Contents

NEWSMar 2006. ISSN 0955-6281. Vol. 17 No. 1

University News.................................................2

In Full ViewCelebratingSuccess.................................................. 3BibliographicalBulletinonFerderalism...................... 3ThePoliticalCommunicationSectionoftheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation(APSA)......... 3TheJoanShorensteinCentreonthePress,PoliticsandPublicPolicy......................................... 3BringingPoliticstoLife.............................................. 4EducationUKSupportingtheUKintheInternationalEducationMarket................................. 5CelebratingExcellenceNominationsopenforFellowshipScheme....................................5CelebratingExcellence............................................... 5JosepMªVilasecaiMarcetAward............................ 5

Specialist Group NewsThePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroup................ 6LargestevergatheringofacademicsstudyingtheLiberalDemocratsmeets................................... 6TerritorialPoliticsinPerspective................................. 72006LeverhulmeMajorResearchFellowships...........7PostgraduateresearchStudentshipinPeaceStudiesandConflictResolution,RichardsonInstituteforPeaceandConflictResolution,LancasterUniversity................................................. 7PoliticalStudiesWomenandPolitical

Conference2006.................................................. 22

2006 Conference......................................8-17

Time to Confer..........................................18-19

Links with other PSAsTheBritishPoliticsGroupoftheAPSA.....................20PoliticalStudiesAssociationContinuestoStrengthenlinkswithotherPSAs..........................20Up-DatingourEuropeanLinks......................... 20-21

Research and WritingC-SAPCallforBookReviewer..................................21ThePolicalandPhilosophicalImaginationintheUnitedStatesandGermany.........................21IraqWarCulture.....................................................21TeachinginHigherEducationIssue.........................21PublicAdministrationCommitteeAnnualConference2006..................................................21

Department Profile.................................23-24

Professor ofPolitics Knighted

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex, Professor Ivor Crewe has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List. Professor Crewe has been awarded a knighthood for services to higher education.

Speaking about his honour, Professor Crewe said: ‘I am honoured and delighted, not just for myself, but also for my University and for my discipline of political science.’

Association Membership Reaches

New HighMembershipofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationreachedanewhighof1645bytheendofDecember2005,anincreaseofalmost100membersfromthepreviousyear.Thisnewfigurenowincludes1160fullmembers,56retiredmembersand429graduates.

ProfessorJohnBenyon,AssociationTreasurer,forgingAmericanlinksoutsidetheUSCongressBuilding.Seepage20

Welcome From ReadingDepartmentofPoliticsandInternationalRelationsattheUniversityofReadingispleasedtowelcomeyoutothe2006AnnualConferenceofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation.TheseareveryinterestingtimesforthosewhostudyPoliticsandInternationalRelationsandwehopethatyouwillparticularlyenjoythepapersandroundtablesaddressingtheConferenceThemeof‘LibertyandSecurity:theChallengeforGovernment’.

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ProfessorIvorCrewe

UniversityofReading

Winning the Winter Campaign: Another Season of SuccessThePoliticalStudiesAssociationhashadaverysuccessfulcampaignofshowcasingtheprofessionandfacilitatingcolleaguesplanningfortheyearahead.ThisissueoftheNewsfeaturesreportsonanotherhighlypraisedawardsceremony,themajorconferenceonBritishnessandthelatestintheannualseriesofHeadsofDepartmentConferences–allheldinNovember-December2005.

TheHeadsofDepartmentConferencewasparticularlywellattendedthistime,perhapsreflectingtheagenda,whichcoveredresearchplanning,ESRC

opportunities,studentrecruitmentandtheRAE.Thislasttopicwasparticularlytimelyandtheheadsofdepartmentsfounditausefulguidetodepartmentalstrategies.ThesessiononpostgraduatetrainingwasprecededbyademonstrationofPARLE,anewmulti-mediapackagecontainingaudio,visualandtextualmaterial,whichwillrevolutionisetheteachingofpoliticalsciencemethodology.

Allinallaverysuccessfulwinter.NowontoReading.

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Celebrating Success

Ivor Gaber, Political Studies Association Media Advisor

ItmightnotbequiteHollywoodonthenightoftheOscarsbutthere’snoshortageofglitzandglamour(wellmaybejustalittle)attheInstituteofDirectors’inLondon,whenthePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sannualpoliticalawardsceremonytakesplaceeveryNovember.

TheAwardsCeremonyoriginatedasaone-off,tomarkthe50thanniversaryofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation.TheywereseenasnotjustameansofraisingtheAssociation’sprofilebutalsoanextremelyusefulwayofbuildingbridgeswithournon-academicconstituency–politicians,themediaandothers.ForthepastthreeyearstheAwardsCeremonytowhichallAssociationmembershaveanopportunitytoattend,hastakenplaceoveranextendedlunchtimeceremonyclosetoWestminster.It’salwaysdifficultstrikingabalancebetweenawardstoacademics,politiciansandjournalists.IntermsofvulgarPRweknowthattheawardsgiventopoliticalscienceacademicswillattracttheleastmediaattention,theawardstojournalistswillattractattention(butusuallyonlyfromtheaward-winners’ownpublications)andawardstopoliticianswillattractpublicitywithtwocrucialprovisos–first,thattheyturnuptoreceivethemandsecond,theyhavesomethinginterestingtosay.

Thewinnerofthe2004PoliticianoftheYearAward–GordonBrown–didboth;heattendedandthenmadeasubstantivespeechabout‘Britishness’,whichinturnledtothePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sownconferenceonthesubject(morelater).Thisyear’swinnerTonyBlair–wasanextremelycontroversialchoiceamongAssociationmembers,butwasvirtuallyignoredbythemediabecausehesentalonghisParliamentaryPrivateSecretary,KeithHill,whoacceptedonthePM’sbehalfwithaminimumoffussandaminimumofspeech.

Therewasamoreinterestingstoryaboutanotherabsenteewinner.TamDayellwasduetoreceivetheParliamentarianoftheYearAward,unfortunatelyhewastakenillatshort-notice,infactsoshortthattheorganizersonlyheardaboutitduringtheceremonyitself.TheauthorwasthendeputedtoseekoutarelevantpoliticiantoreceivetheawardonTamDayell’sbehalf.

ChrisMullinwasalong-timeparliamentarycolleagueandwasthereforeleanedupontodothenecessary.Lastyear’swinneroftheJournalistoftheYear–TrevorKavanaghoftheSunhadalreadybeenaskedtopresenttheaward.ChrisMullinwentupandtheawardwashandedoverwiththecustomarycongratulationsallround,Mullinthensatdownandsaidtotheauthor,withabenign/malignsmileonhisface:“That’sthefirsttimeIhavespokenwithTrevorsincehecalledmethemostodiousmanintheHouse”!

Oneotherstoryoflast-minutestand-ins,isworthre-telling.ThedaybeforetheawardsCharlieJeffrey-onethePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sleadinglights

-hadorganizedaconferenceon‘Britishness’,withtheChancellorduetomakethekeynotespeech.Atshortnoticehebecameunavailablebutbydeftfootworkalatestand-inwasfound–DavidCameron,thethenwould-beToryleader.Heusedtheconferencetolaunchhisinitiativeonnon-militarynationalserviceforyoungpeople–notnecessarilycentralto’Britishness’butgoodenoughtogarnerhimselfandtheconferenceagooddealofmediacoverage.Andwhoknows,hemightevenhaveputhimselfintheframetowintheAssociation’sPoliticianoftheYearAwardin2006-almostasgreataprizeaswinningtheleadershipoftheConservativeParty(discuss).

Bibliographical Bulletin on FederalismThefirstissueoftheBibliographicalBulletinonFederalism,editedbytheCentreforStudiesonFederalismofTurin(Italy),isnowavailableatwww.csfederalismo.it

TheCentreforStudiesonFederalism,currentlyunderthedirectionofAntonioPadoaSchioppa(President)andUmbertoMorelli(Director),wasfoundedin2000atthejointinitiativeoftheCompagniadiSanPaoloandtheUniversitiesofPaviaandTurin,recentlyjoinedbytheUniversityofMilan.TheCentre’sprincipalfocusisthepromotionandcoordinationofresearch,education,informationandthecirculationofknowledgeanddocumentationinthefieldoffederalstudies.

TheBibliographicalBulletinonFederalismprovidesanoverviewofarticlespublishedbyroughly700oftheprincipalscientificjournalsonfederalismpublishedinEnglish,Italian,French,GermanandSpanishandwillbepublishedon-linethreetimesayear.TheBulletinusesadefinitionoffederalismbasedonthestudiesof,amongothers,KennethC.Wheare,CarlJoachimFriedrich,MarioAlbertiniandDanielElazar.Itisdividedintoseveralsectionsdevotedtospecifictopicsrelatedtofederalism,suchasthetheoryandpracticeoffederalstates;multi-levelsystemsof

governmentandgovernance;thetheory,practiceandreformofinternationalorganisations;processesofregionalintegration;federalismasapoliticalidea.Thespecificpoliciesoffederalpolitiesarenotconsideredotherthanascasestudiesrelevanttoinstitutionalandtheoreticalarguments,strictlyrelatedtofederalideasandstructures.

WiththeBulletinitistheCentre’sintenttoofferafreeservicetotheinternationalacademiccommunity,providingatimelyupdateonnewarticlesonfederalismandanarchiveusefultoresearchersallovertheworld.ScholarscansearchtheBulletinanditsarchivebyauthor,journal,keywords,sectionoftheBulletin,orspecifictopic.

Thefirstissueincludesarticlesfromjournalspublishedin2005,whilethearchiveincludesanumberofrelevantarticlespublishedin2004,therebymakingavailableacriticalmasstobeginworkingwith.TheBulletinwillbepublishedon-linethreetimesayear.

ManyarticlesincludedintheBulletinarealsoavailableinourspecialisedLibrary,whichoffersawiderangeofmaterials,includingsomerarecollectionsdonatedtotheCentrebyseveraleminentpersonalities,scholarsandinstitutions.TheLibraryisopentoallinterestedscholarsanditscataloguecanbeaccessedon-line.TheCentreforStudiesonFederalismwillassistItalianandforeignscholarsinorganisingtheirstaysattheCentreforthepurposeofconsultingtheLibrarymaterial.

ForfurtherinformationontheCentreforStudiesonFederalismyoumayvisitourweb-siteatwww.csfederalismo.it

Youmaycontactusat:tel.0039/011/6705024fax0039/011/6705081info@csfederalismo.it

ProfessorCarolePateman

Oneoftheworld’sleadingpoliticaltheorists,ProfessorCarolePateman,hasbeenappointedProfessorialFellowintheSchoolofEuropeanStudies,CardiffUniversity.SheconsolidatesthestrengthofthePoliticalTheoryResearchUnitinthePoliticsSectionoftheSchool.ShejoinsProfessorDavidBoucher(unitcoordinator),ProfessorBruceHaddock,GraemeGarrard,PeriRobertsandPeterSutch.Theworkof

theunitisstrengthenedbytwohonoraryprofessorialfellows,RexMartin(Kansas)andAndrewVincent(Sheffield),andtwelvePh.Dstudents.TheUnit’sareasofexpertiseincludehistoryofpoliticalthought,modernpoliticaltheoryandnormativeinternationalrelationstheory.ProfessorPatemanaugmentsallthreecategoriesbyadeptlydealingwithcontemporaryissueswithanincisiveandoriginalgraspofhowpastpoliticalthinkinghasshapedthetermsofreference.SheiscurrentlycompletingacollaborativeprojectwithCharlesMillson‘TheRacialContract’,anextensionofherworkontheSexualContract.SheexploreshowtheEuropeandoctrineofterranullius(waste,unoccupiedorbarrenland)wasusedtojustifytheappropriationoflandsinAustraliaandNorthAmerica,arguingthatanhonestrejectionofthedoctrinewillplacecontemporaryrelationsbetweenEuropeansettlersandindigenouspeoplesonfirmermoralfoundation.HerworkinthisrespectaddstotheUnit’sstrengthinnormativeinternationalrelationstheory.ProfessorPatemanhasmadeaprofounddifferenceinthewaytherelationshipofgendertopoliticsisanalyzed,bothhistoricallyandincontemporarylife.Shehasrecentlydevelopedaninterestinpoliticaltheorists’contributiontothedebateaboutthestatusofanimals,andisalsoanexponentofthecontroversialpolicyofa‘basicincome’towhichallcitizensshouldhaveanunconditionalright,irrespectiveofemploymentstatus.ThePoliticalTheoryResearchUnitalsoincorporatestheworkof

Coup for Politics at Cardiff University

The Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA)

Onthissitethereisinformationaboutupcomingconferences,sectionawardsandpublications,samplecoursesyllabiandotherteachingresources.

http://www.apsanet.org/~polcomm/

The Joan Shorenstein Centre on the Press, Politics and Public PolicyTheJoanShorensteinCentreonthePress,PoliticsandPublicPolicyisaHarvardUniversityresearchcentrededicatedtoexploringtheinter-sectionofpress,politicsandpublicpolicyintheoryandpractice.

Formoreinformationpleasegoto:www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/

UKPAC prize 2006

“Promotingaccountability,transparency,efficiencyandhonestyinpublicadministration”

TheUnitedKingdomPublicAdministrationConsortium*ispleasedtoannounceits2006annualcompetition.Aprizewillbeawardedforanoutstandingarticleorchapterinthefieldofpublicadministrationorpublicmanagementthathasbeenpublishedrecentlyinaprofessionaloranacademicjournal,orinananthology.

In2005thefullUKPACprizewasnotawarded,althoughtwoentrieswerecommended.The2004prizewaswonbyProfessorColinHayoftheUniversityofBirminghamforhisarticle‘Theory,StylisedHeuristicorSelf-FulfillingProphecy?TheStatusofRationalChoiceTheoryinPublicAdministration’,PublicAdministration,vol.82(1),2004,pp.39-62.

This year’s prize will be reimbursement of the costs (capped at £1,000) of attending any annual conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) or European Group of Public Administration (EGPA), up to the end of 2007.

The winner will also be awarded the UKPAC prize medal and certificate and a two year subscription to the International Review of Administrative Sciences.

Inaddition,foracademicentrants(stafforpostgraduatestudents),booktokenstothevalueof£300maybeawardedtothewinner’semployinguniversity/collegeordepartment.

Althoughthereisnoagelimit,thecompetitionis

intendedtoencouragetheparticipationofrelativelyyoungornewacademicsandpractitionersintheworkoftheInternationalInstituteofAdministrativeSciences(IIAS)anditsaffiliatebodies.ItisopentoanyUKcitizenortoanyoneemployedorresidentintheUKatthetimethatthewinningentrywaspublished.

Thejudgeswillbelookingforpublishedworkinanyfieldofpublicadministrationorpublicmanagementthatmakesaparticularlyimportantandoriginalcontributiontotheoryand/orpracticeinthesefields.Contributionsfromcognatedisciplines(suchaspubliclaw,organisationalpsychologyorsociology)willbeeligibleforconsideration.

Therequirementsofthecompetitionareasfollows:(i) EntryisnotrestrictedtopublicationsinUKbooks andjournals.However,thepublicationmustbein theEnglishlanguage.(ii)Publicationmusthavetakenplacesince 1January2005.(iii)Thelengthofitemssubmittedmustbebetween 5,000and10,000words.(iv)Itemsdeemedeligiblewillincludearticlesand bookchapters.Othercategoriesofpublicationsuch aspamphlets,reportsandoccasionalpapersmay alsobeconsidered,atthejudges’discretion.(v)Jointly-authoredworkwillbeeligiblefor consideration,butintheeventofsuchworkbeing thewinningentryonlyoneprizewillbeawarded. Alltheauthorsofsuchworkmusthavegiven writtenpermission(see(vi))foritssubmissionto thecompetition.(vi)Academicsandpractitionersareinvitedto nominatetheworkofcolleaguesforconsideration, butentriesmayalsobeself-nominated.Allthe

theCollingwoodandBritishIdealismCentre,whichworksthroughthePoliticalStudiesAssociationintheformoftheBritishIdealistSpecialistGroup.

ProfessorPateman’sappointmentfollowsalongassociationwiththeacademiclifeofWales,whereshegavetheJohnReesMemoriallecturein1995atSwanseaUniversity.ShebecameanhonoraryprofessorialfellowofCardiffUniversityin2001,andhasrecentlybeenaCardiffDistinguishedVisitingFellowduringwhichtimeshegaveaseriesoftalksincludingapubliclecture.ProfessorCarolePateman’stalk,‘ThinkingaboutDemocracyinaTimewhen‘StuffHappens’’,drewonherresearchwhichexploressocialandpoliticalquestionsincludingfeministpoliticaltheory,democratictheoryandquestionsaboutcitizenshipandrace.

ProfessorPatemanwasawardedtheLifetimeAchievementAwardbythePoliticalStudiesAssociationoftheUnitedKingdomin2004,andanhonorarydoctoratefromUniversityCollege,Dublinin2005.ShewasawardedtheBenjaminELippincottAwardbytheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociationforherbookTheSexualContract.TheLippincottAwardwasestablishedbytheAssociationtorecognizeaworkofexceptionalqualitybyalivingpoliticaltheoristthatisstillconsideredsignificantafteratimespanofatleast15yearssincetheoriginaldateofpublication.Theawardispresentedeverytwoyears.

authorsofitemssubmittedmusthavegivenwritten consentfortheirworktobeconsidered.Fourhard copies(offprintsorclearphotocopies)ofentries mustbesubmitted.

Theclosingdateforsubmissionis16 June 2006,andthisdeadlinewillbestrictlyenforced.

Thecompetitionwillbejudgedbyapanelcomprisingacademicsandpractitioners,andtheresultswillbeannouncedbythebeginningofAugust2006.Eachentrymustbeaccompaniedbyanentryform,signedbytheauthor(s)oftheitemsubmittedandbyanyotherpersonwhoisnominatingtheentry.FormsmaybeobtainedfromGail Main, CIPFA, 3 Robert Street, London WC2N 6RL,emailgail.main@cipfa.org(towhomformsandentriesshouldbesent),orfromtheUKPACwebsite,www.ukpac.org.Entrieswillnotbereturned.

Thejudgesreservetherightnottomakeanawardiftheyconsiderthatnoneoftheentriesreachestheappropriatestandard.Thedecisionsofthejudgesarefinal,andthejudgeswillnotenterintoanycorrespondenceconcerningtheiradjudications.

*TheUKPACisapartnershipenablingtheUKtobelongtotheInternationalInstituteofAdministrativeSciences(IIAS):membersaretheJointUniversityCouncilPublicAdministrationCommittee,theNationalSchoolofGovernment,theNationalAuditOffice,theCharteredInstituteofPublicFinanceandAccountancy,PublicAdministrationInternationalandElectronicDataSystemsLtd.

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Celebrating ExcellenceNominations open for New National Teaching Fellowship SchemeNominationsfortheHigherEducationAcademy’snewNationalTeachingFellowshipScheme(NTFS)openedon18thJanuary2006.

Theschemerecognisesandrewardsexcellenceinteachinginhighereducation.ItisopentoallstaffinvolvedinsupportingthestudentlearningexperienceinHEinEnglandandNorthernIreland.ThisyearithasbeensubstantiallyrestructuredinresponsetofeedbackfromtheHEsector,whichrecommendedthattheindividualawardshouldbedecoupledfromtherequirementtocarryoutaproject.

Theschemewillconsistoftwostrands,IndividualAwardsandProjects.Wewillbemaking50awardsof£10,000torecogniseandrewardindividualexcellence,whichmaybeusedforpersonaldevelopmentinlearningandteaching.TheIndividualAwardsaimtoraisetheprofileoflearningandteaching;recogniseandcelebrateindividualswhomakeanoutstandingimpactonthestudentlearningexperience;andprovideanationalfocusforinstitutionalteachingandlearningexcellenceschemes.

Intheprojectsstrand,designedtodevelopanddisseminategoodpracticeacrossthewholesector,teamswillbeabletobidforfundsofupto£200,000.

Areyourseminarsevermarkedbylongsilences?Doyourstudentssometimescomplainthatwhatthey’relearningisn’trelevanttotherealworld?Perhapssomegroupexercisesorroleplayscenarioswouldhelp–butwhatiftherearen’tanythatfitwithyourcourse?HelpmaybeathandfromasmallbutinnovativeFDTLprojectattheUniversityofHuddersfield.

Withitscloselinkstolocalauthorities,andalongstandingandsuccessfulpracticeofworkplacementsforPoliticsstudents,Huddersfieldwasverystronglyplacedtobuildonknowledgeandexperiencefromoutsidetheacademytodevelopteachingresourceswhichreallybringthedisciplinetolifeanddrawstudentsintotheheartofpoliticalissues.

Three Person Project TeamTheprojectbeganwithasuccessfulbidtoHEFCE’sFundfortheDevelopmentforTeachingandLearning(FDTL)bytwomembersofthePoliticsdivisionattheUniversityofHuddersfield,DrJohnCraigandDrGeorginaBlakeley,whomakeuptwoofthethreepersonprojectteam.TheProjectManager,whohandlesthedaytodayrunningoftheprojectaswellasresearchingandwritingthecasescenariosanddevelopingtheinteractivetemplate,isresearchfellowDrSarahHale.Havingpreviouslybeenalecturerinpolitics(specialisinginpoliticaltheory),shehasfirsthandknowledgeofwhat’sneededintheseminarroom.

Education UK Supporting the UK in the International Education Market Professor Mary Stiasny, Director of the British Council

TheBritishCouncilhasbeenworkingwiththeDfEStodevelopanewstrategytosupporttheUKintheinternationaleducationmarket.

In1999asaresultoftherecognitionofthestrategicimportanceofinternationaleducation-andspecificallythevalueofinternationalstudents,thePrimeMinisterlaunchedthePrimeMinister’sInitiative,saying“PeoplewhoareeducatedherehavealastingtietoBritain”.ThePMIasitcametobeknownwasthefirstnationalcampaignofitstype.Itwasajoined-upapproachacrossgovernmentdepartmentsandotherorganisations,aimedattherecruitmentofanadditional50,000HEStudentsand25,000FEStudentsby2004/5.ThiswastobeachievedthroughamajormarketingcampaignmanagedbytheBritishCouncil–withthedevelopmentofanEducationUKbrandatitscentre–andarangeofpracticalmeasurestoimproveopportunitiesforstudentstoworkwhilststudying,tostreamlinevisaprocesses,andtoincreasethenumberofCheveningscholarships.

ThePMIMarketingcampaignachieveditsrecruitmenttargetswithinthetargetdates,generatinganestimated£1billionfortheUKeconomy.ItcreatedheightenedawarenessoftheEducationUKbrandglobally,andachievedsignificantmediacoveragefarabovethevalueoftheoriginalmarketinvestment.TheEducationUKwebsiteitselfreachedmorethan4millionvisitorseveryyear.

ThesuccessofthecampaignisseenasveryimportanttoHE,FEandtoUKtradeandinvestment.ItisessentialthattheUKmaintainsitsmarketposition,andtherehasthereforebeenarecognitionthatinvestmentmustnotdecline.OECDfiguressuggestthattheabsolutenumberofstudentsgrewbetween1998and2003,buttheUK’stotalmarketsharedecreasedbyover2percentagepoints,fasterthananyotherOECDcountry.ItisclearfromtheUCASfiguresfor2005thatapplicationstoUKdegreecoursesfromseveralkeymarketsaredownsignificantlyonlastyear:

ApplicationsfromChina(UK’snumberonemarket)havedroppedby23.5%,whilethemarketsofSingapore,HongKongandMalaysiaareallshowingadecline.

Asaresultofconcerns-andofchangesintheworldmarket,theeducationsector,governmentandtheBritishCouncilareworkingonasuccessorstrategytobuildonthesuccessonPMI.ThefocuswillbeonmaintainingandenhancingtheUK’spositionasaworldleaderintheinternationaleducation,aimedatbuildingandsustaininginternationalrelationshipsthrougheducationandtraining,ratherthanoverlyfocusingonrecruitment.Fourkeyobjectivesunderpinthenewdevelopment;

Case Scenario PacksTheprojecthastwomainstrandsintermsofitsoutputs.Thefirststrandistheproductionofcompletehighqualitycasescenariopacks.Morethanjustascenarioorroleplayexercise,eachpackcomescompletewithtutornotes,practicaltips,suggestedpromptquestions,andallthebackgroundinformation(forexample,newsreports,legislationorcouncilpapers)necessarytotakeitintotheseminarroomanduseitstraightaway.Whilesomeofthescenariosdoindeedinvolveroleplaying,othersfocusonproblemsolving–usuallybutnotnecessarilyaspartofateam–independentresearch,oracombinationoftheseandotheractivities.Allthecasesfinishwitha‘debriefing’sessioninwhichstudentsreflectontheirownandeachother’sresponsestothescenario.Althoughprimarilyatoolforteaching,therearemanywaysinwhichcasebasedlearningcanbeutilisedaspartofaninnovativeassessmentstrategyaswell.

Sofar,eightscenarioshavebeencompleted,andareavailablefordownloading–completelyfreeofcharge–fromtheproject’swebsiteatwww.hud.ac.uk/cbl.Thescenariosvaryintheircomplexityandtheamountoftimeandresearchtheycallfor,butallarebasedaroundrealincidentsandcurrentissuestakenfromthelocalgovernancesector.Althoughdevelopedinpartnershipwithlocalauthorities,theycoveradiverserangeoftopicsinPoliticsandhavethepotentialtobeusedacrossmanydifferentkindsofcourse.Policyformation,partypolitics,conflictresolution,resourcedistribution,inclusion,democracyandrepresentation,ethics,andequalityarejustsomeoftheissuescoveredbycasesbasedonschooluniformpolicy,planning

• developprioritymarketstomaintaintheUK’s globalpositionwhileincreasingthenumberof internationalstudentsundertakingUK education• developthedistinctivenessandattractiveness ofUKeducation• reduceexposuretoriskbymarketdiversification andconsolidation• developstrategicpartnershipsandalliances

TheEducationUKbrandisalsobeingupdatedtoensurethatitcontinuestoberelevant,andtherefreshedbrandwillcarrywithitanewbrandstory:

EducationintheUKisbuiltonatraditionofinnovation,aprocessofre-inventionandrenewalthatchallengesconventionandencouragesindependently-mindedpeoplenotjustwhattothink,buthowtothink.Together,weareabletocreateinspirationallearningenvironments.EducationUKhasagreatheritageandadynamicculture,offeringbrillianteducationalopportunitiesthatconnectthecreativewiththerigorous,ideaswiththerealworld,seriouswithfun,highacademicstandardswithqualificationsthatarerecognisedandvaluesaroundtheglobe.

ProfessorStiansyaddressedtheHeadsofDepartmentConferenceinDecember.

applications,publicconsultation,grantallocation,andantisocialbehaviourorders,tonotebutafew.AtHuddersfieldtheywillbeusedonworkbaseddegrees(fromfoundationthroughtomasterslevel)inlocalgovernment,aswellasconventionalundergraduatedegrees,wheretheywillbeusedwithcross-disciplinarygroupsofstudents:thepossibilitiesarevirtuallyendless.Casesalreadyproducedwillbevaluableoncoursesinpoliticaltheory,publicpolicy,Britishpolitics,localgovernmentandmanyothers–and,ofcourse,thisisjustthebeginning;manymorecasescenarioswillbeproducedinthefuture.

What’smore,theseresourcesdon’tjustmakelearningaboutpoliticsmoreengagingandrelevantforstudents:theyalsodeveloparangeofkeyskillswhichareevermorevitalinanincreasinglyemployability-orientatedHEenvironment.Skillssuchasteamworking,useofinitiative,communication,researchandorganisation,whicharedevelopedthroughtheuseofcasescenarios,aretheveryskillsmostfelttobelackingingraduaterecruitstolocalgovernment,astheprojectteamdiscoveredwhentheyundertookaninventoryofskillsgapsinthesector.Thefullfindingsofthisresearchcanbealsobefoundontheproject’swebsite.

Alsoavailablefromthewebsite,forthoseinterestedinanyaspectofcasebasedorproblembasedlearning,isacomprehensivereviewofgoodpracticeinthisapproach.Thisdrawsonthelargeamountofresearchon,andexperiencein,casebasedlearninginotherdisciplineswhereithasalonganddistinguishedhistory.

Interacting Template

However,theHuddersfieldprojectisn’tjustaboutbeingtheproducerofaproductforotherstoconsume.Rightfromthestart,theaimwastodisseminate‘howto’knowledge;tofindwaystopassontheteam’sexperiencesandthebodyofknowledgebuiltupoverthecourseoftheprojecttoothers,primarilyacademicsbutalso,potentially,tutorsinFEandschools,andevenemployers.Thisiswherethesecondstrandcomesin:theinteractivetemplate.

Theproject’sbiggestchallengewastodevelopawebbasedtemplatethatwouldenableotheracademicstocreatetheirownscenarios,usingtheirownmaterialandtailoredtotheirownspecificteachingneeds.ThishasbeenachievedwiththeinvaluablesupportoftechnicianPaulDagg,whoalsomaintainsthewebsite.

AprototypeofthetemplatewillbeunveiledataninteractiveworkshopatHuddersfieldonMarch27th,whenparticipantsfromPoliticsdepartmentsacrossBritainwillputitthroughitspaces.Placesmaystillbeavailable:emails.v.hale@hud.ac.ukifyouwouldliketoattend.Thefreeonedayworkshopconsistsofamorningtryingoutthecasescenarios,followedbyaverynicelunch,afterwhichvolunteerswillworkthroughthetemplateina‘masterclass’formatobservedbytheotherparticipantsandsupportedbythetemplate’sdevelopers.

Nowthatthefirstbatchofcasescenariosareready,theprojectteamwouldliketohearfromanyonewhowouldbeinterestedinpilotingandevaluatingoneormoreofthem,andprovidingfeedback.Whynottakethisopportunitytobeinatthebeginningofthisexcitingventure?

Bringing Politics to Life by bringing real life into politics teaching

DrJohnCraig(ProjectManager)andDrSarahHale(ProjectDirector),UniversityofHuddersfield

BidsneedtoalignwithoneormoreoftheHigherEducationAcademy’sfourinstitutionalthemes,identifiedbyhighereducationinstitutionsasissuesofconcerntothewholesector:innovationsinthecurriculumandstudentsupport;qualitymanagement;studentassessment;andacademicleadership.AllbiddingteamsmustincludeaNationalTeachingFellow,thoughbidsarewelcomedfromconsortiaincludinginstitutionswhodonotyethaveaNationalTeachingFellow.Wehopethiswillincreasetheimpacttheschemeisalreadyhavingacrossthesector.

Nominationsmustbemadebyinstitutions,whocannominateuptothreestafffortheIndividualAward.ThenominationswillbeindependentlyassessedbyateamofspecialistreadersandmoderatedbyNationalAdvisoryPanels.WinnersofIndividualAwardswillbeannouncedinJulyandtheFellowshipsawardedatagaladinnerinSeptember.BidsforprojectfundingopeninSeptembersothatindividualawardwinnersfrom2006canparticipate.

TheschemeisfundedbyHigherEducationFundingCouncilforEngland(HEFCE)andtheDepartmentforEmploymentandLearning,NorthernIreland,andissponsoredbyTheGuardianaspartoftheirongoingcommitmenttocelebratingthosewhocontributetostudentlearning.TheNTFScomplementsotherawardssupportedbyEducationGuardian.

FulldetailsofthenewschemeandapplicationformsarebeingsenttoallhighereducationinstitutionsandarealsoavailablefromtheAcademy’swebsiteatwww.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs.htm

Further information and contactsFurtherdetailsabouttheschemeanddetailsofNTFScontactsateachhighereducationinstitutioncanbeobtainedfromtheProjectOfficer(NTFS)atntfsenquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

ForfurtherinformationabouttheHigherEducationAcademycontactAndreaRayner,tel01904717543or717500,emailandrea.rayner@heacademy.ac.uk

Josep Mª Vilaseca i Marcet Award

TheInstitutd’EstudisAutonòmicsoftheGovernmentofCataloniahasrecentlycreatedanannualaward,theJosepMªVilasecaiMarcetAward.Theawardisaddressedtorecognizethebestsubmittednon-publishedmanuscriptdealingwithanyaspectoffederalismandpoliticaldecentralization.ThesumoftheawardisEUR24,000.

Manuscriptsmaybesubmittedinanyofthefollowinglanguages:English,French,Italian,German,CatalanandSpanish.Thedeadlineforsubmittingmanuscriptsis15thSeptember2006.

Furtherinformation(inEnglish)isavailableattheInstitutd’EstudisAutonòmics’website:www.gencat.net/iea.

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ThePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroupofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation,inconjunctionwiththeBritishAssociationforSouthAsianStudies(BASAS)andtheSouthAsiaProgrammeoftheInternationalInstituteforStrategicStudies(IISS),co-sponsoredaninternationalworkshoponreligiousrevivalismandpoliticalextremisminPakistanandBangladesh.Theevent,heldon16thDecember2005attheheadquartersoftheInternationalInstituteforStrategicStudiesinLondon,wasverywellattended.TheworkshopdelegatesincludedtheDeputyHighCommissionerofPakistanandtheDeputyHighCommissionerofBangladesh.

Territorial Politics in Perspective

TheBritishandComparativeTerritorialPoliticsspecialistgrouphelditslatest3-dayconferenceattheInstituteofGovernance,QueensUniversityBelfast,between11thand13thJanuary.Featuringoverthirtypapers,itbeganwithaplenarypanelondevolutioninNorthernIreland,featuringRickWilford,RobinWilson,PaulCarmichaelandDominicBryan.TheplenaryaddressbyDrXabierEzeizabarrena,ascholarofConstitutionalandAdministrativeLawattheUniversityoftheBasqueCountry,focusedoncontemporaryterritorialandconstitutionaldebatesinBasquepolitics.

Awiderangeofpanelslookedatpoliticalcampaignsfordevolution,politicalcultureandpartypoliticsinmulti-levelpoliticalsystems,multi-levelgovernance,institutionalreformandpolicy-making,politicaldecentralisationandconflictresolution,regionalpoliticsandtheEU,andterritorialconstitutionalchange.ParticipantscamefromalloverEuropeandNorthAmericaandreportedresearchfromtheUKaswellasAustria,Germany,Canada,Australia,Spain,Italy,Sweden,andCentralandEasternEurope.

TheconferencegainedmuchfromtheassistanceoftheInstituteofGovernance.TheDirector,DrJohnBarry,andstaff,BarbaraDeBruineandTrevorLeonard,wereextremelyhelpful,andassistedintheorganisationofthevisittoStormont,homeofthesuspendedNorthernIrelandAssembly,hostedbyMLA,CarmelHanna.TheconferencealsobenefitedfromthesponsorshipofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation.AssociationChair,ProfessorJonathanTonge,attendedtheconferencethroughoutandgavetheintroductionforLordAlderdice,theguestof

Theworkshopfeaturedfivepapers.TheproceedingswerestartedbyBurzineWaghmar(SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies).HepresentedapaperonSouthAsiandhimmis(religiousminorities).AshutoshMishra,aresearchanalystattheInstituteforDefenceStudiesandAnalyses,Delhi,presentedapaperonthePakistanimilitaryandthefutureofdemocracyandIslamisationinPakistan.JérémieCodron(CERI,Paris)spokeaboutIslamistmovementsinBangladesh.MarionMueller(HeinrichBöllFoundation,Lahore)spokeonthesubjectofwomenandthepoliticsofthereligiousrightinPakistanandBangladesh.TheworkshopwasconcludedbyAlexanderEvans(ForeignandCommonwealthOffice),whopresentedapaperonreligiousmadrassahsinPakistanandBangladesh.Evans’paperlaterappearedinprintintheJanuary-February2006issueofForeignAffairs.Topscholarsfromaroundtheworldactedasdiscussantstothesefascinatingpapers.TheyincludedJeevanDeol(SOAS),MohammadWaseem(Quaid-i-AzamUniversity),DietrichReetz(FreeUniversityBerlin),YunasSamad(UniversityofBradford),andFarzanaShaikh(UniversityofCambridge).

ThePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroupisalsoproudtoannouncethepublicationofavolume,entitledCoalitionPoliticsandHinduNationalism(Routledge2005).Thebookisco-editedbyKatharineAdeneyandLawrenceSaez.DrAdeney,alecturerattheUniversityofSheffield,waschairofthePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroupofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationfrom2002-2005.DrSaezisthecurrentchairofthePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroup.

CoalitionPoliticsandHinduNationalismprovidesinsightfulanalysisabouttheemergenceoftheBharatiyaJanataParty(BJP)inIndiaandthewaysin

The Politics of South Asia Specialist Group

SirHilarySynnott,SeniorFellowIISS,andDr.LawrenceSaez,currentChairofthePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroupattheworkshoponreligiousrevivalismandpoliticalextremisminPakistanandBangladeshheldattheInternationalInstituteforStrategicStudiesinLondon.

whichitsHindunationalistagendahasbeenaffectedbytheconstraintsofbeingadominantmemberofacoalitiongovernment.Thebookemergedfromaworkshop,co-sponsoredbythePoliticsofSouthAsiaSpecialistGroup,theInstituteofCommonwealthStudies,andtheBritishAcademy.TheeventwasorganisedbyKatharineAdeneyandLawrenceSaez.

Inordertomarkthepublicationofthebook,LSE-India,Routledge,andFoundationBookshostedareceptionon13thDecemberintheIndiaInternationalCentreinNewDelhi.AnotherbooklaunchtookplaceattheInstituteofCommonwealthStudiesinLondonon24thFebruary2006.

Largest Ever Gathering of Academics Studying the Liberal Democrats Meets

WiththeleadershipoftheLiberalDemocratPartycurrentlyunderintensenationalscrutiny,atimelyconferenceoftheBritishLiberalPoliticalStudiesGroupwasheldinWales13th–15thJanuary.Itwasthelargestevergatheringofhistorians,politicalscientistsandpoliticians,fromacrosstheUKandEurope,whostudytheLiberalDemocratPartyintheUK.

Theconference,whichwasorganisedbyDrRussellDeacon,readerinWelshgovernanceandhistoryattheUniversityofWalesInstitute,Cardiff(UWIC),washeldattheUniversityofWalesConferenceCentreinGregynog,Powys(inthepicture).TheeventwasheldinconjunctionwiththeLiberalDemocratHistoryGroupandthePoliticalStudiesAssociation.Oneoftheconference’skeyspeakerswasLiberalDemocratpeerLordCarlileofBerriewQC,theindependentrevieweroftheAnti-Terrorism,CrimeandSecurityAct2001.

ConferencetopicsincludedtheSDPquarterofacenturyon;LiberalDemocratsandthe2005GeneralElection;TheLiberalDemocrats,campaigning,genderandcandidateselection;TheLiberalDemocrats–AllianceandDevolution(NorthernIreland,Scotland,Wales,andGLA)andPrimeMinisters,leadersandotherimportantLiberalfigures.

ConferenceorganiserDrRussellDeacon,ofUWIC’sCentreforHumanities,said:“ThisgatheringofUKandEuropeanexperts,whichhasbeen

organisedformorethanayear,comesatacrucialtimefortheLiberalParty.Itwaspossibleattheconference,inthelightofrecenteventstoexplorenotonlytheLiberalDemocratspastandpresentbutinlightofrecenteventsitsfutureaswell.Theconferencecouldnothaveoccurredatamoreopportunetime.’

honourattheconferencedinnerheldatStormontTheconferencewasalsosponsoredbytheESRC

DevolutionandConstitutionalChangeresearchprogramme.Theconferencewasattendedbyprogrammedirector,ProfessorCharlieJeffery,andfeaturedthefindingsfromanumberofprogrammeprojects.Thesponsorshipwasessentialinhelpingyoungresearchersattendtheconference.Indeednearlyathirdofthepapersweregivenbyresearcherswhohaverecentlycompletedorarenearingthecompletionofpostgraduateresearchdegrees.

Theconferenceprovidedfurtherevidence,ifanywasneeded,thatresearchinterritorialpoliticsisavibrantandstimulatingfield.Thespecialistgrouphassoughttoprovideanarenainwhich

establishedandnewresearcherscanmeetanddiscusstheirwork.PreviousthreedayconferenceshavebeenheldinCardiffinJanuary2001andStrathclydeinJanuary2004withsimilarsuccess,anditisintendedthatthegroupnowcontinuesonthebasisofpanelsattheannualPoliticalStudiesAssociationconferenceandbiennialspecialistgroupconferences.AnyPoliticalStudiesAssociationmemberswishingtobeplacedonthegroupmailinglistshouldcontactusasgroupconvenorsattheemailaddressesbelow.

JonathanBradburyandNicolaMcEwen(j.p.bradbury@swansea.ac.uk;N.McEwen@ed.ac.uk).

FromtheleftisDrJonathanBradbury(conferenceorganiser),DrXabierEzeizabarrena(Speaker)andDrNicolaMcEwen(conferenceorganiser)

2006 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships

TheLeverhulmeTrusteesproposetoofferupto25awardsforindividualresearchinUKuniversitiesinthehumanitiesandsocialsciences.TheFellowships,heldforeithertwoorthreeyears,aredesignedtoenableresearcherstodevotethemselvestoaprojectofoutstandingoriginalityandsignificancewhichiscapableofbeingcompletedwithinthedurationoftheaward,andwhichisappropriateforsuchaperiodofconcentratedresearch.Tothisend,theTrustwillsupportafull-timereplacementlecturerwhoseappointmentfortheperiodoftheawardwillallowthesuccessfulapplicanttobegrantedpaidleavefromallormostuniversityduties.

Eligibleapplicants:CandidatesmustholdanestablishedpostinthehumanitiesorsocialsciencesataUKuniversity,andhaveheldsuchapostforatleastfiveyearsattheclosingdateofapplication.

Closingdateforapplications:4pmonFriday5May2006.

Startingdateofaward:normallynolaterthan1October2007.

Anapplicationpackmaybeobtainedfromthe

Trustbysendingaself-addressedA4orA5envelopestampedfor60gto:TheLeverhulmeTrust,1PembertonRow,LondonEC4A3BG.Pleasewrite“MRF”ontheouterenvelope.NopackswillbemailedoutafterFriday28April2006.

Postgraduate Research Studentship in Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution, Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Lancaster University

ApplicationsareinvitedforaPostgraduateResearchStudentshipinthefieldofPeaceStudies/ConflictResolution.Thestudentshipisavailabletofull-timeUK/EUstudentsonly,andtheawardwillbefor£10,000peryear,forthreeyears,andistocoverfeesandmaintenance.

ApplicationsarewelcomefromstudentswishingtoundertakePhDresearchlinkedtotheresearchexpertiseofthestaffoftheRichardsonInstitute,

oneofwhomwillprovidePhDsupervision.Relevantthematicareasforthisbursarywouldincludeoneofthefollowing:- TheRole/ImpactofDiaspora/migrationinpeace processesanddeeplydividedsocieties- EliteBehaviourinEthnicConflicts,especiallyinpost- communiststates- TheoriesofEthnicityandEthno-nationalconflictin deeplydividedsocieties.- Nationalism,religiousradicalismandcivilwars- EthnicConflicts,particularlyinformerYugoslavia/ Caucasus- ComparativePeaceProcesses/Post-ConflictPeace Building.

ApplicationsforthisbursaryshouldbemadethroughtheDepartmentofPoliticsandInternationalRelationsatLancasterUniversityinthenormalmanner.Particularattentionshouldbegiventosubmittingyourresearchproposal,whichshouldclearlysetoutyourresearchproject,locatingitwithintherelevantliteratureandoutliningthemethodologythatwillbeusedtoachievetheresearchobjectives.

ThedeadlineforapplyingforthisstudentshipisMonday1May2006.

Furtherdetailsmaybefoundatthefollowingweblink:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/politics/phd/phd.htm#funding

2006 Conference� 2006 Conference �

Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading

Keynote SpeakersPolitical Studies Association Annual Conference 2006Tony Wright,MP,chairstheHouseofCommonsSelectCommitteeonPublicAdministration.HehasrepresentedCannockChaseintheHousesince1997.HewaspreviouslyReaderinPoliticsattheUniversityofBirmingham.HewillgivetheKeynoteAddresstotheConference.Professor Ira D KatznelsonisRugglesProfessorofPoliticalScienceandHistoryatColumbiaUniversityandPresidentoftheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation.HewilladdresstheAssociation’sAnnualDinner.Professor Peter MairhasbeenProfessorofComparativePoliticsattheEuropeanUniversityInstituteinFlorencesince2005.HeisonleavefromLeidenUniversityintheNetherlands,whereheholdstheChairofComparativePolitics.Since2001,hehasbeenco-editorofthejournalWestEuropeanPolitics.ProfessorMairwillgivealecturesponsoredbythejournalGovernmentandOpposition.Sir Philip MawerhasbeentheUnitedKingdom’sParliamentaryCommissionerforStandardssince2002.Priortothat,hewasSecretary-GeneraltotheChurchofEngland’sGeneralSynod.HewaspreviouslyaseniorcivilservantintheHomeOfficeandCabinOffice.HereadPoliticsattheUniversityofEdinburghbeforejoiningthecivilservice.SirPhilipMawerwilltakepartinapanelonParliamentaryEthicsandConduct.Professor Paul Wilkinson,ChairmanoftheworldrenownedCentreforTerrorismandPoliticalViolenceattheUniversityofStAndrewsProfessorJavaidRehmanisprofessoroflawatBrunelUniversityandaconsultanttogovernmentalandnon-governmentalbodiesonthelawrelatingtoterrorismandIslamiclaw.BothProfessorWilkinsonandProfessorRehmanwilltakepartinaroundtableonCourtsandRights.

Panel ProgrammeTuesday 4 April

Session 1: 14:15 - 15:30

Stream/Panel:ELECTIONSANDPUBLICOPINIONSTREAM:Turnout:1Convenor:JenniferVanHeerde Scott Davidson UnderstandingtheGreyVote Adrian Kavanagh SecondorderelectionsandtheRepublic ofIreland:aspatialperspectiveonthe 2002GeneralElection Maria Sobolewska Turnoutdecisionofethnicminoritiesin Britain

Stream/Panel:B:CITIZENSHIPANDIMMIGRATION:Europe:CitizenshipandImmigration:1Convenor:StefanoFellaChair:StefanoFella Emanueala Bozzini, Stefano Fella, Hans-Jorg Trenz Anti-racistmovementsinBritain, GermanyandItaly–comparing strategies,politicalopportunitiesandthe effectsofEuropeanisation Krzysztof Nowaczek Europeanisationofdomesticimmigration policies Sara Beth Wallace VariationandDivergenceinLanguage RequirementsforCitizenshipofmigrants inEurope

Stream/Panel:F:EUROPEANISATION:ITSMANYFACES:Europeanisation:ItsManyFaces1:1Convenor:ClaudioRadaelli John Balance, Simon Lightfoot TheImpactofthePartyRegulationon theorganisationaldevelopmentof Europarties Sara Berglund ProblemswithimplementingEuropean publicutilitiesdirectives:Continued oppositionorinvoluntarydefection? Simon Dalferth CivilLibertiesandSecurityin EuropeanisedNationalPolicePolicy Fabrizio De Francesco Towardsan‘ImpactAssessmentState’in Europe?

Stream/Panel:POLICYANALYSIS/NETWORKS:PolicyAnalysisandNetworks1:1Convenor:DimitriosChristopoulos Alice Moseley Researchingcollaborationinpublic policyimplementationnetworks:acase studyofthehomelessnesssector Lucia Quaglia Theroleoffinancialinterestsinthe reformoffinancialservicesregulation andsupervisionintheEU:policytakers orpolicymakers?

Stream/Panel:PRIVATEMILITARYCORPORATIONS:PrivateMilitaryCorporations:1Convenor:tbc

Tuesday 4 April

09.30–12.00 Registration

12.00–12.30 ConferenceOpeningwith cocktailreception

12.30–14.00 Lunch

14.15–15.30 Session1-Panels

15.30–16.00 Coffee/teabreak

16.00–17.30 Session2-Roundtables

17.45–18.45 Session 3 - Keynote Address: Dr Tony Wright: chairman, Public Administration Select Committee, MP for Cannock Chase

19.00–1945 ReceptionbyPalgrave Macmillan

20.00–21.30 Dinner

21.30-01.00 Entertainment-Quiz–Bar extension

Wednesday 5 April

09.15–10.30 Session4-Panels

10.30–11.00 Coffee

11.00–12.15 Session5-Panels

12.15–14.15 Lunch

12.15–14.15 SpecialistGroupBusiness meetings

14.15–15.45 Session 6 - Government and Opposition Leonard Shapiro Annual Lecture: Keynote speaker Peter Mair: Opposing Europe

15.45–16.15 Coffee/teabreak

16.15–17.30 Session7-Panels

17.30-18.30 PSA Annual General Meeting (members only)

18.30–19.30 Sponsored Receptionby GovernmentandOpposition

20.00–22.00 Conference Dinner

22.00–01.00 Barextension

Executive CommitteeVacancies 20065vacanciesexistforordinarymemberplacesonthePoliticalStudiesAssociationExecutiveCommitteefromJuly2006,fortermsofthreeyears.

Postalore-mailednominations,proposedandsecondedbyAssociationmembers,shouldbereceivedbytheReturningOfficer,ProfessorPaulCarmichael,attheaddressbelow,byFriday31stMarchat12noon:

ProfessorPaulCarmichaelHonorarySecretaryPoliticalStudiesAssociationDepartmentofPoliticsUniversityofNewcastleNewcastleuponTyneNE17RUE-mail:psa@ncl.ac.uk

NominationsmayalsobehandedinpersontotheReturningOfficeratthestartofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationAnnualGeneralMeetingat5.30pmonWednesday5thAprilatthePalmerBuildingLectureTheatre,UniversityofReading.

Ifthenumberofnominationsexceedsthenumberofplaces,anelectionbypostalballotofthewholemembershipwillbeheld.

TheDepartmentcontinuestobeacentreofexcellenceandhasbuiltonthe5itwasawardedinthe2001RAE.Inthepasttwoyears,theDepartmenthaswelcomedfournewcolleaguesandanotherfourwilljoinusinSeptember,2006.Studentnumbersarealsoincreasingatbothundergraduateandpostgraduatelevels.TheintroductionofanewBAprogrammeinWar,PeaceandInternationalRelationsin2003hasprovedverypopularandnewMAprogrammesincludeStrategicStudies,EUPolitics(withPlacement)andEthicsandPoliticalTheory.

ResearchintheDepartmentinclusteredintothreegroups:StrategicandSecurityStudies,PoliticsandLawandAppliedPoliticalTheory.TheDepartmentisparticularlypleasedwiththepartnershipsitisdevelopinginrelationtotheseresearchcentres,whetherotherReadingDepartments,suchasLawandPhilosophy,oroutsideinstitutions,suchastheRoyalMilitaryAcademy,Sandhurstandoverseasuniversities.

Inthespiritofsuchcooperationandinterdependency,wewelcomeourfellowpoliticalscientistsfromallovertheworldtoReading.

'Liberty, Security and the Challenge of Government' 2006 Conference Programme in Brief

Thursday 6 April

09.15–10.30 Session8-Panels

10.30–11.00 Coffee

11.00–12.15 Session9-Panels

12.15–14.15 Lunch

14.30–15.45 Session10-Panels

16.00 Tea

16.00 Conferenceends

Daniel Street PrivateMilitaryCompaniesandState Building:SierraLeoneandIraq Dominica Svarc TheRiseofPrivateMilitaryCorporations: securityimplicationsandpolicy recommendations

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPolitics:MediaandPolicy:1Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:SeanPhelan Mart Otis TheBreakdownofaMediaPolicySystem –orthedawningofanewera? Katrin Voltmer MassMediaandPublicPolicymaking–is therealink?

Stream/Panel:MARXISM:Marxism1:Justice,Ideology,Democracy,Poetry:1Convenor:MarkCowling David Bates Intellectuals,IdeologyandEmancipation Clive Hill Rhul How‘democratic’wasMarx’spoetry? Wei Xiaoping FromPrincipletoContext:Marx,and Nozick,RawlsonDistributiveJustice

Stream/Panel:SOUTHAFRICA:SouthAfricaForeignandMilitaryPolicy:1Convenor:AndriaEllner Daniel Conway WomenandFeministdebatesIntheSouth AfricanAnti-ConscriptionCampaign Theo Neethling MilitarySpending,Socio-Economic ChallengesandForeignPolicyDemands Francois Vrey StrategicCultureafteradecadeof democracy

Stream/Panel:POLITICALECONOMY:PoliticalEconomy1:IssuesofCorporateGovernance:1Convenor:tbc Stefan Andreasson ThePoliticalEconomyofCorporate GovernanceinSouthAfrica Chun-Yi Lee WhenPrivateCapitalbecomesasecurity asset:ChallengingConventional Government/Businessinteraction Matthew Watson Euphoria,RiskandCorporateScandal: TowardsaPoliticalEconomyPerspective ontheCollapseofEnron

Stream/Panel:G:EURO-MED:MediterraneanViewsofEurope:2Convenor:PeterWoodward Sevgi Drorian Turkey’srelationswiththeEUandthe decisiontostartnegotiationsforpossible EUentry Khadim Niama LibyanperceptionsofEuropeandthe EUfollowingthere-engagementofLibya withtheinternationalcommunityandthe possibilityofitjoiningtheBarcelona Process

Roderick Pace MediterraneanviewsofEuropeandthe EUatdifferentstagesofengagement

Stream/Panel:ANARCHISMSTREAM:Anarchism:1Convenor:AlexPrichard Alexandre Christoyannopoulos ChristianAnarchism:AForgotten AlternativeforthePeacefulOrderingof Society Carissa Honeywell TheAnarchistPoliticalPhilosophyof DrAlexComfort Alex Prichard Utopianism,RealismandAnarchy: Proudhon’sConceptionofPolitics

Stream/Panel:BRITISHIDEALISTTHOUGHT:Theme:StateActionandPublicPolicyinBritishIdealistThought:BritishIdealistThought1:1Convenor:AndrewVincent David Boucher HenryJones:IdealismasaPractical Creed James Connelly IdealismandEnvironmentalRights Colin Tyler IdealistTheoriesofInternational Relations

Stream/Panel:STATETHEORY:StateTheory1:Parliamentarysocialismandstructuralconstraints:1Convenor:PaulWetherly Peter Burnham ParliamentarySocialismandtheState Paul Wetherly Thestructuralconstraintthesis–review andassessment

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:TheParliamentaryLabourParty’sLabour’sfirstcentury:1Convenor:MarkWickham-JonesChair:StephenFielding Peter Dorey Labour’scenturyofconstitutional conservatism Robert Taylor TheParliamentaryRoadtoSocialism –TheRoleofthePLPsince1906

Stream/Panel:GERMANPOLITICSSTREAM:ModellDeutschland:1Convenor:ChristianSchweigerChair:RuthWittlinger Ingolfur Bluehdorn ‘ReformMotor’ontheOpposition Benches:GreenRepositioninginaNew PoliticalLandscape Charles Lees, Dan Hough ContinuityandChangeintheGerman PartySystem–TheCaseofthe‘Partyon theLeft’ Christian Schweiger LiberalvsCo-ordinated?TheEconomic andSocialPolicyApproachoftheSPD andNewLabour Gerd Strohmeier TheGermanPoliticalSystemasaModel forEurope?

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Stream/Panel:SOUTHASIA:SouthAsia1:PoliticalThought:SouthAsianPerspectives:1Convenor:RochanaBajpai

Stream/Panel:WARFARE:WarfareintheInformationAge:1Convenor:MichaelSheehan Tim Benbow TBC Liaropoulos Andrew WarintheInformationage:Theneedfor aholisticunderstandingofinformation warfare Michael Sheehan CounterspaceOperationsand informationwarfare:thestrategicand politicalimplicationsofUSmilitary spacedoctrine

Stream/Panel:GREEKSTREAM:PoliticalMarketingandCommunicationinGreece(CollaborationwithPoliticalMarketingGroup):1Convenor:RomanGerodimos S Dimitraiadis, M Zisouli Usingthewebtocreatea“citizen –oriented”cultureforapoliticalparty: evidencefromtheGreeksocialistparty Y Zotos Kotzaivazoglou TheTransformationofPolitical CommunicationinGreece:Causesand Effects A Veneti TheTVpoliticaladvertisement:an evaluationofitsaestheticsandfunctions bytheyoungvoters.Greece:thecase study

Stream/Panel:ITALIANPOLITICSSTREAM:ItalybetweentheEUandtheUS:1Convenor:MaurizioCarbone Elisabetta Brighi Europe,theUSandthe‘Policyofthe Pendulum’TheimportanceofForeign PolicyParadigmsintheForeignPolicyof Italy(1989-2005) Osvaldo Croci Abalancingact:Italy,Atlanticismand Europeanism Lucia Quaglia TheRoleofItalyintheEuropeanUnion: Pluscachange…

Session 2: 16:00 - 17:30

Roundtable:COURTSANDRIGHTS:Roundtable:CourtsandRights:1Convenor:BobMcKeever Paul Wilkinson, Javaid Rehman Roundtable:CourtsandRights

Roundtable:EUROPEANDEUROPEANISATIONSTREAM:RoundtableonBritainandtheEU-Co-sponsoredbyUACES(UniversityAssociationforConvenor:tbcChair:ChrisLord

Roundtable:BLAIRCOMMISSION:BlairCommissionRoundtable:1Convenor:PeterWoodward

Wednesday 5 April

Session 4: 09:15 - 10:30

Stream/Panel:WOMENANDPOLITICS:WomenandPolitics1:Women’sRepresentation:1Convenor:SarahChilds Karen Celis SubstantiverepresentationofWomen: theoryandempiricalresearch Sarah Childs, Mona Lena Krook ShouldFeministsgiveuponcriticalMass? Lisa Harrison Theselectionofprospectiveparliamentary candidatesinBritain:dopoliticalparties utiliseagenderedmodelofthe‘Good Candidate’?

Stream/Panel:MARXISM:Marxism2:RepublicanismandFascism:2Convenor:MarkCowling Geoff Foote ThePoliticsoftheFirstNewLeftinBritain Lea Haro TheCominternandthetheoryofSocial Fascism

Stream/Panel:POLICYANALYSIS/NETWORKS:PolicyAnalysisandNetworks2:2Convenor:DimitriosChristopoulos Dimitrios Christopoulos Theevolutionofanintermediation network:TheRyanair-Charleroicasein context Sarah Cotterill, Steven King Theroleofnetworksinthedevelopmentof UKlocale-government

Stream/Panel:ELECTIONSANDPUBLICOPINIONSTREAM:VotingBehaviour:2Convenor:JenniferVanHeerde Robert Ford Thedogthatdidn’tbark:immigrationand the2005election Achim Goerres Determinantsofolderpeople’svoting choiceinBritainandGermany Jane Green, Sara Hobolt Owningtheissueagenda:explaining partystrategiesinBritishElection Campaigns Jerry Johnson Values,beliefs,andpartypreference: evidencefromtheEuropeanSocialSurvey

Stream/Panel:GREEKSTREAM:TheChangingStructureandCultureofGreekPoliticalParties:2Convenor:RomanGerodimosChair:RomanGerodis T Kotsaka TheHumanGeographyofPASOK; 1974–1981 C Tassis The7thCongressofPASOK(2005): Towardsan‘open’party A Tsakiris, V Aranitou Thedarksideofthemoon:Greekpolitical partiesandfactionsintradeunionsand professionalorganizations

Stream/Panel:LOCALPOLITICS:Developmentsinlocalpolitics:1Convenor:tbcChair:AlistairClark Doug Campbell MayoralElectionsin2004:Aninitial assessment Colin Copus DirectlyelectedmayorsinEngland: thedemandforanewformoflocal politicalaccountability;theroleof councillorsinalocalseparationof powers Philip Whiteman Local-centralrelations:Conceptualising thepoliticalchallengeofbottom-up policyimplementationtoBritishCentral Government

Stream/Panel:ANARCHISMSTREAM:Anarchism,Post-AnarchismandSociety:2Convenor:AlexPrichard Sureyyya Evren Postanarchsimandthe‘ThirdWorld’ Benjamin Franks QuestioningPost-AnarchismintheAge ofSecurity Carl Levy ‘Sovversivismo’andAnarchism:the RadicalPoliticalCultureofOthernessin LiberalItaly,1870-1926

Stream/Panel:A:FOREIGNANDDEFENCEPOLICY:Europe:ForeignandDefencePolicy:1Convenor:RobertDover Nicole De Flers TowardsaReappraisalofnationalforeign policyinterests?TheEffectsofCFSPon thenationalforeignpoliciesofsmallEU memberstates Robert Dover TheEuropeanArmsTrade–TheFastand SlowTrackofEuropeanisation Claudia Major TowardsaEuropeanisationofsecurity anddefencepolicy?Analysingmember states’commitmenttoESDP:Thecaseof theEuropeanSecurityStrategy

Stream/Panel:PARLIAMENTSANDLEGISLATURESSPECIALISTGROUP:ParliamentsandLegislatures1:ConstrainingGovernment:Parliament’sConvenor:AlexandraKelsoLordNortonofLouth Philip Cowley WhyDoestheGovernmentNot(Often) GetDefeatedintheHouseofCommons? Humphry Crum Ewing WarPowers:TheProperControlby ParliamentofDecisionstoUseArmed Force Meg Russell, Maria Sciara WhyDoestheGovernmentGetDefeated intheHouseofLords?

Stream/Panel:POLITICALECONOMY:PoliticalEconomy2:IssuesofEconomicStructure:2Convenor:tbcChair:ChristopherWhite Paul Lewis Understandingincomedistributionwithin amoderncapitalisteconomy

Bren Romney Democracy,EconomicGrowthand Development:TowardsaSymbiotic Explanation Vera Troeger MonetaryIndependenceandTrade RelationsinFlexibleExchangeRate Regimes

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPoliticsandMediaPerformance:2Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:ValentinaCardo Michael Higgins, Phillip Drake FramingPolitics:Politiciansandthe ResourcesofCelebrity Ana Langer AHistoricalExplorationofthe PersonalisationofPoliticsintheMedia: TheBritishPrimeMinisters1945-1999 Heather Savingny, John Street, Seth Hague StrikingaChord:MusicandMusiciansin PublicAction

Stream/Panel:BRITISHIDEALISTTHOUGHT:Theme:StateActionandPublicPolicyinBritishIdealistThought:BritishIdealistThought2:2Convenor:AndrewVincent Maria Dimova-Cookson TheGoodWillandtheNatureofDuty Andrew Vincent GermanPhilosophyandPublicPolicy

Stream/Panel:SECURITYANDINTELLIGENCE:SecurityandIntelligence1:Legislativeoversightofintelligenceinatimeofsecuritycrisis:1Convenor:PhilipDavies Philip Davies Congress,Iraqandthepoliticsof legislativeoversightintheUS John Morrison DoingIntelligenceOversight:apractical approach Mark Phythian LegislativeoversightoftheIraq intelligencefailure

Stream/Panel:TEACHINGANDLEARNING:TeachingandLearningPolitics1:ARoundtable:1Convenor:PhilippaSheringtonChair:JonCope John Craig Casebasedlearning:bringingthe workplaceintolearning Rose Gann Studyingpolitics:theviewsof6thform students Philippa Sherington Engaginginpolitics:Dostudentsbenefit fromplacementlearning?

Stream/Panel:POLITICALPARTICIPATIONINCOMPARATIVEPERSPECTIVE:PoliticalParticipationandIslam:1Convenor:RobertoEspindola Parveen Akhtar RushdieandthemobilisationofBritish Muslims Mohammed Sajid PressuregrouppoliticsinBritaintoday, thecaseofMuslimparticipation

Farhann Wali TheimpactofIslamicradicalismonthe constructionofBritishMuslimidentities

Stream/Panel:BRITISHPOLITICS::PartiesandtheChallengeofGovernment:1Convenor:PhilipGiddings Chris Ballinger CrossPartyAgreementsonHouseof Lords’Reform:1948and1968 Geoff Foote TheImportanceofEnoch Richard Hayton ConservativePartyStrategyinOpposition Christopher Michael White CameronandtheBlairiteLegacy: Re-interpretingNewLabour

Stream/Panel:TERRORISM:Terrorism2:Radicalisation,terrorismandthepoliticsoffear:2Convenor:GeorgeKassimeris Frank Faulkner Theordinarinessofterrorism:reshaping thebanalityofevilasearly21stcentury zeitgeist Richard Jackson Americancounter-terrorismandthe politicsoffear:rightingtheterroristthreat George Kassimeris Playingpoliticswithterrorism:auser’s guide Jeffrey Schwerzel Terrorismasapopularpursuit?

Stream/Panel:GERMANPOLITICSSTREAM:ConstructingGermanidentity:2Convenor:ClaireSutherlandChair:DanHough Thomas Henne TheshapingofGermannationalidentity bytheVeitHarlanconflictinthe1950s Claire Sutherland ImaginingNationalIdentity:Germany, VietnamandVietnameseinGermany

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:BritishLabourinhistoricalperspective:2Convenor:MarkWickham-JonesChair:RayDouglas Ray Douglas Ethniccleansingontheleft?Labourand thenationalminoritiesquestioninEurope, 1939-47 Hugh Pemberton TherenaissanceinLabourhistoryandits implicationsforthestudyofpolitics

Stream/Panel:PUBLICADMINISTRATION:PublicAdministration:PublicServicesinBritainA:1Convenor:Chair:ChristopherHood Keith Dowding, Peter John The‘twoexit,twovoice,andloyalty model’atestwithsurveydataonlocal servicesintheUK Oliver James SatisfactionwiththePerformanceofLocal PublicServices

Stream/Panel:ITALIANPOLITICSSTREAM:LibertySecurityandIdentityinItalianPolitics-Backtothefuture?A:2

Convenor:DanieleAlbertazziChair:DuncanMcDonnell Mark Donovan The‘centre’betweenstructureand agency.TheItaliancase Salvatore Lupo Thecentreinhistoricalperspective Alfio Mastropaolo TheCentreofAttention Session 5: 11:00 - 12:15

Stream/Panel:PARLIAMENTSANDLEGISLATURESSPECIALISTGROUP:ParliamentsandLegislatures2:ParliamentaryScrutinyofGovernment:Convenor:AlexandraKelsoChair:ClaireEttinghausen Matthew Flinders ParliamentaryScrutiny:PolicePatrols andFireAlarms Alexandra Kelso ParliamentaryResponsestoPolitical Disengagement:WhereDoesEnhanced ScrutinyFitIn? Rob Salmond QuestionTimes:HowLegislative AccountabilityMechanismsAffectMass PoliticalEngagement

Stream/Panel:ITALIANPOLITICSSTREAM:LibertySecurityandIdentityinItalianPolitics-Backtothefuture?B:3Convenor:DanieleAlbertazziChair:DuncanMcDonnell Donatella Campus TheItalianSecondRepublic:Theroleof CoalitionLeadersinElectoralCampaigns Aldo Di Virgilio FromPRtopluralityandback:what prospectsforthepost-Christian Democraticparties? Caterina Paolucci ForzaItalia,theDCoftheXXIcentury?

Stream/Panel:C:HOLISTICSECURITYINAGOVERNANCESTRUCTURE:Europe:HolisticSecurityinaGovernanceStructure:1Convenor:ChrisLordChair:StruartCroft Felia Allum OrganisedCrime.FromPolicyConcept toPolicyExecution.HowtheHolistic Approachslipsfromview Christopher Lord, Jennifer Sands TheorisingHolisticSecurityina FragmentedGovernanceStructure. RationalActors,EpistemicCommunities orGarbageCans?Evidencefromadata- setofEuropeanUnionJointActions. Neil Winn EUintelligenceCo-operation. Co-operationintheabsenceoftrust?

Stream/Panel:F:EUROPEANISATION:ITSMANYFACES:Europeanisation:ItsManyFaces2:2Convenor:RobertDover Apostolos Agnantopoulos TheEuropeanisationofNationalForeign Policies–AConceptualFramework andanEmpiricalApplicationinthecase ofGreek-TurkishRelations

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Francesca Astengo TheroleofItalyintheprocessof EuropeanIntegration Maurizio Carbone IdentityandLegitimacyinGlobalPolitics: theEuropeanUnionasaDevelopment Actor(cantheEUasawholehavea distinctiveapproachtointernational development?) Jaap Hoogenboezem ‘EuropeanDefence:AChallengefor Governments’(isthegoalofthecurrent CFSPtocometoastrongEuropean commondefencearealistone?)

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPolitics:PoliticsandEmergentMediaForms:3Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:PhilipDrake Valentina Cardo BigBrotherasaCommunity–What’s RealityTVgottodowithpolitics Roma Gerodimos ADeficitofCivilSociety?Anin-depth analysisofUKyouthengagement websites Anastasia Kavada AnInternet-BasedMovement?Exploring theroleoftheinternetintheParis2003 EuropeanSocialForum Lisa Tsaliki Blogging:GrassrootsJournalism, ParticipatoryCultureandthefearofthe professionals

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:LabourandNorthernIreland:3Convenor:MarkWickham-JonesChair:AaronEdwards Paul Dixon LabourandtheNorthernIrelandPeace Process Aaron Edwards RethinkingBritishLabourPartyPolicy, 1951-1964

Stream/Panel:GERMANPOLITICSSTREAM:Germanparties:3Convenor:tbcChair:CharlesLees Matthew Ashton ThefinancingofGermanCartelParties Martin Larose Onthebrinkofastrategicoverstretch? TheFRG,theUSandout-of-area interventions Hartwig Pautz Whatwastheimpactofthink-tanks ontheGermanAgenda2020asathird orderchangefortheSocialDemocratic Party’s(SDP)understandingofsocial justice?

Stream/Panel:LOCALPOLITICS:UrbanandRegionalGovernance:AChallengetoTerritorialPolitics:2Convenor:tbcChair:AlistairClark Sarah Ayres, Graham Pearce Recalibratingterritorialgovernanceinthe Englishregions Gill Bentley FromPatchworkQuilttoJigsawPuzzle:

Thechangingroleoflocalgovernment inthegovernanceofeconomic developmentpolicyandregeneration Tassilo Herrschel ‘City-Regionalgovernance:themeaning andoperationofregions?

Stream/Panel:GREEKSTREAM:Greek-TurkishRelationsinthecontextoftheEU:3Convenor:AndrewLiaropolousChair:MichelSheenan S Alifantis TheimpactofTurkey’sEUCandidacyin Greek-Turkishrelations A Kotsiaros TheEuropeanpathofTurkey: implicationsofthe‘Europeanization’ processforGreek-Turkishrelations C Matsouka TheresolutionoftheCyprusissue throughtheEuropeancandidacyof Turkey:ObstaclesandProspects

Stream/Panel:ELECTIONSANDPUBLICOPINIONSTREAM:PartyPolitics:3Convenor:JenniferVanHeerde Alistair Clark Mass,Cadre,orNetworkParties? AssessingScotland’slocalparty organisations Robin Pettitt Understandingorganizationchangein theBritishLabourParty1997-2005 Andrew Russell, Ed Fieldhouse, David Cutts TheLiberalDemocratsafter2005

Stream/Panel:STATETHEORY:StateTheory2:Legitimacy,authorityandthestate-culturenexus:2Convenor:tbc Marinetto Michael Thestate-culturenexus:theturnto cultureincontemporarystatetheory Diego Rios Legitimacyandtheauthorityofthestate

Stream/Panel:TEACHINGANDLEARNING:TeachingandLearningPolitics2:InnovationsinteachingandlearninginPolitics:2Convenor:SarahHale Sarah Hale Politicsandtherealworld:usingcase basedlearninginpolitics Paul Mcveigh Tuninginnotdroppingout:student progressionandretentionatlevelone: causesandpossibleresponses Graham Smith, Roger Ottewill Teachingcitizenshipinhighereducation Pete Woodcock Deliberative(annoyedgrunt)democracy andTheSimpsons:usingSpringfieldin theteachingofpolitics

Stream/Panel:SOUTHASIA:SouthAsia2:InternationalPoliticsofSouthAsia:2Convenor:LawrenceSaez

Stream/Panel:SECURITYANDINTELLIGENCE:SecurityandIntelligence2:Threat,RisksandSecurity:2Convenor:PeterGill

Caroline Baker DeterminingProliferation:Securityinthe Twenty-FirstCentury Theodora Klountzou DeterminingCommonThreatsand Responsestopost-9/11European securitychallenges Glen Newey Whatgoodissecurity Marc Schelhase PoliticalRiskAnalysis–towardsanew conceptualisation

Stream/Panel:PUBLICADMINISTRATION:PublicAdministration:PublicServicesinBritainB:2Convenor:tbcChair:ChristopherHood Andrew Geddes, Helen Mathers, David Richards, Martin Smith DeliveryintheHomeOffice:ASBOs, streetcrimeandmanagedmigration Will Jennings TheRegulatoryStateandDemocratic Responsiveness?UKAsylumand Immigration1994-2004 Iain Mclean, Dirk Haubrich PublicServices:Correlatesofsuccessin performanceassessment

Stream/Panel:TURNOUT:ResearchingTurnout:1Convenor:KennethMcKenzie Liam Delaney, Kenneth Mckenzie Innovativetestsofturnoutdecisions Kevin Denny, Orla Doyle Howpersistentisvotingbehaviour? EvidencefromBritishPaneldata Kenneth Mckenzie, Liam Delaney TheCeltictigerandtheIrishnon-voter

Stream/Panel:ANARCHISMSTREAM:Post-Anarchism:3Convenor:AlexPrichard Gareth Gordon ChallengingtheChallengeTowardsa DeconstructiveAnarchism Garen Karapetyan GuyDebord,CommodityFetishismand theProblemofState-Reification:new directionsinpost-anarchism Steve Shukaitis Transformation,Accumulationand Rupture:theMysticalFoundationsof Capital’sAutonomy

Stream/Panel:POLITICALPARTICIPATIONINCOMPARATIVEPERSPECTIVE:PoliticalPartiesandParticipation:2Convenor:RobertoEspindola Richard Anderson Theresponseofthemainstreamparties tothefarrightchallengeinBritainand France Roberto Espindola, Gabriela Borz ElectoralApathyandDemocracy: explainingthelackofpolitical participationinUKandLatinAmerica Maria Suojanen Electoralsystemchangeanditseffects onpartiesinEurope

Stream/Panel:WOMENANDPOLITICS:WomenandPolitics4:International:4Convenor:SarahChilds Fidelma Ashe “Manenough”theMcCartney campaign:genderingcommunalsecurity inNorthernIreland Jacqueline Briggs YoungWomenandPolitics Sangmook Kim Genderequality,familyfriendlypolicies andgovernmentperformance

Stream/Panel:POLITICALECONOMY:PoliticalEconomy3:Issuesofeconomicadaptation:3Convenor:tbc Andreas Antoniades Domesticstructuresandvarietiesof capitalisminthecommunicationof hegemonicdiscourses:thecaseof globalisationintwosmallEuropean states Simon Glaze Mis-readingAdamSmith:WorldBank EducationPolicyandanInstrumentalist Approachtosocialeducation Stephen Mcbride Thepublicandtheprivateinglobal governance Session 6: 14:15 - 15:45

Stream/Panel:GOVERNMENTANDOPPOSITIONLECTURE:GovernmentandOppositionLecture:OpposingEurope:1Convenor:tbc

Session 7: 16:15 - 17:30

Stream/Panel:GERMANPOLITICSSTREAM:GermanForeignPolicy:4Convenor:MartinLaroseChair:ChristianSchweiger Thomas Speckmann Failuresof‘StateBuilding’:Challengefor theForeignPolicyofGermany Ruth Wittlinger CompetitionorCo-operation?Germany, theEUandtheUS

Roundtable:APSAguestpanel:Roundtable:DifferenceandInequalityintheDevelopingWorld:theAPSAtaskforce:1Convenor:TerrellCarver John Echeverri-Gent, Robert Wade APSATaskforceonDifferenceand InequalityintheDevelopingWorld

Roundtable:SOUTHASIA:SouthAsia4:RoundtableonHinduNationalism:4Convenor:DesaiManali

Roundtable:BRITISHPOLITICS::Roundtable-TheFutureofPoliticalParties:4Convenor:PhilipParvinChair:PhilipParvin Patrick Dunleavy, Justin Fisher, Mark Gill Roundtable

Stream/Panel:ITALIANPOLITICSSTREAM:LibertySecurityandIdentityinItalianPolitics:RealandimaginedthreatsA:4

Convenor:StefanoFella Stefano Fella Liberty,IdentityandSecurityinpolitical discourseonimmigrationinItaly Giovanna Antonia Fois IsEuropeathreattoItaly?Euro- ScepticisminthesecondBerlusconi Government Mattie Paola FromtheThamestotheTiber:Marketsas RhetoricalInstrumentsandtheItalian WelfareState

Stream/Panel:TERRORISM:Terrorism1:1Convenor:GeorgeKassimeris Rabindranth Bhattacharyya TerrorismandtheDayAfter:searchingfor a‘trust-worthy’governance Dirk Haubrich Thethreestagesofterrorism:explaining thestatewearein Pieter Maeseele Resilienceinanageofterrorism

Stream/Panel:WOMENANDPOLITICS:WomenandPolitics3:FeminisingPolitics:Comparative:3Convenor:SarahChilds Viola Burau Genderedinstitutionsandthegovernance ofelderlycare:cross-countrycomparative perspectives Ansa Masaud DofemaleMP’ssubstantivelyrepresent Women?Acasestudynationalassembly inPakistan Rainbow Murray ExplainingFrenchParties’responseto the‘parity’law:anewtheoretical approach Josipa Petrunic Politicallibertyforwomeninpostwar Kosovo

Stream/Panel:THEUNANDTHEWORLDCOURT:TheUNandtheWorldCourt:1Convenor:PeterJones Lynn Bennie, Neil Mitchell Business,socialcapital,andciviland politicalrights:businessparticipationin theUNglobalcompact Nejat Dogan Theworldcourtandworldorder

Stream/Panel:ELECTIONSANDPUBLICOPINIONSTREAM:People,PartiesandPolitics:4Convenor:JenniferVanHeerde Karin Bottom Governmentandthecartel:formulaeand powerdispersioninOECDcountriessince 1970 Heinz Brandenburg Shortoflying:theprevalenceofbullshit inpoliticalcommunicationduringthe 2005BritishElectionCampaign Justin Fisher, David Denver, Ed Fieldhouse, David Cutts, Andrew Russell TrendsinBritishConstituency Campaigning,1992-2005

Stream/Panel:POLITICALECONOMY:PoliticalEconomy4:IssuesofDemocraticGovernanceandcapitalism:4Convenor:LeonardSeabrooke Andre Broome Ifyoumustincreasetax,doitquietly Ian Marsh TheGovernanceofInnovation Jens Mortonson, Leonard Seebrooke ThePoliticalCostofMortgageBubbles

Stream/Panel:GREEKSTREAM:TheEvolutionofGreekForeignandDefencePolicy:4Convenor:AndrewLiaropolousChair:MoustakisFotios C Frangonikolopoulos CivilSocietyandGreekForeignPolicy G Koukoudakis TheRoleofCitizensinthecurrentGreek- TurkishRapprochement A Samaras, E Katsara TherepresentationofTurkeyandthe Greek-TurkishrelationsintheGreekPress K Tsoukala TheEuropeanisationofGreekDefence Policy

Stream/Panel:D:POLITICALECONOMYOFEUROPEANINTEGRATION:PoliticalEconomyofEuropeanIntegration1:1Convenor:OliverJames Mark Aspinwall, Mark Duckenfield BritishBusinessandEuropeanMonetary Integration Ulrike S Kramer FundamentalFreedomsasaChallenge forGovernments–TheImpactofECJ DecisionsinDirectTaxationonthe SovereigntyofNationStates Huw Macartney TheClassesandCapitalsofEuropean FinancialIntegration Claudio M Radeaelli Explainingtaxcooperation:theselection ofmodesofgovernanceinEUdirecttax policy

Stream/Panel:POLITICALTHEORY:PoliticalTheory1:ConceptofFreedomandRights:1Convenor:tbcChair:KatherineEddy Carlos M De Cs Coelho HayekonLibertyandEquality Katherine Eddy Onrevaluingthecurrencyofhuman rights Birgit Schippers Freedom,democracy,affect:onthe psychicdimensionofdemocraticpolitics Karl Widerquist EffectiveSelf-Ownership:Freedomasthe powertosayno

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPolitics:TheStateofPoliticalCommunication:4Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:HeatherSavigny Peter Csigo PopularCultureandAffirmativePolitics

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David Deacon, Dominic Wring FromTorytoTonybutnowwhat?The changingdynamicsofpresspartisanship inBritain Barry Richards PoliticalJournalism:Challengingthe Biasagainsthope

Stream/Panel:PUBLICADMINISTRATION:PublicAdministrationRoundTable–ResearchinPublicAdministration:1Convenor:CliveGray

Stream/Panel:SECURITYANDINTELLIGENCE:SecurityandIntelligenceRoundTable–IntelligenceandSecurityCommittee:thefirsttenyears:3Convenor:PeterGillChair:PeterGill

Stream/Panel:G:EURO-MED:EUforeignpolicyintheMediterranean:1Convenor:ChrisLordChair:LudovicaMarchi Sharon Pardo TowardsaNewEuro-Mediterranean NeighbouringSpace Alfred Tovias ConditionalityandtheEuropean NeighbouringPolicy Sarah Wolff ReformulatingtheEU’sMediterranean agenda:whichactorsforwhichstrategy?

Stream/Panel:PARLIAMENTSANDLEGISLATURESSPECIALISTGROUP:ParliamentsandLegislatures3:ParliamentaryEthicsandConduct-Convenor:AlexandraKelsoChair:AlexandraKelso Nick Allen RegulationversusLiberty:ANewEthical WorldofMPs? Hector Calleros TheHouseRegister:Whatisit Disclosing?

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:Socialcapitalandsocialdemocracy:4Convenor:MarkWickham-JonesChair:FionaRoss Matt Beech AChristianSocialistcritiqueof Capitalism Philip Catney, Stephen C Meredith NewLabourandassociativedemocracy: olddebatesinnewtimes? Ben Kisby NewLabourandcitizenshipeducation

Thursday 6 April

Session 8: 09:15 - 10:30

Stream/Panel:BRITISHLIBERALPOLITICS:TheLiberalDemocratpositiononcivillibertiesandanti-terrorlegislation:1Convenor:RichardGraysonChair:LisaHarrison Alistair Carmichael TheLiberalDemocratsoncivilliberties inParliament

Stream/Panel:FRENCHPOLITICSSTREAM:Frenchelectoralgeography:1Convenor:RobertElgie David Bell ElectoralGeography:expandingfromthe Frenchcase Emanuele Massetti Ideologyandpolicypositionofregional parties.Dostructuralfactorsmatter? Julian Michi Historicalandgeographicalcontinuities inFrenchpoliticalattitudes:howlocal traditionoperates Charles Pattie Howgeographyaffectselections:the caseoftheUK

Stream/Panel:ELECTIONSANDPUBLICOPINIONSTREAM:(WomenandPolitics2:FeminisingPolitics:TheUK):5Convenor:SarahChilds Karen Bird TheFeminineParliamentarian:Women MPsReshapingtheLegislativeRole Rosie Campbell, Sarah Childs, Joni Lovendeski RepresentationinBritain:The ProfessionalisationofPolitics? Rosie Campbell, Kristi Winters GenderDifferencesinVoteChoice: SocialisationnotSelf-interest

Stream/Panel:ETHNOPOLITICSSTREAM:InternationalSecurityandthe(Re-)ConstructionofNationalIdentity:1Convenor:StefanWolf Fiona Adamson TheConstitutivePowerofPolitical Ideology:Nationalismandthe EmergenceofCorporateAgencyin InternationalPolitics Eva Herschinger Enemy,FriendorAlly?TheDiscursive ProductionofSecurityCoo-operationand ItsRoleforNationalIdentityConstruction Monica Zuccarini InternetandGovernments:Openor SecretSociety?

Stream/Panel:ARTANDPOLITICS:GovernanceandRegulationintheculturalsphere:1Convenor:DebbieLisle Clive Grey ManagingtheUnmanageable:the PoliticsofCulturalPlanning Debbie Lisle, Andrew Pepper SecuritisingDissent:Art,Resistance and‘The Julia Svetlichnaja ArtofAbsenceagainstValorisationof Subjectivity

Stream/Panel:SPORTANDPOLITICS:SportandPolitics:ABritishPerspective:1Convenor:RussellHolden Marc Keech TheGovernmentandGovernanceof sport:acasestudyofnewlabourand sportpolicy Neil Ravenscroft, Paul Gilchrist Powertothepaddlershegemony,protest andcollectiveaction

Alan Tomlinson Theorisingacriticalpoliticsofsport

Stream/Panel:GREEKSTREAM:CurrentChallengesinGreekPublicAdministration:5Convenor:RomanGerodimosChair:DimitrisTsarouhas A Aggelakis TheEU’sStructuralFundsandthePublic InvestmentProgrammeinGreece: 1985-2005 T Chardas ‘Bringingthestatebackin’thestudyof theGreekPoliticalEconomy:the EuropeanUnion’sRegionalPolicyinthe WesternMacedoniaRegion A Samaras TheVestedInterestFrameandthe FramingofCampaignLawsinGreece

Stream/Panel:POLITICALMARKETING:PoliticalMarketingandCommunicationinGreece(Co-sponsoredwiththeGreekPoliticsGroup):1Convenor:DeclanBannon S Dimitraiadis, M Zisouli Usingthewebtocreatea“citizen –oriented”cultureforapoliticalparty: evidencefromtheGreeksocialistparty Y Zotos Kotzaivazoglou TheTransformationofPolitical CommunicationinGreece:Causesand Effects A Veneti TheTVpoliticaladvertisement:an evaluationofitsaestheticsandfunctions bytheyoungvoters.Greece:thecase study

Stream/Panel:IRISHPOLITICS:IrishPolitics1:ManagingthetransitionfromconflicttopeaceinNorthernIreland:1Convenor:AlanGreer Jonathan Githens-Mazer AppraisingtheFirstStepsTowards PeaceinNorthernIreland:TheNation vs.TheIndividual Will Hazelton ProblematicNatureofPost-Conflict Elections:TheGovernment’sPolitical ChallengeinNorthernIreland Joanne McEvoy NorthernIrelandpower-sharing1999to 2002:theconstraintson‘joined-up’ government

Stream/Panel:POLITICALTHEORY:PoliticalTheory2:WarandPeace:2Convenor:tbc Helen Dexter WhenSecurityandLibertyally: Cosmopolitanismandthereturnof Justwar Hamid Hadjii Haidar TheQur’anicIdeaofPeace James Pattison Legitimacy,authorityandhumanitarian intervention:whoshouldintervene?

Stream/Panel:URBANPOLITICS:UrbanPolitics1:Themodernisationoflocalgovernment:1Convenor:ScottWrightChair:TonyBovaird

Richard Cowell, James Downe, Steve Martin Performance,publicsatisfactionand participationinlocalservicedelivery Entwistle Tom Theboundedrationalityofbestvalue reviews Vivien Lowndes, Helen Sullivan Howlowcanyougo?Neighbourhood governanceandmodernisation

Stream/Panel:UNITEDSTATESFOREIGNPOLICY:UnitedStatesForeignPolicy:1Convenor:JonDumbrell Daniel Baldino Thepoliticsofalliancemanagement: AustraliaandthefutureofANZUS David Bosold, Kai Oppermann Talkingwin-sets:combiningtwo-level gamesanddiscourseanalysis Jonathan Rodwell Ideology,causationandAmerican ForeignPolicy:Howideasarevital, post-positivismcanberationalandhow WilliamApplemanWilliamsprovided someanswers Lee Ruddin It’snot“revolutionary”stupid!Bush foreignpolicy(2001-2004)andthe internationalsecuritycorollary

Stream/Panel:ITALIANPOLITICSSTREAM:LibertySecurityandIdentityinItalianPolitics:RealandimaginedthreatsB:5Convenor:StefanoFella Salvatore Lupo Organisedcrimebetweenfratricidal competitionandattacksonthestate James Newell TheSicilianmafiaanditslinkswiththe stateincontemporaryItaly

Stream/Panel:METHODOLOGY:Methodology:1Convenor:Chair:CharlesLees Tim Bale “FogintheChannel,ContinentIsolated” Addingcomparativevalueto–and addingtothecomparativevalueofthe studyofBritishpolitics David Houghton ComparativismandtheMythof AmericanExceptionalism Insa Noalte ResearchingEthnicNationalismin Africa:Howthesourcesshapethe subject

Stream/Panel:PUBLICADMINISTRATION:PublicAdministration:Atthecentreofgovernment:4Convenor:tbc Chris Eichbaum, Richard Shaw Barbariansatthegate?Ministerial advisers,civilservantsandthefutureof Westminsterdownunder Felicity Matthews Thecapacityofthestatetodeliver

Stream/Panel:SOUTHASIA:SouthAsia3:SocialandPoliticalMovementsintheerstwhileStateofJammuandKashmir:3Convenor:NagellaYusuf

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPolitics:InternationalIssuesandPerspectives:5Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:MichaelTemple Cinzia Padovani PublicMediaandDemocracyintheUSA, Poland,JamaicaandJapan Adania Shibli Mediadiscoursesonthevictimizationof childrenduringwars:Thecaseofthe Palestinianoccupiedterritoriesinthe year2000 Maria Touri RevisitingtheCNNEffect:TheMedia- GovernmentInteractioninconflict situationsfromarational-choice approach

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:TheLeftandPublicPolicy1:5Convenor:MarkWickham-JonesChair:HughCompston Gregg Bucken-Knapp Workersoftheworld,KeepOut?The SwedishConfederationofTradeUnions andLabourMigrationPolicyReform Hugh Compston TheFutureofPublicPolicy Eric Shaw SocialDemocracyandPublicPolicy

Session 9: 11:00 - 12:15

Stream/Panel:POLITICALTHEORY:PoliticalTheory3:TheConceptofCommunity:3Convenor:StephenElstub Zsuszanna Chappell Alternativetheoriesofrationalityin deliberativedemocracy Stephen Elstub ADualistStrategyforDeliberative Democracy Caroline Walsh WalzerandStrongCosmopolitanism: PointersfromtheHonneth-FraserDebate Robert Ware CommunityandreciprocityinHegel’s PoliticalPhilosophy

Stream/Panel:CRIMEANDSECURITY:OrganisedCrimeasasecurityissue:1Convenor:FeliaAllum Mark Galeotti ‘FelonsandForce-Multipliers’:Trans- nationalCrimeandSecurity Jennifer Sands OrganisedCrimeChallengingthe SpanishState Frederico Varese Whatisorganisedcrime? Sappho Xenakis InternationalisingaThreatAssessment ofOrganisedCrime:History,Logicand Weaknesses

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:TheLeftandPublicPolicy2:6Convenor:MarkWickham-JonesChair:HughCompston

Chris Eichbaum, Richard Shaw Labouringovernment,social democracy,andthethirdway:theNew Zealandexperience James Jupp Savingthepartyfromitself Fiona Ross TheTransformationofthewelfarestate andsocialdemocracyinBritainand Germany

Stream/Panel:BRITISHLIBERALPOLITICS:TheLiberalDemocratPolicyReview:2Convenor:tbcChair:RichardGrayson Russell Deacon TheWelshLiberalDemocratsPolicy Review Paul Graham TheOrangeBookLiberals:Intellectual InfluencesandPolicyNetworks Alison Holmes 100yearson:aretheLiberalDemocrats inheritorsoftheNewLiberalmantle?

Stream/Panel:POLITICALMARKETING:InternationalPoliticalMarketing:2Convenor:DeclanBannonChair:DarrenLilleker Balazs Kiss Marketingandthecelebritypolitician Jennifer Lees-Marshment Thetrialofthemarket-orientedparty model:ComparingUKandNewZealand politicalmarketing Anna Matuskova PoliticalmarketingandCzechpolitical parties–anuneasycooperation

Stream/Panel:SPORTANDPOLITICS:SportandPolitics2:AnInternationalPerspective:2Convenor:RussellHolden Dean Allen Toursofreconciliation,Rugby,warand reconstructioninSouthAfrica, 1891-1907 Russell Deacon SportandtheNewZealandanti- apartheidmovement Wyn Grant Isapoliticaleconomyoffootball possible Russell Holden EnglandandZimbabwecricket2002- 2004:acaseofthehegemonyof commerceandthedeathofmorality

Stream/Panel:BRITISHPOLITICS::TheChildTrustFund:GuaranteeingIndividualSecurityandFreedominWelfarePolicy:2Convenor:RajivPrabhakarChair:AlanFinlayson Dominic Maxwell TheFutureoftheChildTrustFund Rajiv Prabhikar ParentalAttitudestotheChildTrust Fund;EarlyFindings Stuart White ThePoliticsoftheChildTrustFund

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Stream/Panel:ARTANDPOLITICS:Themediationofviolence:conflict,cultureandrepresentation:2Convenor:DebbieLisle Laura Junka TheSublimeSpaceofGazaBeach: Agency,RepresentationandtheShifting AestheticsofPalestinianResistance Carsten Bagge Lausten, Rasmus Ugilt TheScandalousAutonomyofArt Caitlin Patrick ImagingSomalia:Representations ofSomaliMenandBoysduringthe SomaliaInterventionof1992-93 Mirelle Thornton Exploringinterconnectionsandthemes ontheartandcultureofwarnews reportingandtheuseofnewsmediainIR

Stream/Panel:URBANPOLITICS:UrbanPolitics2:TheoriesofUrbanPolitics:2Convenor:ScottWrightChair:JonathanDavies Peter John WhystudyUrbanPolitics? Kjaer Anne Mette RemakingtheUrbanBureaucracy Vivien Lowndes ThenewInstitutionalism

Stream/Panel:INTERPRETIVEPOLITICALSCIENCE: EthnographyofGovernmentElites:1Convenor:RodRhodesChair:PaulHart Karin Geuijen DoingBusinessinEurope:TheChanging CraftofDutchCivilServants Mirko Noordegraaf PublicManagersandServiceDelivery Rod Rhodes TheMinister’sShadow

Stream/Panel:SOUTHASIA:SouthAsia5:PoliticsinAsia:5Convenor:LawrenceSaez Young-Mi Kim Theimpactoftheideologicaldivide ongovernmentefficacyinSouthKorea’s politicalsystem Titipol Phakdeewanich Whereistheboundarybetweenthe ‘PolicyNetwork’andthe‘Patronage System’?AcasestudyoftheThai politicalsystem

Stream/Panel:FRENCHPOLITICSSTREAM:Frenchparties:2Convenor:tbc Andrew Appleton TheEuropeanisationofPoliticalPartiesin France David Bailey Howmoderninstitutionssurvive post-modernity:witnessingparties promote‘emancipatoryregulation’inthe UKandFrance Yohei Nakayama Associations,PartyModelsand Democracies:ChangingOrganizational PatternsofFrenchPartiesinaHistorical Perspective

Stream/Panel:IDEOLOGY,POLITICSANDRELIGION:Ideology,PoliticsandReligion:1Convenor:AndrewVincent Ian Fraser TBA John Geoghegan MacmurrayMarxismandChristianity Richard Shorten Thetheoryofpoliticalreligion Larry Wilde RadicalHumanism,Religionand Solidarity

Stream/Panel:NATIONALISMANDCOLONIALISM:Nationalismandcolonialism:1Convenor:tbc Geoff Archer ThePoliticsofTradition,Postcolonialism andNationalisminVanuatu Abdul-Kader Boutaleb ItalianColonialism Sam Kuruvilla ArabNationalismandChristianityinthe Levant.ThePoliticsofreligionduringthe fagendoftheOttomanEmpire

Stream/Panel:THEIRAQWAR:TheWartoDeconstruction:1Convenor:LeeMarsden Steve Hurst ExplainingtheIraqWar:AWorldSystems Approach Lee Marsden (Ab)usingAmerica’sinfluencein freedom’scause:thecaseofIraq Nicola Pratt GenderingPoliticalReconstructionin Iraq

Stream/Panel:E:CONVERGENCEOFWELFAREREGIMES:ConvergenceofWelfareRegimes:1Convenor:PaolaMatteiChair:PaolaMattei Jochen Clasen Maintainingdistinctiveprofilesbut followingparalleltracks?Welfarestate changeinGermanyandtheUKsincethe early1980s Heinz Rothgang Tobeconfirmed Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Timo Fleckenstein LessonslearntfromBritain?TheCaseof GermanLabourMarketReforms

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPolitics:BroadcastingandEurope:6Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:KatrinVoltmer Alison Harcourt Institution-drivencompetition:The regulationofcross-borderbroadcastingin theEU Machiko Miyakoshi TheEuropeanisationofBroadcasting: anAnalysisoftheImpactofEuropean RegulationontheUKRegimeforPublic InterestRegulationinBroadcasting

Stream/Panel:IRISHPOLITICS:IrishPolitics2:2Convenor:AlanGreer

Eric Kaufmann ShalltheReligiousInherittheEarth?The PoliticalImplicationsoftheSecond DemographicTransition Robert Mauro IdeologicalStructuresinNorthern Ireland:HowLibertyandSecurity Underminethe‘Two-Traditions’ Eamonn O’Kane Decommissioningandthetransition topeace

Stream/Panel:ETHNOPOLITICSSTREAM:IssuesinEthnoPolitics:2Convenor:StefanWolf Matteo Fumagalli, Robert Ware AStrategic-RelationalApproachtoPost- SovietEthno-PoliticalMobilisation Paul Wakeling, Jerry Johnson Ethnicityandpostgraduatestudying politics:ALookattheEvidence Robert Ware RussianHegemonyandIslamic ResistanceintheNorthCaucasus:An HistoricalAnalysis

Stream/Panel:ITALIANPOLITICSSTREAM:RoundtableThe2006Election:6Convenor:DanieleAlbertazziChair:DanieleAlbertazzi

Session 10: 14:30 - 15:45

Stream/Panel:URBANPOLITICS:UrbanPolitics3:Localissues:3Convenor:ScottWright Jim Chandler MP’sandlocalgovernment:howfardoes familiaritybreedsupport Jonothan Davies Theexclusionaryimpetusofsocial inclusionpolicy:VoicesfromHulland Dundee Howard Elcock ComparingElectedMayors

Stream/Panel:THEIRAQWAR:IraqWarPoliticalandMethodologicalImplications:2Convenor:tbc Carol Boudeau ProducingThreatassessments:what sociologycancontributetothedebate Steven Kettell NewimperialismandBritishdemocracy

Stream/Panel:GLOBALJUSTICE:Roundtable:GlobalJusticeinNonIdealTheory:1Convenor:PaulaCasal David Alvarez CitizenshipandGlobalResponsibilities Mathias Risse TheWTOasanInstrumentofJustice Gopal Screenivasan GlobalHealthinNonIdealTheory

Stream/Panel:IRISHPOLITICS:PerspectivesontheIrishState:3Convenor:AlanGreer Maura Adshead ConceptualisingtheIrishState

Michelle Millar Healthandthedevelopmentalwelfare state

Stream/Panel:BRITISHPOLITICS::TheFreedomofInformationAct:3Convenor:PhilipGiddingsChair:PhilipGiddings Stephen Ball Thenewpoliticsoftheopen Ben Worthy ThechallengetoGovernment:Reforming InformationControl1974-1997

Stream/Panel:ETHNOPOLITICSSTREAM:NewApproachestoEthnicConflict:3Convenor:StefanWolf Stuart Kaufman, Satoshi Machida, Yu Wang SymbolicPoliticsandEthnicPoliticsin MalaysiaandthePhilippines Ian O’flynn DeliberativeDemocracyand ConsociationalDemocracy Sherrill Stroschein SidesteppingtheBallotBox:Ethnic HungarianMinorities,ProtestandPolicy inEasternEurope

Stream/Panel:SOUTHEASTEUROPE:IssuesinSouthEastEurope:1Convenor:MilenaBorden Kalin Ivano Anti-corruptionanddemocracyin Bulgaria Gerasimos Konidaris HumanTraffickinginSouthEastern Europe Oisin Tansey DemocraticdevelopmentinKosovo ‘StatelessTransition’asadiminished subtypeofdemocratization

Stream/Panel:SOUTHASIA:SouthAsia6:Non-WesternFoundationsoftheState:6Convenor:GitaSubrahmanyam

Stream/Panel:LABOURMOVEMENTS:Roundtable:discussionofDianneHayter’sFightbackLabour’straditionalrightinthe1970’sand1980’s:7Convenor:Chair:EricShaw

Stream/Panel:H:MEDICALGOVERNANCE:Europe:MedicalGovernance:1Convenor:ViolaBurau Viola Burau, Karsten Vrangbaek Institutionsandthedynamicsof governance:pathwaysofmedical governanceinEurope Stephen Harrison Fromcommuniontocommand: governingUKmedicinesince1991

Stream/Panel:INTERPRETIVEPOLITICALSCIENCE:RealismandInterpretiveGovernance:2Convenor:IanGreenerChair:IanGreener Bob Jessop TBC Stuart McAnulla TBC

Kevin Orr TBC

Stream/Panel:PRIMEMINISTERSANDPOLICYPOWER:PrimeMinistersandPolicyPower:1Convenor:EoinO’Malley Mark Bennister ThePredominanceofPrimeMinisters:A comparativestudyofBritainand Australia Scott Jones TheTriumphofNetworkGovernance? TheEuropeanisationoftheUKCore Executivesince1997

Stream/Panel:MEDIAANDPOLITICS:MediaandPolitics:TheMediaandPoliticalDispute:7Convenor:MichaelHigginsChair:RomanGerodimos Alina Dobreva Mediainfluenceonpoliticalattitudesand thepost-communistaudiences Jasmine Li Zhang MediaRoleinEU-ChinaRelations:The caseofmediacoverageofChinese humanrightsissue Sean Phelan TheMediatizedAntagonismoftheNew Zealand/Aotearoa‘Foreshoreand Seabed’conflict

Stream/Panel:POLITICALMARKETING:PoliticalMarketingintheUK:3Convenor:DeclanBannon Declan Bannon MarketingSegmentationandPolitical Marketing Darren Lilleker MPsandserviceprovision:whatvoters really,reallywant

Stream/Panel:FRENCHPOLITICSSTREAM:DeleuzianPerspectivesonInternationalPolitics:3Convenor:GilesSimonChair:GilesSimon Earl Gammon MappingtheUnconsciousof InternationalPolitics:Anintroductionto theMethodsofDeleuzeandGuattari’s ProgrammeofSchizoanalysis Sean Molloy TBC William Vlcek Along-sideGlobalPoliticalEconomy–a RhizomeofInformalFinance

ChrisRobinson,PoliticsAssociation,whospokeonundergraduaterecruitmentatthe2005HeadsofDepartmentConferenceinLondon

DrMaryMurphy,UniversityCollegeCork,whowasawarded‘SpecialMention’intheCommitteeoftheRegionsAnnualPhDThesisCompetitionin2005

ProfessorTonyPayne,UniversityofSheffield,whospokeontheRAEatthe2005HeadsofDepartmentConferenceinLondon

Time To Confer1� Time To Confer

The International Centre for Business and PoliticsCopenhagen Business SchoolPhD Workshops TheInternationalCentreforBusinessandPoliticsattheCopenhagenBusinessSchoolspecialisesincomparativeresearchonthepoliticaleconomiesofadvancedandindustrializingcountries.TheCentreemphasizescross-nationalresearchonstates,econo-mies,corporations,andotherorganizationsthatareinvolvedinthegovernanceofpoliticalandeconomicmatters.Itisparticularlyconcernedwiththeconstruc-tionofinstitutionalcompetitivenessineconomyandsociety,andalsoadvancementsininstitutionaltheory.ThisyeartherewillbeanumberofshortPhDwork-shopsfromacademicsatthecentreinassociationwithdistinguishedvisitingprofessors.

For2006thefollowingworkshopsareonoffertoapplicantscurrentlyengagedinpostgraduatetraining:

•DiscourseofInstitutionalCompetitivenessin RegionalEconomicIntegration•ComparativePoliticalEconomy:Institutional ReasonsforNationalEconomicSuccessina GlobalWorld•ConstructivistPoliticalEconomyandInstitutional Change•ReformingConstitutionalOrders:Governancefor ExperimentalistOrganizationsandInstitutions•PolitiskteoriogSociologi•EverydayPoliticsandEconomicGlobalisation•EuropeanEconomicIntegration:Changing PatternsofGovernanceTheseworkshopsdealwithkeyconceptualandempiricalissuesinInstitutionalTheory,ComparativePoliticalEconomy,InternationalPoliticalEconomy,EconomicSociology,PoliticalSociology,andEuropeanIntegration.Furtherdetailsfortheworkshopscanbefoundhere:http://uk.cbs.dk/content/view/full/37150

The European Institute of Public Administration Seminar Series

TheEuropeanInstituteofPublicAdministration(EIPA)offersaregularseriesofseminarson“UnderstandingDecision-MakingintheEuropeanUnion:Principles,Procedures,Practice”.ThisseminarwillbeheldinMaastrichton6-7April2006andwillberepeatedon22-23June,28-29Septemberand30November-1December2006.

UnderstandinghowEUdecisionsaremadehasbecomeessentialforallEuropeanpublicofficials.ThiscourseprovidesanintensiveintroductiontotheEUinstitutionsandthedifferentwaysinwhichdecisionsarenowreachedinthevariousspheresofEuropeancooperation.

ParticipantsareofferedinsightintohowEUlegislationisgeneratedinpracticefromthecombinationoflectureswithasimulationexerciseandacasestudy.Theyarealsointroducedtonon-

legislativeapproaches,includingpolicycoordinationandalternativemethodsofregulationaswellasintergovernmentalcooperationinforeignandsecuritypolicy.

ThegroupsconsistprimarilyofpublicofficialsfromacrosstheEUmemberstatesaswellasfromtheinstitutions,thuspermittingafocussedexchangeofexperiencesaboutthechallengesofparticipationinEUpolicyprocesses.

TheseminarwillbeheldinEnglishwithsimultaneoustranslationinFrench.

Shouldyouwishtoreceivemoredetailsabouttheseseminars,pleasedonothesitatetocontactMsAraceliBarragán,ProgrammeOrganiser,tel.:+31.43.3296325,fax:+31.43.3296296,email:a.barragan@eipa-nl.com.Youcanalsoconsultourwebsite:http://www.eipa.nl(conferences).

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Nussbaum’s Hiding From Humanity: Author Meets Critics Research Beehive2.29, Old Library Building, University of Newcastle

Monday, 3rd April 2006

In2004,MarthaNussbaumpublishedherimportantnewbookHidingfromHumanity:Shame,Disgust,andtheLaw(Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress).Thisbookexplorestheimportantandoftenneglectedrelationshipbetweenemotionsandthelaw.Theconferencewillbringtogetherfourphilosophers-DavidArchard(Lancaster),ThomBrooks(Newcastle),WillieCharlton(Retired),andJohnHaldane(StAndrews)-withrepliestoeachbyMarthaNussbaum.

MarthaNussbaumisErnstFreundDistinguishedServiceProfessorofLawandEthicsattheUniversityofChicago,appointedinthePhilosophyDepartment,LawSchoolandDivinitySchool.SheisanAssociateintheClassicsDepartmentandthePoliticalScienceDepartment,anAffiliateoftheCommitteeonSouthernAsianStudies,andaBoardMemberoftheHumanRightsProgram.SheisthefounderandCoordinatorofthenewCenterforComparativeConstitutionalism.HerHidingFromHumanitywontheAssociationofAmericanUniversityPublishersProfessionalandScholarlyBookAwardforLawin2004.

RegistrationStudents/unwaged:£10Waged:£15Registrationincludestwoteas/coffeesandbuffetlunch.

Theconferenceisopentoall.Fundingforpostgraduatestudentsisavailableonafirstcome,firstservebasis.Informationonregistrationandtravelisavailablefromourconferencewebsite:http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/Nussbaum/Foradditionalinformation,pleasecontactDrThomBrooks(email:t.brooks@newcastle.ac.uk).TheconferenceissupportedgenerouslybytheNewcastleInstitutefortheArts,SocialSciences,andHumanities(NIASSH);theNewcastleLegalTheoryNetwork;theNewcastle

PoliticalPhilosophyGroup;PrincetonUniversityPress;theSchoolofGeography,Politics,&Sociology;andtheSocietyforAppliedPhilosophy.

epsNet PlenaryConference‘Europe in Context:Debating the Project’Budapest

16th to 17th June 2006

ThisisageneralcallforpapersforthenextepsNetPlenaryConference,totakeplaceattheCentralEuropeanUniversity,Budapest,on16th-17thJune2006.TheconferenceAcademicConvenors,LaszloBruszt(EUI,Florence&CEU,Budapest),CarlosClosa(CentreofPoliticalandConstitutionalStudies,Madrid),andNeilCollins(UniversityCollegeCork,Ireland)areeagertoreceiveproposalsforpapersonthemesrelatingtoanyoftheworkshopssetoutbelow:

Researching Europe•WhatInternationalRoleforEurope?•TheFutureoftheEUConstitution•TheLimitsofEurope•EuropeinContext:Debatingthe‘Project’•TheEuropeanisationofNationalSystems•PoliticalPartiesandtheEU:IsThereaNew CleavageEmerging?•EuropeanPoliticalScience:TheStateoftheArt

Researchers, Teaching and the Profession in Europe•EuropeanAccreditationSystemsforPolitical Science•PoliticalScienceDoctoralStudiesandStudentsin Europe•PoliticsStudents:WorkExperienceandEmployment Prospects•ProfessionalPracticeinEuropeanPoliticalScience•QualityofTeaching•TeachingEurope:WhatandWhereisEuropeToday?•WomeninthePoliticalScienceProfessionPaperproposals(upto300words)shouldbesentbyemailto:topf@epsnet.org

Whensubmittingyourproposal,pleasestateyourname,position,institutionalaffiliation,andthetitleoftheworkshopinwhichyouareinterested.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is26th March 2006.

1st ECPR Summer School in Methods and TechniquesFacultyofSocialSciences,UniversityofLjubljana,Slovenia

7th to 18th August 2006

Deadlineforapplications:2ndMay2006

TheECPRSummerSchool,in2006willoffertencourseswhichcoversbothintroductoryandintermediatelevelsinquantitativeandqualitativemethods.Ifyouareasocialsciencegraduatestudent-eitheratMaster’sorPhDlevel-andyouwishtocomplementyourin-housemethodologicaltrainingwithanECTSaccreditedtwo-weekintensivecoursehostedataspiritedUniversityinascenicarea,thentheECPRSummerSchoolinMethodsandTechniquesinLjubljanaistherightchoiceforyou.

Moreinformationaboutcourses,tuitionfeesandotherlocalpracticalinformationisavailabletodownloadasaPDFdocument.

Forfurtherinformation,pleaseseehttp://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/summerschools/ljubljana/index.aspx

‘Social Democracy in the Post-Bipolar World: Challenges in the Developed World, Opportunities in the Developing World?’

RethinkingSocialDemocracy:ThirdConferenceCo-sponsoredbythePoliticalStudiesAssociationLabourMovementsGroupHostedbythePoliticalEconomyResearchCentre

UniversityofSheffield

Postgraduate Conference Queen’s University Belfast19th to 20th May 2006

Call for Papers ThePSAIandPoliticalStudiesAssociationwillholdajointpostgraduateconferenceatQueen’sUniversityBelfast,19-20May2006.Papersarewelcomeonallaspectsofpoliticsandinternationalrelations.Therewillbeaspecialplenarysessiononconflictrelatedresearch.FurtherpanelsuggestionsfromthosepostgraduatesactiveinPSAIandthePoliticalStudiesAssociationspecialistgroupsareactivelyencouraged.

Thisconferenceisorganisedbypostgraduatesforpostgraduates.Itwillprovideanexcellentopportunitytopresentapaper,ora‘workinprogress’,onatopicofyourchoice.Theconferencemayalsoofferaplatformforpreliminarydiscussionofapapertobepresentedatanestablishedinternationalconferenceorindeedanarticletobesubmittedforpublication.

Thisconferencewillalsoprovideanidealenvironmentforpostgraduatestodiscussgeneralproblemsrelatingtopostgraduatestudyandwillbeaninvaluablewayofestablishingcontactswithpostgraduatesfromdifferentuniversities.Weintendtofacilitateaworkshopsessionofferingadviceonhowtopublishyourresearchandhowtopassyourviva.

TravelandAccomodation:Thecostoftheconferencewillbe£15-00,whichwillcoverallrefreshmentsandgivepostgraduatesoneyear’smembershipofthePSAI(usually£18-00/€25-00).However,travelandaccommodation,ifrequired,areattheattendees’ownexpense.Alistoflocalaccommodationandadviceontravelwillbemadeavailableuponrequest.

Refreshments:TherewillbeasponsoredwinereceptionatwhichwewillhaveabooklaunchfollowedbyanoptionalconferencedinnerontheSaturdayevening.

Contact:Thesubmissiondeadlineis7thApril2006Pleaseforwardatitleandabstractofnomorethan300wordsto:AaronEdwardsEmail:aaron.edwards@qub.ac.ukOfficeTel:+44(0)2890971422

LyndseyHarrisEmail:L.Harris@ulster.ac.uk OfficeTel:+44(0)2890366291

28th to 30th June 2006

Papers,theoreticalandcomparative,historicalandcontemporary,acceptedonandfromLatinAmerica,includingBrazil,VenezuelaandCuba;India;Australia;theUSA;EuropeincludingGermany,France,Sweden,Greece,Norway,theUK.

PanelsonLatinAmerica,SocialEurope,SocialDemocraticintegrationinEurope,SocialDemocracythrough(high)Culture,FutureofSocialDemocracyinEurope.PlenarieswithkeynotespeakersfromEuropeandLatinAmerica.

Forprogrammedetailsandbookinginformationcontact:MargaretHolder,m.holder@shef.ac.uk

Local organiser:SteveLudlam,s.ludlam@sheffield.ac.uk

Series organisers:JanaTillotson,jana@new-politics.net,NinaFishman,fishman@westminster.ac.uk

RAE 2008Vincent Geoghegan, Chair Research/RAE Sub-Committee

ThePoliticsandInternationalsub-panelhasnowpublisheditsrevisedcriteriahttp://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2006/01/docs/j39.pdf.Whenthedraftcriteriawerepublishedinthesummerof2005WynGrant,onbehalfofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation,askedforcommentsfromdepartments,andinOctobertworepresentativesofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation(WynGrantandVincentGeoghegan)andtwofromBISA(CarolineKennedy-PipeandColinMcInnes)metthefullsub-panelinLondonandcommunicatedtheviewsoftheirrespectiveassociations.ThePoliticalStudiesAssociationalsoorganisedaHeadsofSchoolMeetingattheBritishLibraryinDecemberwherethechairanddeputychairofthesub-panel(TonyPayneandMickMoran)talkedaboutpossiblechangesinthecriteriaandrespondedtoquestionsfromthefloor.Therevisedcriteriadisplayanumberofdifferencesfromthedraftversion:

1)Earlycareerresearchers(paragraph9).Thedraft criteriadidnotspecificallydifferentiatetypesof earlycareerresearchersandtheoutputexpected fromthem.Therevisedcriterianowdistinguish threecategories:(i)thoseappointedbefore 1August2003,whowillbeexpectedtohavefour outputs;(ii)thoseappointedbetween1August 2003and31July2005,whowillbeexpected tohaveaminimumoftwooutputs;(iii)andthose appointedafter1August2005,whowillbe expectedtosubmitaminimumofoneoutput.2)Theso-called‘Superbook’issue.Inparagraph19of thedraftcriteriaitwasstatedthatoneofthe ‘specialcircumstances’whichmightjustifythe submissionoflessthanfouroutputswasthatof ‘staffworkingonalong-termprojectthathasled, ormighteventuallylead,tooutcomesofhigh quality’.Thisisnowabsentintherevisedcriteria. Insteadthereisanewparagraph21whichstates that‘thesub-panelwillalsoconsiderwhetherany

adjustmenttotheoverallqualityprofileshouldbe madetoreflectthepresencewithinthesubmission ofitemsofexceptionalscaleandscope’.There isnosuggestionherethatthepresenceofsuchan outputcanlegitimatethesubmissionoflessthan fouroutputs.3)Esteemindicators.Inparagraph33oftherevised criteriathesub-paneladdsasentenceabsent fromtheequivalentparagraphinthedraftcriteria (paragraph32):‘thesub-panelrecognisesthat thelevelandrangeofesteemindicatorslikelytobe displayedwillvaryaccordingtothedifferentcareer stagesofthestaffsubmitted’.Thiswouldappear tohavebeenaddedtoencouragethesubmissionof appropriateindicatorsforearlycareerresearchers.4)Bookchapters.Inparagraph18oftherevised criteriawherethetypesofoutputarediscussed, subsection‘d’isnowentitled‘Contributionsto editedbooks’insteadof‘Editedbooks’whichwas thewordinginthedraftcriteria.Thisseemstohave beendoneinresponsetosomedisquietthat chaptersweresomehowbeingdowngradedbythis choiceofwords.5)Methodology.Paragraphs42and43oftherevised criteriaspellouthowthesub-panelwillassess outputs.Atthetimeofthedraftcriteriathis materialwasonlytobefoundinthedraftcriteriaof theMainPanel(J).6)IndividualStaffCircumstances.Inthedraftcriteria thedocumentindicatedthepersonalcircumstances thatcouldbeconsideredinassessingoutput.This hasbeenremoved,andreferenceisnowmadeto thedetaileddiscussionofthismatterintheMain Panelrevisedcriteria.

Thesearethemaindifferencesbetweenthetwosetsofcriteria.Thereareothersbuttheyarerelativelyminoramendmentsandadditions.

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The British Politics Group of the APSA Panels for APSA Conference 2006

AsaRelatedGroupoftheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation,theBritishPoliticsGroup(BPG)isallottedablockofpanelsattheannualconference.Thepanelsforthe2006conferencearelistedbelow.WewouldencouragePoliticalStudiesAssociationmemberswhoaregoingtobeinPhiladelphiatoattendandhopethatyouwouldconsidersubmittingpaperstotheBPGforthe2007APSAConferenceinChicago.OurselectionprocessisseparatefromAPSA(anddoesnotprecludea“regular”APSAsubmission)andourturnaroundismuchfaster.

IhopeyouwilljoinusinPhilly.–TerrenceCasey,BPGExecutiveDirector

Panel 1 -- The Year in British Politics (and Business Meeting)

Presenters:AndrewGamble,UniversityofSheffieldJamesMitchell,StrathclydeUniversityChair:WynGrant,UniversityofWarwick

Panel 2 -- Elections and Party Competition in the UK: Issues, Candidates and Identities

Chair:FlorenceFaucher-King,CEVIPOF–SciencesPo(Paris)Papers:JonathanTonge,UniversityofLiverpool,“ProtestantZealotryorUnionistApathy?TheImpactofElectionTurnoutuponthePeaceandPoliticalProcessesinNorthernIreland.”JaneGreen,NuffieldCollege,OxfordUniversityandSaraB.Hobolt,OxfordUniversity,“TheDynamicsofIssueSalience:TheImpactofPartyCuesonPublicPerceptionsofIssueSalienceinBritishGeneralElectionCampaigns.”RobertJohnsandMarkShephard,UniversityofStrathclyde,“CandidateandVoterGenderintheUK:Stereotypes,EvaluationsandVotingImpact.”WilliamA.Hazleton,MiamiUniversity,“PoliticsinaVacuum:ElectoralContestsandCommunalDominanceinNorthernIreland.”Discussant: TerryRoyed,UniversityofAlabama

Panel 3: Measuring Political Effectiveness: Prime Ministers, Legislators, and Leaders of the Opposition

Chair:RichardHaesly,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeachPapers:ConorMcGrath,UniversityofUlsterandCliveS.Thomas,UniversityofAlaskaSoutheast:

“PoachersTurnedGamekeepers:BritishandAmericanLegislatorswithPreviousProfessionalLobbyingExperience.”

KevinTheakston,UniversityofLeeds,“WhatMakesforanEffectivePrimeMinister?”PeterCatterall,QueenMary,UniversityofLondon,“MakingtheBestofaBadJob:TheRoleoftheLeaderoftheOppositioninBritain.”RayBarker,ErieCommunityCollege,“MichaelHoward’sEffectivenessasLeaderoftheOpposition.”Discussant:ElinRoyles,UniversityofWales,Aberystwyth,Wales

Political Studies Association Continues to Strengthen links with other PSAs

APSA to send delegation to Political Studies Association Annual Conference at Reading UniversityAstheworld’sno.2,thePoliticalStudiesAssociationhasendeavouredtostrengthenitsrelationshipwiththeAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation(no.1inglobalmembershipterms),andonceagainwearepleasedtoreceiveatop-leveldelegationatourAnnualConference.PresidentIraKatznelsonwillbeattending,andtherewillbeanAPSA-sponsoredRoundtableon‘DifferenceandInequalityintheDevelopingWorld’.ThiswillfeatureDrBahramRajaee(Director,ExternalandInternationalRelations,APSA),ProfessorJohnEcheverri-Grant(UniversityofVirgina,Charlottesville),andDrRobertWade(LSE),discussingtheachievementsofAPSA’staskforceinthisarea.PoliticalStudiesAssociationmembersareencouragedtointroducethemselvestomembersoftheAPSAdelegationandtoattendtheRoundtable.

Political Studies Association to sponsor an APSA panelProfessorTerrellCarver,ChairofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sExternalRelationsandConferenceGrantsSub-committee,hassecured‘RelatedGroup’statusfortheAssociationwithintheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation.ThePoliticalStudiesAssociationisthereforeentitledtoasponsorandstaffapanel,whichfor2006willshowcaseUKPoliticalScienceTodayattheAPSAAnnualMeetinginPhiladelphia,USA,31stAugustthrough3rdSeptember2006.Participantsmustallbemembersofbothorganisations,andDrRoseCampbell(Birkbeck)haskindlyorganisedapanelfeaturingpapersfromDrFionaMackay(Edinburgh),DrPhilipCowley(Nottingham),DrPatrickSturgis(Surrey),andDrClaireAnnesley(Manchester).PoliticalStudiesAssociationmembersattendingtheAPSAAnnualMeetingareurgedtoattendandsupportthisevent.Ifweachieveadquateattendance,theAssociationwillbeentitledtoadditionalpanelsinfutureyears!

Political Studies Association Exchange with Japan PSA continuesProfessorYoheiNakayamafromTokyoUniversityisour‘exchanger’attheAnnualConferenceatReadingUniversityinthiscontinuingrelationshipbetween‘sister’PSAs.Hewillbepresentingapaperon‘Associations,PartyModelsandDemocracies:

ChangingOrganizationalPatternsofFrenchPartiesinaHistoricalPerspective’inthe‘FrenchPolitics’stream.HeiscurrentlybasedinParisdoingresearch.

Up-Dating our European LinksPaul Furlong. School of European Studies, Cardiff University

YoumaythinktheworldofPoliticalScienceneedsfeweracronyms,andfewerofthecallsonourtimethatusuallyliebehindthem;certainlyanyoneaddingtothemhastohaveverygoodreasons.Withsometemerity,perhaps,butalsowithasenseofurgency,thePoliticalStudiesAssociation,inconsultationwithotherleadingPoliticalScienceAssociationsinEurope,isinvestigatingwhetherandhowtosetupanewPoliticalScienceconfederation.Currentlybearingthename‘EuropeanConferenceofNationalPoliticalScienceAssociations’,afirstmeetingisplannedforJune2006attheUniversityofHalleinGermany,withfinancialsupportfromtheGermanPoliticalScienceAssociation.

Why a new association?Thisisnotentirelynew,tobeaccurate.It’sgrownoutofthepan-EuropeanPoliticalScienceresponsetotheBolognaprocess,whichthePSAwasinstrumentalinorganisinganddrafting;itisbasedonarecognitionboththatthereisasignificantamountofworktobedone,andthattheexistingwaysofgettingtogetherwerejustnotsufficient.Untilnow,wehavebeenmeetinginanadhocwayatECPRandEpsNETconferences.Infact,ourlastmeetingwasattheECPRresearchconferenceinBudapestinSeptember2005,andournextmeeting,toprepareforthespecialconferenceatHalle,willbeattheECPRworkshopsinNicosiainApril.Thisworkstoalimitedextent,butdeprivesusofcontinuityofmembershipandcanleadtoorganisationalandlogisticaldifficulties.IfwethinkitworthwhiletocontinuecollaboratingasnationalPoliticalScienceAssociations,weneedtoputtheorganisationonafirmerfooting–morerepresentative,andmoreeffective.

What will the ECNPSA do?Anyoneinterestedinadetailedreviewoftheissuesthenewassociationneedstoaddress,canlookatapaperIpresentedattheEpsNETconferenceinParisinJune2005,whichI’dbehappytosendondemand.Thispaper,basedontheexperienceofcooperationaroundtheBolognadebate,describestheissueswefacecollectively,looksattherelationshipwithECPRandEpsNET,andlistssomeoftheitems

immediatelyontheagendaofallofusinPoliticalScienceinEurope.Amongthemare:

Teachingissuescurriculumcontent(firstsecondandthirdcycles)degreeframeworks(relationshipofsecondtofirstandthirdparticularly)commondegrees(Joint,doubleormultiple)studentmobility(compulsoryperiodabroad,languageteachingelements)commoncreditarrangements(ECTS)QualityassuranceAssessmentprocedures

ResearchissuesDoctoraltraining(contentandorganisation)NationalandEuropeanfinancialsupportforresearchprojectsRelationswithcognatedisciplinesRelationswithassociateddisciplines(PublicAdministrationandInternationalRelations)AccesstoandinfluencewithnationalandEuropeanpolicy-makers

GenericissuesSupportfornewEUmembersandnon-EUBolognasignatoriesStaffmobilityStaffcareerissues(includingtraining)LabourmarketissuesPromotionofthediscipline.

Thisisaverybigagenda.TheEuropeanconfederationcanonlyaimtohelpnationalorganisationsbyprovidingcollaborativesupport,reachingcommonpositionsonstandardsandpracticeasappropriate.AnexampleofthisneedisthatthecurrentchangestoqualityassuranceinHEinEuropearebeingguidedbyanadhocgroupcalledtheEuropeanNetworkofEuropeanQualityAssuranceAgencies.Ifwetalktothisseparately,as20or30nationalpoliticalscienceassociations,werisknotbeingheard.Otherdisciplineshavepan-Europeanrepresentation.Thisproposalseekstoputusonthesamefooting.TheproposaltosetupapermanentEuropeanconfederationisbasedonthebeliefthatthereisaclearneedforcollaborationacrossnationalPoliticalSciencecommunitiesinEurope,bothtopromoteourdisciplinenationallyandtogiveusvoiceandaccessattheEuropeanlevel,whereincreasinglytheseissuesarebeingresolved.

Iraq War Culture

A Call for SubmissionsThisisaneditedvolumeofcriticalanalysesofIraqWarculture.Wearesearchingfor15-20mid-lengthtolongeressays(4000-8000words)thatexploretheculturalorigins,phenomenaandeffectsofthewar.TherangeoftopicalessaysofpossibleinterestincludeanalysesofUSevangelicalandneo-conservativeideologiesandtheirculturalmanifestations;broadcastmediarepresentationsofthewar(‘OverThere’,Fox,MilitaryChannel);newmedia(Internet,blogs)andtheirpoliticalfunction;video-gamingIraqandempire-building;culturalreadingsofUSmilitaryandguerillaviolence(AbuGhraib,videoexecutions);andtreatmentsinprintmedia,music,literature,drama,art,comedyanddance.Theco-editorsareinterestedinpoliticalessaysthatworktoexplaintherevolvingeconomybetweenviolentimageryandUSimperialism,aswellasessaysthathighlightUSculturalresistanceagainsttheIraqWar.

Fullessaysincluding100-150wordabstractsdueby15thMay2006.Inquirieswithabstractsconcerningproposedpapersarewelcome.UseAPAstyle,withendnotesandbibliography.Alimitednumberofimagesarepossible.

SendessaysorabstractstobothCynthiaFuchscfuchs@gmu.edu(English,GeorgeMasonUniversity)andJoeLockardJoe.Lockard@asu.edu(English,ArizonaStateUniversity).

C-SAP Call for Book ReviewersC-SAPisplanninganewsectiononourwebsiteforbookreviews.Thepurposeofthissectionistooffernewteachingstaff,postgraduateteachingassistantsorstaffteachingnewmodulesorjustlookingfornewresources,aquickreviewofotherpractitioner’scommentsandrecommendationsonsomeofthematerialsavailable.

Weareespeciallyinterestedinthebooksyouusetoteachyoursubjectsandarerecommendingtostudents.Couldyouwriteasmallreview(500wordsmax.)ofoneofthesebooksandexplainwhyyouuseit?Theremaybeanewbookyouareconsideringorperhapsyouareresearchinganareaofpedagogicinterest,C-SAPcouldprovidethebookforyouinexchangeforareview.

Ifyouwouldliketosuggestatitletorevieworsimplyregisteryourinterestinbeingareviewerpleasecontactusforfurtherinformationat:enquiries@c-sap.bham.ac.uk

Teaching in Higher Education Special Issue

Call for PapersContributionsareinvitedforaSpecialIssueofTeachinginHigherEducationon‘DiversityandCommonalityinHigherEducation’tobepublishedin2007.

Whatisdiversityinhighereducation?Shoulditbecelebratedorproblematised?Aretherelimitationsincurrentunderstandings?Hasthelanguageofdiversitycometoprecludetheembracingofdifferentformsofknowledgeandwaysofknowing?Contributionsshouldcriticallyaddressissuesofdiversityandcommonalityinhighereducation.

FormoreinformationandguidelinespleasecontactSueCleggats.clegg@shu.ac.ukThedeadlineforsubmissionsis1stAugust2006.

The Political and Philosophical Imagination in the United States and GermanyCall for SubmissionsAnneLopes,HolgerHenke,andRogerWasserman(eds.)

TheUnitedStatesandGermanysharealonghistory.Onesignificantimpactoftherelationshipistheformationofpath-breakingpoliticalandphilosophicalideasthathaveopenedupunexpectedareasofinquiryandactivism.ThisvolumewilltakeacriticallookattheintellectualrelationsbetweenGermanyandtheUnitedStatessince1950.Inparticular,thevolumewillfocusonthechangingperceptionofGermanintellectualworkandpoliticalphilosophyintheUnitedStates.Theeditorsintendtotakestockofhowthemutualperceptionsofpoliticalandphilosophicalthoughtrelatetoimportantissuesofglobal,nationalandpublicpolicyintheUnitedStatesandGermany.

Proposalsfromestablishedscholarsandadvanceddoctoralcandidatesinthefieldsofpoliticalscience,(political)philosophy,history,socialtheory,AmericanStudies,andrelatedfields,arewelcomeandwillbeconsidered,ifsubmittedbyorbefore20thAugust2006.

Interestedauthorsshouldcontacttheeditors:hhenke@metropolitan.edu,alopes@metropolitan.edu,and/orrwasserman@metropolitan.edu.

Public Administration Committee AnnualConference 2006Durham University

4th to 6th September 2006

Call for PapersTheAnnualPACConference–ManagingRelationshipsintheServiceofthePublic–willbeheldatVanMildertCollege,DurhamUniversity.

Thisconferencecallinvitesproposalsforpanelsandforpapersrelatingtothatbroadtheme.Wearekeentoincludeawiderangeofpapers–rangingfromacademicresearchandtheoreticalpaperstopresentationsonrecentpolicydevelopmentsandpublicservicereforms.AtpresentwehavepanelsonCapacityandPolicyDeliveryinGovernment,Central-LocalRelations,thePoliticsandPolicyofDevolution,ESRCPublicServicesProgramme,HumanResourceManagementintheServiceofthePublic,LearninginPublicSectorOrganisations,PerformanceManagement,Public-PrivatePartnerships,PublicServiceDeliveryinHealthandSocialCare,andRegeneration.Butthereisstillscopetoaddadditionalpanels.

TheFrankStaceyLecturewillbegivenbySirAlistairGraham,theChairoftheCommitteeonStandardsinPublicLife.

Ifyouareinterestedinofferingapaper,andforfurtherdetails,pleasecontact:ProfessorMartinLaffinDurhamCentreforPublicPolicyDurhamBusinessSchoolEmail:martin.laffin@durham.ac.ukTel:01913345280

Political Studies Women and Politics Conference 2006UniversityofEdinburgh

11th February 2006

ProfessorJeanBethkeElshtain,UniversityofChicago,KeynoteSpeaker

IfyouneedproofthatfeministscholarshipisaliveandkickingintheUKthenlooknofurtherthanthePoliticalStudiesAssociationWomenandPoliticsAnnualConference2006.Morethan140delegatesconvergedonEdinburgh-thelargestgatheringoffeministpoliticalscientistsandpoliticaltheoristsintheUKforadecadeormore.TheconferenceattractedscholarsfromthefourpartsoftheUK,Finland,Denmark,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Australia,China,CanadaandtheUS,aswellasUKandNorthAmerica-basedscholarsfromSouthAsiaandAfrica.MediainterestintheeventincludedRadio4Women’sHour.

ThekeynotespeakerwasProf.JeanBethkeElshtain,LauraSpelmanRockefellerProfessorofSocialandPoliticalEthics(UniversityofChicago)whochallengedfeminismtoreconsiderabortionpoliticsandprovokedalivelydebate.DrKimHutchings(LSE),ProfShirinRai(WarwickUniversity)andProfChrisCorrin(GlasgowUniversity)wereplenaryspeakers.Inaddition,22paperswerepresentedinfiveparallelsessions.Topicsrangedfrom:gendermainstreaminginnationalandinternationalinstitutionstonewethical

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Politics at the University of LincolnDr Jacqui Briggs

PoliticsatLincolnislocatedwithintheDepartmentofPolicyStudies.CurrentlyheadedbyDrKelvinJones,theDepartmentofPolicyStudiescameintobeingin1996and,inaddition,tothesubjectsofPoliticsandInternationalRelations,providesundergraduateteachinginCriminology,SocialPolicyandSocialScience.PolicyStudiesalsooffersataughtpostgraduateprogramme,theMAGlobalisingJustice,whichdrawsuponallofitsconstituentsubjects,and,inrecentyears,hasseenasignificantincreaseinthenumberofresearchdegreestudents.TheteachingofPoliticsandInternationalRelations,atLincoln,wasratedasexcellentintheQualityAssuranceAgencysubjectreview.Researchinterestsofmembersofstaffinclude:Chineseforeignrelations,collaborativeresearchonEastAsia,humanrights,nationalism,comparativepolitics,globalisation,politicaleconomy,politicalecology,labourmovementsandtradeunionism,problemsexperiencedbyminoritygroupsinEurope,Hungarianminoritiesandmigration,theEUandCubanrelations,thepoliticsofwelfare,localgovernmentandwomenandpolitics.InadditiontotheexistingPoliticsandInternationalRelationsstaff;IanBarnes,PamelaBarnes,HughBochel,YoucefBouandel,JacquiBriggs,DanieleConversi,ClaireRandersonandGerryStrange.Asaresultofinvestmentinresearch,anumberofnewappointmentshavebeenmade.Theseinclude,AndrewDefty,JohnEllis,LucyGrant,Yee-WahFooandPhoebeMoore.ThereareadditionalSocialPolicystaffwhocontributetothePoliticsteaching;includingCatherineBochelandAlanRust-Ryan.

Inspiring Location …ViewstowardsthebeautifulLincolnCathedralprovidetheimpressivebackdropforthemainUniversitycampussituatedclosetothecentreofthecity.TheUniversityhasnowhas6,000ofits8,250studentsattheBrayfordPoolCampus,Lincoln,and,overthepastfewyears,hasseenlargerisesinapplications.Ambitiousinvestment,underpinningthemissiontobeauniversityofqualityanddistinction,hasseenthedevelopmentofastate-of-the-artcampusonhistoricBrayfordPoolinLincoln,withanadditionalmajornewbuilding,designedbyrenownedarchitectRickMather,openedinSeptember2003.TheUniversityhasthefirststudentunionco-operativeintheUK.

Hosting the Political Studies Association ConferenceTheDepartmentofPolicyStudies,withGerryStrangeasAcademicConvenorandJacquiBriggsasLocalOrganiser,hostedthe54thPoliticalStudiesAssociationAnnualConferencein2004,attendedby400delegates.Theinternationaldelegatesbookedontotheconferencetotalled80andcamefrom22countries,includingAzerbaijan,Ghana,Nigeria,India,SouthAfrica,China,Japan,USA,AustraliaandNewZealand.Therewereapproximately140panels,thevastmajorityofwhichcontainedatleastthreepapergivers.Thepanelsandplenaryspeakersweredeemedasuccess–somuchsothatdiscussionsoftenspilledoverinto‘refreshmenttime’.Theplenaryspeakers,PeterKellner,PaulWilkinson,MichaelCockerellwerehighlypraised.Theafter-dinnerspeaker,Austin

Mitchell,wasalsohighlyregardedasawittyandentertainingspeaker.ThepositiveexperienceofhostingtheConferencehasledtofirmlinksbeingfosteredbetweentheDepartmentandthePoliticalStudiesAssociation.AsGerryStrangestates,‘HavingtheconferenceatLincolnin2004wasaverypositiveexperienceforarelativelysmallandnewdepartmentwhichhashelpedtoraiseboththeDepartment’sandtheUniversity’sprofileintheglobalPoliticsandIRcommunity.Itprovidesanexcellentbaseonwhichtocontinuetobuild’.

Policy Studies Research Centre/European Policy Research CentrePolitics,atLincoln,hasseenasignificantgrowthinthenumbersofresearchstudentsoverthepastcoupleofyears.Inparticular,therehasbeenanincreaseinthenumberofresearchstudentsfromNorthAfrica,withinterestsnotonlyinthepoliticsoftheregionbutalsoarounddemocracyandparticipation,inadditiontothosefromtheUnitedKingdom.Postgraduateteachingandsupervisionofresearchdegreesarethereforeanexpandingareaofactivity.StaffintheDepartmenthavewideexperienceofdesigning,managinganddeliveringhighquality,vocationallyrelevantcourses.PoliticsalsohascloselinkswiththeUniversity’sPolicyStudiesResearchCentre(PSRC)andEuropeanPolicyResearchCentre(EPRC)thatbringtogetheracademicstaffwhohavecommoninterestsintheirareas.ThePolicyStudiesResearchCentreactsastheresearchfocusfortheDepartmentofPolicyStudies.Itundertakesresearchatlocal,regional,nationalandinternationallevels,inmostareasofpolicy-relevantsocialresearch,including,inparticular:publicpolicy,thepoliticsofsocialpolicy,socialdivisions(age,gender,disability,race,sexuality),community/socialcareandhealthcare,housingandurbanregeneration,poverty,crimeandsocialexclusion,crimepreventionandreduction.ThePSRChostsahighlysuccessfulseminarserieswhichdrawsuponbothinternalandexternalspeakers.ResearcherswithinthePSRC,andintheDepartmentmorewidely,areskilledinmostformsofsocialresearchincludinge.g.surveyresearch,qualitativeinterviewingwithindividualsandgroups,secondarydataanalysis,evaluativeresearch,

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literaturereviews,telephonesurveys,longitudinalstudies,policyanalysis,comparativeresearchandtheuseofgeographicalmappingandinformationsystems.ThePSRCworkscloselywithresearchersinotherUniversityDepartments,especiallyintheareasofsocialwork,healthstudies,tourism,law,psychology,foodstudies,educationalpartnerships,andcommunityoperationalresearch.

TheEuropeanPolicyResearchCentreprovidesaforuminwhichnewdevelopmentsinEuropeanpolicymaybediscussedandtheirimplicationsanalysed.Itprovidesabaseforcollaborativeresearchprojectswithgroupsofexpertsinotheruniversities.ThestaffoftheCentreprovideexpertadviceonEuropeanissuestobothnationalandinternationalorganisationsandgovernmentbodies.AllhavepublishedbooksandarticlesondifferentaspectsofEuropeanPolicyandEuropeanPolitics.TwoofthestaffhavehadtheirexpertiserecognisedbytheEuropeanCommissionthroughtheawardof“JeanMonnet”chairsfortheirworkontheprocessofEuropeanintegration.

ResearchgroupingswithinthePSRCachievedratingsof3a(SocialPolicy)and3b(EuropeanStudies)inthe2001ResearchAssessmentExercise.GiventheresearchoutputsemanatingfromtheDepartmentsince2001,itislikelythatPoliticswillbesubmittedasaseparatesubjectinthenextRAE.StaffassociatedwiththesubjectsofPoliticsandInternationalRelationshavebecomeknownnationallyandinternationallyforworkinseveralkeyareasofresearchincludingareastudies(TheEuropeanUnion,SouthEastAsia,China,theMiddleEastandNorthAfrica),politicaleconomy,electionsandvotingbehaviour,nationalism,womenandpolitics,politicalrightsandcivilliberties,theroleofthemedia.Overthereviewperiod,staffpresentedapproximately70papersatnationalandinternationalconferences,someofwhichweremadeattheexpressinvitationoftheconferenceorganisers.Membersofstaffhavealsobeeninvitedtoeditspecialistvolumes,aremembersofeditorialboardsofanumberofjournals;(CapitalandClass,AustralianJournalismReview,InternationalJournalofMediaandCulturalPolitics)andhavebeensolicitedbythemediatocommentonnationalandinternationalissuesandhavebeenroutinelyaskedtoreferarticles

frameworksforthepost9/11world;womenandNewLabourintheUKtogenderandcorruptioninAfrica;EUenlargementtothedilemmasofteachinggenderintheMiddleEast.Presentersincludedpostgraduatestudentsaswellasjunior,mid-careeranddistinguishedsenioracademics.

TheScottishParliament–withoneofthehighestproportionsofwomenparliamentariansintheworld-wasafittingvenueforthepre-ConferenceSpeakers’Dinner,hostedbySarahBoyackMSP.Apost-conferencewinereceptionforthirstydelegateswassponsoredbyUniversityofEdinburghPoliticsSubjectArea.

CharlieJeffery,ProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversityofEdinburgh,applaudedtherecordofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sWomenandPoliticsSpecialistGroupinscholarshipandpractice:‘TheconferencewasaplatformforcriticalscholarshipongenderandfeminismwhichhadaresonancewaybeyondtheboundariesoftheUK.Butitalsoconfirmedthecommitmentofgroupmemberstohaveanimpactoutsideofscholarship.Havingthe

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dinnerintheScottishParliament–perhapsthefirstparliamenttohavegenderequalityhotwiredintoitsinstitutionaldesignbypioneerslikeAliceBrown–wasespeciallyapt’.

DrSarahChilds,ConvenoroftheAssociation’sWomenandPoliticsGroupsaid:‘FionaMackayandherteamatEdinburgharetobewarmlycongratulatedforhostingsuchasuccessfulandprofessionalinternationalconference-theydidthePSAwomenandpoliticsgroupproud.Theparticipationofbothacademicsandpractitionerswasalsotobewelcomed.’

TheEdinburghPoliticsteamincluded:DrFionaMackay(academicconvenorandlocalorganiser),ProfRussellKeat,DrAnnikaBergman,ElenaPollot-Thomson,GillianMacDonald,MerylKenny,AmandaWittman,MikeMerillo,KellyBrown,LaurenCarrigan,RosieEtheringtonandMariaRiala.OrganiserswishtoacknowledgethefinancialsupportoftheAssociation,UoEPoliticsSubjectArea,andtheEdinburghCampaignsmallprojectscheme.

Pre-ConferenceSpeakers’DinnerattheScottishParliament.HostedbySarahBoyackLabourMSP(seentotheleftofProfElshtain)andFionaHyslopSNPMSP(totherightofProfElshtain).GuestsofHonouralsoincludedProfAliceBrown(2ndrow,2ndfromright),wholefttheUniversityofEdinburghin2002totakeupherpostasthefirstScottishPublicServicesOmbudsman.

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forsomeprestigiousjournalssuchastheJournalofModernAfricanStudies,GovernmentandOpposition,MediterraneanPolitics,andtheJournalofLegislativeStudiesandPoliticalStudies.PoliticslinkscloselywiththefieldofSocialPolicywithintheDepartmentandsomestaffhaveresearchintereststhatcrossthedivide.Forexample,workisbeingundertakenintheDepartmentexploringthelinkagebetweenpolitics,internationalrelationsandsocialpolicy.Areasofsynergyinclude:researchexaminingcommunitycare,communitygovernance,parliamentandthepolicyprocess,sub-centralgovernment,participationandthepublicpolicyprocess.

The Wider CommunityManyoftheDepartment’sstudentsengageinvoluntaryworkduringtheirtimeattheUniversity,providingthemselveswithadditionalexperienceandwiderinterestsandatthesametimebenefitingthelocalcommunity,forexample,studentshaveworkedalongsidelocalMembersofParliament.Inaddition,anumberoflocalcouncillorshavechosentostudywithintheDepartment,whilstoneoftheDepartment’sstudentswaselectedastheonlyLiberalDemocratontheCityCouncil.Thisreflectsthecloselinksbetweenthedepartment,itssubjectsandtheeverydayworld.TheDepartmenthaslinkswithhighereducationprovidersinavarietyofcountriesandformanyprogrammesitispossibletostudyabroadforaperiod.Inaddition,weattractavarietyofexternalvisitorseachyear,bothfromtheUKandoverseasandstudentsareoftenabletobenefitfromthis.StafffromtheDepartmentareactivewithintheiracademiccommunities,providingyetanotherresourcetosupportteachingandtheworkoftheDepartment.Forexample,GerryStrangeisontheEditorialBoard

Politics at the University of Lincoln

TheStafffromtheDepartmentofPolicyStudiesare(lefttoright):AndrewDefty,JacquiBriggs,LiamMcCann,Yee-WahFoo,AlanRust-Ryan,JillJameson.

ofCapitalandClassandJacquiBriggsisanelectedmemberofthePoliticalStudiesAssociation’sExecutiveCommittee.

Lincoln – The CityLincolnattractsoveramilliontouristsayear,includingtoitsworldfamousCathedral,CastleandChristmasMarket.TheCastlehousesoneofonlyfouroriginalsoftheMagnaCarta.Lincolnisalivelycity,mixing2000yearsofhistorywithexcellentshoppingfacilities,livelyartsandeventsprogrammes,andagoodrangeofpubs,restaurantsandclubs.PlacesnottobemissedincludeSteepHillandthehistoricBailgateareawhichhousefinespecialistshopsincludingboutiques,antique,craft,bookandgiftshopsalongthecobbledstreets.

Thelocalmusicandartssceneisextremelybusy,particularlywiththegrowthoftheUniversityandtheregenerationoftheBrayfordWaterfrontarea,coveringabroadculturalspectrumrangingfromorganrecitalsattheCathedralandShakespeareatTheLawn,tofolk,jazz,countryandrockinthelocalpubsandclubs.PlacestovisitincludethemedievalBishopsOldPalace,EllisMill,TheLawnandSirJosephBanksConservatory.Intermsofsport,LincolnCityFC,havingfinishedsecondbottomofthethirddivisionin2002andgoneintoadministration,havesincethensurpassedallexpectationsbymakingthedivisionthreeplay-offsin2003,2004andagainin2005.

FurtherinformationaboutPoliticsandInternationalRelationsatLincolncanbefoundontheUniversity’swebpagesatwww.lincoln.ac.uk,andthoseoftheDepartmentatwww.lincoln.ac.uk/policystudies.