DOCSLIB.ORG

Challenges for Democracy in a Global Era

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Challenges for Democracy in a Global Era 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:51 Page 1 59th Annual Conference Challenges for democracy in a global era Manchester University 7-9 April 2009 Political Studies Association Awards 2005 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:52 Page 2 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:52 Page 1 PSA 59th Annual Conference Manchester University, 7-9 April 2009 www.psa.ac.uk/2009 A Word of Welcome A warm welcome to the fifty-ninth annual conference of the Political Studies Association, in Manchester. We are expecting more than 500 delegates including international visitors from Brazil, Egypt, China and Singapore among several other countries. A special welcome is extended to the distinguished guest speakers invited by our specialist groups and to the Right Honourable David Blunkett MP who is taking part in the Roundtable to commemorate Sir Bernard Crick. Three exciting plenaries are in prospect, including the Government and Opposition Leonard Shapiro lecture given by Professor Fred Halliday. On Wednesday we also look forward to hearing our after dinner speaker, Chris Mullin MP. 2008 has been another successful year for the Political Studies Association and for the profession on many fronts. Membership of the Association continues to rise, financial reserves are healthy and we sustain a growing range of activities. The fallout from the RAE results and related HEFCE funding decisions have certainly posed real challenges for the discipline which the Association will need to address. But this comes at a time when the demand to study politics subjects at degree level has been continuously rising. We are grateful to the Lord Mayor of Manchester for providing a civic reception for all delegates at the town hall on Wednesday. This year’s conference is organised on a new model – for the first time there is no host university and we are very grateful to our external Academic Convenors Professor Moya Lloyd and Dr Ruth Kinna from Loughborough University, for putting together this year’s excellent programme. This has of course also impacted on the workload of the Conference Organisers and especial thanks go to Dr Lisa Harrison, Chair of the Conferences sub-committee and Sue Forster of the Political Studies Association National Office. I wish you all a highly enjoyable and intellectually stimulating conference. Vicky Randall Chair, Political Studies Association of the UK 1 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:52 Page 2 PSA 59th Annual Conference Manchester University, 7-9 April 2009 www.psa.ac.uk/2009 PSA Graduate Network Conference Time Event Location Monday 6th April 09.30 - 10.30 Registration and coffee Renold C8/Renold F14 10.30 - 11.00 Welcome & Post Grad Network Information session Renold F14 11.00 - 12.30 How To Get Published Renold F14 Dr Alasdair Young (Co-Editor Politics) Caroline Wintersgill (Senior Commissioning Editor Bloomsbury Academic) Dr Thom Brooks (Editor Journal of Moral Philosophy) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Rock Café 13.30 - 15.00 Surviving your Viva Renold F14 Professor Jonathon Tonge (Liverpool) Dr Lyndsey Harris (Birmingham) 15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Tea break Renold F14 15.30 - 16.30 Teaching Advice Panel Renold F14 Dr Rose Gann (Nottingham) Bela Arora (C-SAP) 16.30 - 17.15 Non-academic employability Dr Andrew Russell (Manchester) 17.15 - 18.00 PGN Annual General Meeting Renold F14 18.00 Reception Sponsored On Behalf Of Politics By Wiley Blackwell Rock Cafe 2 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:52 Page 3 PSA 59th Annual Conference Manchester University, 7-9 April 2009 www.psa.ac.uk/2009 Conference Programme Time Event Location Tuesday 7th April 10.00 - 18.00 Registration opens Renold C8 10.00 Publishers Exhibition setting up Renold C15 10.00 - 12.00 C-SAP Politics Reference Group Renold G1 10.45 - 12.00 “Empowering local communities to influence Decision making” Renold F5 De Montfort/Southampton Universities 12.30 - 14.00 Session 1 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building 13.00 - 14.00 PSA Political Leadership Specialist Group Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group 14.00 - 14.30 Afternoon Tea break Renold C15 14.00 - 14.30 Women & Politics Specialist Group Room near tea service (to be advised) 14.30 - 16.00 Session 2 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building 16.30 - 18.00 Plenary; Liberalism And Race Renold C16 Professor Charles Mills John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University Chair: Professor Keith Dowding (ANU) CEP Specialist Group – In Plenary room before session starts 18.00 - 19.00 Break 18.00 - 19.00 Women & Politics Specialist Group Renold G5 Journals and Reviewers Session Renold F1 (Political Studies, Politics, British Journal of Politics and International Relations) “Meet the Editors” Chair: Professor Paul Whiteley (Essex) Drinks reception 19.00 - 20.30 Government & Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture Renold C16 The Legacies of Cold War: Lessons and Consequences Professor Fred Halliday Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals Chair: Dr Helen Thompson (Cambridge) 20.30 Drinks Reception Sponsored By Wiley-Blackwell Renold C16 21.00 PSA Annual Quiz and Bar (Quiz starts 21.30) Harwood Room Wednesday 8th April 08.30 - 18.00 Registration Renold C8 Publishers Exhibition Renold C15 09.30 - 11.00 Session 3 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building PSA Public Administration Specialist Group Renold C16 11.00 - 11.30 Morning coffee break Renold C15 11.30 - 13.00 Session 4 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building 12.00 - 14.00 Italian Politics Specialist Group Renold C16 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Barnes Wallace Rest 13.00 - 14.00 Teaching and Learning Specialist Group Renold G5 13.00 - 14.00 State Theory Group Renold G6 13.00 - 14.00 British Idealism Specialist Group Renold H5 3 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:52 Page 4 PSA 59th Annual Conference Manchester University, 7-9 April 2009 www.psa.ac.uk/2009 Conference Programme Time Event Location Wednesday 8th April 13.00 - 14.00 Citizenship & Democracy Specialist Group Renold H6 13.00 - 14.00 Media & Politics Sepcialist Group Renold D5 13.30 - 14.00 Greek Politics Specialist Group Renold D6 14.00 - 15.30 Plenary; Cosmopolitan After 9/11 Renold C16 David Held (LSE) Kimberly Hutchings (LSE) James Brassett (Warwick) Chair: Dr Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford) 15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea break Renold C15 16.00 - 17.30 Session 5 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building 17.30 PSA - AGM and drinks reception Renold G1 18.30 - 19.30 Invitation To All Delegates Lord Mayors Civic Reception In The Town Hall 19.30 Annual Dinner at the Hilton Hotel, Drinks Reception Sponsored By C-SAP Dinner served at 20.15 Thursday 9th April 08.30 - 12.00 Registration Renold C8 09.30 - 11.00 Session 6 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building 11.00 - 11.30 Morning coffee break - Sponsored on behalf of Global Policy an exciting new LSE and Wiley-Blackwell journal lunching in 2010 Renold C15 11.30 - 13.00 Session 7 – Panels 1 - 21 Renold Building 4 11160 PSA Conf 2009:PROOF 30/03/2009 17:52 Page 5 PSA 59th Annual Conference Manchester University, 7-9 April 2009 www.psa.ac.uk/2009 Speaker Biographies and Conference Highlights Government and Opposition Domination (2007). He is currently working on a collection of his Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture Caribbean essays, tentatively titled Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class, and Social Domination. Professor Fred Halliday Chair: Dr Helen Thompson (Cambridge) Cosmopolitan after 9/11 Fred Halliday Born Dublin, Republic of Ireland Chair: Dr Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford) in 1946, he was educated at the Marist School, Dundalk (1950-1953), Ampleforth College, Professor Kimberley Hutchings Yorkshire (1953-1963), the University of Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Oxford (1964-1967), and the School of Oriental and African Studies International Relations at the London School (1969). His doctorate at the London School of Economics, on the of Economics. Her research interests include foreign relations of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, was international ethics, international political awarded in 1985. From 1973 to 1985, he was a fellow of the theory, feminist philosophy and the work of Transnational Institute, Amsterdam and Washington. From 1969 - Kant and Hegel. She is the author of Kant, 1983, he served as a member of editorial board of New Left Review. Critique and Politics (Routledge, 1996); International Political Theory: In 1983, he took up a teaching position at LSE and from 1985 to re-thinking ethics in a global era (Sage, 1999); Hegel and Feminist 2008 was Professor of International Relations at the London School Philosophy (Polity, 2003); and, most recently, Time and World of Economics. In 2005, he was made Montague Burton Professor of Politics: thinking the present (Manchester University Press, 2008). International Relations at the LSE. Since April 2008, ICREA research Her current work includes: the investigation of the conceptual links professor at IBEI, the Barcelona Institute for International Studies, in between politics and violence in the canon of western political Spain. In 2002, he was elected fellow of the British Academy. theory (with Elizabeth Frazer); writing a book on global ethics; and Columnist for openDemocracy and La Vanguardia. developing further her arguments about the significance of assumptions about political time in contemporary theories of A committed linguist, and advocate of the centrality of language to world politics. understanding contemporary globalization, Halliday can work in twelve languages, including Latin, Greek, Catalan, Persian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, and English. James Brassett Beginning in 1965, he has traveled widely in the Middle East, James Brassett is RCUK Fellow in the Centre visiting every country from Afghanistan to Morocco, and giving for the Study of Globalisation and lectures in most.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • PSA News September 2007
    September 2007 ISSN 0955-6281 Vol. 18 No. 3 NEWS Contents APSA Annual Conference, Department News | 2 Chicago 2007 Centre for Democracy and Governance, University of Huddersfield | 2 Department of Politics, University of Sheffield | 3 Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science | 4 Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University | 5 Department Profile | 6 Politics and International Relations at Bristol | 6 Celebrating Public Policy and Political Science at UCL | 8 Department of War Studies, King’s College London | 10 University of Reading, Political Theory Centre | 10 Specialist Group News | 12 News from the German Politics Specialist Group | 12 Jon Tonge, Chair (on the right), and John Benyon, Treasurer (on the left), New Political Studies Association Specialist Andrew Seaton, British Consul General, Chicago (on the right), welcomes Political Studies Association Chair, Jon Tonge, to a reception for delegates present a gift on behalf of the Political Studies Association to Professor Group on Citizenship and Democracy | 12 at the 2007 APSA Conference organised by the British Politics Group Sam Beer, Harvard University, to mark his long and distinguished contribution to the study of British politics Association News | 14 UK Politics Research “in good shape and getting even better” | 13 Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009 | 14 Association says goodbye to Revered Politics Political Scientist | 15 Majorie Thompson joins Association | 15 Election to the British Academy 2007 | 15 ‘A’
    [Show full text]
  • Goodwin, Matthew and Milazzo, Caitlin (2017) Taking Back Control?: Investigating the Role of Immigration in the 2016 Vote for Brexit
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Nottingham ePrints Goodwin, Matthew and Milazzo, Caitlin (2017) Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19 (3). pp. 450-464. ISSN 1467- 856X Access from the University of Nottingham repository: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42452/1/Taking%20Back%20Control%20FINAL %20SUBMISSION%2028%20April%202017.pdf Copyright and reuse: The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. This article is made available under the University of Nottingham End User licence and may be reused according to the conditions of the licence. For more details see: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/end_user_agreement.pdf A note on versions: The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher’s version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. For more information, please contact [email protected] Taking Back Control? Investigating the Role of Immigration in the 2016 Vote for Brexit Matthew Goodwin University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NZ [email protected] Caitlin Milazzo University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD [email protected] Abstract The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the EU –for a ‘Brexit’- brought an end to the country’s membership of the European Union (EU) and set it on a fundamentally different course.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Book
    Challenges to Democracy Political Studies Association Yearbook Series Titles include: Keith Dowding, James Hughes and Helen Margetts (editors) CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY Ideas, Involvement and Institutions Chris Pierson and Simon Tormey (editors) POLITICS AT THE EDGE The PSA Yearbook 1999 Political Studies Association Yearbook Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-333-91373-4 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Challenges to Democracy Ideas, Involvement and Institutions The PSA Yearbook 2000 Edited by Keith Dowding Professor of Political Science London School of Economics James Hughes Senior Lecturer in Comparative Economics London School of Economics and Helen Margetts Professor of Political Science Director, School of Public Policy University College London in association with Political Studies Association © Political Studies Association 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001 978-0-333-78982-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
    [Show full text]
  • No.116: Military Reform
    No. 116 9 July 2012 russian analytical digest www.res.ethz.ch www.laender-analysen.de MILITARY REFORM ■■ANALYSIS Military Reform in Russia 2 By Bettina Renz, Nottingham and Rod Thornton, Hewler ■■ANALYSIS Russia’s Conscription Problem 5 By Rod Thornton, Hewler ■■OPINION POLL Attitudes Towards Military Reform and Conscription 8 Institute for European, Research Centre Center for German Association for Russian, and Eurasian Studies Institute of History for East European Studies Security Studies East European Studies The George Washington University of Zurich University University of Bremen ETH Zurich RUSSIAN ANALYTICAL DIGEST No. 116, 9 July 2012 2 ANALYSIS Military Reform in Russia By Bettina Renz, Nottingham and Rod Thornton, Hewler Abstract The Russian military is currently undergoing a modernization process. It is long overdue. After the end of the Cold War, the armed forces received little investment and any changes made were mostly minor. The main effort went into the replacing of conscripts with professional service personnel. Little new equipment was procured and structures and outlook remained wedded to Cold War philosophies. This all changed, how- ever, with the war against Georgia in 2008. It was the Russian failures seen in this conflict that began the current, well-financed modernization drive. This process is, though, not without its problems. ussia’s post-Cold War political leaders and senior tions seen in the World Wars and which were later envis- Rmilitary officers were well aware, ever since the aged as likely by both sides in the Cold War. But post- Soviet Union broke up in 1991, that the country’s armed 1989, western militaries soon realised that the division forces were in urgent need of radical reform.
    [Show full text]
  • The Party's Over?
    The Party’s Over? 63rd Annual International Conference 25 - 27 March 2013 City Hall, Cardiff, Wales Cover images: courtesy of www.visitcardiff.com Stay informed of Routledge Politics journal news and book highlights Explore Routledge Politics journals with your 14 days’ free access voucher, available at the Routledge stand throughout the conference. Sign up at the To discover future news and offers, Routledge stand and make sure you subscribe to the Politics we’ll enter you into our & International Relations Bulletin. exclusive prize draw to win a Kindle! explore.tandfonline.com/pair BIG_4664_PSA_A4 advert_final.indd 1 27/02/2013 11:38 Croeso i Gaerdydd! Welcome to Cardiff! Dear Conference delegate, I’d like to welcome you to this 63rd Conference of the Political Studies Association, held in Cardiff for the first time and hosted by the University of Cardiff. We are expecting over 600 delegates, representing over 80 different countries, to join us at Cardiff’s historic City Hall. The conference theme is ‘The Party’s Over?’; are the assumptions that have underpinned political life and political analysis sustainable? This subject will most certainly be explored during our Plenary Session ‘Leveson and the Future of Political Journalism’, a debate that has enormous ramifications for the future of UK politics. We will bring together some of the most passionate and eloquent voices on this topic; Chris Bryant MP, Trevor Kavanagh, Mick Hume and Professor Brian Cathcart. This year’s Government and Opposition- sponsored Leonard Schapiro lecture will be given by Professor Donatella Della Porta, who will consider the issue of political violence, the new editor of the American Political Science Review, Professor John Ishiyama, will discuss ‘The Future of Political Science’ and the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones AM, will address attendees at the conference dinner.
    [Show full text]
  • Hix Curriculum Vitae
    Simon Hix FBA 13 November 2015 Department of Government London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom T: +44 (0)20 7955 7657, E: [email protected], W: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix, TWitter: @simonjhix Date of birth: 5 September 1968 PRINCIPAL CURRENT POSITIONS Harold Laski Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science ESRC Senior FelloW, UK in a Changing Europe programme Founder and Chairman, VoteWatch.eu CIC/AISBL (pro bono) FelloW of the British Academy Associate Editor, European Union Politics EDUCATION PhD in Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Florence, 1995 MSc(Econ) in West European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1992 BSc(Econ) in Government and History, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1990 PUBLICATIONS Books B8. Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd edn, London: Palgrave. Translated into Spanish, Albanian, and Romanian. B7. Simon Hix (2008) What’s Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, London: Polity. B6. Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland (2007) Democratic Politics in the European Parliament, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Won the APSA Fenno Prize, best book on legislative studies in 2007. Honourable mention, EUSA award, best book in 2007-08. Translated into Romanian. B5. Simon Hix (2005) The Political System of the European Union, 2nd edn, London: Palgrave. Translated into Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbian, and Ukrainian. B4. Simon Hix and Roger Scully (eds) (2003) The European Parliament at Fifty. Special issue of Journal of Common Market Studies 41(2).
    [Show full text]
  • The European Parliament May Yet Reject February's EU Budget Deal
    blo gs.lse.ac.uk http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/03/07/eu-budget-deal/ The European Parliament may yet reject February’s EU budget deal. by Blog Admin In February, after months of negotiations, the European Council agreed to a new multiannual budget for the EU for 2014 to 2020. Ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the budget, Giacomo Benedetto takes an in-depth look at how spending has changed across policy areas, finding that the largest cuts have been made to policies aimed at enhancing growth, infrastructure and the knowledge economy. With fewer cuts due to be applied to controversial policy areas like cohesion and agricultural policy, the European Parliament may yet vote to reject the current budget proposal. On 8 February the European Council reached a unanimous agreement on the EU’s next multiannual f inancial f ramework (MFF) f or the years 2014-2020. The agreement will now go to the European Parliament f or approval. According to article 312 of the Lisbon Treaty, the MFF only comes into f orce f ollowing a decision by the governments af ter the Parliament has granted its consent. It seems that many MEPs take the view that this gives them a right of proposal. Recent reports have suggested that, f ollowing the rule book of the Parliament, one-f if th of its members may invoke the right f or the Parliament to take this vote in a secret ballot. The possibility of parliamentary obstruction cannot be discounted and has precedents. In 2006, the Parliament blocked the agreement on the current f ramework (2007-2013) to secure small increases.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum Vitae of Danny Dorling
    January 2021 1993 to 1996: British Academy Fellow, Department of Geography, Newcastle University 1991 to 1993: Joseph Rowntree Foundation Curriculum Vitae Fellow, Many Departments, Newcastle University 1987 to 1991: Part-Time Researcher/Teacher, Danny Dorling Geography Department, Newcastle University Telephone: +44(0)1865 275986 Other Posts [email protected] skype: danny.dorling 2020-2023 Advisory Board Member: ‘The political economies of school exclusion and their consequences’ (ESRC project ES/S015744/1). Current appointment: Halford Mackinder 2020-Assited with the ‘Time to Care’ Oxfam report. Professor of Geography, School of 2020- Judge for data visualisation competition Geography and the Environment, The Nuffield Trust, the British Medical Journal, the University of Oxford, South Parks Road, British Medical Association and NHS Digital. Oxford, OX1 3QY 2019- Judge for the annual Royal Geographical th school 6 form essay competition. 2019 – UNDP (United Nations Development Other Appointments Programme) Human Development Report reviewer. 2019 – Advisory Broad member: Sheffield Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University Nuffield project on an Atlas of Inequality. Goldsmiths, University of London, 2013-2016. 2019 – Advisory board member - Glasgow Centre for Population Health project on US mortality. Visiting Professor, School of Social and 2019- Editorial Board Member – Bristol University Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK Press, Studies in Social Harm Book Series. 2018 – Member of the Bolton Station Community Adjunct Professor in the Department of Development Partnership. Geography, University of Canterbury, NZ 2018-2022 Director of the Graduate School, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford. 2018 – Member of the USS review working group of the Council of the University of Oxford.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum Vitae Simon
    Simon Hix FBA FRSA Department of Social and Political Sciences European University Institute Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy Principal Current Positions Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics (from September 2021) Associate Editor, European Union Politics Founder and Chairman, VoteWatch.eu AISBL (pro bono) Fellow of the British Academy Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Education PhD in Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Florence, 1995 MSc(Econ) in West European Politics, LSE, 1992 BSc(Econ) in Government and History, LSE, 1990 Publications Books B9 Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland (2021) The Political System of the European Union, 4th edn, London: Palgrave, forthcoming. B8 Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd edn, London: Palgrave. Translated into Spanish, Albanian, and Romanian. B7 Simon Hix (2008) What’s Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, London: Polity. B6 Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland (2007) Democratic Politics in the European Parliament, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Translated into Romanian. Won the APSA Fenno Prize for best book on legislative studies in 2007. Honourable mention, EUSA, best book in 2007-08. B5 Simon Hix (2005) The Political System of the European Union, 2nd edn, London: Palgrave. Translated into Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbian, and Ukrainian. B4 Simon Hix and Roger Scully (eds) (2003) The European Parliament at Fifty. Special issue of Journal of Common Market Studies 41(2). B3 Klaus Goetz and Simon Hix (eds) (2001) Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, London: Frank Cass.
    [Show full text]
  • Populism Or Embedded Plutocracy? the Emerging World Order
    City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research Hunter College 2019 Populism or Embedded Plutocracy? The Emerging World Order Michael Lee CUNY Hunter College How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_pubs/603 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Draft: Populism or Embedded Plutocracy? Envisioning the Emerging World Order Introduction The liberal world order is in dire straits. The world of moderately open migration, free trade, and free flows of capital that has existed since the 1970s is under attack. Liberal democracies around the world have seen the rise of far-right political parties trading in xenophobia, while attacking traditional liberal institutions. Many political scientists, increasingly committed to country-specific studies, or mid-level theories of small phenomenon are picking up many of these developments, while missing common threads between them. We are bearing witness to systemic changes. After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, the United States and its allies in the G-7 constructed a new neo-liberal world order characterized by relatively open migration, free trade, and free flows of capital.1 Today, that order is collapsing in the face of its internal contradictions. Free flows of capital, combined with the privileged position of the American dollar, saddled the global economy with recurrent financial crises. Internally, the implementation of many neoliberal policies (and creation of transnational workarounds) undermined many of the civil society groups vital for broad-based democracy.
    [Show full text]
  • Democracy in the European Parliament
    FIRST DRAFT Comments Welcome Democracy in the European Parliament by Simon Hix London School of Economics and Political Science Abdul Noury Free University of Brussels Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley 11 July 2005 S. Hix, A. Noury and G. Roland (2005) Democracy in the European Parliament Detailed Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary of the Argument and the Main Findings ........................................................................ 4 Outline of the Book ......................................................................................................................... 7 Lessons for Political Science and European Politics .................................................................... 10 Chapter 1 Development of the European Parliament ....................................................................... 15 1.1. Powers of the European Parliament ....................................................................................... 15 1.1.1. Power to Control the Executive: A Hybrid Model ....................................................... 17 1.1.2. Power to Make Legislation: From a Lobbyist to a Co-Legislator................................. 21 1.2. Political Parties in the European Parliament: A ‘Two-Plus-Several’ Party System .............. 25 1.3. The Electoral Disconnection .................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • A Tactical Handbook for Counterinsurgency and Police Operations
    DRAFT FMFM 1-3A A TACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR COUNTERINSURGENCY AND POLICE OPERATIONS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MARINE CORPS DRAFT FMFM 1-3A, Draft 1.0 12 August 2008 PREFACE Why another hip-pocket guide for counterinsurgency? What makes this different? This handbook is an offering from a group of Marine officers who feel that current doctrine is rapidly diverging from the intent of maneuver doctrine. Where other manuals aim to put current conflicts into the Maoist/Nationalist mold of the Twentieth century and aim to identify successful techniques, this book seeks to bring about a change in approach and thinking which is timeless. In an age where war is no longer monopolized by armies but is waged by non- governmental entities, ethnic groups, tribes, federal agencies and militias, we find it necessary to look to parallels and successful thought processes in the inter-agency arena. This we may apply to the current and future conflicts of a 4GW nature. Our hope is to compliment the FMFM-1A and provide a useful springboard of thoughts and practices. Monteccucoli, Hofkriegsrath Pola, July, 2008 2 FMFM 1-3A, Draft 1.0 12 August 2008 Chapter 1 THE GANGBANGER AND THE INSURGENT “For me the building block of policing in any democracy is that of an individual police officer acting as an individual, exercising his or her individual discretion. For almost 30 years because of the threat posed, not only to the society at large in Northern Ireland, but posed very specifically to my officers, we have been forced to operate from fortified buildings.
    [Show full text]