Selected Conference Presentations:
Property Rights, the Common Good, and the State: Making Catholic
Values ‘Street Legal,’presented at the Fourth Annual Symposium on
Catholic Social Thought and the Law, Villanova University
School of Law, October 15, 2007.
Catholic Social Values and Market Economies: The Politics of the
‘Indirect Employer,’ presented at the annual meeting of the
Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia,
November 11, 2007.
Successful Legislative Internships: The Intern Perspective,
American Political Science Association, Teaching
and learning Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, February
12, 2007.
A Preferential Option for the Poor and American Political
Culture, presented at the Fourth Annual Symposium on Catholic
Social Thought and the Law, Villanova University School of
Law, October 26, 2006.
Catholic Norms of Economic Justice and American Political
Culture, presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern
Political Science Association, Boston, November 11,
2006.
The Price of Reform: Evaluating the Brennan Center
Recommendations for Changing the NewYork State Legislature, the
annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science
Association, Boston, November 18, 2005.
Regionalism and State Education Spending: The Politics of
Inequity, presented at the annual meeting of the
Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston,
November 11, 2004.
Education Aid in New York: The Limits of Legislative Politics,
presented at the annual meeting of the New YorkState
Political Science Association, Binghamton, New York, April 24,
2004.
Informing experiential trees with academic forests: the role of
traditional academics in legislative internships, presented at the
annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, 2003.
American Political Culture and the Politics of Redistribution,
presented at the annual meeting of the New YorkState
Political Science Association, Staten Island, New York, April
11, 2003.
The Vagabond Who’s Rapping on Your Door’: Redistributive Policy
and Intergovernmental Relations, presented at the annual meeting of
the Vincentian Society for Social Justice, Jamaica, New
York 2001.
Equity in State Education Funding: Money Doesn’t Talk, It
Swears presented at the annual meeting of the Vincentian
Society for Social Justice, Jamaica,New York, 1999.
Public Sector Internships: Problems in Recruiting, Keeping
and Protecting Qualified Undergraduates,” A workshop at the annual
meeting of the New YorkStateCooperative
and Experiential Education Association,
Tarrytown, New York, October 1998.
Empowering and Professionalizing City Councils: The Case of
New York, presented at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs
Association, Toronto, Canada, April
1997.
More than an Impression: the New York City Council Since 1989,
presented at the annual meeting of the New York State Political
Science Association, New York, April 1995.
Balancing Citywide and Community Interests: The Politics of
'Fair Share Siting" presented at the annual meeting of the
Urban Affairs Association, New Orleans, March, 1994.