PSA NEWS JUNE 2001 1 Over 450 delegates attended this year’s PSA conference, held at UMIST and hosted by the Department of Government, Manchester. Many of the 115 panels and roundtables dealt with the conference theme, ‘Politics in an Era of Globalisation’, as well as covering the UK general election, territorial politics, and many different aspects of political theory. A full day graduate conference offered sessions on vital aspects of student life, from supervision and publishing to getting an academic job and the viva. The guest speakers were Professor Bhikhu Parekh (University of Hull), who gave a plenary lecture on ‘Philosophy and the Market Place’, and Professor Roger Williams, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, who spoke after the Annual Dinner. As many members know, the original academic convenor, Ursula Vogel, was taken ill in February, and had to relinquish her role in the conference. The Association would like to take this opportunity to thank Ursula for the huge amount of work she put in to the conference, and we send her our best wishes for her continued recovery. The PSA is also extremely grateful to Lucy James and the conference organising team of Veronique Pin-fat, Catherine Austin and Claire Annesley, for all their hard work. PSA NEWS The Newsletter of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom http://www.psa.ac.uk ISSN 0955-6281 VOL. 12 No. 2 JUNE 2001 CONTENTS Are you being served? 1 PSA Prizewinners 2 News from Specialist Groups 4 News from Departments 5 Specialist Groups list 6 Election Results 10 Membership Service Dept 12 Data protection 12 Executive Committee 12 PSA 51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE 9-12 April 2001, UMIST, Manchester The PSA is committed to improving its services for members and to seeking new ways of providing more and better services. Now we want you, the members, to have your say. We need you to tell us: • How can the PSA serve you better? • What do you think the next new initiatives for PSA members should be? £25,000 has been allocated to mount new initiatives for members. We need you to tell us what you want. Please send your suggestions to me at [email protected]by 28 September 2001. I look forward to hearing from you. Rod Rhodes PSA Chair ARE YOU BEING SERVED? PSA Political Studies Association
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PSA NEWS JUNE 2001 1
Over 450 delegates attended this year’s PSAconference, held at UMIST and hosted by theDepartment of Government, Manchester. Many of the115 panels and roundtables dealt with the conferencetheme, ‘Politics in an Era of Globalisation’, as well ascovering the UK general election, territorial politics,and many different aspects of political theory. A fullday graduate conference offered sessions on vitalaspects of student life, from supervision andpublishing to getting an academic job and the viva. Theguest speakers were Professor Bhikhu Parekh(University of Hull), who gave a plenary lecture on‘Philosophy and the Market Place’, and Professor
Roger Williams, Vice-Chancellor of the University ofReading, who spoke after the Annual Dinner.
As many members know, the original academicconvenor, Ursula Vogel, was taken ill in February, andhad to relinquish her role in the conference. TheAssociation would like to take this opportunity tothank Ursula for the huge amount of work she put in tothe conference, and we send her our best wishes for hercontinued recovery. The PSA is also extremely gratefulto Lucy James and the conference organising team ofVeronique Pin-fat, Catherine Austin and ClaireAnnesley, for all their hard work.
PSA NEWSThe Newsletter of the Political Studies
Association of the United Kingdomhttp://www.psa.ac.uk
ISSN 0955-6281 VOL. 12 No. 2
JUNE 2001
CONTENTSAre you being served? 1
PSA Prizewinners 2
News from Specialist Groups 4
News from Departments 5
Specialist Groups list 6
Election Results 10
Membership Service Dept 12
Data protection 12
Executive Committee 12
PSA 51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE9-12 April 2001, UMIST, Manchester
The PSA is committed to improving its services for members and toseeking new ways of providing more and better services.Now we want you, the members, to have your say.
We need you to tell us:• How can the PSA serve you better?• What do you think the next new initiatives for PSA
members should be?£25,000 has been allocated to mount newinitiatives for members. We need you totell us what you want.
Please send your suggestions to me [email protected] by 28 September 2001. I look forward to hearing from you.
Rod RhodesPSA Chair
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
PSAPolitical Studies Association
Professor Tim Gray,Newcastle UniversityBernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching The judges, who were unanimous in their decision, said they were‘extremely impressed’ by Professor Gray’s teaching portfolio,adding: ‘His innovative teaching methods produce first rateresults, demonstrated in student evaluations and the comments ofthe external examiner. Professor Gray also reflects upon histeaching and learning strategy, constantly seeking self-improvement.’Professor Gray, who specialises in environmental politics andpolicy, first ran his environmental conference module in 1999-2000, when ten students organised a conference on IntegratedPollution Prevention and control, which was attended by nearly 50fee-paying delegates at the Environment Agency’s Office inNewcastle in December 1999.
The students prepared a brochure, sent a mailshot to 600 potentialdelegates, obtained nine guest speakers, created a website,attracted £600 in sponsorship and each wrote a 6,000-word reportabout the conference.
In the current academic year, 14 students organised another highlysuccessful conference, on the subject of Contaminated Land, on
21 February 2001 at the same venue.
Another of Professor Gray’s teaching initiatives is the Project inEnvironmental Policy, which provides up to ten pairs of studentswith the opportunity to join a public or private sector organisationin the North East for a limited period during which time theyconduct a research project under supervision.
PRIZEWINNERS
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PSA PRIZEWINNERS
Professor David MarquandSir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution toPolitical Studies
David Marquand follows in the tradition of those politicalscientists who have combined being people of letters as well aspeople of affairs such as Ramsay Muir, Arthur Salter, HaroldLaski, Richard Crossman and John Mackintosh. He was born 20September 1934.
In terms of scholarship, as a contemporary political historian, hehas written the definitive biography of Ramsay MacDonald(1977), the first Labour Prime Minister. As a political theorist, heproduced The Unprincipled Society (1988), which authoritativelyanalysed the dynamics of ideological developments since thefoundations of the Welfare State and the Managed Economy; thesubsequent impact of Thatcherism and its consequences for theBeveridgian/Keynesian paradigm; and the potentialities for analternative liberal - social democratic renewal. He has followedup prolifically on this theme in a series of further publications.
In addition to these two major works he has been a tirelesscommentator on the future of the European Community and itsforerunner institutions and the need for constitutional reform inBritain. He was joint editor of Political Quarterly (1987-97). Inthe world of affairs he has been in the vanguard of theconstitutional reform movement, MP for Ashfield (1966-77) andChief Advisor to Secretariat-General of the EuropeanCommission (1977-78).
David Marquand’s academic career began as a lecturer in politicsat Sussex and included the occupancy of two chairs in politics,first at Salford and then at Sheffield, culminating in being Masterof Mansfield College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of theBritish Academy on 1998.
He has truly straddled with distinction the worlds both of thoughtand action and in the opinion of the Jury well merits the 2001 SirIsaiah Berlin Prize for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution toPolitical Studies.
Professor Lord Smith of Clifton
Professor David Marquand (right) receiving the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prizefor Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies from Professor Roger
Williams
Professor Tim Gray receiving the Bernard Crick Prize for OutstandingTeaching
The annual PSA prizes were presented by Professor Roger Williams, Vice-Chancellor of Reading University,at the PSA Annual Conference Dinner in Manchester on 11 April 2001.
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Professor Rosemary O’Kane collecting the W.J.M. MacKenzie Bookprize on behalf of Dr John Barry
Topics have included green belt development, air pollution, wastedisposal, green transport plans, water conservation and newhousing development, wildlife protection, the climate changelevy, sustainable development in the Scottish Borders, tourism inNorthumberland, ethical trading and urban regeneration.
Professor Gray has also helped to run a scheme which allowsstudents to carry out special projects not covered by their coursesyllabus. One student made a video on organic farming which wasof such high quality that an external examiner commented that thevideo was the best piece of undergraduate work he had seen in 25years.
Professor Gray said:
‘I am very pleased to have won the prize because it confirms myfaith in the value of new approaches to teaching at Universitylevel.
Students very much enjoy the greater freedom and responsibilitythat these new modules bring — and they learn many practicalskills such as teamwork, which will stand them in good stead intheir subsequent careers. Much of the credit for this award mustgo to the Newcastle University Careers Service, with whom I haveworked closely in the development of these new modules.’
Dr John BarryW.J.M. MacKenzie Book Prize for 1999 Rethinking Green Politics: nature, virtue and progress (SAGE Publications, 1999)
Of the sixteen books submitted, some of high quality, this one wasagreed to be in a class of its own.
The book breaks new ground in ‘green’ political theory, and in anengaging manner, educates those anxious to be good citizens andchallenges those responsible for public policy, in a highly topicaland globally important discourse. Expressed in a distinctive andauthoritative voice, the argumentation is meticulous, marshallingmaterial from a wide range of disciplines and illustrations ofexperience, to develop a nuanced position without ever slippinginto dogmatic or overdetermined assertion. On the contrary, hishesitations and the limits of his case are openly and modestlydiscussed. Barry’s immanent critique, his insistence that we buildon what there is, his resistance to the easy anti-statist line, his saneand balanced outlook, is intellectually brave in this often ratherclamant territory. The analysis of ecological morality, individualstewardship, and collective responsibility provides an original andseminal treatise that advances the discipline as a whole.
Professor Andrew Dunsire
Dr Graeme HayesWalter Bagehot Prize for Best Dissertation inGovernment and Public Administration:‘Political Opportunity Structures and EnvironmentalProtest in the French Fifth Republic’, ManchesterUniversity, 2000.This thesis had a number of considerable strengths. Theintegration of theory and empirical work was of an outstanding
quality. Dr Hayes showed an excellent understanding of a range ofrelevant literatures, but in particular made use of the socialmovements literature and the framework of political opportunitystructures which enables him to examine in a systematic way theinteractions between the state and environmental protest groups.Not only was the empirical research undertaken with considerablecare and thoroughness, the thesis also challenges some of theconventional wisdom about the policy process in France. Thisprocess is shown to be less centralised and closed than is usuallyassumed and much more open to localism. The thesis also utilisesthe multi-level governance paradigm when taking account of theEuropean dimension of relevant policies.This is a very sophisticated piece of work and I hope that it willbe published at book length.
Professor Wyn Grant
Dr Todd LandmanHarrison Prize for Best Paper in Political Studies in1999‘Economic Development and Democracy: the Viewfrom Latin America’ Political Studies, Vol. 47 No. 4,September 1999We chose Todd Landman’s article for the Harrison Prize based onour principal criteria of quality (style, construction, combinationof empirical and theoretical perspectives) and contribution to theprecise field concerned, as well as a potentially wider audience.We felt the article to be both ambitious in scope but rigorous inmethod and that in taking to task some of the assumptions ofmodernization theory it makes a key contribution inproblematising the relationship between economic developmentand democracy.
Professor Martin Rhodes
Dr Graeme Hayes receiving the Walter Bagehot Prize for BestDissertation in Government and Public Administration
PRIZEWINNERS / SPECIALIST GROUPS
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Dr Todd Landman receiving the Harrison Prize for Best Paper in inPolitical Studies in 1999
PSA SPECIALIST GROUP NEWSEthnic Politics SpecialistGroupJournal AnnouncementThe Global Review of Ethnopolitics ISSN 1471-8804www.ethnopolitics.org
EDITORS:STEFAN WOLFF, University of BathKARL CORDELL, University of PlymouthCorresponding US Editor: MAYACHADDA, William Paterson UniversityReview Editor: CHRIS GILLIGAN,University of Ulster
EDITORIAL BOARD:Antony E. Alcock (University of Ulster),Milton J. Esman (Cornell University),Michael Hechter (University ofWashington), Niraja Gopal Jayal (JawaharlalNehry University), Brendan O’Leary(London School of Economics), Gulshan M.Pashayeva (Conflict Research Centre, Baku),John Rex (University of Warwick), Joel H.Rosenthal (Carnegie Council on Ethics andInternational Affairs), Stefan Troebst(University of Leipzig)
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD:Dominique Arel (Brown University), FlorianBieber (European Center for MinorityIssues), Richard Caplan (InternationalInstitute for Strategic Studies), DanieleConversi (University of Lincolnshire), JohnDarby (Initiative on Conflict Resolution andEthnicity), Hans-Joachim Heintze (RuhrUniversity Bochum), Kristin Henrard
(University of Groningen), Andrew Ludanyi(Ohio Northern University), Alexander J.Motyl (Rutgers University), John Packer(Office of the OSCE High Commissioner onNational Minorities), Oana C. Popa(Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission),Susan Purcell-Kaufman (Council of theAmericas/Americas Society), StephenSchlesinger (New School for SocialResearch), Ulrich Schneckener (Universityof Bremen), Roman Szporluk (HarvardUniversity), Fernand de Varennes (Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and thePrevention of Ethnic Conflict)
SUPPORTED BY:The PSA Specialist Group on EthnicPolitics. The Themis Foundation, Inc. TheInternational Relations and SecurityNetwork. The Westminster Foundation forDemocracyThe Global Review of Ethnopolitics is a newauthoritative peer-reviewed online journalthat will establish a forum for serious debateand exchange on one of the phenomena that had a decisive impact during the lastdecades of the 20th century and willcontinue to be of great importance in the newmillennium. The journal will give a voice toestablished as well as younger researchersand analysts from academic as well aspractitioner backgrounds. We will publishoriginal work of the highest quality in thefield of ethnopolitics with methodologicalapproaches covering mainly the disciplinesof political science and internationalrelations and taking primarily a
contemporary, current affairs perspective.We will maintain a fair balance betweentheoretical analyses of these matters and casestudies both of comparative as well assingular nature, covering all geographicareas. The major focus will be on the analysis,management, settlement, and prevention ofethnic conflicts, on minority rights, groupidentity, the intersection of identity groupformations and politics, on minority andmajority nationalisms in the context ofdemocratisation, and on the security andstability of states and regions as they areaffected by any of the above issues.Particular attention will also be devoted tothe growing importance of internationalinfluences on ethnopolitics. Such influencesinclude external diplomatic or militaryintervention, as well as the increasing impactof globalisation on ethnic identities and theirpolitical expressions.
SUBSCRIPTION: The Global Review ofEthnopolitics is free of charge. The journal will be published four times ayear in March, June, September, andDecember.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Within thescope of journal identified above, we invitethe submission of original papers (6,000-8,000 words), research notes (2,000-4,000words), review essays (3,000-4,000 words)and book reviews (800-1,000 words). Adetailed style guide can be found at ourwebsite.All submissions should be emailed as
Other PSA Dissertation Prizes Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation inComparative and International PoliticsUnfortunately during the year, Trevor Salmon, the judge of thisprize, was taken seriously ill. Pending Trevor’s recovery andresumption of duties, there will therefore be a delay in announcingthe winner of the Lord Bryce Prize. We all wish Trevor a full andspeedy recovery.
Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertationin Political TheoryThe judges made no recommendation for this prize.
Arthur McDougall Fund Prize for BestDissertation in Elections, Electoral Systemsand RepresentationThe judges made no recommendation for this prize.
Labour MovementsSpecialist GroupCONFERENCE: Interpretations of Labour.Mechanics Institute, Manchester. Friday, 6July 2001Students of Labour in Britain are confrontedby a variety of interpretative approachesoffered by both political and historicalanalysts. For 40 years the critique associatedwith Ralph Miliband’s work has influencedperceptions of Labour. This approach has inturn been subject to criticism by revisionistinvestigations, mostly by historians, of thegeneral arguments of the Miliband school. Atthe same time pluralist criticisms of thelabour movement’s limitations, andinstitutional analyses of Labour and thelabour alliance, have contributed alternativeinterpretations of Labour. More recently,comparativist and rational choice approacheshave sought to bring other political sciencemethods to bear on the study of Labour.Given the alternative and often conflictingperceptions offered by such schools, thisseems an appropriate moment to revisit andre-evaluate the relative strengths andweaknesses of key interpretative approaches.Papers have been invited that evaluate therelative contributions made to the study ofLabour in Britain of one or more of thefollowing principal approaches:Milibandist/marxist, revisionist, pluralist,institutional, rational choice, comparative.They will address one or more of thefollowing themes: the concept of labourism,the movement’s historical progress(including record in office), internal powerstructures; or they should contribute to anoverall of assessment of the school ofthought concerned. The object of the conference is thus to gatherempirically grounded and theoreticallyinformed papers to further debate on andclarify interpretation of Labour in Britain. Itis intended to produce an edited collectionthat will help students better understand theprincipal interpretations of Labour, andbetter understand Labour’s past, present, andpossible future. For further details, [email protected], orSteve Fielding, School of English,Sociology, Politics and ContemporaryHistorySalford University, The Crescent, SalfordM5 4WT
Marxism Specialist GroupNINETEENTH ANNUAL ONE DAY CONFERENCE:The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon BonaparteGoldsmith’s College, University of London12 September 2001, 10am to 5pm
PAPERS AGREED SO FAR:
Terrell Carver, University of Bristol:‘Imagery/Writing, Imagination/Politics: Reading Marx through the Eighteenth Brumaire’Bernie Moss, King’s College, London:‘The 18th Brumaire and State Autonomy: A Model of Academic Marxism’Paul Wetherly, Leeds Metropolitan University:‘Making Sense of the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the State’Mark Cowling, University of Teesside:‘Marx and the Lumpenproletariat’Paul Reynolds, Edge Hill University College:‘Class Politics, Political Struggle and the Materialist Conception of History: Reading theEighteenth Brumaire Politically and Contemporarily’James Martin: ‘Performing Politics: class, ideology and discourse in Marxís 18th Brumaire’
If you are interested in giving a paper, please contact Mark Cowling, [email protected]
The cost of the conference will be about £10, including access to papers, lunch but notmorning and afternoon tea/coffee. Please contact Mark Cowling if you are interested but notalready on the Marxism Specialist Group mailing list.
Mark Cowling, SSS, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA; 01642 281927 (Ho)01642 342338 (Wo); [email protected]
NEWS FROM DEPARTMENTSHeads of departments are invited tocontribute regular items of interestfor this section. Deadline for theSeptember issue: 10 August 2001.
Scarman Centre, University ofLeicesterA highly successful conference on Policing,Ethics and Human Rights was held at theScarman Centre in April. Speakers were fromacademic and practitioner backgrounds andincluded the Deputy Chief Constable of WestMercia, Peter Neyroud, who gave the keynoteaddress. Other areas of human rights and ethics,which were discussed, included human rights inaction, the right to a ‘safe’ crime free life andthe ethical stance of Russian police officers.Papers were also presented on the problemsarising from competing demands for ethicalpolicing and effective use of public funds andthe ‘responsibilities’, which are bound up withrights.
The conference was attended by 55 delegates,with senior officers travelling from acrossBritain and Northern Ireland and academicsfrom continental Europe. A number of otherpublic agencies were also represented. One ofthe aims of the conference was to launch thenew ‘Journal of Policing, Ethics and HumanRights’. A call for papers was made and it is
intended that the new publication will include,in its inaugural issue in summer 2001, acollection of the conference papers.
University of LiverpoolThe Europe in the World Centre at theUniversity of Liverpool is a new multi-disciplinary research centre based in the Schoolof Politics and Communication Studies and alsoinvolving researchers from departments such asSociology, History, Law and Geography. Itscentral focus is upon relationships betweenEurope and other regions of the world,particularly but not exclusively the developingexternal relations of the European Union.Within this broad remit, the early work of theCentre will concentrate upon four themes:regional approaches to the promotion ofdemocracy and human rights; migrationbetween Europe and its near abroad; mediarepresentations of Europe’s relations withneighbouring regions; and issues associatedwith social and regional ‘cohesion’. The Centreis cultivating relations with other centres ofexcellence with similar or complementaryinterests, based on collaborative researchprojects. The Director of the Centre is ProfessorRichard Gillespie and the Deputy Director DrAndrew Geddes. For further informationcontact Richard Gillespie [email protected]).
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SPECIALIST GROUPS (Updated May 2001)
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Group Convenor Address Telephone E-mail
American Politics Chris Bailey Dept of American StudiesUniversity of KeeleKeele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
British Idealism David Boucher Collingwood and British Idealism Centre 01792 2955780 D.E.G.Boucher@SwanseaSchool of European StudiesCardiff University Humanities BuildingPO Box 908 Cardiff CF10 3YQ
Cardiff University Humanities BuildingPO Box 908 Cardiff CF10 3YQ
British Territorial Politics Jonathan Bradbury Department of Politics 01792 295392 [email protected] College SwanseaSwansea SA2 8PP
Comparative European Politics John Gaffney Department of European Studies 0121 359 3611 [email protected] UniversityBirmingham B4 7ET
Civic and Military Relations Anthony Forster Defence Studies 01793 788078 [email protected] Service Command & Staff CollegeFarringdonRoad, Watchfield, Wilts. SN6 8TB
Culture Policy and Politics Clive Gray Department of Public Policy 0116 257 7780 [email protected] Montfort University Ext. 7787Scraptoft, Leicester LE7 9SU
Elections, Public Opinion David Denver Department of Politics and International Relations 01524 594274 [email protected] Parties Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YL
Environmental Politics Simon Walker Department of Politics 07970 029521 [email protected] University40/42 Great North RoadNewcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Ethnic Politics Stefan Wolff Department of European Studies 01225 826395 [email protected] of BathBath BA2 7AY
Feminist Political Theory Ruth Kinna Department of European Studies 01509 222980 [email protected] UniversityLoughborough LE11 3TU
French Politics and Policy Stephen Griggs Department of International Relations and Politics 01782 294000 [email protected] of StaffordshireCollege Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE
Robert Elgie Law and Government Group, Business School 00 353 1 700 5000 [email protected] City UniversityGlasnevin, Dublin 9
Globalisation Glen M Segell Institute of Security Policy [email protected] Box 108, 37 Store Street, London WC1E 7BS
Greek Political Thought Fred Rosen Bentham Project 0171 387 7050 [email protected] CollegeGower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Hegel Society Tony Burns Department of Economics and Politics 0115 9418418 [email protected] Trent University Ext. 5560Burton Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU
Irish Studies Group Alan Greer School of Politics 0117 965 6261 [email protected] of West of England Ext. 2422Bristol BS16 1QU
Labour Movements Steve Ludlum Department of Politics 01742 768555 [email protected] of SheffieldSheffield S10 2TN
Liberal Political Theory Barbara McGuinness School of Social Sciences 01642 342315 [email protected] UniversityMiddlesbrough TS1 3BA
Marxism Mark Cowling Department of Humanities 01642 342338 [email protected] UniversityMiddlesbrough TS1 3BA
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Media Politics Mark Wheeler Department of Politics and Modern History 0171 320 1165 [email protected] Guildhall UniversityLondon E1 7NT
New Political Movements Adam Lent Department of Politics 0114 222 1674 [email protected] of SheffieldElmfield, Sheffield S10 2TU
Participatory and Deliberative Peter McLaverty Department of Politics and Public Policy 01582 734111 [email protected] University of Luton Ext. 2096
75 Castle Street, Luton LU1 3AJ
Political Science Fred Nash Department of Politics and 01703 592511 [email protected] of SouthamptonSouthampton SO17 1BJ
Politics and Religion John Anderson Department of International Relations 01334 462931 [email protected] of St AndrewsFife KY16 9AL
Politics and Society in Dimitrios Christopoulus Faculty of Economics and Social Science [email protected] Europe University of the West of England
Bristol BS16 1QY
Politics of Health Alison Hann Department of Public Policy 0116 257 8736 [email protected] Montfort UniversityScraptoft Campus, Leicester LE7 7RH
Policing, Justice & Democracy Jon Garland Scarman Centre for the Study of Public Order 0116 252 5701 [email protected] of LeicesterLeicester LE1 7RH
Politics of South Asia Andrew Wyatt Department of Politics 0117 928 8477 [email protected] of Bristol10 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU
Post-Communist Politics Aleks Szczerbiak Sussex European Institute 01273 606755 [email protected] of SussexArts Building, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9SH
Post-Structuralism and Alan Finlayson Department of Politics 01792 295302/3 [email protected] Politics University of Wales
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP
Public Administration Janice McMillan Department of Government & Politics 0191 227 3941 [email protected] of NorthumbriaNewcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
Race and Politics Rose Gann Department of Public Policy 01772 893933 [email protected] of Central LancashirePreston PR1 2HE
Rational Choice Politics Andrew Hindmoor Department of Politics 01392 264508 [email protected] of ExeterAmory Building, Exeter EX4 4RJ
Scandinavian Politics Nicholas Aylott SPIRE 07092 262932 [email protected] of KeeleKeele, Staffs. ST5 5BG
Security and Intelligence Pete Gill Centre of Criminal Justice 0151 231 3948 [email protected] John Moores UniversityJosephine Butler House, 1 Myrtle Street, Liverpool L7 4DN
Specialist Group in Political Cecile Laborde Department of War Studies 0207 848 1833 [email protected] Kings College, London
The Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Studies in Literature, Robin Holt Department of PoliticsArt and Politics University of Southampton
Highfields, Southampton SP9 5NH
Teaching and Learning Politics Penny Welch School of Languages and European Studies 01902 322352 [email protected] of WolverhamptonCastleview, Dudley DY1 3HR
Urban Politics Lawrence Pratchett Department of Public Policy 0116 257 7819 [email protected] Montfort UniversityScraptoft Campus, Leicester LE7 9SU
Women and Politics Wendy Stokes Social Sciences, Kingston University [email protected] Road, Kingston, Surreu KT1 2EE
Please send any questions or comments to the PSA WebMaster
Scarman Centre
Offender Profiling:Current Practices and Future DirectionsOffender Profiling:Current Practices and Future DirectionsOne-Day Conference, Wednesday 4 July 2001University of Leicester
Confirmed speakers include:
Dr Richard Badcock, Dr Julian Boon, Detective Inspector Chuck Burton OBE & Dr Adrian West
Leading experts and practitioners on offender profiling will address the current state of offender profilingpractice in the UK. Speakers will focus on what are currently regarded as the key issues in practical offenderprofiling and outline future directions profiling is likely to take in the UK.
The conference is aimed at those interested in the reality of offender profiling in the UK and should be ofparticular interest to practitioners and academics concerned with effectively aiding police investigations andthe shape of future developments in this controversial area.
The delegate fee is £100, including refreshments and lunch
Dealing with Drugs: Prevention,Education, Treatment or PunishmentDealing with Drugs: Prevention,Education, Treatment or Punishment11 - 13 September 2001(also International Course No. 59 of the International Society for Criminology)
Conference Centre, Oadby, University of Leicester
This conference will interest: criminal justice practitioners including arrest referralworkers, bail hostel workers, and CARATs workers; voluntary sector treatment providers;health professionals including primary care trust representatives, general practitionersand community health workers; local/regional social service officers, drug action teams,neighbourhood renewal teams, employment services and local government; housingpractitioners and educators.
Key speakers, include Lana Harrison, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies, Delaware,USA.
The conference is composed of three linked one-day conferences which will address issuessuch as prevention, education, criminal justice and treatment. The aim of the conference isto provide an international backdrop to curent developments and concerns regarding theproblems of drug-related criminal behaviour; to link research, policy and practice and toconsider innovative responses to the problem.
C O N F E R E N C E S
Forthcoming Events:Partnerships with People: Health and Safety: October/November 2001
For a booking form,contact
Victoria FarrarScarman CentreUniversity of LeicesterThe Friars154 Upper New WalkLeicester LE1 17QAEngland
School of Slavonic and East European StudiesUniversity College LondonAn international conference will be held on 9-10 November 2001at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UniversityCollege London, on the theme:
‘Ten Years since the Soviet Union’. Its aim is to reflect on what wehave learned from the experience of the last ten years in the ex-Soviet republics and to attempt to summarise its significance forthe various fields of social science and modern history.
The main sessions will be on:
the political economy of post-socialism
political and civic culture
post-imperial Russian identity and statehood
regionalism and the central state
relations with international institutions
peacekeeping, security and geopolitics.
Enquiries should be addressed to: Amy Warner, School ofSlavonic and East European Studies, University College London,Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. E-mail:[email protected]. Tel. 020 7862 8517 Fax 020 7862 8641
Queen’s University, BelfastDr Debbie Lisle has been awarded the BISA prize for the bestPhD submitted in 2000. Dr John Barry has been awarded thePSA’s W.J.M. MacKenzie prize for his Rethinking Green Politics,which of the books submitted was judged to be the best publishedin 1999.
The department is also celebrating the award of two substantialgrants. One has enabled it to establish a Centre for theAdvancement of Women in Politics, the only one of its kindoutside the USA, with Dr Yvonne Galligan recruited from Cork tohead the Centre and Dr Duncan Sutherland appointed fromCambridge as a research fellow. The Centre, which has alreadysecured additional ESRC funding, will conduct research ongender issues as well as provide training for women wishing toadvance in the public sphere. The Centre is to be formally openedby Mary McAleese, President of the Republic of Ireland, who wasformerly on the staff at Queen’s.
The other grant is £5 million to set up an Institute of Governance,Public Policy and Social Research. Last year the local Minister forHigher and Further Education announced a £40 millioninvestment under the Support Programme for University research,a public-private initiative, and invited the two universities tosubmit proposals. Elizabeth Meehan chaired a Faculty workingparty to formulate a proposal to create an Institute, and the projectwas among the six successful ones submitted. Northern Ireland’scomplex internal structure of government and cross-borderinstitutions (North-South and British-Irish Councils, as well as itsplace as a region of the EU), makes it an ideal location for theInstitute, which will be a forum for policy-makers grappling withthe new political dispensation. The Institute rests on the idea thatthe shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’ is best explained by
drawing on the synergies of multi-disciplinary, multi-national andcross-sectoral research. Under the leadership of a Director andAssistant Director, it will have senior visiting fellows from theacademical and policy communities, international post-doctoralresearch fellowships, postgraduate studentships and internalsecondments. Its activities will begin in September and it willhave its own purpose-built building early in the New Year.
University of ReadingNick Bisley from LSE has been appointed to a Lectureship inInternational Relations at Reading from 1 October 2001.
University of SalfordStaff changes at Salford include the appointment of Dr RachelGibson to a Senior Research Fellowship at the Australian NationalUniversity. Vera Tolz and Jon Tonge have both been awardedpersonal Chairs. Dr Stephen Ward and Dr Steven Fielding will beabsent in 2001-02 due to AHRB and ESRC funding respectively.
Richard Whittaker, currently completing his doctoral thesis atManchester under the supervision of Professor David Farrell,moves to Salford for a one year lectureship, as does Dr GideonCohen.
New courses launched this Autumn include a BA in Politics andParliamentary Studies, with a Westminster placement, and an MAin Italian Studies. Next year sees the launch of an MA in IrishStudies. The Department hosts a conference on Political Scandalsin June. It was awarded the maximum 24 points by the QAAPolitics Subject Review team (no connection!).
University of SheffieldCaroline Kennedy-Pipe joined the Department in January 2001from Durham as Professor. Her expertise is in the area ofinternational relations, international history and security studies.She is currently working on books on women and war in the 20thCentury and on rethinking the Cold War.
Andrew Taylor also joined the Department in January 2001 fromHuddersfield as Reader. His research focuses on British politics,with particular interests in trade unions, industrial relations andthe Labour and Conservative parties. Lately he has developed anew research interest in the debate about changing forms ofgovernance in Britain.
Andrew Vincent joins the Department in July 2001 as Professor.He was formerly at Cardiff. His research interests include modernstate theory, contemporary political ideologies, 20th Centurypolitical theory and philosophical idealism and nationalism.
Rhiannon Vickers joins the Department in September 2001 fromLeeds as lecturer. Her interests are in Labour’s foreign policy, therole of foreign secretaries in Britain and in public diplomacy moregenerally.
In addition to these recent appointments, Martin Smith takes overas Chairman of Department from Tony Payne in September 2001.
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Elections for the two vacancies on the Executive Committee were conducted in May. The elections wereconducted according to the Single Transferable Vote (STV) method, in accordance with the procedures used forsuch elections in Northern Ireland.
The successful candidates were Joanna McKay and Neil Collins. McKay is elected to the two-year post, andCollins to the one-year post.
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This book demonstrates how British political partiesnow have to use sophisticated marketing techniquesin order to gain electoral success. By conductingfocus groups and opinion polls, parties attempt tofind out what it is that voters want from them – theythen change their behaviour and political stance inorder to reflect these findings. The summer of 2000provided classic examples of this type of behaviourin action, with William Hague and Tony Blair sendingout conflicting and confusing soundbites in anattempt to capture the popular imagination onsenstitive issues such as pensions, asylum seekersand the future of the Pound.
Parties now attempt to offer a complete product –including their leader, membership rights and policy– that will appeal to a majority of voters, rather thanbeing influenced by a political ideology and firmbelief system. In 1983 Labour were the classicexample of a party that was led by ideology and triedto persuade voters that their way was the right way,whereas New Labour in 1997 was the classicmarket-oriented party. Polirical parties today focuson the needs and wants of voters in much the sameway that businesses seek to serve their consumers inorder to make profit.
Tho book goes on to discuss what this means fordemocracy – are parties more responsive, votersmore critical, and is there a greater focus on policy
and delivery – is British democracy thriving, or is the
fact the there is no longer any ideological standpoint
behind the messages of the major parties an affront
to the democractic process?
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CONTENTS
1. Political parties and political marketing: what isit all about?
2. Thatcher the marketing pioneer
3. The death of political conviction: how votersrejected product-oriented parties
4. The limites of sales-oriented marketing: whyLabour did not win in 1987 and 1992
5. Blair and the New Labour design: a classicmarket-oriented party?
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