Mar 2006. ISSN 0955-6281. Vol. 17 No. 1 NEWS

Contents Winning the Winter Campaign: Another

University News...... 2 Season of Success The Political Studies Association has had a very opportunities, student recruitment and the RAE. This In Full View successful campaign of showcasing the profession last topic was particularly timely and the heads of Celebrating Success...... 3 and facilitating colleagues planning for the year ahead. departments found it a useful guide to departmental Bibliographical Bulletin on Ferderalism...... 3 This issue of the News features reports on another strategies. The session on postgraduate training was The Political Communication Section of the highly praised awards ceremony, the major conference preceded by a demonstration of PARLE, a new multi- American Political Science Association (APSA)...... 3 on Britishness and the latest in the annual series media package containing audio, visual and textual The Joan Shorenstein Centre on the Press, of Heads of Department Conferences – all held in material, which will revolutionise the teaching of Politics and Public Policy...... 3 November - December 2005. political science methodology. Bringing Politics to Life...... 4 The Heads of Department Conference was All in all a very successful winter. Now on to Education UK Supporting the UK in the International Education Market...... 5 particularly well attended this time, perhaps reflecting Reading. Celebrating Excellence Nominations the agenda, which covered research planning, ESRC open for Fellowship Scheme...... 5 Celebrating Excellence...... 5 Josep Mª Vilaseca i Marcet Award...... 5

Specialist Group News The Politics of South Asia Specialist Group...... 6 Largest ever gathering of academics studying the Liberal Democrats meets...... 6 Territorial Politics in Perspective...... 7 2006 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships...... 7 Postgraduate research Studentship in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Professor John Benyon, Lancaster University...... 7 Association Treasurer, forging Political Studies Women and Political American links outside the Conference 2006...... 22 US Congress Building. See page 20 2006 Conference...... 8 - 17 Professor of Welcome From Reading Time to Confer...... 18 - 19 Politics Knighted Department of Politics and International Relations at Links with other PSAs the University of Reading is pleased to welcome you The British Politics Group of the APSA...... 20 to the 2006 Annual Conference of the Political Studies Political Studies Association Continues to Association. These are very interesting times for those Strengthen links with other PSAs...... 20 who study Politics and International Relations and we Up-Dating our European Links...... 20 - 21 hope that you will particularly enjoy the papers and roundtables addressing the Conference Theme of Research and Writing ‘Liberty and Security: the Challenge for Government’. C-SAP Call for Book Reviewer...... 21 The Polical and Philosophical Imagination ...continued on page 8 in the United States and Germany...... 21 Iraq War Culture...... 21 Teaching in Higher Education Issue...... 21 Public Administration Committee Annual Conference 2006...... 21

Department Profile...... 23 - 24 Professor Ivor Crewe Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex, Professor Association Membership Reaches Ivor Crewe has been recognised in the New Year’s New High Honours List. Professor Crewe has been awarded a knighthood for services to higher education. Membership of the Political Studies Association Speaking about his honour, Professor Crewe said: reached a new high of 1645 by the end of ‘I am honoured and delighted, not just for myself, December 2005, an increase of almost 100 but also for my University and for my discipline of members from the previous year. This new figure political science.’ now includes 1160 full members, 56 retired members and 429 graduates. University of Reading  University News In Full View 

Celebrating Success government and governance; the theory, practice and Coup for Politics at Cardiff University reform of international organisations; processes of regional integration; federalism as a political idea. The the unit is strengthened by two honorary professorial the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, which Ivor Gaber, Political Studies Association specific policies of federal polities are not considered fellows, Rex Martin (Kansas) and Andrew Vincent works through the Political Studies Association in the Media Advisor other than as case studies relevant to institutional and (Sheffield), and twelve Ph.D students. The Unit’s form of the British Idealist Specialist Group. theoretical arguments, strictly related to federal ideas areas of expertise include history of political thought, Professor Pateman’s appointment follows a long and structures. modern political theory and normative international association with the academic life of Wales, where It might not be quite Hollywood on With the Bulletin it is the Centre’s intent to offer a relations theory. Professor Pateman augments all she gave the John Rees Memorial lecture in 1995 the night of the Oscars but there’s no free service to the international academic community, three categories by adeptly dealing with contemporary at Swansea University. She became an honorary providing a timely update on new articles on federalism issues with an incisive and original grasp of how professorial fellow of Cardiff University in 2001, and shortage of glitz and glamour (well and an archive useful to researchers all over the world. past political thinking has shaped the terms of has recently been a Cardiff Distinguished Visiting maybe just a little) at the Institute Scholars can search the Bulletin and its archive by reference. She is currently completing a collaborative Fellow during which time she gave a series of of Directors’ in London, when the author, journal, keywords, section of the Bulletin, or project with Charles Mills on ‘The Racial Contract’, talks including a public lecture. Professor Carole specific topic. an extension of her work on the Sexual Contract. Pateman’s talk, ‘Thinking about Democracy in a Political Studies Association’s annual The first issue includes articles from journals She explores how the European doctrine of terra Time when ‘Stuff Happens’’, drew on her research political awards ceremony takes place published in 2005, while the archive includes a number nullius (waste, unoccupied or barren land) was used which explores social and political questions of relevant articles published in 2004, thereby making to justify the appropriation of lands in Australia and including feminist political theory, democratic theory every November. available a critical mass to begin working with. The North America, arguing that an honest rejection and questions about citizenship and race. Bulletin will be published on-line three times a year. of the doctrine will place contemporary relations Professor Pateman was awarded the Lifetime The Awards Ceremony originated as a one-off, to Many articles included in the Bulletin are also between European settlers and indigenous peoples Achievement Award by the Political Studies mark the 50th anniversary of the Political Studies available in our specialised Library, which offers a wide on firmer moral foundation. Her work in this respect Association of the United Kingdom in 2004, and Association. They were seen as not just a means of range of materials, including some rare collections adds to the Unit’s strength in normative international an honorary doctorate from University College, raising the Association’s profile but also an extremely donated to the Centre by several eminent personalities, Professor Carole Pateman relations theory. Professor Pateman has made a Dublin in 2005. She was awarded the Benjamin E useful way of building bridges with our non-academic scholars and institutions. The Library is open to all profound difference in the way the relationship of Lippincott Award by the American Political Science constituency – politicians, the media and others. For interested scholars and its catalogue can be accessed One of the world’s leading political theorists, Professor gender to politics is analyzed, both historically and Association for her book The Sexual Contract. The the past three years the Awards Ceremony to which on-line. The Centre for Studies on Federalism will assist Carole Pateman, has been appointed Professorial in contemporary life. She has recently developed an Lippincott Award was established by the Association all Association members have an opportunity to Italian and foreign scholars in organising their stays at Fellow in the School of European Studies, Cardiff interest in political theorists’ contribution to the debate to recognize a work of exceptional quality by a living attend, has taken place over an extended lunchtime - had organized a conference on ‘Britishness’, with the the Centre for the purpose of consulting the Library University. She consolidates the strength of the about the status of animals, and is also an exponent political theorist that is still considered significant ceremony close to Westminster. It’s always difficult Chancellor due to make the keynote speech. At short material. Political Theory Research Unit in the Politics Section of the controversial policy of a ‘basic income’ to after a time span of at least 15 years since the striking a balance between awards to academics, notice he became unavailable but by deft footwork a of the School. She joins Professor David Boucher which all citizens should have an unconditional right, original date of publication. The award is presented politicians and journalists. In terms of vulgar PR late stand-in was found – David Cameron, the then For further information on the Centre for Studies on (unit coordinator), Professor Bruce Haddock, Graeme irrespective of employment status. The Political every two years. we know that the awards given to political science would-be Tory leader. He used the conference to Federalism you may visit our web-site at Garrard, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch. The work of Theory Research Unit also incorporates the work of academics will attract the least media attention, the launch his initiative on non-military national service for www.csfederalismo.it awards to journalists will attract attention (but usually young people – not necessarily central to ’Britishness’ only from the award-winners’ own publications) and but good enough to garner himself and the conference You may contact us at: awards to politicians will attract publicity with two a good deal of media coverage. And who knows, he tel. 0039/011/6705024 crucial provisos – first, that they turn up to receive might even have put himself in the frame to win the fax 0039/011/6705081 UKPAC prize 2006 intended to encourage the participation of relatively authors of items submitted must have given written them and second, they have something interesting Association’s Politician of the Year Award in 2006 - [email protected] young or new academics and practitioners in the work consent for their work to be considered. Four hard to say. almost as great a prize as winning the leadership of of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences copies (offprints or clear photocopies) of entries The winner of the 2004 Politician of the Year the Conservative Party (discuss). “Promoting accountability, (IIAS) and its affiliate bodies. It is open to any UK must be submitted. Award – Gordon Brown – did both; he attended and transparency, efficiency and honesty citizen or to anyone employed or resident in the UK at then made a substantive speech about ‘Britishness’, The Political the time that the winning entry was published. The closing date for submission is 16 June 2006, which in turn led to the Political Studies Association’s Bibliographical Bulletin in public administration” The judges will be looking for published work and this deadline will be strictly enforced. own conference on the subject (more later). This Communication Section in any field of public administration or public The competition will be judged by a panel year’s winner Tony Blair – was an extremely on Federalism The United Kingdom Public Administration management that makes a particularly important and comprising academics and practitioners, and the controversial choice among Association members, but of the American Political Consortium* is pleased to announce its 2006 original contribution to theory and/or practice in these results will be announced by the beginning of August was virtually ignored by the media because he sent The first issue of the Bibliographical Bulletin on annual competition. A prize will be awarded for an fields. Contributions from cognate disciplines (such as 2006. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry along his Parliamentary Private Secretary, Keith Hill, Federalism, edited by the Centre for Studies on Science Association outstanding article or chapter in the field of public public law, organisational psychology or sociology) will form, signed by the author(s) of the item submitted who accepted on the PM’s behalf with a minimum of Federalism of Turin (Italy), is now available at administration or public management that has been be eligible for consideration. and by any other person who is nominating the entry. fuss and a minimum of speech. www.csfederalismo.it (APSA) published recently in a professional or an academic Forms may be obtained from Gail Main, CIPFA, 3 There was a more interesting story about another journal, or in an anthology. The requirements of the competition are as follows: Robert Street, London WC2N 6RL, email gail.main@ absentee winner. Tam Dayell was due to receive the The Centre for Studies on Federalism, currently under On this site there is information about upcoming In 2005 the full UKPAC prize was not awarded, (i) Entry is not restricted to publications in UK books cipfa.org (to whom forms and entries should be sent), Parliamentarian of the Year Award, unfortunately he the direction of Antonio Padoa Schioppa (President) conferences, section awards and publications, sample although two entries were commended. The 2004 and journals. However, the publication must be in or from the UKPAC website, www.ukpac.org. Entries was taken ill at short-notice, in fact so short that the and Umberto Morelli (Director), was founded in 2000 course syllabi and other teaching resources. prize was won by Professor Colin Hay of the University the English language. will not be returned. organizers only heard about it during the ceremony at the joint initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo of Birmingham for his article ‘Theory, Stylised (ii) Publication must have taken place since The judges reserve the right not to make an award itself. The author was then deputed to seek out and the Universities of Pavia and Turin, recently http://www.apsanet.org/~polcomm/ Heuristic or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? The Status of 1 January 2005. if they consider that none of the entries reaches the a relevant politician to receive the award on Tam joined by the University of Milan. The Centre’s Rational Choice Theory in Public Administration’, (iii) The length of items submitted must be between appropriate standard. The decisions of the judges Dayell’s behalf. principal focus is the promotion and coordination of Public Administration, vol. 82(1), 2004, pp. 39-62. 5,000 and 10,000 words. are final, and the judges will not enter into any Chris Mullin was a long-time parliamentary research, education, information and the circulation of This year’s prize will be reimbursement of (iv) Items deemed eligible will include articles and correspondence concerning their adjudications. colleague and was therefore leaned upon to do the knowledge and documentation in the field of federal the costs (capped at £1,000) of attending any book chapters. Other categories of publication such necessary. Last year’s winner of the Journalist of the studies. The Joan Shorenstein annual conference of the International Institute of as pamphlets, reports and occasional papers may *The UKPAC is a partnership enabling the UK to Year – Trevor Kavanagh of the Sun had already been The Bibliographical Bulletin on Federalism provides Centre on the Press, Administrative Sciences (IIAS) or European Group of also be considered, at the judges’ discretion. belong to the International Institute of Administrative asked to present the award. Chris Mullin went up an overview of articles published by roughly 700 of the Public Administration (EGPA), up to the end of 2007. (v) Jointly-authored work will be eligible for Sciences (IIAS): members are the Joint University and the award was handed over with the customary principal scientific journals on federalism published Politics and Public Policy The winner will also be awarded the UKPAC prize consideration, but in the event of such work being Council Public Administration Committee, the congratulations all round, Mullin then sat down and in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish medal and certificate and a two year subscription to the winning entry only one prize will be awarded. National School of Government, the National Audit said to the author, with a benign/malign smile on and will be published on-line three times a year. The The Joan Shorenstein Centre on the Press, Politics the International Review of Administrative Sciences. All the authors of such work must have given Office, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and his face: “That’s the first time I have spoken with Bulletin uses a definition of federalism based on the and Public Policy is a Harvard University research In addition, for academic entrants (staff or written permission (see (vi)) for its submission to Accountancy, Public Administration International and Trevor since he called me the most odious man in the studies of, among others, Kenneth C. Wheare, Carl centre dedicated to exploring the inter-section of press, postgraduate students), book tokens to the value of the competition. Electronic Data Systems Ltd. House”! Joachim Friedrich, Mario Albertini and Daniel Elazar. politics and public policy in theory and practice. £300 may be awarded to the winner’s employing (vi) Academics and practitioners are invited to One other story of last-minute stand-ins, is worth It is divided into several sections devoted to specific university/college or department. nominate the work of colleagues for consideration, re-telling. The day before the awards Charlie Jeffrey topics related to federalism, such as the theory and For more information please go to: Although there is no age limit, the competition is but entries may also be self-nominated. All the - one the Political Studies Association’s leading lights practice of federal states; multi-level systems of www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/  In Full View In Full View 

applications, public consultation, grant allocation, • develop priority markets to maintain the UK’s Bids need to align with one or more of the Higher Bringing Politics to Life and anti social behaviour orders, to note but a Education UK global position while increasing the number of Education Academy’s four institutional themes, few. At Huddersfield they will be used on work international students undertaking UK identified by higher education institutions as issues by bringing real life into politics teaching based degrees (from foundation through to masters Supporting the UK education of concern to the whole sector: innovations in the level) in local government, as well as conventional • develop the distinctiveness and attractiveness curriculum and student support; quality management; undergraduate degrees, where they will be used with in the International of UK education student assessment; and academic leadership. All cross-disciplinary groups of students: the possibilities • reduce exposure to risk by market diversification bidding teams must include a National Teaching are virtually endless. Cases already produced will be and consolidation Fellow, though bids are welcomed from consortia valuable on courses in political theory, public policy, Education Market • develop strategic partnerships and alliances including institutions who do not yet have a National British politics, local government and many others Professor Mary Stiasny, Director of the Teaching Fellow. We hope this will increase the impact – and, of course, this is just the beginning; many The Education UK brand is also being updated to the scheme is already having across the sector. more case scenarios will be produced in the future. British Council ensure that it continues to be relevant, and the Nominations must be made by institutions, who What’s more, these resources don’t just make refreshed brand will carry with it a new brand story: can nominate up to three staff for the Individual learning about politics more engaging and relevant for The British Council has been working with the DfES Award. The nominations will be independently students: they also develop a range of key skills which to develop a new strategy to support the UK in the Education in the UK is built on a tradition of assessed by a team of specialist readers and are ever more vital in an increasingly employability- international education market. innovation, a process of re-invention and moderated by National Advisory Panels. Winners of orientated HE environment. Skills such as team In 1999 as a result of the recognition of the renewal that challenges convention and Individual Awards will be announced in July and the working, use of initiative, communication, research strategic importance of international education- and encourages independently-minded people not Fellowships awarded at a gala dinner in September. and organisation, which are developed through the specifically the value of international students, just what to think, but how to think. Together, we Bids for project funding open in September so that use of case scenarios, are the very skills most felt to the Prime Minister launched the Prime Minister’s are able to create inspirational learning individual award winners from 2006 can participate. be lacking in graduate recruits to local government, Initiative, saying “People who are educated here environments. Education UK has a great heritage The scheme is funded by Higher Education Funding as the project team discovered when they undertook have a lasting tie to Britain”. The PMI as it came and a dynamic culture, offering brilliant Council for England (HEFCE) and the Department for an inventory of skills gaps in the sector. The full to be known was the first national campaign educational opportunities that connect the creative Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland, and is findings of this research can be also be found on the of its type. It was a joined-up approach across with the rigorous, ideas with the real world, sponsored by The Guardian as part of their ongoing project’s website. government departments and other organisations, serious with fun, high academic standards with commitment to celebrating those who contribute Also available from the website, for those aimed at the recruitment of an additional 50,000 qualifications that are recognised and values to student learning. The NTFS complements other interested in any aspect of case based or problem HE Students and 25,000 FE Students by 2004/5. around the globe. awards supported by Education Guardian. based learning, is a comprehensive review of good This was to be achieved through a major marketing practice in this approach. This draws on the large campaign managed by the British Council – with the Professor Stiansy addressed the Heads of Full details of the new scheme and application forms amount of research on, and experience in, case development of an Education UK brand at its centre Department Conference in December. are being sent to all higher education institutions and based learning in other disciplines where it has a long – and a range of practical measures to improve are also available from the Academy’s website at and distinguished history. opportunities for students to work whilst studying, www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs.htm to streamline visa processes, and to increase the number of Chevening scholarships. Celebrating Further information and contacts Dr John Craig (Project Manager) and Dr Sarah Hale (Project Director), University of Huddersfield The PMI Marketing campaign achieved its Further details about the scheme and details of Interacting Template recruitment targets within the target dates, generating Excellence NTFS contacts at each higher education institution an estimated £1 billion for the UK economy. It can be obtained from the Project Officer (NTFS) at Are your seminars ever marked by long silences? Case Scenario Packs However, the Huddersfield project isn’t just about created heightened awareness of the Education [email protected] Do your students sometimes complain that what being the producer of a product for others to UK brand globally, and achieved significant media Nominations open they’re learning isn’t relevant to the real world? The project has two main strands in terms of consume. Right from the start, the aim was to coverage far above the value of the original market For further information about the Higher Education Perhaps some group exercises or role play scenarios its outputs. The first strand is the production of disseminate ‘how to’ knowledge; to find ways to pass investment. The Education UK website itself reached for New National Academy contact Andrea Rayner, tel 01904 717543 or would help – but what if there aren’t any that fit complete high quality case scenario packs. More than on the team’s experiences and the body of knowledge more than 4 million visitors every year. 717500, email [email protected] with your course? Help may be at hand from a just a scenario or role play exercise, each pack comes built up over the course of the project to others, The success of the campaign is seen as very Teaching Fellowship small but innovative FDTL project at the University of complete with tutor notes, practical tips, suggested primarily academics but also, potentially, tutors in FE important to HE, FE and to UK trade and investment. Huddersfield. prompt questions, and all the background information and schools, and even employers. This is where the It is essential that the UK maintains its market With its close links to local authorities, and (for example, news reports, legislation or council second strand comes in: the interactive template. position, and there has therefore been a recognition Scheme a longstanding and successful practice of work papers) necessary to take it into the seminar room The project’s biggest challenge was to develop that investment must not decline. OECD figures Josep Mª Vilaseca i placements for Politics students, Huddersfield was and use it straight away. While some of the scenarios a web based template that would enable other suggest that the absolute number of students grew Nominations for the Higher Education Academy’s new very strongly placed to build on knowledge and do indeed involve role playing, others focus on academics to create their own scenarios, using between 1998 and 2003, but the UK’s total market National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) opened Marcet Award experience from outside the academy to develop problem solving – usually but not necessarily as part their own material and tailored to their own specific share decreased by over 2 percentage points, faster on 18th January 2006. teaching resources which really bring the discipline of a team – independent research, or a combination teaching needs. This has been achieved with the than any other OECD country. It is clear from the The scheme recognises and rewards excellence to life and draw students into the heart of political of these and other activities. All the cases finish with invaluable support of technician Paul Dagg, who also UCAS figures for 2005 that applications to UK in teaching in higher education. It is open to all staff The Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics of the Government issues. a ‘debriefing’ session in which students reflect on maintains the website. degree courses from several key markets are down involved in supporting the student learning experience of Catalonia has recently created an annual award, their own and each other’s responses to the scenario. A prototype of the template will be unveiled at an significantly on last year: in HE in England and Northern Ireland. This year it the Josep Mª Vilaseca i Marcet Award. The award Although primarily a tool for teaching, there are many interactive workshop at Huddersfield on March 27th, has been substantially restructured in response to is addressed to recognize the best submitted non- Three Person Project ways in which case based learning can be utilised as when participants from Politics departments across Applications from China (UK’s number one feedback from the HE sector, which recommended published manuscript dealing with any aspect of part of an innovative assessment strategy as well. Britain will put it through its paces. Places may still market) have dropped by 23.5%, while the that the individual award should be decoupled from federalism and political decentralization. The sum of Team So far, eight scenarios have been completed, and be available: email [email protected] if you would markets of Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia the requirement to carry out a project. the award is EUR24,000. are available for downloading – completely free of like to attend. The free one day workshop consists are all showing a decline. The scheme will consist of two strands, Manuscripts may be submitted in any of the The project began with a successful bid to HEFCE’s charge – from the project’s website at of a morning trying out the case scenarios, followed Individual Awards and Projects. We will be making following languages: English, French, Italian, German, Fund for the Development for Teaching and Learning www.hud.ac.uk/cbl. The scenarios vary in their by a very nice lunch, after which volunteers will As a result of concerns- and of changes in the world 50 awards of £10,000 to recognise and reward Catalan and Spanish. The deadline for submitting (FDTL) by two members of the Politics division at complexity and the amount of time and research work through the template in a ‘master class’ format market, the education sector, government and the individual excellence, which may be used for manuscripts is 15th September 2006. the University of Huddersfield, Dr John Craig and they call for, but all are based around real incidents observed by the other participants and supported by British Council are working on a successor strategy personal development in learning and teaching. The Dr Georgina Blakeley, who make up two of the three and current issues taken from the local governance the template’s developers. to build on the success on PMI. The focus will be Individual Awards aim to raise the profile of learning Further information (in English) is available at the person project team. The Project Manager, who sector. Although developed in partnership with local Now that the first batch of case scenarios are on maintaining and enhancing the UK’s position as and teaching; recognise and celebrate individuals Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics’ web site: handles the day to day running of the project as well authorities, they cover a diverse range of topics in ready, the project team would like to hear from a world leader in the international education, aimed who make an outstanding impact on the student www.gencat.net/iea. as researching and writing the case scenarios and Politics and have the potential to be used across anyone who would be interested in piloting and at building and sustaining international relationships learning experience; and provide a national focus developing the interactive template, is research fellow many different kinds of course. Policy formation, evaluating one or more of them, and providing through education and training, rather than overly for institutional teaching and learning excellence Dr Sarah Hale. Having previously been a lecturer in party politics, conflict resolution, resource distribution, feedback. Why not take this opportunity to be in at focusing on recruitment. Four key objectives underpin schemes. politics (specialising in political theory), she has first inclusion, democracy and representation, ethics, the beginning of this exciting venture? the new development; In the projects strand, designed to develop and hand knowledge of what’s needed in the seminar and equality are just some of the issues covered disseminate good practice across the whole sector, room. by cases based on school uniform policy, planning teams will be able to bid for funds of up to £200,000.  Specialist Group News Specialist Group News 

Territorial Politics in honour at the conference dinner held at Stormont established and new researchers can meet and The Politics of South Asia Specialist Group The conference was also sponsored by the ESRC discuss their work. Previous three day conferences Perspective Devolution and Constitutional Change research have been held in Cardiff in January 2001 and programme. The conference was attended by Strathclyde in January 2004 with similar success, The workshop featured five papers. The programme director, Professor Charlie Jeffery, and and it is intended that the group now continues on proceedings were started by Burzine Waghmar The British and Comparative Territorial Politics featured the findings from a number of programme the basis of panels at the annual Political Studies (School of Oriental and African Studies). He specialist group held its latest 3-day conference projects. The sponsorship was essential in helping Association conference and biennial specialist presented a paper on South Asian dhimmis (religious at the Institute of Governance, Queens University young researchers attend the conference. Indeed group conferences. Any Political Studies Association minorities). Ashutosh Mishra, a research analyst Belfast, between 11th and 13th January. Featuring nearly a third of the papers were given by researchers members wishing to be placed on the group mailing at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, over thirty papers, it began with a plenary panel on who have recently completed or are nearing the list should contact us as group convenors at the Delhi, presented a paper on the Pakistani military devolution in Northern Ireland, featuring Rick Wilford, completion of postgraduate research degrees. email addresses below. and the future of democracy and Islamisation in Robin Wilson, Paul Carmichael and Dominic Bryan. The conference provided further evidence, if Pakistan. Jérémie Codron (CERI, Paris) spoke about The plenary address by Dr Xabier Ezeizabarrena, a any was needed, that research in territorial politics Jonathan Bradbury and Nicola McEwen Islamist movements in Bangladesh. Marion Mueller scholar of Constitutional and Administrative Law at is a vibrant and stimulating field. The specialist ([email protected]; (Heinrich Böll Foundation, Lahore) spoke on the the University of the Basque Country, focused on group has sought to provide an arena in which [email protected]). subject of women and the politics of the religious contemporary territorial and constitutional debates in right in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The workshop Basque politics. was concluded by Alexander Evans (Foreign and Sir Hilary Synnott, Senior Fellow IISS, and Dr. Lawrence Saez, A wide range of panels looked at political Commonwealth Office), who presented a paper on current Chair of the Politics of South Asia Specialist Group at campaigns for devolution, political culture and party religious madrassahs in Pakistan and Bangladesh. the workshop on religious revivalism and political extremism in politics in multi-level political systems, multi-level Evans’ paper later appeared in print in the January- Pakistan and Bangladesh held at the International Institute for governance, institutional reform and policy-making, February 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs. Top scholars Strategic Studies in London. political decentralisation and conflict resolution, from around the world acted as discussants to regional politics and the EU, and territorial these fascinating papers. They included Jeevan which its Hindu nationalist agenda has been affected constitutional change. Participants came from Deol (SOAS), Mohammad Waseem (Quaid-i-Azam by the constraints of being a dominant member of all over Europe and North America and reported University), Dietrich Reetz (Free University Berlin), a coalition government. The book emerged from a research from the UK as well as Austria, Germany, Yunas Samad (University of Bradford), and Farzana workshop, co-sponsored by the Politics of South Asia Canada, Australia, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Central The Politics of South Asia Specialist Group of the Shaikh (University of Cambridge). Specialist Group, the Institute of Commonwealth and Eastern Europe. Political Studies Association, in conjunction with the The Politics of South Asia Specialist Group is Studies, and the British Academy. The event was The conference gained much from the assistance British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) also proud to announce the publication of a volume, organised by Katharine Adeney and Lawrence Saez. of the Institute of Governance. The Director, Dr John and the South Asia Programme of the International entitled Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism In order to mark the publication of the book, LSE- Barry, and staff, Barbara De Bruine and Trevor Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), co-sponsored (Routledge 2005). The book is co-edited by Katharine India, Routledge, and Foundation Books hosted a Leonard, were extremely helpful, and assisted in the an international workshop on religious revivalism Adeney and Lawrence Saez. Dr Adeney, a lecturer reception on 13th December in the India International organisation of the visit to Stormont, home of the and political extremism in Pakistan and Bangladesh. at the University of Sheffield, was chair of the Politics Centre in New Delhi. Another book launch took place suspended Northern Ireland Assembly, hosted by The event, held on 16th December 2005 at the of South Asia Specialist Group of the Political Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London MLA, Carmel Hanna. The conference also benefited headquarters of the International Institute for Association from 2002-2005. Dr Saez is the current on 24th February 2006. from the sponsorship of the Political Studies Strategic Studies in London, was very well attended. chair of the Politics of South Asia Specialist Group. Association. Association Chair, Professor Jonathan The workshop delegates included the Deputy High Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism provides Tonge, attended the conference throughout and From the left is Dr Jonathan Bradbury (conference organiser), Dr Xabier Commissioner of Pakistan and the Deputy High insightful analysis about the emergence of the gave the introduction for Lord Alderdice, the guest of Ezeizabarrena (Speaker) and Dr Nicola McEwen (conference organiser) Commissioner of Bangladesh. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India and the ways in

2006 Leverhulme Major Trust by sending a self-addressed A4 or A5 envelope one of whom will provide PhD supervision. Relevant stamped for 60g to: The Leverhulme Trust, 1 thematic areas for this bursary would include one of Conference topics included the SDP quarter of a organised for more than a year, comes at a crucial Research Fellowships Pemberton Row, London EC4A 3BG. Please write the following: Largest Ever Gathering century on; Liberal Democrats and the 2005 General time for the Liberal Party. It was possible at the “MRF” on the outer envelope. No packs will be mailed - The Role/Impact of Diaspora/migration in peace of Academics Studying Election; The Liberal Democrats, campaigning, gender conference, in the light of recent events to explore out after Friday 28 April 2006. processes and deeply divided societies and candidate selection; The Liberal Democrats not only the Liberal Democrats past and present The Leverhulme Trustees propose to offer up to 25 - Elite Behaviour in Ethnic Conflicts, especially in post- the Liberal Democrats – Alliance and Devolution (Northern Ireland, Scotland, but in light of recent events its future as well. The awards for individual research in UK universities in communist states Wales, and GLA) and Prime Ministers, leaders and conference could not have occurred at a more the humanities and social sciences. The Fellowships, Postgraduate Research - Theories of Ethnicity and Ethno-national conflict in Meets other important Liberal figures. opportune time.’ held for either two or three years, are designed to deeply divided societies. Conference organiser Dr Russell Deacon, of enable researchers to devote themselves to a project Studentship in Peace - Nationalism, religious radicalism and civil wars UWIC’s Centre for Humanities, said: “This gathering of outstanding originality and significance which is - Ethnic Conflicts, particularly in former Yugoslavia/ With the leadership of the Liberal Democrat Party of UK and European experts, which has been capable of being completed within the duration of the Studies & Conflict Caucasus currently under intense national scrutiny, a timely award, and which is appropriate for such a period - Comparative Peace Processes/Post-Conflict Peace conference of the British Liberal Political Studies of concentrated research. To this end, the Trust Resolution, Richardson Building. Group was held in Wales 13th – 15th January. It will support a full-time replacement lecturer whose was the largest ever gathering of historians, political appointment for the period of the award will allow the Institute for Peace and Applications for this bursary should be made through scientists and politicians, from across the UK and successful applicant to be granted paid leave from all Conflict Resolution, the Department of Politics and International Relations Europe, who study the Liberal Democrat Party in the or most university duties. at Lancaster University in the normal manner. UK. Eligible applicants: Candidates must hold an Lancaster University Particular attention should be given to submitting The conference, which was organised by Dr Russell established post in the humanities or social sciences your research proposal, which should clearly set out Deacon, reader in Welsh governance and history at at a UK university, and have held such a post for at your research project, locating it within the relevant the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), was least five years at the closing date of application. Applications are invited for a Postgraduate Research literature and outlining the methodology that will be held at the University of Wales Conference Centre Studentship in the field of Peace Studies/Conflict used to achieve the research objectives. in Gregynog, Powys (in the picture). The event was Closing date for applications: 4pm on Friday 5 May Resolution. The studentship is available to full-time The deadline for applying for this studentship is held in conjunction with the Liberal Democrat History 2006. UK/EU students only, and the award will be for Monday 1 May 2006. Group and the Political Studies Association. One of £10,000 per year, for three years, and is to cover fees the conference’s key speakers was Liberal Democrat Starting date of award: normally no later than 1 and maintenance. Further details may be found at the following web link: peer Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, the independent October 2007. Applications are welcome from students wishing http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/politics/phd/phd.htm#funding reviewer of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act to undertake PhD research linked to the research 2001. An application pack may be obtained from the expertise of the staff of the Richardson Institute,  2006 Conference 2006 Conference 

Politics and International 'Liberty, Security and the Challenge of Government' Panel ProgrammeTuesday 4 Daniel Street Roderick Pace April Private Military Companies and State Mediterranean views of Europe and the Relations at the 2006 Conference Programme in Brief Building: Sierra Leone and Iraq EU at different stages of engagement Session 1: 14:15 - 15:30 Dominica Svarc University of Reading The Rise of Private Military Corporations: Stream/Panel: ANARCHISM STREAM: Anarchism: 1 Tuesday 4 April Thursday 6 April Stream/Panel: ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION security implications and policy Convenor: Alex Prichard STREAM: Turnout: 1 recommendations Alexandre Christoyannopoulos 09.30 – 12.00 Registration 09.15 – 10.30 Session 8 - Panels Convenor: Jennifer Van Heerde Christian Anarchism: A Forgotten Scott Davidson Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and Alternative for the Peaceful Ordering of 12.00 – 12.30 Conference Opening with 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Understanding the Grey Vote Politics: Media and Policy: 1 Society cocktail reception Adrian Kavanagh Convenor: Michael Higgins Carissa Honeywell 11.00 – 12.15 Session 9 - Panels Second order elections and the Republic Chair: Sean Phelan The Anarchist Political Philosophy of 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch of Ireland: a spatial perspective on the Mart Otis Dr Alex Comfort 12.15 – 14.15 Lunch 2002 General Election The Breakdown of a Media Policy System Alex Prichard 14.15 – 15.30 Session 1 - Panels Maria Sobolewska – or the dawning of a new era? Utopianism, Realism and Anarchy: 14.30 – 15.45 Session 10 - Panels Turnout decision of ethnic minorities in Katrin Voltmer Proudhon’s Conception of Politics 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee/tea break Britain Mass Media and Public Policymaking – is 16.00 Tea there a link? Stream/Panel: BRITISH IDEALIST THOUGHT: The Department continues to be a centre of 16.00 – 17.30 Session 2 - Roundtables Stream/Panel: B: CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION: Theme: State Action and Public Policy in British excellence and has built on the 5 it was awarded in 16.00 Conference ends Europe: Citizenship and Immigration: 1 Stream/Panel: MARXISM: Marxism 1: Justice, Idealist Thought: British Idealist Thought 1: 1 the 2001 RAE. In the past two years, the Department 17.45 – 18.45 Session 3 - Keynote Address: Convenor: Stefano Fella Ideology, Democracy, Poetry: 1 Convenor: Andrew Vincent has welcomed four new colleagues and another four Dr Tony Wright: chairman, Chair: Stefano Fella Convenor: Mark Cowling David Boucher will join us in September, 2006. Student numbers Public Administration Select Keynote Speakers Emanueala Bozzini, Stefano Fella, David Bates Henry Jones: Idealism as a Practical are also increasing at both undergraduate and Committee, MP for Cannock Hans-Jorg Trenz Intellectuals, Ideology and Emancipation Creed postgraduate levels. The introduction of a new BA Chase Political Studies Anti-racist movements in Britain, Clive Hill Rhul James Connelly programme in War, Peace and International Relations Germany and Italy – comparing How ‘democratic’ was Marx’s poetry? Idealism and Environmental Rights in 2003 has proved very popular and new MA 19.00 – 1945 Reception by Palgrave Association Annual strategies, political opportunities and the Wei Xiaoping Colin Tyler programmes include Strategic Studies, EU Politics Macmillan effects of Europeanisation From Principle to Context: Marx, and Idealist Theories of International (with Placement) and Ethics and Political Theory. Conference 2006 Krzysztof Nowaczek Nozick, Rawls on Distributive Justice Relations Research in the Department in clustered into three 20.00 – 21.30 Dinner Europeanisation of domestic immigration groups: Strategic and Security Studies, Politics and Tony Wright, MP, chairs the House of Commons policies Stream/Panel: SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa Foreign Stream/Panel: STATE THEORY: State Theory 1: Law and Applied Political Theory. The Department 21.30- 01.00 Entertainment - Quiz – Bar Select Committee on Public Administration. He has Sara Beth Wallace and Military Policy: 1 Parliamentary socialism and structural constraints: 1 is particularly pleased with the partnerships it is extension represented Cannock Chase in the House since 1997. Variation and Divergence in Language Convenor: Andria Ellner Convenor: Paul Wetherly developing in relation to these research centres, He was previously Reader in Politics at the University Requirements for Citizenship of migrants Daniel Conway Peter Burnham whether other Reading Departments, such as Law Wednesday 5 April of Birmingham. He will give the Keynote Address to in Europe Women and Feminist debates In the South Parliamentary Socialism and the State and Philosophy, or outside institutions, such as the the Conference. African Anti-Conscription Campaign Paul Wetherly Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and overseas 09.15 – 10.30 Session 4 - Panels Stream/Panel: F: EUROPEANISATION: ITS MANY Theo Neethling The structural constraint thesis – review universities. Professor Ira D Katznelson is Ruggles Professor FACES: Europeanisation: Its Many Faces 1: 1 Military Spending, Socio-Economic and assessment In the spirit of such cooperation and 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee of Political Science and History at Columbia University Convenor: Claudio Radaelli Challenges and Foreign Policy Demands interdependency, we welcome our fellow political and President of the American Political Science John Balance, Simon Lightfoot Francois Vrey Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: The scientists from all over the world to Reading. 11.00 – 12.15 Session 5 - Panels Association. He will address the Association’s Annual The Impact of the Party Regulation on Strategic Culture after a decade of Parliamentary Labour Party’s Labour’s first century: 1 Dinner. the organisational development of democracy Convenor: Mark Wickham-Jones 12.15 – 14.15 Lunch Europarties Chair: Stephen Fielding Executive Committee Professor Peter Mair has been Professor of Sara Berglund Stream/Panel: POLITICAL ECONOMY: Political Peter Dorey 12.15 – 14.15 Specialist Group Business Comparative Politics at the European University Problems with implementing European Economy 1: Issues of Corporate Governance: 1 Labour’s century of constitutional Vacancies 2006 meetings Institute in Florence since 2005. He is on leave from public utilities directives: Continued Convenor: tbc conservatism Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he holds opposition or involuntary defection? Stefan Andreasson Robert Taylor 5 vacancies exist for ordinary member places on the 14.15 – 15.45 Session 6 - Government and the Chair of Comparative Politics. Since 2001, he has Simon Dalferth The Political Economy of Corporate The Parliamentary Road to Socialism Political Studies Association Executive Committee from Opposition Leonard Shapiro been co-editor of the journal West European Politics. Civil Liberties and Security in Governance in South Africa – The Role of the PLP since 1906 July 2006, for terms of three years. Annual Lecture: Keynote Professor Mair will give a lecture sponsored by the Europeanised National Police Policy Chun-Yi Lee Postal or e-mailed nominations, proposed and speaker Peter Mair: Opposing journal Government and Opposition. Fabrizio De Francesco When Private Capital becomes a security Stream/Panel: GERMAN POLITICS STREAM: seconded by Association members, should be received Europe Towards an ‘Impact Assessment State’ in asset: Challenging Conventional Modell Deutschland: 1 by the Returning Officer, Professor Paul Carmichael, at Sir Philip Mawer has been the United Kingdom’s Europe? Government/Business interaction Convenor: Christian Schweiger the address below, by Friday 31st March at 12 noon: 15.45 – 16.15 Coffee/tea break Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards since Matthew Watson Chair: Ruth Wittlinger 2002. Prior to that, he was Secretary-General to Stream/Panel: POLICY ANALYSIS/NETWORKS: Policy Euphoria, Risk and Corporate Scandal: Ingolfur Bluehdorn Professor Paul Carmichael 16.15 – 17.30 Session 7 - Panels the Church of England’s General Synod. He was Analysis and Networks 1: 1 Towards a Political Economy Perspective ‘Reform Motor’ on the Opposition Honorary Secretary previously a senior civil servant in the Home Office Convenor: Dimitrios Christopoulos on the Collapse of Enron Benches: Green Repositioning in a New Political Studies Association 17.30 - 18.30 PSA Annual General Meeting and Cabin Office. He read Politics at the University of Alice Moseley Political Landscape Department of Politics (members only) Edinburgh before joining the civil service. Sir Philip Researching collaboration in public Stream/Panel: G: EURO-MED: Mediterranean Views of Charles Lees, Dan Hough University of Newcastle Mawer will take part in a panel on Parliamentary policy implementation networks: a case Europe: 2 Continuity and Change in the German Newcastle upon Tyne 18.30 – 19.30 Sponsored Reception by Ethics and Conduct. study of the homelessness sector Convenor: Peter Woodward Party System – The Case of the ‘Party on NE1 7RU Government and Opposition Lucia Quaglia Sevgi Drorian the Left’ E-mail: [email protected] Professor Paul Wilkinson, Chairman of the world The role of financial interests in the Turkey’s relations with the EU and the Christian Schweiger 20.00 – 22.00 Conference Dinner renowned Centre for Terrorism and Political Violence reform of financial services regulation decision to start negotiations for possible Liberal vs Co-ordinated? The Economic Nominations may also be handed in person to the at the University of St Andrews Professor Javaid and supervision in the EU: policy takers EU entry and Social Policy Approach of the SPD Returning Officer at the start of the Political Studies 22.00 – 01.00 Bar extension Rehman is professor of law at Brunel University and or policy makers? Khadim Niama and New Labour Association Annual General Meeting at 5.30pm on a consultant to governmental and non-governmental Libyan perceptions of Europe and the Gerd Strohmeier Wednesday 5th April at the Palmer Building Lecture bodies on the law relating to terrorism and Islamic Stream/Panel: PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS: EU following the re-engagement of Libya The German Political System as a Model Theatre, University of Reading. law. Both Professor Wilkinson and Professor Rehman Private Military Corporations: 1 with the international community and the for Europe? If the number of nominations exceeds the number will take part in a roundtable on Courts and Rights. Convenor: tbc possibility of it joining the Barcelona of places, an election by postal ballot of the whole Process membership will be held. 10 2006 Conference 2006 Conference 11

Stream/Panel: SOUTH ASIA: South Asia 1: Political Wednesday 5 April Stream/Panel: LOCAL POLITICS: Developments in Bren Romney Farhann Wali Convenor: Daniele Albertazzi Thought: South Asian Perspectives: 1 local politics: 1 Democracy, Economic Growth and The impact of Islamic radicalism on the Chair: Duncan McDonnell Convenor: Rochana Bajpai Session 4: 09:15 - 10:30 Convenor: tbc Development: Towards a Symbiotic construction of British Muslim identities Mark Donovan Chair: Alistair Clark Explanation The ‘centre’ between structure and Stream/Panel: WARFARE: Warfare in the Information Stream/Panel: WOMEN AND POLITICS: Women and Doug Campbell Vera Troeger Stream/Panel: BRITISH POLITICS:: Parties and the agency. The Italian case Age: 1 Politics 1: Women’s Representation: 1 Mayoral Elections in 2004: An initial Monetary Independence and Trade Challenge of Government: 1 Salvatore Lupo Convenor: Michael Sheehan Convenor: Sarah Childs assessment Relations in Flexible Exchange Rate Convenor: Philip Giddings The centre in historical perspective Tim Benbow Karen Celis Colin Copus Regimes Chris Ballinger Alfio Mastropaolo TBC Substantive representation of Women: Directly elected mayors in England: Cross Party Agreements on House of The Centre of Attention Liaropoulos Andrew theory and empirical research the demand for a new form of local Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and Lords’ Reform: 1948 and 1968 War in the Information age: The need for Sarah Childs, Mona Lena Krook political accountability; the role of Politics and Media Performance: 2 Geoff Foote Session 5: 11:00 - 12:15 a holistic understanding of information Should Feminists give up on critical Mass? councillors in a local separation of Convenor: Michael Higgins The Importance of Enoch warfare Lisa Harrison powers Chair: Valentina Cardo Richard Hayton Stream/Panel: PARLIAMENTS AND LEGISLATURES Michael Sheehan The selection of prospective parliamentary Philip Whiteman Michael Higgins, Phillip Drake Conservative Party Strategy in Opposition SPECIALIST GROUP: Parliaments and Legislatures Counterspace Operations and candidates in Britain: do political parties Local-central relations: Conceptualising Framing Politics: Politicians and the Christopher Michael White 2: Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government: information warfare: the strategic and utilise a gendered model of the ‘Good the political challenge of bottom-up Resources of Celebrity Cameron and the Blairite Legacy: Convenor: Alexandra Kelso political implications of US military Candidate’? policy implementation to British Central Ana Langer Re-interpreting New Labour Chair: Claire Ettinghausen space doctrine Government A Historical Exploration of the Matthew Flinders Stream/Panel: MARXISM: Marxism 2: Republicanism Personalisation of Politics in the Media: Stream/Panel: TERRORISM: Terrorism 2: Parliamentary Scrutiny: Police Patrols Stream/Panel: GREEK STREAM: Political Marketing and Fascism: 2 Stream/Panel: ANARCHISM STREAM: Anarchism, The British Prime Ministers 1945-1999 Radicalisation, terrorism and the politics of fear : 2 and Fire Alarms and Communication in Greece (Collaboration with Convenor: Mark Cowling Post-Anarchism and Society: 2 Heather Savingny, John Street, Convenor: George Kassimeris Alexandra Kelso Political Marketing Group): 1 Geoff Foote Convenor: Alex Prichard Seth Hague Frank Faulkner Parliamentary Responses to Political Convenor: Roman Gerodimos The Politics of the First New Left in Britain Sureyyya Evren Striking a Chord: Music and Musicians in The ordinariness of terrorism: reshaping Disengagement: Where Does Enhanced S Dimitraiadis, M Zisouli Lea Haro Postanarchsim and the ‘Third World’ Public Action the banality of evil as early 21st century Scrutiny Fit In? Using the web to create a “citizen The Comintern and the theory of Social Benjamin Franks zeitgeist Rob Salmond –oriented” culture for a political party: Fascism Questioning Post-Anarchism in the Age Stream/Panel: BRITISH IDEALIST THOUGHT: Theme: Richard Jackson Question Times: How Legislative evidence from the Greek socialist party of Security State Action and Public Policy in British Idealist American counter-terrorism and the Accountability Mechanisms Affect Mass Y Zotos Kotzaivazoglou Stream/Panel: POLICY ANALYSIS/NETWORKS: Policy Carl Levy Thought: British Idealist Thought 2: 2 politics of fear: righting the terrorist threat Political Engagement The Transformation of Political Analysis and Networks 2: 2 ‘Sovversivismo’ and Anarchism: the Convenor: Andrew Vincent George Kassimeris Communication in Greece: Causes and Convenor: Dimitrios Christopoulos Radical Political Culture of Otherness in Maria Dimova-Cookson Playing politics with terrorism: a user’s Stream/Panel: ITALIAN POLITICS STREAM: Liberty Effects Dimitrios Christopoulos Liberal Italy, 1870-1926 The Good Will and the Nature of Duty guide Security and Identity in Italian Politics - Back to the A Veneti The evolution of an intermediation Andrew Vincent Jeffrey Schwerzel future? B: 3 The TV political advertisement: an network: The Ryanair-Charleroi case in Stream/Panel: A: FOREIGN AND DEFENCE POLICY: German Philosophy and Public Policy Terrorism as a popular pursuit? Convenor: Daniele Albertazzi evaluation of its aesthetics and functions context Europe: Foreign and Defence Policy: 1 Chair: Duncan McDonnell by the young voters. Greece: the case Sarah Cotterill, Steven King Convenor: Robert Dover Stream/Panel: SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE: Stream/Panel: GERMAN POLITICS STREAM: Donatella Campus study The role of networks in the development of Nicole De Flers Security and Intelligence 1: Legislative oversight of Constructing German identity: 2 The Italian Second Republic: The role of UK local e-government Towards a Reappraisal of national foreign intelligence in a time of security crisis: 1 Convenor: Claire Sutherland Coalition Leaders in Electoral Campaigns Stream/Panel: ITALIAN POLITICS STREAM: Italy policy interests? The Effects of CFSP on Convenor: Philip Davies Chair: Dan Hough Aldo Di Virgilio between the EU and the US: 1 Stream/Panel: ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION the national foreign policies of small EU Philip Davies Thomas Henne From PR to plurality and back: what Convenor: Maurizio Carbone STREAM: Voting Behaviour: 2 member states Congress, Iraq and the politics of The shaping of German national identity prospects for the post-Christian Elisabetta Brighi Convenor: Jennifer Van Heerde Robert Dover legislative oversight in the US by the Veit Harlan conflict in the 1950s Democratic parties? Europe, the US and the ‘Policy of the Robert Ford The European Arms Trade – The Fast and John Morrison Claire Sutherland Caterina Paolucci Pendulum’ The importance of Foreign The dog that didn’t bark: immigration and Slow Track of Europeanisation Doing Intelligence Oversight: a practical Imagining National Identity: Germany, Forza Italia, the DC of the XXI century? Policy Paradigms in the Foreign Policy of the 2005 election Claudia Major approach Vietnam and Vietnamese in Germany Italy (1989-2005) Achim Goerres Towards a Europeanisation of security Mark Phythian Stream/Panel: C: HOLISTIC SECURITY IN A Osvaldo Croci Determinants of older people’s voting and defence policy? Analysing member Legislative oversight of the Iraq Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: British Labour GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE: Europe: Holistic A balancing act: Italy, Atlanticism and choice in Britain and Germany states’ commitment to ESDP: The case of intelligence failure in historical perspective: 2 Security in a Governance Structure: 1 Europeanism Jane Green, Sara Hobolt the European Security Strategy Convenor: Mark Wickham-Jones Convenor: Chris Lord Lucia Quaglia Owning the issue agenda: explaining Stream/Panel: TEACHING AND LEARNING: Teaching Chair: Ray Douglas Chair: Struart Croft The Role of Italy in the European Union: party strategies in British Election Stream/Panel: PARLIAMENTS AND LEGISLATURES and Learning Politics 1 :A Roundtable: 1 Ray Douglas Felia Allum Plus ca change… Campaigns SPECIALIST GROUP: Parliaments and Legislatures Convenor: Philippa Sherington Ethnic cleansing on the left? Labour and Organised Crime. From Policy Concept Jerry Johnson 1: Constraining Government: Parliament’s Chair: Jon Cope the national minorities question in Europe, to Policy Execution. How the Holistic Session 2: 16:00 - 17:30 Values, beliefs, and party preference: Convenor: Alexandra Kelso Lord Norton of Louth John Craig 1939-47 Approach slips from view evidence from the European Social Survey Philip Cowley Case based learning: bringing the Hugh Pemberton Christopher Lord, Jennifer Sands Roundtable: COURTS AND RIGHTS: Roundtable: Why Does the Government Not (Often) workplace into learning The renaissance in Labour history and its Theorising Holistic Security in a Courts and Rights: 1 Stream/Panel: GREEK STREAM: The Changing Get Defeated in the House of Commons? Rose Gann implications for the study of politics Fragmented Governance Structure. Convenor: Bob McKeever Structure and Culture of Greek Political Parties: 2 Humphry Crum Ewing Studying politics: the views of 6th form Rational Actors, Epistemic Communities Paul Wilkinson, Javaid Rehman Convenor: Roman Gerodimos War Powers: The Proper Control by students Stream/Panel: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: Public or Garbage Cans? Evidence from a data- Roundtable: Courts and Rights Chair: Roman Gerodis Parliament of Decisions to Use Armed Philippa Sherington Administration: Public Services in Britain A: 1 set of European Union Joint Actions. T Kotsaka Force Engaging in politics: Do students benefit Convenor: Neil Winn Roundtable: EUROPE AND EUROPEANISATION The Human Geography of PASOK; Meg Russell, Maria Sciara from placement learning? Chair: Christopher Hood EU intelligence Co-operation. STREAM: Roundtable on Britain and the EU - 1974 – 1981 Why Does the Government Get Defeated Keith Dowding, Peter John Co-operation in the absence of trust? Co-sponsored by UACES (University Association for C Tassis in the House of Lords? Stream/Panel: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN The ‘two exit, two voice, and loyalty Convenor: tbc The 7th Congress of PASOK (2005): COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: Political Participation model’ a test with survey data on local Stream/Panel: F: EUROPEANISATION: ITS MANY Chair: Chris Lord Towards an ‘open’ party Stream/Panel: POLITICAL ECONOMY: Political and Islam: 1 services in the UK FACES: Europeanisation: Its Many Faces 2: 2 A Tsakiris, V Aranitou Economy 2: Issues of Economic Structure: 2 Convenor: Roberto Espindola Oliver James Convenor: Robert Dover Roundtable: BLAIR COMMISSION: Blair Commission The dark side of the moon: Greek political Convenor: tbc Parveen Akhtar Satisfaction with the Performance of Local Apostolos Agnantopoulos Roundtable: 1 parties and factions in trade unions and Chair: Christopher White Rushdie and the mobilisation of British Public Services The Europeanisation of National Foreign Convenor: Peter Woodward professional organizations Paul Lewis Muslims Policies – A Conceptual Framework Understanding income distribution within Mohammed Sajid Stream/Panel: ITALIAN POLITICS STREAM: Liberty and an Empirical Application in the case a modern capitalist economy Pressure group politics in Britain today, Security and Identity in Italian Politics - Back to the of Greek-Turkish Relations the case of Muslim participation future? 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Francesca Astengo The changing role of local government Caroline Baker Stream/Panel: WOMEN AND POLITICS: Women and Convenor: Stefano Fella Stream/Panel: POLITICAL ECONOMY: Political The role of Italy in the process of in the governance of economic Determining Proliferation: Security in the Politics 4: International: 4 Stefano Fella Economy 4: Issues of Democratic Governance and European Integration development policy and regeneration Twenty-First Century Convenor: Sarah Childs Liberty, Identity and Security in political capitalism : 4 Maurizio Carbone Tassilo Herrschel Theodora Klountzou Fidelma Ashe discourse on immigration in Italy Convenor: Leonard Seabrooke Identity and Legitimacy in Global Politics: ‘City-Regional governance: the meaning Determining Common Threats and “Man enough” the McCartney Giovanna Antonia Fois Andre Broome the European Union as a Development and operation of regions? Responses to post -9/11 European campaign: gendering communal security Is Europe a threat to Italy? Euro- If you must increase tax, do it quietly Actor (can the EU as a whole have a security challenges in Northern Ireland Scepticism in the second Berlusconi Ian Marsh distinctive approach to international Stream/Panel: GREEK STREAM: Greek-Turkish Glen Newey Jacqueline Briggs Government The Governance of Innovation development?) Relations in the context of the EU: 3 What good is security Young Women and Politics Mattie Paola Jens Mortonson, Leonard Seebrooke Jaap Hoogenboezem Convenor: Andrew Liaropolous Marc Schelhase Sangmook Kim From the Thames to the Tiber: Markets as The Political Cost of Mortgage Bubbles ‘European Defence: A Challenge for Chair: Michel Sheenan Political Risk Analysis – towards a new Gender equality, family friendly policies Rhetorical Instruments and the Italian Governments’ (is the goal of the current S Alifantis conceptualisation and government performance Welfare State Stream/Panel: GREEK STREAM: The Evolution of CFSP to come to a strong European The impact of Turkey’s EU Candidacy in Greek Foreign and Defence Policy: 4 common defence a realist one?) Greek-Turkish relations Stream/Panel: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: Public Stream/Panel: POLITICAL ECONOMY: Political Stream/Panel: TERRORISM: Terrorism 1: 1 Convenor: Andrew Liaropolous A Kotsiaros Administration: Public Services in Britain B: 2 Economy 3: Issues of economic adaptation: 3 Convenor: George Kassimeris Chair: Moustakis Fotios Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and The European path of Turkey: Convenor: tbc Convenor: tbc Rabindranth Bhattacharyya C Frangonikolopoulos Politics: Politics and Emergent Media Forms: 3 implications of the ‘Europeanization’ Chair: Christopher Hood Andreas Antoniades Terrorism and the Day After: searching for Civil Society and Greek Foreign Policy Convenor: Michael Higgins process for Greek-Turkish relations Andrew Geddes, Helen Mathers, Domestic structures and varieties of a ‘trust-worthy’ governance G Koukoudakis Chair: Philip Drake C Matsouka David Richards, Martin Smith capitalism in the communication of Dirk Haubrich The Role of Citizens in the current Greek- Valentina Cardo The resolution of the Cyprus issue Delivery in the Home Office: ASBOs, hegemonic discourses: the case of The three stages of terrorism: explaining Turkish Rapprochement Big Brother as a Community – What’s through the European candidacy of street crime and managed migration globalisation in two small European the state we are in A Samaras, E Katsara Reality TV got to do with politics Turkey: Obstacles and Prospects Will Jennings states Pieter Maeseele The representation of Turkey and the Roma Gerodimos The Regulatory State and Democratic Simon Glaze Resilience in an age of terrorism Greek-Turkish relations in the Greek Press A Deficit of Civil Society? An in-depth Stream/Panel: ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION Responsiveness? UK Asylum and Mis-reading Adam Smith: World Bank K Tsoukala analysis of UK youth engagement STREAM: Party Politics: 3 Immigration 1994-2004 Education Policy and an Instrumentalist Stream/Panel: WOMEN AND POLITICS: Women and The Europeanisation of Greek Defence websites Convenor: Jennifer Van Heerde Iain Mclean, Dirk Haubrich Approach to social education Politics 3: Feminising Politics: Comparative: 3 Policy Anastasia Kavada Alistair Clark Public Services: Correlates of success in Stephen Mcbride Convenor: Sarah Childs An Internet-Based Movement? Exploring Mass, Cadre, or Network Parties? performance assessment The public and the private in global Viola Burau Stream/Panel: D: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF the role of the internet in the Paris 2003 Assessing Scotland’s local party governance Gendered institutions and the governance EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: Political Economy of European Social Forum organisations Stream/Panel: TURNOUT: Researching Turnout : 1 of elderly care: cross-country comparative European Integration 1: 1 Lisa Tsaliki Robin Pettitt Convenor: Kenneth McKenzie Session 6: 14:15 - 15:45 perspectives Convenor: Oliver James Blogging: Grassroots Journalism, Understanding organization change in Liam Delaney, Kenneth Mckenzie Ansa Masaud Mark Aspinwall, Mark Duckenfield Participatory Culture and the fear of the the British Labour Party 1997-2005 Innovative tests of turnout decisions Stream/Panel: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION Do female MP’s substantively represent British Business and European Monetary professionals Andrew Russell, Ed Fieldhouse, Kevin Denny, Orla Doyle LECTURE: Government and Opposition Lecture: Women? A case study national assembly Integration David Cutts How persistent is voting behaviour? Opposing Europe: 1 in Pakistan Ulrike S Kramer Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: Labour and The Liberal Democrats after 2005 Evidence from British Panel data Convenor: tbc Rainbow Murray Fundamental Freedoms as a Challenge Northern Ireland: 3 Kenneth Mckenzie, Liam Delaney Explaining French Parties’ response to for Governments – The Impact of ECJ Convenor: Mark Wickham-Jones Stream/Panel: STATE THEORY: State Theory 2: The Celtic tiger and the Irish non-voter Session 7: 16:15 - 17:30 the ‘parity’ law: a new theoretical Decisions in Direct Taxation on the Chair: Aaron Edwards Legitimacy, authority and the state-culture nexus: 2 approach Sovereignty of Nation States Paul Dixon Convenor: tbc Stream/Panel: ANARCHISM STREAM: Stream/Panel: GERMAN POLITICS STREAM: German Josipa Petrunic Huw Macartney Labour and the Northern Ireland Peace Marinetto Michael Post-Anarchism: 3 Foreign Policy: 4 Political liberty for women in post war The Classes and Capitals of European Process The state-culture nexus: the turn to Convenor: Alex Prichard Convenor: Martin Larose Kosovo Financial Integration Aaron Edwards culture in contemporary state theory Gareth Gordon Chair: Christian Schweiger Claudio M Radeaelli Rethinking British Labour Party Policy, Diego Rios Challenging the Challenge Towards a Thomas Speckmann Stream/Panel: THE UN AND THE WORLD COURT: Explaining tax cooperation: the selection 1951-1964 Legitimacy and the authority of the state Deconstructive Anarchism Failures of ‘State Building’: Challenge for The UN and the World Court : 1 of modes of governance in EU direct tax Garen Karapetyan the Foreign Policy of Germany Convenor: Peter Jones policy Stream/Panel: GERMAN POLITICS STREAM: German Stream/Panel: TEACHING AND LEARNING: Teaching Guy Debord, Commodity Fetishism and Ruth Wittlinger Lynn Bennie, Neil Mitchell parties: 3 and Learning Politics 2: Innovations in teaching and the Problem of State-Reification: new Competition or Co-operation? Germany, Business, social capital, and civil and Stream/Panel: POLITICAL THEORY: Political Theory 1: Convenor: tbc learning in Politics : 2 directions in post-anarchism the EU and the US political rights: business participation in Concept of Freedom and Rights: 1 Chair: Charles Lees Convenor: Sarah Hale Steve Shukaitis the UN global compact Convenor: tbc Matthew Ashton Sarah Hale Transformation, Accumulation and Roundtable: APSA guest panel: Roundtable: Difference Nejat Dogan Chair: Katherine Eddy The financing of German Cartel Parties Politics and the real world: using case Rupture: the Mystical Foundations of and Inequality in the Developing World: the APSA The world court and world order Carlos M De Cs Coelho Martin Larose based learning in politics Capital’s Autonomy taskforce: 1 Hayek on Liberty and Equality On the brink of a strategic overstretch? Paul Mcveigh Convenor: Terrell Carver Stream/Panel: ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION Katherine Eddy The FRG, the US and out-of-area Tuning in not dropping out: student Stream/Panel: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN John Echeverri-Gent, Robert Wade STREAM: People, Parties and Politics: 4 On revaluing the currency of human interventions progression and retention at level one: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: Political Parties and APSA Taskforce on Difference and Convenor: Jennifer Van Heerde rights Hartwig Pautz causes and possible responses Participation: 2 Inequality in the Developing World Karin Bottom Birgit Schippers What was the impact of think-tanks Graham Smith, Roger Ottewill Convenor: Roberto Espindola Government and the cartel: formulae and Freedom, democracy, affect: on the on the German Agenda 2020 as a third Teaching citizenship in higher education Richard Anderson Roundtable: SOUTH ASIA: South Asia 4: Roundtable power dispersion in OECD countries since psychic dimension of democratic politics order change for the Social Democratic Pete Woodcock The response of the mainstream parties on Hindu Nationalism: 4 1970 Karl Widerquist Party’s (SDP) understanding of social Deliberative (annoyed grunt) democracy to the far right challenge in Britain and Convenor: Desai Manali Heinz Brandenburg Effective Self-Ownership: Freedom as the justice? and The Simpsons: using Springfield in France Short of lying: the prevalence of bullshit power to say no the teaching of politics Roberto Espindola, Gabriela Borz Roundtable: BRITISH POLITICS:: Roundtable - The in political communication during the Stream/Panel: LOCAL POLITICS: Urban and Regional Electoral Apathy and Democracy: Future of Political Parties: 4 2005 British Election Campaign Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and Governance: A Challenge to Territorial Politics: 2 Stream/Panel: SOUTH ASIA: South Asia 2: explaining the lack of political Convenor: Philip Parvin Justin Fisher, David Denver, Politics: The State of Political Communication: 4 Convenor: tbc International Politics of South Asia: 2 participation in UK and Latin America Chair: Philip Parvin Ed Fieldhouse, David Cutts, Convenor: Michael Higgins Chair: Alistair Clark Convenor: Lawrence Saez Maria Suojanen Patrick Dunleavy, Justin Fisher, Mark Gill Andrew Russell Chair: Heather Savigny Sarah Ayres, Graham Pearce Electoral system change and its effects Roundtable Trends in British Constituency Peter Csigo Recalibrating territorial governance in the Stream/Panel: SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE: on parties in Europe Campaigning, 1992-2005 Popular Culture and Affirmative Politics English regions Security and Intelligence 2: Threat, Risks and Stream/Panel: ITALIAN POLITICS STREAM: Liberty Gill Bentley Security: 2 Security and Identity in Italian Politics: Real and From Patchwork Quilt to Jigsaw Puzzle: Convenor: Peter Gill imagined threats A: 4 14 2006 Conference 2006 Conference 15

David Deacon, Dominic Wring Stream/Panel: FRENCH POLITICS STREAM: French Alan Tomlinson Richard Cowell, James Downe, Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and Chris Eichbaum, Richard Shaw From Tory to Tony but now what? The electoral geography: 1 Theorising a critical politics of sport Steve Martin Politics: International Issues and Perspectives: 5 Labour in government, social changing dynamics of press partisanship Convenor: Robert Elgie Performance, public satisfaction and Convenor: Michael Higgins democracy, and the third way: the New in Britain David Bell Stream/Panel: GREEK STREAM: Current Challenges participation in local service delivery Chair: Michael Temple Zealand experience Barry Richards Electoral Geography: expanding from the in Greek Public Administration: 5 Entwistle Tom Cinzia Padovani James Jupp Political Journalism: Challenging the French case Convenor: Roman Gerodimos The bounded rationality of best value Public Media and Democracy in the USA, Saving the party from itself Bias against hope Emanuele Massetti Chair: Dimitris Tsarouhas reviews Poland, Jamaica and Japan Fiona Ross Ideology and policy position of regional A Aggelakis Vivien Lowndes, Helen Sullivan Adania Shibli The Transformation of the welfare state Stream/Panel: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: Public parties. Do structural factors matter? The EU’s Structural Funds and the Public How low can you go? Neighbourhood Media discourses on the victimization of and social democracy in Britain and Administration Round Table – Research in Public Julian Michi Investment Programme in Greece: governance and modernisation children during wars: The case of the Germany Administration: 1 Historical and geographical continuities 1985-2005 Palestinian occupied territories in the Convenor: Clive Gray in French political attitudes: how local T Chardas Stream/Panel: UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY: year 2000 Stream/Panel: BRITISH LIBERAL POLITICS: The tradition operates ‘Bringing the state back in’ the study of United States Foreign Policy : 1 Maria Touri Liberal Democrat Policy Review: 2 Stream/Panel: SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE: Charles Pattie the Greek Political Economy: the Convenor: Jon Dumbrell Revisiting the CNN Effect: The Media- Convenor: tbc Security and Intelligence Round Table – Intelligence How geography affects elections: the European Union’s Regional Policy in the Daniel Baldino Government Interaction in conflict Chair: Richard Grayson and Security Committee: the first ten years: 3 case of the UK Western Macedonia Region The politics of alliance management: situations from a rational-choice Russell Deacon Convenor: Peter Gill A Samaras Australia and the future of ANZUS approach The Welsh Liberal Democrats Policy Chair: Peter Gill Stream/Panel: ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION The Vested Interest Frame and the David Bosold, Kai Oppermann Review STREAM: (Women and Politics 2: Feminising Framing of Campaign Laws in Greece Talking win-sets: combining two-level Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: The Left and Paul Graham Stream/Panel: G: EURO-MED: EU foreign policy in Politics: The UK): 5 games and discourse analysis Public Policy 1: 5 The Orange Book Liberals: Intellectual the Mediterranean : 1 Convenor: Sarah Childs Stream/Panel: POLITICAL MARKETING: Political Jonathan Rodwell Convenor: Mark Wickham-Jones Influences and Policy Networks Convenor: Chris Lord Karen Bird Marketing and Communication in Greece (Co- Ideology, causation and American Chair: Hugh Compston Alison Holmes Chair: Ludovica Marchi The Feminine Parliamentarian: Women sponsored with the Greek Politics Group): 1 Foreign Policy: How ideas are vital, Gregg Bucken-Knapp 100 years on: are the Liberal Democrats Sharon Pardo MPs Reshaping the Legislative Role Convenor: Declan Bannon post-positivism can be rational and how Workers of the world, Keep Out? The inheritors of the New Liberal mantle? Towards a New Euro-Mediterranean Rosie Campbell, Sarah Childs, S Dimitraiadis, M Zisouli William Appleman Williams provided Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions Neighbouring Space Joni Lovendeski Using the web to create a “citizen some answers and Labour Migration Policy Reform Stream/Panel: POLITICAL MARKETING: International Alfred Tovias Representation in Britain: The –oriented” culture for a political party: Lee Ruddin Hugh Compston Political Marketing: 2 Conditionality and the European Professionalisation of Politics? evidence from the Greek socialist party It’s not “revolutionary” stupid! Bush The Future of Public Policy Convenor: Declan Bannon Neighbouring Policy Rosie Campbell, Kristi Winters Y Zotos Kotzaivazoglou foreign policy (2001-2004) and the Eric Shaw Chair: Darren Lilleker Sarah Wolff Gender Differences in Vote Choice: The Transformation of Political international security corollary Social Democracy and Public Policy Balazs Kiss Reformulating the EU’s Mediterranean Socialisation not Self-interest Communication in Greece: Causes and Marketing and the celebrity politician agenda: which actors for which strategy? Effects Stream/Panel: ITALIAN POLITICS STREAM: Liberty Jennifer Lees-Marshment Stream/Panel: ETHNOPOLITICS STREAM: A Veneti Security and Identity in Italian Politics: Real and Session 9: 11:00 - 12:15 The trial of the market-oriented party Stream/Panel: PARLIAMENTS AND LEGISLATURES International Security and the (Re-) Construction of The TV political advertisement: an imagined threats B: 5 model: Comparing UK and New Zealand SPECIALIST GROUP: Parliaments and Legislatures National Identity : 1 evaluation of its aesthetics and functions Convenor: Stefano Fella Stream/Panel: POLITICAL THEORY: Political Theory political marketing 3: Parliamentary Ethics and Conduct - Convenor: Stefan Wolf by the young voters. Greece: the case Salvatore Lupo 3: The Concept of Community: 3 Anna Matuskova Convenor: Alexandra Kelso Fiona Adamson study Organised crime between fratricidal Convenor: Stephen Elstub Political marketing and Czech political Chair: Alexandra Kelso The Constitutive Power of Political competition and attacks on the state Zsuszanna Chappell parties – an uneasy cooperation Nick Allen Ideology: Nationalism and the Stream/Panel: IRISH POLITICS: Irish Politics 1: James Newell Alternative theories of rationality in Regulation versus Liberty: A New Ethical Emergence of Corporate Agency in Managing the transition from conflict to peace in The Sicilian mafia and its links with the deliberative democracy Stream/Panel: SPORT AND POLITICS: Sport and World of MPs? International Politics Northern Ireland: 1 state in contemporary Italy Stephen Elstub Politics 2: An International Perspective: 2 Hector Calleros Eva Herschinger Convenor: Alan Greer A Dualist Strategy for Deliberative Convenor: Russell Holden The House Register: What is it Enemy, Friend or Ally? The Discursive Jonathan Githens-Mazer Stream/Panel: METHODOLOGY: Methodology: 1 Democracy Dean Allen Disclosing? Production of Security Coo-operation and Appraising the First Steps Towards Convenor: Caroline Walsh Tours of reconciliation, Rugby ,war and Its Role for National Identity Construction Peace in Northern Ireland: The Nation Chair: Charles Lees Walzer and Strong Cosmopolitanism: reconstruction in South Africa, Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: Social capital Monica Zuccarini vs. The Individual Tim Bale Pointers from the Honneth-Fraser Debate 1891-1907 and social democracy: 4 Internet and Governments: Open or Will Hazelton “Fog in the Channel, Continent Isolated” Robert Ware Russell Deacon Convenor: Mark Wickham-Jones Secret Society? Problematic Nature of Post-Conflict Adding comparative value to – and Community and reciprocity in Hegel’s Sport and the New Zealand anti- Chair: Fiona Ross Elections: The Government’s Political adding to the comparative value of the Political Philosophy apartheid movement Matt Beech Stream/Panel: ART AND POLITICS: Governance and Challenge in Northern Ireland study of British politics Wyn Grant A Christian Socialist critique of Regulation in the cultural sphere: 1 Joanne McEvoy David Houghton Stream/Panel: CRIME AND SECURITY: Organised Is a political economy of football Capitalism Convenor: Debbie Lisle Northern Ireland power-sharing 1999 to Comparativism and the Myth of Crime as a security issue: 1 possible Philip Catney, Stephen C Meredith Clive Grey 2002: the constraints on ‘joined-up’ American Exceptionalism Convenor: Felia Allum Russell Holden New Labour and associative democracy: Managing the Unmanageable: the government Insa Noalte Mark Galeotti England and Zimbabwe cricket 2002- old debates in new times? Politics of Cultural Planning Researching Ethnic Nationalism in ‘Felons and Force-Multipliers’: Trans- 2004: a case of the hegemony of Ben Kisby Debbie Lisle, Andrew Pepper Stream/Panel: POLITICAL THEORY: Political Theory Africa: How the sources shape the national Crime and Security commerce and the death of morality New Labour and citizenship education Securitising Dissent: Art, Resistance 2: War and Peace: 2 subject Jennifer Sands and ‘The Convenor: tbc Organised Crime Challenging the Stream/Panel: BRITISH POLITICS:: The Child Trust Julia Svetlichnaja Helen Dexter Stream/Panel: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: Public Spanish State Fund: Guaranteeing Individual Security and Thursday 6 April Art of Absence against Valorisation of When Security and Liberty ally: Administration: At the centre of government: 4 Frederico Varese Freedom in Welfare Policy: 2 Subjectivity Cosmopolitanism and the return of Convenor: tbc What is organised crime? Convenor: Rajiv Prabhakar Session 8: 09:15 - 10:30 Just war Chris Eichbaum, Richard Shaw Sappho Xenakis Chair: Alan Finlayson Stream/Panel: SPORT AND POLITICS: Sport and Hamid Hadjii Haidar Barbarians at the gate? Ministerial Internationalising a Threat Assessment Dominic Maxwell Stream/Panel: BRITISH LIBERAL POLITICS: The Politics: A British Perspective: 1 The Qur’anic Idea of Peace advisers, civil servants and the future of of Organised Crime: History, Logic and The Future of the Child Trust Fund Liberal Democrat position on civil liberties and anti Convenor: Russell Holden James Pattison Westminster down under Weaknesses Rajiv Prabhikar -terror legislation: 1 Marc Keech Legitimacy, authority and humanitarian Felicity Matthews Parental Attitudes to the Child Trust Convenor: Richard Grayson The Government and Governance of intervention: who should intervene? The capacity of the state to deliver Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: The Left and Fund; Early Findings Chair: Lisa Harrison sport: a case study of new labour and Public Policy 2: 6 Stuart White Alistair Carmichael sport policy Stream/Panel: URBAN POLITICS: Urban Politics 1: Stream/Panel: SOUTH ASIA: South Asia 3: Social Convenor: Mark Wickham-Jones The Politics of the Child Trust Fund The Liberal Democrats on civil liberties Neil Ravenscroft, Paul Gilchrist The modernisation of local government: 1 and Political Movements in the erstwhile State of Chair: Hugh Compston in Parliament Power to the paddlers hegemony, protest Convenor: Scott Wright Jammu and Kashmir: 3 and collective action Chair: Tony Bovaird Convenor: Nagella Yusuf 16 2006 Conference 2006 Conference 17

Stream/Panel: ART AND POLITICS: The mediation of Stream/Panel: IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND RELIGION: Eric Kaufmann Michelle Millar Kevin Orr violence: conflict, culture and representation: 2 Ideology, Politics and Religion: 1 Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? The Health and the developmental welfare TBC Convenor: Debbie Lisle Convenor: Andrew Vincent Political Implications of the Second state Laura Junka Ian Fraser Demographic Transition Stream/Panel: PRIME MINISTERS AND POLICY The Sublime Space of Gaza Beach: TBA Robert Mauro Stream/Panel: BRITISH POLITICS:: The Freedom of POWER: Prime Ministers and Policy Power: 1 Agency, Representation and the Shifting John Geoghegan Ideological Structures in Northern Information Act: 3 Convenor: Eoin O’Malley Aesthetics of Palestinian Resistance Macmurray Marxism and Christianity Ireland: How Liberty and Security Convenor: Philip Giddings Mark Bennister Carsten Bagge Lausten, Rasmus Ugilt Richard Shorten Undermine the ‘Two-Traditions’ Chair: Philip Giddings The Predominance of Prime Ministers: A The Scandalous Autonomy of Art The theory of political religion Eamonn O’Kane Stephen Ball comparative study of Britain and Caitlin Patrick Larry Wilde Decommissioning and the transition The new politics of the open Australia Imaging Somalia: Representations Radical Humanism, Religion and to peace Ben Worthy Scott Jones of Somali Men and Boys during the Solidarity The challenge to Government: Reforming The Triumph of Network Governance? Somalia Intervention of 1992-93 Stream/Panel: ETHNOPOLITICS STREAM: Issues in Information Control 1974-1997 The Europeanisation of the UK Core Mirelle Thornton Stream/Panel: NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM: Ethno Politics: 2 Executive since 1997 Exploring interconnections and themes Nationalism and colonialism: 1 Convenor: Stefan Wolf Stream/Panel: ETHNOPOLITICS STREAM: New on the art and culture of war news Convenor: tbc Matteo Fumagalli, Robert Ware Approaches to Ethnic Conflict: 3 Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and reporting and the use of news media in IR Geoff Archer A Strategic-Relational Approach to Post- Convenor: Stefan Wolf Politics: The Media and Political Dispute: 7 The Politics of Tradition, Postcolonialism Soviet Ethno-Political Mobilisation Stuart Kaufman, Satoshi Machida, Convenor: Michael Higgins Stream/Panel: URBAN POLITICS: Urban Politics 2: and Nationalism in Vanuatu Paul Wakeling, Jerry Johnson Yu Wang Chair: Roman Gerodimos Theories of Urban Politics: 2 Abdul-Kader Boutaleb Ethnicity and postgraduate studying Symbolic Politics and Ethnic Politics in Alina Dobreva Convenor: Scott Wright Italian Colonialism politics: A Look at the Evidence Malaysia and the Philippines Media influence on political attitudes and Chair: Jonathan Davies Sam Kuruvilla Robert Ware Ian O’flynn the post-communist audiences Chris Robinson, Politics Association, who spoke on undergraduate Peter John Arab Nationalism and Christianity in the Russian Hegemony and Islamic Deliberative Democracy and Jasmine Li Zhang recruitment at the 2005 Heads of Department Conference in Why study Urban Politics? Levant. The Politics of religion during the Resistance in the North Caucasus: An Consociational Democracy Media Role in EU-China Relations: The London Kjaer Anne Mette fag end of the Ottoman Empire Historical Analysis Sherrill Stroschein case of media coverage of Chinese Remaking the Urban Bureaucracy Sidestepping the Ballot Box: Ethnic human rights issue Vivien Lowndes Stream/Panel: THE IRAQ WAR: The War to Stream/Panel: ITALIAN POLITICS STREAM: Hungarian Minorities, Protest and Policy Sean Phelan The new Institutionalism Deconstruction: 1 Roundtable The 2006 Election: 6 in Eastern Europe The Mediatized Antagonism of the New Convenor: Lee Marsden Convenor: Daniele Albertazzi Zealand/Aotearoa ‘Foreshore and Stream/Panel: INTERPRETIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE: Steve Hurst Chair: Daniele Albertazzi Stream/Panel: SOUTH EAST EUROPE: Issues in Seabed’ conflict Ethnography of Government Elites: 1 Explaining the Iraq War: A World Systems South East Europe: 1 Convenor: Rod Rhodes Approach Session 10: 14:30 - 15:45 Convenor: Milena Borden Stream/Panel: POLITICAL MARKETING: Political Chair: Paul Hart Lee Marsden Kalin Ivano Marketing in the UK: 3 Karin Geuijen (Ab)using America’s influence in Stream/Panel: URBAN POLITICS: Urban Politics 3: Anti-corruption and democracy in Convenor: Declan Bannon Doing Business in Europe: The Changing freedom’s cause: the case of Iraq Local issues: 3 Bulgaria Declan Bannon Craft of Dutch Civil Servants Nicola Pratt Convenor: Scott Wright Gerasimos Konidaris Marketing Segmentation and Political Mirko Noordegraaf Gendering Political Reconstruction in Jim Chandler Human Trafficking in South Eastern Marketing Public Managers and Service Delivery Iraq MP’s and local government: how far does Europe Darren Lilleker Rod Rhodes familiarity breed support Oisin Tansey MPs and service provision: what voters The Minister’s Shadow Stream/Panel: E: CONVERGENCE OF WELFARE Jonothan Davies Democratic development in Kosovo really, really want REGIMES: Convergence of Welfare Regimes: 1 The exclusionary impetus of social ‘Stateless Transition’ as a diminished Stream/Panel: SOUTH ASIA: South Asia 5: Politics in Convenor: Paola Mattei inclusion policy: Voices from Hull and subtype of democratization Stream/Panel: FRENCH POLITICS STREAM: Asia: 5 Chair: Paola Mattei Dundee Deleuzian Convenor: Lawrence Saez Jochen Clasen Howard Elcock Stream/Panel: SOUTH ASIA: South Asia 6: Perspectives on International Politics: 3 Dr Mary Murphy, University College Cork, who was awarded Young-Mi Kim Maintaining distinctive profiles but Comparing Elected Mayors Non-Western Foundations of the State: 6 Convenor: Giles Simon ‘Special Mention’ in the Committee of the Regions Annual PhD The impact of the ideological divide following parallel tracks? Welfare state Convenor: Gita Subrahmanyam Chair: Giles Simon Thesis Competition in 2005 on government efficacy in South Korea’s change in Germany and the UK since the Stream/Panel: THE IRAQ WAR: Iraq War Political and Earl Gammon political system early 1980s Methodological Implications: 2 Stream/Panel: LABOUR MOVEMENTS: Roundtable: Mapping the Unconscious of Titipol Phakdeewanich Heinz Rothgang Convenor: tbc discussion of Dianne Hayter’s Fightback Labour’s International Politics: An introduction to Where is the boundary between the To be confirmed Carol Boudeau traditional right in the 1970’s and 1980’s: 7 the Methods of Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘Policy Network’ and the ‘Patronage Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Timo Fleckenstein Producing Threat assessments: what Convenor: Programme of Schizoanalysis System’? A case study of the Thai Lessons learnt from Britain? The Case of sociology can contribute to the debate Chair: Eric Shaw Sean Molloy political system German Labour Market Reforms Steven Kettell TBC New imperialism and British democracy Stream/Panel: H: MEDICAL GOVERNANCE: Europe: William Vlcek Stream/Panel: FRENCH POLITICS STREAM: French Stream/Panel: MEDIA AND POLITICS: Media and Medical Governance: 1 Along-side Global Political Economy – a parties: 2 Politics: Broadcasting and Europe: 6 Stream/Panel: GLOBAL JUSTICE: Roundtable: Global Convenor: Viola Burau Rhizome of Informal Finance Convenor: tbc Convenor: Michael Higgins Justice in Non Ideal Theory: 1 Viola Burau, Karsten Vrangbaek Andrew Appleton Chair: Katrin Voltmer Convenor: Paula Casal Institutions and the dynamics of The Europeanisation of Political Parties in Alison Harcourt David Alvarez governance: pathways of medical France Institution-driven competition: The Citizenship and Global Responsibilities governance in Europe David Bailey regulation of cross-border broadcasting in Mathias Risse Stephen Harrison How modern institutions survive the EU The WTO as an Instrument of Justice From communion to command: post-modernity: witnessing parties Machiko Miyakoshi Gopal Screenivasan governing UK medicine since 1991 promote ‘emancipatory regulation’ in the The Europeanisation of Broadcasting: Global Health in Non Ideal Theory UK and France an Analysis of the Impact of European Stream/Panel: INTERPRETIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE: Yohei Nakayama Regulation on the UK Regime for Public Stream/Panel: IRISH POLITICS: Perspectives on the Realism and Interpretive Governance: 2 Associations, Party Models and Interest Regulation in Broadcasting Irish State: 3 Convenor: Ian Greener Democracies: Changing Organizational Convenor: Alan Greer Chair: Ian Greener Patterns of French Parties in a Historical Stream/Panel: IRISH POLITICS: Irish Politics 2: 2 Maura Adshead Bob Jessop Perspective Convenor: Alan Greer Conceptualising the Irish State TBC Stuart McAnulla Professor Tony Payne, University of Sheffield, who spoke on the RAE at the 2005 Heads of Department Conference in London TBC 18 Time To Confer Time To Confer 19

The International Centre legislative approaches, including policy coordination Political Philosophy Group; Princeton University Press; epsNet Plenary 28th to 30th June 2006 adjustment to the overall quality profile should be and alternative methods of regulation as well as the School of Geography, Politics, & Sociology; and made to reflect the presence within the submission for Business and Politics intergovernmental cooperation in foreign and security the Society for Applied Philosophy. Conference Papers, theoretical and comparative, historical and of items of exceptional scale and scope’. There policy. contemporary, accepted on and from Latin America, is no suggestion here that the presence of such an Copenhagen Business The groups consist primarily of public officials from ‘Europe in Context: including Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba; India; Australia; output can legitimate the submission of less than across the EU member states as well as from the Postgraduate Debating the Project’ the USA; Europe including Germany, France, Sweden, four outputs. School institutions, thus permitting a focussed exchange of Greece, Norway, the UK. 3) Esteem indicators. In paragraph 33 of the revised experiences about the challenges of participation in Conference Budapest Panels on Latin America, Social Europe, Social criteria the sub-panel adds a sentence absent PhD Workshops EU policy processes. Democratic integration in Europe, Social Democracy from the equivalent paragraph in the draft criteria The International Centre for Business and Politics The seminar will be held in English with Queen’s University 16th to 17th June 2006 through (high) Culture, Future of Social Democracy in (paragraph 32): ‘the sub-panel recognises that at the Copenhagen Business School specialises in simultaneous translation in French. Europe. Plenaries with keynote speakers from Europe the level and range of esteem indicators likely to be comparative research on the political economies of Belfast This is a general call for papers for the next epsNet and Latin America. displayed will vary according to the different career advanced and industrializing countries. The Centre Should you wish to receive more details about these Plenary Conference, to take place at the Central stages of the staff submitted’. 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You can also consult Call for Papers Closa (Centre of Political and Constitutional Studies, Local organiser: Steve Ludlam, criteria where the types of output are discussed, tion of institutional competitiveness in economy and our web site: The PSAI and Political Studies Association will hold a Madrid), and Neil Collins (University College Cork, [email protected] subsection ‘d’ is now entitled ‘Contributions to society, and also advancements in institutional theory. http://www.eipa.nl (conferences). joint postgraduate conference at Queen’s University Ireland) are eager to receive proposals for papers edited books’ instead of ‘Edited books’ which was This year there will be a number of short PhD work- Belfast, 19-20 May 2006. Papers are welcome on all on themes relating to any of the workshops set out Series organisers: the wording in the draft criteria. This seems to have shops from academics at the centre in association aspects of politics and international relations. There below: Jana Tillotson, [email protected], been done in response to some disquiet that with distinguished visiting professors. Nussbaum’s Hiding From will be a special plenary session on conflict related Nina Fishman, [email protected] chapters were somehow being downgraded by this research. Further panel suggestions from those Researching Europe choice of words. For 2006 the following workshops are on offer to Humanity: Author Meets postgraduates active in PSAI and the Political Studies • What International Role for Europe? 5) Methodology. Paragraphs 42 and 43 of the revised applicants currently engaged in postgraduate training: Association specialist groups are actively encouraged. • The Future of the EU Constitution criteria spell out how the sub-panel will assess Critics Research Beehive This conference is organised by postgraduates for • The Limits of Europe RAE 2008 outputs. At the time of the draft criteria this • Discourse of Institutional Competitiveness in postgraduates. It will provide an excellent opportunity • Europe in Context: Debating the ‘Project’ material was only to be found in the draft criteria of Regional Economic Integration 2.29, Old Library Building, to present a paper, or a ‘work in progress’, on a • The Europeanisation of National Systems Vincent Geoghegan, the Main Panel (J). • Comparative Political Economy: Institutional topic of your choice. The conference may also offer a • Political Parties and the EU: Is There a New Chair Research/RAE 6) Individual Staff Circumstances. In the draft criteria Reasons for National Economic Success in a University of Newcastle platform for preliminary discussion of a paper to be Cleavage Emerging? the document indicated the personal circumstances Global World presented at an established international conference • European Political Science: The State of the Art Sub-Committee that could be considered in assessing output. This • Constructivist Political Economy and Institutional Monday, 3rd April 2006 or indeed an article to be submitted for publication. has been removed, and reference is now made to Change This conference will also provide an ideal Researchers, Teaching and the Profession in Europe the detailed discussion of this matter in the Main • Reforming Constitutional Orders: Governance for environment for postgraduates to discuss general • European Accreditation Systems for Political The Politics and International sub-panel has now Panel revised criteria. Experimentalist Organizations and Institutions In 2004, Martha Nussbaum published her important problems relating to postgraduate study and will Science published its revised criteria http://www.rae.ac.uk/ • Politisk teori og Sociologi new book Hiding from Humanity: Shame, Disgust, and be an invaluable way of establishing contacts with • Political Science Doctoral Studies and Students in pubs/2006/01/docs/j39.pdf. When the draft criteria These are the main differences between the two sets • Everyday Politics and Economic Globalisation the Law (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). postgraduates from different universities. We intend to Europe were published in the summer of 2005 Wyn Grant, of criteria. There are others but they are relatively • European Economic Integration: Changing This book explores the important and often neglected facilitate a workshop session offering advice on how to • Politics Students: Work Experience and Employment on behalf of the Political Studies Association, asked minor amendments and additions. Patterns of Governance relationship between emotions and the law. The publish your research and how to pass your viva. Prospects for comments from departments, and in October two conference will bring together four philosophers-David • Professional Practice in European Political Science representatives of the Political Studies Association These workshops deal with key conceptual and Archard (Lancaster), Thom Brooks (Newcastle), Willie Travel and Accomodation: • Quality of Teaching (Wyn Grant and Vincent Geoghegan) and two from empirical issues in Institutional Theory, Comparative Charlton (Retired), and John Haldane (St Andrews)- The cost of the conference will be £15-00, which will • Teaching Europe: What and Where is Europe Today? BISA (Caroline Kennedy-Pipe and Colin McInnes) met 1st ECPR Summer Political Economy, International Political Economy, with replies to each by Martha Nussbaum. cover all refreshments and give postgraduates one • Women in the Political Science Profession the full sub-panel in London and communicated the Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, and European Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished year’s membership of the PSAI (usually £18-00/€25- views of their respective associations. The Political School in Methods and Integration. Further details for the workshops can be Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University 00). However, travel and accommodation, if required, Paper proposals (up to 300 words) should be sent by Studies Association also organised a Heads of School found here: of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department, are at the attendees’ own expense. A list of local email to: [email protected] Meeting at the British Library in December where the Techniques http://uk.cbs.dk/content/view/full/37150 Law School and Divinity School. She is an Associate accommodation and advice on travel will be made When submitting your proposal, please state your chair and deputy chair of the sub-panel (Tony Payne in the Classics Department and the Political available upon request. name, position, institutional affiliation, and the title of and Mick Moran) talked about possible changes in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Science Department, an Affiliate of the Committee the workshop in which you are interested. criteria and responded to questions from the floor. The Slovenia The European Institute on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member Refreshments: revised criteria display a number of differences from of the Human Rights Program. She is the founder There will be a sponsored wine reception at which The deadline for receipt of proposals is the draft version: 7th to 18th August 2006 of Public Administration and Coordinator of the new Center for Comparative we will have a book launch followed by an optional 26th March 2006. Constitutionalism. Her Hiding From Humanity won conference dinner on the Saturday evening. 1) Early career researchers (paragraph 9). The draft Deadline for applications: 2nd May 2006 Seminar Series the Association of American University Publishers criteria did not specifically differentiate types of Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law in Contact: ‘Social Democracy early career researchers and the output expected The ECPR Summer School, in 2006 will offer The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) 2004. The submission deadline is 7th April 2006 from them. The revised criteria now distinguish ten courses which covers both introductory and offers a regular series of seminars on “Understanding Please forward a title and abstract of no more than in the Post-Bipolar three categories: (i) those appointed before intermediate levels in quantitative and qualitative Decision-Making in the European Union: Principles, Registration Students/unwaged: £10 300 words to: 1 August 2003, who will be expected to have four methods. If you are a social science graduate student Procedures, Practice”. This seminar will be held in Waged: £15 Aaron Edwards World: Challenges in outputs; (ii) those appointed between 1 August - either at Master’s or PhD level - and you wish to Maastricht on 6-7 April 2006 and will be repeated on Registration includes two teas/coffees and buffet Email: [email protected] 2003 and 31 July 2005, who will be expected complement your in-house methodological training 22-23 June, 28-29 September and 30 November-1 lunch. Office Tel: +44 (0) 28909 71422 the Developed World, to have a minimum of two outputs; (iii) and those with an ECTS accredited two-week intensive course December 2006. Opportunities in the appointed after 1 August 2005, who will be hosted at a spirited University in a scenic area, then Understanding how EU decisions are made has The conference is open to all. Funding for Lyndsey Harris expected to submit a minimum of one output. the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques become essential for all European public officials. postgraduate students is available on a first come, Email: [email protected] Developing World?’ 2) The so-called ‘Superbook’ issue. In paragraph 19 of in Ljubljana is the right choice for you. This course provides an intensive introduction to first serve basis. Information on registration and Office Tel: +44 (0) 28903 66291 the draft criteria it was stated that one of the More information about courses, tuition fees the EU institutions and the different ways in which travel is available from our conference website: ‘special circumstances’ which might justify the and other local practical information is available to decisions are now reached in the various spheres of http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/Nussbaum/ For Rethinking Social Democracy: Third Conference submission of less than four outputs was that of download as a PDF document. European cooperation. additional information, please contact Dr Thom Brooks Co-sponsored by the Political Studies Association ‘staff working on a long-term project that has led, Participants are offered insight into how EU (email:[email protected]). The conference is Labour Movements Group Hosted by the Political or might eventually lead, to outcomes of high For further information, please see legislation is generated in practice from the supported generously by the Newcastle Institute for Economy Research Centre quality’. This is now absent in the revised criteria. http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/ combination of lectures with a simulation exercise the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (NIASSH); Instead there is a new paragraph 21 which states summerschools/ljubljana/index.aspx and a case study. They are also introduced to non- the Newcastle Legal Theory Network; the Newcastle University of Sheffield that ‘the sub-panel will also consider whether any 20 Link with other PSAs Research and Writing 21

The British Politics “Poachers Turned Gamekeepers: British and Changing Organizational Patterns of French Parties immediately on the agenda of all of us in Political The Political and Teaching in Higher American Legislators with Previous Professional in a Historical Perspective’ in the ‘French Politics’ Science in Europe. Among them are: Group of the APSA Lobbying Experience.” stream. He is currently based in Paris doing research. Teaching issues curriculum content (first second Philosophical Education Kevin Theakston, University of Leeds, “What Makes and third cycles) degree frameworks (relationship Panels for APSA Conference 2006 for an Effective Prime Minister?” of second to first and third particularly) common Imagination in the Special Issue Peter Catterall, Queen Mary, University of London, Up-Dating our European degrees (Joint, double or multiple) student mobility “Making the Best of a Bad Job: The Role of the (compulsory period abroad, language teaching United States and As a Related Group of the American Leader of the Opposition in Britain.” Links elements) common credit arrangements (ECTS) Call for Papers Political Science Association, the Ray Barker, Erie Community College, “Michael Quality assurance Assessment procedures Germany Contributions are invited for a Special Issue of Howard’s Effectiveness as Leader of the Paul Furlong. School of European Studies, Research issues Doctoral training (content and Teaching in Higher Education on ‘Diversity and British Politics Group (BPG) is allotted Opposition.” Cardiff University organisation) National and European financial Call for Submissions Commonality in Higher Education’ to be published in a block of panels at the annual Discussant: Elin Royles, University of Wales, support for research projects Relations with cognate Anne Lopes, Holger Henke, and Roger Wasserman 2007. Aberystwyth, Wales disciplines Relations with associated disciplines (eds.) What is diversity in higher education? Should it be conference. The panels for the 2006 You may think the world of Political (Public Administration and International Relations) The United States and Germany share a long celebrated or problematised? Are there limitations in conference are listed below. We Science needs fewer acronyms, and Access to and influence with national and European history. One significant impact of the relationship current understandings? Has the language of diversity Political Studies fewer of the calls on our time that policy-makers is the formation of path-breaking political and come to preclude the embracing of different forms of would encourage Political Studies Generic issues Support for new EU members and philosophical ideas that have opened up unexpected knowledge and ways of knowing? Contributions should Association members who are Association Continues usually lie behind them; certainly non-EU Bologna signatories Staff mobility Staff career areas of inquiry and activism. critically address issues of diversity and commonality going to be in Philadelphia to attend anyone adding to them has to have issues (including training) Labour market issues This volume will take a critical look at the intellectual in higher education. to Strengthen links with Promotion of the discipline. relations between Germany and the United States and hope that you would consider very good reasons. With some This is a very big agenda. The European since 1950. In particular, the volume will focus For more information and guidelines please contact submitting papers to the BPG for the other PSAs temerity, perhaps, but also with a confederation can only aim to help national on the changing perception of German intellectual Sue Clegg at [email protected] organisations by providing collaborative support, work and political philosophy in the United States. The deadline for submissions is 1st August 2006. 2007 APSA Conference in Chicago. APSA to send delegation to Political Studies sense of urgency, the Political Studies reaching common positions on standards and practice The editors intend to take stock of how the mutual Our selection process is separate Association Annual Conference at Reading Association, in consultation with other as appropriate. An example of this need is that the perceptions of political and philosophical thought University leading Political Science Associations current changes to quality assurance in HE in Europe relate to important issues of global, national and from APSA (and does not preclude a As the world’s no. 2, the Political Studies Association are being guided by an ad hoc group called the public policy in the United States and Germany. Public Administration “regular” APSA submission) and our has endeavoured to strengthen its relationship with in Europe, is investigating whether European Network of European Quality Assurance Proposals from established scholars and advanced Committee Annual turnaround is much faster. the American Political Science Association (no. 1 and how to set up a new Political Agencies. If we talk to this separately, as 20 or 30 doctoral candidates in the fields of political science, in global membership terms), and once again we national political science associations, we risk not (political) philosophy, history, social theory, American Conference 2006 I hope you will join us in Philly. – Terrence Casey, are pleased to receive a top-level delegation at our Science confederation. Currently being heard. Other disciplines have pan-European Studies, and related fields, are welcome and will be BPG Executive Director Annual Conference. President Ira Katznelson will bearing the name ‘European representation. This proposal seeks to put us on the considered, if submitted by or before 20th August Durham University be attending, and there will be an APSA-sponsored same footing. The proposal to set up a permanent 2006. Panel 1 -- The Year in British Politics (and Business Roundtable on ‘Difference and Inequality in the Conference of National Political European confederation is based on the belief that 4th to 6th September 2006 Meeting) Developing World’. This will feature Dr Bahram Rajaee Science Associations’, a first meeting there is a clear need for collaboration across national Interested authors should contact the editors: Presenters: (Director, External and International Relations, APSA), is planned for June 2006 at the Political Science communities in Europe, both to [email protected] , [email protected], Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield Professor John Echeverri-Grant (University of Virgina, promote our discipline nationally and to give us voice and/or [email protected] . Call for Papers James Mitchell, Strathclyde University Charlottesville), and Dr Robert Wade (LSE), discussing University of Halle in Germany, with and access at the European level, where increasingly The Annual PAC Conference – Managing Relationships Chair: the achievements of APSA’s taskforce in this area. financial support from the German these issues are being resolved. in the Service of the Public – will be held at Van Wyn Grant, University of Warwick Political Studies Association members are encouraged Iraq War Culture Mildert College, Durham University. to introduce themselves to members of the APSA Political Science Association. This conference call invites proposals for panels Panel 2 -- Elections and Party Competition in the delegation and to attend the Roundtable. and for papers relating to that broad theme. We are UK: Issues, Candidates and Identities Why a new association? C-SAP Call for Book A Call for Submissions keen to include a wide range of papers – ranging Chair: Political Studies Association to sponsor an This is not entirely new, to be accurate. It’s grown out This is an edited volume of critical analyses of from academic research and theoretical papers to Florence Faucher-King, CEVIPOF – APSA panel of the pan-European Political Science response to the Reviewers Iraq War culture. We are searching for 15-20 presentations on recent policy developments and Sciences Po (Paris) Professor Terrell Carver, Chair of the Political Studies Bologna process, which the PSA was instrumental in mid-length to longer essays (4000-8000 words) public service reforms. At present we have panels Papers: Association’s External Relations and Conference organising and drafting; it is based on a recognition C-SAP is planning a new section on our website for that explore the cultural origins, phenomena and on Capacity and Policy Delivery in Government, Jonathan Tonge, University of Liverpool, Grants Sub-committee, has secured ‘Related Group’ both that there is a significant amount of work to be book reviews. The purpose of this section is to offer effects of the war. The range of topical essays of Central-Local Relations, the Politics and Policy of “Protestant Zealotry or Unionist Apathy? The status for the Association within the American done, and that the existing ways of getting together new teaching staff, postgraduate teaching assistants possible interest include analyses of US evangelical Devolution, ESRC Public Services Programme, Human Impact of Election Turnout upon the Peace and Political Science Association. The Political Studies were just not sufficient. Until now, we have been or staff teaching new modules or just looking for and neo-conservative ideologies and their cultural Resource Management in the Service of the Public, Political Processes in Northern Ireland.” Association is therefore entitled to a sponsor and meeting in an ad hoc way at ECPR and EpsNET new resources, a quick review of other practitioner’s manifestations; broadcast media representations of Learning in Public Sector Organisations, Performance Jane Green, Nuffield College, Oxford University staff a panel, which for 2006 will showcase UK conferences. In fact, our last meeting was at the comments and recommendations on some of the the war (‘Over There’, Fox, Military Channel); new Management, Public-Private Partnerships, Public and Sara B. Hobolt, Oxford University, “The Political Science Today at the APSA Annual Meeting ECPR research conference in Budapest in September materials available. media (Internet, blogs) and their political function; Service Delivery in Health and Social Care, and Dynamics of Issue Salience: The Impact of Party in Philadelphia, USA, 31st August through 3rd 2005, and our next meeting, to prepare for the special We are especially interested in the books you use video-gaming Iraq and empire-building; cultural Regeneration. But there is still scope to add additional Cues on Public Perceptions of Issue Salience in September 2006. Participants must all be members conference at Halle, will be at the ECPR workshops to teach your subjects and are recommending to readings of US military and guerilla violence (Abu panels. British General Election Campaigns.” of both organisations, and Dr Rose Campbell in Nicosia in April. This works to a limited extent, students. Could you write a small review (500 words Ghraib, video executions); and treatments in print The Frank Stacey Lecture will be given by Sir Robert Johns and Mark Shephard, University of (Birkbeck) has kindly organised a panel featuring but deprives us of continuity of membership and max.) of one of these books and explain why you use media, music, literature, drama, art, comedy and Alistair Graham, the Chair of the Committee on Strathclyde, “Candidate and Voter Gender in the papers from Dr Fiona Mackay (Edinburgh), Dr Philip can lead to organisational and logistical difficulties. it? There may be a new book you are considering or dance. The co-editors are interested in political Standards in Public Life. UK: Stereotypes, Evaluations and Voting Impact.” Cowley (Nottingham), Dr Patrick Sturgis (Surrey), and If we think it worthwhile to continue collaborating perhaps you are researching an area of pedagogic essays that work to explain the revolving economy William A. Hazleton, Miami University, “Politics Dr Claire Annesley (Manchester). Political Studies as national Political Science Associations, we need interest, C-SAP could provide the book for you in between violent imagery and US imperialism, as If you are interested in offering a paper, and for in a Vacuum: Electoral Contests and Communal Association members attending the APSA Annual to put the organisation on a firmer footing – more exchange for a review. well as essays that highlight US cultural resistance further details, please contact: Dominance in Northern Ireland.” Meeting are urged to attend and support this event. If representative, and more effective. against the Iraq War. Professor Martin Laffin Discussant: Terry Royed, University of Alabama we achieve adquate attendance, the Association will If you would like to suggest a title to review or simply Full essays including 100-150 word abstracts Durham Centre for Public Policy be entitled to additional panels in future years! What will the ECNPSA do? register your interest in being a reviewer please due by 15th May 2006. Inquiries with abstracts Durham Business School Panel 3: Measuring Political Effectiveness: Prime Anyone interested in a detailed review of the issues contact us for further information at: concerning proposed papers are welcome. Use Email: [email protected] Ministers, Legislators, and Leaders of the Opposition Political Studies Association Exchange with the new association needs to address, can look at [email protected] APA style, with endnotes and bibliography. A limited Tel: 0191 334 5280 Chair: Japan PSA continues a paper I presented at the EpsNET conference in number of images are possible. Richard Haesly, California State University, Professor Yohei Nakayama from Tokyo University Paris in June 2005, which I’d be happy to send on Long Beach is our ‘exchanger’ at the Annual Conference at demand. This paper, based on the experience of Send essays or abstracts to both Cynthia Fuchs Papers: Reading University in this continuing relationship cooperation around the Bologna debate, describes the [email protected] (English, George Mason University) Conor McGrath, University of Ulster and between ‘sister’ PSAs . He will be presenting a paper issues we face collectively, looks at the relationship and Joe Lockard [email protected] (English, Clive S. Thomas, University of Alaska Southeast: on ‘Associations, Party Models and Democracies: with ECPR and EpsNET, and lists some of the items Arizona State University). 22 Special Group News Department Profile 23

Political Studies Women frameworks for the post 9/11 world; women and dinner in the Scottish Parliament – perhaps the first New Labour in the UK to gender and corruption in parliament to have gender equality hotwired into its Politics at the and Politics Conference Africa; EU enlargement to the dilemmas of teaching institutional design by pioneers like Alice Brown – was gender in the Middle East. Presenters included especially apt’. University of Lincoln 2006 postgraduate students as well as junior, mid-career Dr Sarah Childs, Convenor of the Association’s Dr Jacqui Briggs and distinguished senior academics. Women and Politics Group said: ‘Fiona Mackay and University of Edinburgh The Scottish Parliament – with one of the highest her team at Edinburgh are to be warmly congratulated proportions of women parliamentarians in the for hosting such a successful and professional Politics at Lincoln is located within the Department 11th February 2006 world - was a fitting venue for the pre-Conference international conference - they did the PSA women of Policy Studies. Currently headed by Dr Kelvin Speakers’ Dinner, hosted by Sarah Boyack MSP. A and politics group proud. The participation of Jones, the Department of Policy Studies came into post-conference wine reception for thirsty delegates both academics and practitioners was also to be being in 1996 and, in addition, to the subjects was sponsored by University of Edinburgh Politics welcomed.’ of Politics and International Relations, provides Subject Area. The Edinburgh Politics team included: Dr Fiona undergraduate teaching in Criminology, Social Policy Charlie Jeffery, Professor of Politics at the Mackay (academic convenor and local organiser), and Social Science. Policy Studies also offers a University of Edinburgh, applauded the record of the Prof Russell Keat, Dr Annika Bergman, Elena Pollot- taught postgraduate programme, the MA Globalising Political Studies Association’s Women and Politics Thomson, Gillian MacDonald, Meryl Kenny, Amanda Justice, which draws upon all of its constituent Specialist Group in scholarship and practice: ‘The Wittman, Mike Merillo, Kelly Brown, Lauren Carrigan, subjects, and, in recent years, has seen a significant conference was a platform for critical scholarship Rosie Etherington and Maria Riala. Organisers wish to increase in the number of research degree students. on gender and feminism which had a resonance acknowledge the financial support of the Association, The teaching of Politics and International Relations, way beyond the boundaries of the UK. But it also UoE Politics Subject Area, and the Edinburgh at Lincoln, was rated as excellent in the Quality confirmed the commitment of group members to Campaign small project scheme. Assurance Agency subject review. Research interests have an impact outside of scholarship. Having the of members of staff include: Chinese foreign relations, collaborative research on East Asia, human rights, nationalism, comparative politics, globalisation, political economy, political ecology, labour movements and trade unionism, problems experienced by minority groups in Europe, Hungarian minorities and migration, the EU and Cuban relations, the politics of Mitchell, was also highly regarded as a witty and literature reviews, telephone surveys, longitudinal welfare, local government and women and politics. entertaining speaker. The positive experience of studies, policy analysis, comparative research and Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago, Keynote In addition to the existing Politics and International hosting the Conference has led to firm links being the use of geographical mapping and information Speaker Relations staff; Ian Barnes, Pamela Barnes, Hugh fostered between the Department and the Political systems. The PSRC works closely with researchers Bochel, Youcef Bouandel, Jacqui Briggs, Daniele Studies Association. As Gerry Strange states, ‘Having in other University Departments, especially in the If you need proof that feminist scholarship is alive Conversi, Claire Randerson and Gerry Strange. As the conference at Lincoln in 2004 was a very positive areas of social work, health studies, tourism, law, and kicking in the UK then look no further than the a result of investment in research, a number of experience for a relatively small and new department psychology, food studies, educational partnerships, Political Studies Association Women and Politics new appointments have been made. These include, which has helped to raise both the Department’s and and community operational research. Annual Conference 2006. More than 140 delegates Andrew Defty, John Ellis, Lucy Grant, Yee-Wah Foo the University’s profile in the global Politics and IR The European Policy Research Centre provides a converged on Edinburgh - the largest gathering of and Phoebe Moore. There are additional Social Policy community. It provides an excellent base on which to forum in which new developments in European policy feminist political scientists and political theorists staff who contribute to the Politics teaching; including continue to build’. may be discussed and their implications analysed. in the UK for a decade or more. The conference Catherine Bochel and Alan Rust-Ryan. It provides a base for collaborative research projects attracted scholars from the four parts of the UK, Policy Studies Research Centre/European with groups of experts in other universities. The staff Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Inspiring Location … Policy Research Centre of the Centre provide expert advice on European Australia, China, Canada and the US, as well as UK Views towards the beautiful Lincoln Cathedral provide Politics, at Lincoln, has seen a significant growth in the issues to both national and international organisations and North America-based scholars from South Asia the impressive backdrop for the main University numbers of research students over the past couple of and government bodies. All have published books and Africa. Media interest in the event included Radio campus situated close to the centre of the city. The years. In particular, there has been an increase in the and articles on different aspects of European Policy 4 Women’s Hour. University has now has 6,000 of its 8,250 students number of research students from North Africa, with and European Politics. Two of the staff have had their The keynote speaker was Prof. Jean Bethke at the Brayford Pool Campus, Lincoln, and, over the interests not only in the politics of the region but also expertise recognised by the European Commission Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of past few years, has seen large rises in applications. around democracy and participation, in addition to through the award of “Jean Monnet” chairs for their Social and Political Ethics (University of Chicago) who Ambitious investment, underpinning the mission to those from the United Kingdom. Postgraduate teaching work on the process of European integration. challenged feminism to reconsider abortion politics be a university of quality and distinction, has seen the and supervision of research degrees are therefore an Research groupings within the PSRC achieved and provoked a lively debate. Dr Kim Hutchings (LSE), development of a state-of-the-art campus on historic expanding area of activity. Staff in the Department ratings of 3a (Social Policy) and 3b (European Studies) Prof Shirin Rai (Warwick University) and Prof Chris Brayford Pool in Lincoln, with an additional major new have wide experience of designing, managing and in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. Given Corrin (Glasgow University) were plenary speakers. building, designed by renowned architect Rick Mather, delivering high quality, vocationally relevant courses. the research outputs emanating from the Department In addition, 22 papers were presented in five parallel opened in September 2003. The University has the Politics also has close links with the University’s since 2001, it is likely that Politics will be submitted as sessions. Topics ranged from: gender mainstreaming Pre-Conference Speakers’ Dinner at the Scottish Parliament. Hosted by Sarah Boyack Labour MSP (seen to the left of Prof Elshtain) and first student union co-operative in the UK. Policy Studies Research Centre (PSRC) and European a separate subject in the next RAE. Staff associated Fiona Hyslop SNP MSP (to the right of Prof Elshtain). Guests of Honour also included Prof Alice Brown (2nd row, 2nd from right), who in national and international institutions to new ethical left the University of Edinburgh in 2002 to take up her post as the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman. Policy Research Centre (EPRC) that bring together with the subjects of Politics and International Relations Hosting the Political Studies Association academic staff who have common interests in their have become known nationally and internationally Conference areas. The Policy Studies Research Centre acts as the for work in several key areas of research including The Department of Policy Studies, with Gerry research focus for the Department of Policy Studies. area studies (The European Union, South East Asia, Strange as Academic Convenor and Jacqui Briggs It undertakes research at local, regional, national and China, the Middle East and North Africa), political Editorial Team as Local Organiser, hosted the 54th Political Studies international levels, in most areas of policy-relevant economy, elections and voting behaviour, nationalism, Association Annual Conference in 2004, attended by social research, including, in particular: public policy, women and politics, political rights and civil liberties, Holly Hardwicke 400 delegates. The international delegates booked the politics of social policy, social divisions (age, the role of the media. Over the review period, staff Professor Neil Collins Assistant Editor To advertise in this onto the conference totalled 80 and came from 22 gender, disability, race, sexuality), community/social presented approximately 70 papers at national and Editor email: [email protected] newswletter contact: countries, including Azerbaijan, Ghana, Nigeria, India, care and health care, housing and urban regeneration, international conferences, some of which were made email: [email protected] South Africa, China, Japan, USA, Australia and New poverty, crime and social exclusion, crime prevention at the express invitation of the conference organisers. Pamela Courtney, Advertising Manager, Albert House, Zealand. There were approximately 140 panels, the and reduction. The PSRC hosts a highly successful Members of staff have also been invited to edit Monnington-on-Wye, Hereford , HR4 7NL , UK Tel: 01981 500344 Fax: 01981 500335 vast majority of which contained at least three paper seminar series which draws upon both internal and specialist volumes, are members of editorial boards of external speakers. Researchers within the PSRC, a number of journals; ( Email: [email protected] givers. The panels and plenary speakers were deemed Capital and Class, Australian a success – so much so that discussions often spilled and in the Department more widely, are skilled in Journalism Review, International Journal of Media Political Studies Association, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU. Tel: 0191 222 8021 Fax: 0191 222 3499 over into ‘refreshment time’. The plenary speakers, most forms of social research including e.g. survey and Cultural Politics) and have been solicited by the Email [email protected] Web: www.psa.ac.uk. Executive Director: Jack Arthurs. Membership Secretary: Sandra McDonagh. Peter Kellner, Paul Wilkinson, Michael Cockerell research, qualitative interviewing with individuals and media to comment on national and international Registered Charity No. 1071825. Registered Company with limited liability in England and Wales, No 3628986 were highly praised. The after-dinner speaker, Austin groups, secondary data analysis, evaluative research, issues and have been routinely asked to refer articles 24 WritingDepartment Opportunities Profile

for some prestigious journals such as the Journal of of Capital and Class and Jacqui Briggs is an elected Politics at the Modern African Studies, Government and Opposition, member of the Political Studies Association’s Mediterranean Politics, and the Journal of Legislative Executive Committee. University of Lincoln Studies and Political Studies. Politics links closely with the field of Social Policy within the Department Lincoln – The City and some staff have research interests that cross the Lincoln attracts over a million tourists a year, divide. For example, work is being undertaken in the including to its world famous Cathedral, Castle and Department exploring the linkage between politics, Christmas Market. The Castle houses one of only four international relations and social policy. Areas of originals of the Magna Carta. Lincoln is a lively city, synergy include: research examining community care, mixing 2000 years of history with excellent shopping community governance, parliament and the policy facilities, lively arts and events programmes, and a process, sub-central government, participation and the good range of pubs, restaurants and clubs. Places public policy process. not to be missed include Steep Hill and the historic Bailgate area which house fine specialist shops The Wider Community including boutiques, antique, craft, book and gift Many of the Department’s students engage in shops along the cobbled streets. voluntary work during their time at the University, providing themselves with additional experience The local music and arts scene is extremely busy, and wider interests and at the same time benefiting particularly with the growth of the University and the the local community, for example, students have regeneration of the Brayford Waterfront area, covering worked alongside local Members of Parliament. In a broad cultural spectrum ranging from organ recitals addition, a number of local councillors have chosen at the Cathedral and Shakespeare at The Lawn, to to study within the Department, whilst one of the folk, jazz, country and rock in the local pubs and Department’s students was elected as the only Liberal clubs. Places to visit include the medieval Bishops Democrat on the City Council. This reflects the close Old Palace, Ellis Mill, The Lawn and Sir Joseph links between the department, its subjects and the Banks Conservatory. In terms of sport, Lincoln everyday world. The Department has links with higher City FC, having finished second bottom of the third education providers in a variety of countries and for division in 2002 and gone into administration, have many programmes it is possible to study abroad for since then surpassed all expectations by making the a period. In addition, we attract a variety of external division three play-offs in 2003, 2004 and again in visitors each year, both from the UK and overseas 2005. and students are often able to benefit from this. Staff from the Department are active within their academic Further information about Politics and International communities, providing yet another resource to Relations at Lincoln can be found on the University’s support teaching and the work of the Department. web pages at www.lincoln.ac.uk, and those of the For example, Gerry Strange is on the Editorial Board Department at www.lincoln.ac.uk/policystudies.

The Staff from the Department of Policy Studies are (left to right): Andrew Defty, Jacqui Briggs, Liam McCann, Yee-Wah Foo, Alan Rust-Ryan, Jill Jameson.