PSAI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006

The papers which were presented at the PSAI's 2006 annual conference are listed below. Some papers are available to download and are highlighted.

80 Years of Fianna Fail

• Hilary Pearse, (hilaryp-at-interchange.ubc.ca) University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Eunan O'Halpín, (ohalpine-at-tcd.ie) Department of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.
• Noel Whelan, (Noelwhelan-at-eircom.net) Barrister and Political Commentator.

Electoral Behaviour in Northern Ireland

• Jon Tonge, (j.tonge-at-liv.ac.uk) School of Politics and Communications Studies, University of Liverpool. 'Better or Worse? Measuring Electoral Polarisation since the Good Friday Agreement'
• Mary Beth Ehrhardt, (merhard-at-Princeton.edu) Princeton University. 'Conditioning Over Systemic Outcomes - Voter Behaviour and the Implementation of Peace Agreements'
• Jim McAuley, (j.w.mcauley-at-hud.ac.uk) School of Human & Health Sciences The University of Huddersfield, Jon Tonge, School of Politics and Communications Studies, University of Liverpool, and Peter Shirlow, University of Ulster. 'Nothing but the Same Old Story? - political perspectives of former combatants in Northern Ireland'

Electoral Behaviour in the Republic of Ireland

• Jane Suiter, (suiterj-at-tcd.ie) Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin. 'Between first and second order revisited: A comparison of voting behaviour in European and local elections in Ireland'
• Adrian Kavanagh, (Adrian.p.kavanagh-at-nuim.ie) Geography Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 'A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of General Election Turnout in the Republic of Ireland'

Remembering the Hunger Strikes

• Rebecca L. Graff, (r.graff-at-qub.ac.uk) School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast. 'Time & Distance: Commemorating and Contesting the 1981 Hunger Strike through Continuity and Rupture'
• F. Stuart Ross, (stuart. ross-at-qub.ac.uk) Queens University Belfast.
• Eoin O'Broin, (eoinobroin-at-hotmail.com) Director of European Affairs, Sinn Fein.

Local Government in Ireland

• David Healy, (david.healy-at-dublincity.ie) Dublin City Council, Dublin. 'Financing our Local Authorities'
• Petros B. Ogbazghi, (P.B.Ogbazghi-at-uvt.nl) University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. 'The Structural and Functional Challenges of Local Government Reform: The Case of Ireland'
• Itai Beeri, (i.beeri-at-student.ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. 'Recovering Failing Local Authorities - Is There a Need for Turnaround Management Strategies?'

Northern Ireland

• Mairead Ni Choileain, (tired4daze2-at-yahoo.co.uk) School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast. 'A Truth Commission for Northern Ireland'
• Robert Mauro, (Robert_mauro-at-hotmail.com) Rockefellar College of Public Policy and Affai0rs - SUNY Albany. 'On Ideological analysis and Northern Ireland Politics: The epistemological value of mapping thought-structures and concepts'
• Cillian McGrattan, (McGrattan-C1-at-ulster.ac.uk) University of Ulster. 'Pragmatism and increasing returns: SDLP and Dublin attitudes to the Sunningdale initiative'

Political Economy I

• Robert Butler (r.butler-at-ucc.ie) and John Considine, (J.considine-at-ucc.ie) Department of Economics, University College Cork. 'Tom Garvin, Mancur Olsen and Irish Economic Growth'
• John Hogan (john.hogan2-at-mail.dcu.ie) and David Doyle, (david.doyle-at-dcu.ie) School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. 'An A Priori Critical Juncture Framework: The Importance of Ideas'
• Ella Kavanagh, (e.kavanagh-at-ucc.ie) Department of Economics, University College Cork. 'Independence, Conservatism and Interest Rate Setting in Ireland'

Political Theory I

• Seamus O'Tuama, (sotuama-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. 'Are solidarity and liberalism incompatible?'
• Ivone Moreira, (imoreira-at-iep.ucp.pt) Faculty of Human Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal. 'Edmund Burke's Analysis of Law and Legitimacy in the 'Tract on the Property Laws'
• Lucian M. Ashworth, (luke.ashworth-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'The Lost Feminists of interwar IR theory: Helena Swanwick and the Women of the Twenty Years' Crisis'
• Allyn Fives, (ajfives-at-yahoo.co.uk) Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway. 'Justice as a Virtue: Perfectionism and the Problems of Pessimism and Perspectivism'

Designing Out Corruption: Lessons from Institutional Change from Ireland and Elsewhere

• Elaine Byrne, (elain.byrne-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'Corruption in Irish National Politics'
• Ted Bikin-Kita, (beul26-at-hotmail.com) Department of Government, University College Cork. 'Challenges in Anti-Corruption Policy in Africa'
• Neil Collins, (n.collins-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. '"Ne'er seen but wonder'd at": the limits of judicial power in corruption control'
• Nicole Bolleyer, (Nicole.bolleyer-at-iue.it) Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence. 'How to Reward and How to Control - Fianna Fáil, Patronage and Party Organization as Network'

Politics of Northern Ireland

• Michael Kerr, (M.R.Kerr-at-lse.ac.uk) London School of Economics. 'Approaches to Power-sharing in Northern Ireland and the Lebanon'
• Eunan O'Halpin, (ohalpine-at-tcd.ie) Department of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin. '"A poor thing but our own" - the British Joint Intelligence Committee and the Northern Ireland issue, 1965 - 1975'
• Neil Collins, (n.collins-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. '"Ne'er seen but wonder'd at": the limits of judicial power in corruption control'
• Sean Swan, (seanswan-at-hotmail.com) University of Ulster, Jordanstown. 'IRA Strength and the Review of Unlawful and Allied Organisations in History'

The European Union in the Wider World

• John O'Brennan, (john.obrennan-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'EU Enlargement to Eastern and South Eastern Europe: the expansion of 'Normative Power 'Europe'
• Andrew Cottey, (a.cottey-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. 'Soft Power Meets the Bomb; The EU and Non-Proliferation'
• Edward Moxon-Browne, (Edward.moxon-browne-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'The Role of the European Union in Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of Macedonia'

Teaching Political Science

• Mary C. Murphy, Department of Government, University College Cork.
• Theresa Reidy, Department of Government, University College Cork.
• Marian McCarthy, Director, Ionad Bairre, The Teaching and Learning Centre, UCC.

Contesting the State: Lessons from the Irish Case

• Michelle Miller, (michelle.miller-at-nuigalway.ie) National University of Ireland, Galway. 'The Irish Welfare State: Who Cares?'
• Peadar Kirby (peadar.kirby-at-dcu.ie) and Mary Murphy, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. 'Ireland - the competition state's success?'
• Maura Adshead, (maura.adshead-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'Irish Politics and policy making: institutional legacies in the Recombinant state'

Political Theory II - Citizenship and Migration

• Cara Nine, (c.nine-at-ucc.ie) Department of Philosophy, UCC 'Open Borders and Territorial Sovereignty'
• Birgit Schippers, (b.schippers-at-stmarys-belfast.ac.uk) Politics, St Mary's University College Belfast 'Passionate Citizenship: on the Affective Dimension of Democratic Politics'
• Blain Neufeld, (blain.neufeld-at-gmail.com) Department of Philosophy, TCD 'Modest Liberal Nationalism: The Idea of a Civic People'

Comparative Democratization

• Tom Lodge, (tom.lodge-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick 'African State Formation'
• Francesco Cavatorta, (Francesco.cavatorta-at-dcu.ie) School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. 'The Authoritarian nature of Arab Civil Society/ A Comparative Study of the Interactions of secular and Religious NGOs in Jordan and Lebanon'
• Chaminda Weerawardhana, (chami82-at-voila.fr) Departement du Monde Anglophone, Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France. 'Influential Experiments? Nationalism and Nation-Building in the 'Postcolonial' Space: Eire-Ireland and Ceylon-Sri Lanka'
• Matteo Fumagalli, (matteo.fumagalli-at-ucd.ie) School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. 'Ethnicity and Foreign Policy: Uzbekistan and 'Uzbeks Abroad'

Risk and Politics

• Martin Power, Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway 'The Politics of Blood'
• George Taylor, (george.taylor-at-nuigalway.ie) Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway 'Risk, Science and Regulation: GMOS'

Regionalisation in Ireland and Europe

• Katy Hayward, (katy.hayward-at-ucd.ie) IRCHSS Fellow, Institute for British - Irish Studies, University College Dublin. 'A marriage of convenience? The EU and Regionalisation in Ireland'
• Malin Stegmann McCallion, (malin.mccallion-at-ucd.ie) School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. 'Multi-level Governance in Sweden? An Analysis of Regional Growth Programmes'
• Mary C Murphy, (maryc.murphy-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. 'Northern Ireland and the European Union: Proving the multi-level governance thesis?'

Public Policy Challenges in Ireland

• Adrian Kavanagh, (Adrian.p.kavanagh-at-nuim.ie) Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 'The Political Impacts of Census 2006'
• Louise Deegan, (louise.deegan-at-ittdublin.ie) Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin. Public Policy Responses to Human Trafficking'
• Clodagh Harris, (Clodagh.harris-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. ''Participation, Participation, Participation' - discussing active citizenship'

The Peace Process in Northern Ireland II

• Christopher Farrington, (Christopher.farrington-at-ucd.ie) School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. 'Voluntary Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland in 1973: Was Sunningdale better than Good Friday?'
• Joanne McEvoy, (jmcevoy02-at-qub.ac.uk) School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast. ' Post-suspension proposals for power sharing: towards post-consociationalism in Northern Ireland?'
• Eamonn O'Kane, (diglis-at-btopenworld.com) University of Wolverhampton. 'Reviving the hamster: the use of carrots and sticks in the peace process.'

Ireland and the European Union

• Ernesto Gallo, (egll-at-inwind.ie) University of Turin. 'Ireland: a "virtual state" for truly "European Citizens"?'
• Gary Murphy, (gary.murphy-at-dcu.ie) School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, and Niamh Puirseil, Centre for Contemporary History, Trinity College, Dublin. '"How is the electorate disposed towards the EEC?": Irish public opinion and the 1972 EEC referendum.
• Brendan Flynn, (flynnbm-at-hotmail.com) Department of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway. 'Rubber Stamping Europe? Oireachtas oversight of EU Legislation'

Political Theory III Social Justice in Practice

• John Baker, (john.baker-at-ucd.ie) Equality Studies Centre, UCD 'Towards the Empirical Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality'
• Rory O'Connell, (r.oconnell-at-qub.ac.uk) Human Rights Centre, QUB 'Knocking on an open door: Social and Economic Rights in the Strasbourg Court'

Keynote Address

• David Farrell 'STV: What Can Ireland Learn From Australia About Electoral System Design?

Aspects of Irish Politics

• Eoin O'Malley, (eoin.omalley-at-dcu.ie) School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. 'Ultra-nationalists: Sinn Fein and redefining the 'extreme right'
• Liam Weeks, (l.weeks-at-ucc.ie) Department of Government, University College Cork. 'PR-STV and the Random Surplus'
• Bernadette Connaughton, (Bernadette.connaughton-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'Shifting the balance of roles in the 'administration of the summit'? The institutionalisation of special advisors in the Irish policy making process'

Aspects of Northern Irish Politics

• Michael Potter, (michael-at-twnonline.com) Training for Women Network, Belfast. 'Models of Peacebuilding in Community-Based Women's Empowerment Projects in Ireland'
• Lorenzo Bosi, (l.bosi-at-queens-belfast.ac.uk) School of Politics and International Relations, Queen's University Belfast. 'Explaining the Origins of the Civil Rights Protest in Northern Ireland: A Social Movement Approach'

European Union Governance

• Gemma Mateo Gonzalez, (gemma.matteo-at-uab.es) Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schumann Centre, European University Institute. 'Informal Rules and the EU's Intergovernmental Conferences'
• Rory Costello (costellr-at-tcd.ie) and Robert Thomson, Trinity College, Dublin. 'The Influence of Committee Rapporteurs on Preference Formation in the European Parliament'
• Andreas Dur, (andreas.duer-at-ucd.ie) School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. 'Economic Interests and the Making of EU Trade Policy'

Negotiating an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland: patterns of communication and negotiation between 1972 and 1975.

• Christopher Farrington, (Christopher.farrington-at-ucd.ie) University College Dublin. 'Negotiating the Sunningdale Communique'
• Aaron Edwards, (aaron.edwards-at-qub.ac.uk) Queen's University Belfast. 'The Northern Ireland Labour Party and Loyalist Paramilitary Politics in the 1970s.
• Cillian McGrattan, (McGrattan-C1-at-ulster.ac.uk) School of Politics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown. 'Path Dependency and the Framing of Unionist Responses to Devolution Proposals 1972-1973'

Issues of Identity in the Modern Ireland

• Daniela Irrera, (danielairrera-at-yahoo.it) Department of International and European Studies, University of Messina. 'The Importance of Being Irish: The Citizenship Dimension after the Good Friday Agreement'
• Orla Lynch, (o.lynch-at-ucc.ie) Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork. 'Islam in the West: The Case of British and Irish Muslims'

Europeanisation

• Nicholas Rees, (Nicholas.rees-at-ul.ie) Bernadette Connaughton, (Bernadette.connaughton-at-ul.ie) Brid Quinn, (brid.quinn-at-ul.ie) Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. 'Europeanisation, New Forms of Governance and the Irish Case: Developing a Framework for Analysis'.
• Darren McCauley, (dmccauley03-at-queens-belfast.ac.uk) Department of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast. 'Bringing France to disorder: The Europeanisation of GMO policy 1998-2006'