Politics in Crisis?

194 Pages·2015·1.337 MB·English

by  Marie Paxton, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Jana Jonasova

Politics in Crisis?

Politics in Crisis?
Edited by
Marie Paxton, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya
and Jana Jonasova
Politics in Crisis?

Edited by Marie Paxton, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Jana Jonasova

This book first published 2015

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK

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ISBN (10): 1-4438-7265-2
ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7265-2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ................................................................................... viii
Foreword .................................................................................................... ix
Jana Jonasova, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Marie Paxton
Acknowledgements ................................................................................... xii
Part I. Institutions in Crisis?
Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
Responding to Crisis: Whitehall and the Politics of Austerity
Patrick Diamond and Daniel Fitzpatrick
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 15
House of Lords Self-Restraint
Fiona Williams
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 29
Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Party Competition and Electoral
Change: From Party Identification to Riker’s Theory of Heresthetics
and Rhetoric
Berta Barbet Porta
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 41
The Link between Role Theory and Performance Studies:
Sketching Political Crises through Role Conflict
Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro
Part II. Crisis in Action
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 56
Critiquing the Dominant Security Orthodoxy: Is Security Sector Reform
a Viable Paradigm for Peace-Building/State-Building?
Mustafa Tahani
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Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 68
At the Crossroad of Security and Human Rights: The Dilemma
of the Sanctions Regimes
Julija Kalpokiene
Chapter Seven ............................................................................................ 79
Changing Approaches to State-Building: The Politics of Crisis
and the Crisis of Politics
Elisa Randazzo
Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 91
Minorities and Politics in Indonesia: Towards Inclusive Justice
Max Regus
Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 101
The Role of Chinese Popular Nationalism over the Diaoyu/Senkaku
Dispute
Oana Burcu
Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 113
From the Shadows of Silence and Shame to the Light of Voice
and Dignity: Transnational Activism and the Contested Nature
of the Historical Memory of the “Comfort Women” in Japan
Sachiyo Tsukamoto
Part III. Theorising Political Crisis
Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 122
Inclusiveness, Adversarialism and Perfectionism: Exploring the Three
Approaches to Agonistic Democracy
Marie Paxton
Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 133
The Liberal Concept of Citizenship and its Implications on the Challenges
of Migration: A Radical Democracy Approach
Gonzalo Cavero
Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 142
The Line as a Basic Element of International Order
Ignas Kalpokas
Politics in Crisis vii
Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 153
The Promise of Politics: The Radical Alternative of Arendtian Political
Philosophy
John Baxter
Afterword ................................................................................................ 162
Professor Michael Freeden
Contributors ............................................................................................. 169
Images from the Conference .................................................................... 173
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Photo 1. “Politics in Crisis?” Conference reception (Jana Jonasova)
Photo 2. British Politics section (Stuart Fox)
Photo 3. British Politics section (left to right: Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and
Berta Barbet Porta)
Photo 4. International Relations and International Political Economy
section (left to right: Ruike Xu and Lan-Shu Tseng)
Photo 5. International Relations and International Political Economy
section (Oana Burcu)
Photo 6. International Relations and International Political Economy
section (Jana Jonasova)
Photo 7. Political Theory section (Sachiyo Tsukamoto)
Photo 8. Political Theory section (left to right: John Baxter, Marie Paxton,
Gonzalo Cavero and Ignas Kalpokas)
Photo 9. Political Theory section (left to right: Max Regus and Prof
Michael Freeden)
FOREWORD
This volume includes fifteen conference papers presented at the
postgraduate conference “Politics in Crisis?” held at the University of
Nottingham in April 2013. The conference aimed to explore and
interrogate the assumption that politics as we know it is in decline, or even
crisis. Although this theme frequently features in public, political and
academic debates, there is no single, comprehensive understanding of
what the crisis of politics means, how it manifests, and whether (and how)
it can be resolved. Moreover, the very assumption that politics is in crisis
is a controversial and contested one.
The conference attempted to explore this assumption from a variety of
angles by providing three conference streams – International Political
Theory, British Politics, and International Political Economy and
International Relations. Papers across these themes offered critical insights
into the structure and development of political institutions, international
governance, and normative political theory, drawing upon the United
Kingdom and international case studies as examples.
Organised by postgraduate research students from the School of
Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, the
conference received generous financial and organisational support from
the School’s research centres, including the Centre for British Politics,
Centre for European Governance (now Centre for Comparative Political
Research), Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism, Centre for the
Study of Social and Global Justice, Centre for Normative Political Theory
and the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies. Additionally, the Methods
and Data Institute and the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at the
University of Nottingham provided invaluable support in organising the
Research Methods Workshop that followed the conference. Without the
involvement of these Centres and Institutes, “Politics in Crisis?” would not
have been possible, and we would like to express our gratitude toward
them.
Altogether the conference attracted over sixty postgraduate and early
career researchers from universities across the UK, as well as European
universities, such as the Autonomous University of Madrid and the
Institute of Social Studies at the Erasmus University. The quality of the
papers was recognised by conference participants, discussants and the