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Call for papers for the panel "Religious Actors and Domestic Policies in Liberal Democracies", 5th ECPR General Conference
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Potsdam (Germany), September 10 - 12, 2009
Deadline for paper proposals: February 1, 2009
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5th ECPR General Conference Potsdam, 10 - 12 September, 2009
www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/
Call for papers for the panel "Religious Actors and Domestic Policies in Liberal Democracies"
In the section:
"Religious Actors in the Political Sphere: Means, Objectives, and Effects"
Deadline for paper proposals: 1 February 2009
Prospective paper givers are requested to use the downloadable form from
the ECPR website (see link:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/howtosubmit.asp) and send their proposal
directly to:
Panel organizer Michael Minkenberg (mm1807@nyu.edu)
Call for papers for the panel
Religious Actors and Domestic Policies in Liberal Democracies
According to many oberservers, debates about religious symbols in public
places and the post-9/11 controversies about the compatibility of Islam,
or religion in general, and democracy within and beyond Europe indicate
the coming of a major new cleavage in liberal democracies. Others see
this as the return of an old conflict area between religion and
politics. Either way, this panel's logic rests on the observation of a
continuous and in some respects increasing significance of religion in
democratic politics which are due to ongoing and accelerated processes
of political and social differentiation, cultural and religious
pluralization, and economic and cultural globalization in the transition
from the 20th to the 21st centuries.
Against this backdrop, the panel invites papers which in an
empirical-comparative and conceptual way address the issue how religious
actors operate in the various fields of public policies in liberal
democracies, how their policy objectives are shaped by the political and
social environment in which they operate (including the above mentioned
processes) and to what extent they are successful in realizing their
objectives (including how to "measure" their success). Relevant domestic
policy areas include welfare and social policies, family or morality
policies, policies of citizenship (foreign policy shall be addressed in
a separate panel). Paper presenters are invited to address some of the
conventional arguments in the research on religion and public policy,
such as the relevance of confessional legacies (e.g. Martin), the
so-called "family of nations" approach (e.g. Castles), cleavage theory
(Rokkan), the religio-political opportunity structure approach and
others, in order to determine to what extent differentiation,
pluralization and/or globalization raise new issues in the field of
research or confirm old hypotheses in the study of comparative public
policy in liberal democracies.
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