Annual European Graduate Conference on Political Parties (AEGCPP)












Information on AEGCPP 2009


Speaker Bios

Prof. Bernard Manin

Research Director at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Professor at New-York University, Political Science Department
Research Activities and Interests:
Political History and Political Theory, Representative Democracies, Deliberation
Selected Publications
The Principles of Representative Government, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
" The Emergency paradigm and the new terrorrism " : in S. Baume, B. Fontana (dir.) Les usages de la séparation des pouvoirs, Paris, Michel Houdiard ; 2008.
"Happy accidents. Online deliberation and exposure to opposing views", co-authored with A. Lev-on, in T. Davies, B. Noveck (eds.), Online Deliberation : Design, Research, Practice, The University of Chicago Press, (forthcoming)
La Démocratie délibérative, Paris, Seuil, 2009
Principes du Gouvernement Représentatif, Paris, Flammarion, Champs, Politique, 2006.
Webpage
http://cesta.ehess.fr/document.php?id=302

Prof. Paul Taggart
Professor of Politics in the Sussex European Institute, Head of Department for Politics and Contemporary European Studies, and Jean Monnet Chair, Editor of Government and Opposition, former Editor of the journal Politics, co-Convenor (with Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak) of the European Referendums, Elections and Parties Network (EPERN).  
Research Activities and Interest
European political parties; Euroscepticism; the domestic politics of European integration; populism
Selected Publications
With Aleks Szczerbiak (eds.) Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism: Volume 1: Case Studies and Country Surveys (Oxford University Press, 2008)
With Aleks Szczerbiak (eds.) Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism: Volume 2: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives (Oxford University Press,  2008)
'Europeanisation, Euroscepticism and Party Systems: Party-Based Euroscepticism in the Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe' Perspectives on European Politics and Society 2002 Vol.3, No.1, pp.23-41. (with Aleks Szczerbiak)
'Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics' in Yves Meny and Yves Surel (eds.) Democracies and the Populist Challenge Palgrave, 2002.
Populism Open University Press, 2000
Webpage
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/polces/profile2609.html

Prof. Paul Whiteley
Professor of Politics at Essex University, co-director of the ESRC funded British Election Study.
Research Activities and Interests
British political parties, electoral behaviour, political economy and the comparative analysis of citizenship and social capital.
Selected Publications
Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy (with Patrick Syd and Charles Pattie), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Political Choice in Britain (with Harold D. Clarke, David Sanders and Marianne Stewart), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004
The New Labour's Grassroots - The transformation of the Labour's Party Membership, London, Palgrave-McMillan, 2002
True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
Advanced Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences (with Norman Schofield), London, Praeger Publications, 1986.
Webpage
http://www.essex.ac.uk/government/Staff/Academic/whiteleyp.shtm



AEGCPP Convenor 2010
Simon Persico
simon.persico@sciences-po.org