Call for Papers
(for PDF version:http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/princeton.pdf)
Princeton Conference on Environmental Politics:
Research Frontiers in Comparative and International Environmental Politics
Princeton University, December 2-3, 2011
Sponsored by
Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a conference on Environmental Politics at the Niehaus
Center for Globalization and Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs, Princeton University on December 2-3, 2011. The
conference aims at connecting research communities across continents,
presenting cutting-edge research in environmental politics, and
identifying future research directions in comparative and international
environmental politics. The steering committee will also identify a subset
of selected papers for a special issue in a major political science
journal. Editors of key political science journals are likely to attend
the conference.
Agenda and Rationale
We are particularly interested in proposals that study environmental
politics from an international or comparative political economy
perspective. Traditionally, IR scholars have emphasized the role of
international factors (international regimes, trade, FDI, epistemic
communities, IGOs and INGOs) while the comparativists have focused on
domestic variables (domestic political institutions, partisanship,
economic variables, interest group pressures) to explain environmental
policy outputs and outcomes. This conference invites leading scholars to
systemically examine the roles of domestic and international factors alone
or in interaction to develop more nuanced models of environmental politics
across space and time. Some of the broad research areas and questions
include (but not limited to):
- Environmental politics in authoritarian states,
- Effects of political and economic transitions on the natural
environment,
- The role of citizen preferences and civil society on environmental
policy choices,
- The role of international networks --- e.g., trade, FDI, IGO, NGO
--- on environmental policy choices,
- The effectiveness of voluntary regulations and new forms of
governance on environmental policy outcomes,
- Agenda setting in domestic and global environmental politics.
Expenses
Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance has generously offered to
cover economy class travel and lodging for paper presenters.
Time Lines
Please email your paper proposal to c...@essex.ac.uk. The proposal
submission deadline is March 15, 2011. The steering committee will notify
authors of selected papers by May 1, 2011.
Best regards,
Steering Committee
Xun Cao, University of Essex (c...@essex.edu)
Helen Milner, Princeton University (hmil...@princeton.edu)
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle (as...@uw.edu)
Hugh Ward, University of Essex (h...@essex.ac.uk)
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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3530
206-543-2399
206-685-2146 (fax)
as...@uw.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/
