Partisanship and the Constitution

Partisanship and the Constitution

This June, the Bonavero Institute will hold a conference on Political Parties, Partisanship and the Constitution.

Date and time

Starts on Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:00 GMT+1

Location

Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

Mansfield College Oxford OX1 3UA United Kingdom

About this event

Day 1: 26 June 2019

9.30 - 11 am Partisan Complicity in Democratic Backsliding, and the European Constitution, Fabio Wolkenstein (Aarhus)

11.30 am to 1 pm Making electoral procedures work: The role of pluralist commitments and partisan agency, Lise Herman (Exeter) & Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth)

2 pm to 3.30 pm What’s the Party Like? The Political Party in Anti-Defection Jurisdictions, Udit Bhatia (Oxford)

4 to 5.30 pm, The digital party: on the nature and implications of an emerging type of political party in the era of social media, Paolo Gerbaudo (KCL)

6.30 to 7.30 pm Drinks Reception

Day 2: 27 June 2019

10 to 11.30 am The Ethics of Recalling Representatives, Lea Ypi (LSE)

11.45 am to 1.15 pm Preserving Democratic Accountability Under Popular Sovereignty, Sam Issacharoff (NYU)

2.15 to 3.45 pm Party Leadership and the Rule of Law, Zhang Qianfan (Peking)

4.15 pm to 5.45 pm Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Partisanship, Valeria Ottonelli (Genova), Jacob Rowbottom (Oxford) and another TBC.

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