Papers Presented to the 1997 Annual General Meeting
British Columbia Political Studies Association FINAL PROGRAMME FRIDAY MAY 2, 1997 _______________________________ Friday, May 2, 11:00-12:00 _______________________________ A0 Registration RM LB 321 Third Floor Library Capilano College _______________________________ Friday, May 2 12:00-2:00 _______________________________ A1 BCPSA/ Graduate Student Session I Rm LB 322 Canadian Politics: First Nations Governance Issues Chair: Tracy Summerville (UNBC) Paper(s): Russell LaPointe (SFU) "Aborginal Government and Local Politics in British Columbia: The Case of the Tsatsu Shores Tim Schouls (UBC) "First Nations, Communitarian Theory and the Power of the Incommensurability Thesis" Discussant(s): Paul Tennant (UBC) _______________________________ Friday, May 2 14:15-16:15 _______________________________ A2 BCPSA/ Graduate Student Session II Rm LB322 Comparative Politics and International Relations Chair: James Busumtwi-Sam (SFU) Paper(s): Mariko Yamaguchi (UVIC) "APEC as New Orientalism " Lynda Jovanovic (SFU) "Clientelism and the United States Clean Air Act: The 1990 Amendments" Discussant(s): Marlene Hancock (Douglas) _______________________________ Friday, May 2 16:15-17:30 _______________________________ A3 Articulation/BCPSA I RM LB322 Healthy Learning Environments Chairs Patrick Smith (SFU) Kim Thachuk (Douglas) Participants: Patricia O'Hagen (ex/SFU) _______________________________ Friday, May 2 18:00-20:00 _______________________________ Graduate Student No-Host Social Coachhouse Inn "Coaches Lounge" SATURDAY MAY 3, 1997 _______________________________ Saturday May 3, 8:00-9:00 _______________________________ B0 Registration RM LB321 Third Floor Library Capilano College _______________________________ Saturday , May 3 9:00-10:15 _______________________________ B2 BCPSA I RM LB321 Comparative Politics: Re-Thinking Democracy Chair: David Laycock (SFU) Paper(s): Patrick Smith (SFU) "Re-Thinking Metropolitain Regional Governance: Canadian, American, and British Policy Lessons and Agenda-Setting Tracy Summerville (UNBC) "Re-Thinking the Concept of Political Culture: An Explanation of the Failure of the Constitutional Accord" Discussant(s): Alex Netherton (SFU) _______________________________ Saturday, May 3 10:30--11:45 _______________________________ B3 BCPSA II RM LB321 Local and Regional Governance: Cascadia Chair: Michael Howlett (SFU) Paper(s): Michael Goehring(SFU) and Ted Cohn (SFU) "Cascadia: Transborder Regionalism in the Pacific Northwest" Karen Guttieri(UBC) "British Columbia's Foreign Policy" Discussant(s): Marlene Yri (Kwantlen) _______________________________ Saturday, May 3 12:00-13:45 _______________________________ Capilano College Lunch RM Birch Cafeteria Keynote Speakers: Daniel Savas (Angus Reid) "The Canadian Federal General Election of 1997" _______________________________ Saturday , May 3 14:00-15:30 _______________________________ B4 Articulation/BCPSA II RM LB321 Special Session Teaching International Relations Chair: Sharn Tyakoff (Douglas) Participants: Ted Cohn (SFU) James Busumtwi-Sam (SFU) Geoff Weller (UNBC) Noemi Gal-Or (Kwantlen) _______________________________ Saturday , May 3 14:00-15:30 _______________________________ B5 BCPSA III RM LB322 Canadian Politics (I) Resources and the State Chair: Stephen McBride (SFU) Paper(s): Lorna Stefanick (Lethbridge) "Baby Stumpy and the War in the Woods: WC2 and Envrionmental Radicalism in B.C." Alex Netherton (SFU) "Federalism and Post-War Energy Trade." Debra Salazar (WWU), Donald Alper (WWU) and Lynn Robbins (WWU) "Environmentalists and Environmentalisms in the Lower Mainland" Discussant(s): Jeremy Wilson (UVIC) _______________________________ Saturday , May 3 15:45-17:15 _______________________________ B6 BCPSA IV RM C-148 Provincial Politics: BC Politics Roundtable Chair: Ken Carty (UBC) Participants: Norman Ruff (UVIC) Paul Tennant (UBC) Lynda Erickson (SFU) Geoff Weller (UNBC) Don Alper (WWU _______________________________ Saturday , May 3 18:00-22:00 _______________________________ Waterfront Banquet Thai Palace Restaurant Buffet Lonsdale Quay 157 Chadwick Court North Vancouver (Above Seabus Terminal) 987-2009 No Host Bar - 6:00 Dinner - 7:00 SUNDAY MAY 4, 1997 _______________________________ Sunday, May 4 8:30-9:30 _______________________________ BCPSA AGM and Business Meeting RM C-148 _______________________________ Sunday, May 4 9:45--11:30 _______________________________ C1 BCPSA V RM LB321 Public Policy and Administration (II) Policy Theory Chair: Stephen Phillips (Langara) Paper(s): Michael Howlett (SFU) "Legitimacy and Governance: A Preliminary Taxonomy and Analysis of Procedural Policy Instruments" Marc Poulin (Alberta) "Studying Public Policy: Attempts to Revitalize Political Science" Discussant(s): Colin Bennett (UVIC) _______________________________ Sunday, May 4 9:45--11:30 _______________________________ C2 BCPSA VI RM LB322 Canadian Politics (II): Federal and Provincial Parties Chair: Laurent Dobuzinskis (SFU) Paper(s): Keith Brownsey (Mt. Royal College) "The Constitution of Power: Leadership Struggles and Organizational Maintenance in the Ontario Conservative Party 1948- 1949" Hugh Mellon (UWO) "A Retrospective Look at Frank McKenna" Sheila Dhillon (University of Montreal) "Canadian Political Parties and Ethnic Participation: Methodological Considerations" Discussant(s): Richard Sigurdson (Cariboo) _______________________________ Sunday, May 4 11:45--13:00 _______________________________ C3 Articulation/BCPSA III RM LB321 Special Session Computers and Instruction Workshop Chair: Andrew Heard (SFU) Participants Don Manson (UNBC) Mike Meade (Malaspina) David Winchester (Capilano) _______________________________ Sunday, May 4 11:45--13:00 _______________________________ C4 BCPSA VII RM LB322 Canadian Politics III: The Consitution Chair: Derek Cook (Cariboo) Paper(s): Barrie McCullough (Okanagan) "The Declaratory Power of the Constitution of Canada" Hamish Telford (UBC) "Liberalism vs. Communitarianism and Canada's Constitutional Conundrum" Discussant(s): Sam LaSelva (UBC)