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THE
IMPACT OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY
January 14 & 15, 2005
Sponsored
by the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics,
Initiative and Referendum Institute at USC, The
Center for the Study of Democracy at UC-Irvine,
and the Southern California Law Review
Location: University
of California, Irvine, Alumni House
January 14 th
Schedule
Welcome
William Schonfeld, Director, Center for
Study of Democracy
8:30 - 9:00 Continental
Breakfast (Alumni House)
9:00 - 11:45 Session
I Initiatives and Political
Actors
Chair
Shaun Bowler, University
of California, Riverside
Caroline
Tolbert, Kent State University, Political
Science Department
"The Ballot Measure/Citizen
Interest Link: Information, Engagement and Participation"
Frederick
Boehmke, University of Iowa
"The Initiative
Process and Interest Group Attention to Legislative
Activity"
Daniel
Smith, University of Florida, Political Science
Department
"Was Rove Right?
The Partisan Wedge and Turnout Effects of Issue 1, Ohio's
2004 Ballot Initiative to Ban Gay Marriage"
12:00 - 1:30Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
Session II
Initiatives and Political Institutions
Chair
Mathew Beckmann,
University of California, Irvine
Shaun
Bowler, UC Riverside and Todd Donovan,
University of Western Washington
"Direct Democracy's
Effects on Political Parties"
John
Matsusaka, University of Southern California,
Marshall School of Business
"Direct Democracy
and the Executive Branch"
3:00 - 4:45
Session III
Initiatives and State Governance
Chair Linda Cohen, University of California, Irvine
Russell
Dalton, UC Irvine
"Direct Democracy
and 'Good' Governance: Does it Matter?"
Amihai
Glazer, UC Irvine and Anthony McGann,
UC Irvine
"What Direct Democracy Teaches Us about Politics"
Saturday, January
15
(Papers
to be published in the Southern California Law Review )
Welcome: John Matsusaka, Initiative
and Referendum Institute at USC and Kimberly
Encinas, Southern California Law Review
8:30 - 9:00 Continental
Breakfast (Alumni House)
9:00 - 11:00
Session I
Richard
Hasen, Loyola Law School
"Rethinking
the Unconstitutionality of Contribution and Expenditure
Limits in Ballot Measure Campaigns"
Thomas
Stratmann, George Mason University, Dept. of
Economics
"Effectiveness
of Money in Ballot Measure Campaigns"
Bruce Cain, UC Berkeley, Political Science
Department
John De Figueiredo, Princeton
University, Woodrow Wilson School
Bernard Grofman, UC, Irvine, Political Science Department
Daniel Ortiz, University
of Virginia Law School
Daniel Smith, University
of Florida, Political Science Department
11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 12:15 Session II
Clayton
Gillette, New York University Law School
"Voting
with Your Hands: Direct Democracy in Annexation"
Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine, Department of Economics
William
Fischel, Dartmouth College, Department of Economics
Edward McCaffery, University of Southern
California Law School
12:15 - 1:45
Lunch
1:45 - 2:45
Session
III
Melissa
Cully Anderson, UC Berkeley, Political
Science Department, and
Nathaniel Persily, University of Pennsylvania
Law School
"Regulating
Democracy through Democracy: The Use of Direct Legislation
in Election Law Reform"
Discussants:
Jonathan
Katz, Caltech, Division of the Humanities
and Social Science
Nolan McCarthy, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson
School
Moderator: Caroline Tolbert , Kent State
University, Political Science Department
2:45 - 3:00
Break
3:00 - 4:00
Session
IV
Mathew
McCubbins, UC San Diego, Political Science
Department, and Thad Kousser , UC San
Diego, Political Science Department
"Social
Choice, Crypto-Initiatives and Policy Making by Direct
Democracy"
Elizabeth Garrett, University
of Southern California Law School
Daniel Rodriguez, University of San Diego
Law School
Linda Cohen , UC
Irvine, Department of Economics
Contact Information
Shaun Bowler
Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Riverside
shaun.bowler@ucr.edu
Elizabeth Garrett
Professor of Law, USC Law School
Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law
and Politics
egarrett@law.usc.edu
Amihai Glazer
Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine
aglazer@uci.edu
John Matsusaka
Professor of Finance and Business Economics and
Law, Marshall School of Business, USC
jmatsusaka@marshall.usc.edu
Law
Review Contact: Damian Moos
Managing Editor, Southern California Law Review
moos@usc.edu
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