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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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Page 1: PSA News MArch 2007 - The Political Studies Association · PDF fileProfessor Hideo Otake, Executive Committee, IPSA; Professor Lourdes Sola, President, IPSA; Professor Max Kaasa, Executive

NEWSWyn Grant, President, Political Studies Association TheexecutivecommitteeoftheInternationalPoliticalScienceAssociationwillholditsnextexecutivecommitteemeetingconcurrentlywiththePoliticalStudiesAssociationconferenceinBath. Thiswillbringsomeleadingworldpoliticalscientiststotheconference.TheIPSAExecutivewillhaveabusyagenda,includingfirmingupplansforthenextIPSAcongressinSantiago,Chilein2009.AkeypartofIPSA’sroleisreachingouttopoliticalscientistsintheGlobalSouthandhelpingthesubject’sdevelopmentthere.ThecongressinSantiagoshouldgiveaboosttopoliticalscienceinLatinAmericawhichsufferedfromtheyearsofmilitarydictatorshipinmanycountriesthereandtheconsequentexileofsocialscientistsoverseas.TheIPSAexecutivewillalsobeorganisingthe

Fromtoplefttoright:HelenMilner,ExecutiveCommittee,IPSA;ProfessorHideoOtake,ExecutiveCommittee,IPSA;ProfessorLourdesSola,President,IPSA;ProfessorMaxKaasa,ExecutiveCommitttee,IPSA

firstinterimconferencescheduledtobeheldinMontrealin2008whichwillprovideanewfocusfortheorganisation’sResearchCommittees. ThecurrentIPSApresident,ProfessorLourdesSola,isfromBrazilandshewillbepresentingtheprizesatthePoliticalStudiesAssociationannualdinner. SheisprofessorofpoliticalscienceattheUniversityofSaoPaolo.SheobtainedherPhDinpoliticalscienceatOxfordUniversityin1982andhasservedtwotermsaspresidentoftheBrazilianPoliticalScienceAssociation.HerresearchhasbeenfocusedoncomparativepoliticsanddemocratisationandherbooksinEnglishincludeTheState,EconomicReformandDemocratization.[Continued on page 15]

interview(byapanelthatincludedJonTonge,MartinSmithandJackArthursinadditiontopub-submembers).FollowinglengthynegotiationsandmuchdiscussionitwasfinallydecidedtorecommendtotheExecutivethatthebidfromBlackwellbeacceptedandthiswasagreed. IamgratefultothemembersoftheAssociationpanelfortheirinvolvementinmakingthisimportant(and,asitproved,difficult)decisionandalsototheshort-listedpublishersfortheirpatienceandthequalityofthebidsthattheymade.Althoughitwasamatteroverwhichweagonisedagooddeal,Iam

David Denver, Chair, Publications Sub-Committee AllofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationjournals(PoliticalStudies,PoliticalStudiesReview,BritishJournalofPoliticsandInternationalRelationsandPolitics)arecurrentlypublishedonbehalfoftheAssociationbyBlackwell.Thiscontractcomestoanendatthestartof2008,however,andduring2006thePublicationssub-committeeinvitedpublisherstobidforthenewcontracttorunfrom2008-13. Competitionwasgratifyinglyfierceandthreepublisherswereshort-listedforintensive

ContentDepartment News | 2 Title|2 Title|3 Title|4Time to Confer | 5 Title|5 Title|6Department Profile | 7 Title|7 Title|8 Title|9 Title|11Association News | 12PHD Prize 2007 | 13Research and Writing Opportunities | 14Specialist Group News | 14 Title|15 Title|16 Title|16In Full View | 17 Title|17Links with Other Associations | 182007 Annual Conference | 19

UCASfiguresshowthatapplicationstostudyPoliticsatUKuniversitieshaverisensharplyagain–thesixthconsecutiveincrease.By15January2007,23,693studentshadappliedtostudyPolitics,averyhealthyincreaseof8.4%(abovetheaveragedisciplineincreaseof6%)onthepreviousyear’stotal.ThenumberofapplicantsnowmakesPoliticsthe37thmostpopular(of82recordeddisciplines)subjectforuniversityapplications.SeeJuneeditionofNewsletterforfullreport.

World Political Scientists Convene in Bath

Political Studies Association Agrees New Publishing Contract

confidentthattheAssociationwillcontinuetohaveaneffectiveandprofitablerelationshipwithBlackwelloverthelifetimeofthenewcontract.

DavidDenver

Politics Undergraduate Numbers Rise Again

March 2007 ISSN0955-6281Vol.18No.1

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News from the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Lefttoright:FrankBarnaby,LordHannay,SirMichaelQuinlanandProfessorNicholasWheeler.

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

ofUncertainty’ataconferenceorganisedbyGreenpeace/TheWMDAwarenessProject,chairedbyBaronessShirleyWilliams,called‘Trident:theTippingPoint?’intheHouseofCommons,December2006.

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.

ProfessorNicolasWheelerandProfessorKenBooth(foreground).

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

Department News2 Department News �

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

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Department News� Time to Confer �

• MrAntonisEllinas,ReutersInstitutefortheStudyofJournalism ResearchFellow• DrHenrikÖrnebring,ReutersInstitutefortheStudyofJournalism AxessResearch

New Post-doctoral Fellows:• MrDavidArmstrong,QuantitativeResearchMethods• MrRyanBakker,QuantitativeResearchMethods• DrChrisBrooke,PoliticalTheory• DrColinFarrelly,CentrefortheStudyofSocialJustice• DrMarkusKornprobst,InternationalRelations• DrHarmutLenz,ComparativeGovernment• DrEricMorier-Genoud,OReNGA(OxfordResearchNetworkon GovernanceinAfrica)• DrJohannesLindvall,ResearchFellowinComparativePolitics• DrChristinaSchneider,InternationalRelations• DrPhilipRoessler,AndrewMellonPost-doctoralFellowin ComparativeGovernment• MrOisínTansey,ESRCPost-doctoralFellow• DrKatherineEddy,BritishAcademyPost-doctoralFellow

TheSchoolofPoliticsandInternationalRelationsattheUniversityofNottinghamhaslaunchedanexcitingnewfouryearundergraduatedegreeentitled:‘MSciinInternationalRelationsandGlobalIssues’.ThefirststudentswillbegintheirstudiesinSeptember2007. Theideabehindthisdegreeisthatinternationalrelationsisbesttaughtglobally.StudentswillspendtheirfirstyearatNottinghamandthenspendtheirsecondyearwithoneoffourUniversitas21partneruniversities.TheseareAuckland,HongKong,MelbourneandUBC.Inyeartwoallstudentstakeanonlinecapstonemodulein‘GlobalCitizenship’providedbyUBC.StudentsreturntoNottinghamintheirthirdyearandmoveintothemastersstreamintheirfinalyear.AnticipatedfurtherdevelopmentsinthisdegreeincludeopportunitiestostudyatNottingham’sNingbocampusclosetoShanghai. Oneofthechallengesofthedegreehasbeendeliveringmoreteachingonline.Apoolofonlinemodulesallowsstudentstostudyatahostuniversityinyeartwowhilealsoselectingadditionalmodulesfromathirdorfourthuniversityonline.Colleagueshavefoundteachingstudentsonaglobalbasisbothchallengingandrewarding.ProfessorRichardJ.AldrichwhohelpedtodesignthedegreesaidsometimesyoufeltthatwhattheSchoolreallyneededwasaclockthatshowedthetimeinallfivepartneruniversities. PoliticsandIRatNottinghamhasastronginterestinresearchingglobalisation,signalledbythelaunchofanewCentrefortheStudyofSocialandGlobalJusticein2006,directedbyProfessorSimonTormey.AsuccessfulRCUKbidledbytheCentreonthethemeof‘China,GlobalisationandResistance’willseethreenewresearchfellowsjointheUniversityin2007.

Nottingham launches a new Four Year Undergraduate Masters Degree

Politics at Bath is a-changing…

ThePoliticssectionattheUniversityofBathisgrowing.AfterhavingappointedProfessorRichardWhitman(formerlyofWestminsterUniversityandChathamHouse,London)in2006asProfessorofPolitics,ithasnowappointedProfessorAdrianHyde(formerlyofLeicesterUniversity)asProfessorofInternationalRelationsandProfessorAntjeWiener(formerlyofQueens,Belfast)asProfessorofPoliticsandInternationalRelations.AnewlecturerinInternationalrelationswillshortlyalsobeappointed.ThesenewappointmentswillcoincidewiththelaunchingofanewBSc(Hons)inPoliticswithInternationalRelationswhichwillhaveitsfirstintakeinOctober2007.

AttheUniversityofNorthamptonwehaverecentlyvalidatedanewMAInternationalRelationswhichwillreceiveitsfirstintakeofstudentsinOctober2007.AsinglehonoursdegreeinPoliticsisalsocurrentlygoingthroughvalidation(alsotostartinOctober2007)andwilladdtoourexistingJointandCombinedHonoursprovisioninPoliticsatundergraduatelevel. AkeyfeatureofthenewBAPoliticswillbetheavailabilityofaninternshipschemeattheHouseofCommonsinthestudents’secondyearofstudy.Thisschemewasverysuccessfullypilotedlastyear.

For more information: TheadmissionstutorforPoliticsundergraduatecoursesisLeslieBenson:[email protected],theadmissionstutorisJonGorry:[email protected]://www.northampton.ac.ukdepartments/socialsciences/andthenfollowthelinktoPolitics.AtthebottomofthePoliticspageisalinktotheMAIR.

New MA at the University of Northampton

Northern PSA Graduate Conference 2007

‘African Borderlands and Frontiers’ Conference

From22nd-24thNovember2007theBelgianAssociationofAfricanistsorganizesaninternationalconferenceon“BorderlandsandFrontiersinAfrica”.ThisconferencewilltakeplaceinLeuven,Belgium.ItwelcomescontributionsfromscholarsacrossthehumanitiesandsocialsciencesworkinginandonAfrica,anditespeciallywelcomescontributionsbyAfricanscholars. Thisconferencefocusesonfrontiers,borders,andboundariesinAfrica,andespeciallyonthemanywayspeoplethroughoutthecontinentdealwiththem.Boundariesarecreated,maintainedand

9th Public Management Research Association Conference

PublicManagementResearchAssociation(PMRA)arenowbeingaccepted.Theconfer-encewillbehostedbytheSchoolofPublicAdministrationandPolicyintheEllerCollege

A Changing Cuba in a Changing World Conference

Thisinternational,inter-disciplinaryforumwillgatherscholarsandotherspecialiststoprobechangescurrentlyunderwayineconomics,politicsandpolicymodels,civilsociety,artandliterature,racerelations,nationalidentityandculture,aswellasCuba’sroleinworldaffairs. Thedeadlineforreceiptofpaperproposalsorsessionsis16thOctober2007.Earlysubmissionsandinquiriesareencouraged.Deadlineforfinalpapersis29thJanuary2008. SendyourproposalstoCubaProject,TheBildnerCenter,365FifthAve,NewYork,NY10016-4309orviaemailtocubaproject@gc,cuny.edu Formoreinformationpleasevisitthewebsite:http://www.bildner.org

The2007NorthernPoliticalStudiesAssociationGraduateConferencewilltakeplaceattheDepartmentofPolitics,UniversityofGlasgow,Scotland,onFriday25thMay2007. TheGraduateconferenceisaconferenceorganizedbypostgraduatestudentsforpostgraduates.Itprovidesanidealenvironmenttodiscussgeneralissuesregardingpostgraduatestudyandisausefulwayofestablishingcontactswiththepostgraduatecommunityinyourregionandinyourspecificfieldofstudy. Thereisnoregistrationfeeforthisconference.Lunchandrefreshmentswillbeprovided.TheDepartmentofPolitics,theFacultyofLaw,BusinessandSocialSciences,thePoliticalStudiesAssociationGraduateNetwork(PGN)andthePoliticalStudiesAssociationJournalPoliticsaresponsoringtheconference. Travel&Accommodation,ifrequired,areattheattendee’sownexpense.Foraccommodationseee.g.http://www.scottishaccommodationindex.com/glasgow.php Forupdatesontheconferencegoto:http://www.lbss.gla.ac.uk/Politics/degreeprogrammes/postgradresearch

University of Glasgow Friday25thMay2007

Leuven, Belgium 22nd-24thNovember2007

Call for Papers, Cuba Project, New York 12th-14thMarch2008

University of Arizona, Tucson 25th-27thOctober2007

ofManagementattheUniversityofArizona. Sinceitsfirstmeetingin1991,thisresearchconferencehasbeentheforemostgatheringofleadingpublicmanagementscholars.ItistheofficialbiennialconferenceofthePMRA,anorganizationthatemphasizesthelinkagesbetweenthestudyofpublicinstitutionsandtheirmanagementandthestudyofpublicpolicy.Theorganizationsupportsthedevel-opmentofempiricalandnormativeinquiry,theorybuildingandsystematictestingoftheoryconsistentwiththecanonsofsocialsci-ence,usingthefullrangeofquantitativeandqualitativemethodologies. Inkeepingwithpastconferences,preferencewillbegiventoproposalsthatfeatureempiri-calresearch.Theseproposalswillbeevaluatedbasedonthesignificanceandqualityoftheresearchquestion,researchdesign,methods,data,andfindings.However,proposalsforpapersthatfeaturewell-craftedconceptualandtheoreticalcontributionswithoutempiri-caltestsalsowillbeconsidered.Specifically,thecommitteewelcomesnon-empiricalpiecesthatdevelopatheoryortheoreticalframe-workthatprovidesinsightintoacompellingresearchquestionorsubjectofstudyinpub-licmanagement.Strongconceptualpapersshouldidentifyfoundationalassumptionsandkeyconcepts,developaninternallyconsistentlogicormodelofcausation,andresultinspe-cificpropositionsortestablehypotheses. Proposalswillbeacceptedforindividualpapers,orforcompletepanels(consistingofnomorethanfourpapers).Eachpapersubmittedaspartofapanelwillbeevaluatedseparatelybytheprogramcommittee,whichmaydroporaddpaperstotheproposedpanel. Proposalsshouldbesubmittedtoina.k.cook@gmail.comaseitheraPDForWordattachmentnolaterthanFriday30thMarch2007.Notificationsofproposalacceptanceordenialwillbesentby15thJune2007.Ifaproposalisaccepted,thepresentermustregisterfortheconferenceinordertoparticipate. Requeststobepanelchairsalsomaybesubmittedtoina.k.cook@gmail.com.Includeinformationaboutyourtitle,institutionalaffiliation,Ph.D.granted(date,field,andinstitution),andgeneralresearchinterests. AnyquestionsregardingtheconferenceorproposalsubmissionmaybesenttoeitherCarolynHillatcarolyn.j.hill@[email protected].

unmade,butatthesametimetheyalsoconstituteapolitical,social,economicandhistoricalreality.Moreover,despitethesupposedrigidityofbordersandboundaries,thisrealityisincontinuousflux. Afulllistofthemes,togetherwithconferencedetails(suchasvenue,programme,alistofrelevantliterature,andsoon)canbefoundatwww.borderlands.be.Papersandabstractswillalsobecirculatedonthiswebsite.Abstractsandproposalsareexpectedbefore1stSeptember2007.Finishedpapersareduebefore1stNovember2007.Formoreinformationpleasecontact:StevenVanWolputteat:[email protected]:www.africaresearch.be

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Time to Confer� Time to Confer 7

Department of Politics, School of European Studies, Cardiff University 22nd-24thNovember2007

Wales and South-West England Graduate Conference

ThefourthWalesandSouth-WestEnglandPostgraduateConferenceinPoliticswilltakeplaceattheGraduateCentre,StudentsUnion’sBuilding,hostedbySchoolofEuropeanStudies,GraduateSchoolinHumanities,andthePoliticalStudiesAssociation,onSaturday28thApril2007.Papersarewelcomeonallaspectsofpolitics,politicalphilosophy,andinternationalrela-tions.Panelsuggestionsareencouragedalso. TheWalesandSouth-WestEnglandPostgraduateConferenceisorganizedbypostgraduatesforpostgraduates.Itprovidesanopportunitytopresentapaperora‘workinprogress’onpoliticsinarelaxedatmos-phereandtodiscussyourworkamongyourpeers.TheWalesandSouth-WestEnglandPostgraduateConferenceistheidealsettingtopresentembryonicideasorfullypolishedpapersreadyforpublication,andthereisnorequirementtocirculatethepaperyoupresentbeforehand.Theconferencealsopro-videsanidealenvironmenttodiscussgeneralissuesregardingpostgraduatestudyandisausefulwayofestablishingcontactswiththepostgraduatecommunity.

Submission DeadlinesSubmissiondeadlineforpaperpropos-alsisWednesday28thMarch2007.Pleaseforwardyourcontactdetails,proposaltitle,andabstractofnomorethan300wordstoCamillaBoisen:[email protected](IfyouplanonusingPowerpoint,pleaseindi-cate.)Contactdetailsshouldincludename,whetherornotyouareamemberofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation,universityandprogrammeofstudy,emailaddressandtel./mobilenumber.Ifyouwishtoattendwithoutpresentingapaper,pleasesendyourcontactdetailstotheaboveemailaddress. Tosubmitapaperproposal,suggestapanelthemeorrequestfurtherinformation,detailsorquestionsabouttheconference,pleasecontactKerstinBuddeat:[email protected] ThereisnoregistrationfeefortheWalesandSouth-WestEnglandPostgraduateConference,andallconferenceevents,includ-inglunchandotherrefreshmentsarefreeof

‘Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness’

Call for Papers Theorganisingcommiteefortheconferencecycle“ColonialandPost-ColonialRememberingandForgetfulness”tobeheldforthesecondtimeinMexicoCitybetweenthe16thand18thofOctober2007isseekingfurtherpanelistsforaspecialsession/“sub-conference”dedicatedto“EmpiresandIdentities”thatwilltakeplaceduringtheconference. Wewelcomesubmissionsfromallbranchesofthesocialsciences,humanities,aswellasthearts.Graduatestudentsareencouragedtoparticipate.Paperswillbeconsideredonrelatedthemesandtopicsfromawiderangeofperspectives.Presentersareencouragedtointerpretthethemesoftheconferencebroadlyandmayexploreanyhistoricalperiod,withanygeographicfocus. Paperswillbeconsideredonrelatedthemesandtopicsfromawiderangeofperspectives.500wordabstractsshouldbesubmittedtotheorganisingcommitteeinEnglish,Castilian,GermanorFrenchby1stMay2007.TheconferencelanguageswillbeEnglishandCastilian.Interpretationsoftheconferencethemerangingfromthepredictabletothesurprisingareencouraged. Moreinformationabouttheconferenceandthedifferentspecialsessionsandsub-conferencesduringtheeventisavailableontheconferencehomepage:http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/chimalpahin/intro_en.htmEmail:[email protected]

epsNet Annual Conference ‘Europe: Integration and/or Fragmentation’

TheEuropeanPoliticalScienceNetwork(epsNet)isanorganizationdedicatedtothepromotionofpoliticalscienceinEurope.Itsconferencesprovideadiscussionforumonthedisciplineandteachingofpoliticalscience.The2007generalconferencethemeisEurope:Integrationand/orFragmentation?Thisisdividedintothreesubthemes:Europe’sCitizensandCivilSociety,InternalandExternalSecurity,OrganizingandGoverningtheState TheconferencealsohasaspecialsectiononPoliticalScienceandtheBolognaProcess,andprovidesanIntensiveSeminarofferingtrainingforfirst-timeuniversityteachersinpoliticalscience. TheConferenceconvenorsare:MichelleCini(UniversityofBristol),MiroHacek(UniversityofLjubljana)andBobReinalda(RadboudUniversityNijmegen). Formoreinformationpleasecontacttheconferencecoordinator:CirilaToplak,DepartmentofPoliticalScience,UniversityofLjubljana,Slovenia:cirila.toplak@uni-mb.siEpsNetisapan-EuropeanorganizationwithamembershipalloverEurope.FormoreaboutepsNetpleasegoto:www.epsnet.org.

A Special Session at the Empires and Identities Conference, Mexico City and Chalco 16th-18thOctober2007

Quebec, Canada Concernwithissuesofethnicpluralismhascometotheforefrontofpublicdebateinliberaldemocraciesandnewlydemocratizingstates.Wide-rangingpopulationmovementsaroundtheglobe,endorsementofcosmopolitanism,andtheincreasingimportanceofnormsfuzzilylabeled“civilrights”,havebeenwidelyregardedaspositivetrends.Atthesametime,thereislittledoubtthatinmanycases,ethnicheterogeneityhasbeencharacterizedbymistrust,suspicion,alienation,andconflict.Asmanysocietiesareundergoingdemographictransformations,thereisintensedebateabouthowcommunalrelationsarebestmanaged.Attheforefrontareissuessuchastheplaceofreligiousarbitration,dresscodesinpublicschools,andthebalancebetweenfreedomofspeech,andthesensibilitiesofreligiousminorities,asdemonstratedinthe“cartoonaffair”inEuropeinthewinterof2006.Some

UniversityofLjubljana,Slovenia 22nd-23rdJune2007

charge.TheDepartmentofPolitics,SchoolofEuropeanStudies,andthePoliticalStudiesAssociationGraduateNetwork(PGN)aresponsoringtheconference.

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

believethatilliberalnormsarebeinginjectedintoliberalsocietiesandarecontributingtotheerosionofsocialcohesion.Othersfearthatmulticulturalidealsarebeingtakenoverbyincreasingintolerancetowardimmigrantandindigenousethniccommunities.Yetothersstillfeelthatmulticulturalismandsocialcohesionarenotinconsistentpolicyobjectives.Theaimofthisconferenceistoexploreempirical,normative,andpolicy-relevantquestionsrelatingtointer-grouprelationsinmultiethnicsocieties,bothWesternandnon-Western,andfromdiversedisciplinaryperspectives. Forfurtherinformationabouttheconferenceincluding,thedifferentthematicareasoftheconference,registrationandaccommodation,pleasevisittheEDGwebsiteatwww.edg-gde.ca. Thedeadlineforsubmissionofabstractsis31stMarch2007andshouldbesenttocfp@edg-gde.com.

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

FlindersUniversity,Adelaide,SouthAustralia 3rd-5thDecember2007

• Genderandgenerationalissuesinthe migrationexperience• Linguistics,diasporaandmigration• Settlingdown,settlementpatternsand returnmigration• Canmulti-culturesandmulti-ethnicities produceonenation?• Multiculturalism• Languagemaintenanceinthenewculture• Foodways• Migration,placeandsituatedidentities• Connectionswiththenewplaceand (re)negotiatingwiththeold• HomeandAway:Whatistransferredfrom thehomeculturetothenewculture? Whatcannotfitinthebaggage?• Imaginaryhomelands:life-writing,creative writingandfilmresponsestothe migrationexperience• Unsettlement:theideaofthesettlercolony• Culturalmemory:heritageandexchange• Transplantedculturesastouristattractions• Fusion,‘culturalhybridity’, cosmopolitanism…

Proposals Proposalsforpanelsessionswillbeconsid-eredaswellasabstractsforindividualpapers.

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‘Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly’

WilliamE.ConnollyisoneoftheleadingpoliticaltheoristsincontemporaryNorthAmericaandperhapsthemostsignificanttobeworkingoutsideofananalyticorliberalparadigm.HehasbroughtEuropeanpost-structuralconcernsintotheAmericanandAnglo-Americantradition,pushedtheboundariesofpoliticaltheoryintoareasasdiverseascinema,neurologyandpopularcultureandadvancedaradicaltheoryofpost-secularandpost-nationalpluralism. Hisworkhelpstoelucidatetheparticularproblemsfacedbypluralandpluralisedsocietiesinthefaceofchangeswroughtbyglobalisation,immigration,and9/11anditsaftermath.Thisconferencewillcelebratehiswork,criticallyinterrogateit,andexploreitspracticalpoliticalimpactsoastobringhisprojecttotheattentionofawiderUKandinternationalaudience. Forfurtherdetails,registrationinformation,oranyquestionspleasecontactDr.SamuelA.ChambersandDr.AlanFinlaysonbyemailingconnolly.conference@swanseapolitics.org.uk.

“From Europe to Latin America and Beyond: The Continuity of Genocidal Social Practices”

Topics for Roundtables discussions:• TheConventiononthePreventionand PunishmentoftheCrimeofGenocide anditsDebates:TheStruggleagainst Impunity.• ColonialismandGenocidalSocial Practices.• GenocidalSocialPracticesinthe20th Century.• PreventingGenocideinthe21stCentury: MajorRisksandEarlyWarning Mechanisms.• PoliticalMassViolenceandGenocidein LatinAmerica.• Waysof“SymbolicAchievement”of Genocide:GenocidalSocialPracticesand Narration.• GenocideandStructural/Institutional Violence• ProcessesofResistancetoGenocidal SocialPractices.• AftermathandLong-TermRepercussions oftheGenocidalSocialPractices.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30th April 2007Deadline for submission of papers: 15th October 2007

Council of European Studies Sixteenth International Conference

Call for papers TheCouncil’sInternationalConferencebringstogetherscholarsandexpertsfordebate,discussion,andinterdisciplinary

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TresdeFebreroNationalUniversity(UNTREF)BuenosAires,Argentina 3rd-5thDecember2007

TheDepartmentofPoliticsandInterna-tionalRelations,SwanseaUniversity May11thandthe12th2007

Panelproposalsshouldincludeathemeforthesession,thenamesofallspeakers,thetitlesoftheirpapers,andasessionsummaryof250–300words. Abstractsof250–300wordsshouldbesubmittedforeachpaper,whethertheyareincludedinapanelsessionproposalornot.Whereabstractsareintendedforaproposedpanelsession,thisshouldbeindicatedontheabstract. AbstractsandsessionproposalsshouldbesenttoNenaBierbaum,SchoolofHumanities,FlindersUniversity,GPOBox2100,Adelaide,SouthAustralian5001,[email protected] abstracts will be refereed.

Registrationfeeforforeignpresentersandattendees:US$150(TheforeignregistrationfeeincludestheMeeting’smaterials,Conferencemeals,aCDwiththeexpositionsandpapers,andtheattendancecertificate.) Forinformationandregistration,sende-mailtocongresogenocidio@untref.edu.ar.Visitthewebsiteathttp://www.inogs.com

TheDrakeHotel,Chicago 5th-8thMarch2008

exchange.Atthe2008conference,theCouncilwelcomespanels,roundtables,workshops,bookdiscussions,andindividualpapers,onthestudyofEuropeatitsmostbroadlydefined,andencouragesproposalsonthewidestrangeofdisciplinesandinterdisciplinaryfields.

Proposalformsmustbereceivedelectronicallyatces@columbia.eduby1stJune2007. ParticipantswillbenotifiedoftheCommittee’sdecisionsby5thNovember2007. Pleasenote:TheCommitteewillacceptonly2submissionsperperson.Membersmayalsoparticipateinamaximumoftwosessions,andnoexceptionswillbemade.Forfurtherinformationregardingthe2008conference,includingtheproposalforms,pleasegoto:www.councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conf/conf.htm

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‘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

otherwise,theelectoralfrayandstandingcandidatesforpoliticaloffice.

Call for papers Thepaperproposalshouldsetoutthedefinitionofminorpartyemployedforthepurposeofthepaper(whichcanreflectthespecificpoliticalcontextsandfactorsthatexistindifferentcountries)andwhetherthepaperexaminesallminorpartiesinaparticularsetting,acollectionofpartiesorasingleparty,andgivetherationaleforthatchoice. Outlinesforpaperscoveringthefollowingaspectsofminorparties,independentpoliticians,voterassociationsandpoliticalassociations,atalllevelsofpoliticsarewelcome:• internationalcomparisons• singlenationstudies• empiricalstudies• theoreticalandcomparativepapers• historicalexplorations• casestudies

OutlinesforpaperproposalsaretobesenttoDrColinCopus:c.m.copus@bham.ac.ukby14thApril2007andshouldbenomorethan600words.Therewillbeasmallchargeforattendingtheconference,whichwillbeannouncedatalaterdate.

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:

• ChineseEconomyandEnterprise:Review andOutlookincludingOutsourcing• TheIrish‘AsianStrategy’anditsProgress• RuralandUrban:Dual-Structureof

‘China in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics and Business’

ChineseSociety• ChangingPublic-PrivateRelationships inChina• ChinaandInternationalRelations• LawandtheDevelopmentof ChineseCivilSociety• ArtinContemporaryChina• EducationinChina:Opportunities andChallenges• The2008BeijingOlympicGames anditsImpact

Inaddition,wewelcomeanypieceofinnovativeandpromisingresearchonChina.Pleasenotthedeadlineforsendingabstractstotheconferenceorganisersis5thApril2007.Theabstractshouldcontainanoutlineofthepaperofnotmorethan200words,ashortCVofthepersonproposingthepaperandhisorhercurrentinstitutionalaffiliationandcontactdetails.

For further details please contact: NiallDugganTel:00353-21-4902825Fax:00353-21-4903825E-mail:[email protected]

PeterRiddell,PoliticalEditorofTheTimes,hasacceptedanHonoraryFellowshipfromthePoliticalStudiesAssociation. TheFellowshipwasawardedforPeter’scontributiontobridginglinksbetweentheacademicstudyofpoliticsandpoliti-caljournalism.PeterRiddell’scolumn

Peter Riddell Accepts Honorary Fellowship from the Association

PeterRiddell

inTheTimesregularlycitesacademicworksinsupportofhisarguments. Inrecentyears,PeterhasplayedanimportantroleintheESRCDevolutionandConstitutionalChangepro-gramme;satontheESRCInternationalBenchmarkingofPoliticssteeringcommittee;wasinvolvedintheAssociation’sValuesofBritishnesscon-ference;wastheguestspeakeratthePSAEPOPAnnualConferenceandhasbeenamemberoftheAssociation’sAwardsCeremonyjury.ThePoliticalStudiesAssociationisgratefulforhiscontinuingunstintingassistance. TheBBC’sJamesNaughtiewasawardedanHonoraryFellowshiplastyear.

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PoliticsatNewcastlehasalongandsuccessfulhistoryonwhichanewgenerationofscholarsarebuildingforthefuture.In2005,NewcastlePoliticscelebratedits50thanniversarywithamajorreunioneventforformer(andcurrent)staffandstudents.

ThekeynotespeakerwasEmeritusProfessorHughBerrington,whoguidedtheDepartmentthroughmorethanthirtyyearsfromthe1960stothemid-1990s.Inthattime,PoliticsatNewcastlegrewfrom‘amanandaboy’tooverfifteenstaff.SinceProfessorBerrington’s(official)retirementNewcastlePoliticshasundergonesignificantchange.(ProfessorBerringtonpresentedhiscurrentresearchatourregularlunchtimestaffseminarinOctoberlastyear!) In2002,webecamepartoftheSchoolofGeography,PoliticsandSociologyinaUniversityre-organisation.Thenewstructure–combinedwithseveralretirementsanddepartures–presentedinterestingchallengesandanopportunityforrenewal.WehaveseenasignificantnumberofnewappointmentsandPoliticsatNewcastlehasbeguntogrowagain.Wewillhavetwenty-twostaffbyOctober2007.Ofthose,elevenmembersofstaffhavebeenappointedsince2003andelevenareunderfortyyearsofage.ThirteenstaffwillbeenteredfortheRAEforthefirsttimein2008.Weareayoungdepartmentwithalonghistoryandanexcitingfuture. NewcastlePoliticshasthreemainresearchclusters:politicalphilosophy;internationalpolitics;andnationalandsupranationalsystems.Wehavemadeexcitingappointmentsinallthreeclustersinrecentyears.

Political Philosophy Thepoliticalphilosophygroup–underthecontinuingleadershipofProfessorPeterJones–hasseenthreenewappointmentssince2004.Dr.ThomBrooks’researchinterestsincludebothhistoryofpoliticalthoughtandcontemporarypoliticalphilosophy.HeiscurrentlyworkingonbooksonHegel’sPoliticalPhilosophyandAnIdealistTheoryofPunishmentduringhisAHRC-fundedresearchleave.Dr.IanO’Flynnworksondemocracyandisparticularlyinterestedinthepotentialroleofdeliberativedemocracyindividedsocieties. Hisfirstbook,DeliberativeDemocracy

andDividedSocieties,waspublishedbyEdinburghUniversityPressin2006.HeiscurrentlyworkingwithProfessorJamesFishkin(StanfordUniversity)ona‘deliberativepoll’inNorthernIrelandonthesubjectofintegratededucation.Finally,DrGrahamLongwilljointhedepartmentasalecturerinOctober2007havingrecentlycompletedathreeyearBritishAcademypost-doctoralfellowshipatNewcastle.Dr.Long’sresearchisonthepoliticalphilosophyofinternationalrelations.HisRelativismandtheFoundationsofLiberalism(ImprintAcademic,2004)isbasedonhisprize-winningPhDthesis.

International PoliticsTheinternationalpoliticsclusterhasalsoenjoyedasubstantialrenewal.ProfessorHartmutBehrwasappointedtoleadtheinternationalpoliticsgroupinSeptember2005.ProfessorBehr–likeGrahamLong–providesabridgebetweeninternationalrelationstheoryandpoliticalphilosophy.Heiscurrentlyworkingonamonograph,TheLossofEthics:WarandPeaceinInternationalPoliticalThoughttobepublishedbyPalgrave. Dr.KyleGraysonjoinedNewcastlePoliticsfromYorkUniversity,Toronto.Dr.Grayson’sfirstbook,ChasingDragons:Security,Identity

andIllicitDrugsinCanada(UniversityofTorontoPress)willbepublishedin2007.Dr.MattDaviesalsocametoNewcastlefromNorthAmericain2006.Heworksonpovertyintheglobalpoliticaleconomyandheiscurrentlywritingamonographoneverydaylifeintheglobalpoliticaleconomy.

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.

Politics at Newcastle University

Fromtoptobottom:ProfessorHartmutBehr;KyleGrayson,LecturerinInternationalPoliticsandDr.ThomBrooks,LecturerinPoliticalThought.

Picturesaboveandtotheright:PSACANEConference-NewcastleJanuary2007.

Workshops in Political Theory Fourth Annual ConferenceManchester Metropolitan University 3rd – 5th Sept 2007

FollowingthesuccessfulthirdannualseriesofWorkshopsheldinManchester,September2006,atwhichapproximatelyahundredpapersweregiven,anotherconferenceisbeingheldthisyear. Theseworkshopsareintendedtoreflectthediversityofresearchinterestsandidiomsinpoliticaltheory.Theywillalsoprovideanopportunitytogetin-depthfeedbackonwork-in-progressaswellasonfinishedpapersinaninformalsetting. Thereisaconferenceweb-sitehttp://www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/politicaltheorywherepapersandconferencedetailsareposted.

The workshops and convenors are as follows: 1 Derrida and the Political (JoannaHodge,ManchesterMetropolitan University,[email protected])

2 Hume and the Problem of Sociability (MartinBell,ManchesterMetropolitan University,[email protected])

3 Property and Political Theory: HistoricalandContemporary Understandings (RobertLamb,ExeterUniversity, [email protected], UniversityofStirling,Rowan. [email protected])

4 Anarchist Thought: ClassicalandContemporary (RuthKinna,LoughboroughUniversity, [email protected])

5 Political Theory and Science Fiction (TonyBurns,NottinghamUniversity, [email protected])

6 Truth, Power, and Politics: ReflectionsontheLogicofPolitics (JavierFranze,UniversidadComplutence deMadrid,[email protected])

7 Religion and political philosophy (AlexandreChristoyannopoulos,

UniversityofKent, [email protected])

8 The Contemporary Relevance of the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt (MaryWalsh,UniversityofCanberra, [email protected])

9 A global politics of recognition? (SimonThompson,UniversityoftheWest ofEngland,[email protected])

10 Marxism (MarkCowling,UniversityofTeesside, [email protected])

11 Group rights and group representation (PeterJones,NewcastleUniversity, [email protected]’Flynn, NewcastleUniversity,i.j.o’[email protected])

12 Language and Politics (PaulGraham,GlasgowUniversity, [email protected])

13 Green Political Theory (SimonHailwood,LiverpoolUniversity, [email protected])

14 Theories of Violence (VivienneBoon,LiverpoolUniversity, [email protected])

15 International Relations Theory (DavidBoucher,CardiffUniversity, [email protected])

16 The ‘Theory’ of ‘the State’ today? (NoelParker,UniversityofCopenhagen, [email protected], [email protected])

17 Rethinking Borders (ChrisRumford,RoyalHolloway,London, [email protected])

18 Normative Political Theory and Public Policy (PhilParvin,CambridgeUniversity, [email protected])

19 Hobbes Studies (NoelBoulting,[email protected])

20 British Idealism: Philosophy, Society and Politics (StamatoulaPanagakou,Universityof Durham,[email protected])

21 Anti-democratic Thought (ErichKofmel, [email protected])

22 Ethics, Work and Emancipation (KeithBreen,QueensUniversityofBelfast, [email protected])

Ifyouareinterestedingivingapaper,pleasecontacttheappropriateworkshopconvenorasindicatedabove.

The organisers are: • Professor Joe Femia (SchoolofPoliticsandCommunication Studies,UniversityofLiverpool, [email protected])• Professor Jules Townshend (DepartmentofPoliticsandPhilosophy, ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity, [email protected])

Conference Registration: • HelenDodd, [email protected] Tel:01612473396 Fax:01612476887Registrationsafter6thJuly2007willbesubjecttoalatefeeof£10(pleaseincludethiswithyourpayment).Registrationswillnotbeacceptedafter10thAugust2007

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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

PoliticsatLiverpool

majorinternationalconferenceinApril2007,‘FromDissidencetoDefiance:ResistingtheDisciplinesofGlobalPoliticsandtheWaronTerror’.

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

Studies,InternationalPoliticalEconomyandEuropeanUnionStudies.Wewillintroduceanewsuiteofthreeprogrammesin2008-9,whichbuildonnewstrengthsprovidedbyourrecentappointments.Thenewprogrammesare:InternationalPolitics(GlobalJusticeandEthics);InternationalPolitics(Globalization,PovertyandDevelopment);andInternationalPolitics(CriticalGeo-Politics).

Undergraduate Programmes Wecurrentlyhavearound500studentstakefiveundergraduatedegrees(Politics,GovernmentandEuropeanStudies,PoliticsandEconomics,PoliticsandSociology,PoliticsandHistory).Wehavejustcompletedamajorreviewofourundergraduatedegrees,introducinganewstructureandanimprovedrangeofmodulesfor2006-7.Wehaveagoodrecordonteachingquality–beingrankedinthetophalfofUKPoliticsunitsintheNationalStudentSurveysof2005and2006.

The Future NewcastlePoliticshasrecruitedanexcit-inggroupofyoungacademicscommittedtoresearchandteaching.Thelegacyofthe‘Berringtongeneration’isingoodhands!!

PoliticsatLiverpoolgoesfromstrengthtostrength,withstrategicnewappointmentsbolsteringresearchclustersinUKPoliticsandGovernance;EuropeanPoliticsandPolicyandPublicCommunication.ThearrivalsofDrNicholasKhoo(fromColumbiaUniversity);DrAmandaSives(fromNottinghamUniversity)andDrEkaterinaBalabanova(fromLeicesterUniversity)haveaddedtoresearchspecialismsandfurtherinternationalizedthefocusofthe

The School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool

School’sresearch.NewresearchdegreeswerelaunchedlastyearandanewMAinInternationalRelationsandSecuritywillbeginthisAutumn.

InUKPolitics,therehasbeeneightdedicatedresearchmonographsproducedduringthecurrentRAEcyclebyateamcomprisingDrDavidDolowitz,DrNeilGavin;DrKevinHicksonandProfessorJonTonge.DrDolowitzcontinuestoundertakepioneeringresearchonpolicytransfer(fundedbytheESRC)andthepoliticsoftheinternet,leadingtoseveralbooksandmajorarticlesin,forexample,theJournalofPoliticalIdeologies.DrGavin’sworkonmediainfluenceuponpoliticshasledtoamajorbookthisyear,plusrecentarticlesinElectoralStudiesandParliamentaryAffairs.Appointedin2006,KevinHicksonhasco-editedthreemajortextsonthepoliticalideologies

oftheConservativeandLabourparties;co-authoredabookonmajorBritishpoliticalthinkersandproducedamonographontheIMFcrisisofthe1970s.JonTonge’sworkonNorthernIrelandhasledtotworecentmonographs,plusaco-authoredworkonSinnFeinandtheSDLP,fourESRCresearchgrantsandaLeverhulmeTrustaward.HehasrecentlypublishedarticlesinleadingjournalssuchasPoliticalPsychology,PoliticalStudies,ElectoralStudies,PartyPoliticsandTerrorismandPoliticalViolence.ProfessorTonge,ChairofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationandaprolepticappointmenttoreplaceProfessorDennisKavanagh,alsoco-editsanelectionbookserieswithformerLiverpoolProfessorAndrewGeddes(nowSheffield).DennisKavanaghmayhaveofficiallyretiredbuthehashardlydisappeared,beingcontractedtoco-authoranothermajorgeneralelectionstudy,withPhilCowleyreplacingDavidButlerashis

PoliticsatLiverpool

colleagueontheproject.TheUKPoliticsclusteristohostamajorinternationalconferenceonUKPoliticalIdeologiesinJunethisyear.

InEuropeanPoliticsandPolicy,theSchool’sEuropeintheWorldCentre(EWC)isaJeanMonnetEuropeanCentreofExcellence,awardedaJeanMonnetChair.UndertheleadershipsofProfessorsRichardGillespie(alsoHeadofSchool)andLeeMiles,theEWChasorganizednearlyfiftyresearcheventsduringthelastfiveyears.ProfessorGillespie,editorofMediterraneanPolitics,hasproducedaseriesofpublicationsfromhisESRC-fundedprojectonSpainandMorocco,whileco-directingamajorBritishCouncilprojecton‘ResearchingtheMediterranean’..ProfessorMilescontinuestoproducepioneeringworkontheNordicstatesandfusiontheory.Hisrecentpublicationsincludea2005monograph,FusingwithEurope?SwedenintheEuropeanUnion,whichreceivedEUfunding.ProfessorMileshasalsolaunchedanEU-fundedFUSE-EUROPAresearchprogramme,bringing

togetherresearchersinCologne,KarlstadandLiverpooltoexplaintheutilityoffusiontheory.DrErikaHarrishasattractedESRCandBritishAcademyfundingtoassistherproductionoftwowell-receivedsingle-authoredbooks,NationalismandDemocratisation:PoliticsofSlovakiaandSloveniaandNationalism:TheoriesandCasesandherco-authored(withChristopherLord)book,DemocracyintheNewEurope

ThePublicCommunicationandMediaInstitutionsresearchclusterisabouttobebolsteredbyanewChair,aprolepticappointmenttoreplaceProfessorJohnCorner,whowillretireafterservingontheRAEpanelinthisfield.TheclustermostcommonlybringstogetherProfessorCorner,DrKayRichardson,DrJuliaHallam,PeterGoddard,AdrianQuinn,DrNeilGavinand,fromthissemester,DrEkeratinaBalabanova.ThegrouphasattractedESRCfundingforprojectsonnewsperformanceandnewsmanagementincoverageoftheIraqWar(whereanAHRCPhDstudentshiphasalsobeenawarded),onthehistoryandregulationofIndependentTelevision,onthereportingoftheEUandtheeconomyandonthe

internetandpublichealthscares.TheworkofGoddardCornerandRichardsonontelevisionhasrecentlyproducedapoliticalandsocialhistoryofthecurrent–affairsprogrammeWorldinActionwhileHallam’shistoricalresearchwiththeSchoolofArchitecture,onLiverpoolandthemovingimage,receivedamajorAHRCaward.HallamhasalsopublishedextensivelyonpolicyandproductioninthetelevisionindustryandRichardsonhascompletedabookonherresearchintointernetuse.CornerwasamemberofanESFteamworkingwithcolleaguesinTurkey,theCzechRepublicandPolandoncomparativemediaregulationand,withacolleagueinAmsterdam,heeditedaninternationalcollectiononshiftsinmedia-politicalrelationswhichhasbeenwidelycitedintheliterature.

Witha133percentgrowthinPhDstudentnumbersduringthelastyear,buoyantundergraduaterecruitmentandexcellentperformanceinstudentsatisfactionsurveys,PoliticsandCommunicationStudiesatLiverpoolisanidealplaceforresearchandstudy.

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.

Recent appointments RecentlectureshipappointmentsincludeMehmetAsutayinMiddleEasternpoliticaleconomy,ChristopherDavidsoninMiddleEasternpoliticsandChristianSchweiger(GermanandEuropeanUnionpolitics).ThreenewprofessorshavejoinedtheSchoolsinceSeptember2006.TheyareGeraldChan(EastAsianpolitics,newdirectoroftheSchool’sCentreforContemporaryChineseStudies),JohnDumbrell(USpoliticsandforeignpolicy),andAnthonyForster

(InternationalRelations,andExecutiveDeanforSocialSciencesandHealthatDurham).AnthonyForsterisauthorofArmedForcesandSocietyinEurope(2005).2007willalsoseetheappointmentofanewSharjahChairinIslamicLaw/ThoughtandSteffenHertogalsoinMiddleEasternpoliticaleconomy.AResearchCouncilsUKfellow(FranciscoKlauser)willjointheSchoolin2007,researchingcurrenttrendsofsurveillanceandmanagementofsocialrisks.

Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World DurhamistobepartofanewcentreofexcellencefortheadvancedstudyoftheArabworld,inassociationwithEdinburghandManchesteruniversities.ThisinitiativeissupportedbykeyUKfundingbodies.Thenewconsortiumbringstogetherworld-classscholarsfromeachoftheparticipantuniversities.Aspartofthisprogramme,Durhamisofferingafully-fundedMSc

programmeinArabWorldStudies,withprogressionintoaPhDprogramme.Durham’sroleinCASAWconsolidatestheSchool’spositionasaleadinginternationalfocusforthestudyofthepoliticsoftheMiddleEast.

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

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(20-21September,2007):’USForeignPolicy,EastAsiaand21stCenturySecurityChallenges’(16-17November,2007),partoftheESRC‘NewSecurityChallenges’programme);andaforthcomingeventon‘TheDynamicsofMemoryintheNewEurope’.

Recent Publications Somerecenthighlightsinclude:GordonCheung,ChinaFactors:PoliticalPerspectivesandEconomicInteractions;GidonCohen(co-author),CommunistsandBritishSociety,1920-1991;ChristopherDavidson,TheUnitedArabEmirates:AStudyinSurvival;MariaDimova-Cookson,T.H.Green’sMoralandPoliticalPhilosophy:APhenomenologicalPerspective;R.W.Dyson,StAugustineofHippoandtheChristianTransformationofPoliticalPhilosophy;AnoushiravanEhteshami,GlobalisationandGeopoliticsintheMiddleEast:OldGames,NewRules;ChristianSchweiger,Britain,GermanyandtheFutureoftheEuropeanUnion;JuliaStapleton,

SirArthurBryantandNationalHistoryinTwentieth-CenturyBritain;PeterStirk,Twentieth-CenturyGermanPoliticalThought;JohnWilliams,TheEthicsofTerritorialBorders;RodneyWilson(co-author),IslamicEconomics:AShortHistory;andAnoushiravanEhteshamiandMahjoobZweiri,IranandtheRiseoftheNeoconservatives:ThePoliticsofTehran’sSilentRevolution.GordonChan,authorofChina’sComplianceinGlobalAffairs(2006),wasco-recipientoftheToshibaInternationalFoundationprizeforanarticleheco-authoredin2005inJapanForumonthepoliticsofJapanesewhaling.JohnDumbrellwasawardedthe2005RichardE.Neustadtprizeforhisbook,PresidentLyndonJohnsonandSovietCommunism,andhasco-editedIraqinVietnam:Tactics,Lessons,LegaciesandGhosts(2007).

Postgraduate provision TheSchoolhasrecentlyintroducedataughtMAinPolitics(withPoliticalTheoryand

ComparativeGovernmentroutes),alongsideitsexistingMAprovisioninInternationalrelations,InternationalStudiesandtheESRC-fundedMAprogrammeinResearchMethods.TheDurhamIslamicFinanceProgrammeofferspostgraduatedegreesinIslamicfinance,managementandeconomics,togetherwithasummerschoolonIslamicfinance.PhDsupervisionisofferedacrosstherangeoftheSchool’sexpertise.

SchoolofGovernmentandInternationalAffairs,DurhamUniversity

APSAHeadquartersandCentennialCentrebuilding,TheCentennialCentreforPoliticalScienceandPublicAffairscanbeaninvaluableresourcetopoliticalandsocialscientists.HousedintheAPSAheadquartersnearDupontCircle,theCentreprovidesagreatbaseofoperationsforscholarsresearchinginWashington,DC.ItoffersVisitingScholarsfurnishedworkspace,telephone,fax,computers,Internetaccess,conferencespace,areference

library,andaccesstoGeorgeWashingtonUniversity’sGelmanLibrary.

VisitingScholarstaysrangefromafewdaysto12months.SpaceislimitedtoAPSAmembersandavailabletofacultymembers,post-doctoralfellows,andadvancedgraduatestudentsfromtheU.S.andabroad.ScholarsareexpectedtocovertheirownexpensesandamodestfacilitiesfeefortheuseoftheCentre.Therearealsoalimitednumberof

fundingopportunitiesavailabletosupportVisitingScholars.Prospectivevisitingscholarsmayapplyatanytime.Positionsareawardedonaspace-availablebasis.FulldetailsontheCentreandtheVisitingScholarsProgram,includinganapplicationform,canbefoundonlineatwww.apsanet.org/centennialcenter.YoumayalsocontactBrianDanielsatAPSA:001-202-483-2512;[email protected]

Space Available in Centennial Centre Summer and Autumn 2007

Martin BullAcademic Director, ECPR

TheECPRJointSessionsinNicosiainApril2006wereexcitingfortheirbeautifullocation,thecutandthrustofexcitingworkshopdebates(includingonedevotedtotheCyprusQuestion)andtheeverpresenceofthe‘GreenLine’separatingthetwohalvesoftheisland(aUNlookoutstationwasclearlyvisiblefromtheuniversitymeetingrooms).FortheBritish,whowere,asever,verywellrepresentedatanECPRevent,Nicosiawasabitlikeatripdownmemorylane.Whilethere

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

accurately,halfofthecommittee,theotherhalfservingforafurtherthreeyearperiod). TherewerenoBritishcandidatesstandingthisyear,sincethetwoBritishmembersofthecommittee(MickCoxandMartinBull)stillhadthreemoreyearstoserve.Thefollowingcandidateswereelected:LucianoBardi(Pisa),VelloPettai(Tartu),KlausArmingeon(Bern),JacobTorfing(Roskilde),CarlosAlba(Madrid)(re-elected,sincehehadcomeontothecommitteeoriginallyasareservetosomeonewhohadstooddownprematurely),andEileenConnolly(Dublin).ThesejoinedMartinBull(Salford),MickCox(LSE),ErikNeveu(Renne),Hanne-MartheNarud(Oslo),UrsulaHoffmann-Lange(Bamberg)andMaurizioFerrera(Milan). ThenewcommitteehadtwotaskstocompleteinNicosiabeforethebreak-upoftheJointSessions:toelectanewChairtoreplacetheoutgoingDirkBerg-Schlosser,andtoappointanewAcademicDirectortoreplacetheoutgoingRichardBellamy.MickCoxwaselectedtotheChairandMartinBullappointedtothedirectorship.Thelatter’sappointmentmeantthathehadtoresignfromtheExecutiveCommittee(thetwopositionsareincompatible)andthe7thplacedcandidateinthevoting–JoachimMolins(Barcelona)-wasbroughtontothecommittee.ThismeansthatBritishmembershipofthecommitteeis,forthecomingthreeyearperiod,onefewerthanusual,butitcouldbesaidthatthisisoffsetbythefactthatthesoleBritishmemberofthecommitteenowholdstheChair. Thesechangesrepresenta‘triplefirst’inthehistoryoftheECPR:thefirsttimethataBritishmemberoftheExecutiveCommittee

hasbeenelectedtotheChair(overcomingalong-standinginformalvetoonBritsholdingthisposition);thefirsttimethatanInternationalRelationsspecialisthasbeenelectedtobeChair(finallyrecognisingthesignificantcontributionthatIRmakestotheECPR);andthefirsttimethattheAcademicDirectorshiphasbeenheldbysomeonewhoisnotfromtheUniversityofEssex(recognisingtherelationshipofmutualbenefitbetweenthetwoorganisations–ECPRCentralServicesremainsatEssex-butalsotheirindependencefromeachother).Thesignificanceofthis‘triplefirst’willprobablybeinterpretedindifferentways,butthenewExecutiveCommitteeseesitasasignofstrengthandpluralisminthewayinwhichtheECPRoperates.Fromtheperspectiveofreadersofthisnewsmagazine,itperhapsreflectsthetremendousongoinginputofBritishpoliticalscientists,somanyofwhomarePoliticalStudiesAssociationmembers,totheactivitiesofECPR.Andlongmaythatcontinue! TheSummerof2006sawthefirstECPRMethodsSummerSchoolatLjubljana,whichprovedtobeimmenselypopular,andtheSchoolwillrunagainnextyear.Autumnof2006sawtheECPR‘comehome’(toEssexofcourse)asitlaunchedafurtherinitiative:thebiannualGraduateConference.Withover450participants,thisprovedtobeahugesuccess,andisnowfirmlymarkedinthecalendartoalternatewiththeGeneralConference.ThisbringstofruitiontheECPR’sstrategicobjectiveofhostingtwomajorconferenceeventseveryyear,oneintheSpringandoneintheAutumn.Inaddition,itservesthefurtheraim,withthenewSummerSchool,of

increasingitsprovisionofopportunitiesforyoungupcomingmembersoftheprofession.Theresponsefromgraduatessuggeststhattheseinnovationshavetappedintoapooloflatentdemand.LiketheGeneralConferenceandtheJointSessions,theGraduateConferencewillmovearoundEuropeaccordingtothewillingnessandcapabilityofinstitutionstohostthemthroughtheECPR. InMayofthisyeartheECPRmovesnorthtoHelsinkifortheJointSessionsandthensouthintheAutumntoPisafortheGeneralConference,withtheLjubljanaSummerSchoolsittingbetweenthetwo.ToparticipateintheseeventspleaseconsultthenewlookECPRweb-site(http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr).IfyouhavequestionsorqueriesabouttheECPRdonothesitatetocontacteithertheChair([email protected])ortheAcademicDirector([email protected]).Butmostimportantofall,pleasejoinusinoneofourEuropeanlocationsthisyear!

ProfessorTerrellCarver,ChairoftheAssociation’sExternalRelationsSub-committee,ishelpingtoorganiseapanelontherecentThaicoupandcurrentconstitutionalprocess.Thescholarschosen(withdueattentiontogenderbalance)willpresentpapersfromavarietyofdisciplinary,methodologicalandpoliticalviewpoints,andwillrepresentinternationalauthoritiesontheseissuesaswellasjuniorscholars.ItisexpectedthatthenewconstitutionwillbeinplacebythetimeoftheSwanseaconference,31stMarch–3rdApril2008,so

thatanintegratedassessmentcantakeplace.Thepapersandpanelwillbeofinteresttoresearchersincomparativepolitics,regionalsecurity,internationalethics,politicaltheory,publicadministrationandotherspecialismsinPoliticalScienceandInternationalRelations.CarverisworkingwithprofessorsSoravisJayanama(picturedleft)andSuratHorachaikul(picturedcentre),bothoftheFacultyofPoliticalScience,DepartmentofInternationalRelations,ChulalongkornUniversity,Bangkok.Thepanelwillbedrawnfromspecialistsrepresentingavarietyof

Political Studies Association sponsors Swansea Conference panel on Thai coup and constitution

institutionswithinThailand,andpossiblyfromthebroaderregion,asappropriate.

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ConferencesWednesday 11 April: 14:00-15:30hrs: Session A Aesthetics and Democracy (ArtsandPoliticsSpecialistGroup)

[No:186]|X|Chair:ZoeHepden|X|Discussant:ZoeHepden|

Rebecca Brown (UniversityofSwansea)CommunalTensionsandArchitecturalRevivalinIndia’sLong1950s:Nehru’sPolitical

AppropriationofAkbar[No:596]AndreaPhillips(Goldsmiths),SuhailMalik(Goldsmiths)We,AllOfWhomAreSovereign-TowardsACritiqueOfDemocracy[No:598]NathanRoger(UniversityofSwansea)AbuGhraibPrisonerAbuse:Threatening

ElectrocutionandtheMakingofanIconicImage.WhatDoesitsSymbolicSideSay?[No:597]

Anarchism, Marxism, Positivism: 1 [No: 45]|X|Chair:AlexPrichard|MartynEverett(AnarchistStudiesNetwork)WesternMarxismandthe“spectre”ofAnarchism[No:124]RuthKinna(Loughborough)Anarchism,MarxismandPositivism[No:123]PhilipO’Sullivan(Queen’sUniversity,Belfast)IsAnarchismtheKeytoamorelibertarianMarx?[No:122]

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]

Decentring Policy Networks: 1 [No: 58]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|JonathanDavies(UniversityofWarwick)TheLimitsOfJoined-UpGovernance’[No:143]FrancescaGains(UniversityofManchester)TheLocalBureaucrat:TraditionsandDilemmasofLocalBureaucraticElites[No:145]RodRhodes(AustralianNationalUniversity)ThePrivateNetworkofthePrivateOffice[No:144]

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:

CharlieJeffery|JonathanBradbury(UniversityofWales,Swansea),IanStafford(UniversityofBristol)TheProcessofDevolutionandRoleofPublicPolicy:IntergovernmentalRelationsandtheCaseofWelshTransportPowers[No:1]PaulCairney(UniversityofAberdeen)PublicPolicyinBritainsinceDevolution:fromdivergencetoimplementation[No:2]OlegKodolov(WesternCarolinaUniversity)DerivingTheoreticalApproachtoTerritorialPolitics:FiscalPoliciesinScotlandandWalesinaBroaderContext[No:493]IanStafford(UniversityofBristol)TheRoleoftheScottishParliamentandNationalAssemblyforWalesinthePolicy-makingProcess:DoDevolvedLegislaturesMatter?[No:3]

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

intheorganizationofregionalgovernment[No:130]PeterMcLaverty(TheRobertGordonUniversity)Democracyandglobalcivilsociety[No:131]

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]

Conferences1� Conferences 17

Wednesday 11th April

Time Event Location

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

Powersharing&Democracy

Speakers:Chair:StefanWolff,UniversityofNottingham

Panellists:PippaNorris,UNDP&HarvardUniversity

BrendanO’Leary,UniversityofPennsylvania

JohnMcGarry,Queen’sUniversity,Canada

IanO’Flynn,NewcastleUniversity

Thursday 12th April

Time Event Location

09:0010:30 SessionB:Panel1-28 Panelrooms

10:3011:00 Coffee/teabreak FoundersSportsHall

PGNBrunch FoundersSportsHall

SponsoredbyBlackwells

11:0012:30 SessionC:Panel1-28 UniversityHall

12:3014:00 Lunch Level1Cafe

13:00–1400 PGNAGM

SpecialistGroupmeetings

14:00–15:30 SessionD:Panel1-28 Panelrooms

15:30–16:00 Coffee/teabreak SportsHall

16:00–17:30 Plenary2:Governmentand UniversityHall

OppositionLeonardSchapiro

MemorialLecture

ProfessorAlfredStepan,

ColumbiaUniversity

17:30-18:30 G&OReception FoundersSportsHall

18:45 CoachDeparture

19:00-20:00 CivicReception RomanBaths

20:00-23:00 ConferenceDinner PumpRoom

Prizepresentation:

ProfLourdesSola,PresidentIPSA

UniversityofBath,11-13April2007

Friday 13th April

Time Event Location

9:00–10:30 SessionE:Panel1-28 Panelrooms

10:30–11:00 Coffee/teabreak FoundersSportsHall

11:00–12:30 Plenary3: UniversityHall

TheEUasGlobalActor

12:30–14:00 Lunch Level1Cafe

14:00–15:30 SessionF:Panel1-28 Panelrooms

ConferenceEnds

Speakers:

Chair:TimSebastian,BBC

Panellists:JamieShea,NATO

NicholasWhyte,IndependentDiplomat

KalypsoNicolaidis,OxfordUniversity

PGNEvent Session Time“Employability” SpecialSession Wednesday,12.00-13.30

PGN Brunch–sponsored Thursday,10.30-11.00

byBlackwells

“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

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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

ofBirmingham),DuncanMcDonnell(UniversityofYork),JamesNewell(UniversityofSalford)Dilottaedigoverno:TheLegaNord,RifondazioneComunistaandthePartitodeiComunistiItalianiincoalition’[No:125]TimBale(UniversityofSussex),RichardDunphy(UniversityofDundee)Infromthecold?TheradicalleftinGovernment:acom-parativeanalysisofachievementsandfail-ings[No:126]WolfgangRüdig(UniversityofStrathclyde)ComparingGreensinPower:TheRoleofPartyMembers[No:128]

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

[No:156]DavidRanc(TrinityHall,Cambridge)LocalPolitics,IdentityandFootballinParis[No:158]

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

inEnglishlocalgovernment’[No:28]PhilipWhiteman(UniversityofBirmingham)PlayingUnitaryGames[No:26]

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-

rectness;itsaboutbeingpoliticallyeffective:theFeminizationoftheConservativePartyunderDavidCameron[No:15]DavidDenver(UniversityofLancaster)‘WhydoMarriedPeopleVote?[No:573]RogerMortimore(IPSOSMori),JuliaClark(MoriResearchInstitute)Genderpatternsinvotingintentionsandpoliticalattitudesinthe2005Parliament[No:17]

Thursday 12 April: 09:00-10:30hrs: Session BAnarchism, Marxism, Positivism: 2 [No:44]|X|Chair:RuthKinna|TonyBurns(NottinghamUniversity)HegelandAnarchism[No:120]AlexPrichard(Loughborough)ProudhonandKant[No:121]

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

ofBritishpartyleaders[No:14]

Decentring Policy Networks: 2 [No:59]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|CatherineDurose(ManchesterUniversity)Beyond‘StreetLevelBureaucrats’:Re-InterpretingTheRoleOfFrontLinePublicSectorWorkers[No:146]StevenGriggs(UniversityofBirmingham),DavidHowarth(UniversityofEssex)Governancenetworks,neighbourhoodpoliticsandpopulism[No:148]CatherineNeedham(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon)PolicingwithaSmile:NarrativesofConsumerisminNewLabour’sCriminalJusticePolicy[No:147]DavidRichards(SheffieldUniversity),AndrewGeddes(SheffieldUniversity),MartinSmith(Sheffield)Bureaucracy,MarketsandNetworksandthe‘InterpretationGap’inPolicyImplementation:ACaseStudyoftheHomeOffice[No:149]

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]

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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|

Spring-SerenityDuvall(IndianaUniversity)Fromwalkingtheredcarpettosavingtheworld:AngelinaJolieandMadonnaasceleb-rityactivistsandmothers[No:83]OliverFueg(UniversityofExeter)GovernanceofEuropeantelevisionregula-tion:beyondthemarket/culturedivide?[No:567]WimHannot(FreeUniversityofBrussels),NicoCarpentier(CatholicUniversityofBrussels)Tobeacommonhero:Thepoliti-calidentityofmediatedordinarypeople[No:84]HeatherSavigny(UniversityofEastAnglia)Mediamalaiseandmarketing[No:82]

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]

Oral Sources [No:15]|X|Chair:GianLucaGardini|X|Discussant:StephenKnott|GianLucaGardini(UniversityofBath)IndefenceofOralHistory:Threecasestudiesofscholarlyrigour(provisional)[No:45]RussellRiley(UniversityofVirginia)OntheValueofPresidentialOralHistory[No:46]AntjeWiener(Queen’sUniversityBelfast)MakingMeaningAccountable:ContestedMeaningsofNormsinInter-NationalRelations[No:48]

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)

TheParadoxesofPossibleEelectoralReforms:ATrade-offbetweenBipolarityandFragmentation?[No:140]FrancaRoncarolo(UniversityofTurin)MediaandpoliticsinthesecondProdigov-ernment:Achangingrelationship?[No:142]

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

(NottinghamTrentUniversity)‘Guidance,whatguidance?’Studentviewsonthestudyofpoliticsandwhatwecandotohelp.[No:39]GrahamSmith(UniversityofSouthampton),RogerOttewill(UniversityofSouthampton),LizSperling(LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity),MatthewWyman(KeeleUniversity)TeachingCitizenshipinHigherEducation[No:38]

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

socompellingtheyevenbantobacco[No:221]DonleyStudlar(WestVirginiaUniversity)WhatExplainsPolicyChangeinTobaccoControlPolicyinAdvancedIndustrialDemocracies?[No:218]

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|

KevinGillan(CityUniversity(London))UnderstandingActivists’PoliticalTheories:AHermeneuticMethodologyforFrameAnalysis[No:244]MarcStears(UniversityCollege,Oxford),MathewHumphrey(UniversityofNottingham)Activistthinkingaboutdemocracy[No:245]

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

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ofLiberalism[No:255]BenjaminThompson(UniversityofExeter)TheMeaningofCharityinLocke’sPoliticalThought(Part2)[No:254]

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]

Decentring Policy Networks: 3 [No:60]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|TessaBrannan(UniversityofManchester)InterpretingBoundedRationality:ExaminingBestPractice[No:152]ClaireDonovan(AustralianNationalUniversity),MarkBevir(UCBerkeley,USA)TheGovernanceofSocialScience[No:150]RichardFreeman(UniversityofEdinburgh,)Learningbymeeting[No:151]

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

theroleofcommunitygroupsinthecon-structionofwellbeinginNortheastThailand[No:196]

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]

TessaDoulkeri(AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki),IordanisKotzaivazoglou(AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki)TheEvolutioninNewspaperAdvertisingofParliamentaryCandidatesinThessalonikiinthePeriod1989-2000[No:55]LampriniRori(Paris1University,Sorbonne)E-democracyinintra-partylife:comparativestudyoftheGreek(PASOK)andtheFrench(PS)socialistparties[No:57]AnastasiaVeneti(UniversityofAthens)Music,Cinema&GlobalPolitics:TheirInteraction[No:58]

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]

MachikoMiyakoshi(UniversityofBristol)TheImpactofEuropeanBroadcastingRegulation:theEndoftheUK’sPublicServiceBroadcastingRegime?[No:566]GeorgeTzogopoulos(LoughboroughUniversity)UnderstandingneoconservatismintheEuropeanelitepress[No:86]LiZhang(UniversityofLeeds)RepresentingEurope:ImageoftheEUinChinaandChineseNationalSecurityStrategy[No:563]

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-

sisofprogrammaticcoherencewithinWestEuropeanpartyfamilies.[No:258]MurrayLeith(UniversityofPaisley)TheScottishPartySystem–anempiricalanalysis[No:256]MarkShephard(UniversityofStrathclyde)AdherencetoRespectivePolicyDomains?AComparisonofWestminsterandHolyroodCandidateElectionCommunications.[No:257]

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]

Democracy and Citizenship: 1

[No:125]|X|Chair:RomanGerodimos|ArthurEdwards(ErasmusUniversityRotterdam)OnlineDeliberativePolicyExercisesandStylesofCitizenship:IssuesofDemocraticDesign[No:480]RomanGerodimos(BournemouthUniversity)EngagingYoungCitizens:YoungUsers’EvaluationsofIssueWebsites[No:477]

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,

right-wingsouverainismeandpresidentialfirst-roundvote:predictingthenuisanceeffectin2007?[No:283]PhilippeMarlière(UCL,UniversityofLondon)TheSocialistPartyPresidentialPrimary:Deathofan“ActivistParty”andBirthofan“OpinionParty”?[No:281]VincentTiberj(SciencesPo)(un)Partisanvoting?ForecastingtheFrenchpresidentialelectioninanEraofpoliticalre-composition[No:282]

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]

Graduate Panel 3: Teaching Advice [No:202]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|tbc()tbc[No:556]

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]

Intellectuals [No:124]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|SebastianBerg(ChemnitzUniversityofTechnology)1989:ATurningPointfortheAnglo-AmericanIntellectualLeft?[No:464]ClaireDunlop(UniversityofExeter)

HowPowerSpeakstoTruth:EpistemicCommunitiesandInternationalPolicyDivergence-TheEU,USandrbST[No:538]

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),

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MikeWallace(UniversityofCardiff),RosemaryDeem(UniversityofCardiff),JonathanMorris(UniversityofCardiff),MikeReed(UniversityofThediscursiveconstructionsofleadershipdevelopmentinthereformofUKpublicserv-ices.[No:499]DuncanRussel(CSERGE),JohnTurnpenny(UniversityofEastAnglia)Integratedpolicyappraisal:AjoinedPanacea?[No:491]

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]

Security 2 [No:136]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|MarkJosephKilbane(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)DutchboyattheDyke?MilitaryPSYOPasPublicDiplomacy[No:483]WalterLadwig(UniversityofOxford)SupportingAlliesinCounterinsurgency:LessonsfromDhofar[No:487]UzziOhana(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience)SecuritisationofOthers:Whenidentitiesbecomeasecurityissue[No:482]AdamWhite(UniversityofSheffield)ThePoliticsofPrivateSecurity[No:484]

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]

Friday 13 April: 09:00-10:30hrs: Session EAsia 1 (ChinaandTaiwan)[No:149]|X|Chair:ZhuGuichang|Chen-WeiHuang(UniversityofNewcastle)TheChangeofInterstateSysteminEastAsiaafterthe1980s[No:388]Yu-ChingLin(CITYUNIVERSITYOFNEWYORK),Wei-TingWu(CityUniversity,NewYork)FemaleImmigrants,SocialCapitalandPublicSphereinTaiwan[No:385]NicholasThomas(UniversityofHongKong)China’sRegionalGovernance[No:376]Mei-ChuanWei(NationalScienceCouncil,Taiwan)ImaginingTaiwan’sDemocraticFuture-SocialEmpowerment,PublicDeliberation,andDemocraticDeepening[No:378]

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)

MomentsofNationalCentrality:AnzacDay,AustraliaDayLiveandtheProductionNationalCapitalSpaceinCanberra[No:382]KenFraser(UniversityofNewEngland)TheEvolvingGeostrategicSubject[No:490]ElizabethvanAcker(GriffithUniversity)GlobalisationandthePoliticsofRestructuringtheAustralianLabourMarket[No:381]

Czech republic [No:154]|X|Chair:PavelPseja|AnnaMatuskova(MasarykUniversity/FacultyofSocialScience),EvaBradova(MasarykUniversity,CzechRepublic)ElectionCampaign2006:UnforgivingmatchbetweenSocialDemocrats(€SSD)andCivicDemocrats(ODS)MarketingProfessionalizationofElectionCampaignsintheCzechRepublicPavelP€eja(MasarykUniversity)RecentDevelopmentsintheCzechPartySystem:OntheWayTowardsBipolarity?[No:417]PavelP€eja(MasarykUniversity)CommunismintheCzechRepublicwithin(Central)Europeancontext[No:428]

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)

Thepoliticaleconomyofcorporatestructureintransitioneconomies:Acomparativeanaly-sisofIndianandChinesemultinationals[No:207]

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]

Financing Politics [No:156]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|EscribaAbel(UniversityofSussex)TheSourcesofRevenueofAuthoritarianRegimes.MakingSenseofAnocracy[No:403]OlegKodolov(WesternCarolinaUniversity)FiscalPoliciesinCanadianProvinces:ConvergenceorDivergence?[No:390]EvaleilaPesaran(SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,University)Business-StateContestationsandShiftingEconomicPolicies:TheCaseofIran[No:371]JoséTavares(UniversidadeNovadeLisboa)PartisanshipandtheCompositionofPublicSpendingandTaxRevenues[No:397]

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]

Italy [No:157]|X|Chair:OsvaldoCroci|X||X|5|X|ItMaurizioCarbone(UniversityofGlasgow)ItalyintheInternationalArena:BetweenorBeyondtheEUandtheUS?[No:439]EvaGarau(UniversityofBath)Italianintellectualsandthedebateonnation-alidentity[No:432]LudovicaMarchi(UniversityofReading)TheResultsofItaly’sRelationtoEPC[No:536]

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

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nighttime:theLeaderofHisMajesty’sLoyalOpposition,theLarnegun-runningof1914,andtheBritishConstitution.[No:544]

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]

Participation[No:148]|X|Chair:WillJenkins|LucyBrill(BradfordUniversity),HeatherBlakey(UniversityofBradford)Exploring‘municipalinnovations’inpublicparticipationwithintheUK.[No:512]KevinGillan(CityUniversity(London))TwoViewsofTheUKAnti-WarMovement:OnlineIssueNetworkVersusOfflineProtestMilieu[No:522]WillJennings(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience),PeterJohn(Manchester)Theimpactofpublicopiniononpolicyagen-dasintheUnitedKingdom,1959-2001[No:506]DavidToke(UniversityofBirmingham)ThePoliticsoftheCountrysideAlliance–Creatinganew(conservative)socialmove-ment?[No:504]

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|

NathanGanesh(CardiffUniversity)Well-BeinginaMulticulturalState[No:568]JingLong(UniversityofGuelph)DoesEveryoneHavetheDutytoActinthePublicInterest?[No:441]GaneshNathan(CardiffUniversity)Well-BeinginaMulticulturalState[No:443]JennaReinbold(VassarCollege)HumanRightsasPoliticalMyth:NotWhatYouImagine[No:449]EmmanuelYujuico(UniversityofBirmingham)SocialEntrepreneurshipandNussbaum’sCapabilitiesApproach[No:444]

Politics and Policies: 2 [No:142]|X|Chair:DavidErdostbc|AnnelieseDodds(LondonSchoolofEconomics)Theintroductionoffinancial

incentivesfortherecruitmentofinternation-alstudentsinBritainandFrance:acaseofcoordinationagainsteconomicrestructuring?[No:322]JosieKelly(AstonUniversity)ThePoliticsofObesity[No:542]

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]

Security 1: EU-related [No:135]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|LauraChappell(UniversityofBirmingham)Germany,PolandandtheEuropeanSecurityStrategy:DivergingViewsinanEnlargedEuropeanUnion?[No:489]PeterPetrov(UniversityofManchester)OperationalScenariosforEuropeanSecurityandDefencePolicyoperations:ProspectsfortheFuture[No:486]LucaRatti(UniversityofRomeIIIandAmericanUniversityof)The‘tragedyofHelsinki’anddemocraticinternationalrelationstheory:awideningtrade-offbetweensecurityanddemocracyintransatlanticrelations?[No:485]

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]

Friday 13 April: 14:00-15:30hrs: Session FChina [No:171]|X|Chair:ZhuGuichang|XiudianDai(UniversityofHull)EU-ChinaRelationsintheNewWorldOrder:AnUncertainPartnershipintheMaking[No:355]ArielKo(UniversityofGlasgow)WhatdrivesChina’schangingtrade/FDIpolicytowardtheASEAN?[No:400]JingMen(CatholicUniversityofBrussels)TheEU-ChinaPartnershipinthe21stCentury:ProgressandProblems[No:332]TerryNarramore(UniversityofTasmania)ChinaandEurope:Markets,MultipolarityandStrategy[No:393]

Development [No:172]|X|Chair:MaurizioCarbone|

IanBartle(UniversityofBath),PeterVass(UniversityofBath)Independenteconomicregulatorsandthegovernanceofsustainabledevelopment[No:404]MaurizioCarbone(UniversityofGlasgow)PolicyCoordinationandEUDevelopmentPolicy[No:353]DavidHudson(UniversityCollegeLondon)TheFinancialisationofthePoorest?:TheCaseofRemittances[No:401]MarikkiStocchetti(UniversityofHelsinki)TheEuropeanConsensusonDevelopment”ACriticalDiscourseAnalysisoftheJointEUDeclaration[No:340]

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: External Policies [No:163]|X|Chair:HakimDarbouche|HakimDarbouche(UniversityofLiverpool)EU-AlgerianRelations:TheENP,GasandAllThat[No:413]AntigoniIoannidou(MiddlesexUniversity)TheNationalInterestofCyprus’MembershipintheEuropeanUnionandtheFurtherProspectsthatAriseConcerningtheCyprusProblem[No:367]

BriegPowel(UniversityofExeter)EngagingtheSelf:EuropeanDemocracyPromotioninTunisia[No:337]

EU: Institutions [No:164]|X|Chair:MichelleCini|MichelleCini(UniversityofBristol)ManagingEthicsintheEuropeanCommission[No:354]JohnConnolly(UniversityofStrathclyde)TheroleoftheEuropeanCommissioninUKcrisismanage-ment[No:349]UlrikeKraemer(UniversityofExeter)ThePoliticalImpactoftheECJinDirectTaxation:CreatinganEURegimebyStealth?[No:364]

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]

EU: Policies [No:167]|X|Chair:BarbaraBrink|BarbaraBrink(UniversityofStrathclyde)Europeanurbanproblems[No:352]MariaCheiladaki-Liarokapi(Universityof

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Sussex)EUPolicyDevelopmentonStudentMobility:AHistoricalInstitutionalistApproach[No:345]AdamSaunders()Comparativeanal-ysisofthepoliticaleconomyofsocialpolicychange[No:531]FranzSeifert(UNU-IAS,Yokohama/Japan,UniversityVienna/Austria)Dividedwestand:TheEUasdissonantplayerintheglobalgovernanceofagro-foodbiotech-nology[No:339]Sevasti-EleniVezirgiannidou(UniversityofEssex)RegimeExternalEffects:TheCommonFisheriesPolicyandDevelopingCountries[No:343]

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|

RobertaGuerrina(UniversityofSurrey)Genderedfutures:TheCaseforaFeministTheoryofEuropeanIntegration[No:540]ScottHuffmon(WinthropUniversity),JayBarth(WinthropUniversity),LMarvinOverby(UniversityofMissouri)PersonalContact,CommunityContext,andSupportforanAnti-GayRightsReferendum[No:457]MatthewWaites(UniversityofGlasgow)SexualOrientation,HumanRightsandGlobalPolitics[No:440]

Globalisation [No:173]|X|Chair:AndreasAntoniades|AndreasAntoniades(LSE)GlobalisationdiscourseinWesternEurope[No:399]TerrenceCasey(Rose-Hulman

InstituteofTechnology)VarietiesofCapitalismandEconomicPerformanceintheNewGlobalEra[No:406]MartaReuter(SoedertoernUniversityCollege,Stockholm)TransnationalizationandRegionalizationofCivilSociety–ExperiencesfromtheBalticSeaRegion[No:419]

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

pointsystem:TheimplicationsfortheEUcommonapproachoneconomicmigration[No:415]

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]

Middle-East Politics [No:176]|X|Chair:AdrianHyde-Price|MBilgin(SakaryaUniversity)Constitution,Legitimacy,andDemocracyinTurkey[No:422]AdrianHyde-Price(UniversityofLeicester)EuropeandtheMiddleEast:VenusinaHobbesianWorld[No:346]AsafSiniver(UniversityofNottingham),CeesvanderEijk(UniversityofNottingham)UsingQualitativeComparativeAnalysistoPredictSuccessandFailureinThirdPartyMediation:theCaseoftheArab-IsraeliConflict(provisionaltitle)[No:414]RaananSulitzeanu-Kenan(UniversityofHaifa,Israel),YifatHoltzman-Gazit(UniversityofHaifa)PublicPerceptions,ResponsibilityAttributionandAttitudestowardsPublicInquiries,intheWakeofanArmedConflict:APanelSurvey[No:412]New Labour[No:143]|X|Chair:JonathanDavies|JonathanDavies(UniversityofWarwick)Afterpluralism:unpackingNewLabour’shegemonicproject.[No:508]AnikaGauja(UniversityofCambridge)OutsourcingthePolicyProcess?AnAnalysisofPolicyFormulationinNewLabour,theLiberalDemocratsandtheGreenParty[No:521]CarolineKenny(UniversityofBirmingham)AnAnalysisoftheStrategicDiscourseEmployedbyNewLabourinitsApproachTowardsSocialJustice[No:492]VickiSquire(UniversityofBirmingham)NewLabouronasylum:Anextendingopposi-tion[No:503]

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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]

Security [No:168]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:MarkWebber|LisbethAggestam(UniversityofCambridge)WhatrolefortheEUasaglobalsecurityactor?TheviewsoftheEU-3[No:362]AndrewCottey(UniversityCollegeCork)EuropeandthePoliticsofGlobalSecurity[No:350]IraklisOikonomou(UniversityofWalesAberystwyth)TheEuropeanSecurityStrategyandEUmilitary-industrialcapital:Translatingthreatsintoprofits?[No:329]SimonSweeney(YORKSTJOHNUNIVERSITY)TheevolutionofEuropeanSecurityandDefencePolicy(ESDP)post-Iraq2003:straw,sticksorbricks?[No:341]GozdeYilmaz(UNIVERSITYOFBIRMINGHAM)EU-Russianrelations;therelevanceofsoftsecurityissues[No:344]

Theory [No:169]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|RobertHarmsen(Queen’sUniversityBelfast)APoliticsofProtest?:Understandingthe2005FrenchandDutchReferendaontheEuropeanConstitutionalTreaty[No:369]KrzysztofIszkowski(PolishAcademyofSciences,Warsaw)UniversalismvsPan-Europeism-

PhilosophicalBackgroundforEuropeanIntegrationattheCrossroads[No:366]KalypsoNicolaidis(UniversityofOxford)The“ClashofUniversalisms”(orWhyEuropeNeedsaGenuinePost-ColonialEthos)[No:528]

Trade policy [No:175]|X|Chair:GiuliaPietrangelitbc|X|Discussant:tbc|GiuliaPietrangeli(LondonSchoolofEconomics)Bilateralorbiregional?EuropeanUnion’sapproachinFreeTradeagreements’negotiationswithdevelop-ingcountries[No:398]AlfredTovias(TheHebrewUniversity,Jerusalem)TheBraveNewWorldOfCross-Regionalism[No:532]

Transnational Institutions [No:170]|X|Chair:PamelaBarnes|PamelaBarnes(UniversityofLincoln)“Anundemocratic,outdatedalienintheworldoftheliberalizedmarket”–sowhywon’ttheEURATOMTreatygoaway?[No:351]KarenHeard-Lauréote(UniversityofPortsmouth)TransnationalsocialisationviaEuropeanCommissionAgriculturalAdvisoryGroups[No:368]ElizabethMonaghan(UniversityofNottingham)Who,what,how?Theroleoforganisedcivilsocietyin‘com-municatingEuropewiththecitizens’.[No:336]MaryCMurphy(UniversityCollegeCork)Influencing‘Europe’?TheimpactofNorthernIreland’sregionalrepresentationinBrussels[No:335]

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]

War on Terror

[No:177]|X|Chair:|X|Discussant:tbc|ShabnamHolliday(UniversityofExeter)ContestingconstructionsofIraniannationalidentityduringtheKhatamiperiod[No:534]DonnaStarr-Deelen(UniversityofBradford)RonaldReagan’sWaronTerroranditsImplicationsforthecurrentWaronTerror[No:535]DominikaSvarc(LondonSchoolofEconomics)RespectingLawinthe“WaronTerror”:Terrorism,Counter-terrorismandtheInternationalLawontheUseofForce[No:407]

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Panel Chair Discussant SessionActivistPoliticalThought[No:95] MichaelFreeden MichaelFreeden C

AestheticsandDemocracy ZoeHepden ZoeHepden A

(ArtsandPoliticsSpecialistGroup)[No:186]

Anarchism,Marxism,Positivism:1[No:45] AlexPrichard A

Anarchism,Marxism,Positivism:2[No:44] RuthKinna B

Asia1(ChinaandTaiwan)[No:149] ZhuGuichang E

Asia2(India-Pakistan)[No:150] tbc E

Asia3(others)[No:151] IanHolliday E

AspectsofLocke[No:98] RobertLamb tbc C

AttitudestoPublicServices:Findingsfromthe OliverJames tbc C

ESRCPublicServicesProgramme[No:96]

AustraliaandNewZealand[No:153] ChrisBeer E

BestValueManagement(PublicAdministration CliveGray A

SpecialistGroupII)[No:187]

BritishPartyMembershipandActivismin MarkWickham-Jones MarkWickham-Jones C

HistoricalPerspective[No:88]

Cameron’sChallenge:21stCentury AndrewGamble AndrewGamble D

Conservatism[No:94]

Central-LocalGovernmentRelationsRevisited CliveGray C

(PublicAdministrationSpecialistGroupI)[No:183]

ChangingDynamicsinNordicPartyPolitics MichaelKoß NickSitter B

(ScandinavianPoliticsSpecialistGroup)[No:81]

China[No:171] ZhuGuichang F

ComparativePoliticalleadership[No:4] KevinTheakston B

Conceptualreviewofpoliticalmarketing[No:100] DeclanBannon DeclanBannon C

Contemporarypoliticaltheorist:JudithButler[No:102] tbc C

Czechrepublic[No:154] PavelPseja E

DecentringPolicyNetworks:1[No:58] tbc A

DecentringPolicyNetworks:2[No:59] tbc B

DecentringPolicyNetworks:3[No:60] tbc C

DemocracyandCitizenship:1[No:125] RomanGerodimos D

DemocracyandCitizenship:2[No:126] SarahHolsen E

DemocraticTransitionandInstitutionBuilding[No:140] tbc D

De-nationalizationofCitizenship? JonathanBradbury NicolaMcEwen C

TheUKinComparativePerspective[No:3]

Development[No:172] MaurizioCarbone F

DevelopmentPolitics1: AndrewWyatt A

Neoliberalism,PoliticsandDevelopment[No:75]

DevelopmentPolitics2:GenderedDevelopment: ShirinRai ShirinRai B

Discourse,Institutions,Policy[No:76]

DevelopmentPolitics3: GeofWood tbc C

Wellbeing,PoliticsandPoverty[No:77]

DevelopmentPolitics4: ChristineCubitt tbc D

InternationalDemocracyPromotion[No:78]

DevelopmentPolitics5: BenThirkell-White tbc F

ExternalInterventions,GovernanceandthePolitics

ofDevelopment[No:79]

DevelopmentPolitics6: LawrenceSaez tbc E

PoliticalEconomyofDevelopmentinAsia[No:80]

DevolutionandPublicPolicyintheUK[No:1] DanielWincott CharlieJeffery A

EconomicandMonetaryIntegration LeilaSimonaTalani tbc B

past,present,andfuture:Stilltheorising![No:70]

ElectionsandParties:1[No:145] DarrenLilleker E

ElectionsandParties:2[No:137] JacquiBriggs D

EPOP:PartyFundingRegimesinWesternEurope: DanHough TaniaVerge C

OntheRoadtoConvergence?[No:97]

EPOP:TheChangingNatureandStructure AlistairClark D

ofPoliticalParties[No:39]

Panel Chair Discussant Session EUandGlobalisation[No:162] StellaLadi F

EUandtheBalkans:PoliciesofIntegration LeilaSimonaTalani GwenSasse A

andDisintegration[No:69]

EU:ExternalPolicies[No:163] HakimDarbouche F

EU:Institutions[No:164] MichelleCini F

EU:Newmemberstates:1[No:165] OlegKodolov F

EU:Newmemberstates:2[No:166] tbc F

EU:Policies[No:167] BarbaraBrink F

EU:PublicOpinionandtheEUConstitutionin NickStartin SimonUsherwood D

aGlobalisedWorld[No:116]

EuropeandtheClashofCivilisations[No:24] StigJarleHansen BenReid A

Europe,America,BritainandtheTransatlantic MagnusRyner DanielWincott F

ConditionofWorldHegemony[No:114]

Europe,globalizationanddemocracy:1[No:49] DarrenHalpin tbc A

EuropeanImmigrationPolicy: LeilaSimonaTalani tbc D

AnInterdisciplinaryAnalysis[No:72]

EuropeanPoliticalEconomy:PoliticalScienceand LeilaSimonaTalani RobertLeonardi C

economicperspectivescompared[No:71]

EuropeanisationandtheEnvironment[No:155] IngolfurBluhdorn E

FinancingPolitics[No:156] tbc E

France’spresidentialandlegislative RainbowMurray tbc D

electionsin2007:2[No:109]

FrenchPoliticsandPolicyandtheEPOP-2007 JimCordell B

Francelegislativeelections[No:37]

GenderandPolitics:1[No:127] Matthewwaites F

GenderandPolitics:2[No:128] tbc D

GermanPoliticsundertheGrandCoalition ThomasSaalfeld A

(GermanPoliticsSpecialistGroup)[No:179]

Globalisation[No:173] AndreasAntoniades F

Government[No:144] MarkBennister F

GovernmentandBureaucracies[No:139] tbc F

GraduatePanel1:Employability[No:200] tbc 0

GraduatePanel2:HowtoGetPublished[No:201] tbc B

GraduatePanel3:TeachingAdvice[No:202] tbc D

GraduatePanel4:ExternalResearch tbc E

GrantProposals[No:203]

GreekPoliticsSpecialistGroupPanel1: RomanGerodimos DimitrisTsarouhas A

EffectsofEuropeanizationonGreekpolicysectors[No:16]

GreekPoliticsSpecialistGroupPanel2: DimitrisTsarouhas(tbc) DimitrisTsarouhas B

EmergingdevelopmentsinEuropeanUnion(EU)

governance[No:17]

GreekPoliticsSpecialistGroupPanel3: RomanGerodimos RomanGerodimos C

GlobalisationofPoliticalCommunicationin

Greece[No:18]

GreekPoliticsSpecialistGroupPanel4: StellaLadi(tbc) StellaLadi D

EuropeanUnionandGreekForeignPolicy[No:19]

GreenpoliticsandEnvironment[No:129]IngolfurBluhdorn tbc E

HansardSocietyroundtable[No:113] tbc F

HistoryandPoliticsinBritishIdealistThought ColinTyler tbc A

(BritishIdealismSpecialistGroup:1)[No:180]

Intellectuals[No:124] tbc D

InternationalIntervention:PolicyLearning KarlCordell AntonioMissiroli A

fromtheBalkanstoBaghdad?[No:74]

InterpretationandtheHistoryofPoliticalThought[No:85] NickRengger tbc C

Italy[No:157] OsvaldoCroci E

Labourmarkets[No:174] AlistairHoward F

LatinAmericaandCaribbean[No:152] GianLucaGardini E

LessonsfromHistory[No:147] tbc E

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Panel Chair Discussant Session LocalElectoralPoliticsinBritainandtheUSA[No:10] AlistairClark B

LocalPoliticsasa‘ProvingGround’inBritain AlistairClark C

andEurope:AdaptingtoNewChallengesin

LocalGovernment[No:11]

MarxismandWar[No:178] tbc C

MediaandPoliticsGroup-criticalstudiesof MichaelHiggins A

roleofnewsmediainpoliticalcoverage[No:28]

MediaandPoliticsGroup-development ScottWright F

ofe-democracy[No:34]

MediaandPoliticsGroup-internationalperspectives HeatherSavigny C

onmediaandpolitics[No:30]

MediaandPoliticsGroup-intimacyandsubjectivity ScottWright A

intheemergentformofthepoliticalblog[No:35]

MediaandPoliticsGroup-politicalblogs AndrewChadwick E

andblogging[No:33]

MediaandPoliticsGroup-politician-as-celebrity MichaelHiggins D

andthehistoryofpoliticsasspectacle.[No:31]

MediaandPoliticsGroup-therelationshipbetween MickTemple B

politicsandpopularculture[No:29]

Middle-EastPolitics[No:176] AdrianHyde-Price F

Multi-levelPolitics,PartiesandPartyCompetition[No:2] JonathanBradbury ElinRoyles B

Nationalismandidentity[No:123] tbc D

NATO:thepromiseandperilsofaglobalactor[No:119] OliverDaddow OliverDaddow D

NetworksinPoliticalAnalysis[No:89] KeithDowding KeithDowding C

NewDevelopmentsinPoliticsand TerasaGhirladucci tbc C

HumanHappiness[No:110]

NewLabour[No:143] JonathanDavies F

Oppositioningovernment:1-Outsiderparties OsvaldoCroci KarinBottom A

inwesternEurope[No:46]

Oppositioningovernment:2-Outsiderpartiesin DuncanMcDonnell tbc B

westernEurope:theoppositioningovernment[No:47]

OralSources[No:15] GianLucaGardini StephenKnott B

ParliamentarySoupfortheSoul–Current MarkShephard tbc A

AcademicResearch[No:40]

Participation[No:148] WillJenkins E

ParticipationandTurnout[No:36] tbc A

PartiesandElectionsN[No:158] HartwigPautz E

PartiesandElectionsS[No:159] JimCordell E

PECOtransition[No:122] SimonaMilio D

PerspectivesontheNorthernIrelandpeaceprocess[No:22] AlanGreer B

PhilosophyandPolitics:1[No:130] tbc E

PhilosophyandPolitics:2[No:131] JakeDunagantbc D

PhilosophyandPolitics:3[No:132] HeatherMcKeen MarkHamilton F

Pluralism,DisagreementandConflict[No:83] SteveBuckler tbc B

Politicalpartypositioningandpolicybehaviour ChristopherJCarman ChristopherCarman C

[No:99]

Politicisationofrenewableenergydebates- JSzarka tbc D

actors,discoursesandstrategies[No:118]

PoliticsandIRTheory:1[No:133] AntjeWiener D

PoliticsandIRTheory:2[No:134] AntjeWiener E

PoliticsandPolicies:1[No:141] PeterCarroll D

PoliticsandPolicies:2[No:142] DavidErdos tbc E

PoliticsandSportSpecialistGroup[No:64] RussellHolden ScottFleming A

PoliticsbyOtherMeans:Filmandthe RogerEatwell BrianNeve A

ContemporaryPublicSphere[No:205]

PoliticsofSouthAsia1:InternationalPolitics MatthewNelson LawrenceSaez B

ofSouthAsia[No:65]

Panel Chair Discussant Session PoliticsofSouthAsia2:RoundtableonRecent RochanaBajpai tbc A

ElectionsinSouthAsia[No:66]

Powerandsociety(BritishIdealism SusanDaniel B

SpecialistGroup:2)[No:181]

PowersharingandDemocracy[No:112] StefanWolff RickWilford

Prodi’sNarrowVictoryandItalianPolitics: JamesNewell A

OneYearOn(ItalianPoliticsSpecialistGroup:1)[No:53]

Prodi’sNarrowVictoryandItalianPolitics: JamesNewell B

OneYearOn(ItalianPoliticsSpecialistGroup:2)[No:54]

ReconsideringtheRegulatoryState[No:103] MartinLodge tbc E

Representationsofpartypoliticsin PhilipCowley PhilipCowley D

filmandtelevision[No:120]

ResarchingtheSocialEconomy[No:182] SusanMilner B

RethinkingParticipationintheGreater MartinGainsborough CarolineHughes B

MekongSub-region:CurrentsfromAsia[No:184]

RethinkingResponsestoTerror[No:101] RichardJackson RichardJackson C

Roundtable:RethinkingParticipationinthe F

GreaterMekongSub-region:CurrentsfromAsiaII[No:204]

Roundtable:TheFutureofConservatismandthe RichardHayton tbc C

ConservativePartyinBritain[No:93]

Rowinginterestinsmallstates[No:115] MervynBain D

Security[No:168] MarkWebber F

Security1:EU-related[No:135] tbc E

Security2[No:136] tbc D

StructuringLocalPoliticsandGovernment[No:9] AlistairClark A

Studyingcivilservantsupclose[No:61] PaulHart tbc D

SwedishSocialDemocracy[No:160] DavidArter tbc E

Symposiumontherecentlypublished StuartMcAnulla tbc C

‘GovernanceStories’[No:104]

TaxingWealth:principles,politicsandpolicy[No:111] KeithDowding KeithDowding D

TeachingandLearningInnovationsinPolitics:1[No:12] JohnCraig A

TeachingandLearningInnovationsinPolitics:2[No:13] PhilippaSherrington B

TerritorialPoliticsanddevolution[No:146] BridQuinn E

The2007FrenchPresidentialElection[No:87] AlistairCole NickStartin C

TheBordersofEurope,andtheClashThesis[No:26] TuncayKaradas StigHansen C

TheDiversityofEuropeanWelfareSystems[No:82] KlausSchubert&SimonHegelich tbc B

TheEUandtheBalkans:FromConflict KarlCordell PatriceMcMahon E

(Mis-)ManagementtoResolution?[No:73]

TheFutureofGovernanceTheoryandPractice[No:117] GerryStoker tbc D

TheInternationalInsertionStrategyof GianLucaGardini GianGardini A

LatinAmerica[No:14]

ThePolicyImpactofParliament[No:41] AlexBraziertbc B

ThePoliticsofRecognition1[No:106] SimonThompson ChrisArmstrong D

ThePoliticsofRecognition2[No:105] CillianMcBride DavidPeritz C

TheoreticalperspectivesonNorthernIreland[No:23] AlanGreer A

Theory[No:169] tbc F

TobaccoPolicyChangeintheUKandEurope– ScottGreer ScottGreer B

PartofaGlobalTrend?[No:84]

Tradepolicy[No:175] GiuliaPietrangelitbc tbc F

TransnationalInstitutions[No:170] PamelaBarnes F

UKpolicies[No:161] JohnHogan JohnHogan F

WaronTerror[No:177] tbc F

WelfareStates[No:138] AchimGoerres E

WomenandPolitics:1( jointPanelwithEPOP)[No:5] RainbowMurray WendyStokes A

WomenandPolitics:2[No:6] RosieCampbell SarahChilds B

WomenandPolitics:3[No:7] LisaHarrison C

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ProfessorJohnBenyon,Treasurer,PoliticalStudiesAssociationwithDr.PatrickBishop,visitingLecturerattheUniversityofLancasteronanexchangefromtheSchoolofPoliticsandPublicPolicyatGriffithUniversity,Brisbane,Australia,bothattendingtheHeadsofDepartmentconferenceonthe8thofDecember

RAEPanelsmembers,ProfessorTonyPayne,UniversityofSheffield,andProfessorMichaelMoran,ManchesterUniversityspeakingattheHeadsofDepartmentConferenceonthe8thDecember2006

ProfessorJonTonge,Chair,PoliticalStudiesAssociation,speakingattheHeadsofDepartmentConferenceinDecember

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Thefirstworkshoptobehostedbytheedi-torsofPolitical StudiesinSheffieldbroughttogetherscholarsfrompoliticaltheoryandinternationalrelationstoexaminetheroleofthestateinaneraoftransnationalpoliticalproblemsandethicalnorms.Theaimoftheseminarswastoexaminethenatureofpoliticalorganisationsinrespond-ingtoethicalandpoliticalproblemsposedbyglobalisation,internationaltrade,aidanddevelopment,theenvironment,migration,andsecurity.Theseminarwasexplicitlydesignedtobreakdownthebarriersbetweendisciplinesandsub-disciplinesinunderstand-ingchangestothepolityasaconsequence

Ethical Norms, Political Agency and the State Political Studies Workshop held at the University of Sheffield, 10th November 2006

ofchangesintheglobaleconomy,polityandsociety.Thedayofdiscussion,attendedbyover40people,examinedhowpoliticscouldbeorganisedandlegitimacydevelopedbeyondthenationstate,andtowhatextentthestatecouldrespondtothenewchallengescreatedbyrapidchangeininternationalorganisation.

The workshop included five papers:• GlobalDistributiveJusticeandtheState (SimonCaney,UniversityofBirmingham)• GlobalisationandTransnational Constitutionalism(NeilWalker,EUI, Florence)

• NationalPolitiesandGlobalIdeologies: PoliticalMobilisationbeyondtheState (FionaAdamson,UCL)• HybridStates:Globalisationandthe PoliticsofStateCapacity(MarkRobinson, IDS,UniversityofSussex)• What’sSoSpecialaboutStates?Liberal LegitimacyinaGlobalisingWorld(Terry Macdonald,UniversityofOxford) ThesepaperswillbepublishedinafuturevolumeofPoliticalStudies.TheintentionistorunfurtherworkshopsandtheEditorswouldbeverypleasedtoreceivesuggestionsforfutureevents.

ThepositionsofHonoraryTreasurerandHonorarySecretaryareopentoelectionin2007. TheappointmentsareforthreeyearsandcommenceinJuly2007.Thecurrentoffice-holders,ProfessorJohnBenyonandProfessorPaulCarmichael,seekre-election. Inaddition,oneordinarymembervacancyexistsforoneyearontheExecutiveCommittee,commencinginJuly2007.Postalore-mailednominations,proposedandsecondedbyAssociationmembers,shouldbereceivedbytheReturning

Officer,ProfessorPaulCarmichael,attheaddressbelow,byThursday5thApril2007at12noon: Professor Paul Carmichael HonorarySecretary PoliticalStudiesAssociation DepartmentofPolitics UniversityofNewcastle NewcastleuponTyne NE17RU e-mail:[email protected]

NominationsmayalsobehandedinpersontotheReturningOfficeratthe

Political Studies Association Executive Committee Vacancies 2007

ThePGNrecentlysponsoredtheCentralandNorthEnglandConference(CANE)atNewcastleUniversity’sSchoolofPolitics,Geography,andSociology.WeextendourthankstotheUniversityand,inpar-ticular,JamesPattison,AmySteward,AndresPerezalonso,PojanathBhatanacharoen,andSarahLiebermanforwhatwasaverysuccess-fulconference.DrWilliamMaloneyprovidedakeynoteaddressoninterestgroupsindemo-craticpolitiesandaltogether95participantspresentedpapersonawidevarietyoftopicsincludingcorruptionandmoneylaunderinginEurope,policyanddecision-making,environ-mentalism,andthewelfarestate. Wewillsponsorfouradditionalpostgradu-ateconferencesthisyear:aNorthernRegionalConference,attheUniversityofGlasgowon25May;aSouth-WestEnglandandWalesRegionalConferenceatCardiffUniversity

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,’

‘Howtogetpublished,’and‘Teachingtech-niques.’Weinviteeverybodytocomealongtowhatpromisetobefascinatingdiscussions.Aspartofouron-goingeffortstoprovidepracticaladvicetoourmembers,werecentlypublishedan‘EmployabilityPack’andaimtobringouta‘TeachingPack’shortly.FordetailsofhowtojointhePGN,ourconfer-ences,publications,orpanelsatBath,pleasefeelfreetocontactourChair,LyndseyHarris([email protected]);alternatively,visitourwebsite(www.psa.ac.uk/graduate).OurannualgeneralmeetingisscheduledfortheAnnualConference,atwhich,courtesyofBlackwells,wewillalsobeholdinga‘brunch.’Weencourageallpostgradstocomealongtotheseeventstomeetthenewcommitteeortobringyourownideasastohowwecanbestmoveforwardtogether.

startofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationAnnualGeneralMeetingat5.30pmonWednesday11thApril2007attheUniversityHallLectureTheatre,UniversityofBath.Ifthenumberofnominationsexceedsthenumberofplaces,anelectionbypostalballotofthewholemembershipwillbeheld.

Annual General Meeting 2007 ThePoliticalStudiesAssociation’s2007AGMisonWednesday11thApril2007at5.30pmattheUniversityHallLectureTheatre,UniversityofBath.

ThePoliticalStudiesAssociationAnnualConferenceinBath(11-13April2007)willbehostingauniquepanelinvolvingseniorscholarsandpractitionersfromVietnam,Cambodia,LaosandMyanmar(Burma).Thepanel,entitled‘RethinkingParticipationintheGreaterMekongSub-region’,exploresdiversemodesofcitizenparticipationinpolitical,economicandsociallifeinone-partyordominant-partycontexts.Insodoing,thepanelavoidsthetendency–

commonplaceintheWest–toviewpoliticalchangesolelythroughaliberaldemocraticlens.TheventureisbeingorganisedforthePoliticalStudiesAssociationbyDrMartinGainsborough,LecturerinDevelopmentPoliticsattheUniversityofBristolanddirec-toroftheBristol-MekongProject. ThepanelhasbeenmadepossiblebythegeneroussupportofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationunderitsExternalRelationspro-grammeandbyco-fundingfromtheBristol-

Mekong Scholars Blaze a Trail to BathMekongProject. DrGainsboroughwillintroducetheocca-sionwithashortpapersettingoutthepan-el’stheoreticalcontext.HewillbefollowedbyProfessorHoangChiBao,seniorscholarattheHoChiMinhPoliticalAcademyinHanoi,theVietnameseCommunistParty’sleadingtheoreticalinstitute.ProfessorBaowillspeakonVietnameseexperienceswith‘grassrootsdemocracy’,oneofthewaysthatcountryisrealisingdemocracywhilstretainingthe

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ThePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sannualawardslunchistobestagedon27thNovember2007,torecognisetheachievementsofacademics,journalistsandothercontributorstothestudyandconductofpolitics.The2006ceremony,heldattheInstituteofDirectors,wasattendedbyahostofdistinguishedjournalistsandacademicsaswellasmembersoftheAssociation.WinnerspresentattheceremonyincludedJohnHumeandDavidTrimble(LifetimeAchievementinPolitics),RichardBacon(ParliamentarianoftheYear),ProfessorGerryStoker,whoseWhyPoliticsMatters:MakingDemocracyWorkwonbookoftheyear,ArmandoIannucciforTheThickofIt(BestPoliticalSatire),and

Political Studies Association Awards Ceremony 2007

ahostofotherimportantfiguresfromthefieldsofpoliticalscience,politicaljournalismandparliamentarypolitics.TheceremonyreceivedwidespreadcoverageforthePSAinboththenationalandlocalmedia. Ajuryofsenioracademics,accompaniedbyjournalistsandpoliticians,isbeingassembledtodeliberateonthisyear’sprizes.Toassistthesedeliberations,nominationsareinvitedforeachoftheawardcategorieslistedbelow.Yournominationsforanyorallcategoriesneedtobesubmittedbyemailtothejurysecretary,JackArthursatjack.arthurs@ncl.ac.ukbyFriday27thApril2007.Allentriesreceivedwillbeenteredinadrawforafreeplaceatthe

awardsceremony.Nominationsarerequestedforthefollowingcategories:1. PoliticianoftheYear2. LifetimeAchievementinPolitics3. ParliamentarianoftheYear4. PoliticalJournalistoftheYear5. PoliticalBroadcaster/programmeoftheYear6. PoliticsBookoftheYear7. PoliticalPublicationoftheYear8. PoliticalStudiesCommunicationAward9. BestPoliticalSatire10.SettingthePoliticalAgendaAward11.SpecialRecognitionAward(tothedisciplineofPolitics)TheJurywillmeetinJune/July2007.

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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

ofpublicationsatthePressesdeSciencesPo(universitypress)aswellastheSciencesPograduateprograminInternationalRelations,andsinceFebruary2002hasdirectedtheRotaryFoundationCentreforInternationalPeaceStudiesandConflictResolution TheUnitedStatesisrepresentedonthecommitteebyHelenMilnerwhoisB.C.ForbesProfessorofPoliticsandInternationalAffairsatPrinceton,directorofitsCentreforGlobalizationandGovernanceandalsochairoftheDepartmentofPolitics.Shehaswrittenextensivelyonissuesrelatingtointernationaltrade,theconnectionsbetweendomesticpoliticsandforeignpolicy,globaliza-tionandregionalism,andtherelationshipbetweendemocracyandtradepolicy.Sheiscurrentlyworkingonissuesrelatingtoglo-balizationanddevelopmentsuchasthepolit-icaleconomyofforeignaid,the‘digitaldivide’andtheglobaldiffusionoftheinternet,andtherelationshipbetweenglobalizationandenvironmentalpolicy.MarianSawerfromtheAustralianNationalUniversityinCanberraisleaderoftheinnovativeAustralianResearchCouncilfundedDemocraticAuditofAustralia.ThisconductsauditsofAustralia’sstrengthsandweaknessesasademocraticsocietyaroundsuchthemesaspoliticalequality,

World Political Scientists Convene in Bath

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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

Forthcoming events Thegroupwillberunningthreepanelsatthe2007PoliticalStudiesAssociationAnnualConference:StructuringLocalPolitics&Government;LocalElectoralPoliticsinBritainandtheUSA;and‘LocalPoliticsasa‘ProvingGround’inBritainandEurope:AdaptingtoNewChallengesinLocalGovernment’Forfurtherinformation,[email protected]

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?

Membersofthespecialistgroupsareverywelcometoattendtheseseminars.Forfurtherinformation,contactColinCopusonC.M.Copus@bham.ac.ukorAlistairClarkona.j.clark@qub.ac.ukTheseminarserieswebsitecanbefoundat:http://www.inlogov.bham.ac.uk/research/esrc%20sem%20series.htm

Group Membership Ifyouareinterestedinjoiningthegroup,pleasefeelfreetocontactAlistairClarkona.j.clark@qub.ac.ukorColinCopusonC.M.Copus@bham.ac.ukInitialmembershipisfreefortheyear2007-8.Thereafter,itisintendedtochargeanominalsumof£5tocovercostsincurredinrunningthegroup.Membershipisfreeforallgraduatestudents.

Group Convenor DrAlistairClarkEmail:[email protected]

CommunistParty’smonopolyonpower.DrWahWahMaung,fromtheInstituteofEconomicsinYangon(Rangoon),andMrKhamphaKeomanichanh,whorunsanot-for-profitorganisationinLaos,willexploredifferentwaysinwhichcivilsocietyisabletoorganiseinrestrictedpoliticalclimates.Thepanelwillthusconsiderdiversewaysofunderstandingcivilsociety,particularlywhereitsrelationshipwiththestateisviewed

innon-confrontationalterms.Oneofthequestions,whichwillnodoubtoccupythepanel,istheextenttowhichsuchwaysofthinkingandactingrepresentarealalter-nativetoliberaldemocracyoraresimplyasoptoauthoritarianism.ThefinalspeakerwillbeMrSederaKimfromtheCambodiaDevelopmentResourceInstituteinPhnomPenh.Inhispaper‘DemocracyinAction’,MrSederawillbelookingattherealitiesof

decentralisationinpost-conflictCambodia.ProfessorTerryKingfromtheUniversityofLeedswillalsopresentapaperexploringtheutilityoftheterm‘middleclass’whenthink-ingaboutpoliticalchangeinSouthEastAsia.DrCarolineHughes,fromtheUniversityofBirmingham,andMsDangHuongGiang,fromanenvironmentalNGOinVietnam,willbediscussants.

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CatherineMacDonaldfromEdinburghreceivingher£150undergraduateessayprize.

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

-whatbringsustogetherasgenderandpoliticsscholarsisthekindofquestionsweask.TheremightnotbemuchUKfeministrationalchoiceasyet,butitcanspeaktofem-inistresearchquestionsandRainbowMurray(BirkbeckCollege)madeclearthatitisonitsway.Thatfeministpoliticalscientistshadmuchtolearnfromethnographywasalsomadeevident,notleastbyAmandaWittman(Edinburgh)whoiscurrentlyengagedinpar-ticipantobservationintheScottishExecutive.Somequestionswereraised,however,aboutthepotentialtransformatoryeffectsofmainstreampoliticalsciencemethods,andwewonderedhowtheapparentresearchmethodshierarchy(andtherealitiesoftheRAE)mightsometimesconstrainourchoiceof

‘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

method.Issuesofethicsandtherelationshipbetweentheresearcherandtheresearchedwerealsoaddressedinanumberofpapers.MarinaPrieto-Carro’s(Bristol)paperdis-cussedactionresearchandwecomparedthisapproachtomainstreamelitestudies.WewereremindedofVickyRandall’sconcernthatfeministresearchshouldaimtoboth‘letwomenbeheard’andtobeofusetowomen.ThefinalsessionchairedbyNickiCharlesandKhursheedWadia(Warwick)broughttheconferencetoaclosewithanevenmorelivelydiscussionon,interalia,whethergenderandpoliticsscholarshadtostudymen,inordertostudygenderandpolitics.Atwhichpoint,wedecidedtoposeachallengetothemain-streampoliticalsciencecommunity:iffemi-nistpoliticalscientistsarestudyingwomen,genderandpolitics,whereisempiricalpoliti-calscienceinformedbymasculinitiesstudies? Finally,manythankstoRosieCampbellfororganisingandhostingtheworkshopatBirkbeckCollege,UniversityofLondon.The2008conferencewillbehostedRobertaGuerrinaattheUniversityofSurrey.Detailsaboutthisandthe2007undergraduateessayprizetofollow.

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ResearchbyaPoliticalScientistattheUniversityofExeterhasbeengivenanarchitecturalaward.DrMickDumper’sworkonJerusalemhaswononeoftheinauguralRoyalInstituteofBritishArchitectsPresident’sResearchAwards.Theproject“ConflictinCities:ArchitectureandUrbanorderinDividedJerusalem”wasvotedOutstanding

Architecture award given to Political Scientist for Research on Conflict in Jerusalem

Dr.MickDumper

University-ledResearchbyRIBA. DrDumper’sresearchconcernsurbandevelopmentandtheconflictbetweenIsraelisandPalestiniansinJerusalem–adividedcityunderIsraelioccupation.Itfocusesontheseparationwallthatcutsthroughpartofthecity,andthemainroadthatrunstowardsthehistoricentrancetotheoldcityofJerusalem-theDamascusgate.ResearchwascarriedoutbytwoteamsofIsraeliandPalestinianstudentswhointerviewedlocalpeopleandanalysedphotographsandmaps.ThestudyarguesthatarchitectureandtheuseofpublicspaceshaveplayedakeyroleintheconflictinJerusalem.Moredetailscanbefoundonwebsitewww.conflictincities.org.uk

ThestudyisfundedbytheEconomicandSocialResearchCouncil(ESRC).DrWendyPullanoftheUniversityofCambridgeisjointleaderontheproject.Thejudges’citationsays:“Theprojectisahighlysignificantpieceofworkthatdemonstratestherelevanceofacadem-icresearchandarchitecturalinterven-tionstosocialandculturalinteractionswithinageo-politicalframework”. DrMickDumperisAssociateProfessorinMiddleEastpoliticsattheUniversityofExeter.HeisinvolvedinresearchintotheArab-Israeliconflict,theMiddleEastpeaceprocess,andPalestinianrefugees.

humanrightsandcivilrights,popularcontrolofgovernmentandinclusivepublicdebates.TogetherwithcolleaguesinCanada,shehasbeenconveningafourcountrycomparativeprojectpublishedin2006asRepresenting Women in Parliament: a Comparative Study.

Theexecutivecommitteealsocontainsyoungerpoliticalscientistswhoarerisingstarsintheircountries.IrminaMatonytefromLithuaniaisstillinhermidthirties,butistheequivalentofdeputyvice-chancellorofauniversityaswellasservingaspresident

ofthenationalpoliticalscienceassociation(seereportontheirannualconferenceonpage24ofthisissue).Thepresenceofthesedistinguishedinternationalpoliticalscien-tistsinBathshouldenliventheconference,particularlythroughtheroundtabletheywillcontributeaspartoftheprogramme.

Witharound150members,theMediaandPoliticsGroup(theMPG)isalargeandwellestablishedspecialinterestgroup.Thegrouphasaguidingphiloso-phythatisunashamedlyinclusive,andithassoughttobeinstrumentalinbring-ingtogetherscholarsfromsuchdiversedisciplinesaspoliticalscience,mediastudiesandsociology.Theaimhasalwaysbeentotransformacademicsintocol-leagues,aroundasharedconcernwiththerelationshipbetweenpoliticaltheoryandpracticeontheonehandandtheactivitiesofmediaproduction,interpreta-tionandconsumptionontheother;andalwaystodothisinawaythatpreservestheintegrityofindividualdisciplinesandapproaches.Themembersliketothinkthattherangeofopinionsrepresented

inthegroupguaranteeslivelydiscussionandconstructivedisagreement.However,inorderthatthesedeliberationsneednotbecurtailedbytime,hungerorthirst,theMPGalsobelievesstronglyintherestorativevalueofconvivialaprès-debaterefreshments. TheMPGengagesinanumberofregu-laractivities.Thegrouprunsanewsletter,listingrelevantconferencesandCFPs,aswellasprovidingupdatesonmembers’research.Inkeepingwithitssize,thegroupalwaysmakesasignificantcontri-butiontothePoliticalStudiesAssociationAnnualConference–runningaroundninepanelsthisyear,forexample.Incom-monwithmanyothergroups,theMPGalsorunsitsownannualthemedconfer-ences,whichhavesofarbeenheldatthe

The Media and Politics Specialist Group

On17thand18thNovember2006,50delegatesfromthemediaandpoliticsspecialistgroupgatheredontheseafrontatSunderlandforthegroup’s2006annualconference.Theevent,hostedbytheUniversity’sCentreforResearchinMediaandCulturalStudies,featured22papersand

included3keynoteaddressesfromProfessorsJohnStreet,JustinLewisandRuthWodak.Asinpastmeetings,scholarshipcutacrossdisciplines,andthisvarietyextendedtothepanels,whichrangedfrompoliticalissuesinpopulartelevision,throughcommunicationspolicy,tothecoverageofinternational

Political Communications at the Seaside: the Media and Politics Group Conference

LefttoRight:ProfessorJustinLewis(Cardiff),ProfessorJohnStreet(EastAnglia),DrMichaelHiggins(Sunderland),ProfessorJohnStorey(Sunderland).

UniversitiesofLoughborough,Oxford,EastAnglia,andSunderland,andwillbeheldlaterthisyearattheStaffordshireUniversity.SeePage?????????forareportontheSunderlandConference,heldattheendof2006. ThegroupispresentlyconvenedbyDrHeatherSavigny(UEA),DrMichaelHiggins(Sunderland)andProfessorMickTemple(Staffs).TheytookupofficelastyearfromfoundermembersDrMarkWheeler(LondonMet)andDrDominicWring(Loughborough).ProfessorJayG.BlumlerisHonoraryPresidentofthegroup.Furtherinformationonthegroupanditsactivitiesisavailablefromanyofthecurrentconvenors.

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conflictandtheroleofthemediainfosteringcitizenshipandidentity. Thedelegatesalsoattendedawinereception,sponsoredbyBlackwell’spublishing,atwhichSunderlandSouthMPChrisMullingaveanimpassionedtalkonthedemocraticresponsibilitiesofthemedia.OrganiserandseniorlectureratthecentreDrMichaelHigginssaid“thesuccessoftheeventhasbeenareflectionbothoftheeffortsofSunderlandintheacademicstudyofthemediaandofthededicationoftheMPGmembershiptowardsmaintainingthehighestqualitydebateinpoliticalcommunications”.FulldetailsoftheconferencecanbefoundontheCentre’swebsite:http://myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/mediaandpolitics/.Thegrouphasannouncedthatthe2007groupconferenceistobeheldatStaffordshireUniversity.

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TheInternationalEncyclopediaofPoliticalScienceisoneofthemostambitiousprojectsinpoliticalscienceundertakenwiththesupportandimpri-maturoftheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation.Begunin2005withCQPressaspublisher,itisplannedforpublicationin2008infivevolumeswithover1,800bylinedentriesbycontributorsdrawnfromover60countries.Anonlineeditionisplannedbeginning2010.Aseditorinchief,Iamwritingtoseekyoursupportandcollaborationaswellasthoseofyour

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colleaguesinthismassiveendeavour. WearemakingeveryefforttoensurethatIEPSrepresentsthebestofpoliticalsci-encescholarshipintheearly21stcentury.IshallthereforeappreciateyourgoodwillincirculatingthiscallamongyourcolleaguesandotherPSscholarswhomwemayinviteascontributors.Ishallpersonallywelcomeyourparticipationandlookforwardtotheprivilegeofworkingwithyou. Thelead-timefordeliveryofentrieswillbebasedonthetotalwordcountofthecon-tributionsbutwillnotexceedeightmonths.

Compensationwillbeattherateof$0.10perwordandwillbepaidbyCQPressonapproval. ToprovideyouwithmoreinformationonIEPSwehavecreatedawebsitewhichislocatedat:http://s133221803.onlinehome.us/encypolisci Tousethesite,youwillneedtousethefol-lowinglog-inandpassword: Log-in:Polisci Password:encyclopedia

Background: Norfaceisapartnershipbetweentwelvenationalresearchcouncilstoincreaseco-operationinresearchandresearchpolicyinEurope.The12partnersinvolvedaretheresearchcouncilsforthesocialsciencesfromDenmark,Estonia,Finland,Germany,Iceland,Ireland,theNetherlands,Norway,Portugal,Slovenia,SwedenandtheUnitedKingdom.NORFACEisanambitiousprogrammeofcom-munication,enquiry,sharingofexperienceandaction.Overthefiveprojectyears,thepartnerswillengageinarangeofinitiativesdesignedtodelivernewlevelsofco-operativeresearchpolicyandpractice.OneoftheseactivitiesistheNORFACEseminarseriescompetition.WhileNorfacereceivescorefundingfromtheEuropeanCommission’s6thFrameworkProgramme,undertheERA-NETscheme,theresearchactivitiesingeneralandtheseminarseriescompetitioninspecific,isfundedbythepartners.Thisisthethirdcallforapplicationsfortheseminarseriescom-petition.InformationoftheresultsofthefirsttworoundscanbefoundontheNORFACEwebpage.

The Norface seminar series competitionThecompetitionisopenforresearchersfromresearchinstitutionsintheNORFACEpartnercountries,whoareconductingsocialscienceresearchwithinthespecifiedthemes,cf.below. Applicationsfrombothexistingnetworks

inareasofexcellenceandtheestablishmentofnewnetworksinnewareasareinvited.Intheseminarsresearchersaregiventheopportunitytomeetregularlytoexchangeinformationandideaswiththeaimofadvancingresearchwithintheirfields.Theseminarseriescanalsoprovidetrainingandparticipationopportunitiesforpostgraduateandpostdoctoralresearchers.

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.

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TheBritishLiberalPoliticalStudiesGrouphelditssecondannualconferenceatINLOGOVatBirminghamUniversityfrom19th–21stJanuary. Some24delegatesattendedtheweekendfrombothuniversitiesineverycountryintheUnitedKingdomandNorthernIrelandplusanumberfromEuropeaninstitutions.Itwasthelargestevergatheringofhistorians,politicalscientistsandpoliticians,fromacrosstheUKandEurope,whostudytheLiberalDemocratPartyintheUK. TheconferencewasorganisedbyDrColinCopus,INLOGOV,andDrRussellDeacon,readerinWelshgovernanceandhistoryatthe

British Liberal Political Studies GroupLiberal Democrats’ past, present and future position discussed at Birmingham University

UniversityofWalesInstitute,Cardiff(UWIC).TheSaturdayeveningdinnerwasaddressedbyJohnHemmingMP(BirminghamYardley)whospokeonthetopicof‘Howtodealwithissuesofconstitutionallawandtheprivilegesofparliament’. ThecurrentsituationregardingtheParty’sleadership,justoneyearonfromCharlesKennedy’sdeparture,wasamongstoneofthemanytopicsdiscussed.OtherconferencetopicsincludedtheLiberalDemocratstaxpolicies,theLiberalDemocratsandthestateofthepartyin2007;TheLiberalDemocrats,campaigning,genderandcandidateselection;TheEuropeanLiberals;TheLiberal

BritishLiberalStudiesGroup BritishLiberalStudies

Democrats–intheforthcomingScottishandWelshgovernmentelectionsandPrimeMinisters,leadersandotherimportantLiberalfigures. ConferenceorganiserDrRussellDeaconsaid:“ThisgatheringofUKandEuropeanexpertscameataninterestingtimefortheLiberalDemocratParty.Inthelightofrecentdevelopmentswithinthepartyandtheforthcomingdevolvedgovernmentandcouncilelectionsthepaperspresentedprovedtobeverytimely.Intheviewofthedelegatestheconferencecouldnothaveoccurredatamoreopportunetime.”

ThePoliticsofClimateChangeProject

isdesignedtoencouragecolleaguesto

systematicallyapplythetheoriesandmethods

ofpoliticalsciencetothetaskofidentifying

politicallyviablelong-termstatestrategies

formitigatingclimatechangethatwouldbe

effectiveenoughtopreventcatastrophic

climatechange.

Therationaleforthisisthatthechief

obstaclestoeffectiveactiononclimatechange

arepolitical,butpoliticianshavenotdonevery

wellinsurmountingthese.Thetimehascome

toseeifpoliticalscientistscandobetter.

Electoralconsiderationsclearlyplayabigrole

The Politics of Climate Change Projectinthepoliticsofclimatechange,soitisvital

thatspecialistsinelectionscontributetothe

Project.

Plannedactivitiesincludeputtingtogetheran

editedvolumeoncurrentthinkingrelatingto

politicalstrategiestocombatclimatechange,

organisingapanelattheECPRconferencein

Pisain2007,applyingtorunaWorkshopat

the2008ECPRJointSessionsinRenneswith

theintentionofputtingtogetherasecondand

moreadvancededitedvolume,andapplyingfor

grantstofundmeetingsandresearchtimefrom

sourcessuchastheEUandnationalresearch

councils.Itisalsohopedtoconveneorattend

meetingsinNorthAmericainduecourse.

FurtherinformationontheProjectisexpected

tobeavailableshortlyonthewebsiteofthe

ECPRStandingGrouponGreenPoliticsat

www.greenpolitics-ecpr.org/

Ifyouareinterestedinthepossibilityof

beinginvolved,orhaveanycommentsor

suggestions,pleasegetintouchwiththe

Convenor,HughCompston,

Reader,DepartmentofPolitics,Schoolof

EuropeanStudies,CardiffUniversity

Email:[email protected]

Phone:(44)(0)2920875644

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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

DrWilliamMaloney(correctedspelling)isatNewcastleUniversity(notNottinghamUniversity,asstated),andisnottheorganiserofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation‘RelatedGroup’PanelattheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociationAnnualMeetinginChicago,30thAugustto2ndSeptember,2007.Infactheistheorganiserofapanelon‘DeliveringDemocracyintheUK’,forwhichtheAssociationisprovidingfinancialsupport.ThiseventisscheduledfortheBritishPolitics‘RelatedGroup’ConferencetobeheldpriortotheAPSAAnnualMeeting. TheAssociation’s‘RelatedGroup’panelatthe2007APSAAnnualMeetinginChicagowillbeorganisedbyDrJonathanGithens-MazerofExeterUniversity,andwillbeon‘IslamicExtremisminBritain:Causes,ConsequencesandSolutions’. Associationmembersareurgedtoattendtheseexcellentevents.

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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

whetheritcontributestoanation’seco-nomicgrowth.Somesupervisorsmaynotlikethis,buttheirstudentsareincreasinglybeingsocializedintothisperceptionofthedoctorate,whatevertheiroriginalmotiva-tionsfordoingresearch.ThetensionmaybecomemoreintenseastheBolognaProcessofharmonizingEuropeanHigherEducationsystemstocreateaEuropeanHigherEducationArea,beginstoreallydigitsteethintowhatiscalledtheThirdCycle.WehavealreadymodularizedourundergraduateandmasterslevelprogrammeswithinnationalframeworkswhicharebeingsharedacrossEurope.Theprocessisnowbeingextendedtodoctoralandotherearly stage research.Thisisbasedontheprinciplethatacommonsystemwillmakestudentmobilityfareasier,enhancingcollaborativeresearchandgivingaqualitativeboosttotheEuropeaneconomy.Theobviousproblemisthatdoctoratesindifferentcountriesarecurrentlyenormouslydifferentanimals,asareexaminationproce-dures,supervisoryormentoringroles,and,letsnotforgetit,feestructures. WemayrollintothisvisionofchangetheimpactoftheQAACodeofPracticeforPostgraduateResearchProgrammesandtheinclusionofsuchprogrammesinthereviewprocess.Therolesandresponsibilitiesofsupervisorsarebeingformalizedandcodi-fiedinnewways.Thiscanbeparticularlyhardtoswallowforexperiencedsupervi-sorswhohavemanysuccessful“comple-tions”undertheirbeltsandfeelthecalltoaccountabilityisanothersignofheavy-handedinterventioninwhatisultimatelyandeverytimeafairlyuniquerelationship.Itcanbeargued,ofcourse,thatitispreciselythemorematureandexperiencedsupervi-sorswhoseapproachneedstobeup-datedandre-freshed.Eitherway,qualityassuranceinthesupervisoryrelationship,asinallotheraspectsofdoctoralprogrammeprovision,isclearlyheretostay.Themonitoringandpub-licationbyHEFCEofinstitutionalcompletionandqualificationratesaddsanadditionaldimension:itmayenhanceperformancethroughcompetition,oritmayultimatelybegintofeedintofundingequations.Itaddsafurtherlayertothestructuresofaccount-ability,butalsoadditionalpressureoninsti-tutions,supervisorsandstudentstoviewdoctoratesastime-relatedcommoditiesratherthanintellectualadventures. WhileUKstudentsarebecomingused

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ThePoliticalStudiesAssociationwassaddenedtolearnoftherecentdeath,attheageof72,ofoneofitsdistinguishedVicePresidents,NelsonPolsby.Inaglitter-ingacademiccareer,NelsonPolsbymadeahugecontributiontopoliticalscienceviahisownresearchandhiswidercontribu-tiontotheprofession.HisloveofBritainandinterestinBritishpoliticswerealwaysevidentandreflectedinhistimeattheLSEandasOlinProfessorofGovernmentatOxford.HereceivedhonorarydoctoratesfromOxfordandLiverpool. NelsonPolsby’sworksremainpromi-nentonmanyofourdemocracyandpowerreadinglists.TheyincludedtheseminalpluralistanalysisarisingfromhisYaledoctorate,CommunityPowerandPoliticalTheory(1963)NewPerspectivesontheHouseofRepresentatives(1963,withNelsonPeabody)PresidentialElections(1964,withAaronWildavsky,which

Death of Distinguished Political Scientist Nelson Polsby

TheinauguralInternationalPoliticalEconomyGroupbookprizefor2006hasbeenwonbyGrahamHarrison:The World Bank and Africa(Routledge,2004);theprizewaspresentedattheannualBritishInternationalStudiesAssociationconferenceinDecember.ThejudgesfoundGrahamHarrison’sbooktobeanexcellentandaccessiblecorrectivetotheoftenidentified,butseldomrectifiedlackofanalysesofAfricanexperiencesintheIPEliteratureofrecentyears.ThecombinationoftheoreticalandempiricalanalysismovedbeyondamerelystylisedviewofdevelopmentinSub-SaharanAfricatopresentrealinsightsintotherelationshipbetweenvariousstatesonthecontinentandtheWorldBank,whichwillbeavaluablefoundationforfurtherIPEresearchthatlinksdevelopmentissuestootherabidingconcernsofthediscipline. Harrison’sbookcrossesboundariesfromstructuresintoideasandback,

The Political Economy Group Book Prize 2006

reachedits11theditionby2004);CongressandthePresidency(1965)CongressionalBehaviour(1971)PoliticalPromises(1975)BritishGovernmentanditsDiscontents(1981,withGeoffreySmith,politicaleditorofTheTimes)andthepessimistic(inrespectoftheDemocrasatleast)ConsequencesofPartyReform(1983)ProfessorPolsbycontinuedtoproduceimportantworkswellpastretirementage.HisHowCongressEvolves(2004)providedinsightsintothe

growthofpartisanshipinCongressandtherelativedeclineoftheSouthwithintheinstitution,thelatterthemehavingbeenexploredearlierinhisanalysisoftheHouseofRepresentatives. From1967untilhisdeath,NelsonPolsbyheldaChairatBerkeley,wherehedirectedtheInstituteofGovernmentalStudiesfrom1988until1999.Adynamicandpopularpersonality,hewasanexcellenteditoroftheAmericanPoliticalScienceReviewforsixyearsduringthe1970s.NelsonPolsbywasnotanacademicwhowishedtowriteimpenetrablepieces;incontrast,hewroteclearlyandaccessibly,believingitwasthejobofanacademictoconveyknowledge,opinionandargumenttoanaudiencebeyondtheprofessionalcommunity.Assuch,hewasheldinhighesteemamongmanyjournalistsinaddi-tiontohisimmediatecolleagues. ThePoliticalStudiesAssociationexpressesitscondolencestoNelsonPolsby’swife,Lindaandhistwodaughtersandson.

openinguptheconceptofgovernanceandidentifyingthe”governancemanifesto”asanideologyandvaluejudgmentalltoooftenappliedtodebtorstopunishandrewardthem.Harrison’sconceptof“governancestates”alsoforcefullybringsthestatebackin,makingthebookaworthyrecipientofthefirstannualIPEGbookprize. However,thiswasnotaneasydecisiontoreachastheshortlistwasverystrong,witheachofthepanelofjudgesbringingtotheprocesstheirownwellarguedinterestsandevaluationstothedeliberativeprocess.HoweverthisalsomeansthatthewinningentrywasthebookthatmostwidelyfulfilledthevariousqualitiesthatthejudgessoughttoidentifyandcelebrateinanIPEmonograph.ThejudgeswouldalsoliketoacknowledgetheexcellenceandcontributionofthefourotherbooksontheshortlisttothecontinuingdevelopmentofIPEasanacademic

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).

TheJudgesfortheAnnualIPEGPrizeare:MariekedeGoede,UniversityofAmsterdam,NetherlandsRandallGermain,CarletonUniversity,CanadaChristopherMay,LancasterUniversity,UnitedKingdomLeonardSeabrooke,CopenhagenBusinessSchool,DenmarkDianaTussie,FacultadLatinoamericanadeCienciasSociales,Argentina

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ingtheSecondWorldWar.UptoamillionLithuaniansweredeportedbytheSovietauthoritiesandmanydiedintheharshcon-ditionsoflabourcamps,particularlyyoungchildrenandtheelderly,whileotherswereimprisonedorexecuted.Apartisanmove-mentconductedaguerrillawarforsometenyearsafterthecountrybecamepartoftheSovietUnioninthemistakenbeliefthattheywouldreceiverealsupportfromthewest.LithuanianindependencefromtheSovietUnioninvolvedlossoflifeandtodaythecountrysharesaborderwithBelarusandtheRussianexclaveofKaliningradandrelationswithboththeseentitiesisunderstandablyasubjectofinteresttoLithuanianscholars. Insuchalivelyconference,itisdifficulttosingleoutparticularpapers,althoughIwasinterestedintheargumentthattheEUhadinsistedondemocraticproceduresandguaranteesintherunuptoaccession,butthispressureandmonitoringhadnowbeenremoved. ThemajorityofpostgraduatestudentsinpoliticalscienceandinternationalrelationsinLithuaniaarewomen,althoughthisisnotanunreservedlypositivedevelopmentasitwasobservedtomethatthiswasareflec-tionoflowpayinacademiclife.However,Iwasparticularlyimpressedbythepresenta-tionbyDaivaRepekait,afourthyearunder-graduateatVilniusUniversitywhoisthechairoftheStudentResearchAssociation.ShewarnedagainstthetendencytowardsselfflagellationinwhatwasstillarelativelypoorpostCommunistcountry.SheofferedanironiccommentaryonthefouryearsofstudyingforapoliticalsciencedegreeinLithuania.Inthefirstyearonebelievedinabrightfuturebasedoninte-

DrRichardGraysonhasbeenappointedasHeadofPoliticsatGoldsmiths,UniversityofLondon,forthreeyearsfromSeptember2006.HetakesoverfromDrCarlLevywholedthedepartmentthroughaperiodofexpansionduringwhichseveralnewappointmentsweremade.DrGraysonjoinedthedepart-mentin2004havingspentthepreviousfiveyearsasDirectorofPolicyoftheLiberalDemocrats,thefirsttwoyearsofwhichwerecombinedwithbeingCharlesKennedy’sprincipalspeechwriter.Hisfirsttwobooks,completedinthelate1990swhileteachingatOxfordandtheOpenUniversity,wereonthe

interfacebetweenpoliticsandforeignpolicyinthe1920sand1930s.Histhirdbook,BelfastBoys:HowUnionistsandNationalistsFoughtandDiedTogetherintheFirstWorldWaristobepublishedbyHambledonContinuumin2008.Heisalsoworkingonabiographi-calstudyofLeoAmery,andregularlywritesabouttheLiberalDemocratsbothinnews-papersandinacademicjournals.Hehasappearedfrequentlyonradioandtelevisionasapoliticalcommentator,includingarecentslotasapanelmemberonBBCRadioFour’s‘AnyQuestions’.”

Dr. Richard Grayson appointed Head of Politics at Goldsmiths

grationinEuro-Atlanticstructures.InthesecondyearonebecamemorepessimisticandusedthefactorofpostCommunisther-itageasa‘catchall’explanationforalltheshortcomingsofLithuaniandemocracy.Inthethirdyearonebecameaculturalrelativist.Onebelievedthateverythingdoesnotjustdependonhistorybutcultureandvalues.HenceLithuanianswereinneedofoutsideassistance(implicitlyfromtheEU)to‘saveourselves’.Inthefourthyearonetookoffone’srosyglassesabouttheEUandsawthatLithuaniansneedtofindstrengthwithinthemtoconsolidatetheirdemocracy.

Lithuanian political scienceItookpartinaconcludingpanelwhichalsoincludedrepresentativesoftheFrench,PolishandUkrainianassociationsaswellasanAmericanpoliticalscientistthereinaper-sonalcapacity.Wewereaskedtooutlinetheworkofourassociations,inparticularinrela-tiontoourinternationalisingstrategies. Thecommentsandquestionsfromthefloorwereveryinteresting.OnespeakerarguedfortheneedforaspecificallyLithuanianpoliticalscience.Quitewhatthismightmeanisopentointerpretation,althoughIhaveheardsimilarargumentsinRussia.Indeed,inoneofthepapersearliertherehadbeenareferencetoa‘mystical’linkbetweenthecurrentLithuanianconstitu-tionandthatof1938.Oneissuemightbetheneedtousethelanguageinacademicdis-course;boththeyearbookandtheLithuanian Foreign Policy ReviewappearinEnglish(althoughitwasevidentthattherearealsostrongacademiclinkswithFranceandtherewasaparallelsessioninFrenchforpartoftheconference).Thisisarecurrentdilemma

forsmallcountriesastogettheirworknoticedtheyneedtopublishintheleadinginternationallanguageofacademiclife. ThefocusonLithuania’sownproblemsandtheimmediateregionisunderstand-able,particularlygiventhechallengespre-sentedbyrelationswithBelarusandRussia.Nevertheless,whenIwasaskedforafrankassessmentofLithuanianpoliticalscience,Ipraiseditslivelinessanditslinkswithcur-rentinternationaldebatesaboutdemocraticpractice,butIdidalsosaythatIthoughtthatitwasmoreinwardlookingthanEstonia,theotherBalticcountrywithwhichIamfamiliar.TherearemanyurgentpolicychallengesthatfaceLithuaniaanditwasevidentthattherearecloselinksbetweenpoliticalscientistsandthecountry’spoliticalclassanditsjournal-ists,evenifoneleadingjournocomplainedinhispresentationthatpoliticalscientists(or‘politologists’astheyaresometimescalled)theorisedtoomuchwhentherewasnothingtotheorise.Nevertheless,itmightbepossibletolinknationaldebatesevenmoretointerna-tionaldiscourseswithoutsacrificingnationalidentity.MysubjectiveassessmentisthatLithuaniaisthemostforeigncountryIhaveevervisitedapartfromChinaandJapan. Despitemakingsomeoutspokenremarks,IhavebeeninvitedtoreturntothisvibrantcountryinapersonalcapacitywhichIwillcertainlydo.IwillalsobuildonthelinksdevelopedatthemeetingwiththePolishandUkrainianassociations.Thisdoesnotmeanthatconsolidateddemocraciesandtheirpoliticalscienceassociationscannotruntheirownaffairsperfectlywell,butanexternalperspectiveisneverthelessappreciatedandIhopetotakepartinthePolishconferenceinSeptember2007.

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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-

Concerns about democracy in Lithuania

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tostaffburdenedwithpaperworkmoun-tainsandconsciousofPGRtargetnumbers,trainingneedsanalyses,PDPs,completiontimes,annualreviewsandtheotherdetailsofthenewacademicregime,internationalresearchstudents–whoaccountforawhopping46%ofresearchstudentsinUKHEIs-areoftenconfusedbyboththeskillsagendaandtheincreasinglyformalisticapproachtowardsdoctoralstudy.Thatdoesn’tmeantheydon’twantquality–inatightinternationalmarkettheirsponsorsarebecomingincreasinglydemandingintermsofgettingwhattheyarepayingfor.Buttimeandthoughtneedstobegiventoensur-ingthatwhateverchangesweintroducetobenefitaUKorEUknowledgeeconomy,ortorecruiteverlargernumbersofpremiumfee-payers,donotcomeattheexpenseofanincreasinglydiversegraduatecommunity.Internationalresearchstudentsarenotjustfinancialassets–theyareavalidandenli-veningpartofresearchcommunitiesandtheirparticularneedsandinterestsneedtobeprotected.Thismaymeantrainingsuper-visorsspecificallyformeetingtheneedsofinternationalstudents.Whoops–thereisanothernewdimensiontothesupervisoryrole.Letmeaddonemore.TheelectronicageisuponusandsupervisorsarehavingtoupgradetheirITskillstodealwiththe

electronicthesis,e-supervision,andplagia-rismdetectionsoftware(nottomentionthelegalissuessurroundingtheuseofe-mailsasevidenceincomplaintsandappealspro-ceedings).Itdoesnotstopthereofcourse.ThegrowingpopularityofJointandDualAwardsandtheEuropeanDoctorateengagesupervisorsincross-institutionsupervision,oftenwithcolleaguesoverseaswithverydif-ferentpedagogicalandinstitutionalcultures.Andthenofcourse,thereistheveryrecentsuggestionthatacademicstaffshouldactasspies,checkingouttheirstudentsforpoten-tialIslamicextremismorterroristinclina-tions.Whathashappenedtothecosychatsinthepub,longafternoonsspentdiscussingthefinerpointsofHegel,theslowevolutionofintellectualpromise?Well,forbetterorworse,thosedaysareonthewayout,ifnotgone. IrealizeasIreadthisbacktomyself,hownegativeIsoundaboutthewholeprocessandIamquitesurprised.Iactuallythinkalotofthethingsthatarehappeningareintrinsicallygood:universitiesshouldaccordresearchstudentsaproperstatus,formalprotection,aclearchartfortheirprogres-sion,andaccountabilityofsupervision.Theageoftheknowledgeeconomy(andhowweareboredofthatphrase)isuponusandwecannotshirktheresponsibilitytopre-

pareresearchersforit.TheopportunitiesforstudentmobilityandcareerenhancementarefarbeyondwhatwasavailablewhenIdidmyowndoctorate.Myconcernisthattherealdecisionsaboutwhatadoctorateis,howitshouldbedone,andwhatitsmean-ingshouldbeinbroadersocialterms,belongintheacademicworld.Itisnotsurprisingthat,withtheconstantpressuresthatareonacademicsnowtoperformfortheRAE,complywithevermoreintrusiveaudittrailsandthenteachtillwedrop,itisalltooeasytotakeeverynewimpositionasjustonemorebureaucraticboxtobeticked.Butthisisserious!Thedoctorateischangingandweneedtohaveoursayinwherewethinkthatchangeshouldbeleading.Dowewantskillstrainingtobeanassessedpartofthedoctor-alexamination?Dowewantresearchtobeindependentormanaged?Howmuchtrain-ingandofwhattypeshouldasupervisorneedaboveandbeyondtheirownresearchexpertise?Thelistofquestionsemergingfromthesumtotalofthecurrentchangesispotentiallyenormousandwilldifferfordisciplines,institutions,andindividuals.Iendwithtwoquestions:whatwillaDoctorateinPoliticalSciencelooklikein2020andareyousureyouwillbeabletorecognizeit?

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Fahamu’sdistance-learningmethodology,involvingCD-ROMs,email-basedfacilitationandworkshops,hasbeenwidelyadoptedbyinstitutionssuchastheUniversityofOxford,OfficeoftheUNHighCommissionerforHumanRights,Article19,theUN-affiliatedUniversityforPeaceandothers.PreviouslythesecourseswereonlyavailabletothoseparticipatingincoursesorganisedbyFahamu,butmakingthesecoursesavailableontheweb

throughOpenCoursewarewillallowanyonewithaccesstotheinternettobenefitfromFahamusuniquehumanrightstrainingmaterials.‘AnIntroductiontoHumanRights’isthefirstcoursetobepublishedwhichwillbefollowedby‘CampaigningforAccesstoInformation’. TheOpenCourseWareConsortiumisacollaborationofmorethan100highereducationinstitutionsandassociatedorganizationsfromaroundtheworld

creatingabroadanddeepbodyofopeneducationalcontentusingasharedmodel.ThemissionoftheOpenCourseWareConsortiumistoadvanceeducationandempowerpeopleworldwidethroughopencourseware.http://ocwconsortium.org/index.htmlThecoursescanbeviewedonlinehttp://rightstraining.fahamu.orgTolearnmoreaboutFahamupleasevisithttp://www.fahamu.org

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.

ThiswebsitehasbeencreatedbyaHefce-fundedFdtl�projectledbyPoliticsandInternationalRelationsattheUniversityofSouthamptoninpartnershipwithLiverpoolJohnMooresandKeeleUniversities.SinceJanuary2005,theprojectteamhasdesigned,pilotedandevaluatedaseriesoffree-to-accessweb-basedlearningactivitiesthatnotonlyteachstudentsaboutthenatureanddemandsofcitizenship,butalsorequirethemtoreflectcriticallyontheirownprac-tices–educationaboutandforcitizenship.BytheendoftheprojectinDecember2007,therewillbetenactivitiesavailable(seetablebelow).

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-

patepoliticallyoncampus,beforeanalyzingthecompetingexplanationsforthelowlevelofparticipationamongstyoungpeopleinrecentgeneralelections.

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.

Design principles Indevelopingtheactivities,theprojectteamhasbeenguidedbyanumberofprin-ciples.First,theactivitiesshouldbeself-con-tainedandflexibletouse.Ithasneverbeentheteam’sintentiontodesignacompletecourseoncitizenship;insteadtutorsareencouragedtoseeeachactivityasconstitut-inganalternativetooneortwoweek’scon-ventionalteaching. Asecondprincipleisthattheactivitiesshouldaimtoincorporateelementsofbotheducationaboutandforcitizenship.Atitsbest,politicsteachingnotonlyprovidesstu-dentswithgreaterknowledgeofthepolitical,butalsoencouragesthemtoconfronttheirownattitudesandbehaviours.Throughoutalltheactivities,theaimistorelatetheoreti-calideasandempiricalfindingsaboutthenatureofcitizenshiptostudents’ownexperi-encesandpracticesandtoprovideextensiveweb-basedresourcesthatallowstudentstoexploretheseissuesfurther. Third,theprojectteamhasadoptedaniterativeapproachwithprototypeversionsoflearningactivitiespilotedandevaluatedasearlyaspossible.Inthelifeoftheproject,we

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‘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,

whereIslamtendstobeperceivedassome-thing‘foreign’–outsideofthe‘normal’scopeofAmericanPoliticsletaloneeverydaylife.The2007PoliticalStudiesAssociationpanelattheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation(APSA)conference(August30th–September2ndinChicago,Illinois,USA)willhighlightkeyaspectsofthecurrentstudyofradicalIslaminBritaintoanaudienceofAmericanandinternationalpoliticalscientists–including1)howandwhysomeyoungBritishMuslimsbecomeradicalandviolent,and2)whatcanbedonetocounterthisprocess.Thepanel,entitled“IslamicExtremisminBritain:Causes,ConsequencesandSolutions”,withpapersbyJonathanGithens-Mazer(UniversityofExeter),HishamHellyer(UniversityofWarwick),PhilipLewis(UniversityofBradford),andBrendanO’Duffy(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon),willfocusonradicalIslamisminBritain,exam-iningthecontextinwhichyoungBritonsarejoiningradicalIslamistmovements,aswellasexamininghowcivilsocietyandreligiousinstitutionscanhelptocounterbalancethisprocessofradicalisation.TothisextentthepanelwillseektounpacktheradicalisingpowerofIslamistextremistgroupsinBritain,howsuchgroupsconceiveofthemselvesandothers,intermsofgeography,cultureandhistory,andhowtheselinkscanbealteredthroughbroaderconceptionsofBritishcivilsociety. PopularnarrativesportraytheemergenceofradicalIslamismasafunctionofthe‘clashofcivilisations’,alternativelyreducingittoaninstinctivereactionthefailureofthepeaceprocessintheMiddleEast,and/orapportion-ingcausalitytoBritishmilitaryengagementinIraqandAfghanistan.Thispanelwilltakeamorenuancedandacademicapproach-not

onlyexamininghowconceptionsofMuslimpolitics,culture,oppressionandstruggleareunderstoodamongstradicalisedindividualsasbasesforactsofviolence,butalsotheroleoftheindividualinthiscollectiveprocessofradi-calisation,andthepotentialforreligiouselitesandinstitutionstohelptode-radicalisetheseideas.SuchanapproachhelpstounpacktheroleplayedbysymbolsofIslamicrepressionforindividualsandidentifytheinstitutionalcapacityofreligionandtheroleofcivilsoci-etyinretardingradicalisation.Towardsthisendthepapersbeingpresentedonthepanelincludetheapplicationofsocialmovementtheorytoexplaintheroleofsymbolsandper-ceptionsofrepressionandinjusticeinproc-essesofradicalisation,themeasurementofdislocationfromtraditionalfamilyandcom-munitystructuresamongstMuslimsinEastLondon,andtheidentificationofcrisesinreli-giousauthorityintheIslamiccommunityinBradford.Byemployingavarietyofapproaches–itisourhopethatthispanelwillhighlightkeyareasofthisquestioninthecontempo-rarystudyofIslamistpoliticsinBritainforaninternationalaudience,aswellasindicatingsomeoftheinitialfindingsfromthesekindsofanalyses. Byexaminingnotonlyhowradicalisationoccurs,butalsoaddressingkeyquestionsof‘de-radicalising’youngBritishMuslims,thepanelwillalsotouchuponthelargerdebatesoccurringinacademiaandthepopularpress–includingthoseofmulti-culturalism,integrationandperhapsevenfundamentaldefinitionsof‘Britishness’–allofwhichmayultimatelyhelptofurtherpindownconcep-tionsofliberalismandtheroleofidentityandcultureinthecontemporaryBritishstate.

Topqualitytrainingonhumanrightsisnowavailableforfreeonline,thankstoapartnershipbetweenFahamuandtheOpenCourseWareConsortium.Throughthepartnership,the‘IntroductiontoHumanRights’course,jointlydevelopedbyFahamuandtheUniversityofOxford,DepartmentforContinuingEducation,hasbeenmadefreelyavailableonFahamu’s

website.Thecourseisdesignedtoprovidepeoplewithacomprehensivedefinitionofhumanrightsandhowtheserightsaremonitoredandenforced. Some600organisationsandindividualshavecompletedthiscoursesince2003,saidFahamuDirectorFirozeManji,andwearemakingthematerialavailableforfreeonlinesothatanyone,anywherecanhavethebenefit

oftraininginhumanrightsissues.Fahamuhasspecialisedindevelopingarangeofdistance-learningcoursesaimedatstrengtheningthecapacityofhumanrightsandcivilsocietyorganisationsinAfricaandaroundtheworld.ThetopicscoveredbythecoursesaretheresultofextensiveresearchconductedinAfricaintothetrainingneedsofsuchorganisations.

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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

thingtheyarelikelytosaytotheirpermanentsecretaryis‘Haveyouseethatpieceintoday’sMail?” AndthereareotheraspectsoftheHeinekeneffect.Newfundersorresearchpartnerswhodon’tusethe‘usualacademicchannels’cangettohereaboutresearchfromthatreferenceintheGuardianorthatinterviewonNewsnight. Ofcourse,oneofthekeyreasonsforgettinginvolvedwiththemediais‘profile’-everyoneneedsitnow.Weneeditforvulgarreasonslikestudentrecruitment,fundraising,staffrecruitmentandsoforth.Andresearchfundersnowlookattheextenttowhichanapplicanthassucceededinthepastindisseminatinghisorherpreviousresearchtowideraudiences. Finally,itcan’tbedeniedthatplayingthemediagamecanbequitefunand,whisperitnot,it’salsogoodfortheego. Butifgettinginvolvedwiththemediahasthesoundofsomethingslightlythreatening,thenfearnotforthePoliticalStudiesAssociationisheretohelp.EveryyeartheAssociationrunsmediatrainingworkshopsatwhichAssociationmembersgettheopportunity,inasupportiveenvironment,tobeinterviewedabouttheirresearchbyexperiencedradioandtelevisionjournalists.Theinterviewsarethenanalysedandparticipantsarethengiventheopportunitytotryagain. ThesecoursestakeplaceinavarietyofUKlocations.Ifyouareinterestedinattendingsuchacourse–whichisprovidedtomembersatnocost–thenpleaseemailIvorGaberativor.gaber@beds.ac.ukandgivedetailsregardingthelocationsandtimesoftheyearthatwouldbesuitable.

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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

betweendecentralizationandreformofthestate,theroleofpoliticiansandofelectoralsystemsandhowitisallfinanced.Thebookcombinesmeticulousempiricalresearchwithcleartheoreticalanalysis. JohnLoughlinisProfessorofEuropeanPoliticsandformerlyJeanMonnetProfessoratCardiffUniversity,UK,andEuropeanStudiesVisitingFellowatStAntony’sCollege,Oxford,UK.PreviouslyheheldpositionsattheErasmusUniversityRotterdamandtheUniversityofUlster.HehasheldVisitingProfessorshipsandFellowshipsatMertonCollege,Oxford,theInstitutesofPoliticalScienceinParis,BordeauxandAix-en-Provence,theEuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence,theRoyalFlemishAcademyofBelgiumforArtsandSciences,theFreeUniversityofBrusselsandtheUniversityofUmeå,Sweden.HeiscurrentlyanExpertonRegionalandLocalDemocracyoftheCouncilofEuropeandatUn-Habitat.

tiesthataremorerobustandresponsivetotutors’andstudents’needs. Arguablythemostdifficultelementoftheprojecthasbeenattractingtutorstopilotandevaluatethematerials–afterall,mostofusarealreadyoverburdenedwithothercommitments.Whiletutorswhohave

engagedwiththeprojecthavegenerallyfoundtheexperienceworthwhile(andnotjustbecausewepayforevaluations!),thereisanimportantlessonhereforeducationagencieslikeHEFCE.Iftheyaretocontinuepromot-ingandfundingnewteachingprojects,thentheymustrecognisethedifficultiesinvolvedinengagingacademicswhoalreadyfeelover-workedandfaceinstitutionalpressuresandincentivesthatdonotalwayssupportthistypeofactivity.

Your help still needed Theprojectteamisstilllookingtocommis-siontutorstotrialandevaluatethematerials.Weareparticularlyinterestedinevaluationsofthemorerecentlydevelopedlearningactivities:‘MakingCitizens’,‘Culture,EqualityandCitizenship’,‘DisabilityandCitizenship’and‘EnvironmentalCitizenship’.However,ifyouareinterestedinevaluatingoneoftheotheractivities,wewouldstillbeliketohearfromyou.PleasecontacttheProjectDirector,GrahamSmith,ProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversityofSouthamptongsmith@soton.ac.ukor02380593308.Andfinally,thankstoallthetutorsandstudentswhohavehelpedussofar.

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