Participation at Scholarly Conferences
Papers Presented
Turner, Robert C. 2006. The Political Economy of Trophy Industrial Recruitment
Projects, Presented at the State Politics and Policy Conference, Lubbock, TX,
May 19-20.
Turner, Petria Fleming and Ben Kaufman. 2006. The Political Economy of Trophy
Industrial Recruitment Projects, Presented at the Northeast Political Science
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 12-14.
Turner, R. and M. Cassell. 2005. The Expansion of the Ohio Enterprise Zone Program:
Can Poor Communities Compete? Presented at the 2005 State Politics and Policy
Conference, Lansing, MI, May 13-14.
Turner and Cassell, 2005. When Do States Pursue Redistributive Economic
Development Policies? The Adoption and Implementation of State Enterprise
Zone Programs, presented at the Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago.
Turner and Cassell, Who Benefits When Enterprise Zones Are Zoned-Out? The Case of
the Ohio Enterprise Zone Program, Presented at the Southern Political Science
Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 4-7.
Turner R. and M. Cassell. 2004 State Enterprise Zone Programs: A study of the
challenges and conditions for maintaining a targeted economic development
program Presented at the Annual Meeting of the State Politics and Policy,
Cuyahoga Falls, OH April 30 and May 1.
Turner, R. and M. Cassell. 2004. The Partisan Dimension of Economic Development
Policy: The Adoption and Expansion of State Enterprise Programs Presented at
the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New
Orleans, LA, January 6-10, 2004.
Cassell, M. and Turner, R. 2003. The Impact of State Institutions on the Targeting of
State Economic Development Policies and How It Matters: The Case of
Enterprise Zones. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, PA., August 28-31.
Turner, R and Beau Breslin, The Impact of Female State Chief Judges on the
Administration of State Courts, paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2003.
Turner, R and Beau Breslin, The Impact of Female State Chief Judges on the
Administration of State Courts, paper presented at the annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2003.
Market Driven versus Government Driven Strategies for Manufacturing Revitalization,
paper presented at Western Political Science Association, April 2002, Long
Beach, CA.
A Framework for Cluster Based Economic Development Policies, NYSNER Research
Conference, Rockefeller Institute of Government, December 2001
Evaluating the Entrepreneurial State: The Effectiveness of State Economic Development
Policies from 1988-1998, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, May 2001, San Francisco, CA.
Industrial Recruitment as a Vote Maximizing Strategy. Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, 2000, Chicago, IL.
Inter-Firm Collaboration as a Strategy for Manufacturing Revitalization, Wisconsin
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, October 1999
Competing Models of Regional Industrial Policy: The Wisconsin Regional Training
Partnership and the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center, October
1997, UW Economic Sociology Workshop.
The Potential of Regional Industrial Policy: The Case of the Wisconsin Regional
Training Partnership, April 1997, Midwest Political Science Association Annual
Meeting
Evaluating the Entrepreneurial State: The Effectiveness of State Economic Development
Policies from 1988-1992. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association 1996.
Going Public Then and Now: The Consequences and Determinants of Presidential
Speechmaking, March 1996, Midwest Political Science Association Annual
Meeting
Discussant/Chair
Discussant, State Policy and Politics, at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2005.
Discussant for panel, State Policy Choices, at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2003.
Discussant, Public Policy and Inequality, annual meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, April 2003.
Chair/Discussant, State Bureaucratic Activities, Midwest Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, March 2002
Chair/Discussant, State Interest Group Activities, American Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, September 2002
Chair/Discussant, Politics in the States: Re-Examination of Basic Principles, Northeast
Political Science Association Fall 2001
Chair/Discussant, Policy Networks, American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Fall 2000