*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** As part of my consulting work for Markle Foundation I'll be back in San Francisco in a few weeks to participate in the APSA Annual Conference <http://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/> with a few thousand political scientists. If you will be at the conference, come by the "Politics at the Internet Frontier" panel on Saturday, September 1 at 8:45 a.m.. I also dug through the giant conference agenda and pulled out all the Internet-related sessions I could find. Which sessions do you recommend? DO-WIRE Gathering, Papers On Friday, August 31 at around 5:30 p.m. I'd like to gather some of the best researchers attending the conference who have an active interest in the future of the Internet and politics. What are your thoughts on what is next? What we have actually "learned" so far with the Internet and democracy? (I am always open to e-mail receipt of academic papers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'll only mention your paper to the 2,100 people on DO-WIRE <http://www.e-democracy.org/do> if it is online for public review. Say, you can check out the 25 key papers submitted last year with the keyword "Internet" at <http://PRO.harvard.edu/search.htm> - search now, for they will be replaced with this year's papers soon.) If you will be at the conference, drop me an e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with your contact details, what you are currently researching, and please forward this to others you think should join us on Friday, August 31. Cheers, Steven Clift Democracies Online [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-612-822-8667 Tel/Mobile Available From: http://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/ THURSDAY SESSIONS 24-10 PUBLIC BUREAUCRACY AND NETWORKED TECHNOLOGIES Thursday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM Chair: Charles C. Hinnant, University of Georgia Papers: The Competing Logics of Digital Government? Jane E. Fountain, Harvard University Adoption of E-Service Delivery in State Agencies: Examining the Influence of Organizational Capacity Charles C. Hinnant, University of Georgia Revolution or Evolution? Public Agencies, Networked Information Technologies and Democratic Values in the United States and Around the World Todd M. La Porte, George Mason University Information Technology and State Procurement Management M. Jae Moon, University of Colorado, Denver 8-3 CORRECTING FOR SELECTION BIAS IN SURVEY DATA Thursday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM Chair: Curtis S. Signorino, University of Rochester Papers: Internet Surveys of American Opinion R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology Robert Sherman, California Institute of Technology Selection Bias and the Evaluation of Educational Reform Through Standardized Testing Valentina Bali, California Institute of Technology Selection Bias with Limited Dependent Variables: A Two-Stage Estimation Procedure with an Application to Interest Group Activities Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa Correcting for Survey Misreports Using Auxilary Information Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology Disc: Garrett Glasgow, University of California, Santa Barbara 38-9 NEW MEDIA, NEWS MEDIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEMOCRACY Thursday, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM Chair: Lynda Lee Kaid, University of Florida Papers: Framing Politics for Mass Consumption: Can News Media Meet the Challenge? Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago Outside of a Small Circle of "Friends": The Political Influence of Entertainment Television David Jackson, Bowling Green State University Americans' Changing Media Habits: Evidence from 1998 and 2000 Stephen E. Bennett, University of Cincinnati Staci L Rhine, Wittenberg University Apprehending Politics: The Contextualized Role and Significance of News Media Engagement in the Political Development of "Generation X'ers" Marco Calavita, New York University Political Relevance in the New Media Environment Bruce A. Williams, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Michael X. Delli Carpini, PEW Charitable Trusts Disc: Robert M. Entman, North Carolina State University 40-3 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-LAW AND GOVERNANCE Thursday, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM Chair: Stuart W. Shulman, Drake University Papers: From Clipper to Carnivore: Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement and Industry Interests Priscilla M. Regan, George Mason University Protecting Intellectual Property and Regulating MP3: A First Amendment Trojan Horse? Diane E. Schmidt, California State University, Chico Eric Crowder, California State University, Chico All Things "E": The Expectations, Limitations, and Implications of E- Government Jeffrey Seifert, Congressional Research Service Disc: Stuart W. Shulman, Drake University 40-1 THE INTERNET AS AGENT OF CHANGE: BRIDGING BARRIERS TO CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND ACTIVIST DISCOURSE Thursday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Chair: Lori A. Brainard, George Washington University Karla J. Cunningham, SUNY, Geneseo Papers: Transnational Activism in the Americas: The Internet and Mobilizing against the FTAA Process Jeffrey M. Ayres, Saint Michael's College Information Technology and the Changing Boundaries of Political Discourse in the Muslim Diaspora Peter Mandaville, George Mason University Acting (Up) Globally: The Internet, AIDS and Activism Patricia Siplon, Saint Michael's College Disc: Lori A. Brainard, George Washington University 10-1 NEW AND IMPROVED: TEACHING AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY Thursday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Co-sponsored by 9-5 Chair: Lydia M. Andrade, University of the Incarnate Word Papers: Consumer Oriented American Government: Selling the "Same Old Thing" Lydia M. Andrade, University of the Incarnate Word Jon R. Bond, Texas A&M University On-Line Discussions: A New Twist on Student Participation Rebecca E. Deen, University of Texas, Arlington Using the Internet in Political Science Courses Scott Dittloff, University of the Incarnate Word Diversifying "Introduction to American National Government" through Role Playing Stephanie G. Larson, Dickinson College Disc: Jon R. Bond, Texas A&M University 35-4 STRATEGIC LOBBYING Thursday, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM Chair: Andrew S. McFarland, University of Illinois, Chicago Papers: Building an Effective Lobby Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University Internet Lobbying and Congressional Behavior: Uniting the World and Dividing the House John M de Figueiredo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's Rights and Coalition Lobbying Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina Understanding U.S. Interest Group Activity in the European Union: Toward a Theoretical Explanation Clive S. Thomas, University of Alaska, Southeast Ronald J. Hrebenar, University of Utah Disc: Kenneth W. Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor David L. Lowery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill FRIDAY 38-8 INTERNET USE AND EFFECTS ON POLITICAL ATTITUDES Friday, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM Chair: Dianne G. Bystrom, Iowa State University Papers: >From Mediated to Direct Campaign Communication: Effects on Voter Engagement Kyu Hahn, Stanford University Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University Surfing Alone: The Internet as a Facilitator of Social and Political Capital? Paul G. Harwood, University of Maryland, College Park J. Celeste Lay, University of Maryland, College Park Differences in Voter Learning and Candidate Evaluation: An Examination of Campaign Advertisement Exposure across Traditional and Internet Media Channels John Tedesco, Virginia Tech University Kimberly Gaddie, University of Oklahoma When Enough is Enough: The Impact of Political Advertising on Internet Information Seeking during Presidential Elections Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Disc: Todd M. Schaefer, Central Washington University 16-3 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE E-COMMERCE REVOLUTION Friday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Co-sponsored by 17-22 Papers: Governance and Politics of the Internet Economy John Zysman, University of California, Berkeley Steven Weber, University of California, Berkeley The Information Economy and the Welfare State Catherine L. Mann, Institute for International Economics Global Taxation and the Transformation of the State Roland C. Paris, University of Colorado, Boulder The Conundrum of International E-Commerce Coordination David A Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder Disc: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University 8-6 UNDERSTANDING PALM BEACH COUNTY: POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT Friday, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Co-sponsored by T-29 Chair: Burt L. Monroe, Indiana University, Bloomington Laurel Elms, University of California, Berkeley Papers: Did Votes Intended for Gore go to Buchanan? (and Other Stories) Burt L. Monroe, Indiana University, Bloomington Evidence of Excessive Buchanan Vote Share in Palm Beach County, Florida Jonathan Wand, Cornell University Kenneth W. Shotts, Northwestern University Jasjeet Sekhon, Harvard University Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Cornell University Michael C. Herron, Harvard University Lessons from Florida, 2000: It's the Heteroskedasticity, Stupid Greg D. Adams, Carnegie Mellon University Christina Fastnow, Chatham College Prying Open the Ballot Boxes: Internet Driven Research on the 2000 Presidential Election Results Robert Jackson, New York University Disc: Helmut Norpoth, SUNY, Stony Brook Eric D. Lawrence, George Washington University 24-7 PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY: EXPERIMENTS AND OUTCOMES Friday, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM Co-sponsored by 29-6 Chair: Daniel A. Mazmanian, University of Southern California Papers: Assessing E-Government: The Internet, Democracy, and Service Delivery Darrell M. West, Brown University Contracting with Nonprofit Organizations: The Experience of State Agencies Jeffrey L. Brudney, University of Georgia Deil S. Wright, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Enforcing the Clean Water Act: State Bureaucratic Behavior Under Differing Institutional Settings Larry Handlin, Washington University The Quality of Management and the Performance of Government: An Empirical Analysis of the American Jerrell D. Coggburn, University of Texas, San Antonio Saundra K. Schneider, University of South Carolina Disc: Patricia W. Ingraham, Syracuse University 40-2 TED LOWI, IT AND THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE Friday, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM Chair: Theodore J. Lowi, Cornell University Papers: Surveying the Cyberspace: On Line Political Communication. Some Methodological Aspects Rosanna De Rosa, University of Naples The Effects of New Technologies on Cultural Protectionism Harvey B. Feigenbaum, George Washington University Civic Engagement and the Digital Divide Michael C. Gizzi, Mesa State College Judy Craddock, Mesa State College Poster Sessions: PS 3 POSTER SESSION 3 ELECTIONS, PARTIES, PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION Friday, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM Political Participation and Support for Internet Voting Caroline Tolbert, Kent State University The Internet as a Public Opinion Laboratory: Experiments with Survey Questions George F. Bishop, University of Cincinnati Friday Reception: Political Communication Reception 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY 36-20 POLITICS AT THE INTERNET FRONTIER Saturday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 PM Co-sponsored by 38-13 and T-21 Chair: Arthur Lupia, University of California, San Diego Part: Jonah Sieger, Mindshare Internet Campaigns Doug Bailey, Freedom Channel.com Mike McCurry, Grassroots.com Steven Clift, Publicus.net Barbara Fedida Brill, Markle Foundation Zoe Baird, Markle Foundation [Note from Steven Clift: The final panel participants may change some.] 36-13 THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS Saturday, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM Co-sponsored by 37-17 Chair: Herbert B. Asher, Ohio State University Papers: Disagreement among Citizens: The Political Consequences of Heterogeneous Communications Networks Robert Huckfeldt, Indiana University Jeanette Morehouse, Indiana University Information and Voting: A Panel Study Michael D. Martinez, University of Florida, Gainesville James G. Kane, University of Florida, Gainesville Stephen C. Craig, University of Florida Why the Danes said "No" to the Euro: A Panel Study of the Dynamics of Opinion and the Vote Holli A. Semetko, University of Amsterdam Claes H. de Vreese, University of Amsterdam What Lies Beneath: Campaign Effects in the 1998 California Gubernatorial Race John M. Sides, University of California, Berkeley Disc: Herbert B. Asher, Ohio State University 38-3 COMMUNICATION AND GLOBAL POLITICS Saturday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM Chair: Laura Helvey Roselle, Elon College Papers: Triangular Networks and E-Government: Communicative Power in Cyberspace Cheryl L. Brown, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Unleashing the Political Killer Apps: The Internet, Institutional Change and Democratization Pippa Norris, Harvard University The Varying Role of the Media in Peace Processes Gadi Wolfsfeld, Hebrew University Framing Peace Policies: The Competition for Resonant Themes David J. Levin, American University Disc: Nathalie J. Frensley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 40-4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY POLICY-EUROPE AND THE US Saturday, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM Chair: Charles S. Hauss, George Mason University Papers: Electronic Commerce and Consumption Taxes in the United States and the European Union Benjamin L. Allen, George Mason University In the Shadow of the State: E-Commerce Self-Regulation in Europe and the U.S. David Bach, University of California, Berkeley Abe Newman, University of California, Berkeley Interaction between States and Citizens in the Age of the Internet: Analyzing "E-Government" in the United States, Britain and the European Union Andrew Chadwick, University of West England, Bristol Disc: Charles S. Hauss, Goerge Mason University 38-5 MEDIA AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT Saturday, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM Chair: Amy Fried, University of Maine Papers: Television and the Erosion of Social Capital: Getting the Causal Mechanism Right Marc R. Hooghe, Free University of Brussles Something to Talk about: The Effects of Civic Journalism on Political Discourse and Engagement Timothy Vercellotti, Unviersity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Engaging the Non-Engaged in Politics: A Study of Campaign 2000 Scott D. Wells, University of Oklahoma Democracy Online: New Opportunities and Dead Ends Dietram Scheufele, Cornell University Matt Nisbet, Cornell University The Costs of Free Choice: How Increasing Media Options Widens the Gap in Political Knowledge and Markus Prior, Stanford University Disc: Julia A. Spiker, University of Akron Saturday Reception: Information Technology and Politics Reception 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. SUNDAY 38-7 CYBERPOLITICS: WEBSITES AS POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Sunday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM Chair: Mary Christine Banwart, University of Oklahoma Papers: Internet Communication Structure in the Congress- A Network Analysis Dongwook Cha, University at Buffalo, SUNY Han-Woo Park, University at Buffalo, SUNY Cyber-Campaigning Grows Up: A Comparative Content Analysis of Senatorial and Gubernatorial Candidates' Web Sites, 1998-2000 Jennifer Greer, University of Nevada Mark E. LaPointe, University of Washington How Wired Are They? State Parties Online in 2000 Rick D. Farmer, Unviersity of Akron Julia A. Spiker, University of Akron Rich Fender, Kent State University Youth Vote Sites: Can We Rely on the Internet to Socialize New Citizens? Cherie J. Strachan, SUNY, University at Albany Anne Hildreth, SUNY, University at Albany Election Campaigning on the WWW in the US and UK: A Comparative Analysis Rachel K. Gibson, University of Salford Michael Margolis, University of Cincinnati Stephen J. Ward, Univeristy of Salford David Resnick, University of Cincinnati Disc: Arthur Sanders, Drake University 36-23 THE FLORIDA RECOUNT Sunday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM Co-sponsored by T-30 Chair: Jerry Calvert, Montana State University Papers: Undervotes, Overvotes, Race, and Ballots Christina Fastnow, Chatham College Greg D. Adams, Carnegie Mellon University Electronic Vote Counting: Prospects and Dangers Peter Neumann, SRI International Lessons Learned From Florida Kimball W. Brace, Election Data Services Eye of the Storm: Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes in Palm Beach County Martin J. Sweet, Florida Atlantic University A Perfect World: Estimating the Outcome in Florida Steve Doig, Arizona State University Elections and Voting Behavior Business Meeting Friday, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Elections and Voting Behavior Reception, co-sponsored by Political Psychology and Public Opinon and Political Saturday, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Also of interest: SC-12 USING THE INTERNET TO ENHANCE THE TEACHING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE I Wednesday, 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM This short course will focus on how the Internet and its resources can be used to enhance the teaching of Political Science. First, the use of the Internet to enhance traditional classroom teaching will be considered. The use of synchronous and asynchronous discussion threads will be discussed. Second, the teaching of totally online Political Science classes will be examined. This short course is especially designed for those who are considering or just beginning the use of the Internet in student- centered teaching. The materials to be used have been developed as part of a Carnegie Faculty Teaching Seminar. The short course leaders have used the Internet to teach four totally online courses and to Web-enhance twelve courses in Political Science. Fee: $20 faculty/$10 graduate students. Registration should be sent to: Frank J. Smist, Jr., Chair Department of Political Science Rockhurst University 1100 Rockhurst Road Kansas City, MO 64110 phone 816-501- 4603; fax 816-501-4169 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 36-3 THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN Thursday, 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM Chair: Kathleen A. Frankovic, CBS News Papers: Voter Involvement with the 2000 Presidential Election Campaign Tami Buhr, Harvard University Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University Dynamics of the 2000 US Presidential Campaign: Evidence From the Annenberg Survey Richard Johnston, University of Pennsylvania Michael G. Hagen, University of Pennsylvania The Impact of the 2000 Presidential Campaign: A Look at Voters in Battleground vs. Nonbattleground States Kim Fridkin Kahn, Arizona State University Patrick Kenney, Arizona State University Testing the Effects of Political Advertisements: An Experiment of the 2000 Presidential Election John Lapinski, Yale University Joshua Clinton, Stanford University Disc: William G. Mayer, Northeastern University 36-1 ROUNDTABLE ON THE 2000 U.S. ELECTIONS Friday, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM Co-sponsored by T-25 Chair: Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution Part: Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. 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