Political Studies Association of Ireland Programme for 2013 Annual Conference Trinity College Dublin October 1820
Political Studies Association of Ireland Programme for 2013 Annual Conference Trinity College Dublin October 18-‐20
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Registration FRIDAY in Long Room Hub Building Book Exhibit and Registration Saturday/Sunday in Arts
Building, IIIS Seminar area.
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FRIDAY October 18: Registration from 1pm in Long Room Hub Building
SESSION 1: 2-‐3.30 1.1 ROUND TABLE: NEW MEDIA, NEW POLITICS: SOCIAL
MEDIA AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN NI Neil/Hoey theatre, Long Room Hub Participants:
Niall Ó Dochartaigh ((NUIG)) Orna Young (Institute for Conflict Research)
Paul Reilly (Uni. of Leicester) Alex Kane (Journalist) Mick Fealty (Editor of Slugger O'Toole) Brian J. Spencer (Political blogger and cartoonist) Alan Meban (Political blogger)
1.2 EXPLORATIONS IN PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
Participatory democracy Seminar room (Floor 6.1) 3, College Green Chair: Dawn Walsh Angela Bourne (Roskilde) Banning (and not banning) Sinn Fein
and Batasuna Ibrahim Nateel (Society Voice Foundation) National Identity
Post Conflict Agreements: Northern Ireland and Palestine.
Lesley Lelourec (Rennes 2) Responding to the IRA bombing campaign in mainland Britain: The case of Warrington Shaun McDaid (Huddersfield) The party politics of devolution
and the failure of power sharing in NI during the 1970s
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1.3 VOTERS, PARTIES AND ELECTIONS: Voters Board Room, (Floor 6.1b) 3, College Green Chair: Theresa Reidy Kathleen Knight (Columbia) Authoritarianism in the Irish electorate Paul Redmond (NUIM) An incumbent challenger model of spatial electoral competition Shane Martin, Garry Murphy (DCU) Do voters respond to particularism? Siobhan Graham and John Horgan (DIT) Sean Gallagher's campaign for president in a new media environment
COFFEE/TEA BREAK 3.30-‐4.00 Sponsored by Taylor and Francis, publishers of Irish Political Studies
SESSION 2: 4.00-‐5.30 2.1 PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES : NORTHERN IRELAND:
POST-‐CONFLICT ISSUES Board Room, (Floor 6.1) 3, College Green Chair: Peter McLaughlin Owen Hargie, Dr Ian Somerville and Dr David Mitchell (UU)
Sport and sectarianism in post-‐‘Troubles’ Northern Ireland: A qualitative study of public attitudes
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Timothy White and Andrew Owsiak Xavier, (Georgia) Reconciliation in the NI peace process
Niall Gilmartin (NUIM) Mobilised by conflict yet restricted by peace: the ambiguous transitions of female combatants and the NI peace process
Cera Murtagh (Edinburgh) Navigating a divided landscape: cross community parties in NI Dawn Walsh ((DCU)) The Northern Ireland Parades
Commission -‐ delegation & legitimacy? 2.2 TOPICS IN GENDER POLITICS Seminar room (Floor 6.1b) 3, College Green Chair: Bernadette Connaghton Bernard Banzie (UL) Considering contemporary regional
security: a character of constructing the new Africa Gillian Wylie (TCD) The international politics of human
trafficking: exploring the life cycle of a global norm Marian Jennings (DIT) If Lehman Brothers were Lehman
Sisters: The case for the introduction of affirmative action measures to increase the participation of women on corporate boards
2.3 ROUND TABLE: POLITICAL OPINION POLLING IN IRELAND
TODAY Neil/Hoey theatre, Long Room Hub Chair: Jane Suiter Richard Colwell (REDC) Roger Jupp (Millward Brown) Damien Loscher (IPSOS mrbi) Ian McShane (Behaviour and Attitudes)
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5.45-‐7.00 MIRIAM O'CALLAGHAN WILL LAUNCH THE SPECIAL
ISSUE OF IPS ON GENDER POLITICS: Neil/Hoey theatre, Long Room Hub
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SATURDAY October 19: Book Exhibition and Registration from 8.45am in IIIS Seminar Room Area
SESSION 1: 9-‐10.30 3.1 THE EU AND THE DYNAMICS OF A CHANGING IRISH
POLITY Room 4047 Arts Building Chair: Brendan Flynn Mary Ellen Lyons (UL) The Europeanisation of Social Inclusion:
An Examination of the EU’s Impact on Irish Politics, Policy and Polity
John O’Brennan (NUIM) The Oireachtas and European Affairs: Finally learning to 'play the European game'
Gavin Barrett (UCD) The Use of Referendums in Ireland: Looking Back in a Time of Fiscal Crisis
Alan Greer (West of England) The Common Agricultural Policy and the EU budget: Stasis or Change?
Will Phelan (TCD) The Troika: The Interlocking Roles of Commission v Luxembourg & Belgium, Van Gend en Loos, and Costa v Enel in the Creation of the European Legal Order
3.2 DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Room 5025 Arts Building Chair:TBA Ken McDonagh (DCU) Identity and security practice: Evidence from the frontlines
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Michael Breen and Robert Gillanders (DCU), Aalto University Effective institutions? Attitudes toward the IMF and World Bank in sub-‐Saharan Africa Niamh Gaynor (DCU) A nation in a hurry': constructing a developmental state in Rwanda Priyanka Talwar (DCU) Securitising Kashmir: the Indian State's discourses on Kashmir 1989-‐2010 Vincent Durac (UCD) Electoral politics and democratisation in Yemen after the uprising Walt Kilroy (DCU) Can programmes for reintegrating ex-‐combatants be implemented in a participatory way? Evidence from Liberia 3.3 WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY Room 5033 Arts Building Chair: Fiona Buckley Aurelie Sicard, Eileen Connolly (DCU) Assessing the impact of UNSCR1324 on elite discourse in Sierra Leone Emma Brannlund (NUIG) Gender, identity and In/Security narratives in Kashmir John Agberagba (TCD) Gender, peace building and conflict resolution in the Benue valley, Nigeria Senead Walsh (TCD) Women's peace activism in non-‐democratic states: the implication for UNSCR1325 in Azerbaijan
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3.4 THE BOSTON COLLEGE TAPES: A CRISIS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY FOR ACADEMICS AND JOURNALISTS? Room 5039 Arts Building Kevin Bean (University of Liverpool) Anthony McIntyre (independent researcher) Paddy Hoey (Edge Hill University). Aaron Edwards (RMA Sandhurst) 3.5 ROUNDTABLE 1 ANALYSES OF 2002-‐2011 ELECTION
STUDIES IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building Chair: Gail McElroy Sean Bowler (UC Riverside), David Farrell (UCD), John Garry
(QUB), James Tilley (Oxford), Robert Thomson (Strathclyde), Ken Benoit (LSE)
COFFEE/TEA BREAK 10.30-‐11.00
Floor 6, Arts Building, outside IIIS Semnar Room Sponsored by RED C Research & Marketing Ltd
SESSION 2: 11.00-‐12.30 4.1 US REBALANCE TOWARDS THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION
AND THE FUTURE OF IR THEORY/FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS
Room 4047 Arts Building Chair: TBA
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Andrew Cottey UCC The US and Europe: America's Asia pivot and beyond
Natasha Underhill (UU) The US pivot: a pivot too soon? Niall Duggan Gottingen Threat or a peaceful rise: China's role
international relations in the light of the US's rebalancing
Paul Gillespie (UCD) The effect of the US pivot towards Asia on Europe-‐Asia relations
4.2 PARTICIPATORY AND DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Room 5033 Arts Building Chair: Clodagh Harris Maureen O'Sullivan (NUIG) Legal anarchism from the global
south: what can Ireland learn from Brazil's participatory budget?
Nita Mishra UCC Rights based approaches to development of rural communities in Odisha, India
Anna Vissar (UCD) Civil society organisation advocacy: a necessary condition for participatory democracy
Vanessa Liston TCD Can Q-‐method help local governments understand conflict?
4.3 COMPARATIVE POLICY STUDIES Room 5039 Arts Building Chair: David Farrell Donley Studlar, Gordon Burns (Strathclyde, West Virginia)
Comparative morality policy processes in advanced industrial democracies: is IT Europe vs. the Rest,
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Religious vs. Secular party systems or US exceptionalism?
Muiris MacCarthaigh, Katharine Dommet, Matthew Flinders (QUB) Sheffield, Sheffield Quangocide in comparative perspective: assessing state agency rationalisations in Ireland and the UK
Chris McInerney (UL) Beyond Recession – Challenging the role of public administration in building a just society
4.4 POLITICAL THEORY Room 5052 Arts Building Chair: Peter Stone Giuseppe Montalbano (LUISS Rome) The concept of 'historic
bloc' in Robert W. Cox's works: some preliminary remarks
Peter Stone (TCD) Democracy and Good Government Stacia Beiniks (UL) Why normative power is not power Thomas Murray (UCD) Economic origins of the Irish
constitution 4.5 VOTERS, PARTIES AND ELECTIONS: Elections IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building Chair: Gary Murphy Iain McMenamin, Michael Breen, Juan Munoz-‐Portillo (DCU)
Elections and sovereign debt: the European crisis in a wider context
Martin Oculi (UCD) Quality of Governance and Incumbents Performance: Re-‐conceptualization of Economic Voting Theory
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Robert Thomson, Rory Costello Strathclyde, (UL) The fulfillment of election pledges in Ireland 1977-‐2011
Teresa Reidy and Jane Suiter UCC, (DCU) Boom and Bust: Economic Voting at the 2011 election
LUNCH SESSION 3: 12.30-‐2.00 BUSINESS MEETINGS OF PSAI SPECIALIST GROUPS 12.30-‐1.15
4047 Participatory and deliberative democracy IIIS Seminar Room: IPS editorial board meeting
1.15-‐2.00 Room 4047 Political Theory Room 5025 Gender Politics Room 5033 European Studies Room 5039 Teaching and Learning Room 5052 Public Policy IIIS Seminar Room Voters Parties and Elections
SESSION 4: 2.00-‐3.30 5.1 ROUNDTABLE 2 ANALYSES OF 2002-‐2011 ELECTION
STUDIES IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building Chair: David Farrell Gail McElroy (TCD), Heinz Brandenburg (Aberdeen), Patrick
Bernhagen (Zeppelin), Michael Lewis-‐Beck (Iowa), Kevin Leyden (Galway), Michael Gallagher (TCD)
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5.2 TOPICS IN PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES Room 5052 Arts Building Chair: Bernadette Connaghton Kenneth Bush (Cornell) Challenges to evaluating post conflict
peace building: the Marshall plan of NI 1995-‐2013 Niall O Dochartaigh (NUIG) Negotiating Political Violence in Northern Ireland. Lorenzo Bosi and Donagh Davis Intra-‐movement dynamics around strategic events Julie Yu-‐Wen Chen (UCC) The legitimacy and paradox of
international activism to promote the Uyghur right for self determination
5.3 IRISH REPUBLICANISM: MOTIVATIONS, ASPIRATIONS
AND ORGANISING PRINCIPLES Room 5039 Arts Building Chair: Peter McLoughlin Jon Tonge Liverpool Kevin Bean Liverpool Marisa McGlinchy Coventry Stephen Hopkins Leicester the politics of life writing by ex-‐
provisional republicans F. Stuart Ross (independent scholar) John O'Connor (Central Connecticut State University) Back to the Future? Moves Toward a Post-‐GFA Socialist Republicanism
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5.4 COMPARATIVE POLICY STUDIES Room 5033 Arts Building Chair: Gary Murphy Anar Koli Tsukuba The global environmental policy network in
Japan Erica Consterdine Sussex I can’t stop the change, the change
is happening: Immigration policy change and party politics.
Lavanya Suresh ISEC Bangalore A study of the institutions of decentralised forest resource management
Lisa Kiely UL Understanding quality early childhood care and education in Ireland
5.5 ELITE RECRUITMENT IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH Room 5025 Arts Building Chair: Fiona Buckley Clare McGing, Fiona Buckley (NUIM, UCC) Revisiting Bochel
and Denver in an Irish context Diarmud Scully (UL) Family Business – Hereditary Politics in
the Republic of Ireland Adrian Kavanagh (NUIM) Reviewing local election candidate
selection strategies ahead of the 2014 elections
COFFEE/TEA BREAK 3.30-‐4.00 SPONSORED BY MANCESTER UNIVERSTY PRESS
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SESSION 5 4.00-‐5.30 6.1 REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON UK MEMBERSHIP OF THE
EU: THE CASE OF NORTHERN IRELAND Room 5052 Arts Building Chair: Peter McLoughlin Mary Murphy (UCC) The (Unintended) Consequences of the
Evolving Northern Ireland-‐EU Relationship for the United Kingdom
Lee McGowan and David Phinnemore (QUB) Perspectives on UK Membership of the EU: The Case of Northern Ireland
Maire Braniff (UU) The European Union, Peace and Northern Ireland: Instrumentalising Peace and the Challenges of Funding Reconciliation
Kathryn Simpson (Kent) The misleading case of the Republic of Ireland: Inequality and support for the EU
6.2 BREAKING PATTERNS OF CONFLICT IN NI Room 5039 Arts Building Chair: Kevin Bean Joe Ruane and Jennifer Todd (UCC, UCD) A historical-‐
structural approach to conflict and settlement Katy Hayward and Eoin Maginnis (QUB), Intertrade: the
business of building peace: private sector cooperation across the Irish border
Paul Gillespie (UCD) Complex interdependence and the changing British-‐Irish relationship
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Susan McDermott (UCD) Changing Irish government approaches to the NI conflict
John Coakley (UCD/QUB) The British-‐Irish relationship and its institutional architecture
6.3 TOPICS IN GENDER POLITICS Room 5033 Arts Building Chair: Claire McGing Eilis Ward (NUIG) Feminism and the politics of neo-‐
abolitionism Jennifer Thompson ( QML) Religious moral issues in
contemporary Northern Irish politics Michelle O'Donnell Keating (DCU) Exploring the impact of IMF
programmes on maternal health Phyllis Coakley (UCC) Underrepresentation of women in
contemporary Irish Politics 6.4 VOTERS, PARTIES AND ELECTIONS: Parties IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building Chair: Theresa Reidy David Farrell and Conor Little (UCD, Keele) Electoral failure
and organisational change: the case of FF Ken Carty (UBC: Peter Mair lecturer for 2013) FF, a
comparative analysis Kevin Cunningham (TCD) Candidate demographics and local
elections Liam Weeks (UCC) Stuck in the colonial past? The Irish party
system in comparative perspective
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Ewan McDonald, Roger Sherlock and John Horgan (DIT) The brand equity of Irish political parties
Michael Courtney and Jennifer Kavanagh (TCD) A representative democracy perspective on parliamentary speaking time arrangements
6.5 IDENTITIES IN NI Room 4047 Arts Building Chair: Timothy White Paul Nolan (The Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Survey)
We are all minorities now Jon Tonge (Liverpool) Are the NI becoming more 'Northern
Irish'? Examining the recent survey evidence Cathal McManus (QUB) Imagining the imagined community: the Irish language and national identity in NI James McAuley (Huddersfield) Contemporary Loyalist narratives, collective memory and shared future AGM PSAI 6.00-‐7.30 IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building
DINNER: 8PM The Exchequer Room,
Fallon & Byrne, 11-‐17 Exchequer St.
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SUNDAY October 20 SESSION 1: 9.30-‐11.00 7.1 RENEWING LOCAL GOVERNMENT: DEMOCRACY AND EFFICIENCY. Room 4052 Arts Building Chair: Aodh Quinlivan Vanessa Liston (TCD) Harnessing technology for improved
public consultations: The impact of an online submissions innovation in Kilkenny
Brid Quinn (UL) Are we there yet? Reforming Ireland’s local government system
Ronan Murphy -‐ Enterprise, innovation and the role of modern local government in driving economic growth: Evidence from Irish local government
Deiric O’Broin (DCU) Is it time for local industrial policy in Ireland?
7.2 IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1325 ON WOMEN PEACE AND
SECURITY: PLACING IRISH EXPERIENCE IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Room 4039 Arts Building Chair: Fiona Buckley Alex de la Torre (QUB) Uses and misuses of UNSCR1325 in
Columbia and NI from the perspective of women's civil society organisations
Claire Pierson (UU) Opening a dialogue on peace and security
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Melanie Hoewer (UCD) Addressing legacies of conflict Ronan Kennedy (UCD) UNSCR1325 and post-‐conflict
governance 7.2 BRITISH COUNTER-‐INSURGENCY IN HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE Room 4025 Arts Building Chair: TBA Aaron Edwards (Sandhurst) Dabbling in the Black Art of
Counter-‐insurgency? Comparing the Role of the Parachute Regiment in Aden and Northern Ireland
Samantha Newbery (Salford) The British military’s role in intelligence gathering by interrogation in Aden (1963-‐7) and Northern Ireland (1971)
Tony Craig (Staffordshire) From Counter Subversion to Counter Insurgency -‐ Comparing MI5 operations in British Guiana, Aden and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights crisis 1968-‐1970
7.4 THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN IRELAND IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building Chair: Bernadette Connaghton Bernadette Connaghton (UL) The challenges and
opportunities of joint curriculum development projects Clodagh Harris and Brid Quinn (UCC, UL) TB Tools, techniques
and traits in the teaching of politics in Ireland Jacqueline Hayden (TCD) Teaching and assessment strategies
to promote critical thinking
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Sharon Feeney, John Horgan and Paul Donnelly (DIT) Interpreting undergraduate understanding of Irish politics through freehand drawings
COFFEE/TEA BREAK 11.00-‐11.30 Sponsored by Parliamentary Affairs
SESSION 2: 11.30-‐1.00 8.1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TOPICS Room 4052 Arts Building Chair: Brendan Flynn Patrick Ireland New Irish immigrants in Australia, Canada and
NZ Thomas Hennessy (Kent) A special relationship? The politics of
Anglo-‐American relations during the Korean war 8.3 ACTORS AND STRUCTURES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Room 4039 Arts Building Chair: Bernadette Connaughton Bernadette Connaughton (UL) Reconfiguring the role of
ministers' minders? Emmanuelle Schon-‐Quinlivan (UCC) The Troika in Ireland
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Julie Connolly (UCC) Examining the administrative culture of 'street level' bureaucrats and professionals working within social policy.
Karl O'Connor (Glasgow Caledonian University) The role of elite level bureaucrats in sustaining power-‐sharing regimes: a case for the theory of representative bureaucracy
8.3 HOW TO GET PUBLISHED: PITFALLS AND THE POSITIVES
OF WRITING ACADEMIC PROPOSALS. IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Building
with Tony Mason of Manchester UnIversity Press.