2005

Panel Schedule

French Politics Group

American Political Science Association Meetings, September 1-4, 2005, Washington DC

 

 

 

French Politics Group Panel 1. “Developments in French Politics”

 

Chair:              Alistair Cole, Cardiff University

Papers:

“Developments in 21st Century French Politics”

Alistair Cole,  Cardiff University, Jonah Levy, University of California, Berkeley  and Patrick le Galès, CEVIPOF-FNSP

 

Reshaping the state ? Administrative and Decentralisation Reforms in France

Patrick Le Gales, CEVIPOF-FNSP

 

“Economic Policy: From the Dirigiste State to the Social Anesthesia State and Beyond

Jonah Levy, University of California, Berkeley

 

“Gendering the Fifth Republic: New Beginnings or the Legacy of the Past?”

Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University

 

Disc:

                        Jocelyn Evans, University of Salford

 

Panel 2.  “Using the Case of France to Build Theories on Democracy, Policy Formation and the EU” Co Sponsored by the European Politics Section.

Chairs:

Andrew Appleton, Washington State University

Robert Elgie, Dublin City University

Papers:

“Associations, Party Models and Democracies: Changing Organizational Patterns of French Parties in a Historical Perspective”

Yohei Nakayama, University of Tokyo, Cornell University

                       

“One European Directive, Two Dramatically Different Responses: Explaining the Divergence in French and German Racial Anti-discrimination Policy After the Race Directive”

Jacqueline S. Gehring, University of California, Berkeley

 

“What Constitutes Success?: the Evolutionary Logic of Ethnic and

Regionalist Parties”

Dan Miodownik,  University of Pennsylvania and

Britt Cartrite, University of Pennsylvania

 

“An Interactive Economic Approach to Regional Integration in the Midi-Pyrenees: Forming Advocacy Coalitions and Emergent Policy Frames”

 

Edward Lai, University of Western Ontario

 

“Decisiveness of Elections and Voter Turnout under the French Fifth Republic, 1958-2002

Nicolas Sauger, CEVIPOF-FNSP

Disc:                 Andrew Appleton, Washington State University

Robert Elgie, Dublin City University

 

Panel 3. French Perspectives on World Affairs”

Chairs:              Kay Lawson, San Francisco State University

                        Pascal Perrineau, CEVIPOF-FNSP

Papers:

"How the French Right Views World Affairs"

Florence Haegel, CEVIPOF-FNSP

 

"The French Conception of Islamism"

Michele Tribalat, CEVIPOF-FNSP

 

"The French View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"

Jacques Tarnero, CEVIPOF-FNSP

 

Disc:                 Kay Lawson, San Francisco State University and

                        Pascal Perrineau, CEVIPOF-FNSP

 

Short Course: Internationalizing the Classroom:  Bringing French Politics Into the Political Science Curriculum

Wednesday August  31st, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Participants

 

Andrew Appleton, Washington State University

Jocelyn Evans, University of Salford, UK

Michael Bosia, St. Michael’s College

Lance LeLoup, Washington State University

Alistair Cole, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Amy Mazur, Washington State University

Patrick LeGalès, Centre d’Etudes de  La Vie Politique Française- FNSP