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PSA Awards 2004 POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2004 30 NOVEMBER 2004 Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED Political Studies Association Awards 2003 AWARDS•2004 Welcome I am delighted to welcome you to the Political Studies Association 2004 Awards. The activity of politics is often subject to denigration. However, the health of our democracy requires that persons of high calibre continue to enter political life. It needs the contribution to political debate that is made by politicians, the media, pressure groups, academics and satirists. It is refreshing to note that interest in politics is, on some measurements at least, higher than ever. For example, applications to study politics at university rose by a record 17 per cent in 2003-4, suggesting an enthusiasm among many talented young people for the study of the subject. A modest rise in electoral turnout in recent local and European elections also provides grounds for cautious optimism. Today is an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of some of the individuals, organisations, journals and television programmes that enhance the quality of our political life. Those receiving awards include: politicians of vision whose reputations remain unblemished and whose principles have clearly been retained throughout distinguished careers; three first-class journalists, who, in different ways via their respective outlets, have enhanced the democratic process by stimulating debate; and a witty and clever satirical television programme which has rarely failed to provide mirth. We are also delighted to honour a number of academics for their outstanding contributions to the study of politics and the work of the Political Studies Association. We acknowledge their serious contribution to the study of the subject, which has often been influential in practical policy debates and will enrich the analysis of politics for generations to come. Finally, I would like to thank our award sponsors – ExxonMobil, the Economic and Social Research Council, Blackwell Publishing, FDS International, Citigate Public Affairs, Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge University Press – whose very generous support has made this event possible. Professor Wyn Grant Chair, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom Political Studies Association Awards 2004 The Political Studies Association exists to develop and promote the study of politics. We are the leading organisation in the UK linking academics in political science and current affairs, theorists and practitioners, policy-makers, journalists, researchers and students in higher education. 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Through research grants and projects, plus details of comprising more than 100 specialist articles, debates and research notes, it reflects conferences, specialist groups and other discussion panels covering all aspects of the the vigour and importance of the discipline of activities. discipline. politics and contributes significantly to the development of political science Annual Directory, listing all political Network of Specialist Groups, covering all internationally. scientists in the UK and Ireland by university major fields of political research. Each and department. Published online at provides a forum in which individuals with www.psa.ac.uk specialised research and teaching interests Political Studies Review brings together the can develop their own seminars and unique book reviews service of Political Study Politics, our conferences to supplement the Annual Studies with a set of major review articles accessible guide to Conference. which survey key current issues in political studying politics at Our prestigious annual awards include: The Graduate Network exists to promote science. The journal builds on more than fifty university, distributed Heads of Department Conferences, held to links between postgraduate politics students years of book reviewing which have made to all UK sixth-forms assist UK political science departments with I The Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize throughout the UK. 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The short article www.psa.ac.uk I The Sir Bernard Crick Prize MEMBERSHIP format means that articles are provocative, Political Studies UK, ‘Best Political Science Site in the World’ for outstanding teaching in political Membership is open to everyone interested punchy and readable. the definitive guide Lycos studies in the study and practice of politics. There to studying, teaching are separate categories of membership for and researching Our award-winning website is an impressive I Four dissertation prizes people who are retired and for companies. The British Journal of Politics and politics in the UK. research tool with over 5,000 links to for best dissertation in any field of International Relations aims to influence political information sources. Online services political studies To join call 0191 222 8021, e-mail: international debates in political science. It include access to electronic versions of all [email protected], or visit our website: encourages contributions from scholars in all the Association’s journals, Annual ABOVE www.psa.ac.uk parts of the discipline and from all parts of Conference papers, Members’ Directory and Ian Hislop accepting the 2003 Best Political the globe, and is fast attaining a reputation Register of Experts. Satire award for Private Eye. for innovative interdisciplinary research. Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Award sponsor Lifetime Achievement in Political Studies Award sponsor Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies PROFESSOR CAROLE PATEMAN PROFESSOR IVOR CREWE, AcSS Ivor Crewe was born in 1945 in colleague Professor Anthony King, won Carole Pateman was born in 1940 in theory, citizenship and liberal political Manchester. He read PPE at Exeter the Political Studies Association WJM Maresfield, Sussex. She left school at 16 thought. Another key area of her work has College, Oxford (where he was made an Mackenzie prize for the best book and had a succession of clerical jobs been feminist political theory and she has honorary fellow in 1998) and then published that year. before going to Ruskin College in 1963 to had a major impact on the analysis of the undertook a Master’s Degree in Economics study economics, politics, history and relationship between gender and politics. at the LSE. His first academic post was as Professor Crewe’s analysis of the sociology. One of her fellow students was In addition to many key journal articles, assistant lecturer at Lancaster University diminishing role of social class in voting John Prescott, now Deputy Prime she has written four books and co-edited from 1967 to 1969. He then moved to remains seminal. He was the first political Minister. She read PPE at Lady Margaret four volumes of essays. Her first book Nuffield College, Oxford, as a research scientist to identify the phenomenon of Hall, Oxford, and stayed on to pursue her Participation and Democratic Theory fellow, before joining the Department of the ‘new working class’, containing DPhil on the subject Participation and (1970) has been reprinted nineteen times Government at the University of Essex in distinctive characteristics, much more Recent Theories of Democracy. and translated into many languages. THE JUDGES SAY 1971. He was Director of the ESRC Data instrumental in their voting behaviour, THE JUDGES SAY Other publications include The Problem of Professor Ivor Crewe has been one of the Archive from 1974 until 1982 and also and prepared to abandon residual loyalty Professor Carole Pateman is a distinguished After two years as a Mary Ewart Research Political Obligation (1986) and The outstanding political scientists of recent served as Director of the British Election to the Labour Party in favour of the political theorist, internationally renowned Fellow at Somerville College, in 1972 Dr Disorder of Women
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