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).
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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” |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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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 |
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2:00-3:30 |
Work Session 1: “Simultaneous Party Polarization
and Convergence in France “ Michelle Hale Williams, University of
West Florida |
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3:30-3:45 |
Coffee break |
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3:45-5:15 |
Work Session 2: “Catch-All: Italian Style” Carolyn Forestiere, University of
Maryland at Baltimore County |
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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 |
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee break |
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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 |
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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 |
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3:30-3:45 |
Coffee break |
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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 |