(N.B. The above image is an AI-generated image, using the following prompts: a picture representing relationship between state and society, perhaps in the style of abstract early 20th Century modernism, with a global flavour)
9.30am – 10am
Coffee, welcome, and introductions
10.00am – 11.45am
Panel: Between Political Regimes and Policy Regimes
· Catherine Owen (Exeter): ‘Are Democratic Innovations always "Democratic"? Exploring the Influence of Regime Type on Public Engagement Mechanisms’ (co-authored with Sonia Bussu, Birmingham)
· Stephen Greasley (Exeter): 'Regimes in Policy Research'
· Shiao Wang (Tsinghua): ‘Beyond Democratisation: Regimes & public goods provision in Chile’
· Stephen Skinner (Exeter): '"We are not a government. We are a regime." Interpreting Fascism in Legal History.’
Break
12.00-12.45
Discussion: Elena Gadjanova; Eleanor Gao (Exeter)
12.45-13.45
Lunch
13.45 – 15.15:
Round Table: Debating the State-Regime-Society Nexus
What does regime mean to you and in your work? It is a useful concept? How does it differ from and relate to the state-society relationship?
· Dario Castiglione (Exeter)
· David Lewis (Exeter)
· Xianan Jin (Exeter)
· Nelly Bekus (Exeter)
· Zhang Shuangli (Fudan) TBC
Chair: Sean Carter (Exeter)
15.15-15.45:
Coffee
15.45-17.45:
Books Talk: Societies beyond Regimes?
· Anthony Ince (Cardiff): Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order
· Lara Montesinos Coleman (Sussex): Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Chair/Discussant: Alex Prichard (Exeter)
