Once again we had four well-attended panels at APSA 2009:

Panel 1/Roundtable: Pressure Groups and the Policy Process

Chair: Wyn Grant, University of Warwick
Discussant: Graham Wilson, Boston University

Grant Jordan, University of Aberdeen
Wyn Grant, University of Warwick
Darren Halpin, Robert Gordon University
Edward Page, London School of Economics

Panel 2: Politics in Scotland and Quebec

Chair: Terrence Casey, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Discussants: Melissa Haussman, Carleton University and Mark Shephard, University of Strathclyde

‘Intergovernmental Relations and the Scottish National Party’
Paul Cairney, University of Aberdeen

‘The Devolution Debate about Co-payment: Reality or Reflection?’
John Curtice and Stratos Patrikios, University of Strathclyde

‘The Party of Scottish Nationalisms: Differences of Identity and Opinion among SNP Members’
Robert Johns, University of Strathclyde
James Mitchell, University of Strathclyde
Lynn Bennie, University of Aberdeen

‘The Legislative Strategy of Separatist Parties’ 
Clare McGovern, University of British Columbia,

‘Referendum Issues in Quebec and Scotland’ 
Jean Laponce, University of British Columbia

Panel 3: Measurement and Electoral Behaviour in the UK

Chair: Paul Cairney, University of Aberdeen
Discussant: Robert Johns, University of Strathclyde

‘How Political is Civic Engagement? A Case Study of the United Kingdom using a Multilevel Latent Class Analysis’ 
David Cutts, Paul Widdop, and Katey Matthews, University of Manchester

‘Becoming Independent, Becoming Partisan? A Latent-Class Analysis of Partisan Identification in Britain’ 
Thomas Scotto and Malcolm Brynin, University of Essex

‘Political Autonomy and Public Preferences in Scotland and Wales: Conceptualisation, Measurement and Modelling’
Roger Scully, University of Aberdeen
Christopher Carman, University of Strathclyde

‘The First Casualty of the End of Conflict? The Death of Class Politics in Northern Ireland’
Jonathan Tonge, University of Liverpool

Panel 4: British Politics Year in Review/Annual Business Meeting

Chair: Justin Fisher, Brunel University
Sarah Childs, University of Bristol
Paul Webb, University of Sussex