NZPSA
Annual Conference

2-3 December 2010

Hosted by:
Political Science and Public Policy
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
The University of Waikato
Hamilton

The Conference Programme is now available to download.

Streams:
- New Zealand Government and Comparative Government
- Public Policy
- International Relations
- Political Theory

Opening Address
1. Bryan Gould - "The End of Politics?"
Former Rhodes Scholar, Oxford law don, Deputy Leader of the British Labour Party, and Vice Chancellor of Waikato University.

Plenary Session
2. Muthiah Alagappa - "Security Order in Asia"
Dr Alagappa was founding director of the East-West Centre, Washington, and has extensive research experience in Comparative and International Politics of Asia.

Panel/Roundtable Sessions (organised to date):
- Engaging the Public in the MMP Referendum (Chair: Therese Arseneau, University of Canterbury)
- Cabinet and the Core Executive: institutions, actors and processes (Chair: Richard Shaw, Massey University, and Chris Eichbaum, Victoria University)
- Contemporary Issues in Public Policy (Chair: Michael Mintrom, University of Auckland)
- Treaty Politics (Chair: Janine Hayward, University of Otago)
- Marketing in Government: an assessment of National’s prospects (Chair: Jennifer Lees-Marshment, University of Auckland)
- The Political Economy of Resource Conflict in New Zealand (Chair: Ton Buhrs, Lincoln University)
- Does the History of Political Thought Matter? (Chair: Vicki Spencer, University of Otago)
- Recent Elections: the UK, the US mid-terms, Australia and Canada (Chair: Jennifer Curtin, University of Auckland)
- Current Issues in New Zealand Local Government Politics (Chair: Chris Rudd, University of Otago)
- Immigration and Citizenship Politics (Co-chairs: Kate McMillan and Fiona Barker)
- Gender and Political Leadership (Chair: Jennifer Curtin, University of Auckland)

Offers of papers and panel proposals deadline:
1 October 2010

Registration from 8.30am on 2 December.

The new publisher of the Political Science journal, SAGE, is pleased to offer delegates of the NZPSA conference free full text access to the entire backfile until 31 December 2010. Please register at http://pnz.sagepub.com.

Childcare Requirements
Conference participants who wish to avail of childcare during the conference may be able to use the services  of Campus Creche (http://creche.waikato.ac.nz/). Please write directly to the Director of Campus Creche, Sue Bennett, at the following email address: sue.bennett@campuscreche.co.nz  at least two weeks prior to the conference to check on availability of childcare for the days and times you require.