwanese Independence,” China Quarterly (2005), co-author. ________. “National Identity and Taiwan’s Mainland China Policy,” Journal of Contemporary China (2004). Zaryab Iqbal completed her first year at USC, during which she delivered five conference papers and served as chair or discussant five times at professional conferences. She received the Southern Political Science Association Malcolm Jewell Award for the best graduate student paper presented in 2004, for the paper: “Health and Human Security: The Public Health Impact of Violent Conflict.” Natalie Hevener Kaufman delivered a paper on “Children’s Civic Participation,” at the Childwatch International meeting in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Charles W. Kegley was a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, in Summer 2004. He also was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar Specialist by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, for Rhodes University of South Africa. George Krause was named the 2005 recipient of the Russell Award for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in recognition of outstanding research and scholarship. Mona Lyne. “Parties as Programmatic Agents: A Test of Institutional Theory in Brazil,” Party Politics (2005). Robert Oldendick, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, produced seven Institute Project reports, and served as principal Investigator or Project Manager for new studies funded at over $1 million. Donald Puchala was honored by a Distinguisged Scholar’s Panel at the 2005 annual meeting of the International Studies Association. ________. “Global Governance, the United Nations, and the Future,” Journal of Peace Studies (2004). Jerel Rosati. “Metaphors of U.S. Global Leadership: Changes in Metaphorical Imagery and Thinking During the Carter Years,” in Francis A. Beer and Christ’l De Landtsheer, eds., Metaphors and Politics (Michigan State University Press, 2004). Dan Sabia organized the panels for the second annual conference of the Association for Political Theory. Todd Shaw served as Section Chair for Public Policy for the 2005 National Conference of Black Political Scientists. ________. “Race and Representation in Detroit’s Community Development Coalitions,” Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science (2004), co-author. Gordon Smith, Director of the Richard Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, was invited to be a participant at the Conference on “Citizen Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy,” U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, February 2005. He served as a panel discussant and chair of two panels on “The Russian Constitution,” at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Association for Slavic Studies. Donald Songer received two separate grants from the National Science Foundation in support of undergraduate and graduate student research (both starting 2005). Jessica Sowa, had four chapters and article publicshed, including, “A Multi-Dimensional Model of Organizational Performance: Prospects and problems,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2004), co-author. Harvey Starr was a participant in the Faculty Roundtable, “America’s Role in Today’s Global Society,” the Inaugural Event in the USC SPECTRUM lecture series, featuring William Cohen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense. ________. “The Nature of Borders and Conflict: Revisiting Hypotheses on Territory and War,” International Studies Quarterly (2005), co-author. Mark Tompkins. was a member of the USC interdisciplinary team that received a Department of Homeland Security grant for The Center for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, and was active in three Center for Disease Control funded grants.Charlie Tyer supervised the NASPAA re-accreditation process for the Master of Public Administration Program. Kenny Whitby served as Chair of the American Political Science Association’s 2004 Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession. ________. “One Vote, One Color: Understanding the Cinnectionbetween Racial Identity and Voting Preferences, “ in Dara Byrne, ed., The Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March (John Wiley, 2005). David Whiteman received a Professional Development Fellowship from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to participate in the annual International Public Television Screening Conference, May 2005. Laura Woliver began her term as President-elect of the American Political Science Association’s Women’s Caucus for Political Science. Neal Woods. “Political Influence on Agency Rulemaking: Examining the Effects of Legislative and Gubernatorial Rule Review Powers,” State and Local Government Review (2004). LET US KNOW WHAT YOU’VE BEEN UP TO One of the most challenging aspects of running a large and diverse academic department is maintaining contact with the thousands of individuals who are counted among our alumni and friends. To help us in this regard, and to provide past classmates with updates on your lives, we would greatly appreciate it if you would take a few seconds to provide personal and/or professional feedback. And, with the advantages of on-line technology, it couldn’t easier to give us a quick snapshot of what you’ve been up to recently. 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