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 2 University News In Full View 3 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