Note from the Editor
This edition of Critique is comprised of winning papers from the 16th Annual Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science, held on April 4, 2008. Papers presented by Kimberly Casey, Joanna K. Rozpedowski and co-authors Nilüfer Duygu Eriten and Jennifer Romine were recognized as the best papers in the graduate section. Kristi St. Charles, Ayelet Haran and Kate Ellis received awards in the undergraduate category. We are pleased to be publishing the work of all of these authors. Together, they illustrate the virtues of a broad range of approaches to political problems. As always, we welcome comments on the papers published in this volume.
Kam Shapiro
Editor, Critique
Best Undergraduate Papers
Framing and Debates: The Effects of Media Coverage on Candidate Evaluations
Kristi St. Charles, Northwestern University
National Identity Changing in France: A Case Study of the CAP Wine Reform
Ayelet Haran The City University of New York
On the Home Front Abroad: Domestic Political Influences on Foreign Policy with Cuba
Kate Ellis, Suffolk University
Best Graduate Papers
Defining Political Capital: A Reconsideration of Bourdieu’s Interconvertibility Theory
Kimberly Casey, University of Missouri-St. Louis
From Cosmopolis to Globopolis: The Ramifications of Kantian Thought on the Foundations of the World Order – Communitarianism, Impartialism, Accommodationism
Joanna K. Rozpedowski, University of South Florida
Instrumental and Symbolic Sources of Ethnic Conflict: Application to the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Nilüfer Duygu Eriten and Jennifer Romine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign