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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. We will also be launching a redesign of our website, so look out for this! It’s been another busy year at the PSA. We have been working tirelessly to ensure that moves to open access publishing - on the surface an attractive idea - do not produce unintended consequences. We fear these moves may actually end up limiting opportunities, especially for younger academics, to publish innovative and challenging work. That would be a perverse and damaging outcome. We are continuing our work with schools, through our second student video competition, our inaugural poster competition and schools talks from our academics. Numerous top politicians, political scientists and journalists attended our annual awards dinner in December, and we have continued to forge links with the media through our election briefings at the Institute for Government. We have also been working to enhance our relationship with ESRC to ensure a strong place for political studies in UK research funding. Underpinning all of this, we have been exploring new ways to understand the views and priorities of members – in part through surveys of the membership, in part by a programme of visits to departments. All these themes, around the teaching of politics in schools, impact, research funding and member priorities will be under discussion in Cardiff. Do join in and let us know your views. Thanks for organising this year’s conference are especially due to the academic convenors – Professor Roger Scully, Professor Richard Wyn Jones and Dr Stephen Thornton, who have put together a fantastic programme, and to Helena Djurkovic, Louise Bates, Sandra McDonagh and Jack Neenan. I should also like to thank Wiley-Blackwell and Routledge for their generous sponsorship. With over 170 panel sessions reflecting the diversity and pluralism of political studies in the UK, and of course the opportunity to explore the vibrant capital city of Wales, this year’s conference promises plenty to interest, intellectually challenge and entertain. I hope your conference experience is thoroughly enjoyable Professor Charlie Jeffery Chair, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom Political Studies Association - 63rd Annual International Conference 3 Cardiff, 25 - 27 March 2013 Conference Programme Monday 25 March 2013 08.00-17.30 Registration Entrance Hall 09.00-13.00 Political Studies Association Executive Meeting Room 100 09.30-11.00 Panel Session 1 See page 21 11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee Assembly Room 11.30-13.00 Panel Session 2 See page 22 13.00-14.00 Lunch Break* 12.30-14.00 PSA Alumni Event Assembly Room Hosted by the Education and Skills subcommittee of the Political Studies Association. Politics alumni graduate success stories: recent politics graduates who have submitted graduate success stories to the new PSA website have been invited to a conference welcome event. Light refreshments provided. Please note this event is invite-only. 13.00-13.45 Specialist Group Business Meetings (By Request) Political Leadership Council Chamber German Politics Syndicate Room C Executive Politics and Governance Syndicate Room H British Idealism Syndicate Room I Media and Politics Syndicate Room B French Politics and Policy Syndicate Room G Italian Politics Syndicate Room A Interpretive Political Science Syndicate Room D Women and Politics Ferrier Hall Rhetoric and Politics Room 136 Development Politics Syndicate Room K Politics of South Asia Syndicate Room L Anti-Politics and Depoliticisation Syndicate Room J 14.00-15.30 Session 3 See below 14.00-15.30 Plenary Session Lower Hall Leveson and the Future of Political Journalism Chair: Professor Ian Hargreaves CBE (University of Cardiff) Participants: Chris Bryant MP; Professor Brian Cathcart (Hacked Off); Mick Hume (Spiked); Trevor Kavanagh (News International) The Leveson Inquiry has exposed a tabloid press that for years apparently saw itself free to act without legal or ethical restraint, as well as raising deeply concerning questions about the relationship between sections of the press and of the police. Yet Leveson’s recommendations for a new system of press regulation have been greeted by some as threatening the essential freedom of the press that remains a bedrock of any democratic society. This roundtable brings together some of the most passionate and eloquent voices in a debate that has enormous ramifications for the future of UK politics. 15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee Assembly Room 16.00-17.30 Panel Session 4 See page 24 16.00-17.30 British Journal of Politics and International Relations Roundtable Ferrier Hall The Role and Future of Political Parties in the UK Chair: Dr Alistair Clark (University of Newcastle) Panellists: Dr Alistair Clark, The Democratic Role of Political Parties; Professor Justin Fisher (Brunel University), Developments in Party Funding and Finance; Dr Lynn Bennie (University of Aberdeen), Parties, Participation and Mobilisation; Dafydd Trystan (Plaid Cymru), Party Politics: the Inside View 4 Political Studies Association - 63rd Annual International Conference Cardiff, 25 - 27 March 2013 17.45-19.00 PSA Annual Leonard Schapiro Lecture Lower Hall (Sponsored by Government and Opposition) Clandestine Political Violence: A Global Comparison Chair: Professor Paul Taggart (University of Sussex) Speaker: Professor Donatella Della Porta (European University Institute) Do acts of political violence like the 9/11 attacks in the US in 2001 and the assassinations of 69 young people on the Utøya Island in Norway in 2011 have something in common? And can they be explained, at least partially, through similar causal mechanisms as the ones singled out in social science research on left-wing Red Brigades or ethno- nationalist ETA? The lecture will present some results from an analysis of different forms of political violence, discussing the heuristic advantages and challenges of global comparison as well as developing a process theory of such phenomena. 19.30-21.00 The Government and Opposition Reception, National Assembly for Wales Cardiff Bay Free bus transport from the conference venue to the Assembly in Cardiff Bay and back will be available (gather in Entrance Hall). Tuesday 26 March 2013 08.30-18.00 Registration Entrance Hall 09.00-10.30 Panel Session 5 See page 27 10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee Assembly Room 11.00-12.30 Panel Session 6 See page 29 11.00-12.30 Political Studies Review Roundtable Ferrier Hall The Social Relevance and ‘Impact’ of Political Science Chair: Dr Jane Tinkler (LSE) Participants: Dr Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Catherine Durose (University of Birmingham), Professor Rod Rhodes (University of Southampton), Professor Gerry Stoker (University of Southampton) and Dr David Walker (University of Newcastle) Although debates about the relevance and ‘impact’ of academia are not new, recent developments have increased the pressure on academics to demonstrate why their research matters beyond academe. Within political science these pressures have been compounded by criticisms that the discipline has become increasingly detached and disconnected from society and has little social benefit. Others argue that political science has never been more engaged and socially relevant than it is now. This debate has included: concerns about academic independence; arguments concerning the imposition of a crude instrumentalism on scholars; debates focused on what ‘relevance’ means; disputes concerning epistemological and methodological traditions; the measurement and validation of ‘impact’; the training and support structures that need to be established to support academics in ‘reaching out’; and a sometimes bruising debate about the culture of political science and its
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