The Department of Political Science
at the University of Rennes, France
will be hosting
2008 ECPR
Joint Sessions of Workshops
  11- 16 April 2008

Full details of workshops, together with information on how to apply to participate, is available on the ECPR website at: http://www.ecprnet.org.

1. The Nationalisation of Party Systems in Central and
   Eastern Europe
   Ingrid van Biezen  (University of Birmingham)
   Daniele Caramani  (University of St. Gallen)

2. The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager:
   From Pragmatic Ad-hocism to Policy Coherence?
   Stefan Wolff  (University of Nottingham)
   Richard Whitman  (University of Bath)

3. From Politics to Management? Public Services Performance, Accountability and Distributional Outcomes in Social Policies
   Paola Mattei  (BERLIN, Wissenschaftzentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB)
   Koen Verhoest  (LEUVEN, Katholieke Universiteit)

4. Metropolitan Governance and Social Inequality
   Daniel Kübler  (Universität Zurich)
   Tomás Kostelecký  (Czech Academy of Sciences)

5. Sustainable Public Finance: The Politics of Budget Consolidation, Tax Reform and Expenditure Control
   Uwe Wagschal  (University of Heidelberg)
   Mark Hallerberg  (Emory University)

6. The Politics of Climate Change
   Hugh Compston  (Cardiff University)

7. The Long Arm of EU Law: Making States Comply with EU Policies inside and outside the European Union
   Tanja A. Boerzel  (Free University of Berlin)
   Ulrich Sedelmeier  (London School of Economics)

8. The New Geopolitics and Changing Territorialities: Between International Studies and Political Geography
   Mathias Albert  (Bielefeld University)
   David Newman  (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

9. Does European Integration Theory Need Sociology? Towards a New Research Agenda
   Sabine Saurugger  (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble
   Frédéric Mérand  (McGill University)

10. Methodological Pluralism? Consolidating Political Science Methodology
    Jonathon W. Moses  (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
    Benoit Rihoux  (Université catholique de Louvain)

11. Administrative Reform, Democratic Governance, and the Quality of Government
    Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans  (Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse)
    Jon Pierre  (University of Gothenburg)

12. Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?
    Fiona Mackay  (University of Edinburgh)
    Mona Lena Krook  (Washington University in St. Louis)

13. Parliamentary and Representatives Roles in Modern Legislatures
    Magnus Blomgren  (Umeå University)
    Olivier Rozenberg  (FNSP, CEVIPOF)

14. Politics of Intellectual Property
    Sebastian Haunss  (University of Hamburg)
    Kenneth C. Shadlen  (London School of Economics)

15. Contested Constitutionalisation:
    Towards a Theory of Democratic Constitutionalism
    Antje Wiener  (University of Bath)
    Rainer Schmalz-Bruns  (Universität Hannover)

16. Regions as 'Spaces' for Politics:
    Analysing Change Through New Paradigms
    Caitriona Carter  (University of Edinburgh)
    Romain Pasquier  (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes)

17. The Numbers We Use, the World We See:
    Evaluating Cross-National Datasets in Comparative Politics
    Cas Mudde  (Universiteit Antwerpen)
    Andreas Schedler  (CIDE (Mexico City)

18. National Identity and Constitutionalism in Europe
    Bill Kissane  (London School of Economics)
    Nick Sitter  (Norwegian School of Management)

19. Intra- and Inter institutional Relations in EU Decision-making
    Anne Rasmussen  (EUI/Copenhagen Business School)
    Daniel Naurin  (University of Göteborg)

20. The Politics of Constitutional Change
    Arthur Benz  (Fern Universität, Hagen)
    César Colino  (UNED, Madrid)

21. Environmental Capacity and Development in Transitional States and Emerging Democracies
    Adam Fagan  (Queen Mary, University of London)
    JoAnn Carmin  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

22. Religion in Europe, Religion and Europe
    François Foret  (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    Xabier Itçaina  (Institut d'Etudes politiques de Bordeaux)

23. The Politics of Evidence-based Policy-making
    Fritz Sager  (University of Bern)
    Ray Pawson  (University of Leeds)

24. Remittances, Public Policy, and the State
    Achim Kemmerling  (BERLIN, Wissenschaftzentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB)
    Covadonga Meseguer  (CIDE, Mexico)

25. Comparing Legislatures Worldwide:
    Roles, Functions and Performance in Old and New Democracies
    Natalia Ajenjo  (University of Burgos)
    Mariana Llanos  (GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies)

26. Is Populism a Side-Effect of the Europeanization of Political Competition?
    Laure Neumayer  (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
    Michel Perottino  (Institute of Political Sciences, Prague)

For more information: http://www.ecprnet.org