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ISSN 0955-6281 VOL. 16 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2005

CONTENTS Where are the Women? DEPARTMENT PROFILE While more than half of the students undertaking political science degrees in the UK are Department of Peace Studies at the women, about three quarters of those teaching them are men. Some may not regard this as an University of Bradford 2 issue, but the Political Studies Association did not share this view and funded research on the IN FULL VIEW reasons why relatively few women proceed to graduate work; this article reports the findings The Launch of the Journal of Civil Society 3 of that research. Politics and Gender 3 european political science Network 3 The Annual Conference: Cause for A TIME TO CONFER Women in the Political IIAS 3rd Specialised International Conf. 4 Celebration or Revision? Difference, Borders, Others 4 Science Profession The Barbarisation of Warfare 4 Jon Tonge, Georgia Political Science Association 4 Parveen Akhtar, Paul Fawcett, Tim Legrand, Chair, Conferences and The Decline of Utopia 4 Search for a New World Order-the David Marsh and Chloe Taylor Events Committee Role of Public Opinion 5 Department of Political Science and The Political Studies Music and Emergence of Political Culture 5 International Studies, University of Birmingham Association Annual Politics and the Media 5 Conference ought to Current Social Science Research on Greece 5 This research deals with only one aspect of provide a highlight of our First Global International Studies the question: why are there relatively few Conference of the World International Studies academic year, women in the political science profession? It Committee 5 amounting to the biggest focuses on final year undergraduates, with a Internet for Politics 6 annual domestic European Identity and Political Systems 6 particular emphasis on the way that this group gathering of politics graduates, lecturers, Ethics and Integrity of Governance 6 perceived the accessibility of postgraduate professors and researchers. For many Politics Breaking New Ground: Innovation in the Public study – we hope to explore further aspects of Sector 6 the issue in future research. In our view, this academics, the annual conference is indeed a Workshops in Political Theory 7 was the best point to start research in this fine occasion, both academically and socially. Transatlantic Studies Association Conf. 7 area because the decision as to whether to Nonetheless, the growth in size of the International Political Science Association 20th proceed onto postgraduate study is an conference, the diversity of political studies, the World Congress 7 RESEARCH & WRITING OPPORTUNITIES obvious initial determinant of an individual’s LATISS - Learning & Teaching in the continued on page 28 continued on page 29 Social Sciences 8 POLITICAL STUDIES ANNOUNCEMENT Making our Media: mapping global initiatives toward a democratic New Editorial Team and also the annual general meeting of the public sphere Association. 8 for Politics The Association is not necessarily LEEDS CONFERENCE committed to the current style and focus of the Graduate Conf. - Provisional Timetable 9 Biographical Notes on Keynote Speakers 9 Call for Applications journal and applications which proposed to make Programme in Brief 10-11 changes in these respects would certainly not Conference Panels 12-25 Politics is a well-established element in the be at a disadvantage. In any event, applications APSR Seeks Submissions for Centennial Political Studies Association package of should include plans for developing as well as managing the journal and its associated web Issue Special Edition journals. With three issues per year and 26 site. In addition, attention should be given to subtitled ‘Surveys, Debates and Controversies New International Scholarly Network in Politics’ the journal focuses mainly on shorter financial matters. Currently, the Association on Security Issues articles and encourages submissions from provides a subvention of approximately £7,500. 26 younger scholars. The term of office of the EPOP Journal goes Online 26 current editorial team – Charles Lees and Paul Potential applicants are free to seek ESRC Launches Unique Online Reaearch Taggart - ends in this year and applications are further information by contacting either Resource for Social Services 27 UKPAC Prize 2005 27 invited from those interested in taking over this Charles Lees [[email protected]] or Paul Taggart [[email protected]]. Where are the Women? from front cover 28 responsibility from 2006 for a period of six Cause for Celebration or Revision? years (subject to a satisfactory review after Applications (in electronic form) should be sent from front cover three). to: Prof. David Denver, 29 Although individuals may apply to become Department of Politics, Lancaster University, editor it would be expected that they would Lancaster, LA1 4YD DEPARTMENT PROFILE have the full support of their department and be by April 30th 2005. The Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster 30 able to specify others who would be part of the DEPARTMENT NEWS editorial team. If there are joint editors, it is News from the Department of Politics, expected that one of the team will attend and Bristol University report to the Association’s executive meetings 30 News from the School of Economics and Politics, University of Ulster 31 Political Studies Association, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel: 0191 222 8021 Fax: 0191 222 3499 E-mail [email protected] Web: www.psa.ac.uk Executive Director: Jack Arthurs Membership Secretary: Sandra McDonagh Registered Charity No. 1071825 Registered Company with limited liability in England and Wales, No 3628986 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

2 DEPARTMENT PROFILE The Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford

Professor Shaun Gregory Africa [South Africa, Angola and Mozambique] Bradford, the ICPS has developed as an Head of Department and the Great Lakes region. Africa work in the intellectual space for work around issues of Department has been boosted enormously this marginalisation [social, economic, political, Established in 1974, following an initiative from year following a major private trust investment of gender, etc] and participation bringing the Society of Friends [Quakers], the Department £1.75 million to establish the new John Ferguson together local community issues with parallel of Peace Studies has grown to become the Chair in African Peace and Conflict Studies and concerns from urban and rural communities world’s largest academic centre exclusively for support a wide range of related projects in areas in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and the study of peace and conflict. With more than such as the rehabilitation of child soldiers, land- elsewhere. sixty academic, research, research-related and mines, security sector reform and post-war A great deal of the Department’s consultancy staff, the Department is host to reconstruction, and peace education. research work, however, takes place more than four hundred students from more than outside the Centres in areas such as the forty countries, of whom around half are The Bradford Disarmament Research Centre implications of globalisation and global civil postgraduate including more than ninety PhD The work of the Bradford Disarmament society; the politics of democracy in Europe; candidates. The Department was awarded a 5 Research Centre is centred on the control of peace history and peace education; gender in the last RAE and the maximum 24/24 for all its weapons of mass destruction: biological, and peace; the causes of terrorism; and taught programmes in the most recent TQA. chemical and nuclear. The two major strands of North-South security relations. The The Department was also recognised by Rotary the BDRC’s work at present are the control of Department also hosts the Research Unit of International as one of seven biological weapons, in particular the implications South East Europe, which addresses issues global centres of excellence in peace and of rapid scientific advances in bio-technology, of peace and democracy in the Balkans conflict resolution genomics and genetic engineering for the region. weaponisation of biological entities and Postgraduate Programmes processes. The second strand is the Commitment to Research Excellence The Department offers a range of BA, MA, MPhil, establishment of the South Asian Strategic As the Department looks to the future new M.Res [with our Graduate School] and PhD Stability Unit with a major grant from Pakistan’s staff are arriving to expand the range of our programmes around the following themes: National University of Science and Technology to course provision and develop new areas of peace studies; conflict resolution; development address the risks of nuclear war in south Asia research interest, the University of Bradford and peace; international relations and security and support the promotion of measures to is supporting a new Research Chair in studies; and politics and society. Staff-student stabilize the nuclear relationship between India Peace and Conflict Studies as part of its relations within the Department are very strong and Pakistan. continued commitment to research with a relaxed and mutually respectful ethos, excellence at Bradford, and staff are taking good staff availability, the retention of small The Centre for Conflict Resolution forward a strategic framework for group tutorial and seminar work, and the The Centre for Conflict Resolution was research, teaching, consultancy, training innovative appointment of student liaison established more than a decade ago and is and distance provision which is designed to assistants who work to support and enhance widely acknowledged as a world-leading centre maintain the Department’s leading market staff-student relations and broaden the student for conflict resolution, mediation, and peace- position. experience beyond the curricula. building work through its teaching, training and The Department remains committed to research. The CCR runs a number of distance policy-orientated research and to the programmes including a diploma in Sri Lanka and dissemination of ideas through policy advice, works at all levels from local community consultancy and the media. Staff work with the mediation programmes in Bradford itself to world’s leading international organisations – conflict resolution and post-war reconstruction including the UN, NATO, the EU, OSCE, and the work in war-torn and post-war regions across African Union - more than forty governments the world. and more than 300 NGOs across the world. Research within the Department is organised The Centre for International around five research centres, though not all Co-operation and Security staff are attached to one of them. The Centre for International Co-operation and Security manages the global The Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict conflict prevention programme for the UK’s DFID The Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict is and consequently has a large staff engaged in focused on issues of peace, development and international conflict-related consultancy and security in Africa with regional specialisms in policy advice work. CICS focuses on the control West Africa [Sierra Leone and Nigeria], Southern of small arms, post-war reconstruction, security sector reform and policing issues. In 2004 CICS in collaboration with other Departmental staff was awarded a major contract by the UK MoD to train military personnel from all service branches on issues of African peace and security, conflict resolution and mediation, European security, and the causes of terrorism.

The International Centre for Participation Studies Finally, the International Centre for Participation Studies is defining a new agenda of research and policy work in the emerging field of participation. Having taken the lead in the University-wide Programme for a Peaceful City initiative to address community tension in THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

IN FULL VIEW 3 The Launch of the Journal of Civil Society Politics and Gender Journal of Civil Society is being launched by society, theoretical and conceptual studies, Taylor and Francis this year as the leading comparative analysis, inter and cross The New Official Journal of the Women and academic voice for research and policy analysis disciplinary approaches, policy analysis, Politics Research Section of the APSA on civil society. As a peer-reviewed journal with institutions, community, social inequality, social demanding standards, JCS will provide a high inclusion, social justice, social and cultural Editors: profile, high impact outlet for world-class capital, economy, governance and democracy. Karen Beckwith, the College of Wooster, and scholarship and debate on civil society, and Civil society cuts across disciplinary Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College serve as the authoritative source for research in boundaries and brings into focus some of the an emerging field that lacks a central organ for longstanding and nagging questions about the Politics & Gender is an intellectually rigorous, dissemination. relationship between economy, polity and methodologically sophisticated, agenda-setting Civil society is a contested concept. There society. Indeed, civil society may well emerge as journal that publishes the highest quality is little agreement on its precise meaning, though the most significant conceptual innovation of the scholarship on gender and politics and women much overlap exists among core conceptual social sciences at the turn of the century. The and politics. It aims to represent the full range of components. In its transnational dimension, the concept signals the beginning of an intellectual questions, issues and approaches on gender term goes beyond the notion of both nation state shift away from disciplinary specialisation on and women across all the major subfields of and national society, and allows us to examine 'the' state and 'the' market to more general political science, including comparative, critical aspects of globalisation and the debate about key aspects of the human international relations, political theory, and U.S. emergence of a new social, cultural and political condition. This shift and the growing importance politics. The editors welcome studies that sphere. of the term civil society in virtually all social address fundamental questions in politics and JCS seeks to improve the theoretical sciences may well be indicative of a potential political science from the perspective of gender understanding and empirical knowledge of civil paradigmatic change among the major social difference, as well as those that interrogate and society, its nature, patterns and composition, its sciences more generally. challenge standard analytical categories and history, development, and relationships with the Manuscripts are invited for submission. conventional methodologies. We invite economy, the political system and society at Submissions of articles should be between contributions from male and female scholars large. 4000-8,000 words, inclusive of all notes and around the world. A major focus of the journal will be to encourage references and should be sent to Helmut and inform the range of scholarships and Anheier, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social For details please contact: approaches on civil society across disciplines Research, 3250 Pub Policy Building, Box 951656, Editors, Politics & Gender and national as well as cultural boundaries. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, USA, or by e-mail Department of Political Science Specifically, JCS welcomes research and at [email protected] The College of Wooster contributions on the history and evolution of civil Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA society in different world regions, at local and [email protected] regional levels, types, forms and expressions of civil society. It also welcomes empirical work on the structure and change of civil society, mapping the contours and dimensions of civil

Call for Co-Editor Hans-Dieter Klingemann, responsible for decision-making between President epsNet meetings of the Council. Day-to-day operations Irish Political Studies are run by the Secretary General. Having been I would like to draw your attention to epsNet and located in Paris since its inception the Secretariat The Political Studies Association Ireland is its activities. Launched in June 2001 in Paris by is now hosted by the Central European seeking a replacement co-editor for Irish political scientists from West, Central, and University (CEU), Budapest. The University of Political Studies. This is to replace Dr Gary Eastern Europe this new organization provides a Rome Tor Vergata supports the epsNet Director Murphy who steps down in Autumn 2005 forum to discuss teaching political science in a of European Affairs and Programmes. This and the new appointment will work broader European academic space and pattern of administration signals that, while alongside the other current co-editor, contributes to the advancement of the discipline. European political science grows together, it is Professor Jonathan Tonge. As you all know, political science today is faced must not be dominated by just one big (West) with the challenges of the “Bologna” process European centre. Thus, for anyone interested, The successful applicant will have a good and, in that context, has to reflect its theoretical epsNet provides an exciting, decentralized knowledge of developments in Irish politics and methodological base. epsNet has supported opportunity to actively contribute to the North and South, especially the latter, and this discussion and made it a prime concern of development of political studies in Europe. Free, applications from those with a particular its yearly Plenary Conferences. You will find the “no strings attached” access to the current on- interest in Ireland in a comparative programme for our June 2005 Plenary line version of our electronic journal KioskPlus is perspective will be welcome. Conference in Paris on our webpage (http:// offered to anyone who emails a request to www.epsNet.org/2005/programme.htm). I [email protected]. The epsNet constitution is also Interested candidates should submit a CV cordially invite you to contribute to the available on our web site. I would like to accompanied by a statement of their encourage you to become an epsNet member. Conference. In addition to the Plenary proposals for the development of the journal See for yourself what we have to offer and Conferences, epsNet organizes workgroups to; what you can do for the discipline in our context. and projects on graduate education, ICT in Dr Maura Adshead ( [email protected] ), political science teaching, gender issues, copied to both Dr Gary Murphy teaching Europe, the state of the discipline and For more information please go to: http:// ([email protected]) and related topics. In addition, epsNet offers access www.epsNet.org Professor Jonathan Tonge to its electronic journal KioskPlus and various ([email protected]). other publications. epsNet is governed by its members. First elections to its Executive Council took place in 2002. A four member Co-ordinating Committee is THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

4 A TIME TO CONFER IIAS 3rd Specialised The Barbarisation of legitimacy of our societies? International Conference Warfare For more information please contact: Professor "Public Administration and Private Mark Phythian University of Wolverhampton HAGRI Director , [email protected] Dr. Enterprise: History and Governance Research Institute George Kassimeris co-operation, competition HAGRI Senior Research Fellow [email protected] and regulation" 27th-28th June 2005 The images from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison Berlin serve as a reminder of war's undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. What 20th-23rd September 2005 happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before. Examples from World War Two, Algeria, Vietnam, Information on the Conference is available on the Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya all tell us about IIAS website: http:// www.iiasiisa.be/iias/aiberlin/ the ever-present capacity of human beings to do aiberlin.htm barbaric things if circumstances conspire. What drives people to mistreat, humiliate and torment Georgia Political Science Should you need any further information, please other people? In an age when actual war, Association contact Catherine Coninckx. violence and torture are becoming addictive Email: [email protected] forms of entertainment, it is now more critical November 2005 Annual Conference than ever to deepen our understanding of the brutality and inexcusable sadism that can be The Mulberry Inn on Bay Street displayed by people in wartime. Savannah, Georgia, USA

'Difference, Borders, Keynote speakers: 10th-12th November 2005 Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College Others' Sessions on: Barbarity in Modern Warfare Please join us at the November 2005 Conference Sixth Essex Graduate of the Georgia Political Science Association. We Richard Overy, University of Exeter welcome attendees and participants from all Conference in Political Theory Sessions on: Democracy and Torture disciplines worldwide. Although political Paul Rogers, University of Bradford scientists are in the majority, the conference is University of Essex Sessions on: Making Torture Legal definitely interdisciplinary. Our last annual meeting attracted 180 participants from Georgia, 13th-14th May 2005 Hew Strachan, Oxford University 20 other U.S. states, and overseas. For more Sessions on: Morality and Moral Progress information about submitting proposals, Guest Speakers: registration and lodging, go to our web page at Marilyn Young, New York University Bonnie Honig (Northwestern University); David http://web2.mgc.edu/gpsa Owen (University of Southampton); Ernesto Sessions on: War Crimes & Human Rights Laclau (University of Essex); Aletta J. Norval (University of Essex) Organised by the University of Wolverhampton's History and Governance Research Institute 'The Decline of Utopia? The Department of Government, in collaboration (HAGRI), this interdisciplinary conference - with the Centre for Theoretical Studies and the drawing on military history, political science, Is There a Role for Utopia in Twenty- Doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse philosophy, psychology, law and social first Century Ideology?' Analysis, is pleased to invite you to the Sixth anthropology - will explore in the broadest and Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory to most wide ranging way the effects of the University of Sheffield be held at the University of Essex between the barbarisation of warfare on our culture and 13th and 14th of May 2005. The conference has society, with leading academics debating: 17th June 2005 achieved a renowned reputation for the quality A What makes people mistreat, humiliate of the papers presented and the large number of and torment other people? On17th June 2005 postgraduate students from international participants. The conference A What happens when morality vanishes the universities of Oxford and Sheffield, in provides an important opportunity to engage with from the battlefield and state-legitimated association with Mike Kenny, Michael Freeden the contemporary challenges and possibilities of violence becomes an atrocity? and The Centre for Political Ideologies at the social and political theory and to exchange A Why are torture and sexual violence University of Sheffield, will be holding the views on ongoing research. endemic in modern warfare? conference: 'The Decline of Utopia? Is There a A Why, in times of war, does the notion of Role for Utopia in Twenty-First Century Ideology? Information is available at: http:// human rights loses meaning as a set of 'The one day event will incorporate established www.essex.ac.uk/government/research/ principles that govern us all? academics and graduate students, focusing on conferences.shtm A Are acts of individual and group the role of the utopian dimension in political barbarity in wartime influenced by the nature thought. Speakers include Vincent Geoghegan, Conference fees: £25 (Attendance Only) of the training soldiers have undergone? Krishan Kumar, Ruth Levitas, and Lucy A Does official propaganda and enemy Sargisson. Jonathan Dean and Michael Strange, Department demonisation make abuse and the direct and of Government, brutal infliction of pain of human upon human For further information please contact Carissa University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, easier? Honeywell Essex, CO4 3SQ A Are professional soldiers less likely to Department of Politics, Email: [email protected] resort to barbaric behaviour than conscripts? University of Sheffield, S10 2TU A How can we develop cultures opposed Email: [email protected] to torture and other extreme forms of abuse which poison the moral reputation and THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

A TIME TO CONFER 5 “Search for a New World Politics and the Media “Current Social Science Order–the Role of Public Research on Greece” There is a growing appetite in the media for Opinion” 'evidence'. Political scientists are well-placed to 2nd LSE PhD Symposium on 58th Annual Conference of the provide it but are often wary of exposing themselves to the media's gaze. Modern Greece World Association for Public To this end, the Political Studies Association Opinion Research (WAPOR) is planning a series of media training workshops London School of Economics and Political - free to members. The course will equip Science Cannes, France participants with the skills that will enable them European Institute, Hellenic Observatory to handle the media to their own best advantage. 15th-17th September 2005 The course will be highly interactive and will 10th June 2005 cover a range of media issues. In the late summer of 2005, researchers The 2nd LSE PhD Symposium on Modern Greece will be gathering in Cannes for the 58th Annual The training consists of the following aims to provide a forum for discussion and WAPOR (www.wapor.org) Conference. We components: reflection upon the changes that have taken would be pleased to receive as many proposals A What is News? - this introductory place in contemporary Greece. for papers, panels or round table sessions as section reveals the nature of the journalistic One of the main objectives of the possible. The 2005 conference will have a process and in particular seeks to unpick Symposium is to build upon the success of the central theme: “Search for a New World Order -- issues such as the ‘news agenda’ and ‘news 1st LSE PhD Symposium, held in 2003, which the Role of Public Opinion.” Although this topic values'. It also demonstrates how journalists attracted over 120 participants. may remind some people, particularly Americans, approach their work and includes tips for This initiated an exchange of knowledge of political catchphrases that were commonly dealing with the media. between young researchers and helped used in the last few decades, it is intended to be establish a network of scholars currently A Writing an effective news release - neutral in terms of both political and philosophical undertaking research on Greece. Further covers how news releases should be put outlooks. In view of the turmoil at the start of the objectives of the Symposium are to overcome together, followed by a news release writing 21st century, we feel it is time to take a closer academic isolation, establish new collaborative exercise. This exercise will be based on the look at the fundamental question of what role links between disciplines, test the ground for participants' own current or recent research. survey research has to play in a rapidly innovative ideas, and help ‘engage’ the wider academic community. changing world. A Television and radio interviews - based Full conference details are available at: on the news release written earlier, www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/European/hellenic. Deadline for proposals: 1st April 2005. participants are interviewed on both TV and Please send your proposals for papers and radio. The interviews are analysed and panel sessions, along with a brief abstract of suggestions made for improving participants' about one or two pages to: media effectiveness. First Global International Studies Thomas Petersen Institute fur Demoskopie Allensbach You can expect to take the following away from Conference of the World Radolfzellerstrasse 8 the course: International Studies Committee 78476 Allensbach A an understanding of the media GERMANY (WISC) Tel: +49 (7533) 805 191 A the confidence to deal with the media Fax: +49 (7533) 3048 Bilgi University, Istanbul Email: [email protected] A the skills to get the right message across 24th-27th August 2005 A useful tips on interview techniques Theme: Bringing International Studies Together: A a tape of your radio and television Contrasting Approaches and Agendas interview

A supporting written material. The theme of the conference is intended to be inclusive of different approaches, methodologies Music and Emergence of The course will be led by Ivor Gaber - the and conceptions of International Studies. We Association's media advisor - who is a highly want to look at global problems through different Political Culture Conference experienced broadcaster and who currently lenses and regional and local problems from presents and reports programmes for the BBC varying perspectives. Our aim is to bring University College Cork, Ireland and Channel Four. He is Professor (Emeritus) in together for the first time scholars from all parts Broadcast Journalism at Goldsmiths College, of the world to examine the contrasting 19th-22nd May 2005 London and has undertaken led courses such approaches and agendas of international as this for a wide range of bodies including the studies, broadly conceived. The Music and Emergence of Political Culture ESRC, the Rowntree Foundation and the LSE. conference will be held at University College If you would be interested in joining one of Cork Department of Government May 19th-22nd For more information about the conference these courses, please contact Jack Arthurs at 2005. Registration deadline for the conference please see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/ [email protected] and we will let you know is April 15. More details can be found at events/wisc/proposals.aspx where and when the courses are being held. www.ucc.ie/acad/govt/ethos or by emailing [email protected] THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

6 A TIME TO CONFER Internet for Politics Ethics and Integrity of Breaking New Ground: Governance Innovation in the Public London Metropolitan University A Transatlantic Dialogue Sector 7th June 2005 Leaven, Belgium International Conference This seminar is aimed at lecturers and researchers interested in improving their own 2nd-5th June 2005 Cork, Ireland use of the Internet for research, or in teaching Internet research skills to students. Internet Hosted by: 22nd-24th September 2005 research skills are now recognised as an Public Management Institute of the Katholieke essential part of the undergraduate curriculum Universiteit Leuven (KUL) Jointly Hosted by: (QAA Benchmark Statements 2004). The The Publin Consortium & Department of seminar will provide practical ideas and materials The conference takes place in the beautiful Government, University College Cork to help with teaching Internet research methods; medieval city of Leuven, a traditional university Internet and database searching; and use of the city about 20 minutes from Brussels. Jointly The conference is aimed at exploring both Internet to find literature and numerical data. For organised by a European and American network theoretical and practical aspects of public sector those conducting their own research, the on public sector ethics, the conference aims to innovation. It is hoped to draw on the experience seminars will offer the chance to learn how to strengthen co-operation among European and US of high level public servants, academics and get the most from leading online databases and scholars on the topic. All relevant aspects of researchers, including the Publin Consortium Internet research tools. administrative ethics will be discussed and which has investigated public sector innovation particular attention will be given to the similarities in nine countries. The conference is a joint- The seminar will offer: and differences, both in theory and practice, initiative of the Publin Consortium and the Annual A an insight into leading Internet services between Europe, the US and other parts of the Government Conference hosted by the for lecturers and researchers in Politics - world. This comparative angle is expressed in the Department of Government, University College provided by the service providers two keynote speeches by John Rohr and Jeremy Cork, Ireland. It coincides with Cork’s themselves: SOSIG, ESRC, IBSS, ESDS and Pope, respectively. celebrations as European Capital of Culture professional bodies. (http://www.cork2005.ie/). For more information please see: http:// A hands-on sessions in an IT suite with www.publicmanagement.be/ethics Further Details are available online at time to do your own Internet research and or email: www.ucc.ie/acad/govt/PUBLIN and help on hand from national service-providers [email protected] www.step.no/publin/

A worksheets and ideas for teaching Internet research skills that can be adapted for re-use with your own students

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European Identity and Political Systems epsNet 2005 Plenary Conference

Sciences Po, Paris

7th-18th June 2005

For further inquiries about this conference please contact Attila Folsz, epsNet General Secretary, c/o Central European University, [email protected] or browse the organisation’s web site at: www.epsnet.org The conference will be held in English. For general information about epsNet see page 3 of this newsletter. THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

A TIME TO CONFER 7 Workshops in Political 9 Equality (Maureen Ramsay, University of Transatlantic Studies Leeds, [email protected]) Theory 10 Concepts of Toleration (John Horton, Keele Association Conference University, [email protected], and Monica Mookherjee, Keele University, University of Nottingham Second Annual Conference [email protected]) 11 Anti-Capitalism and Utopia (Susan McManus, 11th-14thJuly 2005 Manchester Metropolitan University Queen’s University, Belfast, [email protected]) Call for Papers 7th-9th September 2005 12 Political Subjectivities in Globalising Structures (Noel Parker, University of Copenhagen, Call for Papers The opening plenary will be given by Robert [email protected]) Schulzinger, University of Colorado at Boulder on 13 Altruism, Ethics and the Market (Jonathan These workshops are intended to reflect the 'The Impact of the Vietnam War on Transatlantic Seglow, Royal Holloway, University of Relations' diversity of research interests and idioms in London, [email protected]) political theory. They will also provide an 14 Atrocity, Responsibility and Redress (Stephen Proposals for politics and IR papers should be opportunity to get in-depth feedback on work-in- Winter, St. Catherine’s College, University of progress as well as on finished papers in an sent to the panel leaders: Oxford, stephen.winter@st- David Ryan ([email protected]) informal setting. There will be a conference catherines.oxford.ac.uk) web-site (www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/pap/events/ Greg Kennedy ([email protected]) 15 The Concept of the Public Realm (Benjamin Tony McCullough ([email protected]) wpt) where papers and conference details will Arditi, UNAM, Mexico, be posted. [email protected] and Noel Deadline for Proposals: 31st May 2005 O’Sullivan, University of Hull, Any queries should be addressed to: The workshops and convenors are as follows: [email protected]) 1 Human Rights (David Boucher, Peter Boyle ([email protected]) 16 Marxism (Mark Cowling, or to Alan Dobson ([email protected]). University of Cardiff, [email protected]) [email protected]) 17 Articulating Liberalism and Socialism (Phil 2 Justice, Equality and Minority Rights Ross, [email protected]) (Andrea Baumeister, University of Stirling, [email protected]) If you are interested in giving a paper, please International Political 3 The Politics of Radical Democracy (Moya contact the appropriate workshop convenor as Lloyd, Queen Mary, University of London, indicated above. Science Association [email protected]) The organisers are: Professor Joe Femia 20th World Congress 4 Theories of Green Political Economy (School of Politics and Communication Studies, (John Barry, Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Liverpool, [email protected]) and qub.ac.uk) Professor Jules Townshend (Department of Fukuoka, Japan 5 Defining the Political (Mary Walsh, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University of Canberra, University, [email protected]) 9th-13th July 2006 [email protected]) 6 The Concept of Multitudes (Jeremy Conference Registration: Call for Papers Valentine, Queen Margaret University College, [email protected] Edinburgh, [email protected]) Tel: 0161-247-1565. The International Political Science Association 7 The Nature of Political Theory (Peter (IPSA) announces its call for papers for its 20th Lassman, University of Birmingham, Final deadline for registration: World Congress to be held in Fukuoka, Japan. [email protected]) Friday 17th June 2005. The Congress theme: 'Is Democracy Working?' 8 Art, Aesthetics and Politics (Tony Burns, Proposal Deadline: 31st March 2005 University of Nottingham, [email protected], and Paul More information is available at: http:// Graham, Glasgow University, www.fukuoka2006.com [email protected])

Busy Schedule Ahead for the effort in preparing the event and the programme Finally, the PGN is now looking for looks very exciting. organisers for the 9th annual Central and Graduate Network The following month, on Saturday 7th May, Northern England (CANE) graduate conference Lyndsey Harris will host the inaugural Northern to take place in late 2005. If you are interested Roman Gerodimos, Ireland Graduate Conference at the University of in contributing to this event please get in touch. PGN Communications Officer Ulster at Jordanstown. Panel themes confirmed Apart from the regional conferences, part so far are diverse and include Conflict, European of our mission is to encourage networking, Following the success of last year’s regional Issues and Party Identities. The conference will through collaborative work and the sharing of conferences, the Political Studies Association’s end with a plenary session outlining the current information. To that end, the PGN Committee is Graduate Network is now gearing up to the first issues facing political parties in Northern Ireland. working on the Graduate Directory, an easily regional conferences of 2005. On March 5th, The deadline for the call for papers has been accessible databank that will hopefully facilitate Kerstin Budde, Natalie Riendeau and Madhu extended and is now is the 31st of March. For communication amongst members. The Khanna-Davies hosted the Welsh and South more information please contact Lyndsey at application forms (which ask for basic info West England Graduate Conference at Cardiff [email protected]. such as contact details, research interests, University’s School of European Studies. A few days after that, Friday May 20th, the year of registration etc) are available on our Then on April 4th – 5th, the PGN set will Scottish Graduate Conference will take place at website (http://www.psa.ac.uk/graduate) and move to Leeds for the annual Graduate Edinburgh, organised by Craig Wilkie and Allan should be sent to Kelly Trueman, PGN Website Conference and the AGM, preceding the 55th Craigie. The deadline for paper submissions is Editor, or Karin Bottom, PGN Secretary. Their PSA Conference hosted by the University of Monday 4th April; for more information please contact details are also available on our site. Leeds. The local organisers have put a lot of email [email protected]. THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Call for Papers new perspectives and stimulating debate. GBF with Lord Hurd as A Reports (1000-2500 words) of research Edited by Penny Welch, University of in progress and innovations in practice. President Wolverhampton and Sue Wright, Danish A Reviews (600-1000 words) of relevant University of Education, Copenhagen recent publications, electronic media and Prof. Willie Paterson, Director of the Institute for software and conferences. German Studies at the University of LATISS - Learning and Teaching in the Social Birmingham, has been appointed Chairman of Sciences is a refereed journal that aims to use Forthcoming deadlines for submission: the German-British Forum (GBF), taking over the disciplines of politics, international relations, 1 June 2005 is the deadline for Volume 3:1 from Lord Hurd of Westwell, the former Foreign sociology, anthropology and social policy to February 2006 Secretary, who is stepping down after five reflect critically on learning and teaching 1 October 2005 is the deadline for Volume 2:2 years. Lord Hurd becomes President of the practices in higher education and to analyse June 2006 GBF and will remain closely in touch with its their relationship to changes in higher education activities. The changes took effect on 1st policies and institutions. Contact by email: March. Penny Welch [email protected] and Lord Hurd will be speaking together with The research field of Learning and Teaching in Sue Wright [email protected] Prof. Paterson at the GBF’s 10th anniversary the Social Sciences includes: Or by post: Penny Welch, MC409, University of annual conference on Transport and A All aspects of learning and teaching and Wolverhampton, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton, Infrastructure in Europe in London on 3rd and higher education reform from national and WV1 1SB, UK 4th November 2005, which has already comparative perspectives Tel: 01902 321000 Fax: 01902 322739 attracted considerable interest from across A Evidence based developments in The journal is supported by two HE Academy Europe. curriculum, assessment, learning and Subject Centres, C-SAP http://www.c- The GBF’s Management Board and teaching methods sap.bham.ac.uk/ and SWAP http:// Advisory Council decided yesterday on the A Analyses of impacts of institutional and www.swap.ac.uk/ change of leadership. Lord Hurd said: "There national policies on learning and teaching - has never been a time when the work of the e.g. widening access, employability, audit, Subscriptions:Personal: £30.00 [print only] German-British Forum has been so important. I quality enhancement Institutional: £130.00 – plus £8 airmail supplement am delighted that a person of the experience The journal seeks to promote scholarship and outside EU [print and full electronic access] and wisdom of Willie Paterson will be carrying research on learning and teaching and invites For further information about all Intellect on this work and that I will remain involved with contributions from a wide and diverse publications, please contact: it.” community of practitioners, researchers and Intellect, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK Prof. Paterson, who was a founder of the students. All contributions should be written in a Tel: 44 (0) 117 958 9910 Forum in 1995 and has been a Board member clear and accessible style, avoiding the use of Email: [email protected] for 10 years, said: “The GBF is a Forum for jargon. Or go to: http://www.intellectbooks.com/ new and effective ideas about Europe, on journals/latiss.htm crucial matters such as economic reform in Contributions are likely to fall into one of four Sample journals online: http:// Germany and the EU, and the risks associated categories: www.extenzaeps.com/extenza/contentviewing/ with the EU Constitution Referendum in Britain. I A Articles (5000-8000 words) extending browse.do?browseContext=publisher¤tPublisherId=41 am delighted to become Chairman, not least the knowledge base through original because of the further deepening of the GBF’s research and scholarship. ties with the Institute for German Studies.” A Essays (3000-4000 words) offering Prof. William E Paterson (OBE AcSS FRSE FRSA Bundesverdienstkreuz), born in Making Our Media: Mapping San Francisco, California, 94117-1080 USA Or Perthshire in 1941, began his academic career Email them to [email protected] as a Lecturer in Politics and International Global Initiatives Toward a Relations at the University of Aberdeen. He later moved to the University of Warwick as a Democratic Public Sphere Volkswagen Lecturer and then as Professor of Politics. 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Under his leadership, the Institute has Association member for participation (e.g. developed into a dedicated centre of research inclusion in a book that we are proposing for the paper, roundtable participant; not just excellence, with a thriving postgraduate Euricom Monographs series at Hampton Press. attendance or ‘chair’) at conferences/ The book will consider several dimensions congresses held by political science community, which makes a major contribution to of the emerging transnational movement for a associations outside the EU. Preference will British-German relations and policy debates. more just and democratic communications be given to applications for associations with Professor Paterson has written or edited over environment, including the development of which the Political Studies Association already 20 books and a large number of academic has links or membership e.g. American PSA, papers on European and German issues. He is alternative information and communication Japan PSA, Korea PSA, International PSA. In systems; new relationships between the a member of the British Steering Committee of some cases it may be possible to cover the British-German Königswinter Conferences alternative media sector, social movements and conference registration, normal conference and a member of the Advisory Council of the corporations or governments; and renewed meals and accommodation. Application to efforts to democratize the public sphere. consist of a proposal letter with detailed Humboldt University's Centre for British Studies. costing for travel, plus brief CV of the He was a co-founder of the Association for the Study of German Politics and Founding Editor of Prospective authors should contact: applicant. Applications should be returned to Professor “German Politics”. Dorothy Kidd, Clemencia Rodriguez Paul Furlong at [email protected] by 04/ and Laura Stein, Department of Media Studies, 04/05. 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LEEDS CONFERENCE 9 PSA Graduate Conference -Provisional encompass electoral behaviour, social and political attitudes, electoral systems, political parties, and survey research methods both in Britain and Timetable in a comparative perspective. He is author of numerous books and journal articles, is co-director of the British General Election Study amongst many Monday 4th April 2005 others and is well known as a consultant and contributor for BBC 12.00 – 13.30 Registration Television and Radio, and to a wide range of newspapers.

13.30 – 15.00 Welcome, introduction: Dennis Kavanagh By Jerry Johnson, PGN executive and organisers Professor Kavanagh is author of numerous books and has been a leading Workshop: How to get the most out of the international authority on British politics for several decades. He has conference/Practical networking written on the politics of Thatcherism, the Major and Blair eras and earlier 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break on political culture. Professor Kavanagh will offer a keynote plenary lecture on the politics of Blair - a subject on which he is a leading scholar. 15.30 – 17.30 Panel discussion: “Ethics in research: out of bounds?” Margaret Levi - Marta Bolognani, University of Leeds Professor Levi is President of the American Political Science Association - Dr. Mark Priestly or Dr. Teela Sanders, and ‘Jere L. Bacharach Professor of Political Science and International University of Leeds Studies’ at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is author and editor - Dr. Joanne Hughes, University of Ulster of numerous books and is presently working on Russell Sage Foundation - Dr. Richard Yuill, University of Glasgow project on trust and trustworthiness – a subject on which she will speak at - Dr Jody Mellor, University of York the Conference. Reflecting this, Professor Levi continues to be 17.30 – 18.30 PGN annual meeting engaged in many community commitments, serving on the Jobs for Justice worker’s rights board and was a member of the first coordinating 19.00 – 21.00 Dinner and reception location tbc committee of SAWSJ (Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice). Tuesday 5th April 2005 Charles Pattie Professional workshops Professor Pattie is a leading researcher in the area of electoral geography 8.45 coffee and keynote contributor to the plenary panel, ‘Election 05’. He is author of numerous books and journal articles. His research interests encompass 09.00 – 10.30 (2x2 45 min sessions, so 2 running parallel) Dealing electoral redistricting, parties and party campaigning, citizenship and with editors: how to get articles published participation and the politics of devolution in the UK. His current work - Dr. Justin Fisher, Brunel University investigates the understated impact of local campaigning and also the - Professor Paul Taggart, University of Sussex impact that voter perceptions of local economy and environment has on (tentative) editor of “Politics” electoral behaviour. “The endgame: Finishing your thesis, submitting and handling the viva” Bo Rothstein - Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Professor Rothstein will give the ‘Government and Opposition Leonard London School of Economics Shapiro Annual Lecture’. He currently holds the ‘August Röhss Chair in 9.45-10.30 “Post-PhD job opportunities” Political Science’ at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He is author of - Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment, University of Keele numerous books and articles, gaining in 2004, a six year research grant for Funding opportunities: research & post-docs leading scholars from the Swedish Science Council. His current research - tbc interests are the comparative quality of government institutions, social capital and social dilemmas, and political corruption. 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 – 12.30 “Bridging Academic/Practitioner divide: from research David Sanders to policy” Professor Sanders is a leading psephologist and keynote contributor to the - Professor Gerry Stoker, University of Manchester plenary panel, ‘Election 05’. He is author of numerous articles and books - Professor Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds covering British domestic and international politics including Patterns of - Professor Wyn Grant, University of Warwick 12.30 Grad conference ends Political Instability and Lawmaking and Co-operation in International Politics. His current research is on political participation, electoral behaviour, election forecasting and the use of experimental methods in political research – subjects on which he will contribute here in Leeds.

Biographical Notes on 2005 Conference Keynote Speakers

Tariq Ali Tariq Ali will give the keynote after dinner address. He is a historian, political commentator and novelist, having written over a dozen books on world history and politics and five novels. His most recent books are Bush in Babylon: the Recolonization of Iraq and The Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. He has also written on the Balkan’s war. He is frequently a columnist in the Guardian and Independent newspapers where he has recently written extensively on the evolving situation in the Middle East.

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20.00: Dinner 21.30: Quiz: Justin Fisher and John Tonge Quizmasters? Terrace/Old Bar – bar extension? Session 1: 2.00pm - 3.30pm Session 3: 9.00am - 10.30am 1-1 Media and Politics SG: Policy, power and politics 1-2 Interpretive Politics SG: Interpretive Politics 3-1 Environmental Politics SG: New Modes of Environmental and Italian Politics Governance 1-3 Scandinavian Politics SG: Domestic Influences 3-2 Development Politics SG: ROUNDTABLE: on Nordic Foreign Policy The World Bank and Africa 1-4 Security and Intelligence SG: Aspects of the Northern Ireland 3-3 State Theory SG: State Theory Peace Process 3-4 EPOP SG: Local politics 1-5 Political Thought SG: Solidarity, Community, And Associative Duties 3-5 British and Comparative Territorial Politics SG: 1-6 Labour Movements SG: New Labour in Comparative Perspective Political adaptation and British devolution 1-7 Women in Politics SG: Women in Comparative Politics 3-6 British Idealism SG: British Idealism 3 1-8 British Idealism SG: British Idealism 1 3-7 Politics of South Asia SG: External Security in South Asia (2) 1-9 Politics of South Asia SG: Issues in South Asian politics 3-8 Italian Politics SG: Understanding Italian politics: 1-10 Executive Governance: Theory and Innovation continuity or change? Systemic perspectives 1-11 Public Reasons - Public Spaces 3-9 Women in Politics SG: Gender & War, Peacebuilding & Security 1-12 Latin American Presidential Democracies: Institutionalist 3-10 Local Political Leadership Approaches to Explaining Governance 3-11 Democratic Theory 1-13 Legislative Studies: Second Chambers in Comparative 3-12 Labour Moverments SG: Postwar social democratic theorists Perspective 3-13 Histories of Labour Activism: methods and sources 1-14 Approaching the Body in Political Science 3-14 Moving Beyond Borders? Theory and Politics 1-15 The North East of England Referendum 3-15 Defining and designing electronic democracy 1-16 The New Political Economy of Globalization: 3-16 U.S. Arms Control, Nuclear, and Strategic Defense Policies in the Domestic and International Adaptation Second Bush Administration 1-17 The Internet and Political Mobilization 3-17 South East Asia 1-18 Corruption in a Comparative Context 3-18 Environment and Development 1-19 The Comparative Political Market 3-19 Russian Politics 1-20 Democracy and Transformation in African States 3-20 TBC

15.30-16.00 Coffee 10.30-11.00.: Coffee

Session 2: 4.00pm - 5.30pm Session 4: 11.00am - 12.30pm

2-1 ROUNDTABLE: APSA Taskforce on Inequality 4-1 Greek Politics SG: Greek Foreign and Defence Policy and American Democracy. 4-2 British Liberal Political Studies: SG British Liberal Politics 2-2 Political Parties in Comparative Perspective 4-3 Environmental Politics SG: Rural Politics and the Environment 2-3 Political Ideologies SG: Politics and Emotions: 4-4 Political Ideologies SG: Legitimising Political Action what is the role of affect in ideological belief 4-5 Politics of South Asia SG: Violence in South Asia 2-4 Media and Politics SG: Critical perspectives 4-6 British and Comparative Territorial Politics SG: on political communication Devolution and Public Policy in Britain 2-5 British Idealism SG: British Idealism 2 4-7 Interpretive Politics SG: Interpreting British Politics Panel 2-6 Italian Politics SG: Understanding Italian politics: 4-8 Media and Politics SG: Audiences and campaigning continuity or change? Party actors 4-9 Italian Politics SG: Understanding Italian politics: 2-7 EPOP SG: EPOP 1: Voter Choice continuity or change? Political processes 2-8 Women in Politics SG: Theorising Gender Equality: National, 4-10 EPOP SG: Elite politics Regional and International Dimensions 4-11 TBC 2-9 Political Thought SG 2: John Stuart Mill: 4-12 Development Politics SG: Pre-Bicentennial Assessments Global governance and emerging markets 2-10 Scandinavian Politics SG: Change in Intra-Party 4-13 Bevir on New Labour: Author Meets Critics Session Politics in Scandinavia 4-14 Feminisms and Political Theory 2-11 Art and Politics SG: Art and Politics 1 4-15 Gendered Representations of the International 2-12 Labour Moverments SG: ROUNDTABLE: Historical 4-16 ROUNDTABLE: The Experience of Constitutional Analysis of Labour: A Discussion of James Cronin’s Change in the UK New Labour’s Pasts 4-17 Religion and Democracy 2-13 British-German Relations 4-18 Citizenship and Participation 2-14 Adorno, Morality and Art 4-19 Utopia and the Law 2-15 England After Regionalism 4-20 TBC 2-16 ROUNDTABLE: Learning and Teaching in Politics 2-17 Euroscepticism or Integration? 12.30-14.00: Lunch 2-18 Foreign Policy 2-19 Justice and Conflict 12.30-13.30: Specialist Groups Business Meetings 2-20 Irish Politics SG: Conflict in Northern Ireland 13.00-14.15: Government and Opposition Leonard Shapiro Annual Lecture: Keynote speaker Professor Bo Rothstein: ‘The Quality of 17.45-19.00. Keynote Speakers: Government Factor - can political science meet the challenge from John Curtice, Charles Pattie & David Sanders, Election ’05. the Economists?’

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Political Science Association and holder of the Jere L. Bacharach 21.30: Old and Terrace Bars - social activities – extension until 1 a.m. Professorship of Political Science and International Studies, University of Washington, will speak on: “Trust In Transition”. Session 7: 9.00am - 10.30am

5-1 Greek Democracy at Thirty 7-1 ROUNDTABLE: Hansard Society: Compulsory Voting: 5-2 Media and Politics SG: New Media A Fair Solution to Disengagement? 5-3 Security and Intelligence SG: Intelligence and Proliferation: 7-2 German Politics SG: Visions of Germany’s Role in the World Problems and Options 7-3 Development Politics SG: ROUNDTABLE: 5-4 Politics of South Asia SG: Politics in Pakistan Imagined Economies of Globalization 5-5 British and Comparative Territorial Politics SG: 7-4 Political Marketing SG: Non-UK party marketing British territorial politics and political movements 7-5 Political Thought SG: Richard Rorty And Multiculturalism 5-6 Interpretive Politics SG 2: 7-6 Politics of South Asia SG: Identities in South Asia What (If Anything) Can Ideas Explain? 7-7 Greek Politics SG: Political Parties, Civic Participation and Political 5-7 Italian Politics SG: Italian Party Politics: Expression in Greece Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives 7-8 Interpretive Politics SG: Ethnography in Policing Studies 5-8 Labour Moverments SG: ROUNDTABLE: Why we need rational 7-9 Italian Politics SG: Italy: A Populist Paradise? 1 choice theory to understand the Labour party 7-10 Labour Moverments SG: ROUNDTABLE (AND BOOK LAUNCH) 5-9 EPOP SG: Participation Political Economy and New Labour: 5-10 A discussion of David Coates’ Prolonged Labour 5-11 Political Thought SG: Comparative Political Thought: 7-11 Elections: The Devil is in the Detail Time And Place In Political Theorising 7-12 Latin America 1: Exploring the spaces of civil society in Latin 5-12 Environmental Politics SG: Green Political Economy America: populist, liberal or something ‘other’? 5-13 Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging in Europe 7-13 Judith Butler: Doing political theory? 5-14 Distributive Justice: Problematizing Central Concepts 7-14 Debates about EU security doctrines and the EU’s role in crisis 5-15 The Political Economy of New Labour: management post 9/11t shaping of a New Global Security Order? An End of Second Term Report 7-15 Ban That Filth? The Politics of Anti-Smoking in 5-16 Prime Ministers Ireland and the UK 5-17 Globalisation, Europeanisation and State Capacity? 7-16 Politics and Identity in Scotland the Case of Agriculture 7-17 European Civil Society 5-18 International Relations 7-18 Public Policy 5-19 Politics in Italy 7-19 Comparative Politics 5-20 Liberal Politics SG: ROUNDTABLE: General Election 2005: When 7-20 Media and Politics SG: International Liberal Democrats gain power can they keep it? 10.30-11.00. Coffee 16.00-16.30.: Coffee Session 8: 11.00am - 12.30pm 16.30-18.00: Keynote Speaker: Professor Dennis Kavanagh on Tony Blair. 8-1 The American Presidency: Presidential Power Revisited 8-2 The Nolan Report: Ten Years On Session 6: 4.30pm - 6.00pm 8-3 Political Activism SG: Democracies and Violence. 8-4 Greek Politics SG: Greek Politics &Political Marketing Panel 6-1 Christian Democracy in Western Europe 8-5 TBC 6-2 Political Marketing SG: ROUNDTABLE: 8-6 Ethnopolitics SG: Ethnopolitics in Europe Political marketing and the UK Election 8-7 Italian Politics SG: Italy: A Populist Paradise? 2 6-3 Environmental Politics SG: Global Justice and the Environment 8-8 EPOP SG: Women and Politics SG and EPOP SG 6-4 Politics of South Asia SG: Internal Security in South Asia 8-9 Labour Moverments SG: Where is New Labour going to? 6-5 Greek Politics SG: The Evolution of the Greek State 8-10 New Perspectives on Budgetary Politics 6-6 Media and Politics SG: Politics and TV 8-11 Latin America 2: Actors, institutions, and ideas in the making of 6-7 Italian Politics SG: Local Government and Governance during the public policy in Latin America Italian transition 8-12 Critical Approaches to Conflict Resolution 6-8 Labour Moverments SG: Social Democracy and Globalisation 8-13 Conceptualising Change in Political Analysis 6-9 French Politics and Policy SG: 8-14 Is Devolution Dynamic? Devolution and Changes in Developments in French Politics UK Territorial Politics 6-10 Development Politics SG: Governance and the World Bank 8-15 Identity: Issues of clarification and classification 6-11 The EU - A Normative Power?" 8-16 Theory and Doctrine in the Evolving Security Environment 6-12 Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Relations 8-17 EU Trade and Fiscal Policy 6-13 Religion, Ethnicity and Political Participation 8-18 Rawls and Political Thought 6-14 The Politics Of Competency, Peace and Violence on the Theory of 8-19 Egalitarian Society and Democracy Democracy and the Crisis of Contemporary Challenges in the 8-20 TBC Global Polity 6-15 Democracy, War and The Left 12.30 – Conference Closes. 6-16 Political Theory and Modernity 6-17 Media, Terrorism and Propaganda 6-18 Art and Politics SG: Art and Politics 2 6-19 Issues in Ireland Compared 6-20 TBC

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SESSION 2pm, 5th APRIL 2005 Convenor Joanna McKay (NTU) Chair Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) 1-1 Specialist Group Panel Media and Politics SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title Policy, power and politics 1) Jocelyne Praud (Regina) Convenor Heather Savigny (UEA) The Feminist Debate On Gender Parity In French Politics Chair Michael Higgins (Sunderland) 2) Joanna McKay (NTU) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants MPs and Motherhood in Germany and the UK 1) Mark Wheeler (London Met) 3) Amanda Sloat and Yvonne Galligan (Queen’s, Belfast) “Trade Follows Film”: Hollywood and US trade policy’ The EU’s Role in Engendering Central & Eastern Europe 2) Ivor Gaber (Goldsmiths) 4) Rainbow Murray (Birkbeck) Driven to distraction “the loony left rides again” The power of sex and incumbency: 3) Des Freedman (Goldsmiths) Dynamics of power in A longitudinal study of electoral performance in France contemporary media policy making 1-8 Specialist Group Panel British Idealism SG 1-2 Specialist Group Panel Interpretive Politics and Panel Title British Idealism 1 Italian Politics SGs Convenor Stamatoula Panagakou (Durham) Panel Title Interpreting European Politics Chair Colin Tyler (Hull) Convenor James Newell (Salford) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) James Connelly (Southampton Institute) 1) Andrew Geddes (Sheffield) Nature and Intelligent Exploitation: Envoronmental The Europeanisation of British Party Politics Themes in R. G. Collingwood 2) Christine Agius (Salford) 2) Tim Rosser (Lancaster) Interpreting the EU response to the War on Terror An Application to Collingwood's Theory of the Concept to Some Intractable Problems in Environmental Ethics 1-3 Specialist Group Panel Scandinavian Politics SG 3) Maria Dimova-Cookson (Sheffield) Panel Title Domestic Influences on Nordic Foreign Policy Resolving Moral Conflicts: British Idealism and Convenor Nicholas Aylott (UMEA). Contemporary Liberal Approaches Chair TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1-9 Specialist Group Panel Politics of South Asia SG 1) Annika Bergman (Edinburgh) Panel Title Issues in South Asian politics The domestic construction of Nordic foreign policy Convenor Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) 2) Lee Miles (Liverpool) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Domestic Influences on Nordic Security and Defence 1) Jivanta Schottli and Subrata Mitra (Heidelberg) Policy: From the Perspective Of Fusion The Cunning of Nehru Discussant: Ian Manners (Malmö). 2) Prasun Sonwalkar (UWE) Indian elections 2004 3) Carole Spary and Chanin Na Thalang (Bristol) 1-4 Specialist Group Panel Security and Intelligence SG Panel Female leaders and legitimacy in Asia Title Aspects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process Convenor Eamonn O’Kane (Wolverhampton) 1-10 Panel Title Executive Governance: Theory and Innovation Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Convenor Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, (Nottingham) Chair 1 Paul Dixon (Ulster) Oliver James, (Exeter) The international dimension to the Peace Process Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2 Jon Moran (Wolverhampton) 1) Martin Lodge (LSE) Paramilitaries, Politics and the Peace Process Revisiting Stereotypes: Bureaucrats, Politicians and 3 Eamonn O’Kane (Wolverhampton) Public Service Bargains in Britain and Germany The timing of the Northern Ireland Peace Process: 2) Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling (Nottingham) a critique of Zartman Westernisation, Latinsation or Forever Post- Communist? Politico-Administrative Relations in 1-5 Specialist Group Panel Political Thought SG East-Central Europe in Comparative Perspective Panel Title Solidarity, Community, And Associative Duties 3) Kai Wegrich (Potsdam) Convenor Georgios Varouxakis (Aston) Modes of Governance and Intergovernmental Relations Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Shlomi Segall (Oxford) ‘Solidarity across Communities 1-11 Panel Title Public Reasons - Public Spaces and Devolution of Public Services Convenor Cillian McBride (Belfast) 2) Laura Andronache (Budapest) Instrumental Chair Jonathan Seglow (London) republicanism- between conflict and solidarity Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Allison Assiter 1) Cillian McBride (Belfast) Associative Duties: Nations or Humanity as a whole The Cultural Politics of Contestatory Democracy 2) Paul Bou-Habib (Keele) 1-6 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG Public Reason, Religion and Cooperative Deliberation Panel Title New Labour in Comparative Perspective Discussant: Philip Parvin (Hansard Society) Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) Chair Eric Shaw (Sterling) 1-12 Panel Title Latin American Presidential Democracies: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Institutionalist Approaches to Explaining Governance 1) Colin Hay and Nicola Smith (Birmingham) Social Convenor Silke Lechner (LSE) Democracy and the Third Way in the UK and Ireland Chair Sara Motta-Sera (LSE) 2) Jonas Hinnfors (Gothenburg) and Eric Shaw (Sterling) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Renewing or Retiring Social Democracy: the cases of 1) Jaime Baeza Freer (Essex) The absence of an Britain and Sweden Institutional Social Pact in Building Presidential Democracies of Latin America’s Southern Cone 1-7 Specialist Group Panel Women in Politics SG 2) Silke Lechner (LSE) Presidents and Economic Policy Panel Title Women in Comparative Politics Making: an Institutional Perspective on Tax Politics in Ecuador and Bolivia. 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3) Jesus A. Lopez-Gonalez (LSE) Preventing Democratic Consolidation: the Role of 1-18 Panel Title Corruption in a Comparative Context the Military in the War against Drug Trafficking Convenor Jennifer Sands (Bradford) in Mexico (1989-2002). Chair TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1-13 Panel Title Legislative Studies: Second Chambers in 1) Jennifer Sands (Bradford) Comparative Perspective Organised Crime in Spain Convenor Khemvirg Puente (Mexico) 2) Staffan Andersson (Nottingham) Chair Cristina Leston-Bandeira (Hull) Studying Corruption in Least-Corrupt Countries: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants A Three-Pronged Approach with Empirical Illustrations 1) Mandana Jalali (Hull) from Sweden and the United Kingdom A Second Chamber in Iran’s Legislature? 3) Gerasimos Konidaris (Sheffield) The Guardian Council Human Trafficking in Greece 2) Khemvirg Puente and Eduardo Torres (Mexico) The Mexican Senate: Democracy and 1-19 Panel Title The Comparative Political Market Institutionalisation under divided government Convenor TBC 3) Alexandra Kelso (Strathclyde) Chair TBC Constitutional long-grass and unintended Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants consequences: the “reformed” House of Lords in 1) Christian Ploberger (Birmingham) the Westminster political system The relevance of ideas for political and economic Discussant: Lord Norton of Louth analysis: Japanese capitalism 2) Christine Harlen (Leeds) 1-14 Panel Title Approaching the Body in Political Science The Paradox of U.S. Technology Policy: Decreased State Convenor Laura Jenkins (Birmingham) Autonomy, Increased State Involvement Chair Alan Finlayson (Swansea) 3) Phillip J. Wood (Queen’s- Ontario) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Market-Driven Corrections: Explaining the Pattern of 1) Stephen Bates, (Birmingham) Prison Privatization in the United States Corporeal Alienation: the need for a Marxist theory of the body 1-20 Panel Title Democracy and Transformation in African States 2) Laura Jenkins (Birmingham) Convenor David Hall-Matthews (Leeds) Foucauldian Orientation(s) to the Subject Chair David Hall-Matthews (Leeds) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1-15 Panel Title The North East of England Referendum 1) Augustine Akeni (Benin) Convenor Peter John (Manchester) The quest for democratic competence in Nigeria Chair Charlie Jeffery (Edinburgh) 2) Ta-Mbi Nkongho (Sussex) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants An analysis of the transformation of the Cameroonian 1) Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Plymouth) state through privatisation ‘NO’ means ‘NO’: why the North East rejected 3) David Hall-Matthews (Leeds) regional government Selling democracy in Malawi 2) Adam Tickell (Bristol), Peter John (Manchester) 4) Bayo Okunade (Ibadan) and Steven Musson (Birkbeck) Africa in the contemporary world: Of elephants and rats: tales from the 2004 North an agenda for a new beginning East referendum campaign SESSION 4pm, 5th APRIL 2005 1-16 Panel Title The New Political Economy of Globalization: Domestic and International Adaptation 2-1 Specialist Group Panel American Political Science Association ‘ Convenor Terrence Casey (Rose-Hulman) Chair Wyn Grant, (Warwick) Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Taskforce on Inequality and American Democracy 1) Stefan Andreasson (Belfast) Convenor APSA The Resilience of Comprador Capitalism: Chair TBC “New” Economic Groups in Southern Africa Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Terrence Casey (Rose-Hulman) 1) Larry Jacobs (Minnesota and Chair of Taskforce) Globalization and the US Political Economy: 2) TBC Hegemony or Liberal Leadership? 3) TBC 3) Nicola Phillips, (Manchester) The New Political Economy of Inequality: 2-2 Panel Title Political Parties In Comparative Perspective Integration, Restructuring, and the Reformulation of Convenor Roberto Espíndola (Bradford) Development Strategies in a Wider North America Chair Jennifer Sands (Bradford) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1-17 Panel Title The Internet and Political Mobilization 1) Richard Anderson (Bradford) Convenor Andrew Chadwick (London) The Far Right – The Front National and the British Chair James Stanyer (Leicester) National Party in Comparative Perspective Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Gabriela Borz (Bradford) The Role of Party Unity 1) Andrew Chadwick London for Democratic Representation The Internet, Political Mobilization, and 3) Javier Lorenzo (Bradford) Organizational Hybridity The Modernisation of Electoral Campaigns: 2) Rachel Gibson (ANU), Stephen Ward (Oxford) and The Cases of the Labour Party and the Spanish Wainer Lusoli (Salford) Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) Old Politics-New Media: Parliament, the Public and Online Participation in the UK 2-3 Specialist Group Panel Political Ideologies SG 3) Paul Taylor (Leeds). 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Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Paul Hoggett (UWE) 1) Johanna Kantola (Bristol) Politics and the Emotions: The Uses of Gender Equality in Violence Against An Overview of Key Concepts and Applications Women and Childcare Debates in Britain 2) Simon Thompson (UWE) 2) Judith Squires (Bristol) Evaluating Gender The Emotional Dynamics of Political Resistance Mainstreaming in the Context of EU Diversity Strategies 3) Kenelm Averill (Sheffield) 3) Mona Lena Krook (Bristol) Nationalism and Narcissistic Injury: Affect in Contested Equalities: National and International Contemporary Nationalist Discourse in Britain Laws and Norms in Gender Quota Debates

2-4 Specialist Group Panel Media and Politics SG 2-9 Specialist Group Panel Political Thought SG Panel Title Critical perspectives on political communication Panel Title 2) John Stuart Mill: Convenor Heather Savigny (UEA) Pre-Bicentennial Assessments Chair Mick Temple (Staffs) Convenor Georgios Varouxakis (Aston) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Neil Washbourne (Leeds Met) 1) Dale Miller (Old Dominion) Mill’s Utopianism Audience/citizens/voters: fundamental reflections on 2) Graham Finlay (UC Dublin) Political Utilitarianism: audience research, politics and citizenship Mill on Principles, Institutions and Political Action’ 2) Dominic Wring (Loughborough) The Political 3) Nathalie Sigot and Christophe Beaurain (Littoral) Economy of Election Campaigning: Collective utility and individual liberty: Mill’s feminism 3) Heather Savigny (UEA) Political marketing: what’s democracy got to do with it? 2-10 Specialist Group Panel Scandinavian Politics SG Panel Title Change in Intra-Party Politics in Scandinavia 2-5 Specialist Group Panel British Idealism SG Convenor Nicholas Aylott (UMEA) Panel Title British Idealism 2 Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Convenor Stamatoula Panagakou (Durham) 1) Anna Gustavsen (Aberdeen) From a Class Party to a Chair James Connelly (Southampton Institute) Catch-All Party? The Case of the Danish Venstre Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Robin T. Pettitt (Manchester) 1) Thom Brooks (Sheffield) the Party Conference as a platform for (dissenting) An Idealist Theory of Punishment Membership voice: A case study of the British Labour 2) Gulshan Khan (Nottingham Trent) Party and the Danish Social Democratics. Habermas, Oakeshott and Mouffe on Practical Rationality, Morality and Politics 2-11 Specialist Group Panel Art and Politics SG 3) Bob Dyson (University of Durham) A. J. M. Milne: Panel Title Art and Politics 1 Rational Choice & a Life Fit for Humans Convenor Alex Danchev (Nottingham) Chair Alex Danchev (Nottingham) 2-6 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title Understanding Italian politics: 1) Dave Clark (Bolton Institute) continuity or change? Party actors China, Photography and Famine Convenor James Newell (Salford) 2) Paul Lowe (London College of Communication) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The Aestheticisation of Evil 1) Stefano Fella and Carlo Ruzza (Trento) 3) Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Kent) Breaking Old Taboos: the second republic and the Leo Tolstoy and the "War on Terror: re-invention of the Italian right "A Radical Christian Response to Violence 2) Caterina Paolucci (Syracuse) Forza Italia, 1994-2004: still a part revolution? 2-12 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG 3) Bruno Mascitelli (Swinburn) The transformation of Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: Historical Analysis of Labour: the Communist Party into the Democratic Party of A Discussion of James Cronin’s New Labour’s Pasts the Left in the Post Cold War period Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) Chair Nicki Smith (Birmingham) 2-7 Specialist Group Panel EPOP SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title EPOP 1: Voter Choice Hugh Pemberton (Bristol) Convenor Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) Jonas Hinnfors (Gothenburg) Chair David Denver (Lancaster) Matthew Watson (Birmingham) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Respondent: James Cronin (Boston) 1) Sarah Butt (Nuffield: Oxford) What’s the Alternative? How Opposition 2-13 Panel Title British-German Relations Evaluations Influence Voter Choices Convenor Ruth Wittlinger (Durham) 2) Maria Sobolewska (Nuffield: Oxford) Chair Simon Green (Birmingham) Do ethnic minorities evaluate political parties Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants differently: an effort to uncover the secret behind 1) Jonathan Grix (Birmingham) Conceptualising Bi-lateral “ethnic vote” phenomenon in Britain? Relations: A Case Study of UK-German Relations 3) Patrick Dunleavy (LSE), Helen Margetts (Oxford) 2) Christian Schweiger (Dublin) and Jennifer van Heerde (UCL): Explaining Voters’ The Role of Actors and Ideas in Bi-lateral Relations: Choices in London Elections, 2004 A Case Study of German-British Relations 4) Achim Goerres (LSE) 3) Ruth Wittlinger, (Durham) British Responses to the Grey Voting Power on the rise? How the transition recent ‘Germans as Victims’ Discourse and their from middle to old age influences turnout in Europe implications for British-German Relations

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Art, Machine and the Masses: Some Themes in Introducing The Strategic Approach: An Examination Collingwood, Adorno and Benjamin Of Loyalist Paramilitaries In Northern Ireland 2) Giuseppe Tassone (Calabria) 2) Stephen Hopkins (Leicester) The Politics of Amoral Adorno: Negative Dialectic Outside Ethics Commemoration and Conflict in Northern Ireland 3) Catherine Hollis (Sussex) Beyond the law: the example of the sovereign and the police in the SESSION 9am, 6th APRIL 2005 Work of Carl Schmitt & Walter Benjamin 4) Alex Rossiter (York) 3-1 Specialist Group Panel Environmental Politics SG Panel Reconciliation And Mimesis Title New Modes of Environmental Governance. Convenor Neil Carter (York) and Rudiger Wurzel (Hull) Chair Neil Carter (York) 2-15 Panel Title England after regionalism and Rudiger Wurzel (Hull). Convenor Mark Sandford (London) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Andrew Jordan (UEA), Rüdiger Wurzel (Hull) and 1) Arthur Aughey (Ulster) Anthony Zito (Newcastle) Missing England: Identifying the Eighty-Five Per Cent New Modes of Environmental Governance in Europe 2) Iain McLean (Oxford) Defending the interests of 2) Ian Bailey (Plymouth) English regions after English regionalism Policy Innovation or Business as Usual? 3) Mark Sandford (London) The regional watermark ‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments in the UK and German Climate Policy 2-16 Panel Title ROUNDTABLE:Learning & Teaching in Politics 3) Joseph Szarka (Bath) Climate change, energy policy Convenor Rose Gann (NTU) and policy instruments in France Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Rose Gann (NTU) 3-2 Specialist Group Panel Development Politics SG Dave J Middleton (Open Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: The World Bank and Africa John Craig (University of Huddersfield) Convenor Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) TBA (Southampton) Chair Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) Philippa Sherrington (Warwick) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Paul Cammack (Manchester Metropolitan) 2-17 Panel Title Euroscepticism or Integration? Penny Griffin (Bristol) Convenor TBC Graham Harrison (Sheffield) Chair TBC David Williams (Oxford) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Christopher Flood and Simon Usherwood (Surrey) 3-3 Specialist Group Panel State Theory SG Positions, Dispositions, Transitions: A Model of Panel Title State Theory Group Alignment on EU Integration Convenor Paul Wetherly (Leeds Met) 2) Andy Mullen and Brian Burkitt (Bradford) Chair Paul Wetherly (Leeds Met) Spinning Europe: Pro-European Union Propaganda Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Campaigns in Britain, 1962-1975 1) Clyde Barrow (Massachusetts) 3) John Balance (Leeds) Globalization & State Theory: A Critical Review of New Butterflies And Hurricanes: European Elections And Developments in the Theory of the State The Deliberate Second Order Game 2) Sam Ashman (Birmingham)Globalisation and State Theory: How can David Harvey help us? 2-18 Panel Title Foreign Policy Discussant: Matthew Caygill (Leeds Met) Convenor TBC Chair TBC 3-4 Specialist Group Panel EPOP SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title Local politics 1) Ayse Kaya (LSE) Convenor Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) US-EU Regional Relations: Global Rivals or Rival Chair Colin Rallings (Plymouth) Globalities? Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Tim Oliver (LSE) 1) Adrian Kavanagh (Ireland) The UK core executive and foreign policy Bin-charge disputes, personality politics, Sinn Féin and 3) Maxine David (Surrey) increased local election turnout: A spatial analysis of Appraising Values in Foreign Policy the increased electoral participation in the 2004 local 4) Mohammed Nonegad (Tehran) elections in the Republic of Ireland Europe and the Middle East Peace Process 2) Alistair Clark (Aberdeen) Local Campaigning in the 2003 Scottish Parliament Election 2-19 Panel Title Justice and Conflict 3) Philip Whiteman (Birmingham) Convenor TBC Turning Councils Around: The role of political mentors Chair TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3-5 Specialist Group Panel British and Comparative Territorial 1) Oliver Ramsbotham (Bradford) Politics SG Taking radical disagreement seriously: implications Panel Title Political adaptation and British devolution for the theory and practice of conflict resolution Convenor Jonathan Bradbury (Swansea) 2) Rafi Nets (Tel Aviv) Passive Reconciliation Chair Daneil Wincott (Birmingham) 3) Wendy Martineau (Cardiff) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The Complexity of Culture: A Discursive Approach 1) Nicola McEwen (Edinburgh) to Multicultural Dilemmas A new territorial politics? 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3-6 Specialist Group Panel British Idealism SG Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) Panel Title British Idealism 3 Chair Matt Beech, (Southampton) Convenor Stamatoula Panagakou (Durham) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Chair David Boucher (Cardiff) 1) Matt Beech (Southampton) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants David Owen: Social Democrat to Social Liberal: 1) Colin Tyler (Hull) the triumph of markets and liberty Fichte and Hegel on Commercial Society 2) Mark Stuart (Nottingham) 2) Stamatoula. Panagakou (Durham and York) John Smith and Social Democracy On Bosanquet and the Idea of the State 3) Victoria Honeyman (Leeds) 3) Paul Furlong (Cardiff) Authoritarian conservatism after Richard Crossman and the British Constitution the war: Julias Evolva and the usefulness of Europe. 3-13 Panel Title Histories of Labour Activism: 3-7 Specialist Group Panel Politics of South Asia SG methods and sources Panel Title External Security in South Asia (2) Convenor Gidon Cohen (Northumbria) Convenor Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Kevin Morgan, (Manchester) 1) Rajat Ganguly (UEA) Living with Bad Neighbours in a The Equipment of the Workers: survey work and Bad Neighbourhood: The Security Determinants of political activism in early twentieth-century Sheffield Pakistan's Adventurist Foreign Policy since 1979 2) Gidon Cohen, Andrew Flinn and Lewis Mates 2) Rahul Roy Chaudhury (IISS) Nuclear CBMs in South Asia (Northumbria) Studying Political Activism in Past: a multiple-recapture approach 3) Keith Gildart, (Wolverhampton) Biography, 3-8 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG Autobiography and Labour Activism: The Dictionary of Panel Title Understanding Italian politics: continuity or change? Labour Biography in the Twenty-First Century Systemic perspectives Convenor James Newell (Salford) 3-14 Panel Title Moving Beyond Borders? Theory and Politics Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Convenor Jonathan Seglow (London) 1) Geoff Andrews (Open) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Populism v associationism as indicative of the new 1) Dora Kostakopoulou (Manchester) 'postmodern conjuncture' in contemporary Italy Citizenship Goes Public: the Basic Model 2) Mark Donovan (Cardiff) Italian politics: from ‘normal 2) Andrew Geddes (Sheffield) abnormality’ to ‘normality’? Europe's International Migration Relations Old & New 3) Marla Stone (Occidental) Enemies in An Age of 3) Jonathan Seglow (London) Ideology: Anti-Communism in Italy Immigration, State Sovereignty and Global Justice

3-9 Specialist Group Panel Women in Politics SG 3-15 Panel Title Defining and designing electronic democracy Panel Title Gender & War, Peacebuilding & Security Convenor Rabia Karakaya Polat (De Montfort) Convenor Donna Pankhurst (Bradford) Chair Lawrence Pratchett (De Montfort) Chair Judith Squires (Bristol) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Rabia Karakaya Polat and Lawrence Pratchett 1) Jamie Munn (UWE) (De Montfort) Shaping Electronic Democracy: Kosovar identities – gendered realities of life? Five visions for local government 2) Laura Shepherd (Bristol) 2) John Street and Scott Wright (UEA) Democracy, Loud Voices Behind the Wall: Gendered Violence and Deliberation and Design: the case of online discussion the Violent Reproduction of the International forums 3) Donna Pankhurst (Bradford) War, Sex and Violence 3) Norbert Kersting (Marburg) The quality of political discourse: Can E-discussion be deliberative? 3-10 Panel Title Local Political Leadership Convenor Francesca Gains (Manchester) 3-16 Panel Title U.S. Arms Control, Nuclear, and Strategic Defense Chair Francesca Gains (Manchester) Policies in the Second Bush Administration Convenor Jeff Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Larsen (SAIC) 1) Gerry Stoker and Stephen Greasley (Manchester) Chair Glen Segell (ISP -London) The Introduction of Mayors in English urban Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants government: Institutionalising leadership. 1) James Wirtz, (Stanford) Theory of Arms Control 2) Vivien Lowndes and Steve Leach (De Montford) 2) Jeff Larsen (SAIC) Arms Control and Nuclear Doctrine Symbiosis or Stand Off? The evolving relationship in the Second Bush Administration between chief executives and council leaders in English local government 3-17 Panel Title South East Asia 3) Helen Sullivan and David Sweeting (UWE) Convenor TBC Institutionalising leadership – ‘community leadership Chair TBC in English local government’. Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Sam Huang (Leeds) 3-11 Panel Title Democratic Theory What is next for Taiwan’s democracy? The victory of Convenor Adrian Blau (Manchester) Chen Shui-bien in the 2004 Taiwan Presidential election Chair TBC 2) Wang Yaping (Singapore) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Dependency and Efficacy: An Analysis of the Influence 1) Graham Smith (Southampton) of State Interventions on NGO’s efficacy in China Designing Democratic Innovations 3) Ngoc Nguyen (Leeds) 2) Adrian Blau (Manchester) Political Equality: The role of “ideas” in Vietnam’s policy to Cambodia Kantian and Consequentialist Perspectives in the late 1970s 3) Albert Weale (Essex) TBC 4) Mei-chuan Wei (LSE) Public culture and political development - A Taiwanese tale 3-12 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG Panel Title Postwar social democratic theorists 3-18 Panel Title Environment and Development THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Convenor TBC 2) Ben Jackson (Oxford) Chair TBC The Rhetoric of Redistribution Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Catherine Fieschi (Nottingham) 1) Fabien Tarrit (Reims) Contradictions, emotionalism and legitimation: Development and environment in Marx and in Cohen the role of populism’s syncretic function 2) Iorwerth Griffiths (Belfast) Green Politics and Nationalism 4-5 Specialist Group Panel Politics of South Asia SG 3) Philip Catney, James Meadowcroft, John Henneberry Panel Title Violence in South Asia and J.R. Eiser (Sheffield) Convenor Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) Regulating Contaminated Land in the UK Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Steven Wilkinson (Duke) 3-19 Panel Title Russian Politics Ethnic Violence as Campaign Expenditure: Convenor TBC Riots, Competition and Turnout in Gujarat 2002 Chair TBC 2) Manali Desai (Reading) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Cities and Religious Violence in India: 1) Oxana Poberejnaia (Manchester) A Comparative-Historical Perspective Independent civic education organizations in 3) Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert (Bristol) contemporary Russia: an alternative route to Killing Fields: Gender, Caste & Violence in North India democratisation 4-6 Specialist Group Panel British and Comparative Territorial 3-20 TBC Politics SG Panel Title Devolution and Public Policy in Britain SESSION 11am, 6th APRIL 2005 Convenor Jonathan Bradbury (Swansea) Chair Jonathan Bradbury (Swansea) 4-1 Specialist Group Panel Greek Politics SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title Greek Foreign and Defence Policy 1) Daniel Wincott (Birmingham) Convenor Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth) The Consequences of devolution for early childhood Chair Stella Ladi (Sheffield and Institut Barcelona education & care: difference, divergence & innovation d’Estudis Internacionals) 2) Ian Stafford (Swansea) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The impact of devolution on the policy making 1) Panos Lambridis (Athens) process: broadband and innovation policy The S-300 Missiles Crisis Revisited: 3) Andrew Davis (Nottingham) A Structural Realist Approach Devolution and the policy process in Scotland: 2) Andrew Liaropoulos (Swansea) Greek Foreign Policy education and asylum/refugee policy & Crisis (Mis)Management 3) Anna Vallianatou (Athens) 4-7 Specialist Group Panel Interpretive Politics SG The fourth Greek Presidency: a consensus Panel Title Interpreting British Politics Panel builder/mediator or a bargainer Convenor David Richards (Sheffield) Chair Dr. David Richards (Sheffield) 4-2 Specialist Group Panel British Liberal Political Studies SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title British Liberal Politics 1) David Richards and Martin J. Smith (Sheffield) Convenor Russell Deacon (Cardiff) Analysing the Competing Interpretations of Chair Lisa Harrison (UWE) Sovereignty within the Labour Party Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) R. A. W. Rhodes (ANU-Canberra) 1) Andrew Russell (Manchester) Interpreting the Blair Presidency Fighting on (at least) two fronts? The Liberal Democrats & the run-up to the 2005 general election 4-8 Specialist Group Panel Media and Politics SG 2) Russell Deacon (Cardiff) Panel Title Audiences and campaigning Liberal politics in a capital city: Liberalism in Cardiff a Convenor Heather Savigny (UEA) comparison between 1905-2005 Chair Mark Wheeler (London Met) 3) Martin Laffin (Durham) Nick Stevenson (Nottingham) The New Politics of Coalition in a Devolved Britain: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants How the Liberal Democrats Have Shaped Scottish 1) Dan Jackson (Bournemouth) and Welsh Public Policy Back into the Malaise? The effects of strategic news frames on voter cynicism and issue evaluation 4-3 Specialist Group Panel Environmental Politics SG Panel 2) James Stanyer (Leicester) Title Rural Politics and the Environment Strategic Communication and Mediated Visibility: Convenor David Toke (Birmingham) Governments, the permanent campaign and News Chair David Marsh (Birmingham) Media in Two Advanced Industrial democracies Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Scott Davidson (Loughborough) 1) David Toke (Birmingham) Environmental subsidies A Demographic Timebomb? The Politics of ageism in for farmers – A case of agenda setting? the British media 2) Sean McGough (Birmingham) The Politics of the Countryside Alliance 4-9 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG Panel Title Understanding Italian politics: 4-4 Specialist Group Panel Political Ideologies SG continuity or change? 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Party conflict over European integration in Italy: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants A new dimension of party competition? 1) Sam Kuruvilla (Exeter) The Politics of Mainstream Christianity in Jerusalem. 4-10 Specialist Group Panel EPOP SG 2) Tanel Demirel (Cankaya-Turkey) Panel Title Elite politics Democracy In A Muslim Country: What The Turkish Convenor Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck Experience Tells Us About _slam And Democracy? Chair Sarah Childs (Bristol) 3) Seda Kartal (Illinois) Ethnic Attachments among Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Turkey’s Kurds in the Urban Provinces 1) Mark Stuart (Nottingham) 4) Sara Silvestri (Cambridge) Parliamentary Labour Party minutes, 1992-1994 The dynamic of Muslim mobilisation in Europe 2) Hugh Bochel & Andrew Defty (Lincoln) Public & Parliamentary Attitudes to Welfare 4-18 Panel Title Citizenship and Participation 3) Nicholas Hillman (ABI) Hilda’s Cabinet Band:- Convenor TBC Songs inspired by Margaret Thatcher Chair TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 4-11 TBC 1) Hugo Manson (Aberdeen) First-Time Voters' Perceptions Of The Self As Citizen 4-12 Specialist Group Panel Development Politics SG 2) Michael Lister (Birmingham) Panel Title Global governance and emerging markets Inequality, Social Policy and Turnout: Convenor Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) The Institutional Foundations of Citizen Participation Chair Heather Marquette (Birmingham) 3) Chloe Taylor (Birmingham) An ‘Age of Apathy’? Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Understanding Political Participation as an Everyday Act 1) Amrita Narlikar (Cambridge) 4) Joseph Angolano (LSE) The ‘Standards’ of Good Emerging powers in international regimes: Participation: Opinions and Judgments Brazil and India in the WTO 2) Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) 4-19 Panel Title Utopia and the Law The IMF and middle-income countries after reform Convenor TBC Chair TBC 4-13 Panel Title Bevir on New Labour: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Author Meets Critics Session 1) Carissa Honeywell (Sheffield) Convenor Stuart Mcanulla (Leeds) Modern Anarchism and the Utopian Tradition Chair TBC 2) Mark Olssen (Surrey) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 'The Politics of Utopia and the Liberal Theory of 1) Mark Bevir (Berkeley) Totalitarianism New Labour: A Critique 3) Thom Brooks (Newcastle) 2) Stuart McAnulla (Leeds) New Labour, old Relating Principles And The Law epistemology? An alternative analysis of the links between empiricism, institutionalism & the ‘Third Way’ 4-20 TBC 3) Peter Kerr (Birmingham) Understanding institutional and ideational change: SESSION 2.30pm, 6th APRIL 2005 Evolutionary versus interpretive explanations of New Labour 5-1 Panel Title Greek Democracy at Thirty Convenor George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton) 4-14 Panel Title Feminisms and Political Theory Chair George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton Convenor Ana Jordan (Bristol) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Chair Jutta Weldes (Bristol) 1) George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Political Leadership in post-1974 Greece 1) Marina Falbo (Bristol) Young’s Communicative 2) Spyros Sofos (Kingston) Democracy: a flawed attempt to secure political inclusion Populism as a feature of the Greek political landscape 2) Ana Jordan (Bristol) 1974-2004 Epistemologies, Feminisms, and Ethics of Care 3) Michalis Spourdalakis (University of Athens) From Partitocratia to Post-party Democracy 4-15 Panel Title Gendered Representations of the International Convenor Judit Squires (Bristol) 5-2 Specialist Group Panel Media and Politics SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title New Media 1) Jutta Weldes (Bristol) Convenor Heather Savigny (UEA) Sex tourism, dark tourism, and the gendered Chair Valentina Cardo (UEA) representation of the international Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Christina Rowley (Bristol) 1) Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth) Democratic Gender and the Vietnam Syndrome in Forrest Gump Engagement and Media Uses Amongst the Internet Discussant: Terrell Carver generation 2) Scott Wright (UEA) ‘Moderating Censorship? 4-16 Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: Government-run online discussion forums The Experience of Constitutional Change in the UK 3) Archie Simpson (Aberdeen) & Gavin Smith (Aberdeen) Convenor Matthew Flinders (Sheffield) ‘Selling surveillance’: a consideration of the acceptance Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants of, and reasons for, surveillance creep in the UK Lord Norton of Louth (Hull) Robert Hazell, (London) 5-3 Specialist Group Panel Security and Intelligence SG Panel Andrew Le Sueur, (Birmingham) Title Intelligence and Proliferation: Problems and Options 4-17 Panel Title Religion and Democracy Convenor Philip Davies (Brunel) Convenor TBC Chair Philip Davies (Brunel) Chair TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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1) Philip Davies (Brunel) Panel Title Participation Intelligence Failure on Proliferation: Convenor Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) the Politics of Blame in Britain and the United States Chair Andrew Russell (Manchester) 2) Rob Dover (Bristol) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The role of intelligence in UK arms exports licensing 1) Henry Milner (Umea) Youth Turnout 3) Mark Phythian (Wolverhampton) 2) Jansev Jemal (Essex)Can Constituent-MP Relations Intelligence and the Illicit Arms Trade Help an MP’s Chance of Re-election? 4) Anthony Glees (Brunel) Out of Their Depth? 3) Edward Fieldhouse and David Cutts (Manchester) Intelligence, Proliferation and Public Relations Voter registration and its implications for estimates of turnout at the 2001 General Election 5-4 Specialist Group Panel Politics of South Asia SG 4) Dennis Davis, Kurt Kent, Phil Harris, Mathew Parackal Panel Title Politics in Pakistan and Chris Rudd (Otago) Convenor Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) Political (Dis)Engagement in New Zealand Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Saleem Khan (London Met) 5-10 TBC Intra-Sunni Conflict in Pakistan 2) Shabana Fayaz (Birmingham) 5-11 Specialist Group Panel Political Thought SG The Question of Madrassa Reform in Pakistan Panel Title Comparative Political Thought: 3) Farhan Siddiqui (LSE) Time And Place In Political Theorising Ethnic Conflict and Religious Violence in Pakistan: Convenor Georgios Varouxakis (Aston) The Baluchistan Province after September 11 Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Antony Black (Dundee) 5-5 Specialist Group Panel British and Comparative Political Thought in ancient Egypt, India, China and Territorial Politics SG Greece: some findings of comparative study Panel Title British territorial politics and political movements 2) Constantin Davidescu. Free aristocracy and peaceful Convenor Jonathan Bradbury (Swansea) transition to democracy.- Bringing England at the core Chair Nicola McEwen (Edinburgh) of the Tocquevillean explanation Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Emmanuelle Dechamps (Paris) Jeremy Bentham and 1) Ailsa Henderson (Wilfrid Laurier) Regional political the ambiguities of constitutional reform cultures in the UK 2) Carwyn Fowler and Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth) 5-12 Specialist Group Panel Environmental Politics SG Panel The rise and decline of an ethnic nationalist episode Title Green Political Economy in Wales: the case of the Cymuned pressure group Convenor Graham Smith, (Southampton) Chair Derek Bell (Newcastle) 5-6 Specialist Group Panel Interpretive Politics SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title 2) What (If Anything) Can Ideas Explain? 1) John Barry (Queen’s,Belfast) Models of Green Political Convenor David Richards (Sheffield) Economy: Innovation, the Market and Quality of Life Chair Gerry Stoker (Manchester) 2) Tim Hayward (Edinburgh) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Ecological Debt and Global Political Economy 1) Alan Finlayson (Swansea) 3) Graham Smith (Southampton) Rhetorical Theory and Interpretive Political Analysis The Social Economy and Green Political Economy 2) Stuart McAnulla (Leeds) Now and Then: Conceptualising the Impact of 5-13 Panel Title Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging in Europe Tradition on Contemporary British politics Convenor James Hampshire (Sussex) Discussant: Professor Colin Hay (Birmingham) Chair Randall Hansen, (Newcastle) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 5-7 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG 1) Simon Green, (Birmingham) Between ideology and Panel Title Italian Party Politics: pragmatism: the politics of dual nationality in Germany Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives 2) James Hampshire (Sussex) Convenor Felia Allum (Bath) Citizens who do not belong’: Chair Kamilah Khatib (LSE) Institutions & ideas in British immigration policy-making Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Pontus Odmalm, (Sussex) 1) Kamilah Khatib (LSE) Who gets what and where? The politics of citizenship and belonging in Sweden Bargaining games in Italian electoral alliances 2) Matthew Goodwin (Bath) 5-14 Panel Title Distributive Justice: Problematizing Central All Change on the Extreme-Right? Italian Right Wing Concepts Extremism in the Twenty-First Century Convenor Faith Armitage (LSE) 3) Eva Garau (Bath) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The Catholic Church and political parties in the Italian 1) Carina Fourie (UCL) debate on identity and freedom of speech Beyond the Institutional: Defending Individual Discussant: Mark Donovan (Cardiff) Measures for Achieving Social Justice 2) Kathy King (LSE) Distributive Justice and Constitutive 5-8 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG Luck: Taking Responsibility for our Genetics Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: Why we need rational choice 3) Faith Armitage (LSE) theory to understand the Labour party Individual Responsibility in Egalitarian Justice Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) Chair Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) 5-15 Panel Title The Political Economy of New Labour: Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants An End of Second Term Report Andrew Hindmoor (Exeter) Convenor Simon Lee (Hull) Thomas Quinn (Essex) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Heather Savigny (UEA) 1) Simon Lee (Hull) Gordon Brown, the British Model of Political Economy, and the British Way of Politics 5-9 Specialist Group Panel EPOP SG 2) Maurice Mullard (Centre for Applied Social Sciences) THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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and Dr Raymond Swaray (Hull) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Does Politics Make A Difference? 1) Steven Van Hecke (Leuven) Europeanisation & Christian Thatcher, Blair and The Politics of Public Expenditure Democratic Parties. Exploring a Complex Relationship 3) Sebastian Glazer (Hull) 2) Fraser Duncan (Glasgow) Modernisation Through Public-Private Partnerships: Party change and external shocks: the predicament of The London Underground PPP the Dutch Christian Democrats in opposition 1994-2002 Discussant: Brian Girvin (Glasgow) 5-16 Panel Title Prime Ministers Convenor Kevin Theakston (Leeds) 6-2 Specialist Group Panel Political Marketing SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: 1) Kevin Theakston (Leeds) and Mark Gill (MORI) Political marketing and the UK Election Survey Rankings of PMs Convenor Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Keele) 2) Richard Heffernan (Open) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants PMs and Chancellors of the Exchequer Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Keele) 3) Peter Lynch (Sterling) Scottish and Welsh First Declan Bannon (Paisley) Ministers compared to British PMs Ivor Gaber (Goldsmiths) Darren Lilleker (Bournmouth) 5-17 Panel Title Globalisation, Europeanisation and State Capacity? Jenny Lloyd (UWE) the Case of Agriculture Mick Temple (Staffordshire) Convenor Alan Greer (UWE) Chair Wyn Grant (Warwick) 6-3 Specialist Group Panel Environmental Politics SG Panel Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Title Global Justice and the Environment 1) Carsten Daugbjerg (Aarhus) and Alan Swinbank Convenor Simon Caney (Birmingham) (Reading) Trade negotiations, institutional settings, Chair Derek Bell (Newcastle) blame avoidance and reform of EU agricultural policy Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Alan Greer (UWE) 1) Tim Hayward (Edinburgh) How common is agricultural policy in Europe? Global Justice & the Distribution of Natural Resources 3) Darren Halpin (Robert Gordon) Europeanisation 2) Simon Caney (Birmingham) beyond Europe: The Europeanisation of Australian Cosmopolitan Justice and the Environment Agricultural Policy? 3) Edward Page (Birmingham) The Convergence Argument for Environmental Justice 5-18 Panel Title International Relations Convenor TBC 6-4 Specialist Group Panel Politics of South Asia SG Chair TBC Panel Title Internal Security in South Asia Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Convenor Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) Kurt Mills (Glasgow) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Constraints on U.S. International Behavior? 1) David Seddon (UEA) The Maoist insurgency in Nepal: Analyzing the Norms/Interest Divide from stalemate to strategic offensive 2) Marjo Koivisto (LSE) ‘Ethical’ State Agency in the 2) Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) Context of Contemporary International Political Theory Federal Design in Afghanistan - lessons from South Asia? 3) Saban Kardas (Utah) 3) Prita Jha (Manchester) Humanitarian Intervention as a ‘Responsibility to Best Bakery: the struggle to define the anti-national Protect’: An International Society Approach 6-5 Specialist Group Panel Greek Politics SG 5-19 Panel Title Politics in Italy Panel Title The Evolution of the Greek State Convenor TBC Convenor Maria Zisouli (AUEB) Chair TBC Chair Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Simona Milio and Marco Simoni (LSE) 1) Konstantinos Maragakis (Athens), Greek Economic Scrutinizing Partnership: The Weight of Civil Society Interests and the SEA: The Market Takes Over? in Italian Territorial Employment Pacts 2) Stella Ladi (Sheffield and Institut Barcelona d’Estudis 2) Simona Milio (LSE) Internacionals) The Role of Experts in the Reform What Capacity for implementing Structural Funds? Process in Greece Evidence from the Italian Objective 1 regions 3) Marina Petrelli (Athens) 3) Ludovica Marchi (Reading) Greece’s stance in the Convention negotiations EPC Counter-Terrorist Considerations Shaping Italy's for the ESDP Foreign Policy 4) Dimitris Tsarouhas (Sheffield) Explaining the activist military: Greece until 1975. 5-20 Specialist Group Panel Liberal Politics SG Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: General Election 2005: 6-6 Specialist Group Panel Media and Politics SG When Liberal Democrats gain power can they keep it? Panel Title Politics and TV Convenor Russell Deacon (Cardiff) Convenor Heather Savigny (UEA) Chair Russell Deacon (Cardiff) Chair Heather Savigny (UEA) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Cllr Mark Harris (Leader of Leeds City Council) 1) Valentina Cardo (UEA) ‘Towards a new citizenship? Cllr Howard Sykes (Chief Strategist for the Association of A politics of reality TV’ Liberal Democrat Councillors) 2) Michael Higgins (Sunderland) Simon Henig (Sunderland) The political interrogator as media celebrity Liberal Democrat MP or MEP TBC 3) Michael Temple (Staffordshire) Multi-dimensional public spheres: in praise of dumbing down SESSION 4.30pm, 6th APRIL 2005 6-7 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG 6-1 Panel Title Christian Democracy in Western Europe Panel Title Local Government and Governance during the Convenor Fraser Duncan (Glasgow) Italian transition Chair Martin Steven (Glasgow) THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Convenor Felia Allum (Bath) (Coventry) Teaching Politics and International Chair Duncan McDonnel (York) Relations: A Survey of Practices in UK Universities Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Jon Cope (Birmingham) 1) Eleonora Pasotti (California, Santa Cruz) The Spark of Learning and Teaching Theory for Critical Citizenship Devolution: the national challenge of the party of mayors 2) Gianfranco Baldini (Salerno) 6-13 Panel Title Religion, Ethnicity and Political Participation The direct election of mayors: an assessment of a Convenor Parveen Akhtar (Birmingham) decade of a successful institutional reform. Chair Chloe Taylor (Birmingham) 3) Simon Parker (York) Devolution from Below? Italian Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants regions and the reterritorialisation of politics in the 1) Peter Hopkins (Edinburgh) Second Republic Global Events, National Politics, Local Lives: 4) Lucio Iccarino (Napoli) Regenerating the city: Young Muslim Men In Scotland coalitions, strategies and unexpected outcomes 2) Parveen Akhtar (Birmingham) Discussant: Paul Furlong (Cardiff) Explaining Muslim Political Participation: What’s Context Got To Do With It? 6-8 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG 3) Therese O’Toole and Richard Gale (Birmingham) Panel Title Social Democracy and Globalisation Politically (In)Different? Black and Minority Ethnic Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) Young People’s Political Participation Chair Ben Clift (Warwick) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 6-14 Panel Title The Politics Of Competency, Peace And Violence 1) Gerry Strange (Lincoln) On The Query Of Democracy And The Crisis Of Contemporary Coming to terms with Globalisation: British Trade Challenges In The Global Polity Unions, Economic Modernisation and Democracy Convenor Appia Ebiri (Benin) 2) Ben Clift (Warwick) and Jim Tomlinson (Dundee) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Fiscal policy and capital mobility 1) Florence O.Henry (Ambrose Alli) 3) Carwyn Fowler (Aberystwyth) Labour and the new Democracy As A Single Alternative In Contemporary regionalism Global Politics: A Critical Discourse 2) Appia Ebiri (Benin) 6-9 Specialist Group Panel French Politics and Policy SG Panel Democracy And The Dialectics Of Violence In The Title Developments in French Politics Global Space: A Discourse Convenor Alistair Cole (Cardiff) Chair Robert Elgie (Dublin) 6-15 Panel Title Democracy, War and The Left Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Convenor Giuseppe Tassone (Calabria) 1) Alistair Cole (Cardiff) Chair Maria Dimova Cookson (Sheffield) Developments in 21st Century French Politics Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Patrick Le Gales (Paris) Reshaping the state? 1) Giuseppe Tassone (Calabria) Administrative and decentralisation reforms in France Democracy and the Left 3) Jocelyn Evans (Salford) 2) Phil Ross (Leeds) Electorates, new cleavages, social structures Liberty, Equality, Democracy and the Left 4) John Keiger (Salford) 3) Paul Blackledge (Leeds Met) Foreign and Defence Policy: Constraints and Continuity Democratic Centralism and the Left

6-10 Specialist Group Panel Development Politics SG 6-16 Panel Title Political Theory and Modernity Panel Title Governance and the World Bank Convenor Richard North (Birmingham) Convenor Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) Chair Richard Shorten (Oxford Chair Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Steve Buckler (Birmingham) 1) Heather Marquette (Birmingham) The ‘New’ Politics of Thinking and Politics in a Post-Traditional Age Development? The World Bank’s Contribution to the 2) Richard North (Birmingham) Discourse Political Theory and Utopia 2) David Williams (Oxford) Title TBC 3) Peter Lassman (Birmingham) 3) M Vijayabaskar and Andrew Wyatt (Bristol) The Nature of Political Theory The World Bank and the Governance of Development in India 6-17 Panel Title Media, Terrorism and Propaganda Convenor TBC 6-11 Panel Title The EU - A Normative Power? Chair TBC Convenor Thomas Diez (Birmingham) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Chair Neil Winn (Leeds) 1) Lee Jarvis (Birmingham) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Terrorism, Orientalism and Otherness 1) Thomas Diez (Birmingham) Problematising the 2) Emma Briant (Glasgow Caledonian) concept of ‘normative power Europe’ Propaganda During the War in Afghanistan 2) Ian Manners (Malmo) 3) Rasha-el-Ibiary (Newcastle) The European Union as a Normative Power in the Television Coverage of the War on Terror: Global Polity Comparative Analysis between Al-Jazeera and CNN Discussant: Geoffrey Edwards (Cambridge) in covering the US-led War against Iraq 2003 4) Christina Archetti (Leeds) 6-12 Panel Title Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Information Management and the Media: Relations Comparing International Press Coverage of 9/11. Convenor Penny Welch (Wolverhampton) Chair Penny Welch (Wolverhampton) 6-18 Specialist Group Panel Art and Politics SG Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Panel Title Art and Politics 2 1) Stephen Thornton (Cardiff) Convenor Alex Danchev (Nottingham) Information Literacy and Politics 2) Alasdair Blair, Adrian Bromage and Steven Curtis THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Chair Alex Danchev (Nottingham) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 7-5 Specialist Group Panel Political Thought SG 1) Jay Prosser (Leeds) I-Witnessing: Trauma/History in Panel Title Richard Rorty And Multiculturalism Lorrie Novak's REVERB Convenor Georgios Varouxakis (Aston) Authors/ 2) Debbie Lisle (Belfast): Exhibiting Conflict Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Anastasia Veneti and Ira Papadopoulou (Athens) 1) Michael Bacon (UCL) Committed art and propaganda Richard Rorty’s critique of multiculturalism 2) Gideon Calder (Newport) 6-19 Panel Title Issues in Ireland Compared Strategies of Pragmatism: Convenor TBC Can Rorty Resolve the Multicultural Dilemma? Chair TBC 3) Simon Thompson (UWE) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The Recognition of Cultures or the Elimination 1) Jari Riiheläinen (Birmingham) of Prejudices? The development of welfare state and social citizenship in Ireland and Finland: some foundations 7-6 Specialist Group Panel Politics of South Asia SG for the legitimacy debate surrounding EMU Panel Title Identities in South Asia 2) Kate Nicholls (Notre Dame) Family policy in Greece, Convenor Katharine Adeney (Sheffield) Authors/ Ireland and Portugal: The impact of regime change Paper Titles/ Discussants and transformation on state activity 1) Eva-Maria Nag (LSE) 3) Iorwerth Griffiths and Alison Mawhinney (Belfast) Being Left-Doing Identity Politics? A human rights vacuum? Giddens, globalisation and Democracy and its dilemmas international human rights law. 2) Nageela Yusuf (SOAS) Defining the ‘Self’ in Kashmiri Self-determination 6-20 TBC 3) Rochana Bajpai (Balliol,Oxford) The Legitimating Vocabulary of Group Rights in India SESSION 9am, 7th APRIL 2005 7-1 Specialist Group Panel Hansard Society 7-7 Specialist Group Panel Greek Politics SG Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: Compulsory Voting: Panel Title Political Parties, Civic Participation and Political A Fair Solution to Disengagement? Expression in Greece Convenor Philip Parvin (Hansard) Convenor Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth) Chair Philip Parvin (Hansard) Chair Stella Ladi (Sheffield and Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Internacionals) Mark Gill ( MORI) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants David Butler (Nuffield,Oxford) 1) Dora Giannaki (Queen Mary,London) The new political discourse of the Greek socialist party: 7-2 Specialist Group Panel German Politics SG the idea of associative democracy Panel Title Visions of Germany’s Role in the World 2) Nikolaos Bilios (Athens) Convenor Peter Stirk (Durham) Renewing Social Democracy in Greece: Chair Ruth Wittlinger (Durham) Analysing PASOK’s modernization paradigm Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) Eleni Apospori, Maria Zisouli and George Avlonitis 1) Peter Stirk, (Durham) (Athens) Communication, civic participation and The Rhetoric and the Reality of the ‘Great Power’ voting criteria in Greece 2) Christian Schweiger (Trinity Dublin) The Impact of the Decline of the Modell Deutschland 7-8 Specialist Group Panel Interpretive Politics SG on Germany’s Standing in Europe Panel Title Ethnography in Policing Studies 3) Gerd Strohmeier (Germany) Convenor Jenny Fleming (ANU –Canberra) German Visions of the European Union – Looking at Chair Adam Crawford (Leeds) Europe from a National Point of View Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Annette Davies (Cardiff Business School) 7-3 Specialist Group Panel Development Politics SG An Ethnographic Study of Change in the UK Police Panel Title ROUNDTABLE: Imagined Economies of 2) Jenny Fleming (ANU–Canberra) Globalization Partnership Policing and the Challenge of Networks Convenor Andrew Wyatt (Bristol) 3) Alison Wakefield (City) Chair Andrew Wyatt (Bristol) Ethnography in Private Policing Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Angus Cameron (Leicester) 7-9 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG Juanita Elias (Manchester) Panel Title Italy: A Populist Paradise? 1 Jutta Weldes (Bristol) Convenor Daniele Albertazzi (Birmingham) and Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews) Duncan McDonnell (York) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 7-4 Specialist Group Panel Political Marketing SG 1) Daniele Albertazzi (Birmingham) Panel Title Non-UK party marketing Addressing ‘the People’: A Comparison between Convenor Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Keele) the Italian Lega Nord’s and the Swiss Lega dei Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Ticinesi’s styles of political propaganda. 1) Norman Peng and Chris Hackley (Royal Holloway: 2) Duncan McDonnell (York) London) Can Image Advertising be Decisive in Political Grassroots populism? Subnational leaders in Italy Campaigns? A case exploration of the Taiwanese 1993-2004 presidential elections of 2000 3) Alfio Mastropaolo (Torino) 2) Matthew J. Goodwin (Bath) A Populist paradise? Not the only one Marketing the Dark Side of Europe: Political Marketing and Extreme Right Parties 7-10 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG 3) Declan Bannon (Paisley) Panel Title ROUNDTABLE (AND BOOK LAUNCH) Internal Marketing and Political Marketing THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Political Economy and New Labour: A discussion of David 2) Carlos Bruen (LSE) and Jurgen De Wispelaere (Dublin) Coates’ Prolonged Labour The Strategic Use of Argument: The Realization of the Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) Public Smoking Ban in the Republic of Ireland Chair John Callaghan, (Wolverhampton) 3) Paul Cairney (Aberdeen) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Using Devolution to Set the Agenda: Colin Hay (Birmingham) the Smoking Ban in Scotland Richard Heffernan (Open) Discussant: Lindsay Stirton (UEA) John Callaghan (Wolverhampton) Eric Shaw (Stirling) 7-16 Panel Title Politics and Identity in Scotland Respondent: David Coates (Wake Forest) Convenor Murray Stewart-Leith (Glasgow) Chair Craig Smith (Glasgow) 7-11 Panel Title Elections: The Devil is in the Detail Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Convenor Theresa Reidy (Cork) 1) Murray Stewart-Leith (Glasgow) Chair Neil Collins (Cork) Political Representations of National Identity in Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Scotland during the latter 20th Century 1) Clodagh Harris (Democracy Commission) 2) Martin Steven (Glasgow) Election 2004, An Analysis of Invalid Ballot Papers National and religious identities in devolved Scotland: 2) Neil Collins, Fiona Buckley and Theresa Reidy (Cork) the SNP and the Catholic vote Beauty Contest: The Impact of Ballot Paper 3) Hartwig Pautz (Glasgow Caledonian) Photographs on Voting Behaviour The Landscape of Think-Tanks in Scotland – 3) Patrick Butler, (Melbourne) The Marketing of the A Multiple Case Study Mechanics of Elections Discussant: Carwyn Fowler (Aberystwyth)

7-12 Panel Title Latin America 1: Exploring the spaces of 7-17 Panel Title European Civil Society civil society in Latin America: populist, liberal or something Convenor TBC ‘other’? Chair TBC Convenor Sara Motta (LSE) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Chair Julie Hearn, (SOAS) 1) Nick Walmsley (Sussex) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants The Making of European Civil Society : 1) Marcelo I. Saguier (Warwick) Considering institutional intervention and its effects Convergence in the Making: Transnational Civil 2) Emily Pia (Birmingham) Society and the Free Trade Area of the Americas European Social Forum and radical responses on 2) Romina Miorelli (LSE) European citizenship The identity of Argentinean civil society 3) Chen-Yu Huang (Manchester) The Paradox of the 3) Sara Motta (LSE) Conceptualisation of Europeanisation Popular social movements in Argentina and Brazil: Globalisation in the making or made by globalisation? 7-18 Panel Title Public Policy Convenor TBC 7-13 Panel Title Judith Butler: Doing political theory? Chair TBC Convenor Laura Brace (Leicester) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) James Sloam (King’s College) 1) Kimberly Hutchings (LSE) Policy Learning & the Third Way in Britain & Germany Hegel and Butler on universality, ethics and the 2) Matthew Evans (Ben-Gurion) Institutional Frameworks difficult labour of translation as a Determinant for Policy Tools 2) Moya Lloyd (Queen Mary) Butler and political theory: from norms to politics 7-19 Panel Title Comparative Politics 3) Laura Brace (Leicester) Convenor TBC Decent Display and Durable Solidity: Rousseau, Chair TBC gender and Judith Butler Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Rae Wear (Queensland) 7-14 Panel Title Debates about EU security doctrines and the EU’s The extreme right in Britain and Australia role in crisis management post 9/11t shaping of a New Global 2) Robert Elgie (Dublin) and John Stapleton (Limerick) Security Order? Testing the decline of parliament thesis: Convenor Giovanna Bono (Brussels) The parliamentary activity of the head of government Chair Karen Abi-Ezzi (Bradford) in Ireland, 1923-2002 Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 3) José M. Magone (Hull) 1) Jocelyn Mawdsley (Manchester) Political Change In European Consensus Democracies: Operationalising the European Security Strategy: The Role Of The European Union A Clash of Security Cultures? 2) Giovanna Bono (Brussels) 7-20 Specialist Group Panel Media and Politics SG EU Doctrinal debates and rethinking the EU-UN Panel Title International relationship in crisis management Convenor Heather Savigny (UEA) 3) David Chandler (Westminster) Chair Dominic Wring (Loughborough) Challenging the Human Security Consensus Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Derek Hutcheson (Glasgow) 'We Have Ways of 7-15 Panel Title Ban That Filth? The Politics of Anti-Smoking in Making you Think?': Politics and the Mass Media in Ireland and the UK the Russian Regions’ Convenor Jurgen De Wispelaere (Dublin) 2) Angeliki Kosmopoulou &Athanassios N. Samaras Chair Martin Lodge (LSE) (Mediterranean Studies Foundation) Communication Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants styles & strategies of candidate members of parliament 1) Mel Read (Queen’s) 3) Maria Touri (Leeds) The Media in Political-Decision Anti-Smoking policy in the UK: A matter of Political Will? Making: an Active Player THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Discussant: Karl Cordell (Plymouth) SESSION 11am, 7th APRIL 2005 8-7 Specialist Group Panel Italian Politics SG 8-1 Panel Title The American Presidency: Presidential Power Panel Title Italy: A Populist Paradise? 2 Revisited Convenor Daniele Albertazzi (Birmingham) Convenor David Houghton (Florida) Chair Duncan McDonnell (York) Chair David McKay (Essex) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Gianfranco Pasquino (Bologna) 1) David Houghton (Florida) Populism and Democracy ‘Living With The Elephant’: 2) Carl Levy (Goldsmiths) The Postmodern Presidency Reassessed ‘There is something nasty in the woodshed’. The Far 2) Alex Waddan, (Sunderland) and. Daniel Beland Right and Conservatives in Consensual and (Calgary) The Social Policies Presidents Make: Consociational Democracies (Scandinavia, the Low Pre-Emptive Leadership Under Nixon and Clinton Countries and Central Europe) and the Italian Model 3) Andrew Wroe (Kent) Discussant: Paul Taggart, Sussex European Institute George W. Bush: The Great Communicator 8-8 Specialist Group Panel EPOP SG 8-2 Panel Title The Nolan Report: Ten Years On Panel Title Women and Politics SG and EPOP SG Convenor Robert Kaye (LSE) Convenor Sarah Childs (Bristol) and Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) 1) Robert Kaye (LSE) Chair Lisa Harrison (UWE) Bribery, Conflict of Interest and Corruption Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 2) Matthew Flinders (M. R. Denton to present) (Sheffield) 1) Karen Bird (Essex) MPs and Icebergs Does it really matter if men dominate politics? 3) Nick Allan (Essex) Feminist claims, empirical evidence and representations The evolution of the office of the Parliamentary of ‘women’ in the British House of Commons Commissioner for Standards: watchdog, sleaze-buster 2) Sarah Childs (Bristol), Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) and or pussycat? Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck) Discussant: Alan Doig (Teeside) and TBC Delivering Diversity? Parliamentary selections for the 2005 General Election 8-3 Specialist Group Panel Political Activism SG 3) Roger Mortimore? (Mori) Panel Title Democracies and Violence Women's political attitudes in Britain since 2001 Convenor Anna Stavrianakis (Bristol) Discussant: Lisa Harrison (UWE) Chair Christina Rowley (Bristol) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 8-9 Specialist Group Panel Labour Movements SG 1) Daniele Ganser (FIT,Zurich) Panel Title Where is New Labour going to? Was NATO linked to Terrorism? Convenor Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol) An approach to the Stay-Behind debate Chair Will Leggett, (Birmingham) 2) Anna Stavrianakis (Bristol) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Labour and Arms: A Close Embrace 1) Stefano Fella (Trento) Discussant: Jutta Weldes (Bristol) New Labour, Same old Britain?: the Blair government, European treaty reform and the constitution. 8-4 Specialist Group Panel Greek Politics SG 2) Alan Finlayson (Swansea) Panel Title Greek Politics and Political Marketing Panel Third Way theory and social policy: Convenor Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth) a rhetorical analysis of a political argument Chair Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth) 3) William Leggett (Birmingham) Constructing political Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Subjects for a centre-left hegemony 1) Iordanis Kotzaivazoglou, Theodoros Oikonomou (Thessaloniki) The Americanization of Greek Politics: 8-10 Panel Title New Perspectives on Budgetary Politics The Case of the 2004 General Election Convenor Joachim Wehner (LSE) 2) Athanassios N. Samaras (Mediterranean Studies) Chair Martin Lodge (LSE) Political Marketing, Partytocracy and the Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Transformations of the Greek Political 1) Achim Hildebrandt (Stuttgart) Communication System Fiscal Pathologies of Federalism? 3) Eleni Apospori, Maria Zisouli, George Avlonitis (Athens) Explaining Subnational Debt Levels in Germany Political Marketing and Voting Behaviour in Greece 2) Elena Bechberger (LSE) Regaining Control over the Social Budget: 8-5 TBC Welfare Reforms in Corporatist-Continental Europe 3) Joachim Wehner (LSE) 8-6 Specialist Group Panel Ethnopolitics SG For Better or for Worse? Legislative Impacts on Panel Title Ethnopolitics in Europe Budgetary Governance Convenor Stefan Wolff (Bath) Discussant: Patrick Dunleavy (LSE) Chair Karl Cordell (Plymouth) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 8-11 Panel Title Latin America 2: Actors, institutions, and 1) Stefan Wolff (Bath) ideas in the making of public policy in Latin America Territorial Autonomy Regimes in Europe Convenor Sara Motta (LSE) 2) Daniele Conversi (LSE) Chair George Philip (LSE) The 'War on terror' and Its Impact on Spain's Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Nationalities Question 1) Maria Pia Riggirozzi (Warwick) The World Bank as 3) Nina Caspersen (LSE) 'Norm-Broker': Knowledge, Lending and Networks Ethnic parties and conflict escalation: Ethnification of in the Construction of Judicial Reform political competition in pre-war Croatia and Bosnia and and Anti-Corruption Programmes in Argentina its effect on the radicalisation of politics THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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2) Juan Pardinas (LSE) 3) Fotis Moustakis (Dartmouth) Democracy without accountability in Mexico Obstacles Towards Effective Implementation of a 3) Silke Lechner (LSE) European Security Community in Post Conflict The politics of tax reform: Institutional and extra Southern Balkans: The case of Bosnia and Kosovo institutional policymaking in Ecuador and Bolivia 8-17 Panel Title EU Trade and Fiscal Policy 8-12 Panel Title Critical Approaches to Conflict Resolution Convenor TBC Convenor Karen Abi-Ezzi (Bradford) Chair TBC Chair Giovanna Bono (Brussels) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Jani Kaarlejärvi (Sheffield) 1) Karen Abi-Ezzi (Bradford) Three ‘Loading’ Dimensions of Europeanisation - Re-thinking mediation: linkages between From downloading via uploading to reuploading in epistemology, assumptions and actions European fiscal policy coordination 2) Deiniol Jones (Leeds) 2) Rafael Leal-Arcas (Florence) Talks about Talks: Communicative Action in System Doha Negotiations on Services Trade: Implications for and Lifeworld the EC, Consequences of the Nice Treaty Reform and 3) Jevgenia Viktorova (St. Andrews) the Constitutional Treaty The transformation of violence in the contemporary 3) Edward Lai (Staffordshire) violent conflict, and the strategies of liberal peace An Interactive Economic Approach to Regional and war Integration of the European Union: Forming Advocacy Coalitions and Emergent Policy Frames 8-13 Panel Title Conceptualising Change in Political Analysis Convenor Stephen Bates (Birmingham) 8-18 Panel Title Rawls and Political Thought Chair Peter Kerr (Birmingham) Convenor TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Chair TBC 1) Stephen Bates and Nicola Smith, (Birmingham) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Bringing Temporal and Spatial Disaggregation into 1) Kerstin Budde (Cardiff) Rawls on Kant: Evolutionary Theory Is Rawls a Kantian or Kant a ‘Rawlsian’? 2) David Marsh (Birmingham) 2) Hamid Hadji Haidar (Essex) Rawls and Liberty Principle: The Future for Historical Institutionalism: A critical analysis of the development of Rawls’s first Beyond Recourse to Path Dependency principle of justice as fairness Discussant: Ian Bruff (Leeds) 3) Mihaela Georgieva (Manchester) Re-examining Rawls’s Political Constructivist Approach 8-14 Panel Title Is Devolution Dynamic? Devolution and Changes in to the Justification of Principles of Justice UK Territorial Politics Convenor Scott Greer (London) 8-19 Panel Title Egalitarian Society and Democracy Chair Charlie Jeffery (Edinbugh) Convenor TBC Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Chair TBC 1) Scott Greer (London) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants Dynamics of divergence: Trajectories of health policy 1) Chris Armstrong (Belfast) after devolution Debating Opportunities, 2) Guy Lodge (IPPR) Outcomes and Democracy: An event, not a process?: The failure of the ‘Centre’ Young and Phillips on Equality to respond to devolution 2) Ganesh Nathan (Cardiff) Critique of Liberalism for 3) Alan Trench (London) Social Freedom in a Multicultural State Washing dirty linen in private: disputes and the mechanisms of intergovernmental relations in the 8-20 TBC UK after devolution

8-15 Panel Title Identity: Issues of clarification and classification Convenor Murray Stewart Leith (Glasgow) Chair Murray Stewart Leith (Glasgow) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Carwyn Fowler (Aberystwyth) A typology of nationalism in Welsh language folk and rock music 2) Natalie Bormann (Manchester) Space and relations of domination – Questions of identity in the American exploration of the ‘final frontier’ Discussant: Thomas Diez (Birmingham)

8-16 Panel Title Theory and Doctrine in the Evolving Security Environment Convenor Michael Sheehan (Swansea) Chair Michael Sheehan (Swansea) Authors/Paper Titles/ Discussants 1) Andrew Liaropoulos, (Swansea) Transformation of Warfare: The need for a holistic understanding of ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ 2) Michael Sheehan (Swansea) Counterspace Operations: The Strategic and Political Implications of US Military Space Doctrine THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

26 APSR Seeks Submissions New International Scholarly Conferences. In addition, it will encourage collaboration among scholars and with policy for Centennial Issue Network on Security Issues makers on specific projects, facilitate scholarly Special Edition outputs in the form of journal articles, as well as Fiona Adamson (University College London) and contributions to edited volumes, and the Stefan Wolff (University of Bath) have production of high-quality research monographs established a new Standing Group on Security in the context of the group's own book series, The inaugural issue of the American Political Issues within the European Consortium for and provide a framework for mentoring younger Science Review was published in November Political Research. The new Standing Group scholars and graduate students. of 1906. To mark the centennial of the APSR, takes a broad view of security issues, in which the November issue 2006 will feature a special 'security' is conceived of as ranging from In order to facilitate communication among section devoted to considerations of the traditional state-centric security concerns, to scholars in the field of security studies, an evolution of political science. This special new transnational security threats, to broader electronic list server ([email protected]) section will be an extra feature, above and dimensions of human security. As such, a multi- has been created and interested members of the beyond the regular complement of research disciplinary focus is necessary for the analysis PSA are invited to subscribe at http:// articles. The APSR is now actively soliciting of the full range of security issues, and for the www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/security.html. submissions on the broad theme of the special formulation of a comprehensive approach to the section. study of both the challenges to, and the sources For further information consult the of security and stability. website of the group at http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ Submitting a paper mlssaw/ecpr or contact the group's conveners If you are interested in submitting a paper, The group's focus includes, but is not limited to, by email at Fiona Adamson please contact the editor of the APSR at the following security challenges, their sources, ([email protected]) and Stefan Wolff [email protected] to express your interest and to and dynamics, as well as the responses to them ([email protected]). provide a brief description of the paper you by states, international and regional would like to submit. Also, please bring this organisations, groups, individuals, and actors in solicitation to the attention to others who may civil society: be interested and encourage them to contact A Terrorism and Non-State Political the editor. Violence Like all other papers submitted to the A Internal Conflict, Civil War and Ethnic/ APSR, submissions received in response to Self-Determination Conflicts this solicitation will undergo peer review. A State Failure and State Collapse Overseeing this process will be the editor of A Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Post- EPOP Journal goes Online the APSR, Lee Sigelman, and a member of the conflict Reconstruction APSR’s editorial board, M. Elizabeth Sanders of A Arms Proliferation and Weapons of Cornell University. The Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Mass Destruction Parties now has its own website at http:// To be considered for publication, a paper A Evolution of Security Institutions must be no more than 15-17 pages in length, www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17457289.asp. A 'Rogue States' One of the changes we have made is that conventionally formatted (e.g., double-spaced A Environmental and other Resource- throughout, including notes and references, JEPOP will now accept unsolicited submissions Related Conflict and Risks in addition to considering papers presented at with margins of at least one inch on all sides A Organized Crime and set up in at least an 11-point font size). various EPOP events. Further details regarding A Migration, Border Issues and Border style etc. and submission procedures will be Control circulated in due course. In the meantime, if you Specific overview A Human Security In light of the length constraints, authors are are writing an article and are considering where to send it, please add JEPOP to your list. advised to address a specific theme rather The Standing Group on Security Issues will than aiming at a broader, synoptic disciplinary support regular gatherings of scholars and overview. Pertinent examples would include: policy makers within the framework of ECPR an analysis of a particular turning point in the Workshops, Joint Sessions, and General evolution of the discipline or of the role played by a particular individual; a treatment of the evolution of some influential school of thought; a comparison of the evolution of two subfields of political science, or of political science in the U.S. and another area, or of political science and another discipline; or a consideration of how a certain type of scholarship has influenced and/or been influenced by public policy, or the relationship between political science and the state. (These are offered only as examples, rather than as a definitive set of topics to be addressed.) To be considered for publication, submissions must reach the APSR office by no later than 2nd January 2006. THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

27 ESRC Launches Unique UKPAC Prize 2005 (ii) Publication must have taken place since 1 January 2004. Online Research Resource The United Kingdom Public Administration (iii) The length of items submitted must be Consortium* is pleased to announce its 2005 for Social Services between 5,000 and 10,000 words. annual competition. A prize will be awarded for an outstanding article or chapter in the field of A major new website offering unrivalled access (iv) Items deemed eligible will include public administration or public management that to high quality social and economic research is articles and book chapters. Other has been published recently in a professional or soon to be launched in the UK. categories of publication such as an academic journal, or in an anthology. Created by the Economic and Social pamphlets, reports and occasional papers The 2004 prize was won by Professor Research Council (ESRC), ESRC Society Today may also be considered, at the judges’ Colin Hay of the University of Birmingham for his will provide academics, students and discretion. researchers with a valuable, free digest of article 'Theory, Stylised Heuristic or Self-Fulfilling social sciences research available, planned and Prophecy? The Status of Rational Choice (v) Jointly-authored work will be eligible for in progress. Theory in Public Administration', Public consideration, but in the event of such Administration, vol. 82(1), 2004, pp. 39-62. work being the winning entry only one Gateway to resources prize will be awarded. All the authors of As well as bringing together all ESRC-funded This year’s prize will be reimbursement of the such work must have given written research, the website will provide a gateway to costs of attending the annual conference of the other key online resources from the UK such as permission (see (vi)) for its submission to International Institute of Administrative Sciences the competition. Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), (IIAS) in Berlin, 19-23 September 2005. the UK Reimbursement will cover the conference Data Archive and the Office of National (vi) Academics and practitioners are invited registration fee, economy class return air fare Statistics – as well as international coverage to nominate the work of colleagues from the UK to Berlin, up to four night’s from services such as Europa (particularly more junior colleagues) for accommodation in a mid-price conference hotel and Social Science Research Network (SSRN). consideration, but entries may also be self- ESRC Society Today will offer a and reasonable subsistence. nominated. All the authors of items broad picture of the latest research on submitted must have given written consent the full range of social science subjects, Alternatively, if preferred, the prize winner may for their work to be considered. Four including early findings, full texts and original elect to attend the EGPA conference in Bern, copies (offprints or clear photocopies) of data sets. Users can also establish online Switzerland, 31st August to 3rd September entries must be submitted. discussion fora, track down researchers in 2005. The winner will also be awarded the their key subject fields and find details on ESRC UKPAC prize medal and certificate. Clsoing Date and Judging funding and training opportunities. In addition, for academic entrants (staff or The closing date for submission is 31 May 2005. postgraduate students), book tokens to the The competition will be judged by a panel Chief Executive of the ESRC value of £300 may be awarded to the winner’s comprising academics and practitioners, and Ian Diamond, Chief Executive of the ESRC, employing university/college or department. the results will be announced by the beginning says: “ESRC Society Today combines our The competition, which is intended to of July 2005. Each entry must be accompanied previous websites at www.esrc.ac.uk and encourage the participation of relatively young by an entry form, signed by the author(s) of the www.regard.ac.uk with information from a or new academics and practitioners in the work item submitted and by any other person who is number of other high quality sources - offering of the International Institute of Administrative nominating the entry. users the broadest range of high quality UK Sciences (IIAS) and its affiliate bodies, is open social science research all in one place. “Of to any UK citizen or to anyone employed or Forms may be obtained from; particular benefit to users will be the site’s resident in the UK at the time that the winning Vernon Soare, CIPFA, 3 Robert Street, London ‘intelligent’ autonomy search engine which entry was published. Although there are no age WC2N 6RL, familiarises itself with the interests and limits for the competition, the judges will give Email [email protected] requirements of individual users - so the more particular credit to work submitted by authors to whom forms and entries should be sent. someone visits the site the more intuitive the who are under 40 and/or at an early stage of Entries will not be returned. experience becomes. their careers. The judges reserve the rights not to make “Users can also register for regular news The judges will be looking for published an award if they consider that none of the bulletins and email alerts on their areas of work in any field of public administration or entries reaches the appropriate standard. The interest, stay abreast of the latest research in decisions of the judges are final, and the judges their field efficiently and effectively and access public management that makes a particularly will not enter into any correspondence information on ESRC funding opportunities.” important and original contribution to theory and/ or practice in these fields. Contributions from concerning their adjudications. To register for further details of the new cognate disciplines (such as public law, website www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk - which organisational psychology or sociology) will be is now available in test phase and due to be eligible for consideration. launched in April 2005 - Email: [email protected] The requirements of the competition are as follows: For further information, contact: Kate Sturley or Katy Cosh on (i) Entry is not restricted to publications in Tel: 0117 929 2311 or UK books and journals. However, the Email: [email protected] publication must be in the English language.

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affects their decisions about a career in the profession. Where are the Women? A There is clearly a problem with continued from front cover gender inequality in recruitment to the profession, but is also true that men are access to an academic career. to the family issues. These were the more likely than women to be promoted The research was conducted at three particular concerns of the women once in the profession. This issue also large ‘civic’ universities and one university interviewed and they played a role in needs examination, most obviously by established in the 1960s. We conducted discouraging women from continuing into analyzing the experience of women in focus groups with separate groups of male postgraduate study and eventually entering the profession. and female students who achieved either a the profession. A The proportion of women in social high upper second or a first class science professions varies very classification in their penultimate year of Research Suggests Clear Ways Forward significantly. There are very few in study, simply because these students have Obviously, the Political Studies Association and Economics, but a majority in Sociology. A a more realistic chance of being able to individual departments cannot change the nature comparative study of these three undertake postgraduate study. Individual of the world, reducing patriarchy and professions would be interesting and interviews were subsequently conducted empowering women. However, our research informative. Of course, the Association with all those women who were willing does clearly suggest ways forward. What might be able to interest its sister bodies to talk. surprised us most was how little these students, in such research. who were of course the best in their Four Main Influences Identified departments, knew about being an academic Our research identified four main factors and, more specifically, about the financial which influenced both men and women in aspects of graduate work. Of course, this deciding whether they would continue with affected men and women, but there is no doubt postgraduate studies: financial from our interviews that it affected women considerations; the desire to make a more. difference; information/awareness; and self Three of the four departments we confidence. These four themes emerged as studied ran a special session about graduate key dynamics in the decision making process work, but, if our students are to be believed, for both sets of students. However, there they had little effect. The absolute crucial were important differences in how they factor was whether a student had been Political Studies were experienced by men and women. At approached directly by a member of staff. In Association Annual the same time, four further factors were all the departments studied students claimed very clearly gendered, only being identified that this only happened to a limited extent General Meeting by women: stereotypes; role models; family and men were approached more often than responsibilities; and time constraints. women. Of course, some may claim this The Annual General Meeting of the Political reflects sexism, but none of our students Studies Association will take place on Access to Information saw ‘their’ department as sexist. In our view, Wednesday 6 April 2005 at 6.15pm at the We are aware of the limitations of the research, the problem is that few people of either sex Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael in particular the small number of cases and the are approached and women are less likely Sadler Building, University of Leeds. fact that our sample is drawn from a small sub- than men to take the initiative and find out. set of Universities. However, some points seem We would recommend that this message Political Studies Association Executive to us to be clear. A constellation of factors from our research is spread widely through Committee Vacancies 2005 affects the decisions of both men and women to the profession. undertake graduate work: all are concerned with However, it seems to us that the main 5 vacancies exist for ordinary member places financial issues and wanting a job which makes thing the Political Studies Association can do on the Association’s Executive Committee from a difference. However, students’ views on is to produce a booklet which deals with: July 2005, for terms of three years. these issues are significantly affected by their how to become a PhD student; what is Nominations, proposed and seconded by access to information about both the finances of involved in being a PhD student; what are two other Association members, should be being a graduate student and the nature of the the job prospects for a PhD student; what is received by the Returning Officer, Professor job of an academic and the student’s own self involved in being an academic; and the Paul Carmichael, at the address below, by confidence about their ability. In relation to both extent to, and way in which, academics can Friday 1 April at 12 noon: these factors women appear disadvantaged. ‘make a difference’. They generally know less about the academia, It seems clear to us that more research Professor Paul Carmichael largely because staff (in most cases of course needs to be done in the area. Women make up Honorary Secretary male staff) appear less likely to approach them over 50% of both the population and the number Political Studies Association to undertake graduate work. At the same time, of Politics undergraduates; yet they are very Department of Politics University of Newcastle they are less self-confident. significantly under-represented in the Newcastle upon Tyne Consequently, even the factors which profession. NE1 7RU affect the decisions of men and women We would suggest that the Association E-mail: [email protected] have an important gendered aspect. thinks about the following areas: However, any consideration of the relative A We haven’t examined a If the number of nominations exceeds the absence of women in the political science representative sample of third year number of places, an election by postal ballot profession should also take into account the undergraduates, rather we have of the whole membership will be held. nature of the stereotypes of academics, the concentrated on prestigious departments; number of women role models already that weakness could clearly be remedied. existent in the profession, as well as the A It would be interesting to study the area of the discipline which they occupy, experience of women (and men) as and the flexibility of academia with regards graduate students to see how that THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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The Political Studies Association room for improvement. Twenty-two per cent of members have the maximum possible input. members are ‘neutral’ regarding the benefits of Annual Conference: Cause for the annual conference (neither agreeing nor Celebration or Revision? disagreeing it is useful) and 19 per cent regarded the event as not useful. Whilst serial malcontents certainly exist within our ranks, the continued from front cover fact that 40 per cent of our members are either indifferent or worse to our flagship event should competition from major international be cause for examination of the function, status conferences and the changing tastes of our and organisation of the conference. The members provide substantial challenges, which conference comes at a busy time for such must be met if the intellectual and organisational events. It attracts little publicity compared to enhancement of the annual conference is to be other academic conferences, particularly in the sustained. With this in mind, and with the natural sciences, which receive extensive immediate future of the annual conference broadsheet coverage. Moreover, the welcome secured (the universities of Reading in 2006 success of the Political Studies Association and Bath in 2007) the Association Executive felt Awards Ceremony in London in November, it was time to undertake a fundamental review which attracted a great deal of (favourable) of the annual event. publicity this year and brings together Political Studies A small working party, comprising Jon academics, journalists and politicians, could Tonge (Salford, Chair) Paul Carmichael (Ulster) eclipse the annual conference. Those of us Association Awards Jacqui Briggs (Lincoln) and Jennifer Lees- involved in organising both the awards Marshment (Keele) was established by the ceremony and annual conference need to define Ceremony 2005 Chair of the Political Studies Association, Wyn the relationship between each event. Grant (Warwick) to undertake this task. Thus The annual Political Studies Association Awards Ceremony will be held in London on far, soundings have been taken at the Heads of Important issues which may or may not need 29th November 2005. The 2004 event was Departments conference held in London in resolution could be as follows: attended by a host of academics, politicians December 2004, from the other Executive Accommodation: Should we continue to visit and journalists and received widespread campuses and use university accommodation, members and, through these columns and an coverage in the media. Nominations are electronic questionnaire to follow the Leeds or should the annual conference move to a hotel requested from Association members for the event, from Association members. or a conference centre? following categories: Quality of papers/panels: Should the conference A Lifetime Achievement in Politics Crisis, what Crisis be more selective in the acceptance of papers? A Lifetime Achievement in Political Of course the annual conference might be Are some research areas or types of Studies described as a case of ‘crisis, what crisis?’ for Association member under-represented? A Political Science Political Science a variety of reasons. It enjoys a reasonably Incentives to present: How should the provide ‘Making a Difference/Communication’ high approval rating from members of the incentives for top quality research to be Award (to the political scientist/ Association. In the most recent survey, 59 per presented at the conferences? research team who/which has cent of members regarded the annual Timing: Should the conference continue to be contributed most to public policy via conference as ‘very useful’ or ‘useful. This held in the week prior to Easter? research and dissemination of that figure was only 6 per cent below the approval Postgraduates: Should changes be made to the research to a variety of audiences) rating for specialist group conferences, which, postgraduate conference or the level of A Politics Book of the Year A Parliamentarian of the Year given that they represent a gathering of representation of postgraduates at the annual A Politician of the Year similarly-interested academics, can expect conference? A Political Journalist/Columnist of strong support. It enjoys increasing Plenary sessions: Too many? Too few? What the Year types are most useful? attendances, albeit with occasional fluctuations. A Political Publication of the Year The annual gathering is a particularly useful Awards: Which should be given at the annual (best political coverage by forum for most of the Association’s 34 specialist conference, as distinct from the awards newspaper/magazine) groups, many of which (e.g. Labour ceremony? A Best Political Satire Movements, EPOP, Women and Politics and A PSA Turkey Award (for the Ethnopolitics) stage several panels of good Members Input welcomed group/individual committing the quality, sometimes inviting overseas speakers, The above list of questions is far from biggest political blunder) who are often complimentary concerning the exhaustive and written input is welcome A Political Broadcast/Broadcaster of event. The conference is also marked by high ([email protected]) prior to the issue of a the Year quality plenary sessions, with excellent short questionnaire to all Association members A Setting the Political Agenda Award attendances, such as the Robert Puttnam after the Leeds conference. After this, the (to the pressure group/political lecture at Leicester in 2003, or the Government working party will examine the data and written organisation/individual which/who has and Opposition/Shapiro lecture at Lincoln last submissions, before recommending any had the most input in shaping public year. There is no shortage of departments changes to the Executive Committee at its July policy) willing to host the event (not always the case in meeting. The deadlines are fairly tight, as annual Nominations for awards should be sent to Jon the past). Moreover, the annual conference conference planning works on a three-year Tonge ([email protected]) by 22nd May normally makes a (modest) profit, most of which cycle and decisions regarding the location of the 2005. All nominations will be forwarded to the 2008 event and beyond will soon commence. It goes to the Political Studies Association but with awards ceremony jury, which will meet on 7th some reward for the host department. may be that the annual conference is a clear June 2005 to finalise prizes. case of ‘it ain’t broke, so don’t fix it’, or an Room for Improvement example of where valuable reforms can be The above points are encouraging, but there is undertaken. Either way, it is important that THE NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

30 DEPARTMENT PROFILE The Centre for the Study of Democracy

In 1989 a group of scholars, led by John J. Vincent's idea of a subsistence Keane, set up the Centre for the Study of approach to the practical realisation of Democracy, or CSD, Westminster University’s human rights’ postgraduate department in Politics, A ‘The construction of the discourse of International Relations and Asian Studies. Now secularisation in the Turkish Republic, in its sixteenth year, CSD - under the 1924–45’; and directorship of Dr Simon Joss, and with 16 A ‘Explaining US foreign policy towards academic staff, 4 research associates and post-revolutionary Iran’. over 70 postgraduate students from 34 countries - is established as a leading forum The University offers bursaries, including of research and study. recently The Margaret Blunden PhD Scholarship and the CSD Research Student Research Bursary in Contemporary Chinese Cultural CSD’S varied research profile includes its Studies. Democracy and Islam programme (Drs Every year since 1998, CSD has El-Abdelwahab Affendi, Maria Holt, and Ali organised, with the Faculty of Political Science Paya) as well as studies of: at the University of Belgrade, an international A The History of Democracy (Professor Summer School on Democracy that brings John Keane) together scholars and students from the A Contemporary Party Leadership in the Balkans, elsewhere in Europe, and from North Director Simon Joff, cuts the CSD’s US House of Representatives (Professor America. 15th Birthday Cake John Owens) A Agonistic Democracy (Professor Events and publications Chantal Mouffe) The Centre’s well-established public events A The State-Building Paradox (Dr David programme includes the regular CSD Seminar, Chandler) ad hoc workshops, international conferences, A Citizen-Participation in Science and public lectures, as well as the annual ‘CSD Technology (Drs Simon Joss and Alison Encounter’, a conference attended by, and that Mohr) focuses on the work of, one prominent thinker. A Participatory Planning in the Caribbean Recent noteworthy CSD events include the DEPARTMENT NEWS (Dr Jon Pugh) 2003 CSD Encounter with Bruno Latour; the A Mothers, Daughters and Gendered international conference in June 2004 on ‘The News from the Department Subjectivities in Urban China (Professor Future of the European Polity’; and the Harriet Evans); and conference, held in November 2004, entitled of Politics A Taiwanese National Identity (Mark ‘Muslims in Britain: the making of a new Harrison). underclass?’ In Spring 2005 Professor Bristol University Benjamin Barber of the University of Maryland CSD staff have recently been funded by, will launch CSD’s new, annual C R Parekh Professor Geoffrey Pridham has recently taken among others, the Ford Foundation, the British lecture. up an ESRC Fellowship for 2004-07 for a series Academy, the European Commission, and the CSD publicises much of its work through of linked projects under the title of AHRB. In the 2001 Research Assessment its biannual CSD Bulletin, on its website “Europeanising Democratisation: EU Accession Exercise, Politics and International Studies (www.wmin.ac.uk/csd), in its working papers and Post-Communist Politics in Slovakia, Latvia received a 4, while Asian Studies was series (CSD Perspectives), and in occasional and Romania”. During the autumn he was awarded a 5 rating. books. Visiting Professor at the University of Rome (La CSD staff appear regularly on television and Sapienza). radio, and in the print media. The Future Dr Judith Squires has co-edited, with Tariq If the past 15 years have seen the Modood and Steve May Ethnicity, Nationalism Postgraduate Programmes establishment of CSD as a leading research and Minority Rights (Cambridge University In CSD’s successful Masters programme, and teaching centre, the future holds out the Press). students from a broad range of national and prospect of growth. A host of developments – Dr Sarah Childs has been awarded a cultural backgrounds attend its MA courses in from the ‘war on terror’, the emergence of Nuffield small grant with Joni Lovenduski and International Relations, International Relations new democracies, and economic and political Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck College) for a project and Contemporary Political Theory, and globalisation, to multilevel governance and entitled “Diversity and Representation”. The International Studies (East Asia/European emerging transnational civil society movements grant is to fund the 2005 British Representation Union/Islamic World). The Centre’s PhD and public spheres – are set to stimulate Study, a survey of MPs and candidates for the students conduct research into politics, interest in the study of, and innovative 2005 general election. It looks at their societies, cultures and the many ways in research into, politics, international relations background, attitudes and behaviour. which they are interdependent. Recent and and societies. CSD is also well placed to Dr Elke Krahmann has published an edited current PhD topics include: contribute substantially to ‘knowledge transfer’ volume New Threats and New Actors in International Security (New York: Palgrave). A ‘The legitimation of power and the between academia and business, policy- Dr Rob Dover was awarded a contract to development of political thought in makers and civil society organisations. advise the European Parliament on how to contemporary Shi'ism: Iran 1963-2002’ If you want to find out more CSD go to our speed up the eradication of anti-personnel A ‘Sex education in contemporary urban website: www.wmin.ac.uk/csd. If you’d like to devices around the world. 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31st Conference Report

The 31st American Politics Group (APG) conference was held at the Canterbury Christ Church University College. The keynote, John D. Lees memorial lecture was delivered by Prof. John K White, Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. His theme was “The Presidential Election in 2004”. In light of Prof. White’s academic interests in the cultural politics of the U.S., his discussion covered not just the electoral outcome but also the wider context of political values within the United States. Prof. White argued that many of the traditional explanations of how Americans choose their presidents do not reflect the changing importance of social attitudes to political life and also the changing ethnic dynamic in some Winner of the Inaugural Richard E. Neustadt Paper Prize, Ms Clodagh Harrington & and prize panel, regions. We were also pleased to welcome Denis Wolf, Cultural Attaché, and Sue Wedlake Neustadt, endowed by the US Embassy. The from the US Embassy. At the conference dinner a inaugural post-graduate paper prize, for a paper special presentation was made to Denis, whose given at the conference by a post-graduate posting to London ends in 2005, in recognition of student registered at a UK university was the Embassy’s unstinting support of the APG. awarded to Clodagh Harrington, London Panels met throughout the two days of the Metropolitan University, for her paper “Decline conference. Themes included: U.S. foreign policy, Before the Fall; The office of the independent U.S. domestic politics, Civil Rights, and the 2004 counsel and the Iran-Contra Scandal election. The 2005 conference proved Investigation.” The conference was also the exceptionally popular with overseas visitors and occasion of a wine reception for the launch of we were especially pleased to welcome paper- Peter Boyle’s (University of Nottingham) new givers and discussants from the United States, book on Eisenhower, published by Pearson in Europe and Scandinavia. We were also delighted 2005. to have a number of post-graduate students, whose attendance was enabled by the group’s ability to subsidise their conference fee. In 2005 the APG is pleased to be able to award a book Conference organiser Dr. Tony McCulloch and and paper prize in memory of Prof. Richard E. Prof. John K. White.

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55th Political Studies Association Annual Conference 4th-7th April 2005 - University of Leeds

The 55th Annual Conference of the Political Studies, and International Development. The delighted to confirm Margaret Levi (president of Studies Association will be hosted by the School School offers a myriad of different degree the American Political Science Association) will of Politics and International Studies, University of schemes, serving over 700 undergraduates and give a keynote address entitled ‘Trust in Leeds. The main conference will take place more than 200 post-graduate students from all Transition’. A brief profile of all keynote between 5th and 7th April 2005, with the over the world. addressees is also offered inside this issue of graduate conference starting on Monday 4th. the newsletter (and on the Association’s The conference will be hosted on one site The Conference Programme website). centred on Leeds University’s highly accessible The conference expects to feature over 400 and compact main campus, with accommodation papers from scholars old and new from all over Conference Entertainment and all of the conference venues within easy the world. We are delighted that the programme The conference also has a full programme of walking distance. In addition the university itself truly reflects our vision for the conference social activities planned. For those wishing to is only 5-10 minutes walk from Leeds city centre which is to offer an intellectually stimulating stay on campus there will be old favourites with all of its attractions and amenities. celebration of the discipline of politics in its fullest such as the quiz and five-a-side football The splendid Victorian city of Leeds has sense covering theoretically driven and tournament, operating alongside live music by long been Yorkshire’s commercial capital. It is empirically-based work, area studies, topical and the ‘Konkoma Maximum Love Garden also a major cultural centre hosting both Opera historical work – in short, there is something for Orchestra’. The annual dinner, provided for the North and the West Yorkshire Playhouse as well everyone. The programme is listed in full in this first time as part of the full conference package, as the outstanding Royal Armouries Museum. issue of the newsletter. promises to be a conference highlight. For The city and university enjoy excellent access to those wishing to venture off campus, Leeds local transport facilities being close to Leeds City Key Note Speakers offers a rich array of opportunities – Jongleurs Rail Station, the M1 and M62 motorways and We are also delighted to announce a full comedy café, the delights of the theatre and the Leeds-Bradford International Airport. programme of key note and plenary addresses opera, a Leeds United match, local art galleries In a century of teaching, the University has given by leading scholars and practitioners in and the beauty of the countryside being just grown to be one of the leading universities in the their fields – confirmed speakers include: Tariq some of the possibilities on offer - with full country in terms of its research contribution, its Ali (leading author and newspaper columnist, suggestions available on the conference popularity with students and its size: It presently especially in the field of politics in the middle website. has over 30,000 students studying on over East); a plenary roundtable covering Election 05 1,000 different degree programmes. given by leading psephologists John Curtice, Further information The School of Politics and International Charles Pattie and David Sanders; Dennis Regularly updated information on the studies is one of the largest academic Kavanagh speaking on the Blair government; Bo conference, including the full programme, departments in its field in the UK, with over thirty Rothstein who will give the ‘Government and conference schedule, entertainment members of staff and bringing together Opposition Leonard Shapiro Annual Lecture’ possibilities, accommodation details and academic specialists in four areas: Political investigating whether political science can meet conference registration forms can all be found Studies, International Relations, European the challenge from economists, finally we are on the Political Studies Association website at www.psa.ac.uk/2005. Information about the host department can be found on the University of Leeds website at www.leeds.ac.uk/polis. If you have any queries, please contact the academic convenor, David Seawright ([email protected]) or the local organiser, Nick Robinson ([email protected])

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