Crisis Politics: Partisanship, Democratic Agency and Representation in Hard Times

Please email Lea Ypi ([email protected]) or Jonathan Hopkin ([email protected]) to register your interest in the conference

13th June

Welcome

4 – 5.30 Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance): Europe Entrapped: can the EU overcome its current crisis?  

Chair: Lea Ypi (LSE)

5.30 – 5.45 Coffee break  

5.45-7 Chris Bickerton (Sciences Po): Populist technocracy: on the critique of representative politics in contemporary Europe  

Chair: Jonathan Hopkin (LSE)  

14th June  

9.30 – 9.45 Arrival and coffee  

9.45 – 11  Richard Katz (John Hopkins University): No man can swerve two masters: on the incompatibility of intra-party democracy and principal-agent models  

Chair: Simon Hix (LSE)  

11.30-12.45  Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth College): Partisanship in the legislature  

Chair: Bob Goodin (University of Essex)  

12.45-2.15 Lunch break  

2.15 - 3.30 Jonathan Hopkin (LSE): Cartel parties and the crisis: political change and ideological stasis in advanced democracies  

Chair: Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL)  

3.30-4.00 Coffee break  

4.30-5.15 John Dryzek (ANU): Discursive Representation in Hard Times  

Chair: TBC  

Drinks  

15th June  

9.45-11 Jonathan White (LSE): The associative obligations of partisans

Chair: Chandran Kukathas (LSE)  

11-11.30 Coffee break  

11.30-12.45 Lea Ypi (LSE): Parties as imagined communities of principles  

Chair: TBC