Program for the
2002 Policy History Conference
Sponsored by the Journal of Policy History
May 30 – June 2, 2002
St. Louis, Missouri
Thursday,
May30, 3:00-4:30 p.m.; GALLERY I
Keynote
Panel: Mainsprings of America: Institutions Meet Culture
Chair:
DAVID ROBERTSON,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Discussants:
JANE DE HART, University of
California, Santa Barbara
JAMES MORONE, Brown University
ROGERS SMITH, University of
Pennsylvania
BYRON SHAFER, University of
Wisconsin
Thursday,
May 30, 5:00-6:30 p.m.; GALLERY I
Keynote
Panel: Institutionalizing Cultures of
Gender in U.S. Social Policy
Chair:
MICHAEL BERNSTEIN, University of
California, San Diego
Paper:
ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS,
Columbia University
Discussants:
LINDA GORDON, New York University
ROGERS SMITH,
University of Pennsylvania
Friday,
May 31, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VII
To
Burn or Not to Burn? Plague-Fighting
Policies and the Fate of Two Chinatowns:
Honolulu and San Francisco in 1900
Chair/Comment:
DANIEL FOX, Millbank Memorial Fund
Papers:
Especially in Such a
Multicultural Society, Why Was Honolulu’s Chinatown Burned in 1900?
JAMES MOHR ,
University of Oregon
No Burning: Race, Public Health, and Civil Rights in San
Francisco’s Chinatown, 1900
GUENTER RISSE, University of California,
San Francisco
Comment:
CARL AMERINGER, University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh
Friday,
May 31, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY IV
World
War II and the Politics of Liberalism, Sacrifice, and Rights
Chair/Comment:
WILLIAM CHILDS, Ohio State University
Papers:
USDA Liberals and the Fight to Win the Post-World War
II Peace at Home and Abroad
DAVID
HAMILTON, University of Kentucky
Rights
and Gun-Sights: African-Americans,
Military Service, and the Quest for Civil Rights in
the
Twentieth Century
RONALD KREBS, Harvard University
Complicating Collective Memories of
Wartime Sacrifice: Post-September 11
Lessons from the
World
War II Home Front
MARK LEFF, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Friday,
May 31, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VI
Economic
Actors and the Modern American State:
The Political Economy of Public Finance, Radio Regulation, and
Private-Pension Reforms
Friday,
May 31, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY I
Democracy
in America: New Directions in American
Political History
Panel
1: Revolution – Gilded Age
Chair:
MEG
JACOBS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Papers:
Affairs of Office:
The Jacksonian Ascendancy and the Dismantling of the Early American
State
RICHARD R. JOHN, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in
Nineteenth-Century America
WILLIAM NOVAK, University of Chicago
Democracy in the Age of Capital: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New
York
SVEN BECKERT, Harvard University
Comment:
WILLIAM RORABAUGH, University of
Washington
Friday,
May 31, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY IV
Paper:
Policy History and the Causal Impact of Slavery
ROBIN EINHORN, University of California, Berkeley
Discussants:
MARGO ANDERSON,
University of Wisconsin
RICHARD R. JOHN, University of Illinois, Chicago
New
Perspectives on Welfare Reform
Chair/Comment:
ALICE O’CONNOR,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Papers:
Making Groceries the Louisiana Way: Food Stamps in Post-Jim Crow New Orleans
KENT GERMANY,
University of Virginia
Guaranteed Adequate Income versus
the Family Assistance Plan: Welfare
Mothers and Public
Policy
in the Nixon Era
FELICIA KORNBLUH, Duke
University
ANDREW MORRIS,
University of Virginia
Friday,
May 31, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY VI
Interest
Groups as Policy Actors
Chair:
ROGAN KERSH,
Yale University
Papers:
Business as Political Actor in the United States: Theory, Practice, and the Relation (If Any)
Between
the Two Since 1950
DAVID M. HART, Harvard
University
Putting
Smokers First: Organized Labor’s
Alliance with Big Tobacco
GARY MCKISSICK, Tufts University
Lobbyists
in Health Policymaking: Past, Present,
and Future
ROGAN KERSH, Yale
University
Friday,
May 31, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY VII
Between
Science and Culture: Demographers and
the Search for Population Policy in Twentieth-Century America and China
Chair/Comment:
HAMILTON CRAVENS, Iowa State University
Papers:
The
Eugenic Origins and Keynesian Legacy of the 1930s Quest for Population Policy
DEREK
HOFF, University of Virginia
Science, Controversy and Population Policy in the
United States: The Committee on
Population
Problems,
the Committee on Population, and the Commission on Population Growth and the
American
Future
ED RAMSDEN, European University Institute (Italy)
A
History of Family Limitation in China:
Culture, Policy, and Technology
BOB WYMAN, Yale University
Friday,
May 31, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; GALLERY VII
Public
Housing Tenants in the Postwar Era:
Views from Philadelphia and San Francisco
Chair/Comment:
GAIL RADFORD, State University of New
York, Buffalo
Papers:
From Rehabilitation to Warehousing: Public Housing, Social Reform, and the
Construction of
Race
THERESA MAH, Bowling Green State University
The
Problem of the Elevator: Tenants’
Experiences in Public Housing in Post-World War II
Philadelphia
LISA LEVENSTEIN,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Out
of Step with Washington: Tenant
Organizing in San Francisco Public Housing, 1968-1976
JOHN BARANSKI, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday,
May 31, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; GALLERY IV
Roundtable
Discussion – Author Meets Critics
Presenter:
DAN CARPENTER, University of Michigan
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks and Policy Innovation
in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928
Discussants:
NICOLA BEISEL,
Northwestern University
RICHARD R. JOHN, University of Illinois, Chicago
Friday,
May 31, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; GALLERY I
Moderator:
WILLIAM
RORABAUGH, University of Washington
Panelists:
PAUL QUIRK,
University of Illinois
BYRON SHAFER,
University of Wisconsin
WILLIAM
RORABAUGH, University of Washington
Comment:
Crime,
Money and Transportation: The
Private/Public Boundary
Chair/Comment:
When Money Fails: Private Provision of Circulating Media in the
United States, 1866-2000
LOREN GATCH, University of Central Oklahoma
State High Courts and American Transportation Policy
During the Jacksonian Decade
RONALD
NELSON, University of Texas, Austin
Friday,
May 31, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY IV
How
Progressive was Progressivism?
Chair:
GERALD BERK,
University of Oregon
Papers:
Did Progressive Reforms Have a Negative Effect on
American Political Development?
JAMES
MCDOWELL, Indiana State University
Municipal Regulation of the Storage and Supply of Fuel
Oil in Progressive Era New Orleans,
1880-1910
JAMES MCSWAIN, Tuskegee
University
Knisley,
Beacom, and Cincinnati Hospital:
Municipal Law and Politics in Progressive Era Ohio
WILLIAM NANCARROW, Boston
College
Commentator:
ELISABETH PERRY, Saint
Louis University
Friday,
May 31, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY VII
The Multiple Roles of Government and Business
Chair/Comment:
JONATHAN BEAN, Southern
Illinois University
Papers:
Telecommunications Policy in Historical
Perspective: A Process of Social
Learning
MICHAEL ZARKIN,
Texas Wesleyan University
Forgiving Our Debtors: The Transformation of Bankruptcy Law in the Twentieth Century
BRADLEY HANSEN, Mary Washington College
Size Matters:
Small Business Policy Since the New Deal
MCGEE
YOUNG, New College of Florida
Friday,
May 31, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY I
The
Politics of Citizenship, Race and Gender
Chair:
JANE DE HART, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Papers:
Interracial Families and American Federalism,
1860s-1960s: Race, Marriage, Law, and
Policy
in
Jim Crow America
PETER WALLENSTEIN, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
Workers,
Breeders and Mothers: Defining
Citizenship in the Congressional Literacy Test Debate,
1896-1897
JEANNE PETIT, Hope College
Cold
War Foreign Policy and the Reconstruction of American Citizenship: Deracializing
Immigration
Law from 1947to 1965
KEITH FITZGERALD, New College of Florida
Friday,
May 31, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY VI
Cultural
and Grassroots Dimensions of Federal Policy:
Relief, Entertainment, and Education in the Depression-Era United States
Motion
Picture Reform Under the Blue Eagle:
Activists, Industry Representatives, and the New
Deal
LEIGH ANN
WHEELER, Bowling Green State University
The
Noble Experiment: The Federal Radio
Commission and Educational Radio
DAVID R. HAUS, JR., Bowling Green State
University
Friday,
May 31, 5:00-6:30; GALLERY I
Keynote
Panel: Policy History in the Real
World: What it Can Do, Should Do, and Cannot
Do
CHAIR:
ELLIS HAWLEY,
University of Iowa
DISCUSSANTS:
IRA KATZNELSON,
Columbia University
Saturday,
June 1, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VII
New
Perspectives on Political Institutions in Public Policy
Chair/Commentator:
PAUL QUIRK, University of Illinois
Papers:
Congressional
Findings: When, Why and How?
GEORGE LANOUE,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Presidential Reorganization and the Transformation of
Public Bureaucracies: Creating HEW,
1952-1955
ANDY WHITFORD,
University of Kansas
Saturday,
June 1, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY I
Ideology,
Bureaucracy and Welfare
Chair/Comment:
ED BERKOWITZ, George
Washington University
Papers:
Policy Collisions and Policy Learning: Social Security and SSI, 1972-1985
JENNIFER
ERKULWATER, University of Richmond
Social Security’s World Role? Jane M. Hoey, Arthur J. Altmeyer and
International Social
Welfare
Efforts, 1942-1948
KATHERINE SEGRUE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Saturday,
June 1, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VI
The
State and Economic Development after World War II: Cold War Politics, Policy Choices, and Prescriptions for Growth
Chair/Commentator:
ALICE O’CONNOR,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Papers:
Public Works and the Postwar World: The Legacies of New Deal Public Works
Programs, 1943-
1956
JASON SMITH, Harvard Business School
National
Policy, Local Initiatives, and Industrial Development in America’s
‘Rustbelt’:
Revitalizing
Mill Creek Valley in St. Louis City, 1950s-1970s
MÁIRE MURPHY,
University of Virginia
From
Sputnik to the Research Park: The ‘City
of Knowledge’ as Economic Development Strategy,
1957-1970
MARGARET O’MARA,
University of Pennsylvania
Saturday,
June 1, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VIII
Swimming
Against the Tide: Women’s Civic
Engagement in Postwar America
Chair/Comment:
ANDREA
FRIEDMAN, Washington University, St. Louis
Papers:
’Not a Separate Species of Animal’: Women’s Political Activism After World War
II
MARIE LABERGE,
University of Delaware
From the ‘Homely Activities’ of Civic Improvement to
Bureaucratic Feminism: Business and
Professional
Women’s Clubs and Policy Formation in the States After World War II
KATHLEEN LAUGHLIN, Metropolitan Stat University
African
American Women in the “Golden Era” of Civic Engagement: The National
Association
of Colored Women’s Clubs in the Mid-20th Century
A. LANETHEA MATHEWS-GARDNER, Syracuse University
Reflections
Two Hundred Years after the Louisiana Purchase, 1803-2002
Chair/Comment:
TIM O’ROURKE, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Papers:
The Louisiana Purchase in Congress
SEAN
THERIAULT, University of Texas, Austin
The Louisiana Purchase and Western Expansion
BARTHOLOMEW SPARROW, University of Texas, Austin
Louisiana Purchase and Presidential Prerogative
RICHARD
DOUGHERTY, University of Dallas
Saturday,
June 1, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY IV
Birth
Control, Euthanasia, and Sex in Public Policy
Chair/Commentator:
NICOLA BEISEL, Northwestern University
Papers:
“Will Abby
Still Like Us?”: Euthanasia and Public
Policy in Modern America
IAN DOWBIGGIN,
University of Prince Edward Island
Sexuality and
AIDS Policy in the Reagan Administration
WILLIAM
TURNER, St. Cloud State University
“It Wasn’t the Pill”:
Reperiodizing the Sexual Revolution
ALAN PETIGNY, University of Florida
Saturday,
June 1, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY VII
Nineteenth-Century
British Policy
Chair:
MARJORIE MORGAN, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
Papers:
The British Parliament and Free Trade after the Repeal
of the Corn Laws
MICHAEL
J. TURNER, University of Sunderland
End of the Protectionist Party: Derby, Disraeli and the Budgets of 1852
DON HEIDENREICH,
Lindenwood University
Political Economy and the Bank Charter Act of 1844
CATHERINE MOLYNEUX, Oxford University
Commentator:
WALTER ARNSTEIN, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Saturday,
June 1, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY I
Foundations
and Public Policy
Chair/Comment:
BYRON SHAFER, University of
Wisconsin
Papers:
The Influence of Philanthropic Foundations on
Public Policy in the United States in the
Twentieth
Century
OLIVIER ZUNZ, University of Virginia
Joining in the Struggle for
Asia: The Rockefeller and Ford
Foundations Commitments to
India
GARY R. HESS,
Bowling Green State University
Saturday,
June 1, 10:15-11:45, a.m.; GALLERY VIII
Federalism
and Twentieth-Century American Social Welfare Policies
Chair/Comment:
DAVID
ROBERTSON, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Papers:
Political Culture and Anti-Poverty Policies in the New
Deal and Great Society
MICHAEL BROWN, University of California, Santa
Cruz
’Fifty Hands on Fifty Triggers’: Economic Interests, Social Policy and the
Logics of American
Federalism
COLIN GORDON, University of Iowa
Federalism,
Work Relief and the New Deal: The
Administration of the Civil Works
Administration
in Los Angeles County
RICHARD LESTER, University
of Missouri, Columbia
Saturday,
June 1, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY VI
Roundtable
Discussion – Gender Equality and Sports:
The Next Frontier
Chair:
EILEEN MCDONAGH, Northeastern University
Papers:
Challenging the Constitutionality of ‘separate but
equal’ Sports Policies
EILEEN MCDONAGH, Northeastern University
The Psychological Liability of ‘separate
but equal’ Sports Policies
NICOLE ZARRETT, University of Michigan
The Political and Economic
Liabilities of ‘separate but equal’ Sports Policies
LEANNE DOHERTY, Simmons College
’Itty Bitty’ Sexism: Challenging the Premise of Women’s Sports
Inferiority
LAURA PAPPANO, Northeastern University
Discussant:
AUDIENCE
Saturday,
June 1, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; GALLERY VIII
American
Politics and Policy Development
Chair/Comment:
ED
BERKOWITZ, George Washington University
Papers:
Political Economy of the Minimum Wage in the
US, 1935-2001
DANIEL
GITTERMAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Organized Interests and the National Policymaking
Process, 1870-1926
DANIEL TICHENOR, Rutgers
University
RICHARD HARRIS, Rutgers University
The
Nationalization of Criminal Justice in the United States
MARIE GOTTSCHALK,
University of Pennsylvania
Saturday,
June 1, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; GALLERY VII
New Interpretations
of the National Environmental Policy Act, 1969-1970
Chair:
ALONZO HAMBY, Ohio University
Papers:
With Friends Like These…: NEPA, The Clean Water Act of 1972, and Conflicting Visions of
Pollution
Control Regulation in the Environmental Era
PAUL MILAZZO, Ohio University
The
National Environmental Policy Act of 1970:
Toward Responsive Law?
JOSH ASHENMILLER,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Commentator:
HAL
ROTHMAN, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Saturday,
June 1, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; GALLERY IV
Labor,
Politics and Policy
Chair/Comment:
LARRY GERBER, Auburn University
Papers:
Political Development and Political Change: The Case of Universal Labor Standards in the
United
States
STEPHEN AMBERG, University of
Texas
Organizational
Change and Expansion: The Expansion of
NLRB State and Regional
Representation
DIANE SCHMIDT, California
State University, Chico
MICHELE HOYMAN, University of North Carolina
Not Just an Eight-Hour Day: Trade Union Women, Politics, and Labor Policy in California,
1910-1927
DANIELLE SWIONTEK, University of California, Santa Barbara
Saturday,
June 1, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY VII
Crises
and Reconstructions in Public Philosophy
Chair:
HAMILTON CRAVENS, Iowa State University
Papers:
New Deal Planning as a Discourse of Democracy and
Nation
MARY FURNER, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Whose Hubris?
Brandeis, Scientific Management and the Railroads
GERALD BERK, University of Oregon
Comment:
JESSICA WANG, University of
California, Los Angeles
Saturday,
June 1, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY I
Democracy
in America: New Directions in American
Political History
Chair/Comment:
STEVEN GILLON, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
The Possibility of Analytical Political History
IRA KATZNELSON,
Columbia University
The Case for Courts:
Law and Political Development in the Progressive Era
MICHAEL WILLRICH, Brandies University
“Mirrors of Desire”:
Interest Groups, Elections and the Targeted Style Between the World Wars
BRIAN BALOGH,
University of Virginia
Pocketbook Politics:
Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America
MEG JACOBS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saturday,
June 1, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY IV
What
Happened to the New Deal?
Chair/Comment:
ALONZO HAMBY, Ohio University
Papers:
Consumption as Economic Stimulus From the Civil
Works Administration to Market Patriotism
ROBERT
LEIGHNINGER, Arizona State University
Re-Thinking the History of Public Housing: The 1937 Housing Act and its Early
Administration
D. BRADFORD HUNT, Roosevelt University
New
Deal Public Assistance Programs in Arizona:
Politics, Ethnicity and Professionalism
LESLIE
LEIGHNINGER, Arizona State University
Saturday,
June 1, 3:15-4:45 p.m.; GALLERY VIII
DONALD
T. CRITCHLOW, Saint Louis University
Papers:
Model City:
The War on Poverty, Race Relations, and Catholic Social Activism in
1960s
Pittsburgh
KEN HEINEMAN, Ohio
University
Ideas
Do Have (Some) Consequence:
Conservatives Discover Policy
GREG SCHNEIDER, Emporia State University
Sunday, June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.;
GALLERY IV
Reconsidering
Public Policy in the 19th Century
Chair/Comment:
LOREN
GATCH, University of Central Oklahoma
Papers:
Policy Reform in the United States and France During
the Nineteenth Century
TIMOTHY
ROBERTS, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Military Procurement During the Civil War
MARK WILSON, University of Chicago
Resisting Reform:
Late Nineteenth Century Poor Relief Battles
STEPHEN PIMPARE,
City University of New York
Slave Trading and Civil Liberties: The Civil War, NY
City Politics, and Lincoln’s Extradition
Policy
Toward Slave Traders
THOMAS COX, State University of New York, Buffalo
Sunday,
June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VI
Public
Policy at War
Sunday,
June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.; GALLERY VIII
Historical
Perspectives on Public Policy from Nixon to Clinton
Chair/Comment:
ED BERKOWITZ, George
Washington University
Papers:
The Nixon Administration and the Origins of
Affirmative Action
KEVIN
YUILL, Sunderland University
Unfettering the Market: Reagan’s Administrative Presidency and Pollution Control
DANIEL COOK,
City University of New York
Sunday,
June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY IV
Faith
and Welfare: Evaluating Faith-Based Initiatives
Chair/Comment:
LEONARD
MOORE, McGill University
Papers:
Preaching Poverty Relief: The Old Religious Right and the Battle Over Social Welfare in
Depression Era California
MATTHEW
SUTTON, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Hidden History of Faith-Based Social Policy
Initiatives: The War on Poverty and the
Opportunities
Industrialization Centers Movement
GUIAN MCKEE, University
of California, Berkeley
Sunday,
June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY VI
National
Policies and International Resources for Latin America in the 20th
Century: A Review of Ideas, Strategies
and Actors
Chair/Comment:
EDUARDO SILVA, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Papers:
Economic
Nationalism and External Technology:
The United States and the Industrialization
Process
of Mexico and Chile, 1900-1970
GUILLERMO GUAJARDO, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Debt
Crises and the Origins of Latin American Policy Shifts, 1925-2001
MICHAEL MONTEÓN, University
of California, San Diego
The Path from Neostructuralism
to Neoliberalism in Brazil:
Policy-Making and the Economists
at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Rio De Janeiro, 1980-2000
DANIEL KERNER,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sunday,
June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.; GALLERY VIII
Race
and Public Policy
Chair/Comment:
TODD
SWANSTROM, Saint Louis University
Papers:
Urban Renewal or ‘Negro Removal’? Race, Class, and the Federal Bulldozer
JOSEPH
HEATHCOTT, Saint Louis University
“If all of the Other States Treated the Negro as well
as Louisiana”: Race and Health Policy
in
the
Murray-Wagner-Dingell Bill Hearings, 1938-1946
KAREN KRUSE THOMAS, University
of Minnesota
Kenneth
Clark, Black Politics, and Educational Reform in Washington, DC, 1970-1971
DAMON FREEMAN, Indiana University
Religious
Rights and Racial Wrongs in Mobile, Alabama
ROBERT RUBIN, Indiana University
Comment:
ROBERT BENTLEY ANDERSON, Saint Louis University