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This paper compares and contrasts the discourses and practices of intra-EU migration in France and the UK. In both, emigration and immigration are significant and contemporary facts of national life; in each, traditional patterns are being challenged; and in both cases, scare-mongering in this regard has been a dominant feature of recent discourse. In particular, the free movement of people associated with the 2004 and 2007 (but especially 2004) enlargements of the EU posed specific policy challenges to political leaders and local communities alike. In France, the phenomenon contributed to the rejection of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty; in the UK, the government failed first to predict the numbers of economic migrants from East Europe, and then to count them once they had arrived. Both countries, finally, are experiencing significant cross-Channel mobility: a microcosm of intra-EU migration per se. France is for sale, it would appear (cheap houses), while the French are for hire (cheap labour). These stereotypes should tell us something about the range of political discourses we can expect when exploring the characteristics of intra-EU mobility, and the relations between movement on the one hand, and public policy on the other. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I will argue that there has been a shift in Muslim incorporation policies around the 1990s which privileged a “religious” component. I will explore this in two case studies, Great Britain and France, through a controlled case comparison coupled with a within-case design. Through an analysis of the historical processes, this paper will offer an argument for when and why religion rose in salience when it did -- starting in the 1990s and accelerating after internal security issues connected to the Muslim community in the early 2000s. This paper will then move to a closer examination of the policies to address the issue of Muslim incorporation, paying particular attention to how the British and French governments created new institutions and emphasized funding and research strands to legitimize certain actors, particularly moderate and mainstream Muslims. In looking at the form of policies, this paper will suggest that the important distinction to be made is not between church-state institutional structures but the more general philosophies regarding the role of religion in public life. This will result in a typology of the Anglo-American model versus the Continental European model. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When do conservative parties reach out to visible minorities? Why do these parties court some minority groups and not others? I investigate this puzzle spatially and temporally. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the discourse and strategies of extreme right parties in four European democracies; France, the UK, Germany and Romania. Using text analysis of party manifestoes, we disctinguish four sub-types of extreme right parties. We show that the extreme right party family can be classified into four distinct types based on the insight into the fundamental ideological core and the style of discourse it espouses. We explore the implications this typology has on party competition and the likely electoral success of the party within its given party system. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a new approach for analyzing sequences of policy reform, which is illustrated through a comparison of legal setbacks and campaigns for gender quotas in France and Britain. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the decline in support for major political parties in Western Europe, specifically, France, the UK, and German, this paper investigates the relationship between citizens, political parties, and the European Union. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the impact of elite alliances on the activity choices of environmental groups in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Relying on a multi-dimensional framework for analyzing social movements with a focus on political opportunity structures, several aspects of elite alliances are analyzed. Results indicate that groups shift tactics in relation to changes in elite alliance structures at the nation state. The degree of green party support, the nature of the party in power and its platform as well as cabinet strength were found to influence activity choices. In addition, it was found that groups often behave counter-intuitively, punishing those allies with whom one would expect they share a common purpose. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper develops and evaluates empirically a signaling model on the use of time constraining rules in legislative bargaining. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers current parliamentary proposals on constitutional reform in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium from historical institutional and social choice perspectives. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paper argues that voters respond to globalization by reducing the weight assigned to economic considerations and, to compensate, by increasing the weight assigned to non-economic issues. Analyses of British and French data support the argument. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of courts in the newly liberalized telecommunications and electricity sectors in three European countries, the UK, France and Sweden. The paper found a growth in the use and influence of courts, but limited to certain actors and issues. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the agenda-setting and priming functions of the British and French media on the EU enlargement by combining a content analysis of The Times, The Guardian, The Mail, Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Liration and Eurobarometer survey data. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the choice to engage in coordinated activity and the degree to which the gendered nature of political institutions has an impact on the mobilization strategies of women's groups. In so doing, we explore whether or not the opportunity structure is 'gendered,' producing different outcomes for women's groups than for other social groups. Since we know that coordinated activity can be advantageous for the achievement of group goals, any differences for women's groups are significant. In addition, this study asks if women's groups coordinate activities to advance strategic interests, those that are vested in long-term transformations of gender relations and hierarchies and are concerned with changing the underlying inequities in the prevailing institutional arrangement, or to advance practical interests, those that "do not themselves challenge the prevailing forms of gender subordination…" (Molyneux 1995, 284). This study also asks if the choice to engage in coordinated activities is mediated by issue focus or 'type' of group. Both domestic and transnational/supranational acts of coordination are examined and results focus on the necessity of a feminized interpretation of the POS. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exploring views on immigration in Britain and France, I argue that there is an explicitly social aspect to citizens' attitudes. I find that the shape and size of individuals' social networks influence their views on immigration. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Are some counter-terrorism strategies more effective against particular types of terrorism? Can we draw some conclusions about effective policies by examining other governments? experiences, in particular those of the UK, Spain, France, and Italy? ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study considers factors influencing the use of coercive foreign policies by France, the United Kingdom and the United States as a means to enforcement international human rights laws between 1990 and 1994, and the effectiveness of such policies. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I examine movements for voting system reform at the time of suffrage expansion in France, the UK and the US. I argue that elites used these reforms to undermine popular participation. Outcomes vary with the degree of working class mobilization. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I examine how differences in institutions contribute to the success of extreme right parties in legislative elections in France, Poland, and Britain. Three types of differences are investigated: district magnitude, thresholds, and proportionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]