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Historical Parliamentarism: Early Instances, Evolution, and
Constitutional Design
International workshop at University of Oslo, 8-9 June 2015, Oslo, Norway.
Organized by Cristina Bucur and Elisabetta Cassina Wolff (University of Oslo).
Funded by The Inter-faculty Research Program on Democracy; Department of Political
Science; and the project The Evolution of Parliamentarism and Its Political Consequences
(The Norwegian Research Council).
Ground rules (each paper): Presentation 15 minutes
Discussant 10 minutes
Discussion 20 minutes
Total of 45 minutes per paper (except for session 4)
Deadline for circulation of papers: May 25th.
Monday, 8 June
9:00-9:10
Welcome and practical information
(Niels Treschows Hus, Seminar Room, 12th Floor)
Bucur / Wolff
Presenter (paper)
Chair Session 1: Bucur
9:10-9:55
Hommerstad (Impeachment as early parliamentarism…)
9:55-10.40
Ungari (The Monarchy of Savoy and Parliamentarism…)
10:40-11:00
Coffee break
Chair Session 2: Wolff
11:00-11:45
Koss (The Evolution of Parliamentary Agenda Control…)
11:45-12.30
Genckaya (Parliamentary Oversight in Turkey…)
12:30-13:30
LUNCH
Discussant
Presenter (paper)
Chair Session 3: Field
13:30-14:15
Wendel-Hansen (The Danish Left and Parliamentary…)
14:15-15:00
Christiansen (The Impact of the Upper House…)
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
Chair Session 4: Rasch
Roger Congleton: "The King and Council in History"
15.30-17:00
Eilert Sundts Hus, Seminar Room 847, 8th Floor
19:30
DINNER
Karlsborg Spiseforretning
Discussant
Wendel-Hansen
Wolff
Rozenberg
Jenny
Hansen
Høyland
Cheibub &
Hommerstad
Tuesday, 9 June
Presenter (paper)
Chair Session 5: Wolff
9:30-10:15
Hansen (Institutional Design under Weak Parties…)
10:15-11.00
Høyland (Political Parties in the Parliament of Canada…)
11:00-11:20
Coffee break
Chair Session 6: Bucur
11:20-12:05
Godbout (Party Development in the Australian House…)
12:05-12.50
Smith (Electoral Coalitions, the Personal Vote…)
12:50-14:00
LUNCH
Presenter (paper)
Chair Session 7: Nguyen-Duy
14:00-14:45
Field (The Evolution of Parliamentarism in Spain…)
14:45-15.30
Rozenberg (Assessing the de-parliamentarisation…)
15:30-15:50
Coffee break
Chair Session 8: Christiansen
15:50-16:35
Fruhstorfer (Presidents in Parliamentary Systems…)
16:35-17.20
Jenny (Extreme Parliamentarism in the Austrian…)
17.20-17.30
Closing discussion
Discussant
Nguyen-Duy
Martin
Carroll
Cheibub
Discussant
Koss
Indridason
Bucur
Field
Participants
Cristina Bucur (University of Oslo; polsci)
cristina.bucur@stv.uio.no
Royce Carroll (Rice University; polsci)
rcarroll@rice.edu
Jose Antonio Cheibub (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; polsci)
cheibub@illinois.edu
Flemming Juul Christiansen (Roskilde University; polsci)
fjc@ruc.dk
Roger Congleton (West Virginia University; economics)
roger.congleton@mail.wvu.edu
Elisabetta Cassina Wolff (University of Oslo; history)
e.c.wolff@iakh.uio.no
Bonnie Field (Bentley University; polsci)
bfield@bentley.edu
Anna Fruhstorfer (Humboldt University; polsci)
anna.fruhstorfer@sowi.hu-berlin.de
Ömer Faruk Genckaya (Marmara University; polsci)
genckaya@bilkent.edu.tr
Jean-François Godbout (University of Montreal; polsci)
jean-francois.godbout@umontreal.ca
Martin Ejnar Hansen (Brunel University; polsci)
Martin.Hansen@brunel.ac.uk
Jon H. Fiva (Norwegian Business School, Oslo;
economics)
Jon.H.Fiva@bi.no
Marthe Hommerstad (University of Oslo; history)
Marthe.Hommerstad@stortinget.no
Bjørn Høyland (University Oslo; polsci)
bjorn.hoyland@stv.uio.no
Indridi Indridason (University of California, Riverside;
polsci)
indridi.indridason@ucr.edu
Marcelo Jenny (University of Vienna; polsci)
marcelo.jenny@univie.ac.at
Michael Koss (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich;
polsci)
MKoss@gsi.uni-muenchen.de
Shane Martin (University of Leicester; polsci)
shane.martin@le.ac.uk
Iris Nguyen-Duy (University Oslo; constitutional law)
i.n.duy@jus.uio.no
Bjørn Erik Rasch (University Oslo; polsci)
b.e.rasch@stv.uio.no
Olivier Rozenberg (Sciences Po, Paris; polsci)
olivier.rozenberg@sciences-po.fr
Daniel Smith (Harvard University; polsci
danielmsmith@fas.harvard.edu
Andrea Ungari (LUISS-Guido Carli; history)
aungari@luiss.it
Jens Wendel-Hansen (Aarhus University; history)
jens_wendel-hansen@hotmail.com