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SFSU Represented at the Western Political Science Association Conference 2005

2005 WPSA Annual Meeting was held in Oakland, CA March 17-18, 2005

Professor Angelika von Wahl Presents the following papers: Panel 01. 17  - Culture, Rights, and Nationalism Paper - Getting Away With Murder? Human Rights Abuse and Reparations

Erin Scholnick Presents the following papers: Panel 01. 02  - Transnational Migration in Comparative Perspectives Paper - The Impacts of Assimilation Panel 06. 15  - Globalization: Whither IR? Paper - Is Esping-Anderson's ''Liberal-Welfare'' Regime Cluster Adequate? Abstract: I will be evaluating the Public Heath Care Systems in the United States, Canada and Great Britain from the perspective of Esping-Anderson’s model of Capitalist Welfare States.  In his research, Esping-Anderson groups countries under three models of the capitalist state:  The Liberal Regime Model, the Social Democratic Regime Model and the Corporatist Regime Model.  Although the United States, Britain and Canada are all ‘anglo-saxon’ or, ‘Liberal’ regimes, I found that their public health systems do not correlate with this.  When is comes to health care, Britain and Canada maintain universal systems, which associate better with the Social Democrat Model of Capitalist Regime while the US in fact, identifies with Esping-Andersons’ description of a ‘liberal’ means-tested program.  I have selected these three nations because I wanted to understand if Esping-Anderson was correct when he clustered these three nations together although they have distinctive differences in social policy.  I will begin by defining the concepts of the ‘welfare state’ and the ‘liberal regime’ capitalist welfare model.  I will then discuss Health Care in the United States, Canada and Britain which, will illustrate why I have concluded that the ‘liberal regime’ cluster is inadequate and inaccurate.

Louise Hendrickson Presents the following papers: Panel 01. 02  - Transnational Migration in Comparative Perspectives Paper - The Impacts of Assimilation Abstract: What factors aid an immigrant group in assimilating into a new country? How much does education, command of the countries main language and ethnicity and background come into play? How does the promise of citizenship and or naturalization play into the speed that one becomes an active member of society? In order to answer these questions, I will examine the immigration and assimilation of Russians into Germany. Russian immigrants to Germany are separated by their ethnicity as a Russian, namely the divide is between Ethnic Russians of Russian decent, Ethnic Germans from Russia and Russian Jews. Each group has faced various issues while immigrating to Germany, all of which will be addressed in this paper.

Julia Jenkins Presents the following papers: Panel 20. 04  - Changing Political Science for the Better: Assessing the Pedagogy of Political Science Paper - Addressing a Crisis of Democracy Through Political Socialization in Secondary and Post-Secondary Education

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