ECPR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

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The ECPR has a new Executive Committee, whose term of office runs from spring 1997 until the Joint Sessions in Copenhagen in 2000. The Council voted not to go through the election procedure, since there were twelve candidates for twelve places, six of whom are new to the Executive. Each member of the Committee has been assigned a 'portfolio' or area of responsibility and can be contacted by anyone who wishes to discuss an ECPR matter in their particular area. Below we list the members of the Executive Committee and their areas of responsibility.

Responsibilities include: Co-ordinating the work of the Executive Committee; liaising closely with Central Services re. day to day work; considering future policies & problems; planning ahead; keeping a general eye on the work of members of the Executive; initiating discussion and action for new developments.

Mogens N. Pedersen has been professor of political science at Odense University, Denmark, since 1973. He graduated from Aarhus University and served for some years at the staff of Department of Political Science at that university. He has also been attached to EUI in Firenze, and has been a Ford Foundation Scholar at Stanford University. He is chairman of the Department of Political Science and Public Management, and has published on many topics: legislative behaviour, elections, parties and party systems, methodology, policy evaluations, the politics of higher education and research etc.. He has mostly focused on Scandinavian politics, but has also done work of a more general nature. The last few years he has given most of his attention to the study of Danish local and municipal politics. Presently he is doing a study of coalition formation in Danish municipalities. In the past he served as dean at his university for seven years. He was also editor of European Journal of Political Research 1980-94. He has been chairman of ECPR since 1994.

Responsibilities include: Ensuring that the ECPR's budgetary control system is working; liaising with Central Services in drawing up and implementing annual budget; long term financial planning.

Ferdinand Müller-Rommel is Professor .of Comparative Politics and Vice-President at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. He holds his M.A. from the University of Florida and his PhD from the Free University in Berlin. He received a John F. Kennedy Fellowship at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (19984/85) and a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence (1985/86). In addition he acted at Visiting Professor at the University of New England (Australia) and the University of Miami (USA). He edited and co-edited among others the following books: Small Parties in Western Europe (SAGE Publisher), Cabinets in Western Europe (Macmillan), Governing Together (Macmillan) New Politics (Westview Press). In addition he has written: Gruene Parteien in Westeuropa as well as Innerparteiliche Gruppierungen in der SPD both in Westdeutscher Verlag. His research interests lies in the field of "green and right-wing populist parties in Western Europe" as well as "management of politics in the center of European governments".

Responsibilities include: Chair of Research Board; ensuring that an adequate number of good research group proposals is submitted each year; planning future Research Sessions - venue, finance and proposals; assessing the general progress of the Research Sessions: both the preparation and operation; ensuring that the monitoring of the progress of research groups is carried out.

Pierre Allan is professeur ordinaire at the Political Science Department of the University of Geneva (since 1984) where he teaches international relations and political science methods. Chair of the ECPR Research Board since 1994. Editor of the Swiss Political Science Review (which he founded in 1995) and editorial board member of the European Journal of International Relations and the International Political Science Review. He has taught in Berkeley, Lausanne, Prague, Stanford, and Zürich, and was an Executive Committee member of the International Political Science Association (1988-94) and President of the Swiss Political Science Association (1990-93). His latest book publications are; Game Theory and International Relations: Preferences, Information and Empirical Evidence; The End of the Cold War: Evaluating Theories of International Relations; Sowjetische Geheimdokumente zum Afghanistankrieg (1978-1991); Le renseignement stratégique d'entreprise; Les horloges sociales de la confrontation; The Organization of Democracy: Central European Analyses (forthcoming).

Responsibilities include: Chair of Workshop Committee; co-ordinating arrangements for Joint Sessions with the Central Services and local organizers; Ensuring that the system for deciding the academic programme at the mid-year Workshop Committee meeting is organized; liaising with member organizations about any policy problems relating to the workshops and programmes; assessing the general progress of the Joint Sessions of Workshops: both the preparation and operation; ensuring that venues are settled several years in advance.

Responsibilities include: Encouraging under-represented groups to participate in ECPR activities, submit workshop and research group proposals and join or establish standing groups.

Monique Leijenaar, from the Department of Political Science at Nijmegen, Netherlands, joined the ECPR Executive Committee in 1994. She has a long tradition of involvement in ECPR activities, beginning as a student at the Essex Summer School and continuing with participation in many of the ECPR joint sessions. As chair of the Workshop Committee, she has rationalised the procedure for submitting, discussing and selecting workshop proposals. She has also explored the possibilities of commissioning workshops to ensure a wide-ranging coverage of themes that allows as many people as possible to find something of interest in the joint sessions. In this second term, she remains committed to continue to seek out ways of increasing the participation of the political science profession in general, but particularly of younger academics and of women, in the full range of ECPR activities.

Responsibilities include: Overseeing all ECPR publications, including ECPR News, EJPR, Routledge book series, Oxford book series, publicity material; assisting in production of annual report.

Joni Lovenduski is Professor of Politics at Southampton University. She researches the political behaviour of British and European women and is especially interested in women's representation in politics. Her main books are Women and European Politics, 1986, a comparative study of the impact of women and feminism in Europe, Political Recruitment, 1995, a study of the British candidate selection process with Pippa Norris, Contemporary Feminist Politics (1993) a study of the British women's movement in the Thatcher years co authored with Vicky Randall and Politics and Society in Eastern Europe, co authored with Jean Woodall. She has co-edited The Politics of The Second Electorate (1981), The New Politics of Abortion (1986), Gender and Party Politics (1993), Different Roles, Different Voices (1994) and Women in Politics (1996).

She has been active in the ECPR having directed and attended numerous workshops, participated in Research Sessions and co-ordinated the Women & Politics Standing Group.

Responsibilities include: Encouraging groups; liaising with convenors to establish higher profile; encouraging workshop and research group proposals from standing groups; exploring possibilities for future activities.

Alfio Mastropaolo is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Torino. His current research interests include: the state and democratic theory; political elites and parties; Italian politics.

Recent publications include Il ceto politico. Teoria e pratiche (1993), La Repubblica dei distini incrociati. Saggio su cinquant'anni di democrazia in Italia (1996). He is co-author of: I consiglieri comunali in Piemonte. Trasformazioni della rappresentanza locale negli ani Ottanta (1990). Editor of: Le élites politiche locali e la fondazione della Repubblica (1991). Author of articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes on Italian politics, local government, state theory and democratic theory. Member of the Editorial Board of Teoria Politica.

Responsibilities include: Looking ahead and plan the ECPR's long-term development; anticipating and addressing future trends and likely problems; examining the ECPR's internal structure, including its constitution, committees and procedures; thinking about possible additional activities.

Leif Lewin is the Johan Skytte Professor of Eloquence and Government (1972) at Uppsala University. He is Dean of the Social Science Faculty and Chair of the Committee for the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.

His research interests include: rational choice, corporatism, parliamentary systems. Recent books in English are: Governing Trade Unions in Sweden (Harvard University Press, 1980); Ideology and Strategy (Cambridge University Press, 1988); Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics (Oxford University Press, 1991). Recent articles in English include: 'Utilitarianism and Rational Choice', EJPR 1988 16 (1); 'The Rise and Decline of Corporatism: The Case of Sweden' EJPR 1994 26 (1). He served earlier in the Executive Committee (1985-91) and was Chair of the Research Board.

Responsibilities include: Liaising with Essex and Lille summer schools; looking at other summer schools re. possible support from the ECPR; examining ECPR policy with regard to the increasingly large number of summer schools; overseeing and inventory of European summer schools and production of information leaflet.

John Groom is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His academic interests are in the area of international relations theory, international organization, conflict studies and European IR. His publications include 19 major works and over 100 published papers. He was an Executive Committee member of the British International Studies Association for six years, serving two years each as Vice Chairman and Chairman. He is a Board member of the Academic Council for the United Nations System and Vice President of the International Studies Association. He is a Board member of two journals which he helped to found, namely the European Journal of International Relations and Global Society, as well as of Global Governance and Geo-Politics and International Boundaries. He has played a significant role in ECPR activities, particularly in the foundation and organization of the Standing Group in International Relations (see p.22), directing workshops in Gothenburg, Paris and London and participating in numerous others.

Responsibilities include: Canvassing official representatives regarding ways to improve the service to members; ensuring that ECPR uses the internet to its best advantage; thinking about and developing relations with other political science organizations, e.g. IPSA, APSA, national organizations.

Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot is deputy director of the CERVL (Pouvoir, Action Publique, Territoire) associated with the CNRS at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux. His research and publications are focused on territorial and urban politics in Europe (mainly France and Germany), comparative politics, and electoral sociology. His most recent publications include. Le territoire pour politiques : variations européennes, Paris : L'Harmattan, 1994 (with Richard Balme, Philippe Garraud, and Evelyne Ritaine), and Décentraliser en France et en Norvège, Paris : Pédone, 1996 (ed. with Francesco Kjellberg).

He is a member of the editorial committee of Space and Polity and Urban Affairs Review; is the convenor of the Local Government and Politics standing group of the ECPR, and was a member of the local organizing committee of the 1995 ECPR Joint Sessions in Bordeaux.

Responsibilities include: Investigating ways to integrate central and east European political scientists into ECPR activities; encouraging institutions to become members; encouraging existing members to participate in the standing groups, Joint Sessions and Research Sessions.

Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Political Science and Comparative politics in the faculty of Law and Political sciences of the University of Siena, where he has been the Chairman of the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Giuridiche, Politiche e Sociali (1991-1997). He has been visiting research fellow at Yale university, visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the EUI, and has taught at the Norwegian School of Management of Sandvika. His main research fields have been the study of political elites, of governmental institutions and Italian politics. Among his publications: Classe politica e parlamento in Italia (1979); Parliament and democratic consolidation in Southern Europe (coedited with U. Liebert)(1990); 'Building party systems after the dictatorship: the east European cases in a comparative perspective' (in Pridham and Vanhanen eds., Democratization in Eastern Europe, 1994); Party and government (co-edited with J. Blondel) (1996); Il gigante dai piedi di argilla. Il governo di partito e la sua crisi nell'Italia degli anni novanta (co-edited with P. Isernia) (1996). Co-editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza politica since 1992.

Responsibilities include: Developing contacts with potential funding organisations; developing a fund raising strategy for the ECPR, including keeping track of the numerous EU activities and possibilities.

Frank Pfetsch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg (1976), and since 1995 has been the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History. Before coming to Heidelberg, he worked in research institutes at the Federal Ministry for Scientific Affairs in Bonn and for UNESCO in various science policy consultancy missions in South America (Brazil, Uruguay), Africa (Kenya, Gabon, Algeria) and Asia (Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen). His main research interests include: science policy; foreign policy; international relations; political theory; constitutional law.

He was a Board member of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Science within the ISA (1974-1980) and a founding member of the Sektion Wissenschaftssoziologie, bzw.-forschung within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (1976). He is the national correspondent for the Standing Group on International Relations and a member of the Steering Committee for International Studies in Europe.

Ferran Requejo is Professor of Political Science at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), where he is currently the Head of the Political and Social Sciences Departmen. His main fields of research are: liberalism and social democracy after the Second World War; theories of democracy; federalism and nationalism; analysis of political legitimation processes. His most recent publications include: Las Democracias. Democracia antigua, democracia liberal y Estado de Bienestar, (1994), Teoria Critica y Estado Social. Neokantismo y Socialdemocracia en J.Habermas (1991), "Citizenship and Tolerance. The Challenge of Present-Day Nationalism to Liberal Democracy" INEHCA 1995. He is also a political analyst in several Catalan and Spanish newspapers. Ferran Requejo was the first winner of the Wildenmann Prize for the best workshop paper presented at the Oslo Joint Sessions, for a paper entitled, `Are Citizenship, Federalism and Nationalism Integrative Trends? A Revision of Democratic Citizenship in Plurinational States'

Ferran Requejo is keen to integrate southern European political scientists more fully into ECPR activities and to ensure the success of the standing groups. His role on the Executive Committee has yet to be confirmed.

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