Programme

Friday, May 6, 2005

14:15 Welcome (Christiane Eisenberg, Vorsitzende)

14:30 – 18:00 Workshops
Außenpolitik (Gustav Schmidt)

Wirtschafts- u. Sozialgeschichte (Christiane Eisenberg)

Ideengeschichte/Politische Theorien (Willibald Steinmetz)

Vergleichende Politik (Hans Kastendiek / Richard Stinshoff)

Michael Münter (Erlangen-Nürnberg): Dezentralisierung in Großbritannien: Eine erste Zwischenbilanz

Klaus Stolz (Göttingen): Devolution und politische Karrieren in Schottland. Institutionelle Modernisierung und ihre nicht-intendierten Konsequenzen

15:30 Coffee Break

Workshops to continue

18:00 Dinner

19:00 – 20:30 Opening Lecture
Bob Jessop (Lancaster): A Third Way?
Chair: Sebastian Berg (Chemnitz)

Saturday, May 7, 2005

09:00 – 10:45 Conference Part 1

Chair: Roland Sturm (Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Alexander Petring (Berlin): New Labour’s Third Way in a Comparative Perspective

Simon Franzmann / André Kaiser (Köln): New Labour’s Strategy on the Political Issue Market in a Comparative Perspective.

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:30 Conference Part 2

Chair: Klaus Stolz (Göttingen)

Martin J. Smith (Sheffield): New Labour and the Modernization of the State: Towards a Hybrid?

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Conference Part 3

Chair: Richard Stinshoff (Oldenburg)

Kai Oppermann (Köln): “From electoral liability to asset – and back?” New Labour’s Policies on Europe in the Context of British Inter-Party Competition

Hans-Joachim Knopf (Konstanz): New Labour and European Integration: Continuity and Change in the Constructions of British Nation-State Identity

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00 Conference Part 4

Chair: Hans Kastendiek (Chemnitz)

Claire Annesley (Manchester): Social Policy and Social Exclusion

Paul Skidmore (z. Zt. Berlin): A Lightly Regulated Labour Market? Heritage and Adjustment in Labour Law

18:00 Dinner

19:00 – 21:00 ADEF-Mitgliederversammlung

Sunday, May 8, 2005
Breakfast / End of Conference