Kirchheimer Reconsidered: 

Applications and Implications of the Catch-All Thesis Forty Years Later

 

A Benjamin F. Shambaugh Memorial Conference

(with support from the Office of International Programs)

Department of Political Science

University of Iowa

July 26-28, 2007

 

All events will be in the Commons, 302 Schaeffer Hall

                                   

      * For papers, please contact the individual authors (click on names). 

 

Friday, July 27th

9:00-10:30

Presentation Session 1:

“The Catch-all Party Revisited: Reflections of a Kirchheimer Student”

      William Safran, University of Colorado—Boulder

 

“Campaigning and the Catch-all Party:  The Logic of Party Transformation in Western Europe”

               Jennifer K. Smith, University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee

 

“‘Empty Nets’: Social Democracy and the ‘Catchall Party Theory’ in Germany and Sweden”

            Christopher S. Allen, University of Georgia

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Presentation Session 2:

“Catch-All for All?  Behavior and Policy Preferences of the British and French Green Parties”

             Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Iowa

 

“Simultaneous Party Polarization and Convergence in France”

           Michelle Hale Williams, University of West Florida

 

“Catch-All:  Italian Style”

         Carolyn Forestiere, University of Maryland at Baltimore County

2:00-3:30

Work Session 1:

“Simultaneous Party Polarization and Convergence in France “

Michelle Hale Williams, University of West Florida

3:30-3:45

Coffee break

3:45-5:15

Work Session 2:

“Catch-All:  Italian Style”

Carolyn Forestiere, University of Maryland at Baltimore County

Saturday, July 28th

9:00-10:30

Work Session 3:

“Catch-All for All?  Behavior and Policy Preferences of the British and French Green Parties”

             Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Iowa

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:15

Work Session 4:

“‘Empty Nets’: Social Democracy and the ‘Catchall Party Theory’ in Germany and Sweden”

            Christopher S. Allen, University of Georgia

2:00-3:30

Work Session 5:

“Campaigning and the Catch-all Party:  The Logic of Party Transformation in Western Europe”

               Jennifer K. Smith, University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee

3:30-3:45

Coffee break

3:45-5:15

Work Session 6 and Wrap-Up:

“The Catch-all Party Revisited: Reflections of a Kirchheimer Student”

      William Safran, University of Colorado—Boulder