APSA50: The jubilee conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association

Timetable: Thursday 3 October

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Haydon-Allen Tank
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Room G 053
From 8.00am Registration in foyer of Haydon-Allen Tank      Welcome coffee and tea in LJ Hume Centre, first floor, Copland building

9.00-10.30
Session 4

Full list of
Session 4
Abstracts

Keynote session: Electoral reform
Chair: Elaine Thompson

Christopher Pyne (Liberal MHR, Sturt)

Senator Andrew Bartlett (Australian Democrats, Queensland)

Professor David Farrell (Manchester University)

Australia's contribution to political studies
Psychological politics
Chair: Jim Walter
Discussant: Anthony Moran

Judith Brett: Revising the agenda for the study of Australian political culture: The Australian state in every day life

John Cash: Political passions today

James Walter: Reflections on the ‘Melbourne School’

Political theory
Deliberative democracy
Chair: Craig Browne

Carolyn Hendriks: Exploring the murky waters of civil society in deliberative democracy

Nic Southwood: Resolving deliberative democracy's proceduralist ambiguities

Nick Turnbull: A theoretical analysis of the argumentative turn in policy theory, in light of the philosophical separation of logic and rhetoric

John Parkinson: Plus ça change: The use of deliberation in the UK's National Health Service

Australasian politics
Chair: Maria Maley

Brian Galligan: The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics

Ian Marsh: Interest group participation in Senate committee enquiries

Elizabeth Eedy: Unresolved accountability issues in Australian higher education reform: A case-study

Health policy and politics

Jenny M Lewis: Making connections and setting the agenda: Health policy networks and issues in Victoria

Kasumi Nishigaya: Young women garment factory workers in post-UNTAC Cambodia: Export-orientation, decent work deficit and sexual health risk

Tim Tenbensel: Legitimacy deferred: Can government restore public faith in the legitimacy of policy processes through the mechanisms of direct public input?

Warren Talbot: Inside, outside and offside: HIV/AIDS policy discourses in Australia, 1989

Australasian politics
Chair: John Warhurst

Lisa Hill: Democratic assistance: A template for compulsory voting

Marion Maddox: Religion and Australian politics: Out of the methodological bog

Katharine Gelber: The scope of the implied right to freedom of political communication

International politics
Australian foreign policy & East Timor: People, states and fear
Chair: Prue Torrance

Gary Smith: The expansion of sovereign Australia: Frontiers, borders, boundaries and identity in Greater Australia

May McPhail: The East Timor intervention: Foreign policy success or failure?

Jefferson Lee: The media and East Timor: Taking stock of the post mortems

The politics of resistance and class
Class and protest
Chair: Rachel Mendham

Ashley Lavelle: The ALP and class struggle: A case study of the Whitlam Labor Opposition's response to union unrest in the late 1960 and early 1970s

Martin Hirst: The ties that bind: Journalists and the nation-state

Kyoung-Hee Moon: Dualism of development: What has changed and what hasn't changed in terms of the pattern of female employment in the Korean apparel industry?

10.30-11.00 Morning tea in LJ Hume Centre, first floor, Copland building
 
HA Tank
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11.00-12.30
Session 5

Full list of
Session 5
Abstracts

Keynote speaker

Senator John Faulkner: Labor's contribution to electoral reform

Australia's contribution to political studies
Communism and the Soviet Union I
Chair: Les Holmes

Graeme Gill: From the peasants to the bourgeoisie: Dealing with the Soviet collapse

Roger Markwick: The market as totalitarianism: The Russian experience

TH Rigby: Russian nationhood from its origins to Putin

Robert F Miller: Humanitarian intervention and the politics of nationalism in the former Yugoslavia

Political theory
Indigenous issues & political theory
Chair: Manuhuia Barcham

Bruce Buchan: The empire of political thought: Perceptions of Indigenous government in Australia

Robert van Krieken: What has civilization got to do with liberalism? Political theory, settler-colonialism, and the Stolen Generations

International politics
International ethics I
Chair/Discussant: Richard Devetak

Richard Shapcott: Communicative ethics and international ethics: The road ahead

Siswo Pramono: Paralysis by design: An account of the international theory of genocide

 

 

 

International politics
European politics
Chair/Discussant: Richard Grant

Natalie Mast: An upper house in all but name? An analysis of the European Parliament

Timothy Szlachetko: An alternative 'Third Way': Danish welfare state experiences in the 1990s


 

12.30-2.00 Lunch
APSA Executive meeting (Room 2145)
 
HA Tank
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2.00-3.30
Session 6

Full list of
Session 6
Abstracts

Australia's contribution to political studies
Communism and the Soviet Union II
Chair: Les Holmes

Prof Richard Sakwa: The Australasian contribution to Soviet and Russian studies

Stephen Wheatcroft: Seeing the Soviet experience in historical perspective

Joint panel: Disciplinary history of political science and Women and politics
The impact of feminist scholarship on Australian political science

Introduced by Lisa Hill

Panellists:
Marian Sawer
Liz van Acker
Mary Walsh

 

Australasian politics
Chair: Gwen Gray

James A Gillespie: Political settlements and global bulldozers: Institutional models of Australian political development

Geoff Stokes: The 'Australian Settlement' and Australian political thought

James Walter and Tod Moore: The new social order? Australia's contribution to 'new liberal' thinking in the interwar period

 

Australasian politics
Chair: John Warhurst

Leigh Gollop: People's assemblies: Giving people a say in government

Sandra Grey: Can we measure the influence of social movements?

Melanie Fisher and
Linda Botterill: Magical thinking: the rise of the community development model

International politics
International ethics II
Chair/Discussant: Richard Devetak

Brett Bowden: The democratic 'standard of civilization' in international society

Greg McCarthy: Hollywood politics: Attack of the moral clones

Siswo Pramono: An account of the genocidal state

International politics
Power and emotion and international relations
Chair: Jacinta O'Hagan

Greg Fry: Oceania's voyage: Reflections on the power of 'region' in world politics

Sarah Graham: America's soft power in international relations theory

Gavin Mount: The global politics of emotion: All's fear in love and war

Wynne Russell: Hard feelings: Methodological challenges in the study of emotion in international politics

3.30-4.00 Afternoon tea: LJ Hume Centre, 1st floor, Copland building
 
HA Tank
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4.00-5.30
Session 7

Full list of
Session 7
Abstracts

 Australia's contribution to political studies
Federalism and the High Court

Brian Galligan

Andrew Parkin

George Williams

Disciplinary history of political science

Rod Rhodes: 'How do we explain ourselves to one another?' Professionalisation versus traditions in UK political science

Helena Catt: Will we make it to the centenary?

Political theory
Issues in political theory
Chair: Damien F O'Leary

Mark Bahnisch: Derrida, Schmitt and the essence of the political

Gonzalo Villalta Puig: Michael Oakeshott's critique of rationalism in politics: A counter-critique

 

 

Australasian politics
Chair: Sandra Grey

Greg Melluish: The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy revisited: The New South Wales 1859 election

Damien Cahill: The markets, morals and civil society project: Conflict and consensus on the Australian Right

Jed Donoghue, Bruce Tranter and Robert White: Australian dreams: Homeownership, shareownership and Coalition policy

International politics
The international politics of security
Chair/Discussant: Anthony Burke

Matt McDonald: Security, sovereignty and identity

Alex Bellamy: Is there an English School discourse of security?

Political sociology
Populism in America, Australia and Europe

Brendon O’Connor: Who’s afraid of populism? American populism, conservatism, and welfare reform

Richard DeAngelis: Le Pen and the rise of populism in Europe

5.45-6.45 APSA Annual General Meeting: Haydon-Allen Tank
7.30 Conference dinner: ANU Union

 


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