APSA50: The jubilee conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association

Timetable: Wednesday 2 October

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	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 8.00am	Registration in Room G015 Welcome coffee and tea in LJ Hume Centre, first floor, Copland building
9.00-10.30 Session 1 Full list of Session 1 Abstracts	Disciplinary history of political science Joan Rydon: Over forty years in political science Peter McCarthy: Political science at the ANU's Research School of Social Sciences: The early years Michael Crozier: Political times and intellectual tides: The Australasian Political Studies Association archive	Women and politics Chair: Mary Walsh Pat Brewer: Has identity politics shifted feminism to the right? Tahnya Barnett Donaghy: Equality mainstreaming: Lesson learning from Northern Ireland	Political theory Problems of liberalism Aleksandar Pavkovic: Secession from a liberal state: Is it justified? John W Tate: Liberalism and its limits Jennifer Wilkinson: Putting privacy before the public: Why liberalism inverts accountability in journalism ethics	International politics Constructive history: Delineating theoretical divides and conquering schism Chair: Nicole George Disc: Leonard Seabrooke Darshan Vigneswaran: An ahistorical discipline? The conceptual contours of academic IR Joel Quirk: The construction of an edifice: The story of a First Great Debate Chris Reus-Smit: Imagining society: Constructivism and the English School	Conference registration	Australasian politics Chair: Malcolm Mackerras Elizabeth McLeay: Representation and the Maori: Institutional persistence and shifting justifications Rachel Gibson and Stephen Ward: State parties use of the internet in Australia John Uhr: Effective versus defective voting: Catherine Helen Spence's novel campaign for electoral reform Ann Sullivan and Dimitri Margaritis: New Zealand Maori voting behaviour under MMP
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 2 Full list of Session 2 Abstracts	Disciplinary history of political science Parker's contribution to political studies Convened by John Uhr Brian Galligan: Gentleman scholar John Ballard: RS Parker and Papua New Guinea JR Nethercote: RS Parker and public service Roger Scott: RS Parker and the teaching of public administration	Special panel: the 2001 federal election Chair: Marian Simms Ian McAllister: The border protection poll: The 2001 federal election and the Coalition victory Clive Bean: Primus inter premiers: Or, The electoral influence of state party leaders David Gow: Split-ticket voting and divided government in Australia David Charnock, Peter Ellis: Postmaterialism and the Australian party system Rachel Gibson: The future of national election surveys? Evaluating online election surveys in Australia and Britain	Political theory Political theory and politics I Chair: Carolyn Hendriks Mary Walsh: Individualization, sociology and sub-politics: Implications for political theory Paul J Carnegie: Assessing regime change: The processes of democratic transitions and consolidations Maurice Rickard: Party discipline, conscience voting and conscientious dissent	International politics Legitimizing international finance: Normative change and its domestic origins and consequences Chair: Maria Bargh Xu Yi-chong and Patrick Weller: Negotiating GATS: The GATT/WTO secretariat and policy outcomes JC Sharman: Tax havens and the struggle for global tax regulation Malcolm Cook: Opening up the vault: Emerging market responses to the new global political economy of finance Leonard Seabrooke: The domestic sources of the international financial order: A comparison of legitimating principles in international finance in the late-nineteenth and late-twentieth centuries	Conference registration	Australasian politics Chair: Robin Tennant-Wood Kate Crowley: Strained relations: Governing in minority in Tasmania Anthony Moran: The globalization of Australia: The state and national belonging Bruce Stone: Changing roles, changing rules: Procedural reform in Australian state upper houses	International politics The War On Terror Chair: Katrina Lee Koo Anthony Burke and Minerva Nasser-Eddine: The existential terror: The United States and Israel after September 11 Richard Devetak: 'A war against the example': Burke, Bush and the War on Terror Robert G Patman: US exceptionalism and the 'new war' against global terrorism	The politics of resistance and class Global resistance Chair Anne McNevin Tom Bramble and John Minns: The anti-globalisation movement in Australia Verity Burgmann: The 'cancer stage of capitalism' and the politics of resistance Michael Schiavone: Militancy and collective bargaining: The CAW and the UAW 1979-1996
12.30-2.00	Lunch Women's caucus (Room G 007) Heads of Departments lunch (Room 2145)
	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 3 Full list of Session 3 Abstracts	Disciplinary history of political science Roger Scott: The decline of political science within the study of public administration Carol Johnson: Australian political science and the study of discourse	The media and politics Chair: Marian Simms Phil Chase: Hegemony in abstraction: Media coverage and the 2001 local government election Andrew M Vandenberg: Trade unions, globalisation, and networked computers Sally Young: Political advertising in Australia, 1949-2001 David Denemark: Information flow and voter decision-making in the 2001 Australian federal election: The role of international and domestic issues	Political theory Political theory and politics II Chair: Mary Walsh Megan Alessandrini: A fourth sector: The impact of neo-liberalism on non-profit organisations Chris Geller: Single Transferable Vote with Borda Elimination: A new vote counting system	Australasian politics Chair: John Warhurst Sandra Lilburn and Damian O'Leary: The politics of conscience voting in Australia: Case studies in public deliberation John Chesterman and David Tucker: Minority rights in democratic Australia Murray Goot: Party convergence revisited	Conference registration	Australasian politics Chair: Linda Botterill Kevin O'Toole and Neil Burdess: Governance in rural communities: The case of Victoria Richard Stanton: Mezzanine politics Peter Chen: ‘They're not like us’: The deamalgamation of Delatite Shire	International politics States, nations and identity in international politics Chair: Katrina Lee Koo Ayla Göl: A critique of foreign policy analysis (FPA) in transitional states Cameron Hill: ‘Imagining imperialism’: Constructivism, role theory and American debates over the Philippines, 1898-1913 Chengxin Pan: Two perspectives on self and other: Western and traditional Chinese views of identity: Implications for global politics Alan J Ward: A constitution for a divided society: The problematic case of Northern Ireland	The politics of resistance and class Resisting racism and national oppression Chair: Robin Tennant-Wood Sam Pietsch: Government scapegoating of Jewish refugees in the 1930s Drew Cottle and Helen Masterman-Smith: Fretilin: Resistance and survival Rick Kuhn: The tradition of Jewish anti-Zionism in the Galician socialist movement
3.30-4.00	Afternoon tea: LJ Hume Centre, 1st floor, Copland building AJPS board meeting (Room 2145)
4.00-5.30	APSA Presidential Address, Haydon-Allen Tank
5.30-	Postgraduates' meeting to elect representative to APSA: Room G 031 Followed by drinks at the Wig and Pen, Alinga St, Civic
6.00-7.30	Reception: Clerk of the House of Representatives: Haydon-Allen foyer Video screening of documentary: A House for the Nation: Haydon-Allen Tank

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