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1. The Year in Review

Justin T. Fisher, Brunel University, justin.fisher@brunel.ac.uk (Chair)
Anthony King, University of Essex, kinga@essex.ac.uk
Colin Hay, Sheffield University, c.hay@sheffield.ac.uk

2. Author Meets Critics: Andrew Gamble’s The Spectre at the Feast

Andrew Gamble's The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession examines the global and domestic implications of the current crisis of capitalism. This roundtable brings together a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars to explore the implications of Gamble's book.

Terrence Casey, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology casey1@rose-hulman.edu (Chair)
Professor Andrew Gamble, Cambridge University, amg59@cam.ac.uk (Discussant)

Roundtable
Harvey B. Feigenbaum, George Washington University,  harveyf@gwu.edu
Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg,  bo.rothstein@pol.gu.se
Vivien A. Schmidt, Boston University, vschmidt@bu.edu
James E. Cronin, Boston College, croninj@bc.edu

3. The British General Election of 2010

This panel will bring together new research, which will help explain the result and implications of the British General Election of 2010. In addition to an in-depth analysis of the results at the aggregate level, it draws upon three new data sources: the British General Election Survey, the Constituency Campaigning Survey and the Election Results study. Each brings its own focus to explaining the result. The British Election Study focuses on national level explanations, examining key valence issues, spatial models of party competition, and the impact of both the ‘long’ and ‘short’ campaigns. The Constituency Campaigning Study focuses on the local level impact of campaigns and parties’ strategies in distributing resources effectively. The Election Results study uses aggregate level data collected for each constituency to assess a variety of questions about turnout, party vote share, the impact of incumbency and the operation of the electoral system. Taken together, this panel will generate a greater understanding of the effects which shape campaigns and election results, generating not only further knowledge about Britain, but also models and theories which may be applied comparatively.

Justin T. Fisher, Brunel University justin.fisher@brunel.ac.uk (Chair)
Richard G. Niemi, University of Rochester, niemi@rochester.edu & Roger Scully, Aberystwyth University, rgs@aber.ac.uk (Discussants)

" Valence Politics and the Fate of New Labour: Political Choice in Britain, 2010"
Harold D. Clarke, University of Texas at Dallas, with David Sanders, Marianne Stewart, Paul Whiteley,  hclarke@utdallas.edu

" Constituency Campaigning at the 2010 British General Election"
Justin T. Fisher, Brunel University with Edward Fieldhouse, David Cutts,  justin.fisher@brunel.ac.uk

"The 2010 Election: The View from the Top Down"
Philip Cowley, University of Nottingham philip.cowley@nottingham.ac.uk

"The British General Election of 2010: The Results Analyzed"
John Kevin Curtice, University of Strathclyde with Stephen Fisher j.curtice@strath.ac.uk

 

4. British democracy: the changing roles of citizens and elites

Terry J. Royed, Universtiy of Alabama (Chair) troyed@bama.ua.edu
Mark Sheppard, Universtiy of Strathcylde mark.shephard@strath.ac.uk and Tim Bale, University of Sussex, t.p.bale@sussex.ac.uk (Discussants)

"British political leadership: The authoritative party leader and the predominant prime minister"
Richard Heffernan, The Open University,  r.a.heffernan@open.ac.uk

"Deliberative Versus Parliamentary Democracy in the UK: An Experimental Study"
Paul D. Webb, University of Sussex,  p.webb@sussex.ac.uk

"British Public Opinion and the War on Terror: Reassessing the Elite Opinion Leadership Model"
Douglas L. Kriner and Graham Wilson, Boston University,  dkriner@bu.edu

" Democratic participation in the age of the citizen-consumer"
Florence Faucher-King, Institut d'Etudes Politiques,  florence.faucher@sciences-po.fr