APSA50: The jubilee conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association

Timetable: Friday 4 October

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Wednesday timetable      Thursday timetable

 
Haydon-Allen Tank
Room G 008
Room G 009
Room G 010
Room G 015
Room G 030
Room G 031
Room G 053
From 8.30am Registration in foyer of Haydon-Allen Tank      Welcome coffee and tea in LJ Hume Centre, first floor, Copland building

9.00-10.30
Session 8

Full list of
Session 8
Abstracts

Australia's contribution to political studies
Chair: Joan Rydon

Iain McLean: Australian electoral reform and two concepts of representation

Environmental politics

Grant Jones and Jenny Stewart: The emergence of environmental governance

Fred P Gale: The politicization of market Instruments for ecological sustainability: The case of Voluntary Forest Certification in Canada

Political theory
Habermas
Chair: David West

Craig Browne: Deliberative democracy and late-modernity

Martin Leet: Relations between science, morality and aesthetics

Damian O'Leary: Post-national belonging: Unpacking Habermas' constitutional patriotism

International politics
Rethinking security
Chair: Matthew McDonald

Robert Ayson: Concepts of regional stability in the Asia-Pacific context

Beth Greener-Barcham: Visualising a liberal military

Alex Munton: Regional cooperation and the governance of maritime security in the Arafura and Timor seas

 

Australasian politics
Chair: John Warhurst

Rodney Smith: Political parties in contemporary Australian fiction

Paul Strangio: Jim Cairns

International politics
East Asia & International Politics I
Chair: Kathy Morton

Alex Stephens: Japan, leadership and theory: Constraints, problems and present implications

Donna Weeks: ‘Comprehensive security’ and Japan's security policy

Purnendra Jain and John Bruni: Australia, Japan and the United States:Towards a new security architecture in the Asia-Pacific?

 

Political sociology

Giorel Curran, Elizabeth van Acker & Robyn Hollander: Xenophobia: Is it enough? Populist parties in Australia and Europe

Toby Ganley: Australia the show-dog: An identification and analysis of the mongrel metaphor in The Bulletin

Jack Vowles: Is responsible party government dead? Government strength or weakness, globalisation, and public perceptions in 27 countries, 1996-2001

10.30-11.00 Morning tea in LJ Hume Centre, first floor, Copland building
 
HA Tank
Room G 008
Room G 009
Room G 010
Room G 015
Room G 030
Room G 031
Room G 053

11.00-12.30
Session 9

Full list of
Session 9
Abstracts

Australia's contribution to political studies
Chair: Joan Rydon

David Farrell and Ian McAllister: Preferences, tickets and transfers: The 1983 reform of the electoral system to the Australian Senate and its consequences for preferential voting

Environmental politics

Amanda Blackburn and Bruce Stone: Environmentalism, conservative politics, minor parties and electoral competition in Australia: The case of the Liberals for Forests

Nick Economou: 'Green' performance in Australian federal elections: Much ado about nothing?

Political theory
History of political thought; history and political thought
Chair: Mark Bahnisch

Manuhuia Barcham: The idea of corruption in late Medieval and early Renaissance European political thought

Stephen Reglar: Why politics is by nature a-historical

Mary Walsh: Arendt and the political: From freedom to power

International politics
East Asia and international politics II
Chair: Beth Greener-Barcham

Reiko Take: Japanese security policy: Evolution or status quo?

Shogo Suzuki: Peace in East Asian international society

 

 

Australasian politics
Chair: John Warhurst

Christopher Mackenzie: The entrepreneurial bureaucrat: A study of policy entrepreneurship in the formation of a national strategy to create an Asia-literate Australia

Maria Maley: The changing role of ministerial advisers

Caner Bakir: Who needs a review of the financial system in Australia? The case of the Wallis Inquiry

Bron Stevens: R v Burgess, the external affairs power and the battle for control of aviation policy in Australia

International politics
Global governance and state practice
Chair: Heather Rae

Thuy Do: The evolution of refugee protection in international and domestic state practices

Kathy Morton: Do we need a world bank?

Darian Clark Is it possible to 'make trade fair'?

Political sociology

Ann Firth: The breadwinner, his wife and their welfare: Identity and redistribution in Australian post-war reconstruction

Margaret Southwell: A community tested: A test of class in a cotton town

Angela Keys: Yippies: Rebels without a cause?

12.30-2.00 Lunch
Postgraduates meeting lunch: Getting published: Room G008
 
HA Tank
Room G 008
Room G 009
Room G 010
Room G 015
Room G 030
Room G 031
Room G 053

2.00-3.30
Session 10

Full list of
Session 10
Abstracts

     

Australasian politics

Bruce Chapman and Linda Botterill: Drought policy in Australia

Jennifer Curtin and Dennis Woodward: Whatever happened to the rural revolt?

Virginia Watson: Liberalism and governance in Indigenous affairs

 

Australasian politics
Chair: John Warhurst

Brent Davis: Wealth and voting: Some politico-econometric estimates for Australia

Bruce Tranter and Mark Western: Postmaterialism and age: An Australian anomoly

International politics
Rights and global society
Chair: Chris Reus-Smit

Paul Keal: Can international society be redeemed? Indigenous rights and the politics of mutual recognition

Nicky George: Understanding the relationship between rights, needs and obligations: Women's civil society organisations in Fiji

Michelle Burgis: A law for all peoples? Reconciling Rawls's 'realistic utopia' with global poverty and Islamic worldview(s)

Political sociology

Robert White and Jed Donoghue: Marshall, Mannheim and modern citizenship

John Cash: Politics, history and the unconscious

Stuart Dawson: Dialogical hermeneutics and political inquiry

 


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