2004 OPSA Annual Meeting

Northeastern State University

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

November 4-5

Keynote Speaker for Thursday Evening:

Governor George Nigh

Check this web site for details as they become available.

Program Chair:  Mike Sharp

President:  Keith Eakins

The annual meeting of OPSA will be held at Northeastern State University, University Center, November 4-5, 2004.

Conference Panels

Political Theory and Politics

11:45-12:45 Board Luncheon Ballroom

1:00-2:20 Political Theory and Politics

Panel 1 Chair: David Livingstone, Northeastern State University

Room 223

1. The Oklahoma Constitution and Political Theory

Quinton Taylor, Rogers State University

2. The Relationship between Property and Virtue in Locke, Christina Elwell, University of Dallas

3. Title TBA, Joseph Postell, University of Dallas

4. Socrates, Political Philosophy and Eros, Matthew Hansbauer, University of Dallas

5. Founding Human Nature: An Investigation of the Federalist Papers, Matthew King, University of Dallas

2:00-4:00 Snacks courtesy of TBA 2nd Floor

2:30-3:50 Local Government: Challenges in Looking to the Future

Panel 2 Chair: Brian Rader, Northeastern State University, President of

Room 223 Taqhlequah City Council

Discussants:

Roger Ballenger, County Commissioner Okmulgee County

Chris Butler, Vice Mayor and Councilman; Wilburton Chair of History & Political Science Department of Eastern Oklahoma State College

Doug Hubbard, County Commissioner Cherokee County

Bruce Mahaffey, Executive Director of Eastern Oklahoma Development District, Muskogee County

Rodney Ray, City Manager of Owasso

James Davenport, University of Central Oklahoma & staff member of County Commissioner Stan Inman

Panel 3 Student Panel

Room 224 Chair: Christine Pappas, East Central University

1. Native American Political Participation in Oklahoma

Thomas Pack

4:00-6:00 Hospitality Time 2nd Floor

7:00 Governor George Nigh Ballroom

Keynote Address

8:00-8:45 General Business Meeting Ballroom

9:00-10:20

Panel 4 Roundtable on Judicial Politics

Room 223 Chair: Justin Halpern, Northeastern State University

Discussants:

Bob Darcy, Oklahoma State University

Christine Pappas, East Central University

Phil Simpson, Cameron University

Room 224

Chair: Steve Housel, University of Oklahoma

1. Keating, Dreyfus, Dilantin, and the Prisoners

Jeanette Nance, University of Central Oklahoma

2. Annexation and Oklahoma Municipalities

Curtis Thomas, Oklahoma Municipal League

3. Reinventing Human Resources Management in State Governments

Steve Housel

Discussant: Brett Sharp, University of Central Oklahoma

Panel 6 Chair: Penny Pardoe, Northeastern State University

Room 223

1. The Reconstruction of Iraq,

Meshack Sagine, Langston University

2. The Bush Foreign Policy

Larry Eberhardt, Oklahoma City University

Discussant: Graden Napier, Tulsa Community College

Panel 7 Chair: Tom Clapper, Oklahoma State Senate Committee Staff

Room 224

Participants:

Richard Johnson, Oklahoma City University

Senator Glenn Coffee, Oklahoma State Senate

Representative Joe Dorman, Oklahoma State House

Pat Hall

Randy Jones, University of Central Oklahoma

Tony Litherland, Oklahoma Baptist University

Brecken A. Wagner

1:30-2:50 Anticipating ‘04 Term Limits

Panel 8 Chair: Rick Farmer, Rick Farmer, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied

Room 223 Politics, University of Akron

1. Democratic Strategies for recruiting, training, funding legislative in light of term limits, Jay Parmley, Chairman, Oklahoma Democratic Party

2. Republican strategies for recruiting, training, funding legislative candidates in light of term limits, Fount Holland, Partner, AH Associates, Consultant to the Oklahoma House Republican Caucus

3. Early resignations, legislators seeking other offices, etc.

Ken Neal, Editorial Editor, Tulsa World

4. Successes and failures in 2004 and implications for the future,

Gary Copeland, Director, The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center

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