Programme
(The
following is a working document.
Additional
details will be added as they are confirmed.)
Friday
9 September
11:00-1:00
Registration (including on-site registration) opens
Marquee - University accommodation delegates
- Non-residential
- On-site
registration
Wivenhoe House Hotel Front Lobby - Hotel delegates
1:00
Registration closes in the Marquee (Go to Registration desk in the Lobby)
1:00-1:30
Welcome (Marquee)
1.30-2.45
Party
Strategies (Marquee)
Philip
Gould (Philip Gould Associates), 'Labour Strategy'.
Gavin
Barwell (Operations Director, Member of Board of Management and Registered
Treasurer of the Conservative Party), 'Conservative Strategy'.
Chris
Rennard (Chief Executive, Liberal Democrats), 'Liberal Democrat strategy'.
Chair:
David Sanders
(Essex)
3:00-4.15
Party Campaigns (Marquee)
Greg
Cook (Head of Political Strategy, Labour Party), 'The Labour Campaign'.
David Canzini (Director of Campaigning for The Conservative Party), 'The Conservative
Campaign'.
Jackie Rowley (Director of Communications for Charles Kennedy), 'The
Liberal Democrat Campaign'.
Chair:
David Denver
(Lancaster)
4.15-4.30
Refreshments
(The Patio and The Albert Room)
4.30-6.00
Informational
Sessions
The
British Election Study I (Reynolds
Room)
-
Technical Reports and Preliminary Findings
Harold
Clarke (University of Texas at Austin)
David Sanders (Essex)
Marianne Stewart (University of Texas at Austin)
Paul Whiteley (Essex)
Chair:
Charles Pattie
(Sheffield)
The
UK Data Archive (Morant Room)
Jack Kneeshaw (Senior Data and Support Services Officer, UK Data
Archive) 'Access to Economic and Social Data via
the UK Data Archive'.
6.30
- 7.45 Roundtable on the future of British Politics (Marquee)
Mary
Ann
Sieghart (Assistant Editor of The Times)
John Bercow, Member of Parliament
Chair:
Ivor Crewe (Essex)
7.45
Cash bar open (Marquee)
8.00
Dinner
(Marquee)
Saturday
10 September
7:30-9.00
Breakfast
- Harwich Court Delegates (Food On 3)
8:00-9.00
Breakfast
- Wivenhoe House Delegates (The Albert Room)
9:00
Registration and Key Collection Opens (Hotel Lobby)
9:00-10.30
- Session I
1A.
The future of the Conservative Party
(Morant
Room)
Jane
Green (Nuffield, Oxford)
'Partisan
preferences and party loyalty: A challenge to theories of party position'.
Tom Quinn (Essex)
'Modernising the Conservative Party'.
Nicholas Allen (Essex)
"Learning from defeat? Conservative leaders' conference
speeches, 1997-2005".
Chair:
Phil Cowley
(Nottingham)
1B.
The polls
(Marquee)
Simon
Atkinson (MORI)
Peter Kellner (Yougov)
Nick Moon (NOP)
Chair: Colin Rallings (Plymouth)
1C.
The BBC
(Reynolds
Room)
Mark
Damazer (Controller, Radio 4)
David Mena Aleman (University of the Americas-Puebla, Mexico) 'Can
the BBC compete to deliver 'more than just what consumers want'?'
Chair:
TBA
10.30-11:00
Refreshments
(The Patio and Marquee)
11.00-12.30
- Session II
2A. The forecasters: Didn't they do well?
(Marquee)
David
Sanders (Essex)
Paul Whiteley (Essex)
'Can
we Forecast the Forecasters? An Evaluation of Rival Forecasting Models
of the 2005 General Election in Britain'.
Michael Lewis-Beck (Iowa)
John Curtice (Strathclyde) and David Firth (Warwick), 'The BBC/ITV Exit
Poll'.
Chair:
Jane Green (Oxford)
2B.
Other media
(Reynolds
Room)
Adam
Boulton (Sky)
Steven Perkins (Ofcom) 'Viewers
and Voters: Attitudes
to television coverage of the 2005 General Election'.
Chair:
John Bartle (Essex)
2C.
Voting Behaviour I
(Morant
Room)
Bob Andersen (McGill) and
Geoff Evans (Oxford),
'The
effect of party leaders on voting'.
Steve Fisher (Oxford) and John Curtice (Strathclyde),
'Tactical
unwind or a new kind of anti-Blairite tactical voting?'
Christopher
Wlezien (Temple),
'The Evolution of Electoral Preferences during the
Campaign:
What the Polls Do (and Don't) Tell Us'
Chair:
Justin Fisher (Brunel)
12.45-1:45
Finger
buffet lunch (Marquee)
1.15-
1.45 EPOP Annual General Meeting (Reynolds Room)
2:00-3.30
- Session III
3A.
Newspapers/Media (Reynolds
Room)
Dominic
Wring and David Deacon (Loughborough), 'More megaphone than dog
whistle: media reporting of
the 2005 General Election'.
Maggie Scammell (LSE) 'The
press: still for Labour, despite Blair'
(Tables)
Bob Franklin (Cardiff) "Amateurs
or Adversaries? Local Journalism and Local Newspaper Reporting of the
2005 General Election"
Chair:
Colin Seymour-Ure
3B.
Analysing party competition (Wetherall
Room)
Judith
Bara (Queen Mary and Westfield), 'The 2005 manifestos: A sense of
deja vu?'
Sara Hobolt (Oxford) and Robert Klemmensen (Southern
Denmark), "Why
Labour Didn't Listen? Party Competition and Issue Responsiveness in the
Recent British and U.S. Elections"
Pippa
Norris (Harvard) 'Did
the Media Matter?Persuasion, Priming and Mobilization Effects in
the 2005 British General
Election Campaign'.
Chair:
Steve Fisher (Oxford)
3C.
Political Choice in Britain 2005: The First BES Report
(Marquee)
Harold
Clarke (University of Texas at Austin)
David Sanders (Essex)
Marianne Stewart (University of Texas at Austin)
Paul Whiteley (Essex)
Chair:
Anthony Mughan (Ohio State)
3D.
Aspects of the campaign
(Morant
Room)
Rachel
Gibson and Stephen Ward (Australia and Sydney), 'Parties and the
virtual campaign: the 2005 election online'. (Slides)
Heinz Brandenburg (Aberdeen), 'Party
Strategy and Media Bias A Quantitative Analysis of the 2005 UK election
campaign'.
Jon
Tonge and Jocelyn Evans (Salford), 'The
onward march of Paisleyism or a triumph of unionist apathy? Turnout and
voting for the
Democratic Unionist Party in the 2005 Westminster Election in
Northern Ireland '.
Chair:
Tom Quinn (Essex)
3.30-
4:00 Refreshments
(The Patio and The Albert Room)
4:00-5.30
- Session IV
4A.
Electoral systems
(Wetherall
Room)
Adrian
Kavanagh, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth 'How would the result
have differed with a PR-STV electoral system?'
(Appendix)
Colin Rallings and Michael
Thrasher (Plymouth), 'The electoral consequences of postal voting at
the 2005 general election'.
Adrian Blau (Manchester) 'The
new three-party politics?'.
Chair:
Ron Johnston
(Bristol)
4B.
Voting Behaviour II
(Reynolds
Room)
Anthony
Mughan (Ohio State University) 'The conditionality of leader effects'.
Richard Scullion (Bournemouth) 'Investigating
the meaning of electoral choice through a 'Consumer as choice maker'
lens. Case studies from The British General Election of 2005'.
K Nagatomi (Sheffield) 'Independent
success in local executive elections: analysis of the results of the
2005 English mayoral elections'.
(Slides)
Chair:
Paul Whiteley (Essex)
4C. Local
campaigning
(Morant
Room)
Phil Cowley and Mark
Stuart (Nottingham), 'Being policed?
Or just pleasing themselves?
Electoral rewards and punishment for legislative behaviour in an
era of localised campaigning effects: the case of the UK in 2005'.
(Slides)
Justin Fisher (Brunel) 'Constituency Campaigning at the 2005 General
Election?'
Lisa Harrison & Dean McSweeney
(UWE) 'Persuasion in Local Campaigns: a case study of the South West'
Chair: David
Denver
6.00-7.30
Roundtable
The British Election: American perspectives (Marquee)
Sam
Popkin (San Diego, California)
James Stimson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) 'Policy
Sentiment in the UK: Reflections on the
2005
Elections in Longitudinal Perspective'.
Jack Nagel (Pennsylvania)
Chair:
Ian Budge (Essex)
7.30
Refreshments
(The Patio)
7.45
Cash bar open (Marquee)
8.00
Dinner
(Marquee)
Sunday
11 September
7:30-9.00
Breakfast
- Harwich Court Delegates (Food On 3)
8:00-9.00
Breakfast
- Wivenhoe House Delegates (The Albert Room)
9:00
Registration and Key Collection Opens (Hotel Lobby)
9.00-10.30
- Session V
5A.
Women and the general election
(Wetherall
Room)
Lisa
Harrison (University West of England) 'Electoral Strategies
and Female Candidacy: Comparing Trends in the 2005 and 2001 General
Elections'.
Sarah Childs (University of
Bristol) and Rosie Campbell (London), 'Feminizing
British Politics: Sex and Gender in the 2005 General Election'
(Slides)
Rosie Campbell (London) and Kristi Winters (Essex) 'Hearts or
Minds? Men, Women and Candidate Evaluations in the 2005 General
Election.' (Slides)
Chair:
TBA
5B.
Academic perspectives on electoral administration
(Reynolds
Room)
Sarah
Birch (Essex) 'Explaining
Confidence in the Conduct of Elections'.
Bob Watt (Essex) 'Power to the people'.
Chair:
John Bartle (Essex)
5C.
Geography (Morant
Room)
David
Rossiter, Charles Pattie (Sheffield) and R Johnston (Bristol) - 'Biased
again: translating a 3-point lead in votes to a 25-point lead in seats'.
E Fieldhouse, D Cutts and A
Russell (Manchester)- 'Neither north nor south: the geography of
Liberal democrat voting in 2005.'
D Dorling (Sheffield) - 'Partisan alignment'.
(Slides)
R Johnston and R Harris (Bristol) 'Another geography of turnout:
respondents and
non-respondents to the BES'
Chair: Geoff Evans (Oxford)
11.00-12.30
- Session V
