5:15 – 6:15 p.m.

Room 104 Chair: Pete Moore

Michael Calabrese

Why Middle Eastern Dictators Endure (Moore)

Christopher White

Political Economy and Insurgency (Moore)

Dan Griffith

Human Rights in Argentina and Rwanda (Tartakoff)

Room 302 Chair: Vince McHale

Pam Falkenberg

Sex Offender Residents in Intermediate- and Long-Term Care Facilities: Prevalence, Problems, and Policies (McHale)

Joseph Verbovszky

Greece: A Case Study of the Adaptation of a Parliamentary Democracy in the Event of a Prolonged Systemic Shock

Matt Finkle

Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act (Lavelle)

6:15 – 7:00 p.m. Buffet dinner in Clark 206

7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Room 104 Chair: Joe White

Margaret Rasche

Privatizing Prisons (White)

Andrew Slivka

The Political History of the Individual Mandate to Obtain Health Insurance (White)

Mark Beatty

Periods of Uncertainty: Comparing Electoral Uncertainty with the VIX (Buchler)

Room 302 Chair: Vince McHale

Sabin Boruz

The Predictable Surprise of Current European Turmoil (McHale)

Cassandra Bucceri

An Examination of Political Reconstruction in Italy (McHale)

Steven Urueta

Paradiplomacy in Japanese Territorial Disputes: Can Local Politics Have Global Consequences? (Posner)