NEWS Wyn Grant, President, Political Studies Association The executive committee of the International Political Science Association will hold its next executive committee meeting concurrently with the Political Studies Association conference in Bath. This will bring some leading world political scientists to the conference. The IPSA Executive will have a busy agenda, including firming up plans for the next IPSA congress in Santiago, Chile in 2009. A key part of IPSA’s role is reaching out to political scientists in the Global South and helping the subject’s development there. The congress in Santiago should give a boost to political science in Latin America which suffered from the years of military dictatorship in many countries there and the consequent exile of social scientists overseas. The IPSA executive will also be organising the From top left to right: Helen Milner, Executive Committee, IPSA; Professor Hideo Otake, Executive Committee, IPSA; Professor Lourdes Sola, President, IPSA; Professor Max Kaasa, Executive Committtee, IPSA first interim conference scheduled to be held in Montreal in 2008 which will provide a new focus for the organisation’s Research Committees. The current IPSA president, Professor Lourdes Sola, is from Brazil and she will be presenting the prizes at the Political Studies Association annual dinner. She is professor of political science at the University of Sao Paolo. She obtained her PhD in political science at Oxford University in 1982 and has served two terms as president of the Brazilian Political Science Association. Her research has been focused on comparative politics and democratisation and her books in English include The State, Economic Reform and Democratization. [Continued on page 15] interview (by a panel that included Jon Tonge, Martin Smith and Jack Arthurs in addition to pub-sub members). Following lengthy negotiations and much discussion it was finally decided to recommend to the Executive that the bid from Blackwell be accepted and this was agreed. I am grateful to the members of the Association panel for their involvement in making this important (and, as it proved, difficult) decision and also to the short-listed publishers for their patience and the quality of the bids that they made. Although it was a matter over which we agonised a good deal, I am David Denver, Chair, Publications Sub-Committee All of the Political Studies Association journals (Political Studies, Political Studies Review, British Journal of Politics and International Relations and Politics) are currently published on behalf of the Association by Blackwell. This contract comes to an end at the start of 2008, however, and during 2006 the Publications sub-committee invited publishers to bid for the new contract to run from 2008- 13. Competition was gratifyingly fierce and three publishers were short-listed for intensive Content Department News | 2 Title | 2 Title | 3 Title | 4 Time to Confer | 5 Title | 5 Title | 6 Department Profile | 7 Title | 7 Title | 8 Title | 9 Title | 11 Association News | 12 PHD Prize 2007 | 13 Research and Writing Opportunities | 14 Specialist Group News | 14 Title | 15 Title | 16 Title | 16 In Full View | 17 Title | 17 Links with Other Associations | 18 2007 Annual Conference | 19 UCAS figures show that applications to study Politics at UK universities have risen sharply again – the sixth consecutive increase. By 15 January 2007, 23,693 students had applied to study Politics, a very healthy increase of 8.4% (above the average discipline increase of 6%) on the previous year’s total. The number of applicants now makes Politics the 37th most popular (of 82 recorded disciplines) subject for university applications. See June edition of Newsletter for full report. World Political Scientists Convene in Bath Political Studies Association Agrees New Publishing Contract confident that the Association will continue to have an effective and profitable relationship with Blackwell over the lifetime of the new contract. David Denver Politics Undergraduate Numbers Rise Again March 2007 ISSN 0955-6281 Vol. 18 No. 1
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NEWSWyn Grant, President, Political Studies Association TheexecutivecommitteeoftheInternationalPoliticalScienceAssociationwillholditsnextexecutivecommitteemeetingconcurrentlywiththePoliticalStudiesAssociationconferenceinBath. Thiswillbringsomeleadingworldpoliticalscientiststotheconference.TheIPSAExecutivewillhaveabusyagenda,includingfirmingupplansforthenextIPSAcongressinSantiago,Chilein2009.AkeypartofIPSA’sroleisreachingouttopoliticalscientistsintheGlobalSouthandhelpingthesubject’sdevelopmentthere.ThecongressinSantiagoshouldgiveaboosttopoliticalscienceinLatinAmericawhichsufferedfromtheyearsofmilitarydictatorshipinmanycountriesthereandtheconsequentexileofsocialscientistsoverseas.TheIPSAexecutivewillalsobeorganisingthe
The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime and the Implications for Trident On2ndDecember2006theDavidDaviesMemorialInstituteofInternationalStudiesbasedattheDepartmentofInternationalPolitics,Aberystwyth,co-hostedaconferenceentitled‘Multilateralapproachestonuclearnon-proliferationanddisarmament’attheTempleofPeaceinCardiff.Thistimelyevent(theBritishgovern-mentwillannounceitsdecisionoverthefutureofTridentintheverynearfuture)addressedthefollowingbroadthemes:‘Thestateofthenuclearnon-proliferationregime’,‘Strengtheningoversightandenforcement’,and‘Amoresecureworld?nuclearweapons,disarma-mentandinternationalpeaceandsecurity’.Theconferencewasintro-ducedbyStephenThomas(Director,WelshCentreofInternationalAffairs)andProfessorNicholasWheeler.ThespeakerswereSirMichaelQuinlan(formerPermanentUnder-SecretaryofStateattheMinistryofDefence),ProfessorFrankBarnaby(nuclearconsultant,OxfordResearchGroup),TariqRauf(HeadofVerificationandSecurityPolicyCoordination,InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency),ProfessorJohnSimpson(Director,MountbattenCentreofInternationalStudies,UniversityofSouthampton),DrRebeccaJohnson(ACRONYMInstituteforDisarmamentPolicy),andPatrickLamb(formerlyoftheDepartmentforDisarmamentAffairs,UnitedNations).The Certainty of Uncertainty’ OntheoccasionoftheGovernment’sWhitePaperonTridentrenewal,ProfessorKenBoothdeliveredapaperentitled‘TheCertainty
Choices for Western Intelligence: The Security Challenges of the Twenty-First Century TheCentreforIntelligenceandInternationalSecurityStudiesbasedattheDepartmentofInternationalPolitics,AberystwythishostingaconferenceattheUniversityofWalesConferenceCentre,atGregynog,28-30April2007entitled‘ChoicesforWesternIntelligence:TheSecurityChallengesoftheTwenty-FirstCentury’ ASpecialIssueoftheJournalIntelligenceandNationalSecuritybasedonproceedingsoftheconferenceisintendedfollowinduecourse.Forinformationontheconference,pleasee-mail:[email protected].
Performance and Politics Anewinterdisciplinaryresearchgrouping,ledbyProfessorJennyEdkins,hasbeenestablishedintheDepartmentofInternationalPoliticsatAberystwyth.The‘PerformanceandPolitics’groupwilllookattheintersectionofpoliticsandperformancestudiesandaseriesofmini-symposiaisplannedtopursuethistheme.ThePerformanceandPoliticsresearchgroupinglooksforwardtohostingaseriesofeventsthatwillattractarangeofstaffandpostgraduateinterestacrossthedisciplinespolitics,geographyandperformancestudiesandbeyond.
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Awards, Fellowships and Prizes ProfessorDavidAnderson(UniversityLecturerinAfricanStudies,StAntony’sCollege)hasreceivedamajorresearchawardfromtheAHRC’sprogrammeon‘EnvironmentandLandscape’,tobeconductedincollaborationwithDrDavidTurton.Theproject,entitled‘Landscape,PeopleandParks:EnvironmentalChangeintheLowerOmoValley,southwesternEthiopia’,commencesinJune2007andwillrunforthreeyears.
Canada. Professor Richard Caplan(ProfessorofInternationalRelations,UniversityLecturer,OfficialFellow,LinacreCollege)hasbeenawardedfundingfromtheOxfordJohnFellOUPResearchFundandtheFolkeBernadotteAcademyinSwedenforhisproject,‘ExitStrategiesandtheConsolidationofPeace’. Professor Giovanni Capoccia (ProfessorofComparativePolitics,CUFUniversityLecturer,Fellow,CorpusChristiCollege)hasbeenawardedtheOxfordJohnFellOUPResearchFund:SmallAwardScheme,forhisproject‘MeasuringPoliticalRepressioninAdvancedDemocracies:AStudyofWesternEurope’. Dr Thomas Davies(JuniorResearchFellow,Project‘CivilResistanceandPowerPolitics,StAntony’sCollege)wasawardedtheBritishInternationalHistoryGroupThesisPrizeoftheBritishInternationalStudiesAssociationforhisthesis,‘TransnationalActivismanditsLimits:TheCampaignforDisarmamentbetweentheTwoWorldWars’. Dr Colin Farrelly(ResearchFellow,CentrefortheStudyofSocialJustice)wasawardedfundingfromtheWellcomeTrustfortheconfer-enceentitled‘GeneticsandJustice’.Theconferencewillbeheldon2-3July2007. Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh(FellowoftheBritishAcademy,CUFLecturerinPolitics,UniversityandTutorialFellowinPolitics,BalliolCollege)hasbeenawardedtheSecondEmpirePrizefromtheFoundationNapoléonforhisbook,LaLégendedeNapoléon,publishedinParisbytheEditionsTallandierearlierthisyear. Dr Andrew Hurrell(UniversityLecturerinInternationalRelations,FacultyFellow,NuffieldCollege)wasawardedanOxfordSocialSciencesShowcaseProgrammegrantforhisproject‘GoverningtheGlobe:DesigningGlobalInstitutionsforthe21stCentury’. Dr Hartmut Mayer(SupernumeraryFellowandLecturerinPolitics,StPeter’sCollege)wonaResearchFellowshipfromtheJapaneseSocietyforthePromotionofScience.From1December2006hewillspend10monthsintheDepartmentofPoliticalScienceatWasedaUniversityinTokyoworkingonEU-JapaneseCooperation. Dr Kalypso Nicolaidis(UniversityLecturerinInternationalRelations,DirectoroftheEuropeanStudiesCentre,FacultyFellow,StAntony’sCollege)hasbeenawardedtheOxfordJohnFellOUPResearchFund:SmallAwardScheme,fortheproject‘Europeinanon-EuropeanWorld’.Theprojectisaco-operationbetweentheCentreforInternationalStudiesintheDepartmentandtheEuropeanStudiesCentre(StAntony’sCollege)andwillrunfromJanuarytoJune2007. The University of OxfordhasbeenawardedaLeverhulmeTrustResearchProjectGrantfortheproject,‘WilliamGodwin’sDiary:recon-structingasocialandpoliticalculture1788-1836’,tobedirectedbyDrMarkPhilp(CUFUniversityLecturerinPolitics,TutorialFellow,OrielCollege)workinginclosecooperationwiththeBodleianLibraryandtheOxfordTextArchive. The project Civil Resistance and Power Politics,basedintheCentreforInternationalStudiesandmanagedbyProfessorSirAdamRoberts(MontagueBurtonProfessorofInternationalRelationsandFellow,BalliolCollege)andProfessorTimothyGartonAsh(ProfessorofEuropeanStudies,StAntony’sCollege,SeniorFellowattheHooverInstitution,StanfordUniversity),hasrecentlybeenawardedgrantsfromtheNorwegianMinistryofForeignAffairs,theRockefellerBrothersFund;theHumanSecurityProgramoftheCanadianForeignMinistry;theBritishAcademy;theBritishForeignandCommonwealth
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Dr Nigel Bowles(CUFUniversityLecturerinPoliticsandHonorBalfourFellowinPolitics,StAnne’sCollege)hasbeenawardedtheRichardENeustadtPrizeforhisbook,Nixon’sBusiness(TexasA&MUniversityPress,2005). Megan Bradley,agraduatestudentinInternationalRelations,wasoneof12graduatestudentsfromaroundtheworldtoreceivetopmarksatthe9thCDAI-CDFAIAnnualGraduateStudentSymposium,heldattheRoyalMilitaryCollegeofCanadainKingston,Ontario,
Office. Mr Oisín TanseywasawardedanESRCPost-doctoralFellowshipforhisprojectentitled,‘DemocraticTransitionintheContextofInternationalAdministration’. Dr Ngaire Woods(UniversityLecturerinPoliticsandInternationalRelations,DirectorofGlobalEconomicGovernanceProgramme,UniversityCollege)wasawardedfundingfromtheOxfordJohnFellOUPResearchFundforaprojectentitled,‘RollingOutAffordableHealthSolutionsfortheWorld’sPoorest’,whichsheispursuingjointlywithOxford’sDepartmentofPublicHealthandtheTropicalMedicineNetwork. The Department of Politics and International RelationswasawardedtheAstorVisitingLectureshiptobringStephenWalt(BelferProfessorofInternationalRelationsandAcademicDean,2002-06,JohnFKennedySchoolofGovernment,HarvardUniversity)toOxford.ProfessorWaltwillvisittheDepartmentinMichaelmasTerm2007. The Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences(ReMiSS)heldasuccessfulworkshopon‘ExperimentingintheSocialSciences’,organ-isedbyRayDuchon20November2006.TheCentreplanstoorganisemoreeventsthissummerandnextyear.DetailswillbepostedontheCentrewebsite,http://remiss.politics.ox.ac.uk. The Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismhadanextremelysuccessfulLaunchEventon20November2006.TheChancellor,LordPattenofBarnes,deliveredtheinaugurationspeechfortheopeningofReutersInstitute.ThekeynoteaddresswasgivenbyWashingtonPostExecutiveEditorLeonardDownieon‘JournalismafterIraq’.Itwasfol-lowedbyapaneldiscussioninvolvingeminentjournalists–DirectorGeneralofAlJazeeraWadahKhanfar,BBCHeadofNewsHelenBoadenandProfessorTimothyGartonAsh,ProfessorofEuropeanStudies,StAntony’sCollege. The Oxford Leverhulme ProgrammeontheChangingCharacterofWar,inpartnershipwiththeInternationalInstituteofStrategicStudiesandinassociationwiththeInstituteforNationalStrategicStudiesoftheUSNationalDefenseUniversity,hostedaconferenceon‘ChallengingDeterrence:StrategicStabilityinthe21stCentury’atAllSoulsCollegeon14-16December2006.Delegatesdiscussedhowtheconceptofdeterrenceisaffectedtoday,bothintheoryandinpractice,inthefaceofstateandnon-traditionalchallenges,andwhatnationalandinternationalmeasuresmightbetakentoincreaseglobalsecurityandenhancetheeffectivenessofdeterrence.
New Staff in Academic Year 2006/2007• ProfessorSimonCaney,UniversityLecturerinPoliticalTheory• DrTomSnijders,ProfessorofStatisticsintheSocialSciences• ProfessorJoelAberbach,JohnG.WinantVisitingProfessorof AmericanGovernment• DrSarmilaBose,DirectorofReutersInstitutefortheStudyof Journalism• DrJoeFoweraker,UniversityLecturerandProfessorofLatin AmericanPolitics• DrSaraHobolt,UniversityLecturerinComparativeEuropean PoliticsandTutorialFellowinPolitics• ProfessorNancyBermeo,NuffieldProfessorofComparativePolitics• DrGwenSasse,ReaderinCentralandEastEuropeanPolitics• DrIndridiIndridason,CareerDevelopmentFellowinFormal Analysis,OrielCollege
For more information: TheadmissionstutorforPoliticsundergraduatecoursesisLeslieBenson:[email protected],theadmissionstutorisJonGorry:[email protected]://www.northampton.ac.ukdepartments/socialsciences/andthenfollowthelinktoPolitics.AtthebottomofthePoliticspageisalinktotheMAIR.
Travel and Accommodation Travelandaccommodation,ifrequired,areattheattendees’ownexpense.InformationontravelingtoCardiffisavailableat:http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/visitors/index.htmlAccommodationinformationisat:http://www.visitcardiff.com/
ECPR Supported Summer Schools Mobility Fund TheECPR’smobilityfundisavail-abletograduatestudentsfromECPRmemberinstitutionswhohavebeenacceptedtoparticipateinaECPRsup-portedsummerschool.Grantsarelimitedtonomorethanonepersonpermemberinstitution.TheECPR’sbudgetforthesummerschoolsmobilityfundis€14500.Awardswillbefixedat€300forsuccessfulapplicantsattendingoneoftheECPRsupportedStandingGroupSummerSchoolsand€500forsuccess-fulapplicantsattendingeithertheECPRSummerSchool,inLjubljanaortheEssexSummerSchool.Awardsmaybe
usedtocovertraveland/oraccommoda-tioncosts.Deadline for applications: Monday 2 April 2007
ECPR Scholarship Fund and Reduced Fee Places at the 2007 Essex Summer School UptothreeapplicantsperECPRmem-berinstitutioncanapplyforareducedfeeplace,whichis£450insteadofthenormaltuitionfeeof£680,andaschol-arshipfundawardof£150,whichispaiddirectlytotheparticipant. Thereare160reducedfeeplacesandscholarshipawardsavailableforpartici-pantsfromECPRmemberinstitutionsandthesewillbeallocatedonafirstcomefirstservedbasis.Toapplyforoneoftheseplaces,theapplication(http://www.essex.ac.uk/methods/ecprapplica-tion07)shouldbesubmitteddirecttoECPRCentralServicesby1stApril,2007.AllqueriesaboutthesereducedfeeplacesandscholarshipawardsshouldbeaddressedtoECPR
EU and Political Literacy Teacher Conferences TheHansardSocietyhasbeenwork-ingwiththeUKOfficeoftheEuropeanParliamenttodelivereightteachercon-ferencesacrossEnglandandWalesfromDecember2006toJune2007.TheUKOfficehaslaunchedaseriesofnewfreeteachingresourcestosupportteachingabouttheEuropeanUnion.Delegateswillbeofferedtheopportunitytopar-ticipateinaseriesofnewworkshopsthatwillenablethemtodeliverpoliticalliteracyteachingconfidentlyandinaninnovativeandengagingway. Thefirstthreeconferenceshavebeenbothpopularandsuccessfulandtheycontinuetheirjourneyaroundthecoun-trystoppingatBristol(February),Cardiff(March),Birmingham(April),Cambridge(May)andfinallyYork(June). Forfurtherinformationclickonthelinkbelow:http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/Citizenship_ConferencesToregisterforanyoftheaboveevents,emailusat:[email protected].
Immigration, Minorities and Multiculturalism in Democracies’ Conference
Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory
Call for Papers Thisconferencewillexamineissuesofmigration,transnationalconnection,dis-placementheritage,globalspaceandculturalmemorycreatedbythemovementsofpeo-plesbetweenculturesinthemodernworld.
Papers are invited on the following:• Thedemographicsofpeopleflow:who moveswhere?andwhy?• ForcedmigrationintheAsiaPacific• Cultural,politicalandeconomicfactors shapingmigration.Howareconnections made?• Borderingthenation:migrationand nationalsecurity• Transnationalism,citizenshipandsover- eignty
Panelproposalsshouldincludeathemeforthesession,thenamesofallspeakers,thetitlesoftheirpapers,andasessionsummaryof250–300words. Abstractsof250–300wordsshouldbesubmittedforeachpaper,whethertheyareincludedinapanelsessionproposalornot.Whereabstractsareintendedforaproposedpanelsession,thisshouldbeindicatedontheabstract. AbstractsandsessionproposalsshouldbesenttoNenaBierbaum,SchoolofHumanities,FlindersUniversity,GPOBox2100,Adelaide,SouthAustralian5001,[email protected] abstracts will be refereed.
‘Politics beyond the mainstream’The First Annual International Conference on Minor Parties, Independent Politicians, Voter Associations and Political Associations in Politics, University of Birmingham November29thtothe1stDecember2007 May11thandthe12th2007 Theaimoftheconferenceistoexploreallfacetsoftheactivities,organisationandimpactofpoliticalorganisationsthatareoutsideofthemainstreamparties,setwithinanygovernmentallevelorcontext. Forthepurposeoftheconferenceminorpartieswillbedefinedintheirownnationalsetting.Thatis,whilstapartymaybepartofagoverningcoalitionoradministrationnationally,itsmembership,votesandresourcesclearlydefineits‘minorparty’status.Alternatively,apartymaybeamajorplayerinaregionorlocality,butitmaintainsminorpartystatusonthenationalstage.Proposalscoveringanylevelofpoliticalactivityoranylevelofgovernmentalandrepresentativebodywillbeconsidered. Proposalscanalsofocusontheorganisationandactivityofindependentpoliticiansandvoterandpoliticalassociations.Thelatterreferstoanyorganisationorgroupingofcitizens,whetherbroad-platformorsingle-issuebased,thatseektoorganiseandconductpoliticalactivityatanylevel,butwiththedefiningcharacteristicofentering,successfullyor
International ConferenceIrish Institute of Chinese StudiesUniversity College Cork, Ireland
June 7th and 8th 2007 InordertopromoteresearchonChinaanditsrelationshipwithIreland,EuropeandtheWorldcommunityofnations,theIrishInstituteofChineseStudiesatUCCwillholdaninternationalconference:‘CHINAinthe21stCentury:Culture,PoliticsandBusiness’betweenJune7thand9th2007atUniversityCollegeCork,Ireland.WehopetodrawexpertsfromChina,EuropeandNorthAmericawithabackgroundinChinesestudies,economics,politicalscienceandsociologytoprovideanin-depthstocktalkingofthefascinatingdevelopmentsintheemergingsuperpowerofthe21stcentury. Wewouldliketoinvitetheoreticalandempiricalcontributionswithreferencetothefollowingareasofresearch:
Political Philosophy Thepoliticalphilosophygroup–underthecontinuingleadershipofProfessorPeterJones–hasseenthreenewappointmentssince2004.Dr.ThomBrooks’researchinterestsincludebothhistoryofpoliticalthoughtandcontemporarypoliticalphilosophy.HeiscurrentlyworkingonbooksonHegel’sPoliticalPhilosophyandAnIdealistTheoryofPunishmentduringhisAHRC-fundedresearchleave.Dr.IanO’Flynnworksondemocracyandisparticularlyinterestedinthepotentialroleofdeliberativedemocracyindividedsocieties. Hisfirstbook,DeliberativeDemocracy
International PoliticsTheinternationalpoliticsclusterhasalsoenjoyedasubstantialrenewal.ProfessorHartmutBehrwasappointedtoleadtheinternationalpoliticsgroupinSeptember2005.ProfessorBehr–likeGrahamLong–providesabridgebetweeninternationalrelationstheoryandpoliticalphilosophy.Heiscurrentlyworkingonamonograph,TheLossofEthics:WarandPeaceinInternationalPoliticalThoughttobepublishedbyPalgrave. Dr.KyleGraysonjoinedNewcastlePoliticsfromYorkUniversity,Toronto.Dr.Grayson’sfirstbook,ChasingDragons:Security,Identity
National and Supranational Systems Thethirdandlargestresearchcluster–nationalandsupranationalsystems–hasalsobenefitedfromnewarrivals.ProfessorWilliamMaloneywasappointedin2005.HeiscurrentlyleadingEU-fundedworkon‘ThenewroleofactivecitizenshipandNGOs’andorganisinganESRCseminarserieson‘OrganizedInterests’.Hisnewbook(co-editedwithProfessorGrantJordan),DemocracyandInterestGroups,willbepublishedbyPalgravethisyear.Dr.JocelynMawdsleyjoinedNewcastlePoliticsfromtheUniversityofManchesterin2005. HerresearchinterestsincludeEuropeansecurityanddefencepolicy,Germansecuritypolicyandtheinternationalpoliticaleconomyofsecurity.Finally,Dr.RomanDavidwilljointhedepartmentinSeptember2007.Dr.David’sresearchisontransitionaljustice,especiallyinCentralandEasternEurope.
The organisers are: • Professor Joe Femia (SchoolofPoliticsandCommunication Studies,UniversityofLiverpool, [email protected])• Professor Jules Townshend (DepartmentofPoliticsandPhilosophy, ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity, [email protected])
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Seminars and Events Thenewstaffhavegeneratedavibrantresearchenvironmentwitharegularlunch-timeseminarseriesforstafftopresentworkinprogressandspecialistreadinggroupsforstaffandpostgraduatestudentsineachresearchcluster.WehaveaspecialistPoliticalPhilosophySeminarSeries,whichrunsweeklythroughoutterm-time.RecentspeakershaveincludedRichardBellamy,DavidBoucher,SimonCaney,IainHampsher-Monk,JonathanWolffandLeifWenar.SpeakersinSpring2007willincludeGerryCohenandJosephRaz.Wehavehadtwofascinating‘AuthormeetsCritics’eventswithMarthaNussbaumandThomasPogge.OurInternational Politicsgrouphasalsotakentheleadindeveloping‘North-Net’,aNorthernRegionalnetworkforscholarsincriticalglobalstud-ies.North-NetisthebeginningofexcitingdevelopmentsintheInternationalPoliticsfield,includinganannual‘North-Net’post-graduateconference,regularvisitingspeak-ersina‘NewVoices’seminarseriesanda
Postgraduate Research Students InNewcastlePoliticswehaveathrivinggroupofalmost50PhDstudents.Since2001,wehavesecuredaround25ESRCandAHRCstudentships,includingasmallnumberofCASEawards.Inrecentyears,studentsfromNewcastlePoliticshavewontheannualPoliticalStudiesAssociation(PSA)PrizeforBestDissertationinPoliticalTheoryonthreeoccasions.InJanuary2007,ourPhDstu-dents–ledbyJamesPattison–organisedthePoliticalStudiesAssociationCentralandNorthernEngland(CANE)GraduateConference.Theeventwasagreatsuccesswithover60papersonpoliticalphilosophy,internationalrelationsandBritishpolitics.
Postgraduate MA Programmes NewcastlePoliticshaslongenjoyedagoodreputationasaleadingproviderofhighqual-ityMastersprogrammes.Wehadasignifi-cantincreaseinnumbersfor2006-7andwecurrentlyhave50studentsonourfourMAprogrammes:Politics(Research),International
The Future NewcastlePoliticshasrecruitedanexcit-inggroupofyoungacademicscommittedtoresearchandteaching.Thelegacyofthe‘Berringtongeneration’isingoodhands!!
The School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University has experienced dynamic growth in recent years. Headed by Professor Anoushiravan Ehteshami, the School brings together the Department of Politics at Durham with the politics section of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. From 2007, SGIA will number 22 full-time staff.
Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World DurhamistobepartofanewcentreofexcellencefortheadvancedstudyoftheArabworld,inassociationwithEdinburghandManchesteruniversities.ThisinitiativeissupportedbykeyUKfundingbodies.Thenewconsortiumbringstogetherworld-classscholarsfromeachoftheparticipantuniversities.Aspartofthisprogramme,Durhamisofferingafully-fundedMSc
Research Centres, Clusters and Conferences TheSchoolhoststheCentreforContemporaryChineseStudies,theCentreforIranianStudiesandtheCentrefortheHistoryofPoliticalThought.Eachcentrehasaprogrammeofresearchseminars,occasionalpublicationsandinternationaloutreach.ResearchintheSchoolisorganisedbyresearchclustersinGovernment,PoliticalTheoryandCulture,andInternationalRelationsandInternationalPoliticalEconomy.Recentandforthcomingconferencesinclude:‘MadeinChinavs.MadebyChinese:GlobalIdentitiesofChineseBusiness’(19-20March,2007);‘MulticulturalismandMoralConflict’(21-23March,2007);‘MediaandImageChangeoftheMiddleEastpost-9/11’
Durham University: School of Government and International Affairs
News from the ECPR 2006: Year of the ‘Triple First’aretracesofvariousculturesinCyprus,thoseleftbytheBritisharestillveryevident:Britishpostboxes,oldBritishcarsandnumberplates;eventhepoundnotesmadeyounostalgicfortheolddaysbackhome,tosaynothingoftheeducationandlegalsystems…ThesessionswereextremelywellorganisedandthehospitalityoftheCypriotsexceptional. ButiftheseJointSessionswerepoliticallyandatmosphericallyhot,itwasnotjustbecausetheywereheldinCyprus,butalsobecauseitwasthethreeyearlymeetingofCouncil,andthereforetimefortheelectionofanewExecutiveCommittee(or,moreMartinBull,AcademicDirector,ECPR
Best Value Management (PublicAdministrationSpecialistGroupII)[No:187]|X|Chair:CliveGray|CatherineBunting(ArtsCouncilEngland)tbc[No:605]LouiseHorner(TheWorkFoundation)tbc[No:604]JeffreyStanyer(UniversityofExeter)StructureandRepresentation:thecaseofthe“unitaryauthority”[No:595]
Development Politics 1: Neoliberalism, Politics and Development [No: 75]|X|Chair:AndrewWyatt|PiaRiggirozzi(UniversityofSheffield)TheReturnoftheStateinArgentina[No:190]BenThirkell-White(UniversityofStAndrews)Fromfinancialcrisistoneoliberalreform?Economicgovernanceandsocialpolicyinpost-crisisIndonesia[No:187]AndrewWyatt(UniversityofBristol),MVijayabaskar(MadrasInstituteofDevelopmentStudies)NeoliberalGovernance,GovernmentalityandUrbanReforminIndia[No:188]
Devolution and Public Policy in the UK [No:1]|X|Chair:DanielWincott|X|Discussant:
EU and the Balkans: Policies of Integration and Disintegration [No: 69]|X|Chair:LeilaSimonaTalani|X|Discussant:GwenSasse|DaneTaleski(UniversityofCyrilandMethodius,Macedonia)AttitudesontheEUintegrationprocessoftheRepublicofMacedoniainMacedoniaandintheEU[No:169]ZidasDaskalovski(UniversityofCyrilandMethodius)TheImplicationsforMacedoniaofthePotentialIndependenceofKosovo-ARepeatoftheConflictof2001?[No:166]PlamenRalchev(UniversityofNationalandWorldEconomy)EuropeanizingtheBalkans:ImposingaMinorityDiscourse[No:167]EuropeandtheClashofCivilisations[No:24]|X|Chair:StigJarleHansen|X|Discussant:BenReid|TuncayKaradas(DepartmentofInternationalRelations.),MuratYesiltas(SakaryaUniversity)Turkey,IslamismandEU[No:72]FarhadKhosrokhavar(EcoledesHautesEtudesenSciencesSociales(EHES)France,aninternalclashofcivilisation?[No:74]ElenaMaza(Leiden)Spain[No:71]
Europe, globalization and democracy: 1 [No:49]|X|Chair:DarrenHalpin|X|Discussant:tbc|StephenElstub(UniversityofPaisley),AnnabelKiernan(UniversityofPaisley)ThesocialpolicylobbyintheEU:problemsininstitutionalizingdeliberativedemocracy
German Politics under the Grand Coalition (GermanPoliticsSpecialistGroup)[No:179]|X|Chair:ThomasSaalfeld|LotharFunk(UniversityofAppliedSciencesDuesseldorf)PolicyConvergenceinEmployment-RelatedPublicPolicies?ABritish-GermanComparison[No:577]ThomasSaalfeld(UniversityofKent)HorizontalandVerticalCoalitionManagement:TheIntricaciesofGoverninginaMulti-LevelSystem[No:575]ChristianSchweiger(UniversityofDurham)Intrinsicinstabilityinthesemi-sovereignstate:GerdStrohmeier(UniversityofPassau)PoliticalReasonsandImpactsofGrandCoalitions[No:574]
Greek Politics Specialist Group Panel 1: Effects of Europeanization on Greek policy sectors [No: 16]|X|Chair:RomanGerodimos|X|Discussant:DimitrisTsarouhas|AntoniosAggelakis(UniversityofCrete)Divergenceontheproc-essofconvergence:regulatorydualismandregulatorydissimilaritiesfortelecommunica-tionsinEurope[No:51]StellaLadi(MinistryoftheAegeanandofIslandPolicy,Greec)EuropeanizationandPolicyChange:ComparingEnvironmentalandImmigrationPolicyinGreece[No:49]DimitrisTsarouhas(MiddleEastTechnicalUniversity),TolgaBolukbasi(MiddleEastTechnicalUniversity,Turkey)TestingtheEuropeanizationHypothesis:MacroeconomicAdjustmentPressuresandtheSouthernEuropeanWelfareModel[No:316]
History and Politics in British Idealist Thought(BritishIdealismSpecialistGroup:1)[No:180]|X|Chair:ColinTyler|X|Discussant:tbc|DavidBoucher(CardiffUniversity)Oakeshottandthestudyofthehistoryofpoliticalthought.[No:578]JamesConnelly(UniversityofHull)“ATrickyThingtoGettoKnow”:Thepoliticsoftradition.[No:580]SusanDaniel(WesternOregonUniversity)Collingwood,dutyandthehistoricalcon-sciousness.[No:579]
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12:00-13:30 PGNI:Employability 8W2.30
12:00-14:00 Registrationopens FoundersSportsHall
14:00-15:30 SessionA:Panel1-28 Panelrooms
15:30-16:00 Coffee/teabreak FoundersSportsHall
Womenandpolitics
SpecialistGroupmeetin
16:00-17:30 Plenary1: UniversityHall
17:30-18:30 PSAAGM UniversityHall
18:30-19:30 Drinksreception FoundersSportsHall
19:30-21:30 Dinner ClavertonRestaurant
21:30-01:00 LateBar ClavertonRestaurant
57th Annual Conference, Hosted by the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
“How to get Published” SessionC Thursday,11.00-12.30
PGN Annual General Thursday,12.30-14.00
Meeting
“Teaching Advice” SessionD Thursday,14.00-15.30
“External Grant Advice” SessionE Friday,9.00-10.30
Postgraduate Network Annual Conference Programme
International Intervention: Policy Learning from the Balkans to Baghdad? [No:74]|X|Chair:KarlCordell|X|Discussant:AntonioMissiroli|RobAitken(UniversityofYork)CementingDivisions?Theimpactsofinternationalinterventionsonethnicidenti-tiesanddivisions[No:185]LauraCashman(UniversityofGlasgow)IntegratingRomanicommunitiesintoCzechsociety:TheroleoftheEUinthedevelopmentandimplementationofpro-Romanipoli-cies[No:184]PatriceMcMahon(UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln)EthnicConflictorCooperation?TheRoleofTransnationalPublicandPrivateOrganizations[No:186]AnnemarieRodt(UniversityofNottingham),StefanWolff(UniversityofNottingham)TheReactiveCrisisManagementoftheEuropeanUnionintheBalkansandbeyond:PolicyObjectives,CapabilitiesandEffectiveness[No:183]
Media and Politics Group - critical studies of role of news media in political coverage [No:28]|X|Chair:MichaelHiggins|VincentCampbell(UniversityofLeicester)Politicalcommunicationandthe“chaosparadigm”[No:80]BobFranklin(CardiffUniversity),JustinLewis(CardiffUniversity),AndyWilliams(CardiffUniversity)ACompromisedFourthEstate?UKNewsJournalism,PublicRelationsandNewsSources[No:79]JulianMatthews(BathSpaUniversity)Takingissuewithasylum:Thepressreportingofpoliticaldebateduringthe2005generalelection.[No:81]LiuYu(HongKongBaptistUniversity)Eyesonlocalgovernments:ThestrategyofinvestigativejournalisminChina[No:562]
Media and Politics Group - intimacy and sub-jectivity in the emergent form of the political blog [No:35]|X|Chair:ScottWright|StephenColeman(UniversityofLeeds)GoverningataDistance–PoliticiansinthePoliticalBlogosphere[No:97]EugeniaSiapera(UniversityofLeicester)TheSubjectofPoliticalBlogs[No:99]TracySimmons(UniversityofLeicester)Thepersonalispolitical?Bloggingandpoliti-calsubjectivities[No:98]
Opposition in government: 1 - Outsider par-ties in western Europe [No:46]|X|Chair:OsvaldoCroci|X|Discussant:KarinBottom|DanieleAlbertazzi(University
Parliamentary Soup for the Soul – Current Academic Research [No: 40]|X|Chair:MarkShephard|X|Discussant:tbc|HumphryCrumEwing(TheStandishGroup)Afreshlookatconventionsinthemanage-mentofparliamentarybusiness[No:115]KevinTheakston(UniversityofLeeds)FormerMembersofParliament:istherelifeafterWestminster?[No:116]SarahWhitmore(OxfordBrookesUniversity)HollowingoutRussia’sdemocraticinstitutions:thecaseofparliamentaryoversight.[No:114]
Participation and Turnout [No: 36]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|DavidCutts(UniversityofManchester),EdwardFieldhouse(UniversityofManchester)VotingTogether:HouseholdVariationinTurnoutinthe2001GeneralElection[No:101]ElinedeRooij(OxfordUniversity)Doweparticipatethesame?ThestructureofpoliticalparticipationinEurope[No:100]AdrianKavanagh(NationalUniversityofIreland,Maynooth)Analysinggeneralelec-tionturnoutintheRepublicofIreland:ageo-graphicallyweightedregressionapproach.[No:103]MarkPickup(Oxford),GeoffreyEvans(UniversityofOxford)ThePoliticalConditioningofEconomicPerceptionsinthe2004USPresidentialElection.”[No:102]
Politics and Sport Specialist Group [No:64]|X|Chair:RussellHolden|X|Discussant:ScottFleming|WynGrant(UniversityofWarwick)TwoTiersofRepresentationandPolicy:TheEUandtheFutureofFootball[No:157]RussellHolden(UniversityofWalesInstituteCardiff)NeverForgettheWelsh–ExploringtheMythsandRealitiesoftheWelshContributiontothe2005AshesVictory[No:159]MichaelHolmes(LiverpoolHope)Mercenariesornationalists?Nationaliden-tityandtheRepublicofIrelandfootballteam
Politics by Other Means: Film and the Contemporary Public Sphere [No:205]|X|Chair:RogerEatwellDavidClarke(UniversityofBath)Capitalismhasnomorenaturalenemies’:SpaceandPoliticsintheFilmsofthe‘BerlinSchool’BrianNeve(UniversityofBath)Politicsbyothermeans:‘Drama’and‘Documentary’inthepost-9/11publicsphereIanScott(UniversityofManchester)TranslatingthePolitical:Race,GenderandIdeologyinHollywoodRepresentationsoftheUnitedNations
Politics of South Asia 2: Roundtable on Recent Elections in South Asia [No:66]|X|Chair:RochanaBajpai|X|Discussant:tbc|KatharineAdeney(UniversityofSheffield)ElectionsinPakistan[No:164]MatthewNelson(SOAS)ElectionsinPakistanandBangladesh[No:165]AndrewWyatt(UniversityofBristol)ElectionsinTamilNadu[No:163]
Prodi’s Narrow Victory and Italian Politics: One Year On (ItalianPoliticsSpecialistGroup:1)[No:53]|X|Chair:JamesNewell|OsvaldoCroci(MemorialUniversityofNewfoundland)TheProdigovernmentoneyearon:anewforeignpolicyorthesamewrappedupdifferently?[No:138]StefanoFella(UniversitàdiTrento),GiuliaBigot(UniversityofTrento,Italy)FullvotingrightstoItalianoverseas:Ademocraticright,ademocraticwrongorelec-toralopportunism?[No:139]GiovannaFois(UniversityofSiena)ThesecondProdigovern-mentbetweenmultipartitismandmultilat-eralism.[No:137]BrunoMascitelli(SwinburneUniversityofTechnology),SimoneBattiston(SwinburneUniversityofTechnology,Australia)ImmigrationandNationalityinProdi’sItaly-theAmatoreformoncitizenship[No:136]
Structuring Local Politics and Government [No:9]|X|Chair:AlistairClark|JimChandler(SheffieldHallamUniversity)ARationaleforLocalGovernment:EfficiencyorValues?[No:27]PeterJohn(Manchester)Doesinstitutionalchangemakeadifference?Evaluatingtheimpactofnewcouncilconsti-tutionsfordemocraticandpolicyoutcomes
Teaching and Learning Innovations in Politics:1[No:12]|X|Chair:JohnCraig|DaveMiddleton(OpenUniversity)tbc[No:36]PhilippaSherrington(UniversityofWarwick)ThePedagogyofPlacementLearninginPolitics[No:35]StephenThornton(Cardiff)Pedagogy,Politics,andInformationLiteracy[No:37]
The International Insertion Strategy of Latin America [No:14]|X|Chair:GianLucaGardini|X|Discussant:GianGardini|MervynBain(UniversityofAberdeen)TheTriangleofMistrustinthe21stCentury:Washington,HavanaandMoscow[No:41]SeanBurges(DepartmentofForeignAffairsandInternationalTr)BuildingaGlobalSouthernCoalition:TheCompetingApproachesofBrazil’sLulaandVenezuela’sChavez[No:42]PeterLambert(UniversityofBath)DancingbetweenSuperpowers;changeandcontinuityinParaguayanforeignpolicysince1989[No:43]
Theoretical perspectives on Northern Ireland[No:23]|X|Chair:AlanGreer|AaronEdwards(ErasmusUniversityRotterdam)RethinkingStructuralistTheoriesoftheNorthernIrelandConflict:TowardsaPost-MarxistApproach[No:69]RobertMauro(UniversityatAlbany)UnderstandingNorthernIreland’sideologiesandpolitics:Aconceptualapproachtorepublicanandunionistthought[No:70]SusanSalhany(CarletonUniversity)“Marchingshouldbedignified”:ConsideringtheRitualandSymbolicDimensionofGovernment[No:68]RichardTraill(QueensUniversityBelfast)AModelforReconciliation–AreflectionontheSouthAfricanModelofReconciliationanditsImplicationsfortheExperienceofReconciliationinNorthernIreland[No:67]
Women and Politics: 1 ( jointPanelwithEPOP)[No:5]|X|Chair:RainbowMurray|X|Discussant:WendyStokes|RosieCampbell(BirkbeckCollege),KristiWinters(UniversityofEssex)Themythofthehomogeneousvoter:Masculineandfemi-nineperspectivesonpolitics[No:16]SarahChilds(UniversityofBristol),RosieCampbell(BirkbeckCollege),JoniLovenduski(BirkbeckCollegeLondon)Itisnotaboutpoliticalcor-
Changing Dynamics in Nordic Party Politics (ScandinavianPoliticsSpecialistGroup)[No:81]|X|Chair:MichaelKoß|X|Discussant:NickSitter|ElinAllern(InstituteforSocialResearchOslo),NicholasAylott(SödertörnUniversityCollege)OvercomingtheFearofCommitment:Pre-ElectoralAlliancesinNorwayandSweden[No:208]DavidArter(UniversityofAberdeen)WhattheGuardianWon’tTellAboutthe2007FinnishGeneralElection:AnalysingPartySystemChangeintheLandof‘RedEarth’and‘RainbowCoalitions’[No:210]FlemmingChristiansen(UniversityofAarhus),ErikDamgaard(UniversityofAarhus)ParliamentaryOppositionunderMinorityParliamentarism:Scandinavia[No:209]
Comparative Political leadership [No:4]|X|Chair:KevinTheakston|DSBell(UniversityofLeeds)PoliticalLeadership:AFrameworkforAnalysis[No:12]JohnGaffney(AstonUniversity),AmarjitLahel(AstonUniversity)PoliticalLeadership:InstitutionsandPerformance:FrameworksforAnalysis[No:11]VictoriaHoneyman(UniversityofLeeds)HaroldWilson;PartyLeaderandPrimeMinister[No:13]StuartMcAnulla(UniversityofLeeds)LeadershipFailure:Explainingtheforcedexit
Development Politics 2: Gendered Development: Discourse, Institutions, Policy[No:76]|X|Chair:ShirinRai|X|Discussant:ShirinRai|KateBedford(ColumbiaUniversity)EmbracingTheOtherHalfofGender?WhyTheWorldBankCaresAboutMeninthePost-WashingtonConsensusEra[No:191]JulieNewton(UniversityofBath)GendermainstreaminginEthiopia:transla-tionofpolicyintopracticeandimplicationsontheground[No:193]CaroleSpary(UniversityofBristol)Heteroglossiaandhierarchy:mainstreaminggenderindevelopmentpolicyandthecaseofIndia[No:192]
Economic and Monetary Integration past, present, and future: Still theorising! [No:70]|X|Chair:LeilaSimonaTalani|X|Discussant:tbc|AntimoVerde(UniversityofTuscia)ThefutureoftheSGP:aneconomicanalysis[No:173]RobertodiQuirico(UniversitàdiCagliari)ATheoryofthemakingofEconomicMonetaryIntegration[No:172]BenidictaMarzinotto(UniversityofUdine)WhysomuchwagerestraintinEMU?Integratingtradetheorywithmonetarypolicyregimeaccounts[No:171]LeilaSimonaTalani(UniversityofBath)AdeadstabilityPactandastrongEuro:theremustbeamistake![No:170]
Conferences1� Conferences 1�
French Politics and Policy and the EPOP - 2007 France legislative elections [No:37]|X|Chair:JimCordell|BrunoCautres(SciencesPo)WhatfactorsarelikelytoinfluencetheFrenchelectorateinthe2007presidentialelectionchoice?[No:105]RainbowMurray(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)Will2007betheyearforwomeninFrenchpolitics?[No:104]NicolasSauger(SciencesPo)AssessingPredictivePowerofPollstoForecasttheFrenchPresidentialElection[No:106]
Graduate Panel 2: How to Get Published [No:201]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|
Greek Politics Specialist Group Panel 2: Emerging developments in European Union (EU) governance [No:17]|X|Chair:DimitrisTsarouhas(tbc)|X|Discussant:DimitrisTsarouhas|Th.Chadjipadelis(AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki),I.Andreadis(AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki)AnalysisoftheCyprusrefer-endumontheAnnanplan[No:609]KyriakosHatzaras(IdeologikonInstitute),EvaDalakiouridou(IdeologikonInstitute,Thessaloniki),KunikoShibata(L.S.E.)SubnationalgovernanceintheEuropeanperipheryandJapan:externalstimulianddomesticre-organisation[No:53]ChrisanthosTassis(UniversityofAthens)EuropeanUnionandPoliticalParties:ThecaseofthePartyofEuropeanSocialists(PES)[No:52]
Local Electoral Politics in Britain and the USA[No:10]|X|Chair:AlistairClark|LynnBennie(UniversityofAberdeen)TheTransitiontoSTVforScottishLocalGovernmentElections2007[No:30]AlistairClark(QueensUniversityBelfast),ColinCopus(UniversityofBirmingham)ExaminingEthnicVotinginLocalElectionsinBritain:TheCaseofBirmingham[No:29]RaphaelSonenshein(CaliforniaStateUniversity),MarkDrayse(CaliforniaStateUniversity)BlackResponsetoLatinoEmpowerment:TheDynamicsofEthnicCoalitionsintheLosAngelesMayoralElectionsof2001and2005[No:31]
Media and Politics Group - the relationship between politics and popular culture [No:29]|X|Chair:MickTemple|
Multi-level Politics, Parties and Party Competition [No:2]|X|Chair:JonathanBradbury|X|Discussant:ElinRoyles|EveHepburn(UniversityofFlorence)RegionalistPartyMobilisationonImmigration[No:5]AlexWilson(UniversityofFlorence)StatewidePartyOrganisationsinMulti-levelSystems:Italy&Spaincompared[No:4]
Opposition in government: 2 - Outsider par-ties in western Europe: the opposition in government [No:47]|X|Chair:DuncanMcDonnell|X|Discussant:tbc|SarahdeLange(UniversityofAntwerp)TheFormationandReformationofRadicalRight-WingPopulistGovernmentCoalitions:AFormalTheoreticalApproach[No:129]IrinaStefuriuc(VrijeUniversiteitBrussel-FreeUniversityofBr)Takinggovernmentwhereavailable:TheregionalcoalitionstrategyoftheSpanishIzquierdaUnida[No:559]TaniaVerge(UniversityofSussex)Fromoutsiderconfron-tationtopartnershipappeals:thecaseoftheUnitedLeftandtheendoftheSpanishexceptionalism[No:558]
Perspectives on the Northern Ireland peace process [No:22]|X|Chair:AlanGreer|WilliamHazelton(UniversityofMiami)CommunalPoliticsandSharedGovernanceinNorthernIreland[No:66]CillianMcGrattan(UniversityofUlster)FramingdisputeswithinUlsterUnionism,post-directrule:apath-dependentanalysis[No:63]EamonnO’Kane(UniversityofWolverhampton)BritainandIreland,buildingordemolishingthepeaceprocess?[No:64]
Pluralism, Disagreement and Conflict [No:83]|X|Chair:SteveBuckler|X|Discussant:tbc|JethroButler(UniversityofBirmingham)Pluralism,ConflictandRestraint[No:217]PeterLassman(UniversityofBirmingham)TheUsesofPluralism[No:216]RichardNorth(UniversityofBirmingham)Justice,ProceduresandDisagreementinRecentPoliticalThought[No:215]
Politics of South Asia 1: International Politics of South Asia [No:65]|X|Chair:MatthewNelson|X|Discussant:LawrenceSaez|DibyeshAnand(UniversityofBath)TheRiseofChinaandIndia:TheSignificanceofSino-IndianRelations[No:160]MonikaBarthwal(RoyalHolloway)TakingtheTraditionalwiththeNon-Traditional:UnderstandingSecurityinSouthAsia[No:161]ShabanaFayyaz(UniversityofBirmingham)SituationinWaziristan:Peacevs.War[No:162]Power and society (BritishIdealismSpecialistGroup:2)[No:181]|X|Chair:SusanDaniel|ThomBrooks(Newcastle)IsF.H.Bradleyaretributivist?[No:582]StamatoulaPanagakou(UniversityofDurham)SocialcapitalandthephilosophyofBernardBosanquet.[No:583]ColinTyler(UniversityofHull)PersonalityandPolitics:TheneglectedidealismofArthurHeath.[No:581]
Prodi’s Narrow Victory and Italian Politics: One Year On (ItalianPoliticsSpecialistGroup:2)[No:54]|X|Chair:JamesNewell|NicolòConti(UniversityofSiena)Stayinorstayout?TherolesmallpartiesintheItaliancentreleft[No:141]AntonioFloridia(RegioneToscana)
Resarching the Social Economy [No:182]|X|Chair:SusanMilner|DimitrisChristopoulos(UniversityoftheWestofEngland),SusanMilner(UniversityofBath),LeroyWhite(UniversityofBristol)BuildingapolicyframeworkforsocialenterpriseintheUK:lessonsfromthesouth-west[No:585]PaolaGrenier(LSE)Reclaimingenterpriseforthesocialgood:thepoliticalclimateforsocialenterpriseintheUK[No:584]SusanMilner(UniversityofBath)WhateverhappenedtotheFrenchsecretariatofstateforthesocialeconomy?[No:586]
Rethinking Participation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Currents from Asia [No:184]|X|Chair:MartinGainsborough|X|Discussant:CarolineHughes|HoangChiBao(HoChiMinhNationalPoliticalAcademy)Grassrootsdemocracyandtheprocessofreal-isingdemocracyintheVietnamesecountry-sidetoday:benefits,problemsandsolutions[No:588]KhamphaKeomanichanh(CommunityDevelopmentandEnvironmentAssociation) TheRoleoftheCommunityDevelopmentandEnvironmentAssociationintheSocio-EconomicDevelopmentoftheLaoPDR[No:591]SederaKim(CambodiaDevelopmentResearchInstitute)DemocracyinAction:DecentralisationinPost-conflictCambodia[No:590]TerryKing(UniversityofLeeds)SoutheastAsianmiddleclass-ness:theVietnamesecase[No:587]WahWahMaung(YangonInstituteofEconomics)TheRoleofNGOsinSocio-EconomicDevelopment:CasestudiesofMyanmar[No:589]
Teaching and Learning Innovations in Politics: 2 [No:13]|X|Chair:PhilippaSherrington|JohnCraig(UniversityofHuddersfield),PeterWoodcock(UniversityofHuddersfield)Case-BasedLearninginPolitics:Diditwork?[No:40]RoseGann(NottinghamTrent),RichAdams
The Diversity of European Welfare Systems[No:82]|X|Chair:KlausSchubert&SimonHegelich|X|Discussant:tbc|FlorianBlank(UniversityofMunster)SocialPolicyandConsumerRights[No:213]WolframLamping(UniversityofHannover),KarenAnderson()EuropeanizationorPersistenceofNationalDifferences?OpportunitiesofandObstaclestoEuropeanSocialPolicyIntegration[No:211]MartinSeeleib-Kaiser(Oxford)WelfareStateTransformationsinComparativePerspective:ShiftingBoundariesof‘Public’
The Policy Impact of Parliament [No:41]|X|Chair:AlexBrazier|X|Discussant:tbc|PhilipCowley(UniversityofNottingham),MarkStuart(UniversityofLeeds)TheEffectivenessofLabourBackbenchRebellionsonGovernmentPolicy,1997-2006[No:117]MegRussell(UniversityCollegeLondon),MariaSciara(OxfordUniversity)ThePolicyImpactoftheHouseofLords:1999-2006[No:118]MegRussell(UniversityCollegeLondon),JeffreyJohns(UCL)BicameralParliamentaryScrutinyofGovernmentBills:ACaseStudyoftheIdentityCardsBill[No:119]
Tobacco Policy Change in the UK and Europe – Part of a Global Trend? [No:84]|X|Chair:ScottGreer|X|Discussant:ScottGreer|PaulCairney(UniversityofAberdeen)PolicyLearningandSmokingintheUKAfterDevolution:FourRoutestotheSameDestination?[No:219]ClaireGrant(BirkbeckCollege,London)Number,GovernmentandHealth[No:220]LarsLarsen(UniversityofAarhus)Knowledgedemandsaction-whenfactsare
Women and Politics: 2 [No:6]|X|Chair:RosieCampbell|X|Discussant:SarahChilds|PaulChaney(Cardiff)TheSubstantiveRepresentationofWomeninPost-DevolutionWales:Challenges,Progress,andProspects[No:20]LisaHarrison(UniversityoftheWestofEngland)Partystrategiesandelectoralsystemimpact:thesuccessofwomencandidatesintheScottishandWelshElections[No:19]MerylKenny(Edinburgh)GenderingInstitutions:ThePoliticalRecruitmentofWomeninPost-DevolutionScotland[No:18]VikkiTurbine(UniversityofGlasgow)Theroleofinformalnetworksasasourceofinformationaboutrights:impactonRussianwomen’sperceptionsofrights-basedapproaches[No:23]
Thursday 12 April: 11:00-12:30hrs: Session CActivist Political Thought [No:95]|X|Chair:MichaelFreeden|X|Discussant:MichaelFreeden|
Aspects of Locke [No:98]|X|Chair:RobertLamb|X|Discussant:tbc|CesareCuttica(EuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence)WhatdidLocke(andhismodernfollowers)failtounderstandaboutFilmer’spatriarchalistideas?[No:253]RobertLamb(UniversityofExeter)TheMeaningofCharityinLocke’sThought(Part1)[No:252]TimStanton(UniversityofYork)TheReligionofLockeandtheReligion
Attitudes to Public Services: Findings from the ESRC Public Services Programme [No:96]|X|Chair:OliverJames|X|Discussant:tbc|AndreasCebulla(NationalCentreforSocialResearch)ThePoliceunderPublicScrutiny-Experiences,PerceptionsandReactionstoaPublicServiceInstitution1982-2003[No:247]OliverJames(UniversityofExeter)ExpectationsofLocalPublicServices[No:246]
British Party Membership and Activism in Historical Perspective [No:88]|X|Chair:MarkWickham-Jones|X|Discussant:MarkWickham-Jones|LawrenceBlack(DurhamUniversity)‘Thefreeworld’slargestyouthpoliticalmove-ment’:TheYoungConservativesinthe1950sand1960s[No:230]GidonCohen(DurhamUniversity),LewisMates(DurhamUniversity)PartyMembershipandActivisminPost-WarBritain:Amultiplerecapturestudy[No:231]AndrewThorpe(UniversityofExeter)PoliticsorOrganisation?LabourPartymem-bershipintheSecondWorldWar[No:229]
Central-Local Government Relations Revisited( Public Administration Specialist Group I) [No:183]|X|Chair:CliveGray|JosieKelly(AstonUniversity)ExercisingMeta-GovernanceinCentral-LocalMartinLaffin(DurhamUniversity)RediscoveringCentral-LocalRelations:PhilipLloyd-Williams(AstonUniversity)Thecreationofgovernanceanddemocracyinthelocalities:TheRoleoftheLocalDemocracyMakers[No:594]
Conceptual review of political marketing [No:100]|X|Chair:DeclanBannon|X|Discussant:DeclanBannon|DarrenLilleker(BournemouthUniversity)Whatispoliticalmarketing:aconceptualdis-cussion[No:260]MarkPassera(Bournemouth)BuildingBrandCameron:politicalmarketing,mediaandnarrativecreation[No:261]RichardScullion(LSE/Bournemouth)Understandingthevoterconsumer:rethink-ingmethodologiesforstudyingmorecomplexvoters[No:259]
Contemporary political theorist: Judith Butler[No:102]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|SamuelChambers(UniversityofSwansea)ReadingButlerMisreadingFoucault:ThePoliticsofBodies,Pleasures,andSex[No:267]KimberlyHutchings(LSE)ThePlay’stheThing:ButleronHegelonAntigone[No:266]MoyaLloyd(LoughboroughUniversity)PoliticalTheoryasAdaptation:JudithButlerandher‘muses[No:265]
De-nationalization of Citizenship? The UK in Comparative Perspective [No:3]|X|Chair:JonathanBradbury|X|Discussant:NicolaMcEwen|AilsaHenderson(UniversityofToronto)Trendsintheregionalisationofpoliticalculture[No:7]CharlieJeffery(UniversityofEdinburgh)Publicattitudesandtheregion-alisationofcitizenship[No:8]ElinRoyles(UniversityofAberystwyth)RegionalgovernmentandcivilsocietyinEurope:comparingWalesandCatalonia[No:9]DanielWincott(UniversityofBirmingham)WasthereeveranationalsocialcitizenshipintheUK?[No:10]
Development Politics 3: Wellbeing, Politics and Poverty [No:77]|X|Chair:GeofWood|X|Discussant:tbc|JamesCopestake(UniversityofBath)Non-MaterialAspectsOfSocialAssistanceAndItsReform:TheCaseofPeru’s‘GlassOfMilk’Programme.[No:197]JosephDevine(UniversityofBath)WellbeingandWhyPoliticsMatters:EvidencefromBangladesh[No:195]IanGough(UniversityofBath)PolicyRegimesandWellbeing:AComparativeAnalysis[No:194]RebeccaSchaaf(UniversityofBath)IndividualandCollectiveWellbeing:Exploring
EPOP: Party Funding Regimes in Western Europe: On the Road to Convergence? [No:97]|X|Chair:DanHough|X|Discussant:TaniaVerge|StaffanAndersson(VäxjöUniversity)TheSwedishpartyfundingregime:fromvol-untaryagreementstolegislation?[No:251]JustinFisher(BrunelUniversity)HaydenPhillips:TheContinuationofBritishExceptionalism?[No:250]MichaelKoß(HumboldtUniversity)PartyGoals,InstitutionalVetoPointsandtheDiscourseonPoliticalCorruption–TheEvolutionoftheGermanPartyFundingRegime[No:249]GloriaMartinez-Cousinou(INSTITUTEFORADVANCEDSOCIALSTUDIESOFANDALUSIA)CorruptionandPartyFinanceinSpain:Actors,InterestsandReform[No:248]
European Political Economy: Political Science and economic perspectives compared [No:71]|X|Chair:LeilaSimonaTalani|X|Discussant:RobertLeonardi|LucianoBardi(UniversityofPisa),GiampieroGiacomello(UniversitàdiBologna),PieroIgnazi(UniversityofBologna),SoniaLucarelli(UniversityofBologna)ChanginggovernmentalmajoritiesandItalianforeignpolicy[No:174]AlessandroSorrentino(UniversityofTuscia,Viterbo-Italy),AuroraCavallo(UniversityofTuscia),LucaCorreani(UniversityofTuscia)EUAgriculturalPolicyBargainingandDomesticsPolitics:anEvolutionaryGameModel[No:176]LeilaSimonaTalani(UniversityofBath),GiorgioFazio(UniversityofPalermo)InterestsorExpectations?:APoliticalEconomyAnalyticalApproachtotheCredibilityofExchangeRateAgreements[No:175]
Greek Politics Specialist Group Panel 3: Globalisation of Political Communication in Greece[No:18]|X|Chair:RomanGerodimos|X|Discussant:RomanGerodimos|EleniApospori(AthensUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness),MariaZisouli(UniversityofAthens),GeorgeAvlonitis(UniversityofAthens)Municipalelectionsandpoliticalmarketingactions:ThecaseofAthens2006[No:56]
Interpretation and the History of Political Thought [No:85]|X|Chair:NickRengger|X|Discussant:tbc|NaomiChoi(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,USA)MeaningandExplanation[No:222]KathrynMacvarish(UniversityofSussex)Metaphorandinterpretationinthehistoryofideas[No:223]ColinTyler(UniversityofHull)Contextualism,hermeneuticsandconceptualchange[No:224]
Local Politics as a ‘Proving Ground’ in Britain and Europe: Adapting to New Challenges in Local Government [No:|X|Chair:AlistairClark|RobertDalziel(UniversityofBirmingham)PressurePoliticsinBritishLocalGovernment:ResidentsAssociationsandthePoliticsofCollaboration[No:34]LisaHarrison(UniversityoftheWestofEngland)TheLiberalDemocratsattheLocalLevel[No:32]HerwigReynaert(GhentUniversity),KSteyvers(UniversityofGhent)BetweenInstitutionalReformandPoliticalChange:LocalGovernmentinBelgiuminacomparativeperspective[No:33]
Marxism and War [No:178]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|LeaHaro(UniversityofGlasgow)RosaLuxemburgandthetheoryofMassAction[No:553]YassamineMather()WorkersinIran:exploitationandconflict[No:551]HillelTicktin(UniversityofGlasgow)Marxistpoliticaleconomictheoryofmodernwar[No:552]
Media and Politics Group - international per-spectives on media and politics [No:30]|X|Chair:HeatherSavigny|JMichaelLyons(IndianaUniversity)Ademocraticdivide?Investigatingthe“virtu-ouscycle”inEasternEurope[No:85]
Networks in Political Analysis [No:89]|X|Chair:KeithDowding|X|Discussant:KeithDowding|StuartAstill(LSE)AnExaminationoftheApplicabilityofSmallWorldTheorytoNetworksthatFormPolicy[No:234]PeterJohn(Manchester),StevenMusson(Reading)NetworksandRegionalGovernance:theIntegrationofPartnershipbodiesasanIndicatorofRegionalCohesion[No:233]HughWard(Essex)TradeLinksandtheKantianPeace:ANetwork-TheoreticApproachtoCommunication,Inter-CulturalUnderstanding,andConflict.[No:232]
New Developments in Politics and Human Happiness [No:110]|X|Chair:TerasaGhirladucci|X|Discussant:tbc|KeithDowding(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,)TBA[No:285]AndrewOswald(TheUniversityofWarwick,UnitedKingdom)TBA[No:287]JanOtt(ErasmusUniversity,Netherlands)TheImpactofHumanHappinessonGoodGovernance[No:284]BenjaminRadcliff(UniversityofNotreDame,USA),LaurenDeschamps(TexasA&MUniversity),AlexanderPacek(TexasA&MUniversity)TheWelfareStateandHumanHappiness:ACross-NationalAnalysis[No:286]
Political party positioning and policy behav-iour [No:99]|X|Chair:ChristopherJCarman|X|Discussant:ChristopherCarman|FraserDuncan(GlasgowCaledonianUniversity)Doesanythingruninthefamily?Ananaly-
Rethinking Responses to Terror [No:101]|X|Chair:RichardJackson|X|Discussant:RichardJackson|TheodoreKonstadinides(UniversityofSurrey)EffectiveandSwiftCooperation:TheCaseoftheEuropeanArrestWarrant[No:262]MichaelLister(UniversityofSurrey),LeeJarvis(BirminghamUniversity)BalancingLibertyandSecurity:WhoseLiberty,WhoseSecurity?[No:263]AndrewNeal(KeeleUniversity)DiscoursesoflibertyandsecurityintheUKsince9/11[No:264]
Roundtable: The Future of Conservatism and the Conservative Party in Britain [No:93]|X|Chair:RichardHayton|X|Discussant:tbc|PhilipCowley(UniversityofNottingham)oundtable[No:239]MarkGill(IpsosMORI)roundtable[No:238]DennisKavanagh(UniversityofLiverpool)roundtable[No:237]PhilipNorton(UniversityofHull)roundtable[No:240]
Symposium on the recently published ‘Governance Stories’ [No:104]|X|Chair:StuartMcAnulla|X|Discussant:tbc|DavidHowarth(UniversityofEssex)Withandagainstinterpretation:logicsofcriticalexplanationversuscontextualisedself-interpretation[No:274]RodRhodes(AustralianNationalUniversity)tba[No:272]MartinSmith(Sheffield)Re-centeringBritishGovernance[No:273]
The 2007 French Presidential Election [No:87]|X|Chair:AlistairCole|X|Discussant:NickStartin|BenClift(UniversityofWarwick)PoliticalEconomyandEmploymentPolicy[No:228]AlistairCole(CardiffUniversity)FranceinCrisis[No:225]HelenDrake(LoughboroughUniversity)NewBritonsinaNewFrance?ACaseStudyofMigrationandMobilityinthe21stCenturyEuropeanUnion[No:226]AndrewKnapp(ReadingUniversity)ThePartiesoftheRight[No:227]
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The Borders of Europe, and the Clash Thesis[No:26]|X|Chair:TuncayKaradas|X|Discussant:StigHansen|DibyeshAnand(UniversityofBath)India/Pakistan(Kashmir);aclashofciviliza-tions?[No:76]SveinMønnesland(UniversityofOslo)Bosnia,afutureclashofcivilisations[No:75]KristinSchulze(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience)Indonesia[No:78]GeoffWood(UniversityofBath)Bangladesh[No:77]
The Politics of Recognition 2 [No:105]|X|Chair:CillianMcBride|X|Discussant:DavidPeritz|ChrisArmstrong(Southampton),(Southampton)ParityofParticipation:ThePolticsofPragmatismandtheEndofCriticalTheory[No:545]GideonCalder(UniversityofWales,Newport)Recognition&Disability[No:547]SimonThompson(UWE)DemocraticJusticeandthePoliticsofRecognition[No:546]
Women and Politics: 3 [No:7]|X|Chair:LisaHarrison|X||X|3|X|SarahChilds(UniversityofBristol)‘NotuptotheJob?’Women’sResignationfromBlair’sCabinet.[No:21]RuthJacobson(UniversityofBristol)Post-conflictstates,genderedcitizenshipandgenderedjustice:reparationsprogrammesinpostconflictsocieties[No:25]SherilynMacGregor(KeeleUniversity)NoSustainabilitywithoutJustice:AFeministCritiqueofEnvironmentalCitizenship[No:24]WendyStokes(LondonMetropolitanUniversity)FeministTheatre[No:22]
Session DCameron’s Challenge: 21st Century Conservatism [No:94]|X|Chair:AndrewGamble|X|Discussant:AndrewGamble|RichardHayton(UniversityofSheffield)TheConservativesandGlobalisation:Cameron’sDilemma?[No:243]PhilipLynch(UniversityofLeicester)RepresentingBritain“asitis,notasitwas”?CameronandConservativemodernisation.[No:241]PeterKerr(UniversityofBirmingham)Cameron’sConservatism[No:242]
Democratic Transition and Institution Building [No:140]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|YanisTzortzis(UniversityofBirmingham,UK),DimitrisBourantonis(AthensUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness)Howmuchcanregimedispensabilityexplainindemocratictransitions?[No:315]NebojsaVladisavljevic(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience)ThePoliticsofProtestandPoliticalChangeUnderAuthoritarianism:Communistand[No:314]
Development Politics 4: International Democracy Promotion [No:78]|X|Chair:ChristineCubitt|X|Discussant:tbc|ChristineCubitt(UniversityofBradford)DemocracypromotioninAfrica:apanaceaforconflicttornsocieties?FocusonSierraLeone.[No:199]Jeroende-Zeeuw(UniversityofWarwick)DemocracyPromotion,ConflictManagementandPoliticalParties[No:198]GeorgeLambie(DeMontfortUniversity)Globalisation,HegemonyandtheLimitsofProceduralDemocracy[No:201]RobertPinkney(NorthumbriaUniversity)Internationaldemocracypromotion:theendoftheroadorthediscoveryofnewpath-ways?[No:200]
Elections and Parties: 2 [No:137]|X|Chair:JacquiBriggs|X||X|4|X|ElJacquelineBriggs(TheUniversityofLincoln),KarenCelis(UniversityofLincoln)FororAgainst:CompulsoryVotinginBritainandBelgium.[No:323]PaulHart(UtrechtUniversity),FredrikBynander(ANU,Canberra)Seekingandkeepingthehotseat:Leadershipsuccessorsinpoliticalparties[No:325]ThomasSaalfeld(UniversityofKent)CoalitionDurabilityinWesternEurope1945-1999:EstimatingtheInfluenceofInstitutionsofCoalitionGovernance[No:318]
EPOP: The Changing Nature and Structure of
Political Parties [No:39]|X|Chair:AlistairClark|AlistairClark(QueensUniversityBelfast),ColinCopus(UniversityofBirmingham)ASignoftheAnti-PartyTimes?TheRiseofSmallPartiesandIndependentsinBritishLocalPolitics[No:112]RobertMcIlveen(Sheffield)TheAshcroftEffect:SponsoringConstituenciesandBypassingConservativeCentralOffice[No:111]RobinPettitt(UniversityofManchester)RevisitingMichels’‘IronLawofOligarchy’:anexaminationofmembershipinfluenceinpoliticalparties[No:113]
EU: Public Opinion and the EU Constitution in a Globalised World [No:116]|X|Chair:NickStartin|X|Discussant:SimonUsherwood|SimonaGuerra(UniversityofSussex(FromSeptembertoDecember20)Poland:LookingEurosceptic,VotingEurosceptic,BeingEuroenthusiast[No:303]AndreKrouwel(VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam)EU-rejectionandsupportintheNetherlands:analysingtheextentandobjectofdiscontent.[No:564]NicholasStartin(UniversityoftheWestofEngland)TheConstitution,globalisa-tionandtheEU:ChangingpublicperceptionsinFrance[No:302]
European Immigration Policy: An Interdisciplinary Analysis [No:72]|X|Chair:LeilaSimonaTalani|X|Discussant:tbc|SaraSilvestri(CityUniversity)ParticipatinginEurope-TransformingEurope.HowMuslimIdentityPoliticsisaffect-ingandre-shapingtheEU[No:178]MariaSobolewska(UniversityofOxford)GoodMuslimCitizens:BritishMuslimsandcitizenshipvalues[No:410]LeilaSimonaTalani(UniversityofBath)HighTideintheMediterranean:Globalisation,marginalisationandMuslimmigrationtoEurope[No:179]AndrejZaslove(WilfridLaurierUniversity)ThePoliticsofImmigrationPolicyinGermanyandItaly:TheEndoftheHiddenConsensus[No:408]
France’s presidential and legislative elections in 2007: 2 [No:109]|X|Chair:RainbowMurray|X|Discussant:tbc|JocelynEvans(UniversityofSalford),GillesIvaldi(UniversiyofNice-SophiaAntipolis)Extremeright,
Gender and Politics: 2 [No:128]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|SylviaBashevkin(UniversityofToronto)SoWhat?TracingtheSubstantiveImpactofWomen’sPartyLeadership|X|CampaignsinCanada[No:530]NunoCarneiro(UniversityofPorto,Portugal),IsabelMenezes(UniversityofPorto,Portugal)Theyshotherbutthey’llnotshutusup:PoliticalAgendas,GenderIdentityandSexualOrientationinPortugal.[No:468]NarjesMehdizadeh(GlasgowCaledonianUniversity)Mythsandrealitiesofwomen’sparticipationandcitizenshipinIraniansoci-ety[No:379]
Greek Politics Specialist Group Panel 4: European Union and Greek Foreign Policy [No:19]|X|Chair:StellaLadi(tbc)|X|Discussant:StellaLadi|DimitrisChasomeris(HellenicFoundationfortheEuropeanandForeignP)UnderstandingtheHellenicStrategicCultureintheGreek-TurkishRelations[No:61]GeorgeKoukoudakis(UniversityofAthens)TheimpactofEuropeanUnion(EU)ontheunresolveddifferenceoverthenamebetweentheFormerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia(FYROM)andGreece[No:62]AthanassiosSamaras(InstituteofDefenceAnalyses(IAA))ComparativeAnalysisoftheFramingofEuropeanProspectofTurkeyattheBrusselsSummitsof2004and2006;theBipolarContradistinctionasaFramingDevice[No:59]
Media and Politics Group - politician-as-celebrity and the history of politics as spec-tacle. [No:31]|X|Chair:MichaelHiggins|ValentinaCardo(UniversityofEastAnglia)Representing‘Real’People?WhenBigBrotherMetGeorgeGalloway[No:90]Spring-SerenityDuvall(IndianaUniversity)Astarismade:Newscoverageofcelebritypoliticsinthe2000and2004USpresidentialelections[No:89]MariannePolychroniadou(UniversityofAthens)PoliticsasSpectacle[No:88]
Nationalism and identity [No:123]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|VincentDarracq(UniversityofBordeaux/FrenchInstituteofSouth)TheAfricanNationalCongressandBlackness[No:386]JonathanGithens-Mazer(UniversityofExeter)NationalMyths,MemoriesandRepertoiresofContentiousPolitics:OnNationalismandSocialMovements[No:475]RobertMauro(UniversityatAlbany)Theideologyofnationalismornationalisticideologies?Nationalismasstrategicpoliticalthinking,notideologicalpoliticalthinking[No:446]PaulaPortas(CardiffUniversity)LabelsforNationalism?ADiscursiveUnderstandingofMinorityNationalism.[No:442]
NATO: the promise and perils of a global actor [No:119]|X|Chair:OliverDaddow|X|Discussant:OliverDaddow|ennyMedcalf(RoyalMilitaryAcademy,Sandhurst)NATO:TransformationorTermination?[No:309]RichardRupp(PurdueUniversityCalumet)HighHopesandGrimRealities:NATO’sFuture[No:550]TerryTerriff(UniversityofBirmingham)Goingglobalorgoingnowhere?AnanalysisofNATO’sinvolve-mentinAfghanistan[No:308]MarkWebber(LoughboroughUniversity)FutureImperfect:WhatdoesIRTheoryTellUsabouttheFutureofNATO?[No:307]PECOtransition[No:122]|X|Chair:SimonaMilio|AlinaDobreva(UniversityofLeeds)MediaPerceptioninInterpersonalPoliticalDiscussions[No:87]SimonaMilio(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience)TheroleofPoliticalsta-bilityintheprocessofadministrativecapac-
itybuilding[No:447]
Philosophy and Politics: 2 [No:131]|X|Chair:JakeDunagantbc|DimitriosAkrivoulis(UniversityofWesternMacedonia)TheQuantumPoliticsMetaphor:TowardsaHermeneuticsofPoliticalMetaphoricity[No:537]JakeDunagan(TheUniversityofHawai’iatManoa)PoliticsoftheAestheticintheNeurostate[No:476]MarcoVerschoor(RadboudUniversityNijmegen)JustifyingJusticeAcriticalexami-nationofRawls’originalpositionandthemethodofreflectiveequilibrium[No:454]
Politicisation of renewable energy debates - actors, discourses and strategies [No:118]|X|Chair:JSzarka|X|Discussant:tbc|RichardCowell(CardiffUniversity)Deliveringrenewableenergyunderdevolu-tion:reflectionsontheScottishandWelshexperiencewithwindpower[No:570]PatrickDevine-Wright(UniversityofManchester)Representingpublicsinenergypolicy–anempiricalanalysis[No:571]AdrianSmith(UniversityofSussex)Emerginginbetween:themulti-levelgov-ernanceofrenewableenergyintheEnglishregions[No:569]DavidToke(UniversityofBirmingham)SocialCapitalandwindpowerplanningoutcomes[No:572]
Politics and IR Theory: 1 [No:133]|X|Chair:AntjeWiener|JodieAnstee(UniversityofExeter)NormsandIdentityinConstructivism:AChallengedRelationship?[No:463]CatherineHollis(UniversityofSussex)Thepoliticsof‘barelife’:lifeandthebodyasthefocusofpowerintheworkofBenjaminandAgamben.[No:472]AlexiaKatsanidou(UniversityofEssex),PeterBloom(UniversityofEssex)IssueFraming,Hegemony,andElectoralBehaviour[No:462]AmandaMachin(UniversityofWestminster)IdentitiesandBoundaries:MovingbeyondtheNation?[No:445]
Politics and Policies: 1 [No:141]|X|Chair:PeterCarroll|PeterCarroll(UniversityofTasmania)RegulatingBusinessintheUK:lessonsfromtheAustralianexperience[No:513]EuniceGoes(RichmondUniversity)IntegratingReligiousMinoritiesinEurope:LessonsfromtheUnitedKingdomandFrance[No:324]DermotO’Reilly(CardiffUniversity),
Representations of party politics in film and television [No:120]|X|Chair:PhilipCowley|X|Discussant:PhilipCowley|MatthewBailey(n/a)Sympathyforthedevil:canrepresentationsofpoliticiansbeanythingbutunfavourable?[No:549]SteveFielding(UniversityofSalford)Representingtherepresentatives:Partypoliticsonthescreenfromthe1930stothepresentday[No:311]MelanieWilliams(UniversityofHull)Thehave-a-goheroine:TheAmazingMrsPritchardandpoliticalpopulism[No:310]
Rowing interest in small states [No:115]|X|Chair:MervynBain|JeremyLamoreaux(UniversityofAberdeen),DavidGalbreath(UniversityofAberdeen)‘DoesSizeMatter?’SmallStatesandInternationalOrganizationsinInternationalPolitics[No:301]ArchieSimpson(ST.ANDREWSUNIVERSITY)MonacoasaDisfunctionalStatesintheInternationalSystem[No:300]RichardWoodward(UniversityofHull)OffshoreFinancialCentresinSmallIslandStates–AMoreOptimisticAssessment[No:299]
Studying civil servants up close [No:61]|X|Chair:PaulHart|X|Discussant:tbc|JennyFleming(UniversityofTasmania)CommandandControl:LeadingtheTroopsfromtheTop[No:154]KarinGeuijen(UtrechtUniversity),PaulHart(UtrechtUniversity),KutsalYesilkagit(UtrechtUniversity)EuropeanisationofDutchcivilservicework:Craftingpolicyinmulti-levelarenas[No:153]RenitaThedvall(StockholmUniversity)Yo-yoingbetweenStockholmandBrussels:SwedishEurocratsatwork[No:155]
Taxing Wealth: principles, politics and policy[No:111]|X|Chair:KeithDowding|X|Discussant:KeithDowding|RajivPrabhakar(LondonSchoolofEconomics)TaxingWealth:PublicAttitudestowardsPoliciesforOvercomingWealthInequality[No:289]KarenRowlingson(UniversityofBath)IsTheDeathofInheritanceTaxInevitable?LessonsfromAmerica[No:290]StuartWhite(JesusCollege,Oxford)What(ifanything)iswrongwithinheritancetax?[No:288]
The Future of Governance Theory and Practice[No:117]|X|Chair:GerryStoker|X|Discussant:tbc|GrahamSmith(UniversityofSouthampton)GovernanceandCitizenParticipation[No:305]GerryStoker(Manchester(from01/01/07Southampton))Cross-disciplinaryWorkonGovernance:WhatistheretoGain?GerryStoker[No:304]
The Politics of Recognition 1 [No:106]|X|Chair:SimonThompson|X|Discussant:ChrisArmstrong|CillianMcBride(QUB)CorrectiveRecognition&PoliticalPathology[No:276]MonicaMookherjee(Keele)RecognisingReligionRightly?TheDiscourseof‘Recognition’andtheProblemofReligiousExemptionsinSchools[No:275]DavidPeritz(SarahLawrenceCollege)BetweenRespectandRecognition:OntheNormativeGrammarofEgalitarianClaimsMaking[No:277]
Asia 2 (India-Pakistan)[No:150]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|WalterLadwig(UniversityofOxford)AColdStartforHotWars:AnAssessmentofIndia’sNewConventionalWar-fightingDoctrine[No:392]ChristopherOgden(UniversityofEdinburgh)NecessaryDialectics:IdentityDependenceinIndo-PakistaniForeignRelations[No:374]RajKishorSingh(UNIVERSITYOFAGRA),Brijeshsingh(UniversityofAgra,India)GlobalpoliticsinsouthAsiaandPeaceandsecurity[No:373]Asia3(others)[No:151]|X|Chair:IanHolliday|IanHolliday(TheUniversityofHongKong)GovernanceforharmonyinAsia:TheMyanmarcase[No:383]RoslinaIsmail(KeeleUniversity)AStudyonMalaysianForeignEnvironmentalPolicy:1972-2002[No:389]YoungMiKim(UniversityofSheffield)Explainingpartypoliticsandpoliticalbehav-iourinSouthKorea:Canrationalchoiceandculturebeaccommodated?[No:377]
Australia and New Zealand [No:153]|X|Chair:ChrisBeer|AndyAsquith(MasseyUniversity)LocalgovernmentreformintheworldsNPMlaboratory.[No:384]ChrisBeer(AustralianNationalUniversity)
Democracy and Citizenship: 2 [No:126]|X|Chair:SarahHolsen|DavidErdos(UniversityofYork)WherenextfortheHumanRightsAct(1998)?Acomparative“Westminster”perspective[No:519]ClodaghHarris(UniversityCollegeCork)TheTaskforceonactivecitizenship:anIrishsolutiontoanIrishproblem?[No:523]SarahHolsen(UniversityCollegeLondon),MarkGlover(UniversityCollegeLondon),CraigMacDonald(UniversityCollegeLondon)Whatisfreedomofinformationfor?AnexplorationoftheobjectivesbehindtheFOIAct2000[No:461]LauraMcAllister(),DianaStirbu(UniversityofLiverpool)TheRichardCommissionandtheconstitutionalprocessinWales:[No:543]
Development Politics 6: Political Economy of Development in Asia [No:80]|X|Chair:LawrenceSaez|X|Discussant:tbc|IpshitaBasu(UniversityofBath)ThePoliticsofRedistributionandRecognitioninJharkhand,India[No:205]ManjaJonas(UniversityofDuisburg-Essen,CampusDuisburg)Directinvestmentsasanengineoftechno-logicalchangeinMalaysia:Theroleofnet-workedpolicy[No:206]LawrenceSaez(LondonSchoolofEconomics)
Elections and Parties: 1 [No:145]|X|Chair:DarrenLilleker|X||X|5|X|ElKatyBere(TheElectoralCommission),MarkSandford(TheElectoralCommission),WillReburn(TheElectoralCommission),CatherineJohnston(TheElectoralCommission)Devolution:Theelectorate’sviewin2007[No:511]DarrenLilleker(BournemouthUniversity)VotercognitionandVoterbehaviour:WhyUKfloatingvotersinmarginalconstituenciesmakereasonedchoices[No:494]EdwardPhelps(Sussex)DecliningYouthTurnoutintheUK:Asocialclass,socialcapitalandpoliticalknowledgeexplanation[No:507]SimonUsherwood(UniversityofSurrey)TheUKIndependenceParty:Thedilemmasofasingle-issueparty[No:509]
Europeanisation and the Environment [No:155]|X|Chair:IngolfurBluhdorn|FlorianKern(UniversityofSussex)Policyinnovationandcoalitionformation:the‘transitionsapproach’inDutchsustainabilitypolicy[No:435]SaraNofri(UniversityofHamburg,Germany)EnvironmentintheEuropeanpress:culturesofenvironmentandculturesofcommunica-tion–acomparativestudyofthedailypressinfourEuropeancountries[No:425]
Graduate Panel 4: External Research Grant Proposals [No:203]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|GreenpoliticsandEnvironment[No:
129]|X|Chair:IngolfurBluhdorn|X|Discussant:tbc|
Giorel Curran (Griffith University (QueenslandAustralia))DoingEcologicalModernisationinAustralia:TheClimatePolicyChallenge[No:469]StewartDavidson(UniversityofStrathclyde)GreeningtheState:ProblemsandProspects[No:460]ClareHeyward(UniversityofBirmingham)Capabilities-theEnvironmentalist’sMetricofChoice?[No:473]DavidToke(UniversityofBirmingham)Analysinggreenpoliticaleconomy–fillinginthegap[No:459]
Latin America and Caribbean [No:152]|X|Chair:GianLucaGardini|GastonFornes(UniversityofBath)ImpactsoftherecentLatinAmericancur-rencycrisesonEuropeaninvestmentsintheregion.[No:380]LindsayStirton(UniversityofEastAnglia),MartinLodge(LondonSchoolofEconomics)Re-thinkinginstitutionalendowmentinJamaica:MisguidedTheory,ProphecyofDoomorExplanationforRegulatoryChange?[No:375]
Lessons from History [No:147]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|HeatherBlakey(UniversityofBradford),LucyBrill(BradfordUniversity)Radicalinnovationsortechnicalfix?HowLatinAmericanparticipatorytraditionsarereinterpretedintheBritishcontext.[No:515]FrancisDodsworth(TheOpenUniversity)LibertyandOrderinEighteenth-CenturyEngland:CivilLiberty,CivilGovernmentandtheCommonGood[No:518]RobertFord(OxfordUniversity)AfterPowell:Immigration,RaceandPoliticsinBritain1970-1996[No:520]IainMcLean(UniversityofOxford)Thecuriousincidentofthegunsinthe
Media and Politics Group - political blogs and blogging [No:33]|X|Chair:AndrewChadwick|MaryFrancoli(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon),StephenWard(UniversityofOxford)PoliticalRepresentatives,BlogsandNetworkedDemocracy:AnAnglo-CanadianComparison[No:93]JamesStanyer(LoughboroughUniversity)Thehypeandrealityof‘political’blogsintheUK[No:92]ScottWright(DeMontfortUniversity)BloggingLocalDemocracy[No:91]
Parties and Elections N [No:158]|X|Chair:HartwigPautz|MatthewAshton(NottinghamTrentUniversity)CartelpartymembershipinGermany[No:430]HedwigdeSmaele(KatholiekeUniversiteitBrussel/CatholicUniversit)Mediaandlocalelections:globalstrategies?Newsmanagementinthelocalelections,Flanders,October2006.[No:427]BjornRasch(UniversityofOslo)OppositionParties,ElectoralIncentivesandtheControlofGovernmentMinisters:ParliamentaryQuestioninginNorway[No:418]ChristianSchweiger(UniversityofDurham)Intrinsicinstabilityinthesemi-sovereignstate:ThelessonsfromtheMerkelgrandcoali-tiongovernment[No:420]
Parties and Elections S [No:159]|X|Chair:JimCordell|JimCordell(UniversityofSalford)TheUMPandtheFrenchpartysystem–ephemeralbandwagon,ormodernpartyofgovernment?[No:431]ManinaKakepaki(UniversityofAthens),IoannisKarayiannis(UniversityofAthens)ChangeandContinuityinGreekpolitics:Thecontinuingdepolarizationoftheelectorate?[No:434]VasileiosLeontitsis(UniversityofSheffield)ChangingPerceptionsRegardingDecentralisationintheGreekPoliticalParties[No:437]CláudiaRamos(UniversidadeFernandoPes)DiscourseinParliament:ThePortugueseParliamentaryApproachtotheFifthRevisionoftheEuropeanTreaties[No:423]
Philosophy and Politics: 1 [No:130]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|ThomBrooks(Newcastle),FabianFreyenhagen(UniversityofCambridge)Kant,CapitalPunishment,andSuicide:ANewPuzzle[No:466]RicardoCamargo(UniversityofSheffield)AReformulationofanObjectiveNotionofTruthforaCritiqueofIdeology:SomeIdeasBetweenHabermasand€i€ek[No:467]DarrenWebb(UniversityofSheffield)ChristianHopeandthePoliticsofUtopia[No:456]
Politics and IR Theory: 2 [No:134]|X|Chair:AntjeWiener|
Reconsidering the Regulatory State [No:103]|X|Chair:MartinLodge|X|Discussant:tbc|MartinLodge(LondonSchoolofEconomics)Pathdependentor‘allweather’?Regulation,EnergyandSecurityofSupply[No:271]NickSitter(BISchoolofManagement)RediscoveringPolitics:RegulatoryVariationintheSingleEuropeanEnergyMarket[No:270]LindsayStirton(UniversityofEastAnglia),KathrynWright(UniversityofEastAnglia)TheSecondTransformationofECCompetitionLaw?[No:268]KaiWegrich(RANDEurope)RegulatoryGovernanceinGermanyincom-parativeperspective[No:269]
Swedish Social Democracy [No:160]|X|Chair:DavidArter|X|Discussant:tbc|AndersWidfeldt(UniversityofAberdeen)TheSwedenDemocrats–thenewkidontheblock?[No:416]
Territorial Politics and devolution [No:146]|X|Chair:BridQuinn|MargaretArnott(GlasgowCaledonianUniversity)WheelswithinWheels?TerritorialPoliticsandGovernanceinPostDevolutionUK[No:510]IainLindsey(UniversityofLoughborough)Localpartnershipapproachestocentralgov-ernmentfundinginitiatives[No:495]BrídQuinn(UniversityofLimerick)TowardsJoined-upLocalGovernance:dostate-structuredpartnershipsleavetheJUGhalf-fullorhalfempty?[No:500]
The EU and the Balkans: From Conflict (Mis-)ManagementtoResolution?[No:73]|X|Chair:KarlCordell|X|Discussant:PatriceMcMahon|VasilisMargaras(LoughboroughUniversity)TheroleoftheEUinBosniaHerzegovina-theEUasanethnicfacilitator?[No:181]MáireMcGrattan(Queen’sUniversity,Belfast)TheTransformativeCapacityofEUEnlargementinCroatia,MontenegroandSerbiasincethe2004enlargement[No:182]JamieMunn(CityUniversity)ThePathLessTravelled?:aquestionofKosovo’sstatusandtheroleoftheEU[No:180]
Welfare States [No:138]|X|Chair:AchimGoerres|X||X|5|X|JörgDostal(BrunelUniversity),BernardCasey(CityUniversityLondon)Policytransferacrosscontinents:thecaseofpensionreforminChileandNigeria[No:321]AchimGoerres(Max-Planck-InstitutefortheStudyofSocietiesCo)DemandsontheWelfareState.PoliticalAttitudesoftheBaby-boomersinBritainandGermany[No:319]TerryRoyed(UniversityofAlabama)PartiesandSocialWelfarePolicyintheU.S.andBritain[No:565]
Development Politics 5: External Interventions, Governance and the Politics of Development [No:79]|X|Chair:BenThirkell-White|X|Discussant:tbc|MarkDuffield(UniversityofBristol)Development:atrusteeshipofnon-insuredlife?[No:202]BenReid(UniversityofBath)FromCross-OvertoDouble-Cross:Civilsocietyparticipation,thepost-Washingtoncon-sensusandthenewsecurityagendainthePhilippines[No:203]OisinTansey(UniversityofOxford)AdministeredTransitions:DemocraticRegime-BuildinginKosovo,BosniaandEastTimor[No:526]
EU and Globalisation [No:162]|X|Chair:StellaLadi|Sang-TuKo(YonseiUniversity)PoliticalEconomicFactorsAffectingtheShiftoftheGermanEUPolicy[No:601]StellaLadi(MinistryoftheAegeanandofIslandPolicy,Greec)GlobalizationandEuropeanization:AnalysingChange[No:360]AlessandroLattarulo(UNIVERSITYOFBARI)ThedimensionsoftheEuropeanUnioninaglobalcontext[No:326]AngelicaNuzzo(BrooklynCollege,NewYork)BordersandCentres.ProblemsofEuropeanIdentity[No:529]
EU: New member states: 1 [No:165]|X|Chair:OlegKodolov|CraigElliott(UniversityofNewcastle)EuropeanisationthroughSAPARD-institu-tionalisomorphisminCentralandEasternEuropeanCountries[No:361]SaadHussein(FonditionInternationalAzzahra),AliBassam(FonditionInternationalAzzahra)InternalchallengesforEuropeanunion[No:527]TheresaReidy(UniversityCollegeCork)EconomicEvaluationofEUMembershipintheCEEMemberStates[No:334]
EU: New member states: 2 [No:166]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|CraigElliott(UniversityofNewcastle)Twinning–policingEUconditionalityorassistinginstitutionallearninginaspiringNewMemberStates[No:357]CraigElliott(UniversityofNewcastle)DomesticatingPre-accessionEuropeanisation:comparingpolicyandinstitutionaladapta-tiontoHungarianandSlovenianAgriculturalMinistries.[No:358]NievesPerez-Solorzano(UniversityofBristol),StijnSmismans(UniversityofBristol)TheEuropeanUnionandthePromotionofSocialDialogueintheNewMemberStates[No:327]ClaireRanderson(LincolnUniversity),IanBarnes(LincolnUniversity)WaitingintheQueue:theCasualtiesoftheEuropeanUnion’sEnlargementFatigue[No:338]
Europe, America, Britain and the Transatlantic Condition of World Hegemony [No:114]|X|Chair:MagnusRyner|X|Discussant:DanielWincott|Hans-JuergenBieling(Phillips-UniversityofMarburg),JohannesJaeger(FachhochschuledesBFI,Vienna)GlobalFinanceandtheEuropeanEconomy:theStruggleoverBankingRegulation[No:296]AlanCafruny(HamiltonCollege),MagnusRyner(BirminghamUniversity)EMUandtheTransatlanticandSocialDimensionsoftheCrisisoftheEuropeanUnion[No:295]AndrewGamble(UniversityofCambridge)HegemonyandEmpire:BritishExceptionalismandtheMythofAnglo-America[No:297]KeesvanderPijl(UniversityofSussex)GlobalRivalriesandUS-EURelations:LockeianHeartlandandHobbesianContenderStateLegacies[No:298]
Gender and Politics: 1 [No:127]|X|Chair:Matthewwaites|
Government [No:144]|X|Chair:MarkBennister|MarkBennister(SussexUniversity)PoliticalLeadersMatter:TonyBlairandJohnHoward:PredominantPrimeMinistersCompared[No:505]BernadetteConnaughton(UniversityofLimerick)Shiftingthebalanceofrolesinthe‘admin-istrationofthesummit’?TheroleofspecialadvisorsintheIrishpolicymakingprocess[No:516]Chen-YuHuang(DepartmentofPolitics,UniversityofManchester)TheBlairgovernmentandUKcentralgovern-mentunderEuropeanisation[No:514]FelicityMatthews(UniversityofSheffield),MatthewFlinders(UniversityofSheffield)FillingintheHollowingOut–AnalysingandUnderstandingthePublicServiceAgreementFramework[No:496]
Government and Bureaucracies [No:139]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|JuliaFleischer(UniversityofPotsdam,Germany)Howtoanalysewheelsinthegovernmentmachine?TheEvolutionofPolicyUnitsattheBritishandGermanCoreExecutive[No:313]WilfriedSwenden(UniversityofEdinburgh)ExplainingIntergovernmentalRelations:acomparativeexplorationofIGRinBelgiumandtheUnitedKingdom[No:317]
Hansard Society round table [No:113]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|
Labour markets [No:174]|X|Chair:AlistairHoward|AlistairHoward(TempleUniversity)Whenwecompare:ComparativeproblemdefinitionInBritishandAmericanpoliticaleconomy[No:402]HiroakiWatanabe(UniversityofOxford)PoliticsofLabourMarketDeregulationinItalyandJapan[No:396]PetraZaletel(MinistryofEconomy)Selectionofhighlyskilledmigrantswith
Media and Politics Group - development of e-democracy [No:34]|X|Chair:ScottWright|AndrewChadwick(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)TheyCame,ButWillWeBuildit?TheStrangeCaseofE-DemocracyinSiliconValley[No:95]RachelGibson(UniversityofLeicester),StephenWard(UniversityofOxford)WhatDotheyWant,andHowdotheyWantit?AustralianAttitudestoE-democracy[No:94]LawrencePratchett(DeMontfordUniversity)DemocraticX-Ray:Comparinge-democracydevelopmentsinEurope[No:96]
Philosophy and Politics: 3 [No:132]|X|Chair:HeatherMcKeen|X|Discussant:MarkHamilton|CraigBerry(UniversityofSheffield)Theconceptofglobalisation,thetreatmentofagencyandtheanalysisofworldpolitics[No:465]JonathanFloyd(OxfordUniversity/UniversityCollege)BetterLivingThroughHistory[No:478]JohnGibson(NewcastleUniversity)LacanianPsychoanalysisandGlobalGovernance:ANewApproach[No:471]BenTaylor(UNIVERSITYOFBIRMINGHAM)Understandingincontext:AreassessmentofQuentinSkinner’shistoricalapproachtotex-tualinterpretationinthehistoryofpoliticalthought.[No:452]
Roundtable: Rethinking Participation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Currents from Asia II [No:204]|X|Chair:|MartinGainsborough(UniversityofBristol)Roundtablediscussion[No:606]DangHuongGiang(ActionfortheCity,Hanoi)Roundtablediscussion[No:608]TerryKing(UniversityofLeeds)Roundtablediscussion[No:607]
Theory [No:169]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|RobertHarmsen(Queen’sUniversityBelfast)APoliticsofProtest?:Understandingthe2005FrenchandDutchReferendaontheEuropeanConstitutionalTreaty[No:369]KrzysztofIszkowski(PolishAcademyofSciences,Warsaw)UniversalismvsPan-Europeism-
UK policies [No:161]|X|Chair:JohnHogan|X|Discussant:JohnHogan|JohnHogan(DublinCityUniversity),DavidDoyle(DublinCityUniversity)APredictiveCriticalJunctureFramework[No:517]YaojunLi(BirminghamUniversity)Insearchofmachersandschmoozers:formsofsocialcapitalandtheirimpactsonsocialtrustandpoliticalefficacy[No:533]AdrianSmith(UniversityofSussex)Emerginginbetween:themulti-levelgov-ernanceofrenewableenergyintheEnglishregions[No:421]KatyWilkinson(UniversityofNewcastleuponTyne)EvidenceBasedPolicyandthePoliticsofExpertise:LessonsfromDefra[No:409]
The workshop included five papers:• GlobalDistributiveJusticeandtheState (SimonCaney,UniversityofBirmingham)• GlobalisationandTransnational Constitutionalism(NeilWalker,EUI, Florence)
The Political Studies Association Postgraduate Network (PGN)on28April;andoneinNorthernIrelandattheUniversityofUlsterinJune.Inaddition,weareactivelyinvestigatingthepossibilityofsponsoringaconferenceinSouth-EastEngland–forfurtherinformationpleasecon-tactourconferenceorganiserRobertMauro([email protected]).Weencourageallpostgraduatestocomealongtothesecon-ferences–theyprovideexcellentopportuni-tiestonetworkandreceivefeedbackonwork-in-progressinalessstressfulenvironmentthanmaybethecaseonotheroccasions. Wecontinuetoseektoexpandourmem-bershipandactivities,plustheservicesthatwecanprovideforourpostgraduatecolleagues.Withthisaiminmind,weareorganisingfourspecialistpanelsattheAnnualConference.Thepanelswilldealwithimportantissuesincluding‘Preparingexter-nalresearchgrantproposals,’‘Employability,’
Annual General Meeting 2007 ThePoliticalStudiesAssociation’s2007AGMisonWednesday11thApril2007at5.30pmattheUniversityHallLectureTheatre,UniversityofBath.
Mekong Scholars Blaze a Trail to BathMekongProject. DrGainsboroughwillintroducetheocca-sionwithashortpapersettingoutthepan-el’stheoreticalcontext.HewillbefollowedbyProfessorHoangChiBao,seniorscholarattheHoChiMinhPoliticalAcademyinHanoi,theVietnameseCommunistParty’sleadingtheoreticalinstitute.ProfessorBaowillspeakonVietnameseexperienceswith‘grassrootsdemocracy’,oneofthewaysthatcountryisrealisingdemocracywhilstretainingthe
Since1998shehasbeenoneofthefivemembersoftheCommitteeofEthicsforhighpublicserviceinBrazilcreatedbyPresidentCardosoandwasoneoftheco-authorsoftheCodeofEthicsfortheBrazilianadministrationlaunchedin2000. ImmediatepresidentMaxKaaseremainsapowerfulpresenceontheexecutivecommit-tee.Since2000hehasbeenVicePresidentandDeanoftheSchoolofHumanitiesandSocialSciencesattheInternationalUniversityBremen.Hewasprofessorofpoliticalsci-encefrom1980to1993attheUniversityofMannheimandfrom1993until2000researchprofessorattheBerlinSocialScienceResearchCentre(WZB).HehasbeenamemberoftheGermanScienceCouncilfrom1987until1992andfrom1992until1998amemberofthesenateandoftheexecutivecommitteeoftheGermanResearchCouncil.Hehaspublishedwidelyinthefieldsofcomparativepolitics,politicalsociologyandmasscommunication.HismanybookpublicationsincludeBeliefs in Government writtenwithKennethNewton.WithHans-DieterKlingemannhehasco-edit-edsevenvolumesintheseriesElectionsandVoterscoveringallGermannationalgeneralelectionsfrom1976to1998.
Firstvice-presidentLeonardoMolinoisexpectedtobeoneoftheparticipantsintheroundtableonthestateofworldpoliticalsci-encetobeprovidedbyIPSAattheBathcon-ference.HeisProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversityofFlorence(Italy)anddirectoroftheResearchCentreonSouthernEurope.HewasvisitingprofessororfellowatStanfordUniversity(USA),NuffieldCollege(Oxford,UK),Instituted’étudespolitiques(Paris,France)andYaleUniversity(USA)amongotherinsti-tutions.HispublicationsincludemorethanonehundredarticlesinItalian,French,English,Spanish,andGermanmainlyonauthoritari-anismanddemocratictheory.HeisalsotheauthorofseveralbooksincludingDemocracy Between Consolidation and Crisis: Parties, Groups, and Citizens in Southern Europe (OUP,1988). Othervice-presidentsincludeHideoOtakefromtheUniversityofKyotowhohasworkedonthepoliticaleconomyofJapaninacom-parativeperspectiveandtherelationshipbetweenthetraditionalleftandnewsocialistmovementsinFranceandJapan.BertrandBadieholdsadvancedgraduatedegreesinpoliticalscienceandtwentieth-centuryhis-toryfromtheInstitutd’EtudesPolitiquesinParis(IEP).HeisprofessorattheIEP,director
Aims and objectives Theaimofthegroupistofosterinterdisciplinaryandcriticalresearchintolocalpoliticsandparticipation.Thegroupwillfosterworkthatexaminesthemultiplelinkagesbetweenpoliticsatdiffer-entlevelsoflocality(i.e.community,municipal,constituency,andregional(orstate))andhowthesefeedintonationalandinternationaldebatesaboutpoliticsandpoliticalactionwithincommunities.
The objectives of the Local Politics specialist group are to:• Promoteanddisseminateresearch,teachingandknowledge aboutlocalpoliticsandparticipation;• Facilitateexchangesbetweenresearchersinterestedin differentconceptionsof‘locality’;• BuildinternationalresearchnetworkswithcolleaguesinNorth America,Europeandelsewhere;• Holdeventssuchasbi-annualconferencesandthemedworkshops (heldinalternatingyears)whilealsofacilitatingpanelsatPSAand otherspecialistgroupandinternationalconferences.• Exploreandexplainfactorsthatarespecifictotheconductof localpolitics• Provideasettinginwhichthelinkagesbetweenlocaland nationalpoliticscanbeexplored.
Planned events and outputsThe group intends running a number of events and demonstrating a number of potential outputs. These include:• PanelsonaspectsofLocalPoliticsatPSAConferences• RunninganESRCSeminarSeries• Holdingbi-annualconferencesandthemedworkshops• BuildingandparticipatinginInternationalNetworks• Facilitateco-operationbetweencolleaguesinterestedinworking togetherona)researchfundingbidsandb)publicationactivities• Bi-AnnualPhDWorkshop• Circulatingaregularnewsletter• Hostingawebsitewhichwillactasaresourceformembers
Political Studies Association Local Politics Specialist GroupESRC Seminar Series – The Future of Political Parties in Local Government MembersofthegrouparecurrentlyinvolvedinrunninganESRCsupportedSeminarSerieson‘TheFutureofPoliticalPartiesinLocalGovernment’.Theseriesinvolvesanumberofpartnerbodies:INLOGOV,UniversityofBirmingham;LocalGovernmentResearchUnit,DeMontfortUniversity,theElectoralReformSociety;Demos;andtheLocalGovernmentInformationUnit(LGIU).Thefirstseminar:MappingLocalGovernmentFuturesforPoliticalParties,washeldon18thJanuary2007.
Themes for future seminars are:• NewLocalVotingMethods:ImpactandLessonsforPoliticalParties• LocalRepresentativeDemocracy:ThePartyandthePeople• TheLocalPolitician:Roles,ResponsibilitiesandPatternsof PoliticalRecruitment• LocalPartyPolitics:AnAgendaforChange?
Group Membership Ifyouareinterestedinjoiningthegroup,pleasefeelfreetocontactAlistairClarkona.j.clark@qub.ac.ukorColinCopusonC.M.Copus@bham.ac.ukInitialmembershipisfreefortheyear2007-8.Thereafter,itisintendedtochargeanominalsumof£5tocovercostsincurredinrunningthegroup.Membershipisfreeforallgraduatestudents.
Sarah Childs, University of Bristol Amidstconcernthatsomememberswouldbesnowbound,theWomanandPoliticsGroupheldahugelyenjoyableandlivelymethodsworkshopinLondon.Thiswasnotjustfor‘methodsnerds’-somethirtywomenandafewmenspentthedaydebatinghowbestwemightstudygenderandpolitics.Itwasparticularlynicetoseesomanynewfaces,especiallyPhDstudents,someofwhommadetheirfirstacademicpresentations,aswellasthe‘usualsuspects’.Wewerealsoreallypleasedtoawardthecheque,inperson,tothewinnerofour2005/6undergraduateessayprize,CatherineMcDonald(UniversityofEdinburgh,pictured).Itwasevenmorerewarding,thathavingspentthedaywithusshesaidshemightconsiderpost-gradu-atestudy;ChrissiEason,our2003/4winnerwasalsopresenthavingbeenawardedanESRC1+3quotaawardattheUniversityofManchester. JudithSquires’(Bristol)paper,inwhichshecelebratedfeministpoliticalscience’s‘methodologicaleclecticism’,setthetoneoftheworkshop.Therewaswidespreadagree-mentthatthereisnosinglefeministmethod
‘Doing Gender: Methods and Methodologies for Researching Gender and Political Institutions’Conference Report: Political Studies Association’s Women and Politics Annual Conference, Feb 2007, Birkbeck College
humanrightsandcivilrights,popularcontrolofgovernmentandinclusivepublicdebates.TogetherwithcolleaguesinCanada,shehasbeenconveningafourcountrycomparativeprojectpublishedin2006asRepresenting Women in Parliament: a Comparative Study.
The Norface seminar series competitionThecompetitionisopenforresearchersfromresearchinstitutionsintheNORFACEpartnercountries,whoareconductingsocialscienceresearchwithinthespecifiedthemes,cf.below. Applicationsfrombothexistingnetworks
The ThemesProposalsareinvitedundertwostrategicallyselectedthemes.Thesehavebeenidenti-fiedbytheNORFACENetworkBoardandarebelievedtodisplaystrengthacrossfiveormorecountries,andtobeambitiousandmultidisciplinary. Politics and Evidence Based KnowledgeRanking, ratings, benchmarks and other evidence-based forms of policy advice have significantly gained importance. This development on the one hand helps to bring in evidence into the political process. On the other hand it privileges some forms of evidence-based knowledge over others or: to put it more bluntly could lead to a dominance of consultancy over science. The theme would support the initiation of research about the quality of evaluation, its role in the political process and its effect on the scientific subsys-tem. Transforming Europe – the Consequences of GlobalisationIt is asserted that globalisation is an acceler-
Third Call Specification NORFACE Seminar Series Competition
ating process. New technologies for commu-nication and transport as well as economic development result in closer integration of the world’s societies and states economically, polit-ically, and culturally. This process is pertinent in a European context. There is thus a need to support the initiation of research about the globalisation process. TheseminaractivitiesareexpectedtobeginSeptember2007.
Deadline and Submission Instructions Thedeadlineforsubmissionofapplica-tionsis2ndApril2007.Applicationsreceivedafter2April2007andapplicationsthatdonotmeettheformalrequirementssetoutinthespecificationandguidelinesforappli-cantswillnotbeaccepted.Anelectroniccopyoftheapplicationshouldbesentbyemail,toEckardKä[email protected]‘PoliticsandEvidenceBasedKnowledge’[email protected]‘TransformingEurope–theConsequencesofGlobalisation’.Anyqueriesregardingthecallforproposalsshouldbedirectedinthesamemanner.Theapplicationshouldbesentasonedocumentineither.pdfor.rtfformat. MoredetailedinformationontheNORFACEseminarseriescompetitionisavailablefromtheNorfacewebpage(www.norface.org)andtheNorface-partnersrespectivewebpages.
CallforSubmissionsDeadline for Manuscripts: 30th June 2007 TheCaucasusJournalofSocialSciencesisanewpeerreviewedinterdisciplinaryjournaldevotedtothepursuitofknowledgeandcontinuinginquiryintothewaysinwhichhumancommunitiesformandworktogether.Papersdealwithallaspectsofsocialsystems,frominterpersonaltointernational.Thegoalistocreateatopqualityjournalthatreflectsbothahighdegreeofuniversityscholarshipandaconcernforthehumanpersonincommunity.WeacceptarticlesbasedoncongruencewiththepurposeoftheJournal,importanceofthecontributiontoexistingliterature,conceptualandwrittenclarity,andsoundmethods. Formoreinformationcontact:[email protected]:www.guss.edu.ge
Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences Inaugural Edition, 2007
‘Association to sponsor panel at APSA, Chicago 2007’, PSA News Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2006), p. 18. col. 2
By Emma Murphy, Durham Onthe18thJanuary,theIndependentranafeatureonThe changing face of the doctorate.Thearticlewaspromptedbyadiscussiondocument,authoredbyChrisPark,whochairstheRugbyTeam,asectorworkinggroupestablishedtoevaluateskillsdevelop-mentofearlystageresearchers.ChrisPark’sdocumentneatlysummarizedtherangeofcurrentchallengestowhatwemaythinkofasconventionalideasofwhatadoctorateis,andwhatformitshouldtake.Thedocu-mentisimportantbecauseitbringstolightadebatethatweoughttobehavingnation-ally,withinandbetweeninstitutions,andperhapsmoreimportantlywithindisciplines.Therehavebeenarangeofgovernmentreportsandpolicies,QAAinitiatives,andsectoraldevelopmentsinrecentyearswhichareprofoundlyalteringthenatureofthedoctorate,ofwhatitisandhowitisdone.Theresponsethusfarhaslargelybeencon-finedtoeffortsbyHEIsasinstitutionstobeseentobemeetingnewrequirements.Intheprocess,therealmeaningandimpactoftheaccumulatingchangesarebeinglost.ParkandhiscommitteeareabsolutelyrighttobedirectingacademicstoreflectuponwhatishappeningtotheUKdoctorate. Thestartingpointisundoubtedlytheso-called“Skillsagenda”whichwasadvancedthroughtheRCUKJointSkillsStatement,theRobertsReportandsubsequentRobertsFunding.Wehaveallbecomeusedbynowtothenotionofdepartmental,facultyoruniversitytrainingprogrammes,andthequalityofsuchprovisionhasundoubtedlyvastlyimprovedinmostplaces.Admittedly,however,eventhemostpro-trainingofusmayheaveoccasionalsighsofdespairattheinterruptionofourstudent’sresearchactivitieswithsessionsdedicatedto“design-ingyourCV”or“personalempowerment”.Theverygenericnatureofmanyoftheskillsrequiredcanbealienatingforsupervisors,whoareacutelyconsciousofthefinancialandtimeconstraintswhichalreadyimpingeonourdoctoralstudents’research. Butthen,whatisadoctorate,andwhatisitfor?The2003FutureofHigherEducationReportwasquiteclearthatUniversitiesaretoprepareindividualsforusefulemploymentintheglobalknowledgeeconomy,adirectchallengetothenotionthatresearchhasanintrinsicvalueinandofitself,orthatenquiryisavalidcivilisationalactivityregardlessof
Death of Distinguished Political Scientist Nelson Polsby
TheinauguralInternationalPoliticalEconomyGroupbookprizefor2006hasbeenwonbyGrahamHarrison:The World Bank and Africa(Routledge,2004);theprizewaspresentedattheannualBritishInternationalStudiesAssociationconferenceinDecember.ThejudgesfoundGrahamHarrison’sbooktobeanexcellentandaccessiblecorrectivetotheoftenidentified,butseldomrectifiedlackofanalysesofAfricanexperiencesintheIPEliteratureofrecentyears.ThecombinationoftheoreticalandempiricalanalysismovedbeyondamerelystylisedviewofdevelopmentinSub-SaharanAfricatopresentrealinsightsintotherelationshipbetweenvariousstatesonthecontinentandtheWorldBank,whichwillbeavaluablefoundationforfurtherIPEresearchthatlinksdevelopmentissuestootherabidingconcernsofthediscipline. Harrison’sbookcrossesboundariesfromstructuresintoideasandback,
discipline:JacquelineBest:The Limits of Transparency (CornellUP,2005);AngusCameronandRonenPalan:The Imagined Economies of Globalization(Sage,2004);DavidHarvey:A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism(OxfordUP,2005);Timothy Sinclair: the New Masters of Capital (CornellUP,2005).
Wyn Grant, President, Political Studies Association InDecember2006IattendedtheannualconferenceoftheLithuanianPoliticalScienceAssociationattheInstituteofInternationalRelationsandPoliticalScienceinVilniusasaPoliticalStudiesAssociationrepresentative.Thethemeoftheconferencewas‘TheQualityofDemocracyinCentralandEasternEurope’.Therewerecontributionsfromacademics(includingPhDstudents),journalistsandpoliticians(someofwhomwereevidentlyoutofsortswitheachother).Thepresentationsoftenhadacomparativecontext,wereshapedbyappropriatetheoreticalperspectives,usedrigorousmethodologiesandsparkedlivelydebates(althoughIwasalittlesurprisedtohearDavidCameronreferredtoastheBritishBerlusconi).Asinallpoliticalscienceconfer-ences,oncespeakersanddiscussantshadhadtheirsay,therewastoolittletimeforinterventionsfromthefloorinacontinuous
plenaryformat. WhatwasevidentandperhapsalittlesurprisingwasamoodofpessimismaboutdemocracyinLithuania.Indeed,IpointedoutinmyconcludingremarksthatmaturedemocraciesliketheUKhaveproblemsofdecliningturnout,superficialandoftenpersonallyorientedformsofparticipationanderodingcivilliberties.Nevertheless,EurobarometerdatapublishedintheLithuanian Political Science Yearbook doesshowthatcitizens’satisfactionwiththefunctioningofdemocracyinLithuaniaislow-estamongtheEUcountrieswithlessthanfourthofthepopulationveryorfairlysatis-fiedwiththewaydemocracyworksintheircountrycomparedwitha53percentscorefortheEU-25. Somecontextisnecessary.BeforeleavingLithuaniaIvisitedtheMuseumofGenocideVictimsandtheassociatedKGBprison.Lithuaniawasinvadedthreetimesdur-
Citizenship Teaching Materials on the WebDoyouteachacoursethattouchesonissuesofcitizenship?Areyoulookingforteachingmaterialsthatchallengestudentstoconsidertheirownunderstandingandpracticesofcitizenship?
If the answer is yes, then you may be interested in the resources that are available on the Teaching Citizenship in Higher Education website www.soton.ac.uk/citizened.
Learning activities on the Teaching Citizenship in Higher Education website www.soton.ac.uk/citizened.
Active Citizenship:Studentsareencour-agedtoconsiderkeymomentsinthehistoryofpoliticalactionandthejustificationfordif-ferentformsofpoliticalactivity.Theyaretheninvitedtoplanandorganiseapoliticalactionoftheirchoice. Apathetic Generation? Young People as Citizens: Studentsinvestigatethevariousopportunitiesthatexistforthemtopartici-
Citizenship, Equality and Culture: Bycon-sideringtheimportanceoflanguageandculture,studentsareaskedtoreflectontherelationshipbetweenculturalrightsandthedemandsofcitizenship. Disability and Citizenship(indevelop-ment).UsingavideocreatedbytheDisabilityRightsCommission,studentsarechallengedtoconsiderthewaysinwhichpeoplewithdisabilityareoftenmarginalisedfrompubliclife,withparticularfocusonthepoliciesandpracticesoftheirownuniversity. Environmental Citizenship:Climatechangeisthecentralthemeofthisactivity,withstudentsmeasuringtheirpersonalenvi-ronmentalimpact(usingaclimatecalcula-tordevelopedbyQuakerGreenAction)andreflectingonwhattheyandorganisations,suchasuniversities,mightdotoreducegreenhousegasemissions. Global Citizenship: Throughtheprovisionofarangeofresources–fromadvertisingimagestointerviewswithacademicsandactivists–studentsarechallengedtocon-siderwhatismeantbyglobalcitizenship. Making Citizens: Studentsareaskedtocriticallyreviewtherecentlyintroducedciti-zenshiptestforimmigrants,initiallybytak-ingamock‘test’,andtodrawontheirexperi-enceofbeingtaughtcitizenshipinschools. Measuring Citizenship:Studentsareinvitedtodevelopasetofsurveyquestionstoinvestigatetheattitudesandbehaviourstheyassociatewithcitizenship.Thesearethencomparedtothequestionsusedinthe2000/1CitizenAudit.
Rights and Duties of Citizens:Usingashortquizandthreedetailedcasestudiesoncontroversiesinpublicpolicy(compulsoryvoting,freedomofspeech,theroleofcarers),studentsareinvitedtoexploretheirpositionontherightsanddutiesofcitizens. Second Class Citizens?:Aquizformatenablesstudentstoexaminewaysinwhichwomenhavebeendeniedthefullrightsofcitizenshipatdifferentperiodsinhistory.Studentsarethenencouragedtoinvestigatethepositionofwomenincontemporarysoci-ety.
‘Islamic Extremism in Britain: Causes, Consequences and Solutions’PoliticalStudiesAssociation‘relatedgroup’panelon‘IslamistRadicalisminBritain’,APSAAnnualConferenceChicago2007
Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Panel Organiser, Exeter University The7/7bomber,MohammadSidiqueKhan,citedthecontinuousperpetuationof‘atroci-tiesagainstmypeopleallovertheworld’,asamotivatingfactorinhisactions.These‘atrocities’werenotleastapparentinimagessuchasthoseofMuhammadal-Durrah,the12-year-oldPalestinianboycoweringwithhisfather,apparentlyfromIsraelifire,duringtheoutbreakofthe2000‘al-AqsaIntifada’andtheiconicfigureofSatarJabar,thehoodedprisonerofAbuGharibjail.HowcanweexplainthepotencyofsuchimagesforyoungBritishMuslims–andwhatmechanismscancontributetoand/orretardtheirradicalisingeffects? TheoriginsandcausesofradicalIslamisminBritainareahot,ifnotoverlyheated,topicofdebateforusinBritain.IsradicalIslamismafunctionofthedisengagementandisolationofyoungBritishMuslimsfrommainstreamsociety?IsitafunctionofanincreasingconcernamongstBritishMuslimsthatanti-terrorlawsaretargetingthem–andthatBritainisfastbecomingananti-Islamic‘policestate’?HowdoyoungBritishMuslimsbecomeradicalisedandengageinactsofterrorisminLondononBusesandtheUnderground–andhowmightengage-mentwith‘civilsociety’counterthisprocessofradicalisation?ThereareelementsofthisdebatewhichareuniquetoBritain,andotherelementswhicharereflectedthroughoutEurope.However,thesedebatesarenotoccur-ringinthesamewayintheUnitedStates,
By Ivor Gaber, Political Studies Association Media Advisor Mediatart’‘Rent-a-gob’and‘Dialadon’–justafewofthemoreprintableepitaphsIhaveheardattributedtothoseofourcolleaguespreparedtoputtheirheadsabovethemediaparapetanddowhatwe’reallpaidtodo–disseminate. ThePoliticalStudiesAssociation,asanorganisation,hasgivenahighprioritytogainingahigherprofileforthediscipline.TheAssociation’sannualawardsceremonyinLondonnowregularlyattractssignificantmediacoverageacrossawiderangeofdifferentoutlets.Thisyearthequestion‘WhowasthePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sPoliticianoftheYear’featuredaspartoftheIndependent’sChristmasquiz(theanswerbeingamanwithaScottishname–whichisneitherBrownorCampbell-whohopestobePrimeMinisterafterthenextelection) Butdespitethesetrendstherearestilltoomanyacademicswhoarereluctantto
Why Political Scientists Should learn to Love the Mediaengagewiththewiderpublicviathemedia.Itisnotdifficulttocomeupwithreasonswhyreturningthatcallfromthemediaisnotapriority,buthere’safewastowhyitshouldbe. Perhapsthemostimportantisenshrinedintheterm‘publicintellectual’.IntheUKwehavefartoofewofsuchcharacters,andhencefartoolittleofthenationaldebateisinformedbytheresearch,insightsandperspectiveofacademics.TheroleoftheintellectualinthepubliclifeofFrance,GermanyItaly,eventheUnitedStates,issignificantlygreaterthanitishere,andonekeyreasonisbecauseintellectualshereplayfarlessofaroleinthenationalmediaconversations. Thesecondreasonrevolvesaroundthenotionofpublicaccountability.Mostofusarefunded,onewayoranother,bypublicbodies.Forthisprivilegewehave,Iwouldague,apublicdutyto‘returnourresearch’toourfundersi.e.thepublic.Thatseemstomenotjustanethicaldutybutarathersensiblewayofensuringthatpublicfundingcontinuestoflowtothesocialsciences. Buttherearealsomoreself-serving-reasonswhyahighermediaprofilecanbeofbenefit.OneiswhatIcallthe‘Heineken’effect.Despitewhattheymightsayinpublicaboutnotpayinganyattentiontothemedia,inmyexperience,politiciansarehighlyinfluencedbymediacoverage.Atthestartofeveryminister’sworkingdaytheministerialcarpullsup,onthebackseatsitsamanilafolderawaitingtheminister’sattention.Itcontainsallthepresscuttingsandbroadcastsfromthelast24hoursrelatingtohisorherareaofministerialresponsibility.Thuswhenheorshearrivesattheministrythefirst
By John Loughlin ‘[A]ninstructiveandcomprehensivestudyofthedecentralisationreforms,theircauses,evolutionandconsequencesfortheFrenchpoliticalandadministrativesystem…ThisbookcanbehighlyrecommendedtothoseinterestedinFrenchterritorialpoliticsandsubnationalgovernment.However,itincludesmorethanacountrystudy.Readersinterestedinthedevelopmentofthemodernstateandincomparativelocalgovernmentandpoliticswillprofitfromit.’-ArthurBenz,professorofpoliticalscience,UniversityofHagen,Germany‘ProfessorJohnLoughlinhaswrittenyetanotherveryinformativebookinwhichhecombineshisinsightsintoculture,religionandhistorywithknowledgeaboutcontemporarypoliticaldevelopmentsatnationalandsub-nationallevels.’–AndersLidström,professorofpolitical
Subnational Government: The French Experience
science,UmeåUniversity,SwedenSubnational Government: The French ExperienceisthemostcomprehensiveanduptodatetreatmentinEnglishofthetransformationoflocalgovernanceinFrancesincethe1982decentralizationreforms.ItplacesthesereformsandtheirconsequencesinthehistoricalcontextofFrenchnation-building,socio-economicchangeswithinFranceandinrelationtointernationaltrendsinterritorialgovernance.ThebookarguesthatwearewitnessingatransformationoftheclassicalJacobinunitarystateandtheendoftheoldsystemofcentral-localrelationswhichunderpinnedthis.Itexaminestheevolutionofthemunicipalitiesandtheattemptstoovercometheproblemoftheirvastnumberthroughvariousformsofassociation.Itanalysesthestrugglefordominancebetweenthedepartmentsandregions,thelink
Your help still needed Theprojectteamisstilllookingtocommis-siontutorstotrialandevaluatethematerials.Weareparticularlyinterestedinevaluationsofthemorerecentlydevelopedlearningactivities:‘MakingCitizens’,‘Culture,EqualityandCitizenship’,‘DisabilityandCitizenship’and‘EnvironmentalCitizenship’.However,ifyouareinterestedinevaluatingoneoftheotheractivities,wewouldstillbeliketohearfromyou.PleasecontacttheProjectDirector,GrahamSmith,ProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversityofSouthamptongsmith@soton.ac.ukor02380593308.Andfinally,thankstoallthetutorsandstudentswhohavehelpedussofar.