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Contents Numbers on In Full View Chairing a Parliamentary Committee 2 Appointment at University of Ulster 2 the Increase News from the ECPR 3 Hurricane Katrina Appeal from ASPA 4 By Holly Hardwicke, Grants and Awards Political Studies Association News Need to go to a Conference Abroad? 4 Joint DFID-ESRC Scheme 8 The number of students wishing to study politics at Specialist News Groups University has risen again significantly since 2004. News from the British Idealism Specialist Group 5 According to the latest figures released by UCAS, the Mistakes made in the June edition 5 number of applications to politics in 2005 has increased by 13.9%, bringing the total number of Time to Confer applications this year to 3,739. ‘The Legacy of Leo Strauss’ 6 Such an increase confirms once again the sustained study politics, the Chair of the Association also 4th Biennial Transatlantic Studies 6 upward trend over recent years. The demand to study stressed the need for further investigation into why British Liberal Political Studies politics has been steadily climbing since 2001 when politics is doing so well and warned that complacency Group Winter Conference 6 the number of applicants to politics rose by 12,6% must not set in. “Given the continued reliance of most Migration and Political Theory Conference 6 following a period of decline. departments upon undergraduate income, the Political Association News This continued increase in demand for politics at Studies Association needs to continue working to boost Political Studies Association 7 university level has been paralleled by an equally recruitment to politics degrees.” Political Studies Association significant rise in A-level applications to study politics. Referring to the marked decline in demand for Sub-Committee Structure 7 According to the Joint Council for Qualifications, the some language A levels in recent years and the dire News Editorial Team for Politics 7 number of entries for political studies has increased by recruitment effects as a “salutary lesson on how 9.8% for 2005 making it the second largest growth trends can quickly change”, he pointed out that “some More News subject at A-level this year, rivalled only by religious aspects of recruitment to politics degrees have also RAE Panel 2008 9 studies, which saw an increase of 16.9%. A marked been uneven, those degrees leaning towards Political Studies Editors say Goodbye 9 reduction in entries was recorded in subjects such as International Relations, for example, being more Newly Elected Fellows to British Academy 9 business studies, computing, geography and French popular than those oriented towards Public University News and German. The percentage of students acquiring A Administration”. Promotions and New Appointments at the or B grades in politics at this level also saw a slight Tonge said that one way in which efforts could be Department of Politics, University of Glasgow 10 increase on last year's figures. made to encourage continued recruitment for politics Commenting on this increased demand, Dr. Ellie would be to build on the existing relationship with the Postgraduate Network Launches Johnson Searle, Director, Joint Council for Politics Association. “The Political Studies Association Interactive and Research Directory 10 Qualifications, said: “The rise in entries for religious needs to develop further the excellent links fostered in Department Profile and political studies is significant at a time when Britain recent years with the Politics Association, the The Department of Politics and International increasingly needs young people to understand the representative body for politics sixth form tutors.” Relations, Oxford University 11 complexities of our faith communities and participation Already, “some members of the Political Studies in our democratic society.” Association now host Politics Association revision Tribute to 11 Jon Tonge, Chair of the Political Studies Association, events and the Political Studies Association will be Annual Conference 2006 said, that “the fact that politics and religion are being represented at this year's Politics Association Annual Liberty, Security & the Challenge for Government 12 studied in ever greater numbers hints that global issues Conference in October”. The Politics Association will are impacting upon A-Level choices”. also be represented this year at the Political Studies The Newly Elected Committee Members 12 Welcoming the fourth successive year-on-year Association's Heads of Department Conference increase in the number entering British universities to in December.

The British Politics Group of APSA was founded in 1975 specifically to encourage the study of British politics in North APSA Conference 2005 America. The UK Embassy in Washington hosted a reception for the BPG during this year’s APSA conference.

From L to R: Alan Charlton, Deputy Head of Mission, UK Embassy, From L to R: Professor Donley Studlar, retiring BPG Executive From L to R: Professor John Benyon, Treasurer, Political Studies Washington; Professor Wyn Grant, President, Political Studies Secretary Professor Sam Beer, Vice-President, Political Studies Association with Sam Beer on the right and his wife Jane Brooks Association; Professor Tom Wolf, Editor, BPG Newsletter; Association, and Terrence Casey, new Executive Director, at the Embassy reception at which a special award was made to Professor Donley Studlar British Politics Group Professor Donley Studlar 2 In Full View

The committee was established as a twelve-member proactive investigations, that is, investigating issues Chairing a committee with the usual formula applied of 4 of constitutional importance. We were able to draw Conservative, 4 Labour, 2 Liberal Democrat, and 2 on a range of distinguished experts, not least political Parliamentary Cross-bench members. The House appoints not only scientists, for our major inquiries; among those the members but also the member who is to be appearing before us were Peter Hennessy, Charlie Chairman. I was appointed by the House as Jefferies, Robert Hazell, Christopher Hood, Vernon Committee Chairman. A rotation rule applies to most Bogdanor, and David Heald. The range of officials, By Professor The Lord Norton of Louth committees in the Lords, under which each member academics and politicians that we were able to draw retires after three years on a committee. I served on for our devolution inquiry, for example, was a from 2001 until the end of the 2003-04 session in researcher's dream! The Constitution Committee was November 2004. During my chairmanship, we published a total of appointed by the House of Lords in The House selects members as far as possible 33 reports, mostly on Bills (resulting in changes to a who have some expertise in the area covered by a number of measures) but with our major inquiries February 2001 and has its origins in committee. Apart from me, the committee comprised being on: Devolution: Inter-Institutional Relations in a recommendation from the Royal former Cabinet ministers, including John MacGregor the United Kingdom (a year-long inquiry, as part of [Lord MacGregor] and Ian Lang [Lord Lang], Lord which the committee took evidence in Edinburgh, Commission on the Reform of the Jauncey, who had served as a Law Lord; Lord Cardiff and Stormont); The Regulatory State: House of Lords (the Wakeham Fellowes, who had spent several years as the Ensuring its Accountability; and, Parliament and Queen's Private Secretary; Lord Morgan [Ken the Legislative Process. Commission). There was general Morgan], one of our leading historians, as well as All three were debated in the House. The support for such a committee and it experienced politicians such as Liberal Democrat Devolution report has been variously drawn on, not was appointed to report to the House Lord Holme and Labour's Baroness Gould. least by the Richard Commission. As a result of its At my instigation, our first report was on how we report in regulation, the Committee is pushing for the on all Bills of constitutional intended to proceed and the criteria that would creation of a Joint Committee of both Houses on significance and to keep the operation determine whether a Bill would merit report to the Regulation. The report on Parliament and the House. I devised the two p’s test: that is, a Bill has to Legislative Process looks like it has served to push of the constitution under review. affect a principal part of the constitution and has to forward the prospect of more systematic post- raise an important issue of principle in order for the legislative scrutiny: as a result of the report, the committee to report. (This avoided the committee Government has asked the Law Commission to having to be overly reactive and report on a raft of report on how it can be undertaken. minor issues.) The committee appointed a legal In addition, I also instigated the practice of adviser – Professor Tony Bradley – to advise on commissioning and then publishing papers from measures laid before the House. leading experts on particular topics, notably the The Committee devoted much of its time to growth (or otherwise) of centralising trends in legislation and the consequences for the British Constitution of the draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for the EU. I also indulged in what was once the traditional practice for parliamentary committees: that is, the Chairman drafting the reports, rather than leaving it to the clerk. Hence the reference to me in the House by my successor, Lord Holme of Cheltenham, as not only a hands-on chairman, but a hands-on-keyboard chairman! The experience helped marry my knowledge as a social scientist with the needs of a parliamentary committee in investigating and reporting on issues of constitutional import; it meant that I knew who to approach when we needed information and advice. The result was, in the view of commentators and members of the House, well-researched and authoritative reports that have helped establish the reputation and impact of the committee.

Appointment at University of Ulster

Paul Carmichael, Honorary Secretary of the Association, has been appointed Head of School at the University of Ulster. Congratulations Paul! In Full View 3

News from the ECPR by Martin Bull University of Salford One wonders what the great Sultan Nasrid would have thought of the idea of the invasion of Granada and his Alhambra (so-called ‘tenth wonder of the world’ by over 600 European political scientists to attend the annual Joint Sessions of Workshops in 2005.

These sessions were the best attended in the history of the event, and perhaps small wonder given the hospitality of the Spaniards and the historical and cultural riches on display. However, that is not (just) why the ECPR was there, and had Nasrid been able to attend some of the workshops, he would have found some lively and cutting edge debate taking place. At Granada, decisions were taken on which workshops should be accepted for the 2006 Joint Sessions in Nicosia. Of 43 proposals, 29 were accepted, and these include 9 (co-) directors from the UK. Overall, the workshops include a wide range of subject areas, including one workshop dedicated to an analysis of the political situation in Cyprus. The Nicosia Joint Sessions will be doubly important since this will be a Council year, when Official Representatives gather to elect half of the Executive Committee which has completed its six years of office. Let the politicking begin…. After Nicosia, the ECPR heads north again, to Helsinki for 2007, so if you are interested in running a workshop, please check the deadlines on the ECPR web-site. Meanwhile, the ECPR’s bi-annual conference goes from strength to strength: after and Marburg, there is Budapest in September 2005, and (approved at Granada) Pisa in September 2007. Don’t forget also the first ECPR Graduate Conference to be held The debate in some workshops in Granada became overheated at Essex in September 2006, and which will alternate with the bi-annual conference thereon. The 2005 Joint Sessions also saw the formal positions will be advertised, so please spread launch of the ECPR book series, with three classics the word. (by Sartori, Parry and Kaplan) and three monographs Other new developments are an ECPR Review, Political Studies Team (by Mateo-Diaz, Magnette and Casa-Zamora – which which will be a three yearly publication providing also received the 2005 PhD Prize). Representing the comprehensive information on the ECPR and all its at APSA ‘classics’ was Sartori who received a truly noisy activities, and the first edition of which will be The new Editorial Team, led by Matthew Festenstein and reception, so continually noisy, in fact, that it was published for the Nicosia Joint Sessions, and the Martin Smith, is based in the Department of Politics at difficult to hear what he was saying. Further books launch of an ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award for an the University of Sheffield. All submissions should go to: are under contract for publication in 2006 in this Outstanding Contribution to European Political [email protected] series, including Jack Lively’s Democracy and Steven Science. Nominations (made by ORs of ECPR Lukes’ Individualism. member organisations or by national political science The ECPR journal European Political Science associations) for the first award closed on 1 June (EPS) (editors: Martin Rhodes and Jim Newell) is now 2005, and a decision should be made in Budapest. published by Palgrave/Macmillan, and all institutional If you are interested in any further information on subscriptions to this journal are accompanied by 10 the above matters please consult the ECPR web-site free copies, thus effectively maintaining the existing in the first instance. Failing that, PSA members can service of the distribution of a number of free copies always contact one of the two British members of the to interested individuals. The journal will also now ECPR's Executive Committee: publish an annual reviews issue (incorporating book me ([email protected]) or Mick Cox reviews and review articles), edited by Peter Kennealy ([email protected]). Although we are not on the from the European University Institute, Florence. The Executive Committee to represent British interests (no first issue will come out in late 2005. The editorship country has representatives in this sense), we are From left: Victoria Smith, Journal Manager; of Martin Rhodes will come to an end in 2006, as will always inevitably keen to see and encourage British Dr. Katharine Adeney, Editorial Team and that of Ed Page (who, with Kris Deschower) edits the participation in the ECPR’s activities, a long-standing Dr. Sean Carey, Editorial Team European Journal of Political Science. These tradition in the life of the ECPR. 4 In Full View

I write to urge you to contribute generously to this Black Political Scientists, and the president of APSA. Hurricane Katrina effort to meet the needs of political science faculty and It will work closely with department chairs, graduate students, departments, and universities academic leaders in affected institutions, and other Appeal from the impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The fund will address organizations with shared purposes. APSA’s short-term requirements and support longer-term Administrative Committee will maintain fiduciary efforts to rebuild an infrastructure for research and oversight. Gifts can be made online using the button APSA teaching in political science, including library located on this page: collections in the discipline. Awards from the fund will www.apsanet.org/content_19189.cfm The devastation in the Gulf has directly be guided by an advisory committee, whose members Gifts may also be sent by mail to: affected political scientists and their will include the presidents of the Southern Political Hurricane Katrina Political Science Relief Fund institutions. As a first step, APSA is Science Association and the National Conference of The American Political Science Association 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, conducting a census of members in Washington, the region to inquire about their safety D.C., 20036-1206 and determine their immediate needs. Library Book Appeal Additionally, the Council has While at the APSA conference in Washington, Wyn Grant, President of the Political Studies Association, authorized the creation of a fund to aid was briefed by the Southern Political Science in the restoration of scholarly life. Association on the problems their members on the Gulf Coast are facing. Many colleges in that area are small, private institutions with limited funds, and some of them have historically been African-American institutions. It is likely that an appeal for library books will be issued subsequently.

Grants and Awards

Need to go to The British Academy's Conference Grants schemes Professor Terrell Carver (Bristol) might be just the thing you are looking for. The BA While the deadlines for application and for paper has given out nearly 200 such grants in 3 years. acceptance need careful watching, the British a conference Three-quarters are given under the Overseas Academy Overseas Conference Grant scheme works Conference Grant scheme with each grant averaging exceptionally well. The support makes a significant abroad? Need £451. Substantial contingents going to the major difference in terms of conference prioritization and conferences – APSA, EUSA, ECPR among others – forward planning. financial support are regularly supported in this way. But the BA also sponsors those attending less mainstream events Professor Alan P. Dobson (Dundee) such as the International Interdisciplinary Congress on The BA runs a really commendable system, which, in for a conference Women (Uganda 2002) and the 10th International particular, is neither intimidating for young scholars Kant Congress (Brazil 2005). who have little experience in applying for grants, nor in the UK? British Conference Grants (average amount overly burdensome and time consuming for senior £1,713) are generally awarded to support those colleagues pressed for time by the various calls of our holding conferences. The Academy will sometimes profession. support a conference that is part of a regular series – as with the 2004 Edinburgh meeting on States, Dr Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos (Birkbeck) Borders and Nations: Negotiating Citizenship in Africa. The British Academy'’s overseas conference grant EPOP is frequently successful in receiving support scheme offers a source of funding that is invaluable from the Academy for its meetings. to all, but especially to young members of the UK’s Details of both schemes are available on the community of social scientists. academy’s website (www.britac.ac.uk). The Academy prides itself in avoiding over-bureaucratic application Dr. Mark Aspinwall (Edinburgh) forms, making decisions swiftly, encouraging new One of the most difficult decisions I have ever made scholars and scholars developing new ideas or as an academic was to return, unspent, the overseas working in under-researched areas and supporting conference grant awarded to me by the British meetings to which other big funders might not give Academy for a conference in Hawaii. The reasons money. The success rate of applications is generally are not important. The important thing is that the higher than turnout rates in most European British Academy was there supporting me, democracies. and academics like me, in our conference activities. But why take our word for it? Here’s what some satisfied customers have said … Dr. Justin Fisher (Brunel) Dr Laura Brace (Leicester) In EPOP, we always invite prominent international The grant was straightforward to apply for, and the figures to our conferences and the British Academy application was speedily handled. As a political has often provided grants to enable us to pay for our theorist, I was delighted to find the British Academy guests’ airfares. This kind of helphas been invaluable willing to support overseas conference attendance in establishing the EPOP conference as such an across the full range of the discipline, and I would important event in the calendars of those who are encourage colleagues to apply. interested in these sub-fields of the discipline. Specialist News Groups 5

News from the British Idealism Specialist Group By Dr. Stamatoula Panagakou

R. G. Collingwood Conference July 2005 (the editors) discussed themes from the book • Domenico Mancuso on “Reaching Out for the Past” Professor David Boucher (Cardiff) and Professor • A Symposium was held on Gary Browning’s • Bill Mander on “From Consciousness to the Wendy James (Oxford) organised the R. G. Collingwood Rethinking R. G. Collingwood: Philosophy, Politics, Absolute” Conference at Monk Coniston, Conistonwater, in and the Unity of Theory and Practice • Ajaya Naik on “A Proof on One Substance Monism” Cumbria, , 6th-9th July 2005. The Conference (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004). The participants • William Sweet on “Ethics Under Idealism” was supported by the British Idealism Specialist were Gary Browning, Bruce Haddock, and Andrew • Maurice Stanley on “Idealism and the Ethical and Group, the R. G. Collingwood Society, and the Vincent. Religious Language-Games” Collingwood and British Idealism Centre of the • A Symposium was held to celebrate the new revised • Elizabeth Trott on “Democratic Paradoxes: University of Cardiff. edition of Collingwood’s An Essay on Philosophical T. H. Green on Democracy and Education” Method (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). • Colin Tyler on “Edward Caird on ‘Reform and The speakers were: The editors, James Connelly and Giuseppina Reformation’ and ‘Social Ethics’” • Markku Hyrkkänen on “An Idea of Intellectual D’Oro, discussed with Rex Martin the importance • David Weinstein on “Idealism and the Rejection of History: R. G. Collingwood’s Contribution to the of the book. Utilitarianism” Methodology and Theory of Intellectual History” • Ben Wempe on “Idealism and Positive Freedom” • Robert R. Segal on “Collingwood and Peter Winch: Three wonderful excursions in the Lake District • Ian Winchester on “Internal Versus External Empathy Versus Fieldwork” completed the Conference. The trip to the Galava Relations in Contemporary Physics” • Tim Rosser on “Phenomenological Implications of Roman fort at Ambleside, excavated by R. G. Contemporary Readings of Collingwood’s Absolute Collingwood, followed by a walk to the Roman route to Presuppositions” Langdale, over Wrynose Pass and up to Hardknott • Michael O’ Neill on “The Role of Resignation of the Fort, was an unforgettable expedition. The second Will in Collingwood’s Moral Philosophy” excursion was a visit to the Ruskin Museum in • William Sweet on “Politics and Aesthetic Coniston; then we sailed from Coniston Pier to idyllic Consciousness” Brantwood to have a guided tour at Ruskin’s home. • Giuseppina D’Oro on “Collingwood and The last day of the Conference, Professor Wendy Philosophical Analysis” James hosted a reception at her house in Hartsop. A • Fred Inglis on “Writing Collingwood’s Biography” visit to King Arthur’s Round Table, near Penrith, was • Mathieu Marion on “Collingwood as an Objective also arranged. Idealist” • Chinatsu Kobayashi on “Collingwood on Emotions: Idealism Today Conference July 2005 Between Emotivism and Moral Realism” Dr. Bill Mander (Oxford) organised the Idealism Today • Stephen Leach on “Davidson and Collingwood on Conference, at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, the Problem of Causation” 19th-22nd July. The Conference was devoted to a • Michael Beaney on “Presuppositional Analysis and reassessment of all aspects of philosophical Idealism the Presuppositions of Analysis” and an investigation of both its relevance to • Guido Vanheeswijck on “R. G. Collingwood’s contemporary philosophy and its contribution to Metaphysics as Conceptual Analysis: A Different intellectual history. The Conference was one of the Approach” most successful international gatherings of young and • Stephen L. Keck on “From The Stones of Venice to established Idealism scholars. The Idea of History: John Ruskin and R. G. Collingwood’s Historical Thought” The speakers were: • James Patrick on “Newman and Collingwood, • Leslie Armour on “The Case for an Idealist Aristotle and Kant: The Empiricism of Late Victorian Ontology” Idealism” • Tom Buford on “What is Boston Personalistic • Richard Murphy on “Collingwood and the Reform of Idealism?” Dr Paul Lambe, Plymouth University Logic and Metaphysics” • Nicholas Rescher on “A Viable Idealism” • Douglas Templeton on “Some Notes on • Timothy Sprigge on “Absolute Idealism and the Pre- Collingwood’s Philosophia Christiana” established Harmony” • Ian Winchester on “Collingwood on History and • James W. Allard on “Realism, Anti-Realism, and Physics” Absolute Idealism” Mistakes made in • Anna Castriota on “The Logic of Question and • Randall Auxier on “Howison’s Limits of Evolution Answer in R. G. Collingwood and H. G. Gadamer” Revisited” the June edition • Margaret E. Berci on “What Does it Mean to • Pierfrancesco Basile on “Panpsychism, Idealism, Question?” and the Value of Reality” Paul Lambe, winner of the Arthur McDougall Prize for • Tim Lord on “Anti-Realism in R. G. Collingwood’s • Jan Olof Bengtsson on “Idealism and the Renewal best Dissertation in Elections, Electoral Systems or Theory of Art as Imagination” of Humanistic Philosophy” Representation 2003–2004, is from Plymouth • Thom Brooks on “An Idealist Theory of Punishment” University and not from Sussex University as originally The R. G. Collingwood Conference had the following • Brian Butler on “Idealism in American Law” printed. highlights: • Maria Dimova-Cookson on “The Three Freedoms” Paul was an ESRC funded student who graduated • A discussion of Rex Martin’s contribution to the • Karim Dharamsi on “Is Brandom an Idealist?” from Plymouth in 2003. He is the second Plymouth study of Collingwood’s An Essay on Metaphysics. • Giuseppina D’Oro on “Idealism and the Philosophy student to win one of the Political Studies The discussants were Michael Beaney and Guido of Mind” Association’s PhD prize. A Plymouth student won a Vanheeswijck. Rex Martin responded with his paper • Phil Ferreira on “Idealism and the A Priori” similar BISA accolade a couple of years ago. “Reply to my Critics.” • Marcin Kilanowski on “Idealism and Communicative Quite an impressive hit record for a small graduate • Sir Roger Bannister launched the publication of Action” cohort! Collingwood’s The Philosophy of Enchantment: • Tim Lord on “Anti-Realism in R. G. Collingwood’s The article on the academic network on page 5 Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Theory of Art as Imagination” was written by Prof. Markus Vinzent, University of Anthropology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005). • Philip MacEwen on “Edward Caird, William Wallace, Birmingham, and not by Michael Moran. Our David Boucher, Wendy James, and Philip Smallwood and Contemporary Hegel Scholarship” apologies to all concerned. 6 Time To Confer

‘The Legacy of ‘Transatlantic Conflict and 15th January 2006, at the University of Wales Conference Centre in Gregynog, Powys. Gregynog is a Leo Strauss’ Consensus: Culture, nineteenth century mansion house set in heart of the University of Nottingham mid Wales countryside. This conference will be held in History and Politics’ conjunction with the Liberal Democrat History Group. 27th – 28th March 2006 4th Biennial Transatlantic It is proposed that some of the best papers will go into an edited book. Call for Papers Studies Conference Plenary speaker: Professor Anne Norton, University Proposed Panels for papers include: Maastricht Centre for Transatlantic Studies, of Pennsylvania. Author of Leo Strauss and the • The Liberal Democrats and the 2005 General Netherlands Politics of American Empire. Election Leo Strauss, who died in 1973, was born in • The Liberals of 1905 ‘on the road to a landslide’? Germany in 1899. He emigrated to the 25th – 28th October 2006 • The Liberal Democrats and devolution. Papers on in 1932 and taught at the new School for Social the Liberal Democrats and devolution in Scotland, Research in New York between 1938 and 1949 and Call for Papers Wales, GLA and English regions the University of Chicago from 1949 to 1967. The Maastricht Centre for Transatlantic Studies • The SDP quarter of a century on Strauss was the author of fifteen books, including issues a call for papers for its fourth biennial • The Liberal Democrats, campaigning, gender and The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1936), Natural conference. The conference, entitled “Transatlantic candidate selection Right and History (1953), Thoughts on Machiavelli Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History, and • Prime Ministers, leaders and other important (1958), What is Political Philosophy? (1959), The Politics”, will be held October 25th–28th, 2006, on Liberal figures City and Man (1964) and had a considerable the campus of Teikyo University Holland, Maastricht, • The Liberals and issues of policy, past influence on students of the history of political The Netherlands. and present thought and its methodology. The conference will The organizers welcome submissions covering appeal to anyone working in these areas. the gamut of transatlantic conflict and consensus Paper givers are required to submit a 200 word As well as appealing to students of politics from the fields of literature, sociology, history summary of their paper to the Conference Convenor. whose concerns are entirely theoretical, Strauss is political science, journalism, cultural studies, and If the paper is of the required standard for the group also of interest to students of contemporary others. The conference organizers hope to engender then a space will be allocated for it on a relevant American politics and international relations, largely a multidisciplinary discussion of transatlantic panel. Papers should be submitted by 15th October because of the influence he has had on the relations. 2005 but ideas for papers as soon as possible. American ‘neo-conservative’ right and on US foreign Please submit ideas to Conference Convenor Dr policy under the current Bush administration. One Submit proposals in English online at: Russell Deacon ([email protected]). of the aims of the conference will be to attempt to Each submission should include a 500–word bridge the divide between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ by proposal of the paper that is to be considered for The price of the conference will be £100 for the attempting to draw out the practical, policy presentation and a 200–word biographical sketch of weekend or £60 for either staying on the Friday or implications of Strauss’s ideas, as interpreted by his the author(s), along with other relevant information Saturday night. The price applies to member of the followers today. Additionally, this aspect of the requested on submission form. British Liberal Political Studies Group or the Liberal conference should appeal to students of politics The deadline for submitting proposals is 1st Democrat History Group. who have an interest in ‘think tanks’ and/or the role February 2006. Rolling acceptance will be practiced, of intellectuals in politics generally, especially émigré but authors will be notified the status of their Non-members will be required to pay £125 and £70 intellectuals in 20th century US politics. proposal no later that 1st April 2006. Update respectively. There is a reduced rate for those information, including registration details, will be postgraduate students who wish to share a room of The conference will be structured around the available on the website. The lingua franca of the £60 or £30. The Saturday night will also host a dinner following themes: conference is English. with a guest speaker. 1. Strauss’s political thought generally (his critique Along with presentation of accepted papers, the of modernity; his conservatism; his defence of conference will feature speakers representing the Please email [email protected] with paper ideas the idea of natural law or right) American view of transatlantic relations, a and to receive a booking form. You should also note 2. Strauss’s contribution to methodological debates continental European view of transatlantic relations, that due to limited spaces available bookings should in the history of political thought and an academic overview of the discussion. be made early. 3. Strauss on Jewish and Islamic thought 4. Strauss’s influence on contemporary US politics, Contact Details: especially US foreign policy Organizing and sponsor institutions of the 5. Strauss’s relevance for those interested in the conference include the Maastricht Centre for Migration and Political politics of ‘think tanks’; émigré intellectuals in Transatlantic Studies; Gloucestershire University, UK; politics in general; or, more specifically, émigré and The University of South Dakota, USA. Contact Theory Conference thinkers in 20th Century US political and Dr. Neil Wynn at [email protected] or Prof. Tim University of Sheffield intellectual life. Schorn at, [email protected] or see the conference It is anticipated that the conference proceedings will website, for additional information, at Friday 21st October 2005 be published either in book form, or as a special www.transatlanticstudies.org. issue of an academic journal, or both. 9.30am – 5pm The academic convenors of the conference are Dr Tony Burns (School of Politics, University of British Liberal Political The conference will explore central normative and Nottingham), e-mail [email protected] theoretical, social and political issues. and Professor Richard King (School of American Studies Group and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham), There are also some places available at a Workshop e-mail [email protected]. Winter Conference on the Applied Ethics of Migration Policy, to be held The convenors invite the submission of University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog, the previous day, Thursday October 20, at the proposals for papers on topics under any of the Powys University of Sheffield, and involving some of the headings above. Strong proposals for papers dealing speakers from the Conference. with other aspects of Strauss’s ideas and their 13th – 15th January 2006 influence will also be considered. Proposals (with Registration: £25/£15 per day abstracts) should be submitted to the conference Call for Papers organizers by 30th Sept 2005. (Please state audio- The British Political Liberal Studies Group Winter For registration and further details, please contact visual requirements) Conference will be held on the weekend of the 13th to Sylvia McColm: f.mcolm@[email protected] Association News 7

Publications Political Studies Political Studies Professor David Denver Association [email protected] Association Research and RAE President Professor Vincent Geoghegan Sub-Committee Professor Wyn Grant [email protected] Structure Honorary Vice-Presidents Specialist Groups and Conference Grants Rt. Hon Alan Beith MP Dr Jennifer Lees-Marshment Chair: Jon Tonge Austin Mitchell MP [email protected] Hon Secretary: Paul Carmichael Hon Treasurer: John Benyon Vice-Presidents Executive Committee member Professor Brian Barry Dr Roger Scully Committees Professor Samuel Beer [email protected] Awards Ceremony: Professor Hugh Berrington Justin Fisher (Chair) John Benyon, Sarah Childs, Professor A.H. Birch Editor, Political Studies Joanna McKay Professor Monica Charlot Dr Matthew Festenstein Professor Sir Bernard Crick [email protected] and Annual and Head of Departments Conferences: Professor Ian Forbes Lisa Harrison (Chair) Jacqui Briggs, Paul Carmichael, Professor Michael Goldsmith Professor Martin Smith Neil Collins, plus Reading 2006 team Professor M.M. Goldsmith [email protected] Professor J.E.S. Hayward Research/RAE: Professor Elizabeth Meehan Editor, Politics Vincent Geoghegan (Chair) Sarah Childs, Paul Professor Graham Moodie Dr Charles Lees Carmichael, Justin Fisher Professor Lord Norton [email protected] Professor Geraint Parry Education and Teaching: Professor Lord Plant Co-Editor, Politics Jacqui Briggs (Chair) Vincent Geoghegan, Jerry Johnson Professor Nelson Polsby Dr Paul Taggart Professor R.A.W. Rhodes [email protected] External Relations (and overseas grants): Professor Richard Rose Terrell Carver (Chair) Neil Collins, David Denver, Professor Sir Maurice Shock Editor, British Journal of Politics and Joanna McKay Professor Lord Smith International Relations Professor Chris Pierson Specialist Groups and conference grants: Executive Committee [email protected] Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Chair) Jacqui Briggs, Roger Scully Chair Editor, Electronic Publications Professor Jonathan Tonge Professor Richard Topf Graduate Network (including allocation of [email protected] [email protected] access/hardship funds): Jerry Johnson

Hon. Secretary Editor, Political Studies Association News Media and Communications: Professor Paul Carmichael Professor Neil Collins Joanna McKay (Chair) Lisa Harrison, [email protected] [email protected] Jennifer Lees-Marshment

Hon. Treasurer BISA representative Awards and Prizes: Sarah Childs (Chair) Paul Professor John Benyon Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe Carmichael, Jacqui Briggs, Roger Scully [email protected] [email protected] Publications: David Denver (Chair) John Benyon, Annual and Heads of Department Conferences 2006 Conference Academic Convenor Lisa Harrison, Roger Scully, Richard Topf Dr Lisa Harrison Dr Philip Giddings [email protected] [email protected] Political Studies Association News: Neil Collins

Awards and Prizes 2006 Conference Local Organiser Website/Electronic publications: Richard Topf Dr Sarah Childs Graham Thomas [email protected] [email protected] Media consultant: Ivor Gaber National Office Awards Ceremony Journals: Political Studies: Martin Smith/Sheffield Dr Justin Fisher Executive Director [email protected] Jack Arthurs BJPIR: Chris Pierson/Nottingham

Education and Teaching Membership Secretary Politics: Sussex/New team Dr Jacqui Briggs Sandra McDonagh [email protected] Political Studies Association External Relations Department of Politics, University of Newcastle New Editorial Professor Terrell Carver [email protected] Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Tel: 0191 222 8021 Fax: 0191 222 3499 Team for Politics Graduate Network e-mail: [email protected] Jerry Johnson [email protected] www.psa.ac.uk The Political Studies Association journal, Politics, will be edited out of the Department of Politics, Media and Communications The Political Studies Association is a Registered University of Glasgow from January 2006. The Dr Joanna McKay Charity no. 1071825 and a Company limited by co-editors will be Dr Jane Duckett, Dr Paul Graham, [email protected] guarantee in England and Wales no. 3628986 and Dr Alasdair Young. 8 Grants and Awards

2.3. Applications are sought from across the social accountable and stable organisations for the conduct of Joint DFID-ESRC sciences and other academic disciplines, though the high-quality research. For most UK higher education primary contribution should come from the social institutions such recognition will already be in place. If Scheme for Research sciences. Multi- and inter-disciplinary applications are an institution is not already recognised to hold ESRC strongly encouraged, though this is not a pre-requisite awards, before a grant is offered such institutions will on International for funding. There is recognition that the problem of be asked to provide information on their governance, alleviating poverty is complex and involves a range of audit and accountability arrangements to ensure that socio-economic factors, hence the importance of they adequately meet the ESRC contract and Poverty Reduction bringing the full range of social science disciplines and monitoring regulations. Overview of Specification for First Call perspectives to bear. 3.4. The full specification for the call is available on the Deadline for applications: 1st November 2005 Research Capacity ESRC website at www.esrc.ac.uk. For further details 2.4. DFID and ESRC are not seeking to fund capacity- contact the DFID-ESRC Project Unit based in ESRC, via building per se through this scheme. However, both [email protected] or [email protected] 1. Strategic Background to the Scheme organisations recognise that a lack of adequate 1.1. The Department for International Development intellectual and human capital hinders the prospects of (DFID) and Economic and Social Research Council long-term sustainability in both research effort and (ESRC) announce the first call for their new joint research exploitation. Thus, issues of research capacity research scheme in the area of international can be addressed explicitly within research proposals, APSA Conference 2005 development. Both organisations view the alleviation of provided capacity-related elements are both compatible poverty as an important priority. In the case of the with the intellectual agenda of the research proposal, DFID, the International Development Act (2002) places and are sub-ordinate to the main intellectual focus. poverty reduction in the poorest countries at the core of Further details are contained in the full specification. its mission, encapsulated at the international level through the Millennium Development Goals. For ESRC, Engagement alleviating poverty in an evolving global economy is a 2.5. All applications will need an engagement strategy major trans-disciplinary research challenge. that explains who the various academic and non-academic stakeholders are, and how 1.2. Thus, the main aim of this new scheme is to fund those stakeholders will interact with the project during high-quality basic research that enhances under- and after completion of the research. Engagement standing, develops thinking and has the potential for strategies should include specific activities to ensure real impact on the international development agenda appropriate exploitation of research outcomes. for reducing global poverty. Recognising the multi- faceted and trans-disciplinary nature of this International Dimension research agenda, applications are encouraged from 2.6. By definition this scheme is concerned with issues across the full range of social science of global importance. Underpinning the scheme, disciplines and beyond. however, is mutual respect and understanding for different cultural, ethnic, social and economic beliefs 1.3. A budget of £13 million over four years has been and practices. Solutions to poverty must be rooted in, earmarked for this scheme, and this is the first call for and acceptable to, the institutions and communities applications with others to follow in 2006. The scheme they are meant to serve. will fund individual projects costing up to £700,000 and running from one to three years. This overview 2.7. The geographical focus of projects should be From left; Professor Michael Marsh, Trinity outlines the key elements of the new scheme and the determined by their relevance to the poverty reduction College, Dublin and Professor Michael first call. It is essential that any researcher intending to agenda of this scheme with particular, though not Thrasher, Plymouth University develop an application reads carefully the full necessarily exclusive, emphasis on the poorest low specification and the detailed guidance on completing income countries. It is essential that the research the application form. The application form and questions and geographical focus are intellectually guidance on submission will be available via the ESRC coherent, especially where cross-cultural comparative website from 15 September 2005. work is concerned.

2. Scope of Scheme 3. Eligibility and how to apply Research 3.1. The principal investigator (or any co-investigators) 2.1. The main purpose of the scheme is to fund should be researchers based in higher education research that has an eventual and demonstrable institutions, research organisations or other relevance and potential impact on the international organisations with a credible research capacity. agenda for reducing poverty, as manifested in various Researchers may be based in a UK or non-UK international, regional, national and sub-national organisation with recognised research capacity. The key policies and agendas. Beyond this broad thrust, the point to note is that researchers should be based in a scheme is non-prescriptive in terms of the research recognised research environment conducive to high topics and types of project that will be supported. The quality social science research of international standing. intent is to commission the best, innovative and most appropriate research from the research community 3.2. In addition to the principal and co-applicants, other without any thematic boundaries that might inhibit non-academic collaborators and consultants may be intellectual creativity. included in applications, for instance public, private or INGO sector experts. Doctoral studentships and visiting 2.2. The key challenge for applicants is to combine the fellowships may also be included in research applic- best social science research with a clear exposition of ations. In all these instances specific conditions apply. its future relevance and impact on the poverty reduction agenda. The two sponsors want innovative 3.3. Grants will be made to the institution hosting the research proposals that will deliver new understanding, principal investigator and will be subject to ESRC terms Dr. Justin Fisher, Executive Committee, Political insights, advice or solutions to a wide range of and conditions. In order to hold ESRC grants, Studies Association academic and non-academic stakeholders. institutions must be recognised as appropriate, More News 9

RAE Panel 2008 Sub-Panel: Politics and International Studies Newly Elected Fellows to British Academy Chair

Professor Anthony Payne University of Sheffield

Members

Professor Christine Bellamy Nottingham Trent University Professor Kenneth Booth University of Wales, Aberystwyth Professor Chris Brown London School of Economics and Political Science Professor Malcolm Chalmers University of Bradford Professor David Sanders Professor Diana Coole Birkbeck College Professor of Government, Professor John Dumbrell University of Leicester University of Essex Professor James Dunkerley Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London His research has centred on two main areas: Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk University of Exeter electoral behaviour, especially electoral behaviour in Professor Colin Hay University of Birmingham Britain; and the study of international relations, Professor Christopher Hill University of Cambridge notably British foreign policy. He has created a Professor Stephanie Lawson University of East Anglia pioneering model of voting behaviour which has Professor Michael Moran University of Manchester generated powerful testable hypotheses. His recent Professor David Sanders University of Essex co-authored publication Political Choice in Britain Professor William Walker University of St Andrews draws on more than 40 years of survey work to Professor Helen Wallace European University Institute synthesise understanding of a generation of electoral change.

Secretariat

Ms Nicola Owen University of Warwick Dr Andrew Walsh University of Manchester

Political Studies Editors say Goodbye Professor John Roemer Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics, and Reflect on a Great Six Years Yale University Patrick Dunleavy and Paul Kelly (Department of Government, LSE) His work has principally concerned the theory of distributive justice, and the possibility of achieving As of last week, our six year period as journal’s strong research focus. So, in 2003, we just resource allocation in advanced societies through spun off the book notes plus review articles into the democratic procedures. He has formulated a general editors of Political Studies and newly launched theory of party formation and political competition, Political Studies Review on behalf of Political Studies Review, which has been very well which is brought to fruition in his recent book, the Association has now come to an received. We now publish nine review articles a year Political Competition: Theory and Applications. and cover nearly 1,500 books per volume by listing end and both journals will move on to and around 450 books a year through short reviews. be edited by the Sheffield team. All the book reviews (in this century) and a great deal of other content are available free on our website www.politicalstudies.org which we launched We hope it may be appropriate to give a quick in 2000. In its first year, the site received 12,700 retrospective on what the last six years have meant unique visitors, and by 2004 the yearly total was for the journal. When we took over in August 1999 nearly 32,000. The journal’s electronic presence has Political Studies typically attracted around 100 article also benefited from its availability on Blackwells submissions a year. Since then the number of article Synergy where it is a leading performer, with more Lord Windlesham submissions has progressively increased, reaching than 70,000 downloads of articles in the last year. Former Principal, Brasenose College, 170 in 2001. In the last year submissions have been We hope that Political Studies is consequently a far University of Oxford 230 for both journals. Political Studies published 40 more nodal journal than previously. articles a year at the start of the period and in the We feel that the reputation of the journal has He has had a diverse and distinguished career in last volume 46 papers in its new all-research format, continued to grow internationally. We also see steady multiple fields, including television, authorship, a 17 per cent increase. We are also delighted that rises in the journal's citation score totals, via the ISI government, public service and services to the country origins of our submissions, accepted Journal Citation Index, as evidence of its growing scholarship. His writings combine a meticulous authors and the range of themes covered have all usefulness. We are now listed as 28th of political lawyer's concern with ascertaining facts, an continuously broadened in this period. science journals by total cites, up from 34th in 2001, awareness of politics and a broad understanding of On the reviews front, in 1999 the journal covered itself an improvement on the rating in 1999. the world at large. He has contributed signally to the through notes, reviews and listing around 650 books Again, our thanks go to the Association for its promotion of the Academy's purposes. [Elected as an per volume. We felt that there was room for a more support during the last six years. Honorary Fellow] dedicated reviews journal to complement the 10 University News

In the most recent round of promotions Head of teaching in the Department of Political Science at Promotions and new Department, Andrew Lockyer, was promoted to a Carleton College, a liberal arts college in Minnesota, personal chair, while Dr Sarah Oates and Dr Alasdair USA. Her research and teaching interests include appointments at the Young were made senior lecturers. Over the coming West European politics, environmental policy, private academic year, the department is also welcoming five authority in international relations and transnational Department of new members of staff. social movements. She is currently working on two Dr. Maurizio Carbone was formerly an adjunct research projects: the effectiveness of international Politics, University lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and at the voluntary business codes and explaining the adoption University of Pittsburgh, where he is also a Research of same-sex union legislation in western democracies. Associate at the European Union Center. He has Both projects explore the role that transnational of Glasgow previously taught at Duquesne University and St. networks and norms play in domestic policymaking. By Jane Duckett John’s University, and worked for the European Professor Chris Thornhill will be arriving in January Commission (DG Development) in Brussels for three 2006 from King’s College London. In the spring he years. Dr. Carbone has published on international will be teaching a postgraduate option on Political development and on the EU’s relations with the Legitimacy and Postnational Governance. He is developing world. His new book on gender and civil currently completing a monograph on the history society in EU development policy, co-edited with of political philosophy in Germany and he is about to Marjorie Lister, will be published by Ashgate in early publish an edited volume on Niklas Luhmann. 2006. At present he is completing his manuscript on On a different note, Michael Lessnoff, Reader in EU foreign aid policy. Politics, is retiring in September after 40 years of Dr Christopher Carman was formerly an assistant service in the department. Mike’s books include professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His research influential works on social contract theory and the focuses on American and Scottish politics, with protestant work ethic, and most recently on Ernest particular interest in both the behavioural and Gellner. Generations of students will remember his institutional aspects of political representation. His lectures and tutorials in analytical political theory. current projects assess public preferences for His colleagues in the department and beyond will representational mechanisms, the micro-foundations miss his indomitable intellectual curiosity and of political sub-cultures in the U.S. and the uncompromising pursuit of analytical clarity. institutionalization process within the Scottish Parliament. His published work has appeared in several journals and edited books. Political Studies Dr Mo Hume is joining the department from the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Association Heads of Liverpool, where she recently completed her PhD on Department Conference gender and violence in El Salvador and a one-year ESRC post-doctoral fellowship. She is continuing to The Heads of Department Conference will be held work on issues of gender and violence in post-conflict on Friday 16th December 2005 from situations. She will teach on the MSc on Gender, 9.45am–4pm at the British Library Conference Rights and Development. Centre, 96 Euston Road, London Dr Kelly Kollman has spent the last three years

Postgraduate Network News

With the start of the new academic year, the Political www.psa.ac.uk/graduate/research.htm Postgraduate Studies Association’s Graduate Network (PGN) is The directory contains links to and comments delighted to announce the launch of two key services about a vast range of websites that are connected in Network for our members. some way to political research. It includes issues PGN Interactive is our long-awaited online relating to conducting research including key forum; it can be accessed via our website government sites, the viva, teaching, getting Launches PGN www.psa.ac.uk/graduate or directly at: published, and entering the employment market. It www.polres.co.uk/17901.html. The ambition for the also contains some general information for routine online forum is to bring graduates from all levels and activities such as travelling to and from conferences Interactive and across all disciplines together in a safe environment in the UK and abroad. where they can contribute to discussions, sharing The kind of information this directory points to is, Research experiences and knowledge. Users can also create we believe, invaluable for those engaged in research. new threads of discussion to either stimulate debate So often researchers spend excessive amounts of or to call for help from fellow graduate peers. If you time simply locating the information they need, before Directory have any questions or queries about this facility why they get a chance to read and analyse it. Each of the not post it on the forum, or if you would prefer to links listed in the directory have been checked by one By Kelly Trueman (Web Editor) and Roman email in private please contact Kelly at of the PGN Committee and where we have Gerodimos (Communications Officer) [email protected] appropriate knowledge we have given our thoughts on The second service, which we have been working its uses in hope that it will reduce your trawling time. on for the last few months, is the updated online We hope that you find this facility useful, and as Research Directory. We have tried to create a directory always we are interested to hear from you with any that provides information and advice to postgraduates comments. We are also keen to have your comments on all aspects of the research process, and life on the web links to enable us to keep the Research thereafter. To access the directory go to Directory as up to date as possible. Department Profile 11

The Department of Politics and The Political Studies Association deeply regrets International Relations, Oxford University the untimely death of Mo Mowlam, who was the The study of some of the best academics in the field to work here Politics and either as permanent faculty, as part of major research Honorary Vice President projects and as academic visitors. During this coming of the Association International academic year (2005-06) we are expecting to host Relations at Professor Christopher Anderson (Maxwell School of the Syracuse University), Professor Thomas Biersteker Oxford has (Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown a long and University), Dr Jennifer Coolidge (Leverhulme distinguished history of educating Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College, Oxford University), Professor George Edwards (Jordan Chair in and shaping leading figures in Presidential Studies, Texas A&M University) as the John academia, politics, the media and M Olin Visiting Professor, Professor Stephen Hanson (Boeing International Professor, Henry M. Jackson public life, both in the UK and School of International Studies), Dr Ben Rosamund internationally; teaching and research (University of Warwick), Dr Ben Shephard (freelance writer specialising in military and medical history) and in this area were gathered together in Carey Schofield (writer and journalist). Academic 2000 to create a Department of visitors are associated with one of the Department’s six Politics and International Relations. research centres for advanced research and graduate study in the areas of democratic government, Dr Mo Mowlam at Hayfield Manor, Cork 2003 where Since then we have become one of the largest in the international relations (CIS), political ideologies (CPI), she delivered a lecture as part of the Distinguished field in the UK and we are proud to be considered as public policy (PPU), research methods in the social Guest Lecture Series at University College Cork. an internationally excellent centre for teaching and sciences (ReMiSS) and social justice (CSSJ). research. The Department had the highest rating in The main aims of these centres are to coordinate Commenting on her death, Jon Tonge, Chair of the the RAE (2001), received top marks in the QAA Review research activities and support collaborative research, Association, said: “she will be remembered for her (2000) and is consistently ranked top in the Times and disseminate research in the Department to audiences sharp intellect, knowledge of politics and interest in University Guides for the subject. inside and outside the University and to communicate conflict resolution that helped her produce the Good the relevance of our research to contemporary society. Friday Agreement.” Diversity and Distinctiveness For example, the Department’s new Centre for Before becoming a politician, Mo Mowlam was a Teaching and research in the Department is enriched Research Methods in the Social Sciences (ReMiSS) lecturer at and in 1998 she by its diversity, with nearly 100 academic staff aims to develop rigorous advanced and appropriate accepted the inviation to become an Honorary Vice- working in areas that range in geographical scope techniques and methods for application to research President of the Political Studies Association. across the globe, take in the historical foundation and across the social sciences, particularly in the area of John Benyon, Treasurer of the Association, development of societies and their political quantitative methods, and to provide teaching and remembers that, despite her busy schedule, she still institutions, as well as contemporary global issues in advice to social science students and researchers, found time to attend the 1999 Political Studies politics and international relations, all through a diversifying the Department’s intellectual approaches to Association Annual Conference where “she made a plurality of approaches (ideological, methodological, the study of the social sciences. The Centre proved the big impression on everyone she met”. Professor theoretical, empirical, etc). Staff and students also relevance of its research outside the academic arena Benyon first met Ms Mowlam in the 1980s while she have the opportunity to work individually on their own with a very successful post-election seminar on Monday was lecturing at Newcastle. He said “we were two areas of interest and collaboratively with other 9th May to dissect the results of the UK General young lecturers and hit it off straight away. I found her members of the Department, the wider University and Election (5th May); a number of Centre members were very interesting company. I was not surprised at her external colleagues and institutions. Individuals and also involved in election predictions for the BBC. The rapid advance in Labour Party Politics. She was very research centres in the Department have strong links Department is also host to three major externally- perceptive and got straight to the heart of matters. with other units in the University, including the School funded research programmes looking at respectively, She was like a breath of fresh air. She wanted to make of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS), and the the changing character of war (Oxford Leverhulme the world a better place.” Departments of International Development and Programme on the Changing Character of War), global Extending the sympathy of the Political Studies Sociology. economic governance (funded by the MacArthur Association to all her family and friends, the Chair of An Oxford education continues to be distinctive in Foundation, the International Development Research the Association said: “from her time as a highly- its commitment to small group teaching through Centre and Old Members of University College) and respected lecturer at Newcastle, to her period in the tutorials and a thorough instruction in the rigorous public services (ESRC Public Services: Quality, Cabinet, Mo Mowlam encouraged and enjoyed application of argument and evidence. The Performance and Delivery Programme). All three intellectual debate. Mo battled illness bravely in her Department has been extending class and seminar programmes host a range of events bringing together final years and her untimely death has robbed the teaching to complement tutorials in order to diversify, relevant academics and practitioners to discuss these Political Studies Association – and politics and society and maintain the excellence of, teaching provision, pertinent topics and to influence policy in both the more generally – of a good friend and colleague.” giving students more varied learning experiences. public and private sectors in the UK and internationally. Over the past five years we have also focused strongly on new techniques and methods of approach in the Fusion of the new and the old study of politics and international relations. The The Department is characterised by its commitment to impact of this can be seen most strongly in our the traditions of Oxford teaching and research, but also and the Social Sciences Library. The building provides graduate programmes, where we offer a by its willingness to embrace new ideas, methods and office space for administrative staff, a great many of comprehensive training in research design and issues, to encourage interdisciplinarity and to actively our academics, a range of research staff and visitors, methods, as well as an increasing emphasis on disseminate the outcomes of our research in order to and workspace and workstations for many of our quantitative research methods and data analysis as make an impact on the world around us. This has been graduate students. With the move we finally become these are applied to the discipline. helped by our physical move to the new Social Sciences embodied as a Department physically and building at Manor Road, designed by the award-winning intellectually, able to provide space for the a range of Relevance and influence Lord Foster and shared with the Departments of research activities, centres and programmes that allow Politics and International Relations at Oxford attracts Criminology, Economics, Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies us to continue to develop. 12 Annual Conference 2006

The Newly Elected Political Studies Association Committee Members 56th Annual Conference – Who are They? Conference 2006 Sarah Childs is a Senior Lecturer in particularly welcome. Proposals should be sent to the Politics at the University Liberty, Security academic convenor, Dr Philip Giddings: The final date of Bristol, having for the submission of proposals is 31st October 2005, previously been a and the Challenge but earlier submission is strongly encouraged. lecturer in Politics at Middlesex University. About Reading With a background in for Government Reading's historic roots lie in its position as a market Political Science and Women's Studies, her research town on the banks of the Thames, midway between focuses on sex, gender and British politics, with 3rd–6th April 2006 London and Oxford. In recent decades, it has been particular focus on political parties and parliament. University of Reading transformed into a centre of hi-tech business in the so- Sarah is also convenor of the Political Studies called M4 corridor. The town centre bustles day and Association Women and Politics specialist group. night with its Oracle shopping mall and dozens of bars and restaurants lining the banks of the Kennet and Avon. There is also the impressive Madejski Stadium, home to Championship football team Reading and Premiership rugby team London Irish. With London and Oxford just 25 minutes away by train, and Heathrow Airport close by, Reading is ideally located for just about any cultural and leisure activity you can think of. Politically significant houses such as Hughenden Manor (Disraeli’s home) and Cliveden House are within easy reach.

The University The University of Reading received its charter in 1926, though its origins date back to the 19th century. Vincent Geoghegan is Professor of Political Theory It is now one of the top 20 most research-intensive at Queen’s University, Belfast. His research has universities in the UK. In the 2001 Research mainly centred on utopianism, socialism and Assessment Exercise, twenty departments, including Marxism, but he has also produced work on Irish Politics and International Relations, were rated 5 or political thought, and is currently working on post- better and 60% of the University’s academic staff work secular political theory. He has been a member of the in such departments. The Department of Politics and Political Studies Association for over 25 years, served International Relations has concentrations of on the Executive Committee from 1989 to 1992, and excellence in Strategic and Security Studies, Applied was local organizer of the annual conference in 1992. Political Theory and Politics and Law. It also works He was also a founder member of the Political closely with other top-rated research departments at Studies Association of Ireland, and was its President Reading, including Philosophy, Law and Business. from 1992 to 1994. About the conference The 56th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Contacts Lisa Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Association will be hosted by the Department of Academic Convenor University of the West of England, Bristol and as of Politics and International Relations at the University of Dr Philip Giddings this month is also Faculty Director of Teaching and Reading. The main conference will take place between Email: [email protected] Learning. Lisa’s research focuses upon various 4th and 6th April 2006, with the graduate conference aspects of British elections, and she teaches British starting on Monday 3rd April. Local Organiser Politics, research methods and runs a placement Mr Graham Thomas module. She is currently running an ESRC seminar Proposals for panels and papers: Email: [email protected] series on Gender, Citizenship and Participation with Conference theme: Liberty, Security and the her colleague Jamie Munn. Lisa is an active member Challenge for Government Further Information of the specialist group Elections, Public Opinion and Proposals are invited on any aspect of politics, but For more information visit the conference website at: Parties and C-SAP. When not at work she can often those which engage with the conference theme will be www.psa.ac.uk/2006 be found with a pint in her hand watching football.

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