The Political Analysis and Governance Seminar Series take place in the  John Rees Room (007), Department of Political and Cultural Studies, James Callaghan Building on Thursdays from 12.30-2.00 PM.  Group seminars focus on the delivery of papers in an advanced stage of preparation ahead of journal submission or the completion of research monographs. 

For further information about the Political Analysis and Governance Research Group and the seminar programme contact Dr Jonathan Bradbury, email: j.p.bradbury@swansea.ac.uk.

Attendance at the seminars is open to any researcher within the College of Arts and Humanities.  It is intended that copies of the papers will be available on request with a view towards providing informed and helpful comments ahead of submission.   

 

 

23 April    Toby James, ‘Bending the rules of the game?  Party statecraft and electoral administration’

30 April    Alan Finlayson, ‘From Riker to rhetoric: heresthetic and political analysis revisited’

14 May    Robert Bideleux, ‘Has EU membership deepened and strengthened democratisation in the post-communist states that joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007?’

21 May    Alan Finlayson and Judith Atkins, ‘The invention of the British Labour Party leader’s speech to conference’

28 May    Claes Belfrage, ‘Subversive neoliberalism and the European knowledge-based economy’

4 June    Mike Sheehan, ‘An exceptional performance: accounting for the success of the Canadian Liberal party’

11 June    Jonathan Bradbury, ‘State governance and UK territorial politics after devolution in comparative context’