Papers Presented to the 1999 Annual General Meeting
May 12, 1999
FRIDAY MAY 14, 1999
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Friday, May 14, 8:00-9:00
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A0 Registration
Rm Buchanan B200 Level Hallway
Buchanan Building
UBC
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Friday, May 14 9:00-10:30
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A1 BCPSA I
Rm Buchanan B228
International Relations:
Politics on the Pacific Rim
Chair/Discussant: Doug Ross (SFU)
Paper(s):
Ahmed Shafique Huque (Hong Kong)
“The Policy of Positive Non-intervention in Hong Kong”
Brian Job (UBC)
Larry Woods (UNBC)
“The Legacy, Lessons and Policy Implications of Canada’s Year of Asia Pacific: Behind and Beyond the APEC Inquiry”
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Friday, May 14 9:00-10:30
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A2 BCPSA II
Rm Buchanan B226
Canadian Politics:
External Influences on Policy-Making
Chair/Discussant:
Colin Bennett (UVIC)
Paper(s):
Karen Lochead (SFU)
“Australian-Canadian Aboriginal Policy”
Julio Garasa (Brock)
“The Influence of American Precedents on Section 1 Jurisprudence”
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Friday, May 14 9:00-10:30
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A3 BCPSA III
Rm Buchanan B216
Political Theory:
Contemporary Political Theory
Chair/Discussant:
Barry McCullough (Okanagan)
Paper(s):
Derek Cook (UCC)
“Hobbesian Just Persons and Absolute Power ”
Darin Nesbitt (Douglas)
“Recognizing Rights: Social Recognition in T.H. Green’s Theory of Rights”
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Friday, May 14 10:45-12:15
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A4 BCPSA IV
Rm Buchanan B228
International Political Economy:
Globalization: Are the Skeptics Right?
Chair/Discussant: Jeremy Rayner (Malaspina)
Paper(s):
Stephen McBride
Russell Williams (SFU)
” Globalisation and National Policy Autonomy: Tracking the OECD Jobs Strategy”
Gary Teeple (SFU)
” Globalization — A Critique of the Critics ”
Peter Urmetzer (UBC)
“The Welfare State in a Global Era”
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Friday, May 14 10:45-12:15
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A5 BCPSA V
Rm Buchanan B226
Comparative Politics:
Social Transformation and Post-Development Theory – Latin America
Chair/Discussant:
Peter Prontzos (Langara)
Paper(s):
Judy Meltzer (Carleton)
“Civil Society in Ecuador”
Joan Reynolds (Alberta)
“The Spaces of Alternative Development, Post-development and Postcoloniality”
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Friday, May 14 10:45-12:15
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A6 BCPSA VI
Rm Buchanan B216
Comparative Politics: Anti-Establishment Parties
Chair/Discussant:
David Laycock (SFU)
Paper(s):
Amir Abedi (UBC)
“The Success of Anti-Establishment Parties: the Impact of Party-System Features”
Anthony Sayers (Calgary)
Ken Carty (UBC)
“Political Party Organization and State-Society Relations in Canada and Australia ”
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Friday, May 14 12:15-1:30
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Lunch (No-Host) – University Centre
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Friday, May 14 1:30-3:15
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A7 BCPSA VII
Rm Buchanan B228
Political Theory:
Hayek
Chair/Discussant: Derek Cook (UCC)
Paper(s):
Kenneth Hoover (WWU)
“The Oppositional Bind: Identity and Ideology in the Work of Friedrich Hayek”
Laurent Dobuzinskis (SFU)
“Was Hayek’s Thought Too Complex or Not Complex Enough?”
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Friday, May 14 1:30-3:15
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A8 BCPSA VIII
Rm Buchanan B216
International Relations:
Canadian Strategic Studies
Chair/Discussant: Larry Woods (UNBC)
Paper(s):
Anthony Richter (UBC)
“The Revolution in Military Affairs and its Impact on Canada ”
Doug Ross (SFU)
“Canada and the ‘New’ Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction”
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Friday, May 14 1:30-3:15
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A9 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session I
Rm Buchanan B226
Roundtable:
Employing Political Scientists
Chair: Bo Hansen (Govt, of BC/UCC)
Participants:
Nick Loenen (ex-MLA)
Steve McBride (SFU)
Judy Meltzer (Carleton)
Greg Clarke (SFU)
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Friday, May 14 3:30-5:15
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A10 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session II
Rm Buchanan B216
Public Policy:
Multi-Stakeholder Policy-Making
Chair/Discussant:
Lorna Stefanick (Alberta)
Paper(s):
Mary Louise McAllister (Waterloo)
“Land Use Roundtables and Hierarchies”
Alex Netherton (SFU)
“Restructuring the Infrastructure: BC’s War over the Wires”
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Friday, May 14 3:30-5:15
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A11 BCPSA IX
Rm Buchanan B228
Canadian Politics:
Political Leadership in Canada
Chair/Discussant: Ken Carty (UBC)
Paper(s):
Miriam Koene (Alberta)
“An Examination of Leadership Selection Practices in the Federal Progressive Conservative Party”
Laura Bonnett (Manitoba)
David Stewart (Alberta)
“Selecting Leaders Better”
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Friday, May 14 3:30-5:15
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A12 BCPSA X
Rm Buchanan B226
International Relations Roundtable:
Perspectives on the War in Yugoslavia
Chair/Discussant: Derek Cook (UCC)
Participants:
Peter Prontzos (Langara)
Paul Marantz (UBC)
Kal Holsti (UBC)
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Friday, May 14 5:30-6:30
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A13 BCPSA/UBC Public Session
Rm Buchanan A106
Keynote Speakers:
Stevie Cameron (Elm Street Magazine)
“Stealing 101: The Relationship Between Politics and Crime”
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Friday, May 14 6:45-9:00
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Reception (No-Host) (6:45) and Dinner (7:30)
Great Hall at Green College
6201 Cecil Green Road
SATURDAY MAY 15, 1999
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Saturday May 15, 9:00-12:00
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B1 British Columbia Political Science Articulation General Meeting
Rm B226
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Saturday May 15, 9:00-10:30
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B2 BCPSA X
Rm Buchanan B228
Provincial Politics:
Electoral Reform in BC
Chair/Discussant:
Paddy Smith (SFU)
Paper(s):
Nick Loenen (ex-MLA)
“STV for BC”
Julian West (Malaspina)
Paul Tennant (UBC)
“The Best of Both Worlds”
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Saturday May 15, 9:00-10:30
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B3 BCPSA XI
Rm Buchanan B216
Comparative Politics and International Relations:
Political Transitions and Institutional Failures
Chair/Discussant: Noemi Gal-Or (Kwantlen)
Paper(s):
Mikhail Molchanov (UVIC)
“After the Soviet Union”
Shaun Narine (Alberta)
“Explaining Institutional failure in the Asia-Pacific”
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Saturday May 15, 10:45-12:15
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B4 BCPSA XII
Rm Buchanan B228
Political Theory:
Epistemology and Modern Political Theory
Chair/Discussant: Laurent Dobuzinskis (SFU)
Paper(s):
Shane Gunster (York)
“From Erfahrung to Erlebnis: Mass Culture and the Limits to Experience in Benjamin and Adorno”
Peter Ives (SFU)
“Hegemony: Its Linguistic Roots and Contemporary Political Theory”
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Saturday May 15, 10:45-12:15
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B5 BCPSA XIII
Rm Buchanan B216
Comparative Politics:
Geography and Regional (Dis) Integration: Europe and the Persian Gulf
Chair/Discussant: Jim Bickerton (SFX)
Paper(s):
Patrick Marier (Pittsburgh)
“European Imperatives and the Welfare State ”
Charmaine Enger (Alberta)
“Geo-Political Rivalries in the Persian Gulf ”
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Saturday, May 15 12:15-13:30
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BCPSA/BC Political Science Articulation BBQ Lunch
Rm University Centre
Host – UBC Political Science Department
Introduction – Ken Carty (UBC)
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Saturday , May 15 13:30-15:15
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B6 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session III
Rm Buchanan B226
Special Session
Teaching Comparative Politics
Chair: David Winchester (Capilano)
Participants:
Paul Marantz (UBC)
Greg Poelzer (UNBC)
Peter Prontzos (Langara)
John Young (UNBC)
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Saturday , May 15 13:30-15:15
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B7 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session IV
Rm Buchanan B228
Public Administration:
Administrative and Policy Transitions
Chair/Discussant: Norm Ruff (UVIC)
Paper(s):
Bo Hansen (Govt. of BC/UCC)
“Reflections on the New Public Policy of Advanced Education.”
Evert Lindquist (UVIC)
“Strategic Review and Public Sector Reform: Reconceiving the Centre”
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Saturday , May 15 13:30-15:15
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B8 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session V
Rm Buchanan B216
Comparative Politics:
Ethnopolitics and Ethnonationalism
Chair/Discussant: John R. Wood (UBC)
Paper(s):
Houchang Hassan-Yari (RMC)
“Soft Indicators of IR: Culture Religion, Ethnicity and Tribalism ”
Shinder Purewal (SFU)
“Agrarian Roots of Sikh Ethnonationalism”
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Saturday , May 15 15:30-17:15
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B9 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session VI
Rm Buchanan B226
Public Policy:
Policy Change and Development
Chair/Discussant: Mike Meade (Malaspina)
Paper(s):
Michael Howlett (SFU)
“Understanding Policy Change and Policy Stability: Elements of a Vector Theory of Policy Dynamics ”
Jeremy Wilson (UVIC)
“Science, Politics, and the Evolution of Transnational Migratory Bird Networks”
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Saturday , May 15 15:30-17:15
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B10 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session VII
Rm Buchanan B216
Canadian Politics:
Gender Politics and Policy
Chair/Discussant: Lynda Erickson (SFU)
Paper(s):
Lisa Young (Alberta)
“The Politics of Gender and Representation in the Emerging Canadian Party System”
Joanna Everitt (UNB-SJ)
“Gender Gaps on Social Welfare Issues”
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Saturday , May 15 15:30-17:15
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B11 Joint Articulation/BCPSA Session VIII
Rm Buchanan B228
Canadian Politics:
Populism on the Western Fringe
Chair/Discussant:
Robert Robins (Tulane)
Paper(s):
Amy Nugent (Alberta)
“Ordinary People and the Gendered Appeal of Populist Politics”
Catherine Smith (Syracuse)
“Revitalization Theory, Epistemological Crises and the White Supremacists”
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Saturday , May 15 17:30-18:30
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BCPSA AGM and Reception (No-Host)
Rm Graduate Student Centre Patio
(Downstairs Pub and Beer Garden)