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Transforming Politics: New Synergies 61st Annual International Conference 18 – 21 April 2011 Novotel London West, London, UK PSA 61st Annual International Conference London, 18 –21 April 2011 www.psa.ac.uk/2011 A Word of Welcome Dear Conference delegate You are extremely welcome to this 61st Conference of the Political Studies Association, held in the UK capital. The recently refurbished Hammersmith Novotel hotel offers high quality conference facilities all under one roof. We are expecting well over 500 delegates, representing over 50 different countries. There are more than 190 panels, as well as the workshops on Monday, building on last year’s innovation, and as a new addition, dedicated posters sessions. There are also three receptions. The Conference theme is ‘Transforming Politics: New Synergies’. Keynote speakers include Professor Carole Pateman, President of APSA, revisiting the concept of participatory democracy and Professor Iain McLean giving the Government and Opposition-sponsored Leonard Schapiro lecture on the subject of coalition and minority government. On Wednesday, our after-dinner speaker is Professor Tony Wright, (UCL and Birkbeck College) former MP and Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee. Amongst other highlights, Professor Vicente Palermo will discuss Anglo-Argentine relations and John Denham MP will talk on ‘English questions’ and the Labour Party’ and Sir Michael Aaronson, former Director General of Save the Children, will be drawing on his experience working in crisis situations to reflect on whether we had a choice in Libya today. Despite the worsening economic and policy environment, this has been a particularly active and successful year for the Association. Overall membership figures, including those for the new Teachers’ Section, continue to rise. We have a new CEO and an office in London. The 60th Anniversary Awards event in November was an exceptionally glittering occasion while the joint PSA-Hansard lecture featuring the Deputy PM drew record attendance. In collaboration with the Institute for Government, a series of seminars on policy success, and media briefings on election-related themes, are helping to raise the profile of political studies. At the same time the Association has been defending and promoting the discipline’s interests for instance through its participation in the REF process, in ESRC consultations and in the recently-launched Campaign for Social Science. Thanks for organising this year’s conference are especially due to the academic convenors – Drs Tereza Capelos, Maxine David, Roberta Guerrina and Simon Usherwood, to Sue Forster (Conference Organiser), Helena Djurkovic, Dr Jacqui Briggs and Professor Richard Topf. I should also like to thank Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge and Palgrave for their generous sponsorship. This year’s programme promises plenty to interest, intellectually challenge and entertain. I hope your conference experience is thoroughly enjoyable Vicky Randall Chair, Political Studies Association of the UK 1 PSA 61st Annual International Conference London, 18 –21 April 2011 www.psa.ac.uk/2011 Conference Programme Conference Programme Monday 18 April 09:00 - 17:30 Registration 09:30 - 18:00 Workshops Publishers' Workshop 09:30 - 11:00 x How to publish your thesis x How to publish articles 11:00 - 11:30 tea/coffee break 11:30 - 18:00 Graduate Conference 13:00 - 14:30 lunch break 16:00 - 16:30 tea/coffee Tuesday 19 April 10:00 - 18:30 Registration 10:00 - 11:30 Panel Sessions 11:30 - 13:00 Panel Sessions 13:00 - 14:00 lunch break Martin Rosenbaum (Producer, BBC Radio 4) 13:00 - 14:00 The programme pitch: How to sell an idea to Radio 4 14:00 - 14:30 Dedicated Poster Sessions 14:30 - 16:00 Panel Sessions 16:00 - 17:30 Panel Sessions 18:00 - 19:00 Leonard Schapiro Lecture sponsored by Government and Opposition [Room: Mouton Cadet] Professor Iain McLean (Nuffield College, Oxford): "England does not love coalitions" - the most misused political quotation in the book? 19:00 - 20:00 Reception sponsored by Government and Opposition 21:00 - PSA Conference quiz Wednesday 20 April 08:30 - 18:00 Registration 08:30 - 10:00 Panel Sessions 10:00 - 11:30 Panel Sessions 11:30 - 13:00 lunch break 12:00 - 13:30 Business Meetings of Specialist Groups x Ethnopolitics [Room: Graves] x Executive Politics [Room: Lussac] x French Politics, Policy and Society [Room: Sauternes] x Greek Politics [Room: St Julien] x Italian Politics [Room: Barsac] x Politics of Property [Room: Talbot] x Women and Politics [Room: Lussac] 2 PSA 61st Annual International Conference London, 18 –21 April 2011 www.psa.ac.uk/2011 12:30 - 14:00 Political Studies Association Annual General Meeting [Room: Mouton Cadet] 13:00 - 14:30 Panel Sessions 14:30 - 16:00 Panel Sessions 15:00 - 17:30 New Projects meetings (Bourgogne suite) 16:00 - 16:15 tea/coffee Plenary Lecture [Room: Mouton Cadet] 16:15 - 17:00 Professor Carole Pateman (Chair, American Political Science Association): Revisiting Participatory Democracy 17:00 - 18:30 Panel Sessions 18:00 - 18:45 Reception sponsored by Routledge 19:15 - 20:00 Reception sponsored by Political Insight 20:00 - Conference Annual Dinner Speaker: Professor Tony Wright (London: Birkbeck and University Colleges) Thursday 21 April 08:30 - 12:00 Registration 09:00 - 10:30 Panel Sessions Plenary Lecture [Room: Mouton Cadet] 10:30 - 12:00 Sir Michael Aaronson (Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Surrey): Libya: Did we have a choice? 12:00 - 13:00 lunch break Business Meetings of Specialist Groups x German Politics [Room: Barsac] 12:30 - 13:30 x Interpretive Politics [Room: Graves] x Participatory and Deliberative Democracy [Room: Pomerol] x Political Thought [Room: Lussac] 13:00 - 13:30 Dedicated Poster Sessions 13:30 - 15:00 Panel Sessions 15:00 - 15:30 tea/coffee 15:30 - 17:00 Panel Sessions 17:00 Conference ends 3 PSA 61st Annual International Conference London, 18 –21 April 2011 www.psa.ac.uk/2011 Speaker Biographies and Conference Highlights Government and Opposition and the welfare state. She is the author of several books and numerous articles. Some of her key works are: Participation and (Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture) Democratic Theory, The Problem of Political Obligation, The Sexual Contract, The Disorder of Women, Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory, Contract and Domination, Illusion of Consent: Professor Iain McLean Engaging with Carole Pateman. Chair – Dr Helen Thompson (Cambridge) Martin Rosenbaum Executive Producer, BBC Radio 4 Lecture title: “England does not love Martin Rosenbaum is a political journalist and coalitions” – the most misused political producer for the BBC, based in the BBC’s quotation in the book Political Programmes department at Westminster. He oversees some of the The lecture begins by examining the context in which Benjamin weekly and special political output on BBC Disraeli first used the title phrase in 1852. It does not mean what Radio 4. He has produced numerous political documentaries on it says, nor can Disraeli have seriously intended it to. topics ranging from British identity through party finance to political comedy. He also specialises in the journalistic use of The history of coalition governments and minority governments in freedom of information. the United Kingdom – including in its devolved territories – is then discussed. How anomalous was the coalition government formed Marcos Novaro in 2010? Marcos Novaro has a degree in sociology and a PhD in political philosophy from the Proceeding into comparative politics, the lecture reviews the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is growing literature on the political economy of electoral systems. In currently Director of the Political History the light of this new literature, is Duverger’s Law still valid? And Program (PHP) at the Gino Germani Research what can we conclude about the trade-off between government Institute of the UBA and he is the President decisiveness and inclusiveness? of CIPOL.org (Centro de Investigaciones Políticas/Center of Political Research). The PHP hosts the Oral History Archive (archivooral.org), Iain McLean is Professor of Politics, Oxford University and a fellow with almost 200 interviews to Argentinean policymakers of the of Nuffield College. His recent work has been on UK public policy, past three decades. He is a researcher of CONICET and a Professor and applications of rational choice analysis to UK political history. of Political Theory at the Political Science department of Relevant publications include What’s Wrong with the British the University of Buenos Aires. Constitution? (OUP 2010); State of the Union: unionism and the alternatives in the UK since 1707 (with Alistair McMillan, OUP Novaro has published numerous articles in national and foreign 2005; winner of the WJM MacKenzie Prize); and Rational Choice journals. His most recent books include: The History of and British Politics (OUP 2001). Contemporary Argentina (Edhasa Editorial, Buenos Aires, 2006), and The Political Collapse in the Demise of the Convertibility (Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 2002). In collaboration with Vicente Plenary Panels Palermo, Novaro has published The Recent History. Essays on the Democratic Experience in Argentina (Edhasa Editorial, Buenos Aires, Professor Carol Pateman 2004) and The Military Dictatorship (1976-1983)’ (Paidós Press, President – American Political Science Buenos Aires, 2003). Association Carole Pateman is a distinguished Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles and Honorary