The 57th annual conference of the Political Studies Association (PSA) took place in April 2007 at the University of Bath. The Greek Politics Specialist Group had a strong presence with four panels on a range of fields.
Panel Convenors: Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University), Maria Zisouli (University of Athens).
GPSG Panel 1: The effects of Europeanization on Greek policy sectors
Chair: Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)
- Stella Ladi (Ministry of the Aegean and Island Policy, Greece / University of Sheffield), “Europeanization and Policy Change: Comparing Environmental and Immigration Policy in Greece”
- Antonios Aggelakis (University of Crete), “Divergence on the process of convergence: regulatory dualism and regulatory dissimilarities for telecommunications in Europe”
- Dimitris Tsarouhas (Department of International Relations, METU) and Tolga Bolükbaşi (Center for European Studies, METU), “Testing the Europeanization Hypothesis: Macroeconomic Adjustment Pressures and The Southern European Welfare Model“
GPSG Panel 2: Emerging developments in European Union (EU) governance
Chair: Dimitris Tsarouhas (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
- Chrisanthos Tassis (University of Athens), “European Union and Political Parties: The case of the Party of European Socialists (PES)”
- Kyriakos Hatzaras and Eva Dalakiouridou (Ideologikon Institute, Thessaloniki), “Subnational governance in the European periphery and Japan: external stimuli and domestic re-organisation”
GPSG Panel 3: The Globalisation of Political Communication in Greece
Chair: Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)
- Eleni Apospori (Athens University of Economics and Business), Maria Zisouli (University of Athens), and George Avlonitis (Athens University of Economics and Business), “Municipal elections and political marketing actions: the case of Athens 2006”
- Tessa Doulkeri and Iordanis Kotzaivazoglou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “The evolution in newspaper advertising of parliamentary candidates in Thessaloniki in the period 1989 – 2000”
GPSG Panel 4: European Union and Greek Foreign Policy
Chair: Dr. Stella Ladi (MAIP / University of Sheffield)
- Athanassios Samaras (Institute of Defence Analysis – IAA), “Comparative Analysis of the Framing of European Prospect of Turkey at the Brussels Summits of 2004 and 2006; the Bipolar Contradistinction as a Framing Device”
- George Koukoudakis (University of Athens), “The impact of the European Union (EU) on the unresolved difference over the name between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Greece”
- Theodore Chadjipadelis and Ioannis Andreadis (Aristotle University Thessaloniki), “Analysis of the Cyprus referendum on the Annan plan“
