41st Annual Conference Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP)
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Grimmaische Str.6, Leipzig/Germany
June 25-26, 2015
Thursday 25th June
Registration and Coffee 09:00 – 09:30
Welcome from the IASGP Chair & TBA (ZGF) 09:30 – 09:45
Panel 1: National and State Parliamentary Affairs in Germany 09:45 – 11:15
Chair: Dan Hough
- Michael Koß (Munich) & Miryam Tan (Potsdam): Is Time really a Scarce Resource? The Allocation of Parliamentary Time under Different Rules of Agenda Control
- Werner Reutter (Leipzig): Constitutional Politics and the Grand Coalition State in Germany
- Benjamin Rayder (Bamberg): Political Competitors or Coincidental Bedfellows? A Comparative Analysis of the Policy Positions and Issue Saliency Scores in Legislative Motions from the German Left and the National Democrats in the Saxon State Parliament during the 5th Legislative Period.
- Theres Mathies (WZB): The enactment of election pledges: A comparative analysis of a minority and a majority coalition in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Coffee 11:15 – 11:45
Panel 2: Germany’s federal system 11:45 – 13:00
Chair: TBA
- Ed Turner and Carolyn Rowe (Aston): The regionalisation of care home laws in Germany: a lottery in care for Germany’s older people?
- Iris Reus (Bamberg): Germany on a successful road to “new federalism”? The impact of the Federalism Reform of 2006 on the German Länder?
- Henrik Scheller (Potsdam): Investment Policy in German Federalism – between the constraints of the debt brake and Europeanization
Lunch 13:00-14:15
Restaurant Alex, Naschmarkt 3, Leipzig
Panel 3: Perspectives on German Elections 14:15 – 15:30
Chair: TBA
- Tom Mannewitz (Chemnitz): Beyond the East-West Divide – The Regionalisation of Voting Behaviour in 2013
- Arndt Leininger (Hertie School of Governance): Election Forecasting – Alternative or Complement to the Polls?
- Michael Angenendt and Sebastian Bukow (Düsseldorf): Individualization in German Federal Election Campaigns 2005-2013: A General Trend or Exceptional Phenomenon?
Coffee 15:30 – 15:45
The German Politics Lecture 15:45 – 17:00
Chair: Dan Hough, Sussex
Prof. Everhard Holtmann; Zentrum für Sozialforschung, Halle, Title TBA
IASGP Reception 17:00-18:0
sponsored by Taylor and Francis
Annual Dinner Location TBA 19:00 onwards
Friday 26th June
Panel 4: Germany and the Ukraine Crisis 9:00-10:30
Chair: TBA
- Jennifer Yoder (Colby College): German-Polish Relations, 1990 to the Ukraine Crisis
- Vladimir Handl (Prague): The German role in search for a solution of the Ukraine-Russian conflict and German relations with her Eastern neighbours
- Liana Fix (DGAP/Giessen): The “Germanification” of European Policy towards Russia – The case of Ukraine
- Patricia Daehnhardt (Lisbon): German foreign and security policy post-Ukraine: assessing the dynamics of change
Annual General Meeting (and coffee!) 10:30- 11:30
Panel 5: Germany and Europe 11:30 – 12:45
Chair: TBA
- Aron Buzogany (FU, Berlin): Beyond Permissive Consensus? Attitudes of German MPs towards European Integration
- Simon Bulmer (Sheffield): From ‘Economic Giant’ to the Eurozone’s Hegemon? Germany and European monetary policy
- William Paterson (Aston): From Political Dwarf to Potential Hegemon? German Foreign Policy Transformed
Lunch 12:45 – 14:00
Restaurant Alex, Naschmarkt 3, Leipzig
Panel 6: Executive Matters and Political Parties 14:00 – 15:30
Chair TBA
- Hui Ding (Guangzhou): Christian Democratic Exceptionalism: A Case Study of Intra-Party Democratization of the CDU
- Florian Glock (Trier): The FDP in the extra-parliamentary opposition: process of renewal and possibilities of coalitions
- Joyce Mushaben (St. Louis-Missouri): Mutti wird’s schon richten: Power, Policies and Mistaken “Maternal Presumptions“ regarding Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Kimmo Elo (Turku): Speaking German, talking differently? Using SNA to Uncloak Thematic Pathways in German, Swiss and Austrian New Year’s Addresses
Coffee 15:30 – 15:45
Panel 7: Germany’s Global Role 15:45 – 16:45
Chair: TBA
- Görkem Atsungur (American University of Central Asia): Federal Armed Forces of Germany (Bundeswehr): From National Defense to Intervention
- Crister Garrett (Leipzig): German-American Diplomacy, TTIP, and Transitions in Global Order
Panel 8: Socio-Economic Challenges in Germany and beyond:
16:45- 18:00
Chair: TBA
- Lothar Funk (FH Düsseldorf) Nudging has arrived in German government: controversies among ordoliberalism and behavioural economics
- Jörg Mathias (Aston): Approaches to welfare-to work transition policies in Sweden, the UK and Germany
- Mathias Bug (DIW Berlin) and Sebastian Bukow (Düsseldorf): Civil Liberties vs. Security in Germany and UK: Why citizens accept or reject digital surveillance
Participants depart
HOW TO REGISTER
All participants (speakers and non-speakers) must be a member of the Association. If you are not a member then please add the appropriate fee below. Bookings received after 27th May 2015 will be subject to a £40/€55 late booking fee. All registrations are binding. Please contact Melanie Kintz via melanie.kintz@phil.tu-chemnitz.de or Martine Huberty via mh229@sussex.ac.uk
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